I bet it has a great personality

It's not about the size of the gameboy, it's how you play with it that matters.

Honestly, the best use case for this is to just be a novelty keychain you can sometimes whip out to play Tetris or something. That'd be cute

I bought one _specifically_ for GameBoy, GameBoy Color and GameGear games. Everything else is merely a bonus.

this would be sick as a dedicated one handed pokemon machine

This thing is so small that all I could focus on was the Dreamcast games playing in the back (and Dolphin Blue, that game is SICK)

Honestly if they just released something that was bigger than this but smaller than the original Miyoo Mini, that would be perfect for my commute!

I know they were kind of a joke at the time, but I honestly think the PSP Go had an incredible form factor. Perfect combination of performance and portability. In fact, I honestly regret having ever gotten rid of mine (back when I was a stupid kid who traded everything to gamestop for fund my destructive gaming habit).

Thank you. You sealed the deal for me. I almost bought this thing but if it can't play all of gba and snes library then it's a no go for me.

The PocketSprite has it licked in terms of size, but this is about as small as you'd want one to get while still remaining fully playable. Neat as it was, I gifted my PocketSprite because the buttons were too tiny for action games and the screen was too tiny for RPGs (text & numbers were illegible).

It's a little modern VMU really, same size down the the screen. Id love to see some mods and accessories for it. Also I already bought one before all these reviews lol. It's a good thing I would only ever play like 2 ps1 games on it. Most SNES or GBA games I'd rather just play on my switch, something like a NES or gameboy game that doesn't have saves works better on here. Though if they are going to make a small metal device, I wish it was a Game and Watch shape, go for thin not small. The list of games I most want to play on it are: Game and watch gallery series, smb 2, Space invaders on GBC, Balloon fight, and the Namco Classics.

I love it. Ordering one after rent. I don't carry a bag, and by that nature, no Bluetooth controller either, thought I had been looking at a keychain one for my phone. A discrete emulator the size of a keychain controller is right up my alley. I really liked my pocketsprite a lot back in the day, but lost it, this looks just the right size balance to avoid such troubles.

This makes me want to go back to my v90. That thing's still one of my all-time favorites.

I love my rg35xx but strangely I only play games on rg280v lately. This is a device that is quite close to miyo mini size and is a perfect combination of power, build, ease of use (with AdamImage) and portability in my book.

Great review. You outdid yourself @WulffDen playing on such tiny novelty device. The Miyoo Mini sound the best option. I have a hard time playing any Android games on my workhorse screen of 3.1" of 720x716 resolution. I wouldn't be able to play emulator games on something smaller than 2.5". At 1.54" that's only acceptable for my audiobooks mp3 player! 9:35 🐺

I would absolutely love a more rugged version of this thing that you could put on a keychain

thank you for sharing your time and your experience

this is making me curious again about any emu devices that have the Game&Watch form factor. I still take my 35th Aniv Mario G&W with me to work because it's so got-dang pocketable, and I'm really starting to crave something more substantial, but doesn't take up the whole pocket or make a bulge. here's to hoping Bob puts out a tiny device showcase 🙏

It's for sure not the best go-to solution in portable gaming but I still love this little device to death, perfect for in between Gameboy stuff.

This thing reminded me of the old Game & Watch minis. That would be a cool use for this.

I just got mine and it is pure perfection!

I just picked up a miyoo mini plus and loved it so much I just had to get a miyoo mini. I got both off of Ali Express last month ($100 for the mm+ and $150 CAD for the mm)

I'm really glad that you did a review on this little anbernic hand held small system I was gonna buy one but after you did a review on it I realize now it's not worth the money and that I'm not going to get one now thankyou again for warning me

Awesome! love that its metal that's a nice touch.

In defense of super nintendo aspect ratios, the internal aspect ratio was 8:7, and back in the day that image was stretched across 4:3 screens. A 1:1 ratio is actually closer to 8:7 than 4:3 is, so it's arguably scaled more accurately than what you'd see by default on the miyoo mini for example.

I cannot wait to play the underrated PlayStation Masterpiece "Battle Hunter" on this.

Haha - most awesome cover picture ever for a video on KZfaq!

Just a correction: Blackseraph makes garlicOS as an onionOS clone for the 35xx, but he does not make onionOS for the miyoo mini or miyoo mini plus. Also powkiddy makes a funkey clone as well called the q36 which is a little less portable but is much more ergonomic being a horizontal (can't play it one handed though) - the powkiddy one is actually 1:1 with the funkey for compatibility with CFW

It’s how I always wanted the VMU to be

Reminds me of the Thumby. You should review the Thumby!

i feel like if I bought this, it would be on my keychain and solely play DMG, GBC, and Atari games, and more specifically just simple pickup and play style games nothing I would concern myself with when it comes to long story driven games requiring many hours to complete, but I DO WANT this in my collection lol

How dare you steal that poor dogs gameboy...

If budget is not an issue. I would love to have this as a novelty unit / collection. Could be fun bringing it to your friends' or on a party~

This uses the same OS. Funkey OS just anbernics twist. Drum78 is working to bring their changes over to the device which has actual updated emulators. I would wait till that get fixed before getting the device, unless you REALLY want something TINY.

THE RHYTHM HEAVEN IN THE BACKGROUND

The "Everything I said still stands..." being inception-ed was so clever XD

I'm still waiting on a newer gba layout device with no analog stick that looks as nice as the Miyoo Mini. Hopefully soon!

I just drop in the Funkey OS and all the emulation problems seem to be fixed for me, I love mine and im glad I got one, I have way more fun on it than even I expected and it fits somewhere on me anytime I gotta go out. Also I put a popsocket and a lanyard on mine

I bought one with a somewhat different use case in mind: playing Pico 8 games at any time where I have 3-15 minutes to kill. A long time ago, I used to have a Tetris keychain I did this with, and I figured this might be a bougie version of that. Yes, the price tag was steep for what this was. I guess in my mind, if the total time I ever spend using this exceeded the time I would spend playing $80 worth of games on Steam, I'm breaking even. I just really like this form factor. Considerations from my perspective: 1. The 1:1 aspect ratio is perfect for Pico 8. I'm honestly surprised more people haven't thought of this. What else actually runs natively on a square resolution? 2. The kinds of games that are on Pico 8 play just fine on this tiny form factor. 3. The firmware update made a HUGE difference for me. The 1.0.0 firmware only ships with the libretro emulator which is terrible. The 1.0.1 version added the fake-08 picoarch core, so now it runs about 80% of the games I threw at it just fine. Still not perfect, but good enough to bring me a sense of relief. 4. I hope I see a time when I can run the real Pico 8 executable on this thing. It's fun on the RG 351V, which I keep on my nightstand, and the CPU on the Nano should be capable of running it. It's just a matter of whether an OS will be developed that will support adding it in.

Came for the Gameboy Nano, stayed for the good ole pupper.

Might work better with a horizontal format. Shouldn’t be much bigger, but have somewhat better ergonomics and more room for battery and maybe L2/R2

Gameboy screen magnifier mod? I think we need this

Still not sure but was Thinking of getting this only for old pokemon games doing the nuzlocke challenge well im waiting for somthing sounds cool especially with it being so small I could always have it with me and also the benefits of not draining my phone battery.

if you still wanted to play something with almost the same size as the RG Nano, you should check the Powkiddy Q36 Mini.

Supposedly, Miyoo is planning to re-launch the Miyoo Mini in August of this year with a different but same-sized screen.

RG Nano to Game Boy Micro: "The future is now, old man."

I got carpal tunnel just watching this.

Shout-out to WWF Royal Rumble on the Sega Naomi or maybe Dreamcast in the background in the beginning

The 240x240 resolution is a little odd. A 256x256 would be more well rounded, but just make everything even tinier. But it'd be a perfect Pico-8 player at that resolution.

The thumbnail makes me wish we had some kind of gameboy shaped gummies

The dpad looks exactly the same as the 8bitdo Zero 2

This is the kind of thing that happens when people are so fixated on the four-face button+shoulders layout the SNES and PlayStation popularized instead of giving more space like the better Genesis/Saturn six-face button+possible shoulders layout.

looks like they need to recreate the Gameboy magnifier too lol

It's too expensive for a novelty device, everyone who buys this will come to regret it.

I might pick this up for fun if they release a cheaper plastic version (which I'm sure they will). If they were going to have that screen that can't do 360 x 240... then they should have dropped the buttons to 2 (and shoulder buttons) and focus the marketing on emulating handhelds (GB, GCB, GBA, GG, NGPC, etc), it would be easier with 2 face buttons instead of 4

They need to make one that’s between the size of the Miyoo mini + and the RG nano then we’ll be talking

it reminds me of the small lcd keychain games like pacman that i used to get as a kid in the 90's. as a kid i'd want this, but now? nah i don't think so. maybe if it was like 10 dollars or something. i like that it's made out of metal though.

If mame was on it I'd buy one just to have it

Mr Wulff, what camera do you use for your videos? It looks so clean and cinematic, for fun lil emulation videos

As long as it plays Pokémon well id buy it.

Honestly, this is incredibly tempting for me just because my use case is 95% pokémon games which this would handle fine. But the biggest reason I have never invested in a dedicated hardware solution for emulation is because I use retroarch on my phone and PC I have my game saves, save states, and ROM files all set to just automatically sync between the two. I save a game on my PC and about 30 seconds later I can start that game up on my phone and pick up exactly where I left off. I really wish I hadn't figured out how to set that up because it means until I am able to pull that same kind of stuff off on dedicated hardware. I am stuck with touch screen buttons...

Wow, that's a surprising size

Imagine if you'd gone in there prepared to like it!

It might actually be useful if it was landscape format.

Me starting the video: Oh, I wanna put that on my key chain. Bahb: It comes with a keychain, for some reason. Me: 😮

Gee I think penguinz0 been in quarantine for way to long

Bobs hair looking fire here 👌🏻

Man he needs to look into a minty pi

They should bring out a new rg35xx with better Hdmi funktion and bluetooth. I just want a GB like device that works a bit more like a switch.

Kind of reminds me of the game boy micro what is your opinion about that also how big is this device compared to the micro

Nice video!

I'm surprised Nintendo isn't doing an official one of these

My Anbernic RetroMini finally arrived just this morning, and it's about as small as I'm willing to comfortably go. I love it, its only flaw being how small and recessed the L and R buttons are on the thing (Makes me think they should have just had flat back buttons for L & R). The Nano is a cute novelty, but to be honest if I wanted a nano device, it would have to be the FunkeyS.

I want one! I'm NOT a stickler for emu quality, and I AM a sucker for tiny gadgets.

i think about putting the nano on my keychain

i thought i was passing a kidney stone the otherday, fond out it was an ambernic mini retro nano

the name is right there for their own Miyoo Mini. they have RG Nano for the tiny size all they need to do is just release RG Micro with the Miyoo Mini size and boom you have a winner

Yooo, goodnote guys 🤙🏼

I too want to play my ps1 and snes games with a magnifying glass strapped to my eye.

It's not far off the Mac tini parody becomes real.

We've unlocked Future Future Bob.

you gonna make a video on that arcade cabinet?

Hey! I still ise my pocket go! Its really pretty good yet. Im mean my 35xx and 351p are better but its like the size of a gameboy micro.

It’s okay a bit to small playing ps1 games is kind of hard with lack of L2 and r2 I think price is a bit to high for what it is

Bob Wulff eats Game Boys the long way.

I think the use case you're missing is my 6 year old nephews. Seems like a perfect distraction machine for young children. No moving parts or cartridges to lose or break, sized for small hands, with a pricetag to match. Obviously there are more serious machines for better performance and ergonomics, but it's a pretty neat package if your target audience is children.

The best handheld for emulation is a 3ds. I use my 32GB 2ds for all my retro games and my 64GB 3ds xl for actual 3ds games. Once hacked, they can run any nintendo title up to N64 (which can run with varying results. Super mario 64 has a community made 3ds optimised version).

anbernic after hearing this review: "it's morbin' time"

Yea but... look how CUTE it is!!!

Love every review you make even if it is for something ridiculous like this

On the fun Key s you are able to access r2 and l2 by holding select I believe is that the same on here?

Doggo: how did that get there?

the perfect emulator for Stuart Little

Playing a console this tiny would make my fingers cramp up into twisted pretzel knots.

Bust out laughing at 1:23. It's so little.

They already have the rg280v it just need a metal version with a better os and unbreakable screen

How well does it fit in a Dreamcast controller?

Really think Bob needs glasses, me and all the other cool young people I know love the small screen

This doesn't apply to me, but I could see this being a convenient product for an amputee with only one hand.

Me and his mom got excited thinking he had finally eaten something.