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I'm a young millennial, which means one of the pivotal gaming devices in my life

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was the Nintendo DS, which released all the way back in 2004. And it was a

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chunky, hideous monster that I lost immediately at my local movie rental

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place. That's why I was excited to be checking out the Magic X040,

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which promises prime Nintendo DS emulation due to its 4in vertical screen

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and a new, you know, slick modern body. It's looking good. Seeing this screen

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like this is really interesting, but it's nice because it doesn't have any splits. We'll see when we turn it on.

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But what else do we have in the box here? I love a good rectangular box like

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this, by the way. They're kind of cool. In here, we have a USBC to A cable

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that's probably about 3 3 and 1/2 ft and an instruction manual.

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It's in Chinese. Nice and simple. But

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what we really want to see, don't worry, Reese will clean that up, is the device

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itself. It is white and it is plasticky.

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It kind of looks like the kind of plastic that will yellow over time. Even

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the joystick itself kind of looks like it's already off white compared to the

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rest of the device, which is a little odd. It kind of looks like a Game Boy Advance eight a Game Boy Advance. Like

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it's just a little bit taller. It's like they just took it and dragged it out to

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be a little bit longer. On the front, we have everything we'd expect. We have the 480 by 800 screen, a D-pad that feels a

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little mushy. Not not too bad, but a little bit mushy. a joystick and then

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our face buttons in the Nintendo orientation of A on the right and Y on

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the left and our start, select, and home buttons. Everything feels totally fine.

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On the top, we have our triggers, L1, R1, L2, R2. These also feel okay.

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It's nice cuz you can push them kind of on every angle. Like I'm somebody who likes to push with the the meat of my

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finger, and that's definitely possible. And then hitting these top with the tips

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of my fingers. And then we have two USB ports, a uh OTG connector for connecting

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like uh keyboards or whatever else. And

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our charging port and a headphone jack. How nice. On the bottom, absolutely

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nothing. And on the back, we have a vent and our device information and visible

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screws. Nice. It's not super heavy or anything like that. I'm actually curious

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what's inside. And since we have visible screw holes, let's try opening it up and

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taking a look. four hex screws later, which are easy to take out with the uh

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LT precision screwdriver. We can take a look at the inside.

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We can see why it's so light. Not a whole lot going on. We have a massive 4

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to300 mAh battery. Well, I don't know if it's massive, but you're not playing any

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intense games, so they expect this to last 5 to 7 hours, which I think is

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plenty. We have our joystick, which looks easy to replace. are front-facing

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speakers. And on the left here, I forgot to mention, we have two SD card slots,

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one for the system and one for extra

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storage, so you can put like, you know, the OS and everything on one and then your games on another. And we have a

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heat sink for our processor, which is something I've never heard of. It's an

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AllWinner Cortex A53A133P

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1.8G. I think that sounds pretty good. And then we have uh what I forgot to

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mention on the other side where our volume buttons are. Nice. I like how

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everything is so easy to access and is clearly labeled if you want to replace something. It looks like that shouldn't

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be too hard to do. All right, fine. We've taken a look inside. So, let's

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in. And here we can see we are running a version of Android. This is Android 10

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and it's running a Dawn Launcher, which is a custom OS by Magic, I believe. At

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least if the intro is to be believed. And one thing to know is it took a while to turn on. I don't know again anything

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about the CPU or, you know, if the 2 gigs of RAM is plenty for these old

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games, but it it took a long time to turn on if you are an impatient gamer like me. I want to play Pokémon right

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now. But it's a nice launcher. You can see here we can switch through all the

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different games that it has. The only concerning thing is just how many games

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come with the device. We just bought this. We didn't ask them to send it over

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and it has what must be every Nintendo

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DS game. Apparently there are over 1,700 and that

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is, you know, very convenient. I've bought this and play games on it, but

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very questionable uh legality there. Actually, it's not questionable. Uh it

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it's illegal. Yeah. Don't Don't steal ROMs. Luckily, I own all 1700 of these

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games in physical form. Uh they're just off camera, but we'll we'll play a

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couple games, see how this goes. There's got to be a search button. This is crazy. Another annoying thing, at least

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it's not clear. I Oh, well, there you go. I found the search button.

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It would be nice if it said somewhere that there is a search button. Oh, yeah. It's got touchcreen, which is very

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convenient for a uh legendarily touch-based device. Not the most

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responsive, though. All right. Mario Kart DS. One of my favorite DS games.

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One of the best DS games. Am I right? It's dead silent. Is it supposed to have

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music? Okay. Yeah. No, this D-pad is not the most uh fun to use. I'm like trying

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to to move around. I can't tell if it's just the keyboard in the game, but

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there's some extra movements happening there which are not fantastic. I don't

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know why the volume was off by default, but you know what? The screen looks

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pretty good. The top buttons are bound to uh flip

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screens and fast forward by default, which is really nice, especially for

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games that are textbased and maybe don't have auto advance or, you know, don't

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advance as fast as you want. Really nice to be able to go into fast forward mode that easily. And you know what, the

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sound is totally serviceable. It's nice to have actual dual front-facing

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speakers, but I think for now we're good without. Only problem is you really want

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to push those buttons. It's really hard to comfortably hold your hands somewhere

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that aren't resting on top. And then these buttons are a little sensitive, so

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you end up pushing it a bit by accident. But overall, this is running really

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well. Let's uh let's try something different. All right, up next, a real

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test. This is going to use a touchcreen. We're going to play rhythm heaven. It'll be good to test speakers, good touch

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screen, but it does surface the first problem, which is that there is no

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stylus, nowhere to put a stylus. It does not come with one. And again, this is a

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touch heavy device. That was a main point of the second screen is use it for

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shooters, use it for uh something like brain age or this rhythm heaven, but it

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does not come with anything. You're forced to use your finger.

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There's a whole family in that car.

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You know what? The screen feels really responsive. It is a little small. It's

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15% smaller than uh modern DS's, but it

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feels really good to use. Again, I just wish it came with a stylus and that I

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had rhythm. Another underrated thing is that it is a laminated screen. So the

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screen is right up against the edge. It doesn't feel like there's a gap in

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between to really kind of take you out of the moment or just add a little bit of separation between you and the screen

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itself. But I did bring a stylus to see

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if it still feels good to use if you did carry one with you. Yeah, it feels fine.

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It's just a pain to carry around another device, unless you're my mom and keep it

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with you in your bag, I guess. Another interesting thing about the software is this little menu. So, if you hit the

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back button or home button, it brings this up to simulate closing device,

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making it so you don't touch the controls. The touchcreen doesn't work, turning it off and on the microphone and

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everything like that. But it doesn't only play DS games. It does play Tate if you want to play other vertical old

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style arcade games, as well as well a

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lot of other different consoles, Game and Watch, Dreamcast, Game Boy, Game Boy

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Advance. But you'll find that the screen isn't quite the right aspect ratio to

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really make use of that, which is kind of a bummer cuz this is not the biggest

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screen. And now it's even smaller. You got to get real close. What the hell is

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Action Man? The FPS is taking up most of

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the screen. Yeah, this is this is real small. As much as I love Action Man,

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this is not the ideal way to play it. Oh man, this game is awesome, though. I've

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never played it before, but I'll be going home and 100%ing this.

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right, we're trying out some Dreamcast. See how it runs right away because of

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the aspect ratio of Dreamcast games. It's taking up more space, which is uh

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great. I also like how it's centered. And you know what? It's running pretty

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solid. It's not a solid 60. Uh it is dropping down to like 50, but that is

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really not bad at all.

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Okay, the audio audio ain't doing so

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hot, but um just play on mute. Just play

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on mute cuz really it does look like

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it's running quite smooth. All right, here we are with some PSP again. Runs

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totally fine. And this is without changing any resolution scaling. Like

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you can probably get higher. Uh maybe uh

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actually I don't know, maybe don't. But you could in theory. I do wish the

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screen was a little bit brighter. I don't think it's bad. We are in studio light, so it's going to be a little bit,

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you know, brighter than you'll face, but it could be a bit better. And I do have

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to say it is uncomfortable. It is very flat, and like keeping my hands baldled

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up like this, it's getting to be something I don't really want to use.

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And that's the problem with this. It is only $75 for the 64 gig model, which is

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pretty accessible. But you could just get a grip for your phone and use Delta

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on iPhone or, you know, anything that this is using like Drastic on your

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Android phone. Should you get this? I don't know. It's nice that it's cheap. I

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guess that it's kind of nice it comes with all the ROMs, even though, you know, maybe the Italian government will

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come knocking on your door. You could also just buy a Nintendo DS and homebrew

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it if you really want the DS in this package. 2DS's aren't that much.

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Nintendo DS's, the original ones, really aren't that much, and it doesn't take

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that much work. Even coming from somebody who's not especially techy when

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it comes to software related things, I've homebrewed a 2DS and it took like

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15 20 minutes. So, that is definitely an option if you're looking to put on your

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own ROMs into a device like that. There are also more powerful options you can

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get like the Ino Flip, which apparently there's a new one coming out. So, let us

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know if you want us to cover that. But, it runs Windows, so you can play any games and again any emulators. If you're

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not someone who wants that and you want something that's quick, simple, and will

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play DS games, maybe this is for you. But hey, let us know what you think down

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in the comments below. And make sure to like, comment, subscribe, and