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this is a weird shaped

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phone okay it's not a phone in fact it can't even take a SIM card but hear me

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out because the Ino pocket DMG portable handheld gaming system I think has more

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in common with a phone than it does with pretty much anything else for starters

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it uses a Snapdragon processor specifically the g3x Gen 2 which is

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pretty similar to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 it also has an OLED touchscreen on the

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front a fingerprint scanner and it runs flipping Android so functionally

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speaking it's an Android phone with no sim slot and a controller attached to it

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which doesn't mean that it's a bad thing there's a ton of great emulators on

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Android if you want to play retro games it just means that unlike some handhelds

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we've seen recently that use fpgas to Faithfully recreate the hardware of the

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original console this is relying on software emulation however that does

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mean that it comes with a little bit more versatility let's take a look shall

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we I'm just going to put this one aside for now but we will be taking a look at

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it later First Impressions very

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interesting obviously it is heavily inspired by the original Nintendo Game

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Boy but in addition to your d-pad your ab and your start and select buttons

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there's a joystick what appears to be a

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clicky touchpad and then a whole whack

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of buttons on the left and on the right side of the device we'll take a look at

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those more closely in a bit first let's check out the

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accessories okay A little bit of documentation

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USB ctoc charging cable but no brick that will have to be purchased

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separately though they did include a little retro themed one in our gift box

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along with some joystick caps and what appears to be an

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affordably manufactured metal mug what else is in here oh tempered film screen

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protector whatever tempered film means and a little carrying case ooh also

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included wait is that a replacement joystick top a joystick cap matching the

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body color is included in the packaging which Gamers can freely replace to show

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their personality those those really

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look a lot like the same color to me but maybe I'm missing something here anyway

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what I was really digging for in here is

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these a couple of cute metallic

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replacement shoulder buttons cool enough about accessories though let's fire this

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thing up oh and while we wait for it to boot up now's is good time is I need to

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take a look at the IOP pocket micro this has a downgraded processor from

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mediatech a smaller screen but with a more modern 3x2 aspect ratio and

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apparently still enough power to play PS2 games with the appropriate buttons

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this form factor also I got to say appeals to me a little bit more even

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though she's a little on the thick side for a controller I assume this is the

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power button with the fingerprint sensor and I assume this is a screen

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protector ah ah yes let's talk about some things that they both have in

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common power buttons with built-in fingerprint sensors micro SD slots for

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expandable storage particularly important if you have a large collection

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of retro games large active cooling solutions with the pocket DMG apparently

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being able to do up to 15 watts on the processor and they both have hall effect

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joysticks oh in this case two there are

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some differences in the specs that just come down to the processors being used

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so the micro is limited to Wi-Fi 5 and Bluetooth 5.2 while the DMG can do up to

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Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.3 this I don't know if it's s so related but this one

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is USB 3 10 GB per second and this one's only USB 2 none of those things are

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going to make a huge difference to me playing retro games what's going to make a big difference to me is the form

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factor and the screens the DMG has a

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much higher resolution display it uses a 1240 x 1080 OLED display that they claim

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Peaks at 450 nits which should make for

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a really vibrant gaming experience but a

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really unusual almost 8x7 aspect ratio

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that's going to put black bars on just about anything you play even Game Boy

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games are not quite at this aspect ratio

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meanwhile the micro uses exactly four

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times the screen resolution of the Game Boy advanced it doesn't get quite as

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bright and it's IPS instead of OLED so you're not going to get that same

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outstanding contrast but the 3x2 aspect

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ratio means that if you're playing more modern titles you are uh less likely to

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have ginormous black bars ah yes they

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both have some pretty interesting buttons on them so what does RC do

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remote control perhaps where did that go

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okay I had the settings open and RC brought me back to home okay hold on

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does it do the same thing here

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RC no okay apparently on this one we

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figured out RC is kind of like a home button and then LC is your your

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multitask button and some things in Android are going to operate with the

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d-pad and some things just kind of won't yeah that that that sort of checks out

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and then on this one I don't know I guess we swipe up for home and RC I

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assume is a programmable button but it's not immediately obvious to me where it

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is and honestly I don't really care I'm mostly focused on the gaming experience

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right now are these but oh waa there's

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lots of buttons here oh you know what that's actually kind of a clever place

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for them I don't think I would accidentally press those so we got my

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start and select and then there you go

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okay got your little IOP space uh slide in

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interface and whatever this guy

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does which seems to be

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nothing okay all right you know what I'm

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going to try the pocket DMG first is this actually a dedicated volume wheel

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wow and a button wow and it mutes it wow

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push and hold you can do all kinds of stuff whoa you can change the brightness

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and your performance change your vibration your fan speed and previous

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Shader oh you can change shaders oh that's so cool oh they call it a magic

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switch you know what I like it is this

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one giant button or is this oh no that's your R2 and your L2

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oh interesting

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off okay control type here we go I've

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got touchscreen or touchcreen cool uh gyro aiming is supported by the

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way both of these do have Gyros theoretically this is an xinput

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controller so it should just work but I guess it doesn't why don't I play

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something else wow this runs a lot better than the Game Gear one I'll tell

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you that much oh sorry Simba sorry I see what you

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mean about the d-pad being a little bit on the bigger side that is interesting I

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didn't I would never have thought about it until I actually played a game but

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it's a little slow to roll on it you know like when you're going one way and

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then you oh actually I want to go the other way I want to fine-tune this or

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whatever you know you know what as bad as this aspect ratio would be for modern

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things it's not bad here there's just a little bit of letter boxing I'm I'm okay

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with that yeah let's try a Game Boy game okay let's go Game Boy Color uh razor

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yeah Razor scooter wow so you actually

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end up with a tiny pillar box did they

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tell me what to do oh dude oh look at that grind let's go boom boom woo grind

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let's go woo grind

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set dang it so you're not going to get

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that like Pixel Perfect Fidelity that you might get on another device but the

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resolution is high enough that honestly it just doesn't seem like a problem to

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me okay what do you want to try you want to try dolphin Super Smash Bros melee

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okay so we're going to need uh we're going to need an analog stick here I think this is really not a great spot

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for an analog stick but boy does the GameCube ever

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look good on this thing like dang you

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know like like dang Zelda is going to

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absolutely obliterate me I have never even played the GameCube version of this

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game I have only played the switch one and I'm dead nice performance seems fine

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I haven't noticed any obvious hitching yeah no obvious issues I mean I wouldn't

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have expected any it's a pretty powerful little s so that's neat there's one more

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button we haven't talked about yet a power mode switch whoa game mode Let's

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go whoa Max mode ho holy shnikies listen

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to that fan go let's try Call of

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Duty apparently Bell map some controls for me already so I won't have to use a

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touch screen up here okay here we go here we go so you want me to use the

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touchpad okay oh o okay oh oh

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boy oh boy oh boy okay I shot him in the

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knee then you can bind the buttons to whatever you want I guess but oh my

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goodness goodness

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okay let's try the other one realistically it's more of a portable

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emulation machine less of a I would actually play Modern mobile touchcreen

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games on this so all right let's try the micro honestly even though it's less

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powerful this is the one I'm a little bit more interested in personally anyway

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oh what dude let's go man these

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joysticks are right up in my face when I'm trying to play video games games I

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was a little confused I was like wow there's some really good upscaling I

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forgot that they remastered the game for the allstars

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releas like dang I don't remember the

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nest looking this good they made a point of saying that it's a single piece of

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glass across the front so it's like kind of a seamless deal so that's pretty cool

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if it was an OLED display it'd be a lot cleaner looking because you wouldn't be

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able to see the kind of glowing not quite black bars you can kind of see

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that right I definitely prefer the form factor this one though that is uh a big

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difference man I hit the A and X like

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every time I touch these it is really small like it wouldn't be a problem for

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a kid but if you're an

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adult you're going to notice it oh I

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want to hear the speakers not

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bad wow they get kind of Amplified by your

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hands like naturally just from holding

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it I like the farm Factor better this one she's a little heavy though aluminum

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casing versus pretty darn sure this is a

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plastic casing on the

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DMG oh no dang it defeated by a Legge

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and you might be defeated by the pricing of these because as cool as these

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devices are they are how you say not

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cheap the pocket DMG starts it's at $450

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and goes as high as 700 I'll be it that's for a 16 gigs of RAM 1 tbte of

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storage version so it's not exactly a low-spec device but you've got to be the

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kind of person who knows you want a powerful Android device in this form

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factor and you have a lot of games you want to play on it otherwise it's going to be pretty tough to justify as for the

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micro it starts at $220 and if you want

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256 gigs of storage it goes up to $249 that is quite a bit more compelling

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to me but it is a little bit on the

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cramped side so your mileage may vary if you guys enjoyed this video subscribe to

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