I find these super interesting because they're not even software emulation - they're Famicom/NES clone hardware! They'll typically only spit out composite video and mono audio just like the NES, so their screen options are limited by LCD controllers that can actually take composite. Likewise, external output options are almost always analog because getting HDMI output requires adding a scaler chip and thus adding cost (although it would probably be awful anyway.) This is a space where emulation really is just better.
I think the biggest problem with these is that, for maybe £20 more, you could get something that is actually halfway decent. The price of good handheld emulation devices has come down so much over the past few years that you'd be daft for spending more than £10-15 on these, I reckon. That being said, I have now bought all of these to upset any children in my family.
It's amazing how electronic games like this have become a commodity. Yes they're poor, but someone somewhere had to write the code and design the hardware. Saying that, I can imagine some poor kid unwrapping this on Christmas day; they asked mum and dad for a PS5 and they got this. But that's a story as old as time; when I was 8 I wanted a Hornby train set, but I ended up with the knock-off Lima set instead! Thanks for the laugh, and Happy New Year to you!
Thanks for this, reaffirmed my theory that all these dirt cheap handhelds are in fact bobbins. I get they are looking at providing a "gaming experience" at a cheap price point, but honestly what is the point?
I do get these as gifts because people know I collect them (Yes, I know it's probably just me!) usually you start getting decent controls around the 30 to 35 pound range in my experiance. Although as always with stuff like this, it all depends.
Im sure someones mentioned it but the first consoles menu music is from Mighty Final Fight. for some reason that particular games music is incredibly common for famicom multicart menus to use
I have one of the fourth devices but in blue and from Ali Express. It cost about £7. It's worth the money but more a toy than something you'd want to actually play regularly.
I thought I left a comment when I watched this when it came out but turns out I forgot haha. Before watching the video and just seeing the thumbnail I was already expecting Famiclomes and that was confirmed for most of them during the bit when you were looking for the handhelds. The emulation handhelds intrigue me for the idea of having a dedicated device to play retro games on (and not drain my phone while doing so), but the cheaper ones like the ones you got feel like a waste of money for me since they're mostly just NES/Famicom games & romhacks. If I had to get one for myself I'd start somewhere around the Miyoo Mini and Ambernic RG35XX tier for a handheld since they're more powerful and can emulate more consoles, but I can't justify spending my limited budget on one at the moment since I don't have much time to play. Thanks for spending money to look at those handhelds so we didn't have to.
Dear friends and family: I know you're trying to ensure we have "something to open on Christmas Day", but please... save the planet and leave this crappy E-waste unsold. If you absolutely must buy us gamers some electronics, a Raspberry Pi would at least have some lasting utility.
You didn’t check the 10% voucher!!!! I have that to plugin orb one. It was a gift. I’m actually working on a review of a cheep handheld the idea being like this to get out before Christmas. I wonder when it will actually come out
The N-101 annoyed me in particular due to the Amazon page promising all of the different emulators it could run. I knew it couldn't possibly be true at that price point, but at least some of the others are more honest and upfront about being famiclones!
I like how on the cheap Game Boy looking thing they had the nerve to hack in their own "copyright" on Galaxian's title screen. Utterly shameless! This type of device is exactly what we were taking aim for with our Super Pocket devices. For a few quid more than you paid for these, you can have something with much better build quality, optimised emulation, officially licensed games and expandability with the Evercade cartridge slot. It surprises me that so many still use composite out. I would have thought HDMI would be ubiquitous enough at this point, but maybe the situation is different in China. Or perhaps (probably more likely) it's just cheaper to do composite out.
15:00 I could recognize that song anywhere. That’s one of the songs that was in Jontron’s plug n play video! It seems after 10 years these devices still use the same songs
Since it seems nobody is mentioning it, yes, Street fighter 2010 is the official name and it’s an actual game Capcom made. No one really knows why it’s called that since it has very little to do with Street fighter but I assume it was called that just to try and get some bit of interest based on the name alone but that doesn’t even make that much sense since Street Fighter 2 wouldn’t release for another 2 years and the first Street Fighter wasn’t a big hit in the arcades
Nice sweater! Which is, funnily enough, more valuable than any of those consoles :-D But it was nice to see some of them in action, as for their low price, they are a bit tempting just for the fun of it. Cheers!
I have barely got a few minutes in and I'm just going through paroxyms of rage over what store algorithms have done to the concept of comprehensible product names.
If these where emulation they would be much more expensive...they are famicom on a chip (nesonchip) ,bootleg full clones of the original hardware on a single chip that today is super cheap to make.
24:05 - Looks like a bad hack of Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight, a bad localization (redundant) of a game that originally had nothing to do with Street Fighter or Final Fight.
Deflower. Right... These are basically old school bootleg games that came on cartridges for NES/SNES clones, like the Terminator. They slapped them on a mini chip with a RetroPie and the clone OS and put them in a case.
Huh, I thought that red one looked familiar, but it wasn't until I saw the games list it clicked that it wasn't just the general Game Boy Cloneness - Adrian Black got it from AliExpress for $4 and did a video on it. Clearly, you overpaid 👅 EDIT: Apparently, "Mario 14" is a respriting of Kaiketsu Yanchamaru 3, the JP-only threequel to Kaiketsu Yanchamaru, which was released in the US (but not Europe) as "Kid Niki: Radical Ninja".
I find these super interesting because they're not even software emulation - they're Famicom/NES clone hardware!
They'll typically only spit out composite video and mono audio just like the NES, so their screen options are limited by LCD controllers that can actually take composite. Likewise, external output options are almost always analog because getting HDMI output requires adding a scaler chip and thus adding cost (although it would probably be awful anyway.) This is a space where emulation really is just better.
I'm morbidly curious what the "DEFLOWER" puzzle game on the 319 is. I'm hoping it's a gardening game.
You bought, paid and played these devices so we don't have to. What a champ! 😄
Yep he bought them all so we won't waste our money, he's a national hero
Surprised you didn't notice Nut Cracky is based on Food Fight, specifically it's a hack of the Atari Flashback 1 port that ran on Famiclone hardware.
Erm... Yeah, you're right! Not a game I've played a lot but you're absolutely right. 🤦
I think the biggest problem with these is that, for maybe £20 more, you could get something that is actually halfway decent. The price of good handheld emulation devices has come down so much over the past few years that you'd be daft for spending more than £10-15 on these, I reckon.
That being said, I have now bought all of these to upset any children in my family.
It's amazing how electronic games like this have become a commodity. Yes they're poor, but someone somewhere had to write the code and design the hardware. Saying that, I can imagine some poor kid unwrapping this on Christmas day; they asked mum and dad for a PS5 and they got this. But that's a story as old as time; when I was 8 I wanted a Hornby train set, but I ended up with the knock-off Lima set instead! Thanks for the laugh, and Happy New Year to you!
Here's a little secret in these famiclones. Press and hold A and B and power it on to see the secret.
Excellent work sir!
That one game is streetfighter 2010 on nes.
Ah u beat me too it
Thanks for this, reaffirmed my theory that all these dirt cheap handhelds are in fact bobbins. I get they are looking at providing a "gaming experience" at a cheap price point, but honestly what is the point?
ctrl-alt-dank showing us the nuggets.
The only thing missing is the 1-Grit.
I do get these as gifts because people know I collect them (Yes, I know it's probably just me!) usually you start getting decent controls around the 30 to 35 pound range in my experiance. Although as always with stuff like this, it all depends.
Im sure someones mentioned it but the first consoles menu music is from Mighty Final Fight. for some reason that particular games music is incredibly common for famicom multicart menus to use
I have one of the fourth devices but in blue and from Ali Express. It cost about £7. It's worth the money but more a toy than something you'd want to actually play regularly.
I thought I left a comment when I watched this when it came out but turns out I forgot haha.
Before watching the video and just seeing the thumbnail I was already expecting Famiclomes and that was confirmed for most of them during the bit when you were looking for the handhelds.
The emulation handhelds intrigue me for the idea of having a dedicated device to play retro games on (and not drain my phone while doing so), but the cheaper ones like the ones you got feel like a waste of money for me since they're mostly just NES/Famicom games & romhacks.
If I had to get one for myself I'd start somewhere around the Miyoo Mini and Ambernic RG35XX tier for a handheld since they're more powerful and can emulate more consoles, but I can't justify spending my limited budget on one at the moment since I don't have much time to play.
Thanks for spending money to look at those handhelds so we didn't have to.
Dear friends and family: I know you're trying to ensure we have "something to open on Christmas Day", but please... save the planet and leave this crappy E-waste unsold. If you absolutely must buy us gamers some electronics, a Raspberry Pi would at least have some lasting utility.
No stuffed bean elf included? Dealbreaker.
Agreed, I was keeping an eye out for it!
What happened to the PS1, Neo-Geo and Wonderswan games on the N-101?
I really like your desk mat. Did it, perchance, come from Open Sauce?
You didn’t check the 10% voucher!!!! I have that to plugin orb one. It was a gift. I’m actually working on a review of a cheep handheld the idea being like this to get out before Christmas. I wonder when it will actually come out
The N-101 annoyed me in particular due to the Amazon page promising all of the different emulators it could run. I knew it couldn't possibly be true at that price point, but at least some of the others are more honest and upfront about being famiclones!
I like how on the cheap Game Boy looking thing they had the nerve to hack in their own "copyright" on Galaxian's title screen. Utterly shameless!
This type of device is exactly what we were taking aim for with our Super Pocket devices. For a few quid more than you paid for these, you can have something with much better build quality, optimised emulation, officially licensed games and expandability with the Evercade cartridge slot.
It surprises me that so many still use composite out. I would have thought HDMI would be ubiquitous enough at this point, but maybe the situation is different in China. Or perhaps (probably more likely) it's just cheaper to do composite out.
15:00 I could recognize that song anywhere. That’s one of the songs that was in Jontron’s plug n play video! It seems after 10 years these devices still use the same songs
Braver man than me buying those consoles without researching them. 😂
G'Morning & Merry Christmas from the Motor City!
Merry Christmas! 🎄
I don't like the button placement of those bootleg systems. The B and A buttons should be side by side like the original NES controller.
Since it seems nobody is mentioning it, yes, Street fighter 2010 is the official name and it’s an actual game Capcom made. No one really knows why it’s called that since it has very little to do with Street fighter but I assume it was called that just to try and get some bit of interest based on the name alone but that doesn’t even make that much sense since Street Fighter 2 wouldn’t release for another 2 years and the first Street Fighter wasn’t a big hit in the arcades
Rather you than me Rees! They look godawful :D
I suffer so you don't have to 😅
Nice sweater! Which is, funnily enough, more valuable than any of those consoles :-D But it was nice to see some of them in action, as for their low price, they are a bit tempting just for the fun of it. Cheers!
There are like getting those 1000-in-1 tape compilations on the ZX Spectrum when I was a kid.
I have barely got a few minutes in and I'm just going through paroxyms of rage over what store algorithms have done to the concept of comprehensible product names.
"It's one week today till...." NO IT'S NO REES, SHUT UP lol
35:20 i saw another famiclone that said "Sav H inc ss"
Would you share what item you are doing the reviews ontop of? I want to see the whole picture.
If these where emulation they would be much more expensive...they are famicom on a chip (nesonchip) ,bootleg full clones of the original hardware on a single chip that today is super cheap to make.
I wonder if anyone actually plays on these consoles.
The world is way bigger than your hipster city, pal.
24:05 - Looks like a bad hack of Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight, a bad localization (redundant) of a game that originally had nothing to do with Street Fighter or Final Fight.
Too many famicoms on a chip. Actually got the Orb TV thing and the Plus. Both are absolutely crap. Yellow lil thing at least has a decent design.
I'll take it all thank you.
I should have known this would be right up your street 😅
The street fighter game is/was street fighter 2010. They changed some things around, but it was a real game
I love the ugly Atari sweater.
Thanks! I only get to wear it for a couple of weeks per year so I have to make the most of it 😅
Deflower. Right...
These are basically old school bootleg games that came on cartridges for NES/SNES clones, like the Terminator. They slapped them on a mini chip with a RetroPie and the clone OS and put them in a case.
Huh, I thought that red one looked familiar, but it wasn't until I saw the games list it clicked that it wasn't just the general Game Boy Cloneness - Adrian Black got it from AliExpress for $4 and did a video on it. Clearly, you overpaid 👅
EDIT: Apparently, "Mario 14" is a respriting of Kaiketsu Yanchamaru 3, the JP-only threequel to Kaiketsu Yanchamaru, which was released in the US (but not Europe) as "Kid Niki: Radical Ninja".
Actually actually actually actually