A Game Boy That Plays PS2 & GameCube!? - ANBERNIC RG405V Review 

Hey, would you mind trying pac man world 2? I would really appreciate it.

The demanding games are dragon quest 8 and dirge of Cerberus. If we get a handheld to run those, it dominate the market

also, if you like, you can connect a ps4 or xbox controller, to get those other features, like moving and shooting water in sm sunshine.

Back then, upgrading from a GBC to a GBA, I remember thinking wow, cartridges half the size, with a whole bigger game on them. Now they come with a micro sd card and over yen thousand games or whatever, and it's not even impressive anymore ☹️ I want my big cardboard boxes and manuals back.

I wouldn't have left my room or gone to school.

My thoughts exactly

and as of two months ago it is supported on the 405v! ordered mine off aliexpress for $110 after tax during the current sale and can’t wait to use it

I Have A Powkiddy X55 And A Powkiddy RGB30 Arriving Saturday And I Can't Wait To Check Them Out , Especially The Powkiddy RGB30 . .

Thank you! I'm really glad you enjoyed it and appreciate the work I put in 😀 I do always try and keep the production value pretty high in these videos!

​@@RetroDodo do most games come pre loaded ?

I use a Bluetooth headset

I think they do that to hide the "tinny" sound that comes with cheap speakers especially with all the old game bleep and boops....I'm with you though I want them loud as possible

Pocketgo has a little user-facing speaker that is so loud I feel like I'm in an arcade.

then get the rg353v its the number 1 emulator in ratings and it has a headphone jack and the speaker points toward ur face in between the joysticks

Ayn Odin

the RG405V and the RG405M have exactly the same specs, only the design and materials change(metal instead of plastic) i personally prefer the RG405V, better handling than the RG405M and issues with buttons breaking and getting stuck on the RG405M have been reported by many gamers like @sulac4ever170 says, the "ayn odin" is currently the best in Android console, more precisely the "ayn odin 2 max" is really the best but honestly their cheapest model, the "odin 1 pro" already does the job very well if you want retro gaming Except that the price is much higher than the RG405V when you know how much the customs fees and taxes cost to bring it to your home when you buy it on their official website

Thats just a google away man, do your homework.

@@fofopads4450 And you really think Google knows everything?

There is not such a thing, some games will work, some will crash. No PS2 emulators have reached 100% smooth experience. If you want a reference point, any device than can run Black, is probably gonna run decently about 70% of the whole PS2 library. Even the crazy expensive windows handhelds, with full gaming hardware, will fail to run a few titles without lots of tuning and hacks.

I got mine to play quite a few Saturn games to quite well on my RG405V (I still have my real Saturn with heaps of real games). However, I'm still working on getting some to work. I think the machine is powerful enough so it's either the files or the bios is not right.

Has he left the channel? None of his videos now, I'm going to u subscribe soon

He hasn't left the channel! He's just a very busy guy with the website and other upcoming projects! He will have a video coming soon though don't worry :D - Rob

@@RetroDodo thanks for the reply. Please don't take it personally though, it's just we are used to him being on the channel for so long

It comes with Android as standard, but if you're willing to tinker around with it you can install GarlicOS 2.0 which is Linux-based. I'm not sure exactly how difficult this is though because I haven't done it myself! I would say that this makes for an awesome gift though, it's by far one of the best handhelds I've personally tried :D - Rob

I do not agree with you. When you take the time to modify the correct parameters of the RG405V and its emulators, and you install GammaOS which drastically increases the performance of the 405V, you will run almost all PS2 and Gamecube games without any problems. take a look for yourself, here is a video of someone briefly testing 100 ps2 games on their RG405V: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bObUGUB4bO8.html another but with 100 gamecube games: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fdLBxdmvRmg.html You will admit that it runs very well

480p would have been really smart, if they chose a SOC which actually could have handled PS2 and GCN (like the 3588) but they didn't, which makes this a stupid device IMO, because we already have enough T618 devices, which all are not quite there in terms of performance. And given the market saturation of T618 devices this is NOT a good deal even of you overvalue the form factor because there are much cheaper devices out there with a slightly weaker SOC, which handle everything up to PSP and DC quite fine. The huge compromises you have to make to play only SOME PS2/GCN games at an even then imperfect level of performance is in no way worth the extra dollars. If they've only chosen a slightly more powerful SOC (and maybe better R/L buttons) ... it would have been nearly perfect and actually something we don't have already fifty times. Their ill thought through choice of SOC seems very stupid and aggravating to me, because it makes this nearly entirely redundant 🤦‍♂️

No, this device doesn't have a HDMI output unfortunately, so it's not possible to connect it to a TV. - Rob

That's unlikely to happen, just don't pull out the sdcard if its on or in sleep mode. But if it does corrupt, there is ways of downloading the firmware and files again to a new SD card.

@@RetroDodo yeah I’m gonna slap a sticker over that Sd card slot now you’ve said that. Thanks man 👍

same

Dreamcast ran perfectly on every game I tested! - Rob

They're the same, just different form factor

Ignoring the design; the 405V has a fan to help keep the SoC from throttling on heavier games. The 405M does not, despite costing about $30 US more. If I remember correctly; the 405M comes with a 1000mAh smaller battery versus the 405V, 4500 vs 5500. Of course; one can't ignore the design and the 405M is as sleek as the Concorde. The 405V looks very appealing to me; but, even I can admit that it's not as conventionally attractive as the 405M. It, the V model, is a bit bigger and heavier if that matters to you. An interesting compromise between the two is Anbernic's RG505. It has the horizontal layout of the 405M, the price of the 405V, and the battery capacity splits the difference between the two. It uses the same chipset, Hall sticks, and Android 12 OS as both of the 405s. It also has its own pluses; namely a 5 inch 16x9 AMOLED screen, a Vita unit IIRC. At that size your 4x3 games aren't going to be displayed appreciably smaller than they are on this 4 inch screen; but, you can play PSP games and those home console games that supported wide screen in their full glory without letterboxing. Downsides here are no fan cooling and styling that is rather dated looking, again if that matters. It's not ugly by any stretch of the imagination. It's actually quite handsome; rather, it's just kind of plain and generic at the same time. Handsome, plain, and generic is how you'd describe the average tux-wearing groomsman at a friend's wedding. Or a 1999 Toyota Camry. It's fine, it doesn't distract from the mission at hand, and it's not actively obnoxious.

You can force the analogue stick to mimic the d-pad in the settings. It's not true analogue controls because it's still locked into 8 directions, but I've always found that it feels way better. If you play it on a 3DS you can do the same thing with the circle pad too! - Rob

Haha, it does sometimes feel like that doesn't it! Luckily though we are getting a lot closer to smooth PS2 gameplay now. There's a lot of more expensive devices that can do it really well, so it's only a matter of time until the lower and middle end devices can do it. Then we'll be non-stop asking for PS3 emulation! - Rob

It plays. Not at 100% though.

@@SulliP1492 I ll wait for better versions then .. Thank you

I feel like one way or the other, someone will say you're pronouncing it wrong haha! I do normally pronounce it "RetroArch" but loads of other people in videos say "RetroArk" so I just went with that :D - Rob

@@RetroDodo Fair enough. You can say whatever. I was just curious. 😁

If I can get the burnout games on PlayStation 2 to work smooth I’m sure if you know how to work the settings you can get any game to work properly

With Dolphin, try setting it to OpenGL instead of Vulkan. With most other emulators Vulkan is better, but for some reason that isn't always the case with Dolphin. I hope that helps with that issue! What other issues are you having with it? Also, what problems are you having with Citra?

Yes

I have the Powkiddy X28, which offers less performance, and it can play F-Zero GX

mute city only @@ericjv41

Even if the RG405V could play F-Zero GX (which I didn't test but I assume it would really struggle), it still wouldn't be ideal because of the lack of analogue triggers. You need that precision with your left and right strafing :D - Rob

no one cares

I agree. That is my experience with this and ones like it eg Retroids. It is a pain to set these up. I can usually get a good number of the emulators working with a fair amount of box art. However there's always some emulators that won't run, box art that won't appear or some part of the front end/s that won't run properly. I end up using the emulators from Play store separately. Then I start to think that it's not like a cheaper, smaller handheld which are already set up.