JXD 7800B & Archos Gamepad | Ashens 

Wait, there is more in your house? I thought it was just a wall with a sofa in front of it.

pretty sure Ashens' dream consists of playing emulated games on a mystical train journey

Man, how far we've come lately. Steam deck, aya neo, odin, even cell phones with controller support.

"And it came preloaded with angry birds just to really piss me off"

Will we ever get a tour of your house Ashens?

I had a JXD 7800 as a teen. Got a Steam Deck when those had just come out. We've come real far. From playing a CoD clone from the android store to playing Modern Warfare itself.

This guy must be talented if he can make reviews of mediocre products so entertaining.

"Oh look it's the ninte-"

Holy smokes, the right side of Ashen's sofa, who knows what wonders lie on the left side? A chair? A table? An ancient Egyptian Pharaoh's sarcophagus? We may never know...

Always happy to see the Neo Geo Pocket Color getting some proper love. That system I swear is one of the best handhelds that most folks just never knew about or got to experience sadly :\

Unless it plays Chanticleer Hegemony, I don't give a poo!

Nintendo Switch prototype?

My portable emulation machine is the nvidia shield portable. This thing is amazing! It runs almost everything I've tried and it runs most dreamcast games perfectly!

I actually want one of these now

"Shenmue was running at 10 fps" So, the standard Shenmue experience?

I don't know what it is, but these emulation consoles (both good and bad) are some of my favorite of his reviews. They're always so nostalgic, colorful, and lengthy.

The soldier on the box is having a negligent discharge with his rifle. Booger hook off the bang switch, bud.

i can't believe ashens got the nintendo switch this early

The damn thing looks like the Nintendo Switch controller.

Watching at .5 speed makes Stuart sound drunk and depressed...

I have a strong feeling that the nx will look a lot like this

mom can we have nintendo switch we have nintendo switch at home nintendo switch at home:

Your reviews are by far the best on youtube. You give good, honest and simple reviews of random stuff. keep it up.

It’s insane how far these emulation handhelds have come so far as to the point where they emulate even Dreamcast, ps2 and GameCube

It's funny nearly 8 years ago when this video was first uploaded I thought it was remarkable that Android handhelds were capable of emulating PS1 and N64 and starting to even support Dreamcast somewhat- and now we have the Steam Deck which is fully-capable of emulating Xbox 360, PS3, Wii U, and even Switch games.

Thank you Ashens! My favourite video you ever did was of the Vectrex, you hit the spot on that one! Really digging these retro videos & really love your blunt honesty! =]

This actually looks like a decent device to load up with emulators for my kids.

crazy taxi? YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAA

Thumbs up for the Positive Sega Saturn reference :) I loved my sega saturn. Such great times back in the day when the console was dropping in price so fast and games were cheap.

Great insight, i've seen a few reviews of this thing including the clever method of setting up the controls and was very interested but was curious as to what you'd think if you got hold of one so very glad to see you showing it here, the emulation seems pretty solid for everything i'd want really so i may have to give some more thought to getting hold of one, however right now the price is a bit much for me when there's other stuff i'd like first

Instant Thumbs Up for Tenchu for PSX.

With the JXD, you could use a USB Bluetooth dongle if you get a USB OTG cable, which is one of the uses of the MicroUSB Port (OTG stands for 'On the Go)

Actually, Match of the Millenium was SNK Vs Capcom, not the other way around. So it was published by SNK instead of Capcom. Though, it was developed by Dimps, who of course are mostly former SNK and Capcom people and did SF IV as well.

I'm starting to think Stuart is a fan of fighting games

I have an NGPC and Match of the Millenium. So insanely happy to have found the system on eBay and the game at a local retro games store.

For something a bit more portable, the GPD XD works well. It's pretty similar, though maybe slightly more powerful, and jammed into the form factor of a New 3DS.

N64 emulation has always been wonky on any platform.

130 pounds? That's pretty *heavy.*

Hes the only man on youtube who can brush off holding the box upside down the smoothest. I love it

I forgot how much I love your personality

just discovered this channel it is now my favorite review channel

Holy crap something work on this channel

Blast corps is one of my favourite n64 games too! I was actually a hit surprised that you know or even like this game. many seem to have skipped it back then or just never got into it.

Your videos helped me fight covid with some laughs, love you and your stuff ashens ❤

Ashens, if you want an Android controller, get a Moga. It's a Bluetooth controller for Android devices (and can be connected to anything that can use Bluetooth). The cheapest model has the same relative controls as the Archos, and it's $10. All you need is an Android device, and it even comes with an incredibly nice carrying pouch and an adjustable grip for holding the device. I can use it to hold my LG G Flex. It's something to look into.

To be fair, emulators are only as good as the people actually doing them and I don't think it's fair to hold the system itself responsible for emulators being dodgy. Even on PC, don't expect perfect emulation from absolutely everything.

This is a pretty interested video. I didn't realise this handheld even existed!! So I learned something today.

I’m convinced Ashens is the most consistently great RU-vidr

Honestly.. for about the same price you could just get an old PSP, hack it to run emulators and psp games, plus it would probably be an overall nicer experience so... either that or get a decent windows tablet and use emulators made for windows instead.

Now i know where the inspirational design of Nintendo Switch came from... 😏

17:07 The glitchiness makes it look like they’re in a broken holodeck

I had completely the wrong idea of what Stuart's living room looked like. I always pictured it with the couch in the middle of the room and more windows.

But where's the dock?

he sounds like my old driving instructor haha

3:50 Imagine if the Archos Gamepad was still made today, and came pre-loaded with RAID: Shadow Legends. You'd probably have a hissy fit.

I had a nostalgia overload when I saw Moonstone... I thought I was the only person who knew of it, no-one else remembers it! What fun it was.

But the real question is: WHEN WILL GRANDE GRANDE GET HIS 200 PESOS?!?!

As someone who has no tablet and an iPhone 1, this is the best thing I have seen since ever.

HAPPY MILLION ASHENS!

As soon as Super Ghoul's came up we both said "Oh yes" in sync. Insta-liked.

I am pretty sure that this is what the NX is going to be in a Nutshell but it will also have a Cartridge slot for DS and 3DS games as well as Portable NX games.

N64 emulators don't work well with anything that doesn't have a good dedicated graphics card. Or rather they work but they have graphical glitches like in Mario 64 shadows and things alike don't show.

It's amazing how these people also made one of the original pop stations

Watching this on my own JXD S7800B. In 720P no less. I love this thing. Even flashed it over to the Omni Android ROM. (I have the 16 GB version with the RK3188 T chip. The "revision 2" version if you will.)

just discovered this dude and i'm literally crying, the level of condescending tone and pure sarcasm is perfect!! SUBBED

Childhood game was Soul Calibur II :) this just made my heart soar haha

Wow the Switch looks awesome!

the switch looks great

as technology gets better and better hopefully ID will port the great grandfather of all FPS games DOOM to phones and tablets

For 2015 this was epic

Note that video is from 2015 where this thing relies on android apps and most of the emulators were pretty much on their infancy here. Now, many of them are much much better, so I assume if Ashens were to remake this review with same exact device maybe results can get slightly better.

JXD was ahead of its time honestly

Honestly the PSP is the best hand held system to date. So many games, ps1, psp titles and several ps2 ports, not to mention the emulating/homebrew community on the system is still very active and overall the psp is a great system. So many games, and pretty good graphics for its time. 3DS is good I own one, but nintendo has a problem with releasing the same exact content over and over and over with its notorious rehashing. The ps vita is just wasted potential.

I love no bullshit reviews. 1 sub

Thanks for the review! I ended up buying one.

OMG THIS LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE A TABLET WITH CONTROLS I CANT BELIEVE IT

This looks like the Nintendo switch.....

HEY GUYS LOOK, ITS AN EARLY DESIGN FOR THE NINTENDO SWITCH

I have a Shield K1 myself which works great. It's effectively the beta Switch without being locked to Nintendo games, with it's HDMI output. Loaded with emulators, Borderlands and Brutal Doom, so that's all you really need from it. The HDMI output is actually really useful for DS games, as you can have one screen on the tv and the other on the tablet. This was great for the Castlevania games where the bottom screen is mainly the map. The controller itself is actually my favourite controller, feels great and responsive in the hands. Shame it doesn't really work on PC.

Their LXD S192 looks pretty cool too.

C64 is NOT an easy emulation. It needs cycle sync, while MD usually runs just fine with frame sync and SNES emulators are all line sync. Plus an analogue filter and mixer on the soundchip, that can get difficult if you're going to emulate ALL the transistors and their distortion. Tekken are evil, they use high-res mode.

do you remember the old early 2000s mobile with built in games console? it came with cartridge games

That was the best camera pan ever.

smashing good review, old boy. you should have your own show on the telly. If your ever up for some fish & chips, give us a ring a ting ting ting.

the og switch.

phone can run San Andreas perfectly at 58fps trys to run PSP game phone exploded producing 4 fps ;(

I think you can avoid the dust if you like take a long shower so the bath room is super moist and steamy then add the screen protector... By then the humidity should keep the dust down... but that just my little hypothesis...

I use a Sony Ericson Xperia Play for this stuff. Although very outdated and small it works great as a dedicated handheld gaming system for emulators.

Here before the thumbnail.

I have not looked into emulation for awhile. I had no clue they finished a dreamcast emulator that works now.

jxd systems ship with an app called happy chick preinstalled that works as a repository for roms and emulators, i think it's at least partially community run. the n64 emulator on there never gave me visual glitches like the one ashens is using in the video, same goes for the dc emulation. it also comes with psp emulation which is genuinely in pretty poor compatibility, long store short 2d games run fine, 3d games sometimes run fine. roms are just freely available for download. the other thing i feel is worth noting is that nvidia's shield streaming software was reverse engineered and open sourced under the name limelight and you can stream your PC to android, jxd included, with that. the internet connectivity i get here in nz isn't really up to par but in better countries you'd be perfectly able to play pc games on the go if you set up the gamepad controls ahead of time, i tested it with metal gear rising just playing on my own home wifi and was able to play at 60fps with no lag, even with a dualshock 4 plugged in (which worked fine natively ftr). so you can rax harder emulation like ps2 off your pc if you really want to - on that note the s7800b doesn't support 3g natively but the smaller s5800 does, and you can also get 3g dongles working on s7800b. i reckon these things oughta be said for people that are considering buying jxd products for portable emulation etc., a lot of stuff was skimmed over in the video. might also be worth mentioning that although there are about 10 gaming tablets competing for this exact niche, like ireadygo much i5, archos gamepad 2, gpd g7, iben l1 etc., the jxd s7800b is genuinely the best value-for-money system on the market at the moment, at least as far as specs are concerned. i don't own any of the others myself so i can't speak on terms of software, firmware etc. but if you want to play it safe then go for s7800b

Even when behind the camera Stewart always wears dress shirts. Classy lad

tried ipega? its a good controller for phones and computers

For a second I thought that was a Nintendo Switch!

I can't believe this runs crazy taxi well. That's one of my favorite Dreamcast games next to nba Hoopz

I think that spec-ops soldier on the front of the box is actually from one of Gameloft's Modern Combat games.

I wish we can have 2 videos a week 😊

BUT DOES IT RUN DOOM?

That sofa looks extremely comfortable...

clicked in this looking at the thumbnail thinking it might be the switch 😂😂