@@erikcruz6019 Full games, but you can add your own. Also it's best to get a different operating system, and your own sd cards. GarlicOS is what i use.
I have one and I love it so much. I got it on sale with a coupon too so it was like $35 but DEFINITELY worth the $60-70 it usually goes for. It’s great quality and so far all of the games I’ve tried work great. It has a MASSIVE selection, every childhood game I loved, and so many more classics.
Pairing this device with garlic os makes it one of the best handheld emulators on the market for its price point. The build on it is solid, buttons are tactile and responsive. The screen is just amazing. Seeing it through video doesn’t do it justice. The screen is gorgeous.
I'm in my 50s and have had all the consoles and played many games. I have made a pretty penny selling most of it. I'm glad these mods exist because I can go back in time and play when I'm in the mood. Great video thanks ! 😃👍
Oh boy. I get it. My cousin got the first Atari for Christmas the year it came out. I was fascinated by pong of all things and asteroid, Mario bros soon followed. I have been hooked ever since. My favorite was the Nintendo SP, and I kick myself for trading in my original Gameboy. Ever since then, I have kept all of my systems and a lot of the cartridges. I love that nintendo remastered harvest moon for my oled, but there's something about picking up my SP and playing it again
@@goldenhate6649 yes, but with pc it can be for free, but it isnt out of the box experience. there is some things you need to manualy set up due to hardware and sofrtware, not everyone wants to go trough that for various reasons. this product exists becouse people are lazy, want convinience, nostalgia, form factor and works out of the box. the only issues with this is price and how long will battery last.
I got my RG35XX a week ago. Immediately installed Garlic OS 1.0.5 and it's been amazing ever since. I freakin' love this thing! Haven't touched my PC or PS5 since I got it lol. It feels so good to play all of these classic titles that I missed out on as a kid on the go.
@@sirbxnny I got mine through keepretro. I went with them because they inspect the product before it gets to you and they handle returns/refunds if necessary. In total I paid $64.99 + $15.78 for expedited shipping which I'm not entirely sure if that was really necessary. I don't know how much of a difference expedited shipping makes over standard but I ordered mine on January 21st and received delivery February 8th.
@@justingonzales1571 not really, the SD card it came with was prone to failure, as when you shut down the system, it deletes your save states. You should just buy professional micro SD cards like SanDisk or Samsung
@@Renegadetothe64th She did! Only thing that isn't to her liking is that it's a small device for her, especially the screen. She still uses it a lot to play her favorite retro games.
I did the exact same thing... I just bought my 2nd GBA IPS screen and then found this when it was too late to cancel the shipping. Lol. At least I'll have a couple awesome devices to choose from now.
Why did you need to buy a *modded* GBA to get a backlit screen? Do you not like the clamshell SP design or something? My og backlit GBA SP is a nearly perfect handheld design IMO 🤷🏻♂️
@@TheWolffriendlyNot all, but it has a lot. Mostly it seems liked they left out most mario titles likely to avoid lawsuits. But you can buy another microSD card, and a card reader, and add your own games to it. I will say it came with plenty of games. It had most all snes, nes, bg, bgc, gba, and so on. The ps1 list of games was lacking a lot, with roughly only 30 titles, but again, you can add your own games relatively easily. On top of all this, fans have made an entire operating system for this devicecalled onionOS. I hear it's better than the OS that came with it, but i didn't feel the need myself to go that far. I'm enjoying the divice for what ot is.
I have the ANBERNIC RG351MP. It came with a micro sd card fully loaded with 15,000 games. Ps1,gameboy,NES,SNES,N64,ECT. Ive had mine for 2 years and still love it. I paid $200.00 for the system and the loaded Micro SD CARD. Without the micro sd it was only $150.00. So $50 for 15,000 games. Very happy withy purchase still.👍🤙
I have an RG351MP and the battery life is still solid after 2 years. I'm a casual gamer but can easily get a week of playing Mame and PS1 games on a full charge
I loved my RG35xx for about a year. $36 shipped was a deal. I cloned the SD card to a good brand ... And it still bricked randomly and is stuck booting. GarlicOS didn't fix it either. If you really want one of these, spend a little more money and get a better brand.
the PowKiddy reminds me of the (sadly) discontinued G-Boy… Unfortunately I wasn’t able to get one at the time, so I’m hoping some day soon I’ll be able to emulate Wii games in a GameBoy-like form factor
I know your comment is a bit old, and while Wii emulation isn't possible in this Gameboy Color form factor... The Ayn Odin Pro (Probably the Lite as well) is a Switch Lite form factor that's capable of reasonably smooth Wii performance. This is currently the smallest device capable of it that I'm aware of.
@@wolfpackflt670not everyone has a computer or one powerful enough to emulate certain consoles. My laptop used to be my only computer for a long time and it it couldn't even run gamecube games at the lowest possible settings in dolphin (couldn't even run coolmathgames or optifine minecraft properly)
I have one, I’ve so far put just over 100 hours on Pokemon emerald (I have a habit of falling asleep with it on lol) and I must say this thing is amazing. The ONLY thing I have to say about this is, there’s a lot of games that require sticks on the controller to play and they just don’t exist on this device. I don’t know if you can hook a controller up to this but there’s other models that have sticks. BUUUUT If you want something just to play gameboy games, this is literally perfect.
I have one of these and it’s easily one of my favourite purchases. I’ve added a few more ps1 games and they play flawlessly. Playing Tony Hawk Pro Skater, FIFA 99 and WWF Smackdown 2 on a device I can fit in my pocket is mind blowing. You can even plug in a mini HDMI to HDMI so you can play it on your TV. These retro consoles have come a long way over the past few years. You get incredible value for money Even the stock OS isn’t bad. I don’t want to mess about with Garlic OS (too much effort for me.😂) but the stock interface is easy to use. This is probably the best value handheld on the market right now (The Miyoo Mini+ is a close contender).
My wife got me one for Christmas and I love it. Sadly DBZ Legend of Goku II glitches out at a certain point, but every other game I’ve played has ran great.
Wonder if there are such devices in more of a GBA form factor? The GB is fun and nostalgic but GBA is so much more comfortable... Probably the most comfortable of all portables, and I've tried them all (except the Sony ones).
I had these things 15 years ago. Worse screen, only went up to GBA, but still was extremely awesome then. The quality and power is so much better now for even more affordable! Love it
Anbernic makes a lot of really good retro devices. They're just starting to get popular and people with a big following show them off. But if you're looking into any of them, I'd get the RG353. It's the first one I've gotten that can handle N64 games really well.
Playing Final Fantasy VII for ps1 currently. Works perfect on these handhelds. Love the save state function to just save whenever. The screens are amazing on anbernics. Good battery life. 5/5. Makes games that don’t have the best graphics look better than on a huge tv in my opinion.
Thanks alot. I've been emulating thru phones for years. I jus emulated my Wii. You telling my I don't have to grab an actual old console nd roofy it. Say less. 💪🏾💪🏾
I'm very happy with my R36S. But one word of advice: Don't start playing right away until you've updated the device and replaced the stock card with a quality one. The cards that came with the device can let you down very quickly.
Most of these devices are coming from China where copyright laws are nonexistent so they'll keep getting produced with all of the roms included. Whether they continue to ship to different countries is another issue but I doubt anybody cares enough to ban these things yet
I picked one up from a liquidation store that does amazon returns for $20 open box. I love the thing. Its missing a lot of major titles (namly anything to do with Mario) but those are so easy to find online and add to the system. The built in software isnt the best out of the box but its definitely servicable, especially if you want a system like the video states where it's 100% ready from the box. Got it home that night, turned it on, and was playing classic games within minutes. My only real complaint with the system is that battery life is kind of bad
Does this not open potential lawsuits to this thing? distributing roms from NES to PS1 is the dumbest idea. Hell if you think Nintendo would have a field day wait till Sony and Sega get involved
most of these handhelds come from china where the copyright laws might as well not exist. While them being shipped to other countries is still shady nobody has batted an eye at them yet.
I was always wondering why these things are not illegal as im not sure about the emulation but the roms are outright piracy. Not that i care about these old games, its also allowed to do if you own a copy or something? Not that any company would get money from me when i buy a used 100€ copy of a rare ps1 game.
I got the anbernic rg40xx v, it definitely didn't have like 90 percent of the games I wanted on it but I got that model for the shape and button placements, and I know how to load my legally purchased from a reputable source ROMS that I ripped from my 100 percent legit physical copy so I'm very happy
@@killzone866 exactly. I don't like ordering stuff online as it is and having to wait that long is just a no go for me. That's why I prefer Amazon they usually at least for me ship stuff to me within just a few days.
because anyone can sell anything on amazon and these consoles are made and sold from countries where piracy laws dont exist. and things like this have existed for decades and nobody not even nintendo has really tried to stop it. because to stop it youd have to get through the chinese government more times than not. which is just more trouble than its worth
Can confirm. Got a little under a year ago now, and i love mine. I still need to get a sd card reader, and new sd card to add some more ps1 titles, but it came with plenty. I really enjoyed playing Lufia 2 again. I had no idea as a kid that this game had a new game plus mode, and another mode after that if you beat new game plus. I highly recommend this divice, but if you can afford a better version, Anbernic has many other choices. I got mine straight from the company, and it cost about 75 total after shipping. Easily the best thing i have ever gotten myself. I'm planning on upgrading to the better version of the RG35XX, which looks the same, but has 2 joysticks built in, and can play up to ps2 and gamecube. So stoked to play some ps2 rpgs on that thing.
Meanwhile, I'm perfectly happy with my miyoo mini + onionOS. I've yet to run into a romhack it couldn't handle (did have to switch cores for a few of them, but the included ones were capable of handling it) and it has handled my ps1 collection just fine (admittedly, that's primarily been symphony of the night, but I've got a few others on there and it hasn't struggled with them).
Same. I'm mostly gonna be using it for Pokémon ROM hacks anyway, which isn't a huge deal for it. Still trying to figure out how to get PS1 games to work properly tho, no clue what BIOS is needed for them to not freeze up upon reloading them after the first time. :P (Same with it just not recognizing some games and merging multi-disc games)
@@Cuprite1024 The issues you are describing there are typically related to bin/cue issues (or maybe virtual mem card problems, given you are talking about crashing on later launches), you might want to look up what is needed for retroarch (this assuming you are using onion instead of whatever the miyoomini uses as stock) to interact with those properly, as well as make sure you have the correct bios for PS1 games. You will also need to make sure to avoid games that require a 'dualshock' style controller, as well. Most the truly pocketable devices do make significant sacrifices with regards to 64bit era consoles, not just in horsepower, but in controls. FTR. I went and checked, My Miyoo Mini currently has Final Fantasy Tactics, SoTN, and Rampage World Tour on it. I've got some other games I COULD stick on it, but those are the only three I could see myself playing 'on the go' without major issues. As a whole I have a purposefully limited selection on it, relative to my proper 'custom console' I put together.
The two advantages I know of this has over the mini is it's a tad bigger, and it's not as hard to acquire. But yeah the mini is going to be more portable
I ordered one from Amazon yesterday and it is due tomorrow. $70 + tax, free shipping. There is a replace OS for it that does even more and I already have it set up to plug in and go.
I got a Powkiddie v90 for like $45 & I love it. It's shaped like a GBA SP and you can add an aftermarket battery to it to give it great battery life. I strongly recommend the Miyoo custom firmware for best performance.
@@DylanQuint Yes you're right. I used to have a playstation phone, the Xperia play, it came with its own game pad and I used to play many games on there. It could emulate up to ps1/n64 perfectly, even nintendo ds. Hell it used to be able to run some PSP games and even San Andreas perfectly. I really wish they would release a sequel to the phone. Anyway these days you can buy little controller add ons that you plug your phone into but the good ones sell for a stupid price.
I went with the Miyoo Mini Plus last July and love it. Still running the stock os and card it came with with little to no issues. Going to upgrade it to onion soon and add more games And some DS titles as well. Awesome handheld
Did you get the rg35xx or the rg35xx plus? They're like the same price but the plus released a few weeks ago and is a big upgrade in build quality, performance, and battery life.
@@dmys143 RG35XX Handheld Game Console , Dual System Linux+GarlicOS 3.5 Inch IPS Screen Built-in 64G TF Card 6831 Classic Games Support HDMI TV Output with Portable Bag (Transparent White)
