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pocket-sized game consoles have been around for a long time but you've always

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given something up for the privilege bad screens compromised gameplay and

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controls juggling game cartridges

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what if there were a way around all that let's enter the world of unofficial

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handhelds that actually promise a good pocket gaming experience and if you're

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after a good toolkit experience

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ifixit has just the right thing for you learn more about the manta toolkit and

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it's 112 steel bits with two premium drivers at the end of the video

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when you think gaming handhelds depending on your age you might think of

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nintendo or sony or sega

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probably in that order you know big companies from japan

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the first mental image you probably have of anything else is something like what

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soulja boy was passing off as his own designs and yet these devices

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came from a different country entirely none of them came from japan and each

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has a different design and gameplay philosophy at their core they all share

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one common trait they're designed for running retro console emulators but

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that's not all they are they're fully functional computers built around ARM

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processors running Linux or Android the ann burneck rg 351m is easily the most

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premium feeling of the three with a solid aluminum enclosure twin USB-C

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ports and premium feeling sticks and buttons the retroid pocket 2 is a much

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lighter unit with a larger 4x3 display more ergonomic shoulder buttons and a

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micro HDMI output finally the odroid ghost super has a massive screen

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full-size usb type-a port and is that a

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gpio header yeah it is so let's play a game without

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looking any of these up where did they come from

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one of them is from south korea and the other two are from china i'll tell you

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which at the end of the video let's start off with the amber neck rg 351m

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this is a really chunky unit it's a unibody aluminum enclosure

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it's got twin usb type-c ports on the top one for charging and one for

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peripherals although you can use the charging one for peripherals as well the headphone jack

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uh on the bottom we've got a reset button a

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micro sd card slot which they label tf because of course they do it's for trans

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flash on the right hand side we've got this volume wheel and

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the placement is really unfortunate this is where your hand's going to go when

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you're playing games maybe you're on a bus or something and you hit a bump

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it's just going to either blast you with something out of your headphones or it's

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going to blast the entire area around you with noise on the front we've got

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our d-pad feels alright it's a little stiff

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the sticks here they feel pretty good they're rubberized

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and they click in

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nice and we've got our four face buttons start and select

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on the top we've got those usb type c ports again but we also have two l r buttons they're

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staggered this way instead of vertically so it's a little awkward to get to then

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around back all you've got are four hex screws which can be opened with a number

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four hex screw on an ifixit kit or an allen key and we've got these two

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actually rather nice little rubber pads they don't look like they do much but uh

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they do much all right let's turn it on this is running three five one elec it's

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actually a version of mu elec that is specifically designed or specifically

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modified for this system and it's plastic version and they all share the

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same hardware under the hood in this case it's a rockchip 3326 soc that's a quad

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core with a mali g31 mp2 GPU for those

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of you who actually care now this

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came with a number of games

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preloaded which is not necessarily the

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most legal thing in the world but uh you know what we'll we'll go with it the

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interface is basically the same as what you would get on a raspberry pi running

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emulation station and that's because it mostly is

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it's just there's not a whole lot of operating system happening underneath

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you can set game settings globally or by game so right now we've got the game

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ratio the aspect ratio of the screen set to be core provided so it'll change

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depending on which system you're running and we've got the scaling set to sharp

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bilinear which i'm sure taren will appreciate it looks the best on these

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low resolution screens as far as i'm concerned speaking of the screen it's

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480 by 320 pixels and that's a two by three ratio that means your scaling is

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not going to be clean for 240p games so that sharp bilinear filter will come in

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handy however what this 480 pixel width is perfect for

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is psp games that's a one-to-one scale with a little bit of letterboxing it's a

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good compromise it's not the most loud thing in the world this is

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100 volume you're probably gonna want headphones input lag

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by default is usually pretty bad here uh and this is common across all these

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consoles you're going to need to set up your emulator in order to get the best

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possible results from it usually that means setting up power GPU sync and

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setting up run ahead that'll get you a little bit better of an experience it's

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still got some input lag but for the most part is

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pretty much fine input lag will be a little bit worse

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with netplay yeah this thing has wi-fi built in so it can actually either

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connect to other amber nick devices that have wi-fi

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or it can connect to retroids with wi-fi

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or it can also connect to theoretically a pc or a raspberry pi

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running retroarch because that's what's behind all of this here press these two buttons

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in and you get retro arch unfortunately not all cores support netplay

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your mileage may vary but it's a pretty cool feature that honestly is

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something that i would have loved to have as a kid that's not to say that all it can do is

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16-bit games like super nintendo this will actually run n64 games playstation

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games and i mean depending on your definition of run they'll run dreamcast

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games as well although those will run at about half speed it might be okay for

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some games but the console's library is primarily made up of faster paced games

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so it's not that great but i mean that is asking a lot unfortunately and this

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may or may not be a deal breaker for you the usb type-c ports cannot be used for

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display output only for peripherals and charging so there's no way of getting

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capture off of this that's why we're recording with a second camera now let's

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take a look at the retroid pocket 2. this handheld is

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significantly more plastic in fact it's all plastic except for the screen which

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is tempered glass it's got a different kind of feel to it the face buttons are

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all micro switches including the d-pad not something i'm a huge fan of however

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it does have staggered l r switches

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which is much more ergonomic in my opinion this actually feels really nice

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in the hand we've got a micro HDMI output here that is gonna rub some

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people the wrong way but uh it's the only one here that has any kind of

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display out but it does do usb type-c charging and i believe this also

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supports peripherals as well this is a traditional type stick i don't know why

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but this is just a slider yeah it's like the 3ds it doesn't feel

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great it kind of like hitches a little bit and also it kind of turns a lot more

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than you might expect nothing on the sides and on the bottom we've got a headphone

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jack and a micro sd card slot which is

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held in by this uh nice rubber grommet under the hood this thing runs a

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mediatek mt6580a it's still a quad core soc but the GPU

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is much weaker than the rock chip and so is the CPU it's it's just slower across

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the board is that going to hold it back though maybe maybe not let's power it on

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you probably notice the display is a 4x3 it's actually 640 by 480 so this makes

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most scaling completely straightforward everything pretty much will scale up to

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that no problem however i still recommend the sharp bilinear scaler

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because nes and snes titles those run at

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a weird resolution 256x224 it uh it takes a minute to boot there's

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a reason for that though it runs Android yeah this is Android 6 with the play

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store included it is upgradable to 8.1 if you want to do that but you probably

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don't want to do that one of the things about this is that you can change the

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controls to either emulate a mouse a touch input or a gamepad and that might

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seem like a great idea but in reality it's

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not so good because you kind of need it to navigate throughout the operating

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system there are some things that you just cannot do with the gamepad alone

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and there are some things like gaming that you cannot do with the mouse alone there's a few things pre-loaded on here

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none of them are pirated so that's a big plus in its favor if you you know prefer

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not to pirate your games there is a game that nintendo did take down

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though am2r unfortunately nintendo

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completely nuked that from orbit but it's here it also includes flycast which

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is a dreamcast emulator classic boy a gameboy emulator n64 emulator

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psp emulator and of course retro arch it also has moonlight which is a NVIDIA

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shield kind of emulator so you can cast to this

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device as well as steam link i don't know if you want to do that do you want

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to play your games in sd at 4x3 probably not but the option is there if

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you really want to the start of the show is of course retroarch just like before

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unfortunately because this runs Android none of it feels very cohesive in order

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to load content you need to go through your sd card and kind of just manually

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pick it all out so it's more versatile than you would think but at the same

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time because it has Android it's a lot clunkier than you would expect and

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hope there is one thing that kind of redeems it there's an icon here for

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what's called retroid hit that

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reboot to retro pocket operating system yeah let's do it it's like an older

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version of Android i think it must be ice cream sandwich or something it has

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the hollow ui but it's running a custom launcher and presumably it has very few

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background tasks running so it's similar in spirit

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to what you got on the amber neck unfortunately as you might see here we don't have any

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games installed that's because it actually uses a weird folder layout that

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is different from the folder layout that you would normally be using so you kind

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of have to choose whether you want to use it in retro pocket mode

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like this or in Android mode like before the problem with Android mode of course

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is that if you've got wi-fi connected google play is going to do stuff in the background and there's just going to be

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all kinds of things that will make your experience less

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good oh yeah and the screen is not a touch screen

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and uh these sticks do not click in that'll

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also make your experience a little less good and considering that it runs Android and none of it's pre-customized

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it means you have to set up all your emulators all the settings for them pretty much as soon as you get the

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machine you you can't quite just plug and play it some things will work like

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that but for the best experience you should actually set all your emulators

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up they agree overall though it's pretty

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solid once you get it all set up i mean it can do a lot of the things that the and bernice

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can do they can play n64 games and it's not much of an issue but

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it just takes a little bit more doing which is where the odroid go super comes

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in if the amber neck was a chunker this is significantly larger although it's

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not quite as heavy i don't think because it's made of plastic it's kind of like a

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switch light except the analog sticks are hanging out down at the bottom and

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those analog sticks unfortunately like they rock okay

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they're kind of smooth but the sticks themselves

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they're hard plastic with a sharp edge they dig into your finger they're not

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pleasant to use the rest of the buttons feel okay with the d-pad being a little

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mushy it's kind of weird to feel a diagonal like that it feels like

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nothing's moving but yeah these are all membrane buttons

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these are tactile switches these are just rubber

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and uh these shoulder buttons on the top those are tacked out as well also on the

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top we've got volume controls kind of a

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weird spot for them you can't really there's there's no way to get at them

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during gameplay so that's a bit of an issue and we've also got a usb type-c

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which is for charging only as far as i know

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as well as a full-size usb type a

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that is interesting

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what's even more interesting is this

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yeah those are gpio pins this is actually based on

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the odroid single board computer it's like a raspberry pi it's just they've

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got the rock chip down on the bottom we've just got a uh micro sd card slot

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i'm just going to steal the one out of the retro on the back we've got

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a rather large vent here there's no fan and i can't see heat sinks either so

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it's kind of weird that that's there and there's the speaker the first thing you'll notice when we power this thing

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on is it's got a 16 by nine screen it's

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a five inch screen i think a 480p wide

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so 854 by 480 it's pretty bright it looks

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great why the oddball resolution well having a 16 by 9 screen at this

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resolution means that you can actually use 16x9 games so say you've got a

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widescreen hack for super mario world or you've got playstation portable games

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etc these will fill the entire screen then you just need to deal with litter

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boxing for other types of games if you buy one of

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these for yourself probably the first thing you'll notice

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when you turn it on is you don't have an operating system that's because it

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doesn't come with one they recommend or at least a link to ubuntu

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minimal which is frankly a terrible experience i went

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and got emulek for this just like the

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amber neck here so it uses a pretty similar interface it's a little bit

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different but it has pretty much the same settings i don't know what's going

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on with this theme but it's it's kind of terrifying like all of these things just

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look wrong under the hood this thing actually has the same amount of power as

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the amber neck in fact it's very similar to the and bernick in pretty much all

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aspects except for the fact that it's got a little bit of a

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more plastic build quality to it and it's

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got that larger screen this is another scenario where you kind of have to tune

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the emulator to get the best performance out of it this thing is not going to be

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able to play n64 games with like the most quality possible you're certainly

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not going to upscale them it's worth noting that there is an overclock option in the settings they do say that it can

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cause instability and i have seen instability happen your mileage may vary

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there but it might get you that extra little bit towards being perfectly

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playable get back to the menus just hit these two buttons here

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on the outside and yeah look at that it's retroarch again overall i'd say the

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odroid is a hacker friendly but a little bit hacky

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solution it's got a lot of buttons certainly a great concept but it's also

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really no surprise why amber neck uses these designs to make a much more

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polished product the only major downside to the odroid compared to the rest of

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these consoles is that in order to get wireless for multiplayer or any other

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functionality you need to buy an aftermarket adapter now they sell it for

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about nine dollars on their website so it's not a big deal but it would have

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been nice if they could have found a way to include it in the chassis it's certainly big enough to do it so how did

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this burgeoning class of devices come to be well it all started with the gamepark

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gp32 in 2001. the gp32 was the first of

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its kind in offering expandable storage in a commonly available format along

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with official homebrew support this combined with the relatively powerful

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for the time and easy to develop for ARM CPU led to emulators and public domain

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software exploding on the device and all of its successors ultimately this was a

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niche in its day and game park declared bankruptcy in 2007. just in time for

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homebrew on more mainstream but are also still early storage enabled handhelds

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like the sony psp and nintendo ds to take off i actually used to daily carry

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my psp as an mp3 player and a retro console emulator and my ps vita

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continued that legacy when i got one although by then my smartphone had taken

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over mp3 player duty but nintendo and sony didn't take kindly to their

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consoles being used for what they saw as software piracy on still active consoles

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and they played a constant game of cat and mouse with exploit developers and

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flash cartridge vendors clearly there's a market for handhelds with emulation

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capabilities so with the broad availability of mobile cpus thanks to

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smartphones and single board computers like the raspberry pi

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and low-cost microsd storage why not build your own with that in mind the

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smartphones themselves may be an option if you really want to but unless you're

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still rocking a playstation phone there will always be a trade-off between

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carrying an unwieldy controller or settling for on-screen controls it gets

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subscribed by the way because we're going to look at a bunch of weird

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controllers that have been released over the years and you're probably not going to want to miss that despite this demand

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and these consoles stepping up to fill it piracy is still the elephant in the room

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and as much as we don't like to admit it it almost comes part and parcel with

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these devices none of these handhelds come with a way

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to dump your own cartridges and while there are devices like the retro to that

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do it's limited in scope and the costs can add up quickly if you buy

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attachments like the game boy or n64 or

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or the other ones it only does genesis and snes out of the box cd-rom systems

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like the playstation are easy to deal with if you've got an optical drive but

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those are among the more difficult games to get running well so

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you're trading one difficulty for another i can't recommend or condone

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piracy but nintendo at all

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don't sell roms for you to download legally and with gabe newell's famous

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quote in mind you can see why it's the option most people go for even if it is

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illegal but let's assume that you actually did back up your own roms can i

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recommend or condone any of these absolutely the odroid ghost super from

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south korea is 80 and it gets you a strong CPU the retro pocket 2 from china

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is 80 and gets you a better feeling controller a more familiar os and a

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smaller more thoughtful form factor the amber nick also from china

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is the most expensive but features the most polished design and comes in metal

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or plastic though the less expensive plastic version doesn't have wi-fi much

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like the odroid these are a great relatively inexpensive way to carry your

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retro game collection around in your pocket and frankly i am super glad they

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exist just like i'm glad that ifixit sponsored this video because their manta

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kit has 112 steel bits that can actually open either of these consoles comes

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complete with standard phillips bits flathead and also torques tri-point and

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game bits as well these these don't use game bits thankfully the kit includes

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not one but two aluminum screwdriver handles including a hefty quarter inch

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drive for full-size applications at a smaller four millimeter for precision

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work and they both feature magnetic bit sockets knurled grips and silky smooth

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spinning tops the toolkit's lid doubles as a sorting tray just like their ifixit

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protect tool kit that i have over here and all ifixit kits are backed by a

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lifetime warranty if something breaks they'll replace it for free visit ifixit.com forward slash LTT and pick up

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your man-to-kit today thanks for watching guys go check out a similar

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video we did a little while ago on a portable wii it's a good video i got to

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dremel a wii motherboard very satisfying