Don't Buy the R40S: A Frustrating 1:1 Handheld Review by Zu
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 มิ.ย. 2024
- 👉Long-time Discord member and Patron Jaylash thought it would be fun to buy the first RGB30 knock-off and send it to me for review. I didn't have my hopes up at all, but they were still dashed by this slipshod excuse for a handheld. There's no conceivable reason why you should buy one at the current price when the RGB30 still exists, but at least you can all have fun watching me get increasingly frustrated as everything possible fails in this true e-waste review!
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📖Chapters
00:00 - Introduction/Unboxing
01:45 - Comparison With RGB30
02:56 - Problems Emerge
06:57 - Disassembly Time!
10:36 - IT LIVES!
11:33 - Unimpressed By Controls
12:17 - Issues with ArkOS Setup
13:58 - What Did We Learn?
16:44 - Thanks for watching! - เกม
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"Better build quality than Boyham " -Powkiddy's new tag line
"Dad plumbing project level of frustration" @5:05 I feel seen.
Right? I was trying to figure out the best way to express the exact way I felt, and I thought "this is like when you have the P Trap off and the galvanized steel just falls apart in your hand and you start swearing because the 30 minute fix is now going to result in the third trip to Home Depot today and that smug old man by the paint mixer is going to give you a look and there's nothing you can do about it because he was right when he said you should get the complete set instead of just the partial repair kit."
@@retrohandhelds Now I feel too seen. Please stop surveilling me, I have a right to privacy.
Hahahaha @@jtothebell
You have to own a different handheld in order to get this one to work. That's gotta be a first.
LOL. This video was worth the the money. Now give it to Stubbs
😅😅😅
Nice change of pace to watch a Retro Handhelds video and not want to spend money.
Hahahha
In my country this little thing is expensive than the original RGB30 lmao. Thanks for that video buddy
Honestly, even if this WAS cheaper than the RGB30 (let’s say, $40 vs $50), would ANYONE find this to be a good bargain? I know some people are gonna say “$10 is 10 dollars”, but who can realistically afford $40, but can’t wait ONE more paycheck and pay $50 for something far better instead? Like, it’s just retro games; you’re not gonna STARVE if you have to wait one or two more weeks for your device.
FAX TBH
Thank You!!!
If it's more powerful than the r36s but FAR MORE FLAKY than the already kinda flaky r36s, run away with your r36s fast and never return.
if it were $30 then **$20 is $20** 💀 ykyk
"13:10" He said better build quality about a Powkiddy product!!? 🤯
Even the link to buy it on Aliexpress is busted.
The off-center B too... 😬
This is my worst nightmare. I get masive anxiety everytime i buy a handheld.
Obvious downside to that 'fix' would be that if you have an rgb30 then there would be no point in the downgrade to this ewaste, the rgb30 already fills that niche of 1:1 that should have nicer surrounding components.
Oof, you just removed the veil and 😢
This makes my RGB30 look like a "high-quality" device! 💚
Love the video Zu, that damned console almost gave you a nervous breakdown. It was kinda funny to hear the frustration in your voice though. 😁😁😁
Cheaper Chinese knockoffs knocking off Cheap Chinese knockoffs.
How deep can we go?
you selectively forget 99% of what you use are also Chinese.
@@xw8462 I dont. There is a difference between made in China, and Chinese companies knocking off and copying products and calling the Mikes instead of Nikes. There is a difference, especially in quality. As you can see in this knockoff of a knockoff.
And this thing is more expensive than RG35XX H. R36S was fine, i dont know how they messed this up
The Thumb stick location alone was reason enough for me to not want to buy that thing but then add all the other issues I am glad I was not tempted by this thing and got a rgb30 for like $60 several weeks back instead.
R36s had similar black screen issues when using the wrong display drivers, maybe that will be case here as well?
It's worse than Powkiddy. That's new for me! lol
NGL Powkiddy needs some love. I'm going to do a full assessment of some of their recent Handhelds.
Actually Powkiddys last 5-6 devices have been pretty good value for your money. I love the x28. Easy the best t618 based device for me with a great display and it really can take a beating. I bought one the first ones and it regularly gets tossed in my bag without any protection and I use it as guinea pig to try every new emulator before doing a clean install on my Odin.
This video reminds me of the time "Car and Driver" reviewed an Opel Kadette wagon. I wasn't alive for it; but, they'd reprinted the article for their 50th anniversary. Apparently the little car had minimal redeeming value; just like the Boyham R40.
At least the screen looks nice.
Didn’t they do the m17-m19?
A lot of the lower quality and affordable handhelds cant be charged with a fast charger, it makes em get all weird and sometimes it even bricks them. Gotta get an old charger or something.
Idk if that's whats happening here, but it does happen
NOT what's happening here. I have a slow charger at my desk specifically because of what you said. I had to reseat my 505 battery a couple of times after accidentally using a fast charger, so now I have them color coded at my work area 😂
what irony coz I still find people say Powkiddy is clone of Anbernic.
I would 100% agree i have this one it's frustrating rgb30 for 50 usd if you can find it.
Im excited for the rg cube…. But having a slab like my Rgb30 have a thumb stick at the top and that junky looking d pad. Yikes
Amazing thumbnail!
This is like a cover song by a band that's much worse than the original band.
This is Fall Out Boy's version of "We Didn't Start the Fire".
when it’s knocking off a poorly made product, you know the quality’s gonna be amazing
Why do they go though the effort of developing and manufacturing such a device if its gonna be so crap? Surely they wont sell enough to get their roi if the product is so bad.
This device is nuts, I knew it. This device is all drama, that build quality is pretty undesirable. But the batt is fully dead😱
Yes that makes sence, the SD card is the issue, I have had that happen to me, also when you remove the SD and leave the slot empty, it will not run on. Must be a lot of Linux thing 🤔
I will say I'm warming up to the 1x1 ratio with the RG Cube.
Sorry you had this experience bro, we appreciate you 👍🏾
Just WOW!
5 Second Review
1:20-1:23
16:36-16:37
it looks like a boot leg version of the retroid pocket 2??
Omg 😂 this was the funniest video I ever seen. And full of frustrations. Lol. And that was the most awful device I’ve ever seen. Hahaha.
Just who was managing the software side in the company? I'm genuinely curious as to who actually went in to do the bare minimal modification of ArkOS - just the splash screens - and I wonder if that person was paid any amount of money or was doing it on the side while doing some other random things that the "company" apparently does. What is it even LIKE working NOT on the assembly lines, for the low LOW end of the handheld making totem pole that rests 99.9 percent on manufacturing.
My RGB30 doesn't always boot either and reseating the sd card usually gets it going. I think it's actually an ArkOS bug because I didn't have that problem with JelOS. I prefer ArkOS for a bunch of other reasons. I'm excited for the RG Cube even though I'm not happy it's android. I love the form factor.
This device is not Digitizer approved.. pass😂.. Pooooooowkiddy!!!❤
The joystick on top immediately kills this thing for me. Thanks zu! 🙂
Still feels lije powkiddy is behind ambernic and retrioid in terms of quality and design...that said i have yet to find a perfect device and have a pile of them now
Dad plumbing. lol.
I'm guessing this is the same company behind the R36S. That's a nice cheap capable system. This new one looks bloody awful.
MFer spititn fire! 🔥🔥🔥
I would rather buy the new Anbernic rg cube over any of them.
The RGB30 certainly has its flaws, But clearly its the better of these 2 devices by a mile.
This is some high quality hot garbage. Wow.
NOKIA 5800
I have no clue why I purchased this thing. I’m having a tough time getting a refund.
Wrong colour, false advertising
The Gameboy and Gameboy color games are not 1:1, they are 160x144, so 10:9 aspect ratio.
No, no no. Come on. Don't call this a "review", because it's not. Every single thing you say about this handheld is extremely negative, some of which doesn't make sense at all. You didn't bother to charge it before reviewing it then faffed about acting like it was broken because of that. You claimed that disassembling the unit made the shoulder buttons work better despite not having played it at all before you took it apart. You call the dpad sloppy, when we can SEE that Soma's sprite in AoS acts perfectly well. You didn't even bother to really review the unit, and the parts you DID bother to turn on, you stuck at the end of the video, and whined about every little thing you could.
The problem now is that who knows if this is a bad device or not? You can't be trusted with it, and seemed to have a weird grudge against the thing from the second the video started. You don't offer any insight on what might be good about the thing, and act as though you're on the way to toss the thing into a volcano in Mordor. The screen looks pretty nice? Does this run PS1 games? How well? WHO KNOWS?
Just call it a funtime takedown video or something. Don't assume credibility then waste it.
Thanks for watching!
I have a similar thought process on this handheld. Perhaps we'll see a r41s that fixes a lot of the stuff and actually presents a similar outcome to the RGB 30 at a reduced price. For now I agree this is not a unit worth purchasing