I agree about playing on the phone as emulator. No physical buttons is a huge turn off and I just assume not to play any games without them. Great detailed video, thanks.
Honestly your not wrong about the buttons but honestly my galaxy fold has been the ultimate beast for emulating, my phones 12gb ram gets me emulating up to ps2 and xbox which is probably why I would technically prefer it this way, I have just ordered one of these though for out and about, don't sleep on phone emulation though as personally I think it's pretty beast
I don't think I mentioned it in the video, but another big complaint I have is actually getting stuff onto the SD card. You can't just plug the console into a PC, you have to use a card reader. On top of that, there are several partitions on it that your PC will tell you to format. It feels janky. How to install or update GarlicOS on the Anbernic RG35XX - th-cam.com/video/xD0SxbVF004/w-d-xo.html
We can just cancel it when it asking to format, I think it was just one time. Another thing we can do, while the sd card connected with PC (Windows), we can disable the misc drive (misc partition) from appering in explorer as we only need or will only be using the ROMS partition. To do this, open Disk Management, go to the SD Card Disk (it will be mark as Removable) and we will see a few partition on that Disk, right click the misc partition and select Change Drive Letter, delete all the drive letter and it will not show up anymore in explorer, if we want to make it visible again, just reverse the process and add and assign a driver letter to it. Additionally we can change the ROMS partition drive too, just do the same on the ROMS partition but change the driver letter to what we want.
I watched another review on this device and apparently you have to turn it completely off or it'll drain battery like crazy. Reason is, it doesn't actually put the device to sleep, it'll just really dim the display. This allowed your to resume play quickly at the expense of terrible battery life
It's really bizarre it doesn't actually go into sleep mode. I didn't realise at first but you can hear a background hiss from the speaker when you only tap the power button and it's still basically on but with the screen off.
its funny to me how most reviewers have issues with the shoulder buttons rattling. As if when you're handling and/or playing the handheld there's a need to shake the handheld like a maraca lol. In most cases, it would only shake just a tiny smidge once you move it from a case or something. Other than that, no way is it ever gonna rattle since you usually play still.
Hello! To someone new to these devices I was playing Fire Red & my cousin wanted to also get one, can these devices trade from one persons game to another? Please let me know or if there's any way to do so, I couldn't find anything on it! LMK thanks! :D
@scaryifliteral yea I heard what you said in a video and I'm probably going to just play pokemon roms and some final fantasy. I read golden sun crashes which makes me nervous but I see rapid updates daily about the os fixing stuff
so do all the games come right outta the box or do i have to download software and add them into the system? ive never owned or used emulators so this is new territory for me. ty
@@shanecraigtech The pocket was the 4th edition 1996 version of the GB, I saw a 1996 gaming magazine that illustrated a mock up of a 32bit game boy predicted to be available in the future which would have been unimaganable back then.
is there harm in just shutting the system down when you go to sleep at night? your concern was that the power drained while in sleep. it isnt like its a cell phone that you need to be on for texts. Other than the additional 15 seconds it takes to boot back up- is there harm in shutting down.
So, what's actually happening is that "sleep" on this stock firmware isn't a real sleep. It's apparently only turning off the screen so the battery continues to drain. It's meant to eventually fully shut down on its own, but sometimes that doesn't happen and you end up dead. On the stock firmware you'd indeed be better off shutting it down.
I wish the usb-c port could be used with a dock for hdmi out,wired controllers and charging. From the little bit of research I’ve done, it won’t work for video out. Who know if you can charge and use wired controllers at the same time. Mine is currently charging up so I have no clue as of now.
You probably won't lose any progress. When you press the power button the screen just turns off. After a while the device will fully shut down, but I tend to lose a lot of battery before that happens. It's bad enough that sometimes I pick up the device and it is completely dead. If that happens and you've not saved you could lose progress.
If you get an update for the D-Pad issue, let us know please. Hope it can be fixed via software, or at least that we cna open the device and tweak something
I'm getting one for pokemon mainly and maybe some of my childhood games like some old games you cant find anymore I'm really just wanting the nostalgia of being in that time again and I already know of some things I can do to mod it for better d pad response I'm excited to play with a new toy that allows me to go back in time a bit
@@shanecraigtech have you tried using the screen protector it came with? If so, how good was it? I've only seen one person online comment on it, and they said it was bad
I got a 35xx for Christmas two days later it got a red screen. I messaged anbernic about it they said they would send a replacement screen but I didn't want to open it up and potentially damage it more so I said is their another option they sent me a label to ship it back but I'm not paying to ship a product that malfunctioned within three days so I tried to keep messaging them but now im just getting ignored and the device is completely dead the thing turns on for a second and then dies, idk what to do about it, guess I'm out 70 bucks.
@@shanecraigtechyeah and thanks for the reply it sucks because I was loving it but I guess I'll go after a mini+ when they come if I can because I'm not buying nothing from anbernic again
A lot of content in your review was already obsolete the second you uploaded it. Retro Arch and GarlicOS is already been out for at least a week and it's a way better device since. It's like judging the Miyoo mini but only with it's original software, which is not really fair.
Totally disagree. It's absolutely fair to review a device the way it shipped to consumers. In fact, that's the only way to review a device. You don't review things based on what might happen, you review the product delivered.
@@shanecraigtech you’re totally right, but I just think you missed the opportunity to mentioned that there’s already a new custom OS and RetroArch available, which would have been more fair because it fixes a couples of issues you mentioned. I’m not trying to be a dick, I just want to come up with a constructive criticism. For it’s price, I really like this little gameboy. I can’t wait for it to be on par with the Miyoo mini!
I’m having a massive issue with mine on Pokémon Emerald I finished the game beating the elite four and the champion but after the credits when I want to continue playing it says “the save file has been erased due to corruption or damage” and my save is unable to go any further
Yep. You just saved me the trouble of buying one. I was emulating emerald on my 2ds, everything was going well until. ‘Save file has been erased’. Thought about buying the ambernic as a solution but you got the same issue lol. It seems that emulation for Emerald, in general, tends to, sooner or later, have this save file problem. The only solution I can think of is to constantly backup your save files or to get a real copy of the game (which is quite expensive), I believe this doesn’t happen with the originals?
@@JuanRamónSilva-Piano I fixed this a while ago by replacing the roms they had in there which took like 5 minutes and now it works better than before and I got more games👍
Are you reviewing my review? Sorry, I can't take criticism from people who like their own comments lol jk jk I don't think me calling it okay is super generous though.
@@shanecraigtech Your review was great! I'm just surprised you gave it a 6.5 after it completely died and you had to do all that work. I woulda been pissed
I'm not complaining, I'm giving you a detailed breakdown of a device and what I think of it good and bad. If I'm not being honest I might as well not bother.
![I’m glad I waited to review this! [RG35xx Plus Review]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Q1s6jOOUHNc/mqdefault.jpg)
I agree about playing on the phone as emulator. No physical buttons is a huge turn off and I just assume not to play any games without them. Great detailed video, thanks.
Honestly your not wrong about the buttons but honestly my galaxy fold has been the ultimate beast for emulating, my phones 12gb ram gets me emulating up to ps2 and xbox which is probably why I would technically prefer it this way, I have just ordered one of these though for out and about, don't sleep on phone emulation though as personally I think it's pretty beast
I don't think I mentioned it in the video, but another big complaint I have is actually getting stuff onto the SD card. You can't just plug the console into a PC, you have to use a card reader. On top of that, there are several partitions on it that your PC will tell you to format. It feels janky.
How to install or update GarlicOS on the Anbernic RG35XX - th-cam.com/video/xD0SxbVF004/w-d-xo.html
We can just cancel it when it asking to format, I think it was just one time. Another thing we can do, while the sd card connected with PC (Windows), we can disable the misc drive (misc partition) from appering in explorer as we only need or will only be using the ROMS partition. To do this, open Disk Management, go to the SD Card Disk (it will be mark as Removable) and we will see a few partition on that Disk, right click the misc partition and select Change Drive Letter, delete all the drive letter and it will not show up anymore in explorer, if we want to make it visible again, just reverse the process and add and assign a driver letter to it. Additionally we can change the ROMS partition drive too, just do the same on the ROMS partition but change the driver letter to what we want.
I’ll buy that just for all the Pokémon games 🔥
Same pokemon is just a chad game 🗿🍷👏
I did lol
Can you link devices for trades or battles?
Do the pokemon games come installed already? Thats the only reason I'm buying fr😂
Can we cheat in pokemon on this one?
I watched another review on this device and apparently you have to turn it completely off or it'll drain battery like crazy. Reason is, it doesn't actually put the device to sleep, it'll just really dim the display. This allowed your to resume play quickly at the expense of terrible battery life
This is in line with my observations.
with stock os yes, with GarlicOS, no
It's really bizarre it doesn't actually go into sleep mode. I didn't realise at first but you can hear a background hiss from the speaker when you only tap the power button and it's still basically on but with the screen off.
@@phillafleur2048 ahhh yessi finally a man with some sense
@@phillafleur2048 is this true
Happy new year to you and your loved ones from London UK
its funny to me how most reviewers have issues with the shoulder buttons rattling. As if when you're handling and/or playing the handheld there's a need to shake the handheld like a maraca lol.
In most cases, it would only shake just a tiny smidge once you move it from a case or something. Other than that, no way is it ever gonna rattle since you usually play still.
Not so much a problem, just donating felt I should point out because my other handhelds don't audibly rattle.
Hello! To someone new to these devices I was playing Fire Red & my cousin wanted to also get one, can these devices trade from one persons game to another? Please let me know or if there's any way to do so, I couldn't find anything on it! LMK thanks! :D
Im stuck between rg35xx and the rg353v.
Not sure if $70 for wifi and analogs is worth it. What do you think
For me, they weren't worth it. Not many games I wanted to play that needed them.
@scaryifliteral yea I heard what you said in a video and I'm probably going to just play pokemon roms and some final fantasy. I read golden sun crashes which makes me nervous but I see rapid updates daily about the os fixing stuff
so do all the games come right outta the box or do i have to download software and add them into the system? ive never owned or used emulators so this is new territory for me. ty
It comes preloaded with a ton games
Bottom of the line, would you recommend it or not? Thank you, great review!
Starting the new year off right with a handheld review 💪 setting the tone. 2023 is going to be special.
the original game boy had glossy firing buttons and matte d-pads
I'm sure that was the inspiration. My first Gameboy was the pocket iirc.
@@shanecraigtech The pocket was the 4th edition 1996 version of the GB, I saw a 1996 gaming magazine that illustrated a mock up of a 32bit game boy predicted to be available in the future which would have been unimaganable back then.
is there harm in just shutting the system down when you go to sleep at night? your concern was that the power drained while in sleep. it isnt like its a cell phone that you need to be on for texts. Other than the additional 15 seconds it takes to boot back up- is there harm in shutting down.
So, what's actually happening is that "sleep" on this stock firmware isn't a real sleep. It's apparently only turning off the screen so the battery continues to drain. It's meant to eventually fully shut down on its own, but sometimes that doesn't happen and you end up dead. On the stock firmware you'd indeed be better off shutting it down.
The dpad issue would seal the deal for me. Has this been sorted out?
There's a simple mod that fixed it for me
So the Pokémon games are in the console stock right?
Several are, yeah
Can you link devices for trades or battles?
Hello, am I able to take the roms that are in this SD card(RG35XX) and put it in a new device like the RP3+, will that work?
Yes
What about rewind and fast forward. Is working?
Not on the default os. Look into GarlicOS though.
I wish the usb-c port could be used with a dock for hdmi out,wired controllers and charging. From the little bit of research I’ve done, it won’t work for video out. Who know if you can charge and use wired controllers at the same time. Mine is currently charging up so I have no clue as of now.
Good video btw.
Mine won’t save anymore. Was playing fire red & almost beat the game. Now it won’t save on it. So bummed out
Probably out of space.
Sorry man, english is not my language. What's the problem about the save? If you turn of the device will you lost your progress?
You probably won't lose any progress. When you press the power button the screen just turns off. After a while the device will fully shut down, but I tend to lose a lot of battery before that happens. It's bad enough that sometimes I pick up the device and it is completely dead. If that happens and you've not saved you could lose progress.
@@shanecraigtech thanks a lot man
If you get an update for the D-Pad issue, let us know please. Hope it can be fixed via software, or at least that we cna open the device and tweak something
Behaves the same on a custom firmware
I'm getting one for pokemon mainly and maybe some of my childhood games like some old games you cant find anymore I'm really just wanting the nostalgia of being in that time again and I already know of some things I can do to mod it for better d pad response I'm excited to play with a new toy that allows me to go back in time a bit
Is that a musicman amp I spy in the background?
Indeed
How durable is it? Is it anywhere near as tough as an OG gameboy?
Very few things are that tough lol. It does feel solid though.
@@shanecraigtech have you tried using the screen protector it came with? If so, how good was it? I've only seen one person online comment on it, and they said it was bad
@@gast321 it's a little bit too small. Probably buy the RG353V screen protector and you'll be fine
Hope one day a decent handheld gets created. Like a 10 … something that doesn’t cost $1000
Steam Deck doesn't count?
I got a 35xx for Christmas two days later it got a red screen. I messaged anbernic about it they said they would send a replacement screen but I didn't want to open it up and potentially damage it more so I said is their another option they sent me a label to ship it back but I'm not paying to ship a product that malfunctioned within three days so I tried to keep messaging them but now im just getting ignored and the device is completely dead the thing turns on for a second and then dies, idk what to do about it, guess I'm out 70 bucks.
Damn! Not good!
@@shanecraigtechyeah and thanks for the reply it sucks because I was loving it but I guess I'll go after a mini+ when they come if I can because I'm not buying nothing from anbernic again
A lot of content in your review was already obsolete the second you uploaded it. Retro Arch and GarlicOS is already been out for at least a week and it's a way better device since. It's like judging the Miyoo mini but only with it's original software, which is not really fair.
Totally disagree. It's absolutely fair to review a device the way it shipped to consumers. In fact, that's the only way to review a device. You don't review things based on what might happen, you review the product delivered.
@@shanecraigtech you’re totally right, but I just think you missed the opportunity to mentioned that there’s already a new custom OS and RetroArch available, which would have been more fair because it fixes a couples of issues you mentioned. I’m not trying to be a dick, I just want to come up with a constructive criticism.
For it’s price, I really like this little gameboy. I can’t wait for it to be on par with the Miyoo mini!
@@phillafleur2048that's anbernic's fault for shipping w/ a shitty custom OS & subpar inaccurate rom microsd, no one else's.
Mine doesn't rattle.
I’m having a massive issue with mine on Pokémon Emerald I finished the game beating the elite four and the champion but after the credits when I want to continue playing it says “the save file has been erased due to corruption or damage” and my save is unable to go any further
Oh this is painful!
Yep. You just saved me the trouble of buying one. I was emulating emerald on my 2ds, everything was going well until. ‘Save file has been erased’.
Thought about buying the ambernic as a solution but you got the same issue lol. It seems that emulation for Emerald, in general, tends to, sooner or later, have this save file problem.
The only solution I can think of is to constantly backup your save files or to get a real copy of the game (which is quite expensive), I believe this doesn’t happen with the originals?
@@JuanRamónSilva-Piano I fixed this a while ago by replacing the roms they had in there which took like 5 minutes and now it works better than before and I got more games👍
Is this wulf den cousin
i think you're too generous with the score, and it sounds like this is your first handheld. There are so many that do it better, esp Miyoo Mini
Are you reviewing my review? Sorry, I can't take criticism from people who like their own comments lol jk jk I don't think me calling it okay is super generous though.
@@shanecraigtech Your review was great! I'm just surprised you gave it a 6.5 after it completely died and you had to do all that work. I woulda been pissed
The miyoo mini is overrated AF. Too small and uncomfortable. Its not better than a 35xx with GarlicOS
Well it sounds like a legit Gameboy 😂
Tumbnail says RG34xx
It sure does lol Thanks
@@shanecraigtech well atleased had to watch the full video before reply what if there was a RG34xx lol.
What is a Tumbnail?
great device let down by garbage firmware.im still happy with my rg353p
As someone who hasn't used many alternatives, what's missing?
POKAYMAAN
People who pronounce it that way are bad people
You complain alot for a budget device
I'm not complaining, I'm giving you a detailed breakdown of a device and what I think of it good and bad. If I'm not being honest I might as well not bother.