34 Years in the making - The Anbernic RG ARC FIRST LOOK 

An important note. The Linux currently has no artwork scraping via WiFi and no software update service via WiFi. This is a pretty major oversight from Anbernic and will once again have to be fixed by the community with customer firmware 😬

Everybody talks about how Russ has established this retro handheld community, but Adin, you may very well bring it together. The interviews you do, the calling out of various RU-vidrs in your videos, you might be the jump start to the community that it needs.

Adin's channel is quickly becoming the ASMR of the retro handheld world. :)

The button layout and dpad alone make this device a no brainer for me, playing street fighter on the go with 6 buttons is what I've wanted for so long

Got mine today. I knew I would like it, but when I put my thumb on the dpad it was 1994 again and I had just purchased my sega nomad. I'd always loved my game boy, Game Gear, and atari lynx so much. Portable gaming was very much my thing. Having a Portable Genesis was a dream come true. I still have my original nomad but I've stopped using it as much to try to preserve it as much as i can. A few years ago I got into Portable emulation. Being a huge sega fan, I've ALWAYS wanted a more sega inspired handheld. Now here it is. Thirty years later I have my Nomad 2. All this is missing for me is the sega logo. The dpad is the highlight for me. To me it's flawless. Really unbelievable. So glad you did a review of this system and also happy you've received what you've been waiting for too. Keep up your wonderful work. Cheers!

Will wait for the next version of this with more power, but it looks so good! 🍻

This intro is one of your best, i love the context it give to this specific device and parts of the world youtubers nearly never mention, even if they have a huge player base. I asked Santa one for my Christmas gift, can’t wait to live 1991 Christmas again!

i have to wait till christmas for mine.i have an sd card ready full of sega games

Here right away in the morning!

I want this for Sega roms only.

Fantastic video and i'll admit the Anbernic Arc gives me all the retro feels. I never owned a Sega growing up and now it feels like I can (even though it's not Sega of course). Great choice on the colour as well, that Black Sega Genesis/Saturn colour is mmmmm mmmmm ! I have the RGB30 and possibly an Anbernic Arc on its way for Christmas. It's going to be interesting to see which device I end up using more often ! Might just come down to the types of games i'll be playing. The RGB30 caught my interest for running vertical arcade games whereas the Arc seems to be THE device for standard < early 90's 4:3 consoles / arcades.

I agree! This device is superb.

Wow nice

Will there a follow up long term review btw?

Was set on getting rgb30 and now this looks so good also. Mostly want to play RPGs and platformers on gba, snes, genesis, ps1

Batocera does run the EmulationStation frontend with RetroArch. Linux distros for emulation often have both.

I ordered the clear black Linux only version but got he solid black version with Linux/Android. I think, with the reviews, most people are ordering the Linux only version so just to fill orders, rather than tell people to wait, they have sent some people the Linux/Android version rather than the Linux version. It made me happy because I wanted the solid black, I had a Nomad as a kid and wanted that over the transparent black, so I'm happy. I don't think I'll ever use the Android on it but I got the color I wanted!

so they took 34 years of making this product? wow!! hence the title of this video

You compared it to the rg353ps at 5:20 but isn't the screen here bigger? (I wish the rg353ps had a big screen like this) you should show both next to each other to compare the screen with gameplay

Just got mine today and it has some unfortunate light bleed on the bottom right corner of the screen. Very distracting. Anyone else have this? I have never returned anything to Anbernic, any thoughts on what I should do? Thanks!

I love the design, but I have waaay too many devices with exactly same cpu

I would have preferred the Linux version but got the Android one offered cheaper AND with games. So I ordered the black one because I didn’t like the yellow tint on the Japanese colour variant. But, way ahead of you, I also ordered the M30 in grey to use it as an console once in a while. Could you show how you side-loaded Daijisho on it? Although I like Dweeb’s videos I still agree with you. Daijisho looks great. If it is not enough content for a video maybe add the steps to consolise it.

How do you make a backup of the Linux OS sd card in case the card goes bad, don’t trust this card

This thing looks like it fucks. I want one nao! I mean im happy(😢) with the x6 retro handheld because of the game boy form factor. Really it seems to me the only thing holding back the x series line up of consoles IS no cfw options...at all. So if you are an idiot like me and flash the sd card without a back up, youre up the creek without a paddle.

This one or retroid pocket 2s ?

Give me a device like this but with much more power under the hood for saturn emulation and an analog stick so it can work as a six-button N64 controller as well, and I'm sold. I love the design but the use case is just too limited, I feel.

I wanted my RG-ARC to be Black but Anbernic sent me the Sega Saturn one instead. 😥

Imma wait for the arc 2 that'll actually be able to play Saturn games