Retroid Pocket 2 Plus Retro Game Handheld Console, Retroid Pocket 2+ Android Retro Game Console Multiple Emulators Console Handheld 3.5 Inch Display 4000mAh Battery Classic Games Retro Gaming (Indigo)

This was my first handheld emulator, and I am just having a blast. So far it is doing everything that it promises to do and more. If you're newer to emulation like me, there are great youtube videos to get you up and running (a little daunting at first, but now I feel like a true hobbyist), and it just feels very nostalgic to play. I love the clickyness of the buttons. I accidentally ordered the wrong color from Retroid the first time around, and rather than return it, we decided to keep it so my wife could have one too. It's great! Buy it!

Overall experience: The Retroid Pocket 2+ is not plug and play. If you're buying this for a kid, you're going to have to do some setup. The Android interface, however, makes connecting everything (and finding apps) super easy. The emulator software finds and plays games without issue.Design: I went with the "Retro" design. It looks just like my OG gameboy. Absolutely love it!Tech: The speakers will get you by, but I would recommend headphones for best audio. The screen is low-resolution compared to a typical smartphone, but the systems is certainly designed for lower resolution gaming. This does make some of the Android UI elements cramped, however. The screen brightness doesn't have much range. It goes from bright to pretty bright. At no point did I struggle to see or feel blinded. Just not much range.Cons: Having issues with every microSD card that I've used so far. Not sure what's going on.Other thoughts: So far I don't mind the slider-style right stick. It reminds my of the 3DS.

Despite the Retroid Pocket 3 already being out, I still prefer the form factor of the 2, it most reminds me most the classic Gameboy line. I'm sure if you're already here you've done enough to research to know what this is about so let me justsay the lack of a clickable L3/R3 really isn't a dealbreaker, you can just add floating versions of those buttons on the touchscreen. Happy gaming.

Third update: It’s been at least a couple weeks now since my last update and I wanted to let people know that this has been working fine for me. Just wanted to make this update because I didn’t want to forget and leave it as a negative review.I’m going to up this review to four stars, I’ll update in some more weeks or maybe months if I can remember to.Second update- six hours later: I had shut the console down after the touchscreen started to glitch out uncontrollably. After I woke up this morning I decided to power it on and see what if it continued to glitch or start working again. Turns out it’s working normally again.What did I do to get it working? I turned it off and back on again, many hours later. I’m not sure if this is good news, however, because if this happens and cannot be “fixed” after the return window closes I’ll be stuck with a dead android.Hopefully it continues to work as expected. I really do like this little android console. It works with all PS1 games tested, by the way. I’d also recommend getting some good touchscreen pens, especially when you know you’ll be clicking through webpages and typing often, and a good carry case. I found a case by GLCON that fits this console perfectly, plus a usb cable and touchscreen pen.Tentative 3 star rating as it’s working properly again. I will update this review as time goes on, as necessary.Updated review after one week: This little handheld console may have just turned into e-waste. The touch screen, which has been working flawlessly, is now all over the place. You touch one area and it just starts freaking out.I’ll spend my next day off seeing if I can figure something out, but if I can’t then I’m going to return it and just go back to using my old android phones for emulation. I couldn’t imagine if this had happened outside of the return window, what a waste of money it’d be.Original review: I love this little handheld. It’s basically a phone, without the features of a phone, with controls built into it. It runs android 9 and has full google play available. If you’ve ever done emulation on an android device, it’s the same thing here.No built in games, which I like, and you’re able to add your own micro sd card, which I also like. It has 2gbs of ram and as of yet unknown cpu/gpu, I just haven’t downloaded any programs to figure that out, but it works flawlessly with GBA games.I haven’t done any other emulation yet because I don’t have a spare micro sd card for the system, but when I do I plan on running several consoles up to ps1, which aren’t difficult for any android phone I’ve ever owned to run. Minecraft, from the google play store, also runs fine on lower settings but that can become very system intensive as anyone who’s played it knows.Overall, I don’t really have anything negative to say about this little handheld other than the control locations can make it difficult to use with larger hands. That’s just a limitation of its size, but maybe someone will make a case or something that can make it easier to manipulate the controls similar to Nintendo switches available slide on cases. I won’t be holding my breath, however.For what I paid this is an absolute bargain. I’d happily recommend this to someone who’s into emulation.

For someone who's wanted a Gameboy for a long time, this is perfect. No need to worry about games and a system. It has everything you want and more.

Got this to help pass time on slow days at work by reliving my childhood after some setup device works amazingly

I bought this specifically because of its ability to emulate Saturn games, which it seems to do pretty well with the games I played. It's ability to run Gamecube, PS2 and Dreamcast games is impressive. The downside is the amount of setup, configuration and bugginess you will encounter. While many of the emulators are already installed, controls are not preconfigured and can be difficult to setup. There are many online resources for getting up and running which is good, however, there are also odd things like certain buttons will not work until you make system level changes. I've had frustration with the general brittleness of the system in regards to the game library. A couple of times I've received vague exceptions pointing to its inability to find the game library. Its apparent others have encountered these issues as well because you can find help on this issue online, however it involves some resetting of configurations and largely starting over with setup. Its frustrating, so my recommendation would be if you don't mind lots of tinkering and have a tolerance for some bugginess, this is a powerful handheld, but if you just want to be able to pick up the device and play games I'd go with something like the RG351MP.

Got it for my husband for his birthday. He never puts it down lol. He said he absolutely loves it, and has no complaints!