Weird CHINESE Android Gaming Console
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,812 words · ~9 min read
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okay so courtesy of the same crazy bastards that brought us that tiny
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little Windows-based gaming machine we have got this should be one of the
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first units as far as i know the gpd
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xd plus and if you're wondering was that
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intentional the answer is yes yes it was
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and this is actually the least bizarre thing about the box because i don't know
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what the hell that is supposed to mean when you smile the world loves him when
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you laugh the world fears him maybe it's a riddle
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maybe it's some kind of proverb maybe it just was
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random words from a dictionary like this
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it's hard to tell but what i do know is that this thing looks pretty freaking
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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
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similar in terms of the actual construction of it to the original gpd
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xd which is also an Android based gaming device but
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they have made some upgrades under the hood to make it a little bit more robust
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so first let's run through it just for those of you who aren't familiar
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bottom's pretty plain you've got an r1 r2 l1 and l2 that for whatever reason
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all of these are upside down
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so you're apparently supposed to look at them this way okay sure it's got a
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headphone jack which you cannot take for granted these days
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it's got a mini HDMI output that is HDMI
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2.0 they say in the specs but then they also say HDMI 2.0 max 2560 by 1600
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resolution maybe it's a software limitation uh micro usb still for
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charging so that's how you can tell there were a couple things they did not update about the chassis and micro sd
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other than that we've got uh did this it's not turned on what's going
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on oh hey there it goes okay so we've got a couple of joysticks that are
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actually not too shabby like as far as low profile joysticks go that's not bad
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we've got an l3 and an r3 volume up
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volume down let's make some adjustments there there we go multitask button we've got
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whatever this button does
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not clear not clear what this button does start select back home
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which uh and we've got a d-pad and
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actually some not bad buttons here as well now challenge number one challenge
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number one for me is that it ships in chinese
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which has some what appear to be some like pirated ass games on it
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i don't know what moopen 64 plus is
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i don't know what that says something about detected problem oh that's in
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english i wasn't taking it for granted so it
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apparently ships with this wow that is some pretty sketch stuff right there but
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hey let's try it out right always yoshi if you pick anyone other than yoshi and
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mario 64 then you suck or you're playing with me because i would have worked
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pretty hard to snipe yoshi
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oh i'm dropping a couple of frames here but it's actually not too bad so i don't
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know why that is right now i haven't actually obviously spent a lot of time
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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
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is not pretty to watch seven see i'm not a game streamer i'm
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not experienced with like trying to play the game while talking
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beat that luigi thank you oh that drift
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go away toad you suck you suck everything about you sucks oh
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oh oh oh terrible terrible terrible terrible
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oh no okay so that's enough moopin
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uh moop and cart 64 here let's have a look at some of the other stuff they got
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going on in here apparently wow this thing is like pirated af
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okay if this thing manages to impress me in
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super mario world then they have a good product on their
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hands here because i have i have not had
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a great experience with super mario world on Android emulators so far
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and i'm pretty sensitive to input lag in this game so let's have a look here
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trust me i'm actually pretty good at this game
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there we go just the buttons are reversed
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oh oh the button mapping oh
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oh right okay
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where are the settings for this emulator uh
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all right yeah this is chinese is all hell also the input lag is not great
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it's not playable it's not playable i don't know if it's in the emulators
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themselves or if it's in the manufactures of the devices but there's
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a lot of room to improve this experience and some people like if you're super
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basic then i guess it's fine but oh we've only got one ps1 they've only got
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one thing in here cebu kaihatsu
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sure let's go with difficult i'm sure this thing is going to kick my ass
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well i don't know what the buttons do brandon
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oh okay so we've got the like electricity whip now
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that's pretty dope yeah eat you eat you can eat
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too yeah thank you electricity whip loving it so overall performance in the
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included emulators is actually pretty good n64 we struggled a little bit but
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um super famicom
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the joysticks feel good still d-pad is actually pretty good it's hard to find a
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decent d-pad these days and the buttons are reasonably clicky all considering
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like how low profile the whole thing feels in terms of performance they've
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got some decent specs under the hood on this thing so it's a mediatek 8176
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four gigs of RAM they're using a power vr gx 2650 they've upgraded the storage
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to emmc 5.0 so launch times actually feel pretty darn snappy about as good as
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you can expect for a device that's you know this kind of a cost but so far
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i have one small problem still i can't
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figure out how to get out of this interface
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this like metro ui type thing and i can't figure
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out how to change the language so i have to call in a specialist here
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oh i look ugly now okay i can't tell the difference
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unless one day i'm gonna forget how to speak chinese you're not gonna pretend i
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can't speak chinese you're not gonna forget oh
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there we go so we can change the launcher in those settings so this is a
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more conventional Android launcher here's all your apps um
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what's that yes yeah it's fine i don't care
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okay so can we change your language to english
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let's see oh yeah you can change it
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does it say change to english in chinese
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because normally it says it in the yeah oh
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there we go english now okay okay okay
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okay thank you so overall impressions now that i've got
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it running in english actually not a bad little device there's
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still a lot of stuff that's not translated to be very clear i mean look
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at this like all the game names under the emulator
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menu are still in chinese uh for the
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super famicom same for the n64 like
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to be clear i would prefer if there was
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something like a gen 2 of an NVIDIA shield but for the price you're paying
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it's not bad if you're willing to go and like manually add google play services
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in the google play store and all that stuff because the hardware is pretty good it's got a six thousand milliamp
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hour battery so whether you're running Android games which should run better
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than last gen or whether you're running emulators which mostly should run better
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than last gen but certain ones like nintendo dolphin or wii emulators won't
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run because they require a 64-bit processor um the screen is actually
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surprisingly good so it's a 720p screen which personally i think is fine for a
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size like this it's ips it supports five-point multi-touch uh the storage i
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mentioned before is 32 gigs and it's expandable via microsd so i don't think
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you're going to find yourself disappointed if you're looking for a
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little device to play casual games and emulators on that you can throw in your
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