36 PS2 games tested - Anbernic RG405V in-depth review 

I’m so appreciative that you not only tested popular PS2 games but also the lesser mentioned ones. I love driv3r and would love to play it on a portable so when I heard you mention it, I was pleasantly surprised. Even if it doesn’t play it, you gave it a mention. Thank you!

For me, the size of this monster makes this great for gaming on the couch. I actually like the design oddly. The show stopper for me is the screen sharpening and preloaded games. Thanks young lad. Brilliant critique.

Talking to and for the everyman is why your channel stands out, so great to hear it’s part of your driving ethos. MASSIVELY helpful review...have been on the fence about this one for some time but you have answered my questions perfectly, thank you!

I’m so glad you bring up that other RU-vidrs are saying that android devices are easy to set up. They are anything but easy. When I got my Retroid pocket 3+ it took me about two days to set it up the way I like it and that wasn’t including the week I spent trying to get all the roms and bios that I needed for it. it was my first time doing something like that so I had to watch hours of video before I felt comfortable even starting to do anything. I think some of the bigger RU-vid channels forget that they have been doing this for a long time, and it comes to easy to them.

Solid review! You have a great off the cuff way of talking about these things. Keep doing this style, you're really good at it. Fyi, for the PSP scaling, you can set that to non-fullscreen in the "display layout editor" option 😘

Absolutely spot ON that a lot of people will be looking at these channels and wanting something that works "straight out of the box". I have a load of roms for my PC emulating and being able to copy those onto a handheld easily to augment what the supplier gives you is one of my tick boxes. But I'm kinda put off the idea of going through setting up everything from scratch on what ultimately is a small screen with a few buttons. Took me long enough on PC. 😆 So showing how these work without any setting up is a big plus, thanks.

One thing that took me a while to figure out with the stock frontend. You have to add your Game Gear and Sega CD games with your Genesis roms. They all work under the Mega Drive Emulator.

The Wood Grain 405V is currently my most favorite portrait handheld console! I always liked the design of it. I watch television on this as well as play games. Battery life is phenomenal on the 405V and the stock frontend is not bad either. May get the Cold Gray one later, it looks nice as well. *I also have the Wood Grain 351V in my collection. I'm waiting on one more portrait based handheld to be released, the Trimui Smart Brick. Then I would have a total of 3 portrait retro handhelds and 1 GB Colour. I would have 4 portrait handhelds in my collection.

Been looking for a handheld that could play PS2/GC games, and this has caught my eye. Thanks for this.

My only criticism is that for a video called "ps2 test" you barely show any testing for about 90% of the video. This was more a review video than a PS2 test.

Love the color, I have the trans purple, but I have the grey on the way. Someone that is finally honest about the setting upo of the RP2, Thank You 🔥🔥 I love this design and feel 🔥🔥🥰 Thanks for an awesone share, I'm still watching🔥🔥🔥👌🏾

18:30 to get it not in Fullscreen you have to go into graphic options, tap Display editor and uncheck adapt to display. 😊

Great review! I also have the RG405V....and i cant get much to work in the way of PS2. WHat emulator are you using and are you tweaking a ton of settings??? I cant seem to get SSX Tricky or GTA Vice City to play without studdering non-stop. Unplayable really. Any tips or help there??? Really appreciate it.

Question, after you map the buttons for any given game, does it save that mapping so that the next time you open that game, even if you play other games in-between, the button mappings will recall each time?

I really like its big 5500mAh battery, seems to be the biggest of all the retro handhelds, nice one Anbernic!

Thanks for this video Adin. I have this device and I enjoyed watching. Could you show how to use the "rewind" function? I don't need to fast forward every time I mess up. 😮

Have you done a video on how to add games to this? Where to get Roms and how to add them? I'm struggling with this

Wow, it took me long to find your channel.

I scroll down and read our beloved friend comment on this review.. i saw ur reply with full of love buddy.. keep it up man.. ❤

Does your save games actually save and can you do it from inside the game instead of slot saves

Good video and channel bro.

Does the device come with all those games or do you have to go and find them?

I really enjoyed this video. That said, it goes a bit art house in the last few minutes and I don't think it was entirely intentional?

Which card are you using 128gb or 256gb and does has kingdom hearts 2?

Dude, I want to ask you, is the device still good and also do you regret buying it? The other issue is, can I download external emulators to download some games that are not available on the same device?

I always knew your English was too good to be a non native speaker but always thought your accent had a German twang. Mystery solved Iol. Love your videos!

Can I ask how you find racing games with shoulder buttons like these? Are they just binary? I like the look and size of this one

It's definitely not the most visually appealing in my opinion. However, it does look very comfortable! Great video!

I see terrible things on forums about ambernic long term button durability, do you find this to be the case or have you not had these issues?

Which card are you using 128gb or 256gb and does has kingdom hearts 2? and I already know it has kingdom hearts 1 which I saw a video.

Thanks Adin for the video. By the way, which one will you recommend, RP2S or RG405V?

Hey mate love the video, I have the RG405v and have been putting PlayStation games on it without any issue. I’ve tried putting God of War on it but when extracting the file onto the SD card I keep getting an error “errno=27 file too large” I’m just wondering if you’ve run into this and if there is a fix for it. I’ve seen that it may be the SD card format issue but I am unsure and don’t want to reformat the card and lose all the data. Thank you

5:41 - There's really only one reason I could look past this flaw of Anbernic's. If someone intends to keep the device offline, having those preinstalled is actually really convenient. This practice of theirs is reason enough to want to keep the device offline, in my opinion. But you're right-- people should be paying for those if they haven't already. Those devs make this retro hobby worthwhile. Anyhow I'm a little rusty on modern Android. About 10 years ago backing up purchased APKs wasn't too difficult for us tech heads, but having revisited Android via RP3+, the only way I can find is logging into the Play store with Aurora Store and setting it to not delete the .apk after installation. Yet another case of "do you trust the third party handling your data?"

man I have to visit you at some point to get me setup with a handheld as well :D

Could you share the graphical settings you used to test the ps2 games? So many different options to toggle it is overwhelming lol. Open GL or Vulkan? 1x? 2x? I know each game will vary. Hoping to be pointed in the right direction.

I have rather big hands ( I am 6 foot 3 inches tall) i wanna get one of these devices but wanna get one that would fit my big hands well. Suggestions?

Does it run Urban Reign Ps2 properly?

What TheFox did was leave the system playing Crash Bandicoot on PS1 - screen 50% no wifi ,and he left the game just run using a rubber band on the analogs and the video shows it getting 17h and 12min or so.

can it connects on multiplayer battle?

Still rocking my rg353v

This video is pushing me one step closer to pulling the trigger on this device

There seems to be something going on at the end of the video where it goes t a black screen for a while.

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I played Prince of Persia sands of time on mine also Resident Evil 4 Plays well though it runs smoother on GameCube I think you need to tweak settings a little more to get those to run

Will the Android version of Launch box work on this?

I had to do factory reset because at first all ps2 audio was extremely choppy

Got my Powkiddy x55. Gonna wait for the Odin 2 to be out for awhile and tested. The T618 chipset is just not good enough for GC/PS2 imo. Too many good games run slow or dont run at all and no upscaling. Odin 2 will do that.

We are finally there. Just ordered for $116 at aliexpress.

I am writing this comment on an ambernic rg405v

Haha, I absolutely love the design. I just wish it was able to run GC and PS2 well enough. Unfortunately most of their libraries aren't really enjoyable. I love my RG405V but I think its gonna be returned in favor of an odyn 2. It just doesn't compare at all power wise. I love the vertical form though...

Can I destroy the software if I play PS2 games that too slow and anbernic will go it maximum ? Or will it be only, like you said, slower ?

Does the touch screen work for 3ds/ds input for games that require it?

does the god of war games come included on the device?

Could you test pac man world 2? Nobody has, and i really want to know.

i was thinking this thing would be used best with a grip

Can it play - Star Ocean: Till The End of Time - smoothly?

Is this able to play def jam fight for ny? That's the bar I'm setting. Soon as I find a handheld that plays it, I'm in!

I understand everything that you are saying. I just got my Anbernic rg405v. See through purple GameCube vibes. 512 gig SD card. Playstation 2 and GameCube emulator. Retroid pocket 3 plus is better.love your video. California.. united States of America

Please make a video of the performance after installation of garlic OS

san andreas looked like it was literally freezing tho??

I just feel like the d-pad and face buttons should be a little larger, maybe even SNES controller sized, it would help with how ugly the device looks overall even if it's ergonomic as heck.

I feel like this is the console right before the upgrade version you actually wanted 😂

There must have been loadshedding at the end of the video.

I actually really like the wooden lookin one!

Can we put simcard on this?

18:30 Iirc there's a setting for stretching the screen other than going Fullscreen

Im going after the Retroid pocket 4 pro next week.😂😂😂😂😂

Gta san andreas getting 5 fps literally... Proceeds to label as "plays quite well"

I bought one of these retro handheld emulation devices a while back. It was a Powkiddy rk2023. Could not emulate DS games period. Which was the whole reason I got it. They advertise that it can and then they install DS emulators and it can't actually play any games. Just goes to a white screen and you can move a tiny black dot around with the right analog stick. You can't even get back to the menu from there. You have to shut the device completely down and restart. Lol. It's absolute garbage. Very rattley buttons too. It's fine for anything up to PS1. Couldn't get DS, PS2, Dreamcast and many others to work properly on it. I ended up just buying an actual DSi and have been using that since. Emulation is pretty cool but the games are always more fun and more enjoyable on the original hardware. That rk2023 has so many issues. Would take a while to list them all. Anyway, my point is I wouldn't buy another device like that. Honestly, my phone can do anything those handhelds can do and I have a nice little controller that's easy to take around. I tried one out and discovered that it's really just a waste of money.

is it really not for outside use

Does this console have mario, yoshi gba?

Which handheld is better rg405v or rg405m?

Obviously, the best game of all times... except for.... other games :D :D

Anbernic has a bad habit of making beautiful consoles with bad screens, apart from consoles with OLED screens.

"It's a retro game about a retro game on a retro game handheld" 🤣

In what way the Gamecube performance is good? It looked terrible in the video.

00:28 i dont know what you mean when you say comparing it to the retro pocket 2s then you said it again Retro pocket 2s

The 405v or Retroid flip

i wish there were more shell options for the vertical series all 3 options look kinda ugly

@14:58 omg

don't agreed with the "very ugly", I liked

Test Ring of Red PS2 and let me know if it works.

Thumbnail title of "Pocket PS2" is an over statement. Almost to the point of click bait unless you put a question mark at the end. ie "Pocket PS2?"

If you want to play PS2 portable, its better to take a android flagship and a good controller 👍

i mean this console is good . but tbh for me to convince buy this thing is to improve the ppsspp . its so laggy bro . i have friends wants this but every version of it always the same when it comes to ppsspp so laggy

Is good console. ❤

RETROCEPTION

complaining about anbernic pirating the emulators is kind of weird when these things are practically piracy machines XD ehm, I mean of course I own all the games I emulate. I just loaned them all out to a friend....

Quit lying that wooden one is horrendous

why would someone with an android flagship buy this?

Why would anyone play ps2 gta san andreas on this when the android app of the game would run way better

The device looks very ugly, I prefer their older smaller model with the analogs. But this seems strong enough.

Hope it is true... Bc ps2 have alot of better game

Please configure the emulator… the games will run better than this video

It’s a shame this thing is so ugly. Hopefully they can fit this chip into the RG353VS body at some point down the line.

lol 15 fps in ps2 games what a thrash

Ps2 runs like shite.

What kind of pocket knife is that?

Can you play Android games with this real buttons without some third party mapping software?

Love ur channel good sir