okay so courtesy of the same crazy bastards that brought us that tiny
little Windows-based gaming machine we have got this should be one of the
first units as far as i know the gpd
xd plus and if you're wondering was that
intentional the answer is yes yes it was
and this is actually the least bizarre thing about the box because i don't know
what the hell that is supposed to mean when you smile the world loves him when
you laugh the world fears him maybe it's a riddle
maybe it's some kind of proverb maybe it just was
random words from a dictionary like this
it's hard to tell but what i do know is that this thing looks pretty freaking
cool it's an Android-based gaming device and we are gonna put it through the
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all right first things first let's get this baby fired up so it's pretty
similar in terms of the actual construction of it to the original gpd
xd which is also an Android based gaming device but
they have made some upgrades under the hood to make it a little bit more robust
so first let's run through it just for those of you who aren't familiar
bottom's pretty plain you've got an r1 r2 l1 and l2 that for whatever reason
all of these are upside down
so you're apparently supposed to look at them this way okay sure it's got a
headphone jack which you cannot take for granted these days
it's got a mini HDMI output that is HDMI
2.0 they say in the specs but then they also say HDMI 2.0 max 2560 by 1600
resolution maybe it's a software limitation uh micro usb still for
charging so that's how you can tell there were a couple things they did not update about the chassis and micro sd
other than that we've got uh did this it's not turned on what's going
on oh hey there it goes okay so we've got a couple of joysticks that are
actually not too shabby like as far as low profile joysticks go that's not bad
we've got an l3 and an r3 volume up
volume down let's make some adjustments there there we go multitask button we've got
whatever this button does
not clear not clear what this button does start select back home
which uh and we've got a d-pad and
actually some not bad buttons here as well now challenge number one challenge
number one for me is that it ships in chinese
which has some what appear to be some like pirated ass games on it
i don't know what moopen 64 plus is
i don't know what that says something about detected problem oh that's in
english i wasn't taking it for granted so it
apparently ships with this wow that is some pretty sketch stuff right there but
hey let's try it out right always yoshi if you pick anyone other than yoshi and
mario 64 then you suck or you're playing with me because i would have worked
pretty hard to snipe yoshi
oh i'm dropping a couple of frames here but it's actually not too bad so i don't
know why that is right now i haven't actually obviously spent a lot of time
with it i don't know if there's any tuning that i can do i really got to get my mario kart game on here because this
is not pretty to watch seven see i'm not a game streamer i'm
not experienced with like trying to play the game while talking
beat that luigi thank you oh that drift
go away toad you suck you suck everything about you sucks oh
oh oh oh terrible terrible terrible terrible
oh no okay so that's enough moopin
uh moop and cart 64 here let's have a look at some of the other stuff they got
going on in here apparently wow this thing is like pirated af
okay if this thing manages to impress me in
super mario world then they have a good product on their
hands here because i have i have not had
a great experience with super mario world on Android emulators so far
and i'm pretty sensitive to input lag in this game so let's have a look here
trust me i'm actually pretty good at this game
there we go just the buttons are reversed
oh oh the button mapping oh
oh right okay
where are the settings for this emulator uh
all right yeah this is chinese is all hell also the input lag is not great
it's not playable it's not playable i don't know if it's in the emulators
themselves or if it's in the manufactures of the devices but there's
a lot of room to improve this experience and some people like if you're super
basic then i guess it's fine but oh we've only got one ps1 they've only got
one thing in here cebu kaihatsu
sure let's go with difficult i'm sure this thing is going to kick my ass
well i don't know what the buttons do brandon
oh okay so we've got the like electricity whip now
that's pretty dope yeah eat you eat you can eat
too yeah thank you electricity whip loving it so overall performance in the
included emulators is actually pretty good n64 we struggled a little bit but
um super famicom
the joysticks feel good still d-pad is actually pretty good it's hard to find a
decent d-pad these days and the buttons are reasonably clicky all considering
like how low profile the whole thing feels in terms of performance they've
got some decent specs under the hood on this thing so it's a mediatek 8176
four gigs of RAM they're using a power vr gx 2650 they've upgraded the storage
to emmc 5.0 so launch times actually feel pretty darn snappy about as good as
you can expect for a device that's you know this kind of a cost but so far
i have one small problem still i can't
figure out how to get out of this interface
this like metro ui type thing and i can't figure
out how to change the language so i have to call in a specialist here
oh i look ugly now okay i can't tell the difference
unless one day i'm gonna forget how to speak chinese you're not gonna pretend i
can't speak chinese you're not gonna forget oh
there we go so we can change the launcher in those settings so this is a
more conventional Android launcher here's all your apps um
what's that yes yeah it's fine i don't care
okay so can we change your language to english
let's see oh yeah you can change it
does it say change to english in chinese
because normally it says it in the yeah oh
there we go english now okay okay okay
okay thank you so overall impressions now that i've got
it running in english actually not a bad little device there's
still a lot of stuff that's not translated to be very clear i mean look
at this like all the game names under the emulator
menu are still in chinese uh for the
super famicom same for the n64 like
to be clear i would prefer if there was
something like a gen 2 of an NVIDIA shield but for the price you're paying
it's not bad if you're willing to go and like manually add google play services
in the google play store and all that stuff because the hardware is pretty good it's got a six thousand milliamp
hour battery so whether you're running Android games which should run better
than last gen or whether you're running emulators which mostly should run better
than last gen but certain ones like nintendo dolphin or wii emulators won't
run because they require a 64-bit processor um the screen is actually
surprisingly good so it's a 720p screen which personally i think is fine for a
size like this it's ips it supports five-point multi-touch uh the storage i
mentioned before is 32 gigs and it's expandable via microsd so i don't think
you're going to find yourself disappointed if you're looking for a
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pocket carry around with you not worry too much about busting up because i don't think it's going to be that
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