Thanks for the shout-out, I’m honored! I bought my first retro handheld console based on one of your reviews last year. Happy to be of help making the device somewhat more palatable.

i was really scared we were getting another male performance ad when he showed the amiibos rear

Can we just get one of these with a solid UI finally?

i recently rewatched a bunch of videos from this channel from 2013-2017 and i love how different the channel feels from all of those older ones

It's because of issues like this that I prefer to emulate on my phone with a controller.

I think these need to start coming with faster processors and higher-capacity batteries to make them worthwhile. Should be feasible at the $80 - $120 range.

Wulff den sounds like he would have a good Christopher walken impression

"Not one of these devices is perfect. There is at least some thing wrong with them." You have no idea how thankful I am that you are like this. And for that I appreciate you greatly.

Wulff: Here's all these portable emulators and here's why they're good and why they're bad, and you should think about it and make a decision that works best for you. Me: *slaps a portable gaming controller on my Android phone*

Been watching your reviews in the hopes I can finally make a decision on a portable emulator to buy. These vids really make it easier for me, thanks!

My issue with these handhelds isn’t just the fact there are trade offs (that’s in every product). The issue is that these are big tradeoffs. You really do have to compromise on something significant regardless of the model or price.

@ 5:15 it's Yusuke Urameshi DUDEEEEEEEEEEEEE

When you can run dreamcast but not N64

This is really nice. I got an 8bit Do cuz of all your coverage on it. Thanks. That was like a year and a half ago and its still kickin

You are such an amazing content creator that even watching your ads is more entertaining than other channels nowadays!

Great video. It really sums up my own personal feelings about devices that're supposed to make playing older games more convenient. You either get a simple experience that's sub-par or an improved experience that makes you jump through a lot of hoops. There's rarely any real in-between.

Rock on, man! Thanks for covering this weirdly fascinating device. Great video, keep up the awesome work!

Really enjoy this series, a round up video ranking the devices or eliminating devices 1 by 1 as they fail at something would be really cool

Thanks for this review. I think that you’ve helped me get some clarity on what the perfect handheld emulation device would be, to me. Especially when you said at 4:53 about valuing user experience. I’ve never manufactured something of the magnitude of the device I’m imagining, but it’s starting to come together. Basically the ultimate handheld Nintendo emulator through GBA, with maybe a premium version that could handle N64, GameCube, and Wii. The ideas are percolating...

I think that`s Yusuke (deamon form) from YuYu Hakusho. But I have no idea why they choose him.

thanks for this wulff, ive seen a few “reviews” of this thing that dont tell you how it runs games

Great video as always! Thanks for making!!

You have to love how KZfaq is the closest thing to a time machine we have

See normally I hate ads but he genuinely makes them so fun and interesting. I wish more content creators were this creative

Retro Game Corps is AWESOME. Love seeing the love being spread here

God bless your humorous, well produced ads man

I always feel like Bob is yelling at us, but then again we all probably enjoy it.

If we got a PocketGo S30 designed by someone at 8bitdo, it's not too farfetch'd to imagine 8bitdo joycons in the future

In case everyone already forgot, the Analogue Pocket is coming soon now!

I'm genuinely happy for ya! ✌😇 (I only read the title and saw 1st few secs)

I’m heavily considering getting a handheld emulator thanks to all your videos that highlight them.

New opening animatic for the Wulff channel? Dope.

I haven't really looked into one of these yet, about a year and a half ago I bought an everdrive cart for my GB micro, and that was holding my attention for a while

5:16 that’s Yusuke Urameshi from the YuYu Hakusho anime. Super random pic if you ask me

Thanks for saving me $60 and giving an honest review on the experience. I follow a couple of big tech channels focused on emulation and have been burned by their opinions insisting it’s the best ever, only to have to deal with constant tinkering with cores/software/whatever else to make things run decent.

Loved the video. And the ad. 😆

Always look forward to having a cup of joe and watching your latest upload. Great video Bob

I know it's not the end-all, but I'm still really happy with my soft mod PSP as my handheld emulator, and it can connect to the TV with component or HDMI! Though it can't play Dreamcast, and it really can only play like 100 N64 games really well, it plays PS1 ROMs native and can handle anything else pre-Y2K and GBA flawlessly (at least what I've tried).

This guy and honest. I appreciate it 👍

Great video, lots of portable emulators for sure, anyways, keep it up!

Your channel is legendary..

the beat at 0:57 really had me vibin lol

Love your vids

That's Yusuke from Yu Yu Hakusho, which did have a game on the Mega Drive. It's still an obscure game to choose for that purpose.

I like the ArkOS cfw for the RK3326 handhelds. One thing that is nice about it is that it does let you just drag and drop games on to the SD card.

I love you Bob, keep it up

btw, thank you for calling out the shortcomings of these devices. We need a ready to go device with a thought out, simple and elegantly designed UI. A clean UI, unified and elegant option menus with just the right amount of options for aspect ratio and clean pixels as well as good save state options. Finally and one thing you don't mention (that the S30 doesn't have) is a sleep function. These devices MUST have sleep mode to be worth on-the-go play.

@5:16 Yusuke Urameshi in his demon form for Yu Yu Hakusho, also I love your content and if you like anime you should give this one a shot!

Wulff den much love!!

Oh cool, thanks for the review Chris Delia (;

Nice thumbnail, caught my attention immediately. I probably won't be able to use this console because over the years my hands have just gotten used to the larger console controllers. I'll miss my time with the gameboy color/advance/sp but it's nice to see people still creating new hardware for those old classic games.

You made me laugh!!! Subscribed!!!

I just use a jailbroken psvita for my portable emulator, pretty much has all the positives you would want for one and its unique negatives (such as needing to jailbreak it and the storage) are either very easy to do or have easy work around that works very well. It has a strong homebrew community that is still going to this day and has enough power to run any emulator for a home console from the 90's (yes including n64) and any portable console that came before the vita (except maybe the DS). It can play psp games and ps1 games natively but normally locked behind the ps store (if you have psp games digitally they will automatically transfer over). But if you get adrenaline it essentially gives you a psp virtual machine which literally means when you boot up the application it boots up the psp firmware and you can treat you vita like a psp, this is where you can play your psp and ps1 games. The ps vita also has built in dual analogue support for ps1 games used via adrenaline and for psp games that had movable camera but needed some weird button hot key to move it, I'm pretty sure other emulators take advantage of this as well. Overclocking the cpu also helps, but the vita is actually underclocked by default to save battery, so you can set it to its base clock speed and it actually doesn't seem to affect the battery that much, I can get a locked 30fps in the god of war port using the base clock speed which is nice. The ps vita is all in all an underrated portable console and a great portable emulator.

Nice sweater, Bob!

The dude on the mega drive is the protagonist from yu yu hakusho. Still odd that they used him cause the fighting game he’s in was never really localized

I had no idea these were a thing! I want one!!

When I discovered these handhelds a few years back, I studied them all and asked as many questions I could on youtude reviews. I decided on the PowKiddy X15 and I think its great!! 1 year in and still works great. I dont use it daily but it is the best handheld I think. I wanted an X18 but I KNOW that the repeated open/close will break the connection between the top and bottom units. PowKiddy X15!!!

Knew from the title you were talking about 8bitdo and man if this feels anywhere near as good as an SF30 pro I want it so bad

Loving the intro

Interesting stuff!

what a bummer. I love the look of it

Finally got a job during Covid depression so might make way more use of your recommendations

My favorite portable emulation device is the Vita. Using the Adrenaline app to access the PSP version of emulators is such a godsend.

Awesome video by the way. Yep, I agree, if you want to pick up and play this is good. I cant always find the time to update firmware, I did mod the buttons to the SNES colours lol. I really don't like the L2/R2 triggers. Besides that, it's good value👍

I’m interested in getting an emulator like this but until I hear a glowing recommendation for one I’ll probably just stick to emulating on my pc

Man this is a bummer, the look of it is amazing, and I definitely wanted one.

looks like they took the Platform screens form the COLORFUL theme for Launchbox/Bigbox for the updated UI

Wulff Den and Izzy Nobre have gotten me into these personal emulators. Kinda love it, kinda hate it XD

I'm interested in V2 with 2 joysticks and better tweaks, because that formfactor is top notch. And yeah that UI looked great.

Is that a Mew in you background? My favorite!

Thanks for talking about this, I’ll just have to wait a bit longer. I love the price point and I love the select of systems it can run but hearing about having to follow the guide optimization and it’s still not quite enough makes it really difficult for me. I need something a bit simpler. I wanted to get something similar but the commission was 1250 which is well beyond my budget. 60 is the perfect price point

This man has bought so many emulators it would've been cheaper to legally buy all the games and then make his own emulator

Did you have to get rid of the Megaman death sound in the intro? I liked it. I blame Capcom.

Gotta love that Falcon Kick favorite character

And I like 8bitdo for the quality of the buttons reaction to the device, and its supreme compatibility 🎮 🌹

Still loving my Retroid Pocket 2

5:17 That's Yusuke from Yuyu Hakusho, man!!!

I dont even want a retro console, but I still watch bob's video, his yelling always keeps me watching. Weirdly entertaining.

The RG351P is a big step up from the RG350M. More powerful and much better UI, plus huge community support and multiple OS options. the only downside is the screen is lower rez, but with the settings you can still get it to be pretty good.

5:18 That's yusuke from Yu Yu Hakusho

5:16 his reaction to mazuku yusuke is hilarious

The 351p sounds like what you want. It’s good to go out of the box and you can easily just drag and drop your roms onto the micro sd card. The OS is super slick and easier to use than the rg350 in my opinion.

This thing is lovely

5:17 anime called yu yu hakusho

Bob has the best adds

ROLLIN AROUND AT THE SPEED OF SOUND! GOT PLACES TO GO! GOT TO FOLLOW MY RAINBOW!

When I saw the title I thought I was about to see an amazing product and then you proceeded to dunk on this ass emulator xD

now with the new firmware i bought it, and used your referral link so you're welcome lil buddy

Still waiting for Bahb to really love one of these and finally sell me on it. One of these days...

I'm in love with this design but not being able to emulate games properly is the ultimate deal breaker

UI experience is so important with all these pocket i used. It seems like Pocket Go can handle Dreamcast while the other can not.

5:16 Of all characters to associate with the Sega Megadrive, Majin Yusuke from Yu Yu Hakusho is TOTALLY the first that comes to mind.

I'm both sad that this is bad but also relieved because I bought a Retroid Pocket 2 *just* before this was announced. Phew!

great video as always bro. have you tried the retro pie 4 gameboy?

I gotta say, I will not buy a pocket emulator till Bob finds the end all be all. Keep it up my friend they will listen like Nyko lol

imm just keep using my dslite and psp for now. i have high hope for these in the future.

Lookin like Chris D’elia’s lost brother.

He never seemed to mention it, but how is the actual feel of the dpad and buttons, etc.? None of the other pocket emulators looks comfortable/well made enough to warrant purchasing and knowing that this one is made with the fantastic 8bitdo components, I’d really like to know :)

I honestly thought he wasnt gonna make one of this if it wasnt better than the other retro console

5:16 I could be wrong but I believe that is Yusuke Yurameshi from Yu Yu Hakusho in his demon form.