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hear that I think it's kind of retro

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time this is the evercade X exp

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experience whatever basically what it is is it's a emulation handheld that takes

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cartridges the boxes very plain there's there's

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nothing else to it there's a little bit of RGB here but I don't know if that

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indicates anything oh okay so it's a box within a box kind of thing it comes with

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the TOA plan arcade kit this is a

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cartridge of TOA plan arcade games it's one of the things that the evercade x or

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evercade lineup is actually really good for is a lot of these games basically

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like arcade games don't really get re-releases very often but they do on

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the uppercade uh you get a little keychain here let me get it out of the

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the shape of a of a cartridge what's on the other side insert cartridge yeah I

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don't know if you want to insert this one but maybe it fits if it does that'd

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be cool you get a carrying case so you got a little spot for the the handheld

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itself and for some games yeah they got little

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pockets in here sub Pockets uh you get a little cleaning cloth evercade

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so you got ever Kate X the console

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itself Tate what that basically means is

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vertical and that's one of the party tricks of the evercade x is that you can

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actually hold it this way and play vertical Shooters and I'm looking

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forward to trying that out wow unlike the outer box this box is just crammed

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with all kinds of stuff yeah some Street Fighter on this side you got some uh

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Mega Man and 1942 on the other side I guess this is a Capcom bundle yeah games

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from Capcom and Iran okay so I guess this might be like a collector's edition

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pack or something I'm not entirely sure this is what you would get normally if

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you buy it yeah a fair number of decent Capcom games in here we've got Street

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Fighter 2 hyper fighting uh all the Mega Man wait Mega Man and Mega Man 2 and

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Mega Man X interesting selection let's get this guy out of the box

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and see what it looks like ah yeah now the original evercade really looked

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plasticky and this does too but it looks a lot more premium it reminds me of how

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the DS Light looked and felt when they first announced it whereas the original

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evercade had the red accents and it all kind of looked kind of me

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d-pad I mean it's okay it's serviceable it doesn't really feel all that

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infinitive like it kind of moves pretty freely maybe that'll be good for fighting games buttons though the face

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buttons actually they're okay there's more snap

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to the Y button up here than there is to the a button down here this feels a

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little bit more mushy whereas this is a little bit snappier it's not a huge

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difference but you know you'll notice it uh oh and these

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these are also a little bit mushy but it's probably fine it is a little

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awkward to hold like this though just saying there there could used to be like

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a little a little indent or something on the back here but it's just flat so

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holding it like this you're just like I mean it's like holding your phone by

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this little part of it down here it's not an amazing experience but hey you

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can do it on the bottom here we've got a USB type c and a headphone output Jack

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don't know what this button is for this is obviously the volume controls and I

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don't know what this is either some kind of light oh it's it's marked with a t so

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presumably this is the mode to switch over to Tate so like vertical so like if

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your game is like this and you know you want to do full screen you'd hit the T

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and then you do that and of course you've got the great big honkin cartridge slot on the back there and I

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think the reason it's that big I mean it doesn't have to be they actually have

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full compatibility at least as far as I can tell from the marketing materials

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with the original evercade cartridges which I think they now have like 30 or

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more all of which have well most of which have more than five games on them

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a lot of them actually have like more than eight also you have a little mini

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HDMI port up there if you want to plug it into your TV not sure if that's

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something that you'd really want to do but it's there

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shoulders are and they're fine it probably wouldn't be too bad I mean

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these are kind of older games so you're not going to be using these Triggers on

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the left and right so often but uh you know it's something to take note of uh

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yeah here we go so

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right this is the irm arcade cartridge

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presumably the Capcom games are just built into this thing so I was correct

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that t is the Tate mode button and that

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light when it's red it's charging when it's

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blinking green it's booting up and when it's blinking red it's time to charge I

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appreciate this this is actually nicely laid out so this is a really nice touch

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I like this maybe it's just the Nostalgia in me liking old instruction

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manuals you can flip through on the toilet I don't know let's pop a game out

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and see what that looks like okay you also get an instruction manual with this

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much the same it's a different form factor so why cartridges I mean aside

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from the fact that it's like honestly pretty satisfying to just

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do that oh oh

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okay it's a little a little tight on the

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current gen console I'll say that that was a little harder than I would have

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expected it's a pretty tight fit to get it into the slot and I'm not sure if

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that's by Design or if it's just because this is brand new and it needs some time

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to wear in there's more to it than just getting the games plus all of these are

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fully licensed so it's not a piracy

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console or anything like that speaking of which

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foreign that's not even like half of them like

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they've got 30 of these now I think we've got in television we've got Atari

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these are new games I think these are evercade exclusives how about that the

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Atari Lynx collection jaliko and of course we've got I say of course I don't

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think I've ever heard of Galco how about we turn it on and see how it plays but

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foreign speakers don't sound amazing so the

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first thing we get is our cartridge which is the Iram arcade collection then

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we can go over to our built-in games there's hidden games we can unlock games

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I would prefer that they were already unlocked presumably this is maybe the

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downloadable section I don't know it says coming soon

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and what I presume are the settings okay so display

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okay cool we have aspect ratios so we have the original ratio we have Pixel

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Perfect which will be an integer scale it'll give you black borders most of the

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time but that way you won't have any weird scaling artifacts like blur or

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misshapen pixels uh and full screen is if you are a

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monster and you like to play your 4x3 games in 16x9 I'm not sure why this oh

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right because of Tate mode okay Dynamic rate control I guess it has

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adaptive sync I'm not sure why you'd have that off oh wait maybe maybe that's

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not what that is maybe what that is is speeding up or slowing down the game to

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sync to the refresh rate of the display maybe that's why it's off by default I

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don't think that this has any settings information in that little uh little

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quick start guide so I'd have to check the online manual and secret okay

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it's got a code entry screen I guess for unlocking games maybe again it's cute

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but I'm pretty sure that I would prefer to just have these features unlocked see

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how Mega Man 2 looks they've got all the play controls and

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stuff here too

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found right to me no it's not because of the volume it's

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like bit crushed which is strange because

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it's 8-bit but yeah that's not clipping that's

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that's just gritty I'm not sure why that is but I guess it doesn't really matter

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if uh if the gameplay is okay

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oh man that sounds crunchy

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now that's that's unpleasant I'm sorry I

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don't know how the headphone output sounds or how the HDMI output sounds but

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these speakers don't sound very good with this

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oh that's the menu key well while we're here uh quick save we can I think maybe

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customize the controls no we just have the controls okay it'd be nice if you

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had control customization as well I can see myself hitting the menu button

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a lot instead of hitting start these buttons are lower than the menu

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button I'm going to turn this down

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uh uh did I not hit a

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does a DOT jump no it doesn't oh okay

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it's B oh I don't like this I like I like this

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layout like pressing X Pursuit and uh a

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to jump I don't think I can do that no I can't change the controls oh that's

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I don't like this

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um a couple of frames of lag

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well I mean it feels pretty responsive but I don't I'm not happy with the NES

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simulation uh let's try a vertical game okay so I can Tate mode that I guess

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select for credits yeah

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dump coins in there

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uh this also sounds a little crunchy

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I'm talking about rips really well though it is a little like I have to

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brace my hand in a different way what I'm doing is I'm holding my hand like

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that so that I'm actually like supporting the the higher part of the

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console and then I'm like kind of tweaking my my thumbs down it's like

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kind of it's not super comfortable but it works

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so when you're in Tate mode even these on-screen controls up here use these

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these lower buttons ah I keep thinking the confirm is on the right because

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that's kind of how it is in well on the NES and also in like most Japanese

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controllers what's a more modern Title Here I mean Breath of Fire like Super

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Nintendo yeah let's run Mega Man X and see how that works oh I'm

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not looking forward to how this sounds based on what I've heard so far

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that's actually not bad

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the stereo is pretty good too yeah the sound doesn't sound bad the uh

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Graphics I mean that doesn't look terrible to me

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um but it's it's kind of small so it's difficult to see if there are any major

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errors it looks like the stretch might be making some inconsistent pixels here

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on these status bars yeah it's not something I can see at this like this

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angle to show the camera but if I look at it straight on I think I would notice

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now you can kind of tell in uh X's health bar up here

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I'm not sure if that looks off or not I'm it's a small screen

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um otherwise it seems to play pretty okay for the Super Nintendo games

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see look it's just the NES games that it kind of sucks for like the emulator is

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just bad like the audio sounds like it's being mixed at like 11 kilohertz or

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something which is not enough 1.5 gigahertz presumably it's just an ARM of

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some kind with four Gigabytes of system memory you

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can get by with like maybe a gig or 512 Megs depending on the complexity of the

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operating system so presumably it's because of all the the artwork and stuff

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that they had to preload here I think that CPU is definitely fast enough to do

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accurate NES and super net NES emulation so I'm not sure why it's like that maybe

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it can be fixed in a firmware update obviously this is software based so it's

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not like it's going to be fixed in that way I guess that's one of the advantages

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to having this platform is that you know when you buy these games a future

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revision of the console could actually make them play better or give you more

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features to make the gameplay experience better it's tough to to really fully

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analyze the gameplay experience because I don't know if it's going to be the

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same throughout the lifespan of this console but those NES games they just

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sound bad at 149 for the console and about 20 or 25 dollars for

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each of those it's not a bad value it's just I feel like there are better ways

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to play these games it's tough I want to like this but the quality of the

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emulation at least on the NES side was just unbearable I don't know maybe

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that's just a Capcom thing maybe each of these games has its own encapsulated

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emulator and this is just running it I don't know what the architecture of

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the system looks like if you're going to carry this around with you I mean assuming you have the official carrying

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case you got this and you've got room for two

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games in here I guess make sure that you choose the games you want to play like

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it's it's a little inconvenient to carry around

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you know your library right this would be better I think for the Home console

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version of the evercade like the verses as nice as the cartridges are a

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downloadable experience would probably be a lot nicer and I don't see a spot

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for an SD card or anything like that so I don't know how much storage is even on

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here they need to improve the emulation the console itself feels pretty solid I

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mean it is a little chunky but that's okay because it makes it easier to hold

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unless you're holding it like this in which case you know

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but at least you have the option right so yeah it seems like the software is

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letting it down mostly and the the software ecosystem as well it's this

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biggest strength and its biggest weakness I think why is it getting warm

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I mean it it doesn't seem like it is really doing much like right now it

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doesn't seem like it's doing much but it's still warm it feels like they've got a lot of work to do they've got a

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lot of work to do on the software ecosystem and they've got a lot of work to do on you know just just making sure

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that the experience is okay now they say you can get four to five hours of

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battery life on this that's enough I guess I mean it's not going to be

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similar to the old school game boy or anything like that I mean it's it's

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comparable to a switch assuming that's correct I mean I mean

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we've been playing this whole time and it hasn't ticked down at all it was

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always at uh three bars on the battery as it is right now I would recommend it

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only if you really want these cartridges and that's really the

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bottom line there are better handhelds to have and if you have a game

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collection already you can dump your own games and there's no piracy required for

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following ShortCircuit we have plenty of other things like this and not like

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this there's retro time there's not retro time what time is it now

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you decide