@@chrisw7451 These devices always seem to give the wrong maximum card specs, or maybe they do it for a reason? I have had no issues using a 1 TB in my RG552 or RG353P.
@@gabrieljcardoso9387 Custom version of Android made specifically for the RG505 and the RG405. It improves performance, battery life, fixes everything that was wrong with the RG505 like the trigger buttons not functioning with some games and adds a lot of features like controlling the performance of the handheld to get more power and thus more fps from the console. Or if you would like you can downclock the RG505 to get upwards of 20hrs of battery life at cost of performance. So let's say you just want to play Snes or PS1 games, you can set the performance to low and it would run everything from PS1 and below perfectly and you would get 20hrs of battery life but if you attempt to play PSP or PS2 at this mode you won't be able to. If want to play for example PSP or PS2 or Wii games, you have to choose performance or max performance mode. Performance mode would get you the same performance the stock OS would give you so PSP perfectly played and a decent chunk of PS2 games BUT, if you use max performance mode you would simply be able to play more PS2 games because that is like an overclock mode. Gamma OS has many other features those ar the most important and its constantly getting better through online updates. In short Gamma OS gave life to the RG505 and it made it a strong rival to the RP3+ and imo it made it even better than the RP3+
When I first wandered into the retro handheld market around 3 years ago, I found a few affordable devices that got good reviews but one thing I was looking for was n64, saturn & ps1, and as those devices came out and got better I found myself thinking I need psp and dream cast, but now I want ps2 and GC, the next device from ether of these companies will solve that, but then il want ps3 and xbox...
I personally would be satisfied at PS2 performance topping out. The reason being is the library on the PS2 was much more enriching than the PS3 was. Personally, I'd much rather play Gamecube games than anything offered on XBOX as well.
The consideration about OLED is that it's still dependent on the software being used. If it's got a lot of brights it will consume more power than an LED backlit display. Some devices will lower the brightness if a solid white screen is shown to offset this.
You didn't mention an important part of the screens...while touting the RG505 being better for PSP, or better for battery because of the OLED screen, it's a lower resolution compared to the RP3+. 960x540 vs 1334x750.
I'm a newb in the retro handheld world but have narrowed my options to these two devices. RP3+ has HDMI which may be good for times I want to play on a tv, but apparently for beginners, the Emulator/ROM setup is a lot more of a task compared to RG505. But just for clarification, if I order the RG505 excluding the 128-256gb card option, there will be no games pre-installed, correct? If I go the route of getting my own sd card then, can I simply just connect to WiFi and get ROMs via google chrome app?? Kinda like on a Samsung Galaxy phone? All this tech stuff for a dusty gamer (my last system was Xbox 360 lol) seems to be a lot at first...thanks!
Correct, if you don't get the SD card from Anbernic, it won't have games installed on the system memory. However yes it's just as easy to download ROMs as it is on your mobile using WiFi. It's all pretty user friendly tbh 👍
@@cirealreviews1776 I heard vimms is good for roms. I would say get the rp3+. The look is much better. And you're going to have to learn how to add roms anyways might as well have the games you want.
I've never bought one of these kinds of devices before, but I sorta jumped the gun with the Retroid Pocket 3+, I ordered it at the beginning of the month and it looks like it's gonna be here soon, but sometimes I look at the RG505 and wonder if I should have gotten that instead, I dunno, I doubt it will matter much, but I like the RG505's colors better..
I got the rg503,rg351,rg552and the rg505 and I like the rg505 the best second I like the rg503 the screen is amazing and make the older games look better add a filter and bump up the resolution and it runs great
Just out of curiousity would you be able to buy a SD card from Ambernic that is separate from the console and install it on a pocket 3+? If so how would I be able to tell on the website if it has games included or not
I've seen the SD cards available from the Anbernic Ali Express shop, I assume they are full of games. I've used an Anbernic provides SD card in my RP3+. Honestly though, the games provided are a decent set but there's lots of filler. You could easily download your own perfect set of roms.
Can never understand how people play n64 or gamecube without those extra buttons for z and the c stick/buttons never felt right mapping it without the actual controllers for those systems haha never quite got the hang of it haha
What about the problem Russ mentions with the hall sticks? They seem to have problems doing diagonals. I would buy one if I knew if everyone of them came like that or not. No one else seems to mention it...
@@honoredshadow1975 while i appreciate russ' reviews, he really doesn't take much time in setting up the devices he review since he has to review too many things. TH-cam is his main job now since he quit the army, so he has to cash in with the latest of the niche. You can see some his gameplays had choppy framerates while other reviewers were running the same games smoothly. I believe i came across a reviewer who mentioned the rg505 update where it fixes the diagonal resistance, but there is still a tough spot on the very edge of the lowest corner which to me as a whole even with that remaining flaw the anbernic hallsticks is still far better than any other devices within that price range, especially when compared to rp3+. That's why some users were trying to mount these hallsticks to their rp3 devices. However, you still get the hdmi and better ergonomic and a denser dpi screen with the rp3+.
@@adamc.2230 I edit my message because I just found exactly that. A video from Russ. Seems to have been fixed to some degree! Thanks for the reply man! th-cam.com/video/M-Y1MewLk_w/w-d-xo.html
Might just be my opinion but that bezel on the Anbernic device is horrible and too big. Why have the name plastered in a large font in the front and have the same company name on the back? It makes like zero sense. I like how it looks more minimal on the RP3+. Also, even though the RG505 has an OLED screen, I heard it has worse pixel density than the RP3+. I also heard there were issues with the HALL joysticks on the RG505. Supposedly there was an update but it didn't improve things too much. Not a fan of those inline shoulder buttons. Also, the RG505 doesn't have HDMI out but the RP3+ does? Just to point out, I am not hating on Anbernic. I own a couple RG351Ps, RG351M, RG552, RG280V, a couple RG351Vs, RG351MP, and an RG353P.
And which should I choose if I wanted to connect one of these to my TV?? Literally no mention of this feature. One of these consoles can run as a standalone multiplayer console, and one cannot..
RG505 is delivered to me today and the RP3+ will be delivered - that is what I am making my decision on LOL Have a switch OLED but I wants to play 3ds and some ps1 games and also SNES, SEGA and GBA...ah I just don't know maybe both haha
@@michaelg1042 I mean I get it, but for that price and I have to do the work, I can just get a unlocked phone and use that! I'm still tossed which to get between the RP3+ or the RG505. Both are the same price
@@joeywilbur9182 you really can't go wrong but I chose the RG505 due to not having to worry about doing the work myself. I just purchased today so I'll let you know when I get it on Wednesday.
@@joeywilbur9182 I got it from Amazon. I paid a bit more but it comes with preloaded games along with the Amazon guarantee so in case something is wrong or I don't like it, I don't need to go through the headache on getting a refund.
Not really. Steam deck is far bigger and heavier. I find it a bit of a handful for really long play sessions. Still an awesome device but the size is something to consider.
Till this day I'm still not able to get any retro games on my retro pocket 2 plus that's why I only buy amber Nick devices it's not even fun having to Tinker with downloads box art and organizing a video game library and downloading games it's not even fun I'm telling you it's so not fun that I wouldn't even pick it up on the other hand Amber Nick is already fully loaded with all the games in the world full walkthrough button mapping as all set up ready to go till this day I still haven't even got games on my retro pocket too plus because it's not fun I don't want to do it it's complicated and I tried and I got one game and it was two hard so I only got like two games and it's boring
This is definitely a big benefit to the Anbernic devices. I think it's often overlooked in the TH-cam community because most reviewers expect everyone to know what to do, but that's just not the case.
Emulating on solely Android devices can be quite intimidating. I'm not a fan of it myself either. I like how Anbernic uses Linux and EmulationStation. It just makes everything so neat and uniform, whereas on Android, everything looks kind of sloppy, ie open this emulator for these games, open this other emulator for these games, etc. Yes, you can use a frontend like DIG or something, but things look a lot more uniform in Linux.
@@Cyko.. But with a frontend every game on whatever emulator and whatever setting will be in one place right? So basically if I'm done downloading and setting everything up and tweaking stuff I can set the frontend as the standard menu and never have to leave that frontend. Basically forget everything that's outside the frontend right? I don't really see a problem with that. I mean there are some beautiful frontends like daijusho.
@@ChronikSpartanno, it’s because the games on their systems are technically Illegal so they either won’t even mention it or recommend it. Also those SD cards are absolute trash and they WILL take a shit on you and you’ll be spending more and doing the work still anyways.
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I have the Gray Edition ANBERNIC RG505 and it's totally awesome! Got the case with it and purchased a 1TB Sandisk micro sd for it.
Didn't know u could fir 1tb sd card in it I only saw 516gb max
@@chrisw7451 Yes! I also have a 1TB micro sd in my Anbernic RG353P, Powkiddy Max 2 and Powkiddy X17.
@@chrisw7451 These devices always seem to give the wrong maximum card specs, or maybe they do it for a reason? I have had no issues using a 1 TB in my RG552 or RG353P.
Where did you buy it from?
@@ChrisN-w9g From the ANBERNIC Official Store on AliEx.
I just bought the rp3+ with the grip from retroid and i love it! Amazing.
Superb!
Pocket 3+ has a community which is HUGE advantage!
Gamma OS would like to have a word with you.
@@mamory3791 yea now some Anbernic devices has GammaOS, but still i thing RP3+ is better than RG505
@@valeryh1907 In what way?
@@mamory3791what os Gamma OS?
@@gabrieljcardoso9387 Custom version of Android made specifically for the RG505 and the RG405.
It improves performance, battery life, fixes everything that was wrong with the RG505 like the trigger buttons not functioning with some games and adds a lot of features like controlling the performance of the handheld to get more power and thus more fps from the console.
Or if you would like you can downclock the RG505 to get upwards of 20hrs of battery life at cost of performance. So let's say you just want to play Snes or PS1 games, you can set the performance to low and it would run everything from PS1 and below perfectly and you would get 20hrs of battery life but if you attempt to play PSP or PS2 at this mode you won't be able to.
If want to play for example PSP or PS2 or Wii games, you have to choose performance or max performance mode. Performance mode would get you the same performance the stock OS would give you so PSP perfectly played and a decent chunk of PS2 games BUT, if you use max performance mode you would simply be able to play more PS2 games because that is like an overclock mode.
Gamma OS has many other features those ar the most important and its constantly getting better through online updates. In short Gamma OS gave life to the RG505 and it made it a strong rival to the RP3+ and imo it made it even better than the RP3+
When I first wandered into the retro handheld market around 3 years ago, I found a few affordable devices that got good reviews but one thing I was looking for was n64, saturn & ps1, and as those devices came out and got better I found myself thinking I need psp and dream cast, but now I want ps2 and GC, the next device from ether of these companies will solve that, but then il want ps3 and xbox...
I'm exactly the same mate 😂
I don't think we'll ever be satisfied! But PS2 and GC is a good place to settle if we have to 😉
I personally would be satisfied at PS2 performance topping out. The reason being is the library on the PS2 was much more enriching than the PS3 was. Personally, I'd much rather play Gamecube games than anything offered on XBOX as well.
Yeah. For me ps2 was the last big revolution in terms of game play. Satisfied with emulation up to ps2
The consideration about OLED is that it's still dependent on the software being used. If it's got a lot of brights it will consume more power than an LED backlit display. Some devices will lower the brightness if a solid white screen is shown to offset this.
You didn't mention an important part of the screens...while touting the RG505 being better for PSP, or better for battery because of the OLED screen, it's a lower resolution compared to the RP3+. 960x540 vs 1334x750.
Yes good point
I'm a newb in the retro handheld world but have narrowed my options to these two devices.
RP3+ has HDMI which may be good for times I want to play on a tv, but apparently for beginners, the Emulator/ROM setup is a lot more of a task compared to RG505.
But just for clarification, if I order the RG505 excluding the 128-256gb card option, there will be no games pre-installed, correct?
If I go the route of getting my own sd card then, can I simply just connect to WiFi and get ROMs via google chrome app?? Kinda like on a Samsung Galaxy phone?
All this tech stuff for a dusty gamer (my last system was Xbox 360 lol) seems to be a lot at first...thanks!
Correct, if you don't get the SD card from Anbernic, it won't have games installed on the system memory. However yes it's just as easy to download ROMs as it is on your mobile using WiFi. It's all pretty user friendly tbh 👍
@@ChronikSpartan sweet! Any suggestions for ROMs sources? Also, RP3+ or RG505??? for a beginner retro handheld gamer??
@@cirealreviews1776 I heard vimms is good for roms. I would say get the rp3+. The look is much better. And you're going to have to learn how to add roms anyways might as well have the games you want.
Are you going to make a updated video on the Ambernic rg505 now that gamma OS came out?
I've never bought one of these kinds of devices before, but I sorta jumped the gun with the Retroid Pocket 3+, I ordered it at the beginning of the month and it looks like it's gonna be here soon, but sometimes I look at the RG505 and wonder if I should have gotten that instead, I dunno, I doubt it will matter much, but I like the RG505's colors better..
You made the right choice
The TV use matters a lot for me. Rp3+ for sure
Hallo,
Sind bei dem RG505 die spiele alle schon installiert ?
I got the rg503,rg351,rg552and the rg505 and I like the rg505 the best second I like the rg503 the screen is amazing and make the older games look better add a filter and bump up the resolution and it runs great
What color system did you guys buy? I read somewhere that the gray ones wont hold a charge
You missed that the RP3+ has HDMI out.
He mentioned it
@@leethomas7659 Hah! Missed it.
Both are android devices you can mirror their screen to any android TV these days.
Just out of curiousity would you be able to buy a SD card from Ambernic that is separate from the console and install it on a pocket 3+? If so how would I be able to tell on the website if it has games included or not
I've seen the SD cards available from the Anbernic Ali Express shop, I assume they are full of games. I've used an Anbernic provides SD card in my RP3+. Honestly though, the games provided are a decent set but there's lots of filler. You could easily download your own perfect set of roms.
It is possible to connect via smart tvi the RG 505?
Do you mean by casting it? You can screen mirror with android but it's laggy.
Can never understand how people play n64 or gamecube without those extra buttons for z and the c stick/buttons never felt right mapping it without the actual controllers for those systems haha never quite got the hang of it haha
Any videos on adding games to a rg505
Can you set the sd card as internal memory with the rg505 like in rp3?
Yes you can as it's Android functionality 👍
Does rg505 have have GameCube or PS2 pre installed?
How do you download 3ds games onto your abernic rg 505 bc I can’t figure out how
Look for a reliable rom site
What about the problem Russ mentions with the hall sticks? They seem to have problems doing diagonals. I would buy one if I knew if everyone of them came like that or not. No one else seems to mention it...
Honestly I've not experienced any issues. Maybe he just had a defective unit. It will be interesting to see if issues occur overtime.
because it was not a hardware issue. the update had already fixed it.
@@adamc.2230 Hope so! I would love to buy one for the hall sticks and OLED. All my screens are OLED. Love 'em.
@@honoredshadow1975 while i appreciate russ' reviews, he really doesn't take much time in setting up the devices he review since he has to review too many things. TH-cam is his main job now since he quit the army, so he has to cash in with the latest of the niche. You can see some his gameplays had choppy framerates while other reviewers were running the same games smoothly. I believe i came across a reviewer who mentioned the rg505 update where it fixes the diagonal resistance, but there is still a tough spot on the very edge of the lowest corner which to me as a whole even with that remaining flaw the anbernic hallsticks is still far better than any other devices within that price range, especially when compared to rp3+. That's why some users were trying to mount these hallsticks to their rp3 devices. However, you still get the hdmi and better ergonomic and a denser dpi screen with the rp3+.
@@adamc.2230 I edit my message because I just found exactly that. A video from Russ. Seems to have been fixed to some degree! Thanks for the reply man!
th-cam.com/video/M-Y1MewLk_w/w-d-xo.html
Might just be my opinion but that bezel on the Anbernic device is horrible and too big. Why have the name plastered in a large font in the front and have the same company name on the back? It makes like zero sense. I like how it looks more minimal on the RP3+. Also, even though the RG505 has an OLED screen, I heard it has worse pixel density than the RP3+. I also heard there were issues with the HALL joysticks on the RG505. Supposedly there was an update but it didn't improve things too much. Not a fan of those inline shoulder buttons. Also, the RG505 doesn't have HDMI out but the RP3+ does?
Just to point out, I am not hating on Anbernic. I own a couple RG351Ps, RG351M, RG552, RG280V, a couple RG351Vs, RG351MP, and an RG353P.
And which should I choose if I wanted to connect one of these to my TV?? Literally no mention of this feature. One of these consoles can run as a standalone multiplayer console, and one cannot..
You literally didn't pay attention
@@2Namiiclearly I wasn't, and happy to be wrong. What's the time code for where he mentions hdmi connectivity to a TV??
RG505 is delivered to me today and the RP3+ will be delivered - that is what I am making my decision on LOL
Have a switch OLED but I wants to play 3ds and some ps1 games and also SNES, SEGA and GBA...ah I just don't know maybe both haha
Both are pretty awesome, but I'd pick RP3+
Rg505 the only format is fat32, which has issues nowadays, a big bummer, no hdmi
Wait so the RP3+ doesn't come with pre installed games? Just the RG505?
This is why I went with the RG505
@@michaelg1042 I mean I get it, but for that price and I have to do the work, I can just get a unlocked phone and use that! I'm still tossed which to get between the RP3+ or the RG505. Both are the same price
@@joeywilbur9182 you really can't go wrong but I chose the RG505 due to not having to worry about doing the work myself. I just purchased today so I'll let you know when I get it on Wednesday.
@@michaelg1042 Damn. Where'd you order it from that you'll get it in 2 days lol
@@joeywilbur9182 I got it from Amazon. I paid a bit more but it comes with preloaded games along with the Amazon guarantee so in case something is wrong or I don't like it, I don't need to go through the headache on getting a refund.
my 505 wont let me log into the gamepass app
Next video: Retroid Flip vs RG405
The answer, steam deck
Haha, true true!
But nobody is putting a steam deck in their pocket.
@@daltonwilliams2962 stop wearing skinny jeans
Some of us ain't got it like that 😂
Not really. Steam deck is far bigger and heavier. I find it a bit of a handful for really long play sessions. Still an awesome device but the size is something to consider.
Till this day I'm still not able to get any retro games on my retro pocket 2 plus that's why I only buy amber Nick devices it's not even fun having to Tinker with downloads box art and organizing a video game library and downloading games it's not even fun I'm telling you it's so not fun that I wouldn't even pick it up on the other hand Amber Nick is already fully loaded with all the games in the world full walkthrough button mapping as all set up ready to go till this day I still haven't even got games on my retro pocket too plus because it's not fun I don't want to do it it's complicated and I tried and I got one game and it was two hard so I only got like two games and it's boring
This is definitely a big benefit to the Anbernic devices. I think it's often overlooked in the TH-cam community because most reviewers expect everyone to know what to do, but that's just not the case.
Emulating on solely Android devices can be quite intimidating. I'm not a fan of it myself either. I like how Anbernic uses Linux and EmulationStation. It just makes everything so neat and uniform, whereas on Android, everything looks kind of sloppy, ie open this emulator for these games, open this other emulator for these games, etc. Yes, you can use a frontend like DIG or something, but things look a lot more uniform in Linux.
@@Cyko.. But with a frontend every game on whatever emulator and whatever setting will be in one place right? So basically if I'm done downloading and setting everything up and tweaking stuff I can set the frontend as the standard menu and never have to leave that frontend. Basically forget everything that's outside the frontend right? I don't really see a problem with that. I mean there are some beautiful frontends like daijusho.
@@ChronikSpartanno, it’s because the games on their systems are technically Illegal so they either won’t even mention it or recommend it. Also those SD cards are absolute trash and they WILL take a shit on you and you’ll be spending more and doing the work still anyways.