it's retro handheld time this is the Ein
Odin a project that I've been kind of looking at ever since that video I did
on the Amber Nick and retroid pocket on
LTT this is different this promises to
be for the Retro handheld Community what the steam deck is to the PC Community
that's big shoes to fill let's take a
look at the box and see if they uh okay there's nothing really they didn't even
take any of the boxes for what we have I don't know if we got a light a base or a
pro model there are three models let's just get into the box and calm ourselves
down for you I have this screen
protector and if you will not calm down I will
break it
tempered glass actually yeah a pretty good screen protector all right so we
got the unit itself in a little baggie what else we got here oh nice little
fabric we got a USB type
type a to c but it's purple
why yeah that looks like 2.0 to me there's only four contacts in there if
you're entering the system right this runs Android we have three CPU options
we've got the Snapdragon A45 then the cryo gold and cryo silver which I'm not
sure the big and little cores is that what that is four or eight gigs of RAM a
full HD IPS display six inches well 5.98
inches close enough with touch 369 PPI nice dragon Trail glass oh no I
feel even worse about that screen protector Wireless up to AC so not
wireless six or anything like that USB 3.1 type c on it with mini HDMI 3.5
millimeter audio jack Android 10. the retroid I think only ever goes up to
Android seven or nine maybe if you update it
like it comes with five the Amber Nick just runs emulation station you know I
think a Linux distro of some kind this runs Android 10 so that means it can
actually run some fairly recent applications if you want to so you could
actually use it for mobile gaming in the traditional sense all right let's get it
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Hmm this feels really nice like the
plastic is like almost like a soft touch it it feels yeah satiny the oh it's got
triggers and they feel good and they have a little detent at the end too
there's like when you get down to the end there's a little bit of extra
tension required to get it down to the actual end of the travel actually that'd
be pretty good for GameCube emulation because GameCube has that extra detent
that's pretty cool it's got paddles on the back here I'm not sure what you'd
use those for probably I guess just map it to whatever you want it does have a
cooling fan or at least I think that's a fan in there so yeah these are the
speakers here they're stereo they'll fire down into your palms which actually
might be good for audio quality because like they're not firing directly into so
that they'd be muffled but they're firing in such a way that when you're holding the device the sound will come
down into your palm and then reflect up the shoulder buttons feel very nice
these are really thin they're reassuring the clicky honestly really shocking I'm
not a huge fan of the clickiness of the d-pad it's got tactile switches instead
of rubber domes which I mean some people like that it is faster than a rubber
Dome and you know you know when you've actually pressed it but if you're used
to rubber domes it's a little bit annoying also the d-pad is pretty small
like my finger covers the whole thing I
mean if you're playing a fighting game you're probably not going to want to use the d-pad these analog sticks feel a lot
like the Nintendo switch and I think they may actually be Nintendo switch
analog sticks from The Joy cons the face
buttons themselves are a rubber dumb though so that is a good feeling for me
and they they got a pretty good snap to them they feel
good what is this a little door for our oh it's got a
micro HDMI as well as a uh trans flash
card slot in MicroSD this size like this
is this is fairly pocketable here's my iPhone right next to it like it's
basically my iPhone but with controllers it feels identical
possibly you might get drift issues I I'd have to take this apart to see if
it's the same like actual mechanism and just the cap that's different and it's
only very slightly different the motion feels identical it is smaller than the
regular switch it is a little bit thicker though it's only because they've
got these grips whereas the switch is just completely flat on the back so this
has that contoured grip which honestly again it feels really nice in the hand
it's nice to hold it's similar to the way the steam deck feels with those uh
this one's kind of taken apart a little bit but yeah it's got that molding on
the back that you know makes it thicker and a little bit more unwieldy but at
the same time it makes it much easier to hold and it kind of reminds me of a
smaller steam deck it's like if the steam deck and a switch had a baby
for that let's see how heavy this thing is in
comparison to the competition it doesn't have its screws there is a can missing
and it doesn't have its SSD so this is a steam deck that's been lightened up a
little bit uh 650 grams yeah 1.4 pounds
switch OLED this is a little bit heavier than a standard switch almost a pound I
think yeah 9.95 pounds or 0.96 pounds
and this guy 366 grams it's like a yeah 0.8 pounds
and that's not even the only thing we got here like the steam deck this thing
has a dock okay the steamvax Dock's not available yet this one is this is eins
super dock let's get it out of the packaging here because it's already kind
of exploded so that's why it felt flimsy this thing has a little window for you
to slide your uh your iron Odin into so you basically just do this hole there I
guess yeah it just fits right in there just like a switch
and oh well yeah now it has a screen protector just take this word with you
wherever you go at all
also I'm noticing something pretty cursed this is the button layout for an
Xbox controller you got a green a button red B button a blue x button and a
yellow y button remember that pattern yellow B button red a button green y
button and blue x button they are in completely different locations with
completely different colors they kind of copied Nintendo more here in terms of
the whole layout right so like I don't know why they couldn't have just kept
the Colors oh so this is what makes it a super dock
these are Nintendo 64 Controller ports
so you can use an N64 controller on your
on Odin with the super dock and these are GameCube controller ports
so you don't even need an adapter or like a third-party controller or
anything like that in order to get authentic controls for these games and
that's the problem for most handhelds or even consoles because these controllers
were so strange in their layout it's actually kind of difficult to map them
to any kind of legible modern controller
try playing an N64 game with an Xbox controller there are two hdmis on here
okay well the type C is obviously for power Ethernet I I get that you get the
three USBS seems a little Overkill because you also have two USBS up here
which I mean how many things are you gonna hang off of this with USB if
you've already got Ethernet the HDMI output on the side is for 1080p
specifically and the HDMI output on the
back is for 4K specifically I've never
seen that before I have no idea know why
they couldn't have just made the 4K one do 1080p as well oh there's more to this
doc we're not done yet this really just puts
this dock over into why doesn't everything have this territory
Omega dock there we go
check that out that is a Serial ATA Port
you can slide a two and a half inch hard drive or SSD into this thing and it'll
automatically connect once you dock the Odin you can have a huge game library on
this and then carry like I don't know your Super Nintendo and NES games on
this because they're small it's like The Best of Both Worlds this has all the i o
every every doc should have this the steam deck dock should have this valve
please the usb-c port is there and it's got like a little collar very awkward to
get in there from here but yeah you know it makes it so that
only when this is fully aligned
will it get down there so you're not going to scratch up your console it's
like the perfect dock sorry I know I
just said that I was going to get it back together but as I'm doing it I'm
reminded the one thing that I would
strongly hope to have fixed in a future revision there's no way to get this up
after you've taken the screws out without like sticking a screwdriver in
here and like kind of prying it oh so there's
no way in like it's yeah that's that's something I'd like to see fix for a
future revision other than that the doc's great see look it's it's begging
for appeal it's got these little bubbles here just
pull it right off there
uh I've had better
nice boot up animation
it doesn't look there's any proprietary anything in here as far as software goes
Google server oh here here we go so Odin settings it's got an ambient LED
joystick out the joysticks light up
I think it's just blue and the side LEDs oh it's got some uh some of that side
lighting action so you have to choose and you have to restart it between
selecting this whether you want DisplayPort over type c which is 4K 60
compatible or HDMI which is 1080p compatible so this version of it can in
fact run with this here a little port and the 1080p port on the side here or
it can run with DisplayPort on the bottom performance seems
solid I need to turn up the chunks count because it seems like it's a solid 60.
yeah supposedly this thing can do like Dreamcast games
and a like a bunch of like really high-end emulators but it's also useful
for things like well mobile games Minecraft uh gentian impact what else do
the do the kids play these days jono
Cod mobile yeah so it slowed down a little bit while it was loading those
chunks but it is now back up to basically a solid 60 maybe a couple
drops down into the 50s or 40s depending on what I'm looking at this is base this
is pretty much cranked at this point this is 1080p now granted Minecraft
isn't the most graphically intensive
application out there but it is one of the most unoptimized applications out
there okay so it's starting to chug a little bit when I look out this way so
there must be a whole bunch of stuff in that particular direction so it's like
dropping down to like 30-ish I think yeah maybe maybe they'll play on maximum
chunks but I mean this is a Snapdragon 845 SOC so you can basically expect
pretty much top tier performance but I was that's what I was going to say but
is this fan thing just not a not a thing is that just not is that not a fan I
don't think that's a fan what are you
287 US dollars for the extra 50 bucks
you get a better battery wait what else do you have more RAM and more storage
obviously you go for the base of the pro right 67 US dollars for this there's not
a whole lot of stuff in here like there's a USB hub obviously and an Ethernet controller and I guess a
DisplayPort to HDMI or I guess that's done on board I'm not entirely sure it
does have the controller ports and stuff like a controller converter for this many
controllers would be probably more than that yeah get get the dock and get this
cost you what like 350 bucks total and you've got pretty much the perfect
hybrid portable device that you can you
can get for for like Retro Gaming yeah you can stream stream PC games with um I
think steameda steam link or Moonlight if you've got an NVIDIA card or AMD link
I was going to just leave it there but
jono so rudely interrupted my attempts
to close this video out by saying hey you should go and put on some crab Rave
it's a little distorty at max volume
Highs are good though
having your hands there does change it very significantly
oh that's not bad like it's not amazing
very different sound signature with your hands away from it
the stereo Imaging sounds pretty good the top end sounds pretty tight the bass
is heavier than I would expect it does get a little bit distorty up at the max
volume but overall Clarity is really good um let me just quickly do my phone
thank you very strong
very strong performance I would say that it actually probably sounds better than
my phone because of the stereo separation I would have expected the
speakers especially on a device that costs this little to be a weak point
because they always are it's always either the screen or the speakers or the
controls but none of it feels bad and none of it is bad it's all very solid
obviously the chipset is going to be the limiting factor it's not like the top
end Snapdragon but it's an 845 which is not a slouch especially for the price
would I buy this uh probably like if I
were in the market for something like this I mean I got a steam deck
reservation in so I'm not currently but at the same time like the steam deck is
huge by comparison so like if I if I had to commute every day this would be my
go-to probably not the steam deck that's just the bottom line thanks for watching
this episode of ShortCircuit guys this is uh not entirely retro flavored but
pretty retro if you want something similar maybe go check out our analog
Pocket episode got plenty more like this and not like it as well