I bought a $30 Nintendo Switch from China...
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ส.ค. 2024
- Hello everyone and welcome to another Budget Builds Episode where today we're taking a look at this dodgy Nintendo Switch that I ordered off eBay direct from China. So sit back, relax, and enjoy what is essentially this years Christmas Special, with a near 30 Minute episode, from FPS Testing to investigtating these internal specs and where they came from, I hope you all enjoy!
Intro - 0:00
The Listing - 0:19
The Package 2:40
The "Switch" Unboxing - 3:44
Live Console Experience - 5:30
Controversy and Content Issues- 17:00
Overall Performance - 19:35
Other Features, Media Decoding - 20:52
Teardown and Specs - 22:55
Conclusion - 25:06
Music
Simcity 2013 OST
Simcity 3000 - Building
Mystery Dungeon OST
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0:30 Why is the price in Indian rupees, despite the item being shipped to the UK (if I'm not wrong) ?
A lot of these sellers use non native currencies to make refunds harder, as there is a conversion process involved.
The price shows as GBP Equivalent up until you order it usually.
@@BudgetBuildsOfficial Oh, I see. Thanks for replying.
Same doubt
@@BudgetBuildsOfficial interesting I never thought about it making the refund process harder
@Moll pom no lol.
I dont understand how ebay once taken down my listing with a Japanese Wii Console in 2019 as it was a "Counterfit" apperently but those things can just stay on there smh
It's a combination of luck and quantity. You're one seller selling legit, meaning you're posting on the same account at a regular pace. Get unlucky, and eBay slams you with a counterfeit claim and take down your listing and you're anywhere from mildly to severely inconvenienced. Meanwhile, these guys are selling using a plethora of semi botted accounts that just keep posting faster than eBay can flag them, so it's not that they aren't getting taken down, it's that they're getting replaced faster than they get taken down.
Chiiina
You will possibly figure it out one day.
Your wii wasn't a genuine ningrento product
Ebay bends the knee for china remember?
Burst out laughing at "fun never stop. Ever" that is the scariest possible thing I can imagine a Chinesium game console telling me.
Because they're actually a big group of superhackers and is also full of kidnappers and cells, so if you don't give 5***** rating, they dox and kidnap you into one of the cells
Wasnt this the tagline for Japanese only sonic win screen/threat way back in the day?
I remember when a water company called "Jana" had a message at the back saying "all is well and i am safe"
Totally doesn't sound creepy at all.
Negative 70 social credit, if have no fun
"eva!"
“Please allow 1-2cm measuring deviation due to manual measurement.” …top ten things I said on my wedding night! 😂
I can't be the only one who now wants one just to explore the controversial Rom hacks
Probably pokemon black and blue edition xD
Ohh yeah. That’s what made me want it lol
Maybe it features Pokémon Gun.
A channel called rerez had a video about another device with the same games called the x12 and the 369 in 1 cartridge with many controversial roms
Considering how he said "OH ITS NOT APPROPRIATE NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE IN THE WORLD"
Yeah, I kinda wanna play them more now. Tired of PC culture telling me what I can and can't play or do.
0:55 "Provide brain befenicial" is one of the best quotes I've ever read
Actually, using screen as a heatsink is very common practice - almost all smartphones uses this technique.
Almost burnt my hand once when I fell asleep with phone on bed. You rly gotta what out for it.
Technically phones use the whole chassis as a heat sink.
I was going to say this and I still will
Phones (any sort of decent quality ones that is) don't primarily use screen but the back, screen just gets hot as byproduct of a CPU crammed into such a slim device.
@@jackwilson5542 disassemble any flagship samsung, huawei, or just about any other phone apart from iphone, and you'll see quite the opposite - heat tubes running on chassis between CPU and screen, thats not mentioning all the evaporation chambers
Those controversial roms are actually why I would want to buy this lol.
Me too. Haha
Lmao, same! It's a shame he didn't even talk a bit about them
Same, wasn't a bit interested until he mentioned the naughty roms lol
Ikr lol
Same here
Finally! The awaited "4K HD 720P Ningrendo"
I loled
They could rebrand this, strip off all the illegal stuff, be honest about what it's capable of and people would totally buy it at that price. A semi decent handheld for emulators that's cheap isn't bad at all. But I guess that would involve more marketing then just slapping Switch on the listing and tricking people.
That's what this is normally
You get what you pay for....
Nah. They aren’t gonna sell. It’s a “somewhat” good emulator.
But something like an AYN Odin would be more viable as a handheld emulator. Also because it has a funky dock with certain gamecube and such ports.
Plus the thing having android, means you can use it for more than just an emulator.
@@Thewaterspirit57 These sell great, and the Odin is nowhere near the same in price or size. These things are around $30. The Odin is good but it's a completely separate tier of system.
@@SoftEndy yet you’ll get your moneys worth with the Odin, and more. This stupid thing can only be used for emulators really.
At least you didnt get a light switch.
i love how it says "4K (1280x720) screen"
"The content is actually disgusting".....say no more fam, *reaches for credit card*
Is just not for normies xD. Time to get some :D
@@CommanderTato LOL based handheld
"Ningrento" Absolute gold!
I love the Pokémon mystery dungeon music in the background, takes me back to the good old Gameboy days ❤️
*stan?*
I mean £30 it actually not bad for cheap emulator device. If there is a way, you can just preload your own ROMs and tweak a bit.
U can preload ROMs
For this kind of money, if it could emulate 16-bit stuff then it is golden.
A psp is probably better
@@pietrocavicchioli6128 oh yeah You can get for almost identical price. Good thinking.
It's not terrible, but something like the PowKiddy v90 is a few dollars more and can handle the 16bit systems better and do PS1 as well. And while PowKiddy is still a questionable chinese brand, at least it has a name where you can look up reviews and opinions and at least get a sense of whether or not it will last more than a week before dying on you.
"I haven't used the Realtek player since I had a Pentium M powered laptop."
Knowing you, that was probably last week
That homescreen is 100% a PS Vita ripoff, even down to the 3,4,3 layout. Speaking of, I recommend a PS Vita for emulation, they are quite easy to mod nowadays and SD2Vita is very cheap. It's often cheaper than proper emulation machines, but still offers an amazing screen for the OLED model and very good feeling buttons. Also you have access to both native emulators and emulators made for PSP, aswell as RetroArch with different cores, in case one doesn't work well (which I noticed with Final Fantasy V Advance)
PS: Loving the background music. Mystery Dungeon is an amazing game series, even with the mediocre titles in between ^^
Oops, didn't see the heart and edited it. Oh well, have a nice christmas eve everyone!
Hmm might actually consider doing that. Do you know about DS emulation on the Vita
@@HowlingDoom I know that they started porting an emulator, but it performs very poorly. Any somewht modern phone is decent at emulating it though, especially if you have a controller that allows you to put your phone inside vertically 😊
@@xPandamon Thats true as well. I have to buy myself a new phone anyway so mind as well buy a gamepad attachment.
@@HowlingDoom Wanted to leave some links but my comment is getting deleted, so maybe this stays without them. PS Vita overclocking is generally recommended for more stable or simply higher framerates as there's no real risk, the last thing I heard about was GTA San Andreas being ported, it should run on the Vita fairly well if I remember correctly ^^
PS: ModernVintageGamer also showed it off, with the links in the description of course. It's an older but if anything the port got even better so it's basically a must have for any PS Vita owner. They also ported GTA 3 and Vice City aswell, the modding scene is pretty damn impressive :)
Makes me really curious about what's on it. Almost wanna buy one just out of curiosity for the questionable ROMs.
I'm doing it for that exact reason.
There's enough copies of it on eBay.
@@couldntmixapotnoodle Maybe upload them somewhere so others can see. I think it will be mario rom hacks like other comments suggested.
@@couldntmixapotnoodle what did you use to search for it?
@@ELECTROHAXZ i might do but its not here till march at the earliest
Ill see what the content is like first but it might not be the same as what is on demo in the video.
Nothing that isn’t already dumped or available online. They probably pirated a romset and picked arbitrary stuff from it.
I'm personally interested about some of the Pokémon romhacks that are on here, there have to be a bunch that even I haven't heard of.
The reason gen 3 Pokémon games don't work is obvious: the emulator doesn't seem to support the 128k flash save type, or at least doesn't detect games that use that, that might also be why SMA4 was like "saved data is corrupted"
Back in the day around 2013ish, i replayed all of gen 3 at 8x speed on a Galaxy s3. I remember running across a few modded and reskined emerald roms back then.
After a quick google search it looks like there's way more out there.
That 1-2cm thing is on EVERYTHING on aliexpress. I bought record player cartridges with a total length of 3cm. Same story :D.
I feel so bad for the kids getting this for chrismas expecting a real switch.
At least they can play good snes,genesis and gba games and watch videos.When we received these scams from our grandparents in the late 90s they had only 999999 nes games (or 10 games with 99999989 variations)
@@sambas9257 those are still really common too - way cheaper to produce those famiclones than to produce these android-based devices. the coolbaby series comes to mind for example
Beats the crap out of those 80's and early 90's LCD games.
(The ones with the clock style LCD that have predetermined character and enemy positions).
While it's not a switch, I could at least play it if it was my only game system. I was only a casual gamer, especially as a kid - I had 0 skill, but even when I was completely bored I couldn't manage to play an LCD game, they sucked that bad and I was always frustrated.
Needless to say I was definitely thrilled when I finally got a real game boy when they came down in price.
This is the 2021 way of finding coal in your stocking.
@@volvo09 Wait do you mean those tiger handhelds?
1:09 The moment I saw "4k HD 720p screen" I knew this was going to be good.
Bro prevents hands of slipping is like an rpg spell Lmao
8:55 LMAO not gonna try to find Mario....shows screen with 2 different Mario roms 🤣
just poking a bit of fun. no harm
It doesn't cost much more for various emulation handhelds, from companies like Anbernic, that will run 8 bit and 16 bit consoles and handhelds perfectly (and play most ps1 games perfectly even on some of the cheaper models). They will even run a lot more MAME games. And they have community supported firmware etc that unlocks so much more.
There are interesting handhelds in the low price range anyway. Powkiddy V40 and Miyoo Mini come to mind (the latter is the recent one and it’s getting some rave reviews for great form factor execution)
This was my first thought as well. There are superior machines out there for only a bit more money.
I'd just like to point out that Vin Deisel actually wrote the forward for dungeons and dragons 3rd edition players handbook. It was surprisingly well thought out and written... js. I would say this was more Dwayne Johnsons writing style lol
Dwayne johnson doesn't care about family
Vin is the ultimate D&D fan
it was a fast and furious reference smartass
relaxing start to Christmas :)
Not odd at all that it exports audio as a WAV file. That is very easy on the CPU as it is not compressed.
Plot twist: He's actually a CO owner of a company mass producing these and made a video to convince you it's not a complete rip-off lol
Just wanna say thank you for all the amazing content you put out over all these years and hope you have a wonderful holidays. 😊
Now I'm really curious what was in that other ROMs... Great and very interesting video, thank you for all you doing!
Buy one and rip 'em for us.
Same... my curiosity has peaked.
Reply if you figure something out
I suspect it's a load of the very many romhacks of Super Mario in which Mario is a white supremacist and enemies are dubious racial stereotypes.
@@RJRC_105 I did play a couple of those when I was teen.. Aye still the way he reacted it seem liked there was few X rated ones as well..
I can imagine having this as a kid and I'm happy i didn't had any of those game console because I'd just be playing 24/7 ... all i had is one of those tetris handhelds and even that was exciting for me at the time..
One of the problems you run into when reviewing these, even ones sold as what they are and not a scam is the rampant sharing and reuse of ebay listings and product photos. Even if you use the exact same search terms there's no guarantee you'll get the same device pictured. Even ordering from the exact listing twice sometimes gets you two different products.
The second the video starts I knew I recognised that sound, ah Mystery Dungeon- a Pokémon series so underrated
I've not used realplayer since I had a Pentium M laptop' - that's not helpful on this channel. You could be talking about last week.
I'm thinking about buying one just so I can see what these oh so controversial rom hacks are like, lol.
Lets just say Mario/Luigi are dressed in white sheets, and the enemies are of color, and another has Mario/Luigi as a dongs with the enemies being female holes with legs, or wings.
@@CommodoreFan64 That sounds pretty run of the mill offensive. I thought it would be worse with the way he was talking about it.
Nice Takodachi pfp
I think those examples are more funny in an offensive way than anything else
I also watch other TH-camrs that review these devices even if I own a 2DS, Vita and Switch...this one seems to be on par with the performance for the price or better. At $20-30 in some places all you get is NES emulation.
I'd rather spend $30 on a second hand leather '90s jacket, which I did two years ago, than on this fake Chinese console. :) Looks good on a brown guy like me, lol...
Merry late Christmas and happy new year 🎄
@@thatguyalex2835 That as well, just mentioning that for the price and performance of it's category is not that bad. Besides, this device would cost the double in most of the planet...
@@takehirolol5962 Yeah, so true. An equivalent device would be the Anbernic RG350, which has a similar CPU, yet costs $70-80
@@thatguyalex2835 Yep! A cheap NES clone device costs $20 or more.
@@thatguyalex2835 well a leather jacket is worth a lot more than that so you got an extremely good deal which can't be expected
Product description made my day 😂😂🤣 Thank you!
4k hd 720p screen? Seems legit!
11:45 That looks like the Super Mario 2 we got in the US, which was actually a reskin of a completely different game. What most of the world calls SM2 we call 'The lost levels'..
And it's so baffling to me why a company takes the scam approach when they almost have a decent device that they could advertise as is.
(edit) I bet I know EXACTLY how they got those dodgy games. They've probably had the roms for years at this point. back in my younger days, when I bothered with ROMs, one of the easy approaches was to just find anything with ROMs on TPB, and just download it. this often included huge libraries of stuff that in turn was sourced from some other huge library of stuff. And whooo boy was it not vetted.
I have seen things on an emulated SEGA that are permanently burned into my soul like the afterimage of the Windows Taskbar on a CRT.
I always thought everyone outside jp got the reskinned doki doki panic, huh
it's super mario advance i think, it looks like they ported mario 2 to the mario world engine and tweaked the levels a little bit
Top-notch choice of music!
Honestly I'm genuinely surprised at how much this can do. If the descriptions weren't incredibly sketchy, things were better documented and the games were less broken, I'd unironically buy this
20 years ago, having that device would be insane. We barely had Gameboy Color!
The psp was announced 19 years ago. Announced in 2004. GBA launched 22 years ago.
Nah
I can do all that and better on my smartphone
@@NOTLeavingLV he was off by two years but it’s true before gnba you couldn’t even see the screen without a external light source
@@awsomedude12345678everyone does
Another fire video, good job mate
Happy Christmas everyone!
That looks kinda fun to have for retro stuff. I don't normally like supporting these types of sellers but I might pick one up at some point.
Nice of you to make a video in between clutching your pearls lmao.
The reason SMRPG ran like it was is because of the SA-1 chip. And this is a rebranded Powkiddy X20 mini, from what it appears.
the SA-1 chip was the most complex official(there have been some unofficial ones in recent years that allow the SNES to do FMV, and CD quality sound with people homebrewing new soundtracks onto games, and even porting FMV games like Road Avenger) add on chip for the SNES if I remember correctly even more so than the Super FX series of chips.
You have a great speaking voice to listen to, and lovely content.
The controversial ROMs part is something I personally experienced with machines like this (in the form factor of a PSP, usually)
My brother and I used to hunt for machines like these because for 10 dollars the game titles and gameplay are so broken they are worth remembering, if anyone wants to know what they are it's usually any random slur you can find and the games are either Mario ROM Hacks with the text changed to have slurs/swear words or games about dogs (???)
They are clearly made by someone with the intent to make it racist, it's not like a cute engrish fuck-up lol.
Amazing
are there any more kinds of romhacks with this racist stuff? aside Mario? I'm kinda invested what's being used for these racist messages
This is being sold as the x20mini handheld. Might be a decent candidate for modding.
Michael.. it's a Powkiddy J6 reshelled..identical menu and emulators..4.2inch screen..I have bought 2x J6 so I know them well..a few games don't run..but 99% of my ROMs are fine...well worth 25quid or 30 dollars
@@markianclark9645 identical menu because its retroarch?
@@fromfin90 ...I'm not sure what emulation the Chinese use..I expect it's proprietary..Powkiddy developers from some community software they commercialised..who knows..just guessing..
@@fromfin90 no it’s not retroarch
Thanks, I couldn't find it under the name shown in the video but found it easily with the x20mini name.
I am absolutely astonished how clean the PCB is. Very few chips, not a whole lot of capacitors or resistors scattered around but grouped together...
This seems to be rather competently thought out.
Son: I want a nintendo switch!
Mom: we have nintendo switch at home
man hes making videos for us even when he is sick damn. Thank you
I’m glad you posted
You’re giving way too much credit to the scammers here as they are clearly just reselling this device, which is quite a common practice in this particular market.
I can't lie to you, I'd be genuinely surprised that a scam like this can run so many emulations
@@Mizu-AM all of the fake consoles use emulation.
@@tobythethird5694 really? they can?
@@Mizu-AM yea
It's a good thing they didn't put a PSX emulator on there like so many of these cheap emulator handhelds do, because at this price point they never run at playable framerates, and having an emulator on there that runs too poorly to be useful just lowers the overall impression of the device. It shows that they actually cared a little about the quality and first impression of the product.
you know a console is bad when 2 of the most important face buttoms are fake
the first 20 seconds using the pokemon mystery dungeon music.... reminded me of simpler times
That info on the processor is really fascinating
I like how randomly a celebrity will pop up from the bottom left when you make pop culture references. Clever
Well to me, the device is nothing special but the sketch content makes me curious and want to buy one. Its just a 8 and 16 bit system emulator and there are a dozen similar devices that do the same thing but better while not costing much more.
The romhacks are probably nothing that wasn’t already dumped or you can’t find online.
@@_remblanc I'm sure, I just want to see what made him so upset. :)
Spending that much time talking about unacceptable content without mentioning any of it specifically only makes me extremely curious lol
Great video though!
I'm guessing there's some sort of racist super mario reskins.
@@gjeraldh2989 I found a super Mario hack on a dodgy rom set called super kkk bros. I bet that its on this one too
Loving the Mystery Dungeon music
merry christmas you magnificent bastard
After the bit about the Real Player logo being on the box I was curious and google it and was shocked to see it still exists. Haven't dealt with that software in 20 years.
It's kept alive by corporate training programs that use it's video formats I bet. I can't see any other reason for it to exist.
They used to offer an online video downloaded as a browser add-on if you had the software. I remember that being a huge reason to use it 10 years ago.
Four video players of the 2000s: Windows Media Player, Quick Time Player, Real Player & VLC. :) I remember all four of them, and VLC and Windows Media Player were the best.
@@thatguyalex2835 you forgot Winamp which was still the king at time as eventually it could play video no problem, and even had built in Shoutcast audio/video streaming.
@@CommodoreFan64 Too young for that. Remember, this was 2006-2009
how interesting this was quite fun to watch
Ayo inappropriate roms? I'm sold. Someone drop the link to this item pls.
i think we need to have a games list of this, because i'm really interested in, what all these nes games are!
the Description is soo darn funny lol 😅🤣🤣
Best Christmas present ever
I like the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Music in the background ☺
Ah yes Ningrento.........I like to use it on my SENY TRANITON TV.......
For the price it's actually quite good I'd say. Was very curious to know how long the battery lasted
The battery is really solid. I picked a similar one off Aliexpress for about £18. Was heavily considering modding mine because cheap electronic modding is fun.
@@liamjones2131 Do you have the link tho?
Your playing phd music awesome!!!!!
I need one of these. An upgraded start button is the only thing I care about then gaming.
Watching this on Xmas morning, fantastic content as always! Thanks Budget Builds!
This video and review were excellent. I’m very interested in this product now, and it pains me to not be able to find it anywhere on Ebay, or online for that matter. Did the attention blow their operation? I hope not, I was really hoping to get my hands on one of these neat little pieces :(
let me know
"Battle fast and smooth with the combat of Emperors!" THAT has got to the THE BEST line I have ever heard about a game console.....lmao.
Does the analog work properly?
This looks really cool and perhaps might be able to emulate other 2D consoles like Game Gear, PC Engine, Master system and similar others.
These types of systems usually comes with terrible buttons and if you say this have good buttons then the sellers should do proper marketing for this, it could be a good seller.
The analog doesn't ever drift, unlike the real switch
@@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716 😂😂😂
It might even be able to emulate the PS1 due to using a MIPS CPU.
Solid little handheld for what it is. Would be a great device for travelling, and not having to worry about losing it
This isn't that bad, that it plays MAME is pretty amazing , I'd spend a few extra on myself for sure,but, for a little kid?...probably and why not... kids don't take good care of there stuff and for 30$ I'd put my own roms on it
You know you're me when you notice the Mystery Dungeon music 0.01 seconds in. :D
6:50 I'm sure it's just a mistranslation of the title, but Devil Buster just so happens to coincidentally be a lost Megami Tensei title for the Mega Drive.
Thank you for your video this looks interesting could you please add a link to where you purchased it please
That Pokemon Mystery Dungeon song in the beginning, reminds of Red Rescue Team
Ahh yes, the old bait and Switch.
although it's a cheap emulation machine it looks REALLY competently made. They couldve just go the legit way and charge for $60 or sum
this actually seems pretty interesting as it seems pretty playable experience.
I also think that the devil slayer rom might be the actual doom emulation.
random notion. the mystery dungeon music at the intro hit me like a truck.
"Fun never stop, ever"
The music in stage 1 of Castlevania 3.
*chef’s kiss*
great video lad keep up with the good work ps how are you doing today ☺️
Doin alright, tad tired from editing this up all night 👍
@@BudgetBuildsOfficial happy Xmas
I like how it downgrades from 4k to HD to 720 at 1:20 :D
HD would be 720p, so that bit at least lines up.
@@KittyKatKya ... yeah but they could be brave enough and double that 720 way up to 1440p ... :D
love the use of pokemon mystery dungeon music
I am so curious as to what exactly the inappropriate content is. Not enough to pay for one. Thanks for the video.
Well done!!!
Is there a way to convert it to something else ????
Like,use a separate heatsinks,move a screen, maybe,make it as you mentioned ,a emulator device as it should be????
The interface in game of Corporation looks suspiciously like a hacked Zero Tolerance naughty no no's. Abs love Zero Tolerance as it was the MD's first proper 1st person shooter and the whole game was super well executed with some pretty cutting edge 3d visuals.
Corporation, an excellent game on it's own, predates Zero Tolerance by few years, IIRC.
the GUI of this console reminds me of android 2.2 with all that white and yellow with big buttons