Way BETTER than expected - RG Cube First Look 

FYI, you CAN dim the RBG on the sticks (and change the colour). In the pulldown menu hold down your finger on the "ambient light" toggle and it'll open the complete options for the RBG effect.

I love how you populate it with the other devices, helps give a sense of scale. Really interested in a comparison with the Retroid 2s and 4. Really struggling to decide between the three.

Yes! Been waiting for this video! 🤘🏼🔥🍻💪🏼

Awesome Video man. You cover soo many aspects that are not discussed in other reviews. The Cube truly looks awesome and im glad to hear that it fits comfortably into a Hoodie pocket,

When this goes on sell, I’ll get it immediately

I sadly broke my rg405m recently, so i am planing on replacing it with the cube. I always really like the weirder devices, they make me happy.

Thank you for the great video!!😃

You sold me at the word “chamfered”. I might need one now. 😂

I proper love the look of it. It’s like a preschool play toy and I’m totally into it.

Nice review! I'm glad to see the knife is back; I can't be the only subscriber who is curious. Maybe you could do a mini review on it?

dam those rgb looks so good !!

Mine should be here soon. I'm going it arrives before my vacation.

Great vid. Great review. Great mug. But if I hear you call triggers 'trigger buttons' ever again we're not longer friends.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Adin. Maybe this is going to be a turning point.

Love mine

Probably one of those devices where buying through Amazon would be beneficial since you have the option to return if you have the light bleed issue. However, it is very expensive with some going around $225-230 with some coupons from the sellers.

I noticed the redream gui doesn't scale properly with the square ratio. And in game some of the options are cut off. And you can't see anything useful about save states either.

I just got a rp4p and I’ll be real I still play my 405m I feel like that is the goat imo premium feel , gamma os , pocketable and if you get the grips it’s perfect .

how do we fix analogue sticks sensibility on tg556 and cube?

Are you able to plug the xr glasses directly in or do you need to use an USB-C to HDMI adapter? On the SBCGaming subreddit, someone posted a thread about using Xreal AR glasses with the Cube, but they had to convert the signal to hdmi (and then back again to USB c for the glasses) to get things working. I'd be curious to know if it's as easy as plugging in the glasses for you. Sweet video by the way!

I saw a pic of this compared to the 4:3 40xx and the width was pretty much the same. But with the 1:1 you gain more height so the games scale larger on the cube

Does the cube work with Viture XR glases? With Xreal glases it doesn't output an image nor sound

3ds is really the killer feature on this one. It looks so good! I still think Ambernics 4 inch 4:3 screen is my favorite, but this may be a close second.

I'm looking forward to an N-Gage setup guide! I may be one of the few :-)

Adin walls I thought you had a video on how to setup rg556 but couldn't find it

Been deciding on a smaller device and it was between this and the 405v. I'm leaning towards the Cube since it is 720 and that could help for when I want to play psone. For anything higher I have the Odin 2 and this screen is great for NES to GBA and ds/3ds.

Any chance of an N-Gage on Android setup guide? I used to love mine

Can you show us how to make custom layouts for Lime3DS? I like how you have yours setup

I had the RGB30 for a few weeks and I really liked the screen but the rest of the powkiddy jankiness turned me off. This looks much nicer so I bit the bullet and ordered one, which was on sale for like $150 on Ali express

Oh boy. Your about to sell me on this. I've been on the fence about it

This or retroid pocket 4? :) or maybe I should ask what the best handheld for ps2.

Looks like a good system for Shmups?

Im split between this and the RP 4 Pro for a smaller, more travel friendly companion to my Steam Deck. I really want something to play GC, 3DS/DS, GBA/GBC/GB, SNES/N64, and PS1 titles that can be tossed into a bag and played on the go. Suggestions between the two?

This seems like a great fit for ds/3ds, GameCube, and vertical screen arcade games, all of which have me interested. That said, while the price is probably worth it, the way they pump out devices I'm waiting for this to be on sale for like 125usd in a month or three, at which point hopefully the screen stuff is sorted out. Happy to see no massive cautions other than that.

It looks a lot like a baby Ayaneo Air to me. Personally, I'd be more interested in the RG40XX H. Great video, once again sir!

No light bleed on mine. Just arrived.

BTW, you, Tech Dweeb and Vlad are just knocking it out of the park in terms of production values. Bloody brilliant really.

Dude there have been plenty of people get bad units from resellers, if you order this device you are basically in a lottery of screen with terrible odds & if you do get a bad one the customer support is horrendous

I love my RETRO RED edition RG Cube, one of the best one, yet !!, Anbernic had done a fantastic device , it ran great on all emulation , great 3DS , yes there is some tweaking and it ran great on ps2 , just one of my favourite Anbernic gaming handheld , i own ,, i also love my RG35xxSP , RG405M , but for the price and performance and screen is just a much better machine, I will bring this out more, then my steam deck and Legion Go

My 405M just got a 5 second mention.. 😢😢

I can't do the screen aspect. Everything id play won't use the screen right. It could be made of gold, but that part would still keep me from it. Also don't like any of the colors. I'm sure it's great for some.

I'm still waiting until they fix the Cardinal snapping on their sticks so I don't need to install a different OS

The only two reasons I still pick the RGB30 over the Cube: D-Pad on top and Linux.

Hey young lad! As much as I adore my RG MotherFlippers (RG35XXSP), as much as I cherish my Retroid Pocket 4 Pro, as much as I am visually persuaded that my RP3+ Metal iteration is simply a work of modern art, I am also bedazzled and bewitched by the form factor of my RG Cube. Agreed Aiden, Agreed man. I am suffering a bit of device overload tbh. I may actually take a bit of a break from the scene, regroup and then come back with a different attitude. More than excitement, these days, I'm just paralyzed by choice. I don't think I'm alone here.

As I said on the short, unless you're using this for a lot of vertical shooters I don't see the point of it. The screen aspect ratio is ill suited for both 4:3 content and 16:9. It's a jack of all trades but a master of none. It's also weird to market this as a 3DS machine when it is clearly not powerful enough. Sure with a lot of the systems the RG Cube can emulate there are tweaks that can be made but most people who buy these handhelds I suspect do so because they don't want to tinker.

Fan fact my TV that Way bigger for device it was 720p And you that screen the one tenth off TV size have almost the same resolution 😅 that is insain. To be fer my PC monitor it was 1080p. And my phone resolution and my phone is also 1080p that is insin if you think about it. Because that mean my phone screen 6.67 have bigger resolution that my main PC monitor that 24 inches. And the my TV is way bigger for pc monitor is 720p.😂 To fer im happy with all those 3 monitors i don't compling. I just thought is fany that the small monitor which as small monitor have bigger resolution that Big one's 😅 And im surprised how company now days able to add resolution this big on small screen. Yea my TV old one i understand to be lower resolution but how company able to this mach pixels on 7 to 6 inch displays ?

For those of you that dislike android, you can use ES-DE as a frontend. And you can use Delta Touch to play Brutal Doom!

Too be fair with this retro systems there was no such thing as aspect ratio. There was/is no way to measure it. Now we are just trying to put square screens in round holes giving them artificial aspect ratios. This is why some games look better in 4:3 and others 8:7 because we can get a close guess but it’s not perfect.

This video is not good for confirming that i don't need this thing... And I'll go yell at you on reddit ad well for recommenting it. This being said... Great content! And really appreciated the comparison with the other anbernic devices, that do have quite a huge and overlapping catalog.....

The device does look amazing, but it's just not worth the price at the moment. Maybe on a sale.

Odin 2 mini is king !!!!

N-Gage. Lol. Just LOL lad.

Ever?

The biggest drawback is touch screen

The sticks are garbage. Nothing can be done about them.

How about you stop deleting comments calling you out for basically lying to your audience about the screen issues and encouraging them to buy it from the reseller who sent you a free unit? This is why the retro gaming scene is in such shambles, because certain reviewers aren't honest about (subpar) quality of some of these devices. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy my Cube. But I would have waited to buy it if reviewers hadn't uncritically spread Anbernic's lie that only the review units had light bleed.

You should really try a snowcake I think you'd be even more blown by that device. Great video as always sir

I proper love the look of it. It’s like a preschool play toy and I’m totally into it.