**Emulation Performance on Android and Linux**

From my experience so far in Android, I've had much better performance with Dreamcast and N64 for emulation. When it comes to Nintendo DS, we've got access to a touch screen and it does work with the DraStic emulator. As for the lower end stuff, PC engine, NES, SNES, even CPS one two and three, Neo Geo Game Boy Game Boy Advance those work great in both operating systems. However, when it comes to PSP, performance wasn't great in Linux, and what I've tested so far is even worse than Android.

Usually, that's not the case, as I usually get a little better performance out of Android with these lower end chips, but on this system here, I'm not getting that kind of performance, and even in Linux, it's not great for the higher end stuff. This could definitely change, but if you end up buying one at the time of making this video, then you might end up swapping between the operating systems to find the best emulation experience.

**Accessing Retro Games with AmberNick's Front-end**

Recently, Amber Nick released their own front-end system for Android, and it's actually pre-installed here. If we swipe down from the top, we can access it. As you can see, we've got our systems listed here, games imported, some artwork for those games, and we can go through and start up our favorite retro games directly from the front-end. A lot of the stuff is going to default to Retro Arch, but when it comes to N64, you don't want to use retro Arch at least at the time of making this video. If you're getting bad performance by launching an N64 game through the front-end, just go ahead and close it down and start the Standalone app from the main menu. That's exactly what you need to use with this.

**Performance with RetroArch**

I've not had much luck with retroarch and the muffin core over there. I mean, I'm sure there's a lot of configuration that we can do with it to get it to run really well, but my app choice would be moo pin 64 plus FZ. It does come pre-installed on this device and Android, and basically all you need to do is start up your game, and a lot of this stuff works out really well, even the harder to emulate games like Conker's Bad Fur Day is fully playable on this device.

**Dreamcast Emulation**

This handheld also offers some decent Dreamcast emulation. Now it's definitely not perfect, and with some of the harder to emulate games you will experience some dips in the frame rate. But there's a lot of Dreamcast games that you can have a great time playing on this device. In my experience, I've had much better luck in Android with Dreamcast by the way.

**Testing Sonic Adventure 2**

This is using Fly cast score in retro Arch and I wanted to show you one more run in here. I haven't messed around with any of the configurations, but this is Sonic Adventure 2, and it is using frame scale. You'll see some dips every once in a while not horribly bad but there are easier to emulate games that work really well.

**Overall Experience**

Overall, I have enjoyed using this device. Personally, really love the DMG style or the old school game boy style portrait style vertical whatever you want to call it. The d-pad is great just like most of the other Amber nick devices do have a really nice screen going for it. It's got great battery life up to six hours depending on the brightness and what you're doing. I've been averaging around four and a half hours with it with a brightness turned to 100 using Android and mostly I've been doing N64 and PS1 on this.

**Design and Performance**

There might be some people that love the design of this, there might be some people that hate the design. Some people are definitely going to be wishing for a little more power out of a handheld like this, but this is the CPU they chose to use in these newer devices, and we're getting the same performance as the RG 353p so you know if you're into the landscape style and you like the performance you saw out of this device I would go with that one. But if you have to have a portrait style handheld, go with the V and not the vs because you do get that extra RAM and Android built-in.

**Conclusion**

That's it for this first look video. If there's anything else you want to see tested on this device just let me know in the comments below. And if you're interested in learning more maybe picking one up I will leave a few links in the description but that's it for this one like always thanks for watching.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enforeign hey what's going on everybody it's ETA Prime pack here again today we're going to be taking a look at the brand new Amber neck RG 353v I've been messing around with this handheld for the last few days and overall I really enjoy I'm a huge fan of the Game Boy or kind of the DMG style handhelds we've got a portrait layout here instead of a landscape layout and the way they've set this up is actually really nice the V model that we're going to be taking a look at in this video does have dual boot systems so we can go with Android or Linux from microSD card and if you were a fan of how the RG 353p performs then you're in luck because we've basically got the same system here in a different layout and yes some people love the verticals some people love the horizontal it's really up to you in the end to tell you the truth I've been using the Android operating system here with this handheld more than Linux and there's one important thing that you need to know now they're offering two different models of the RG 353 we've got the V which we're going to be taking a look at in this video out and they also offer a lower nvs and this part is really important when picking one of these we've got the RG 353v and the RG 353vs as you can see the vs is going to be the least expensive model but there are some major differences here the vs only supports a single operating system so you're only going to get Linux here it also has less Ram coming in with one gigabyte instead of two you get a 16 gigabyte micro SD card no touch screen and no Android support now I will tell you if you're just gaming and Linux you're going to get the same performance here that extra gig of RAM really isn't going to help out much with emulation when it comes to Linux but if you want to run Android on a handheld like this I would highly recommend picking up the V and the price difference really isn't that much you figured that the vs would be the higher end model but nope it's the V and that's exactly what we're going to be taking a look at in this video as you can see Amber Nick has done a great job with the layout here they've got the good old d-pad that they use in a lot of their handhelds dual analog sticks now we've got switch style analog sticks here they are a bit smaller and you know you kind of expect this given that we have vertical layout here they needed to save a little bit of space and they also wanted to keep them low as possible so they're not sticking way out of this handheld I mean it's definitely a manageable set up on the bottom here we've got USB type c for charging the internal battery moving over to the right hand side we've got our power button reset button and dual micro SD card slots I'm really glad that they're still using this now Android is actually installed on the internal storage that we have here but having these dual cards does make it really easy to run a Linux operating system from one card and then store all of your games on the other all we have over here on the left hand side is our volume rocker and up top we've got a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack mini HDMI out and another USB type-c port and finally around back we've got our triggers and our shoulder buttons now when it comes to the specs remember in this video we're taking a look at the V model there are different specs between the V and the vs but for this one here for the CPU we've got the rk3566 a quad-core cortex a55 CPU running it up to 1.8 gigahertz the GPU is the Mali g52 2ee we also get two gigabytes of LP ddr4 Ram when it comes to storage the v-model does have 32 gigabytes of emmc storage built in plus we have those dual micro SD card slots these will support up to 512 gigabyte cards a 3.5 inch IPS touch display at 640x480 AC Wi-Fi Bluetooth 4.2 a 3200 milliamp hour battery and with this battery they're claiming up to six hours of gameplay and I could definitely see it with the brightness turned down but in my testing brightness at 100 volume up to around 80 playing some of my favorite games in Linux and Android on and off I'm getting about 4 hours and 40 minutes a gameplay play out of this thing so really not that bad and when it comes to the operating system for the V model we've got Android pre-installed and we can run Linux from a micro SD card first up we're taking a look at Linux and remember this is a dual boot system Linux is running from a Micro SD card now if we head over to settings we do have dedicated settings for this device here lots of great stuff built into this operating system and when it comes down to it basically we've got emulation station with some Standalone emulators and retro Arch cores now we've seen what kind of performance this CPU can put out it's not like they've upgraded the clock speed on the GPU or the CPU it's the rk3566 so when it comes down to it I'd say up to low end PSP games are really great on this even N64 and Nintendo DS I know when these new handhelds come out a lot of people are hoping that we'll get better performance than the last handheld with the same exact CPU but that's really not the case I mean over time a little optimizations are had which do help out with certain emulators for sure but it's not like swapping out the CPU and GPU to a higher end unit so yeah this isn't going to run 3DS it's not going to run PS2 it's not going to run GameCube games and if there are some that run it's going to be very few and far in between at a super low resolution with a lot of frame skip on but there's still thousands and thousands of awesome retro games that this thing will play at full speed now I do want to say that even though we've got a single speaker here it actually sounds pretty good I think it's positioned really well right in the middle there so your palms aren't going to cover it and it gets really loud at full volume and yeah I really do like the button layout here and yeah I really do and yeah I really do like the button layout here they kept it very traditional I mean there's really not much we could do here with a vertical button layout but yeah it works great like it is and when it comes to this lower end stuff you're gonna have a great time with it GBA on something like this runs flawlessly I mean we're getting really great performance and having that 3.5 inch IPS display with these really bright colors is definitely a big plus when it comes to DS emulation on this device it runs really well and it really comes down to using the DraStic emulator if you're familiar with drastic you know it's been on the market for a while and it works very very well on even lower end chipsets than we have in this thing and out of the box it's set up so all we need to do is use the shoulder buttons around back to swap the screen layout you can set it up for portrait dual screen you can set it up for vertical or you can just go full screen with the main gaming screen and it does work out really well I mean we've got plenty of power here especially since we're using drastic but I think the limit here for the hardware is higher end PSP games right now I've got Tekken 5 running with the Standalone version of PPSSPP and Linux 1X resolution opengl backend this game runs really well but it's an easier to emulate game now don't get me wrong there are a ton of easy to emulate PSP games out there that'll work great on this but even moving up to what I consider mid-range games you will have to enable frame skip here's Tekken 6 no frame skip bot and we're using the same exact settings that we were with Tekken 5. just one more step up in the franchise so with games like this you will have to turn frame skip on to kind of get a nice steady frame rate out of it and even then it's frame skip so it's gonna half that frame rate this should be running at 60 and now we're running at 30 and this may bug some people but when it comes down to it this is really what we gotta do with the chipset they're using in this device all right so now it's time to move over to Android and both of these operating systems Linux and Android have their strengths and their weaknesses and we'll go over that in a second but when it comes to Android here it's a custom version of Android 11. unfortunately we don't have access to Google Play you could always side load your favorite apps but it does come pre-installed with basically everything you're going to need for retro gaming and game streaming remember we've got AC Wi-Fi here so streaming from your PC does work out really well but keep in mind if you're going to stream a newer AAA game your aspect ratio is going to be very limited on this device it'll give you black bars on the top and bottom given that those are going to be running at 16x9 on a 4x3 aspect ratio display but if you've got something like the Dolphin Emulator set up on your PC you could definitely stream it over here and it works out really well like I mentioned both of these operating systems have their strengths and weaknesses so uh from my experience so far in Android I've had much better performance with Dreamcast and N64 for emulation and when it comes to Nintendo DS we've got access to a touch screen and it does work with the DraStic emulator as for the lower end stuff PC engine NES SNES even CPS one two and three Neo Geo Game Boy Game Boy Advance those work great in both operating systems but like when it comes to PSP we saw performance wasn't great in Linux and for some reason what I've tested so far is even worse than Android now usually that's not the case I usually get a little better performance out of Android with these lower end chips but on this system here I'm not getting that kind of performance and even in Linux it's not great for the higher end stuff down the road this could definitely change but if you end up buying one at the time of making this video then you might end up swapping between the operating systems the player favorite retro games depending on the system you want to emulate recently Amber Nick released their own front-end system for Android and it's actually pre-installed here if we swipe down from the top we can access it as you can see we've got our systems listed here we've got our game games imported we've got some artwork for those games and we can go through and start up our favorite retro games directly from the front end now a lot of the stuff is going to default to Retro Arch and when it comes to N64 you don't want to use retro Arch at least at the time of making this video so if you're getting bad performance by launching an N64 game through the front end just go ahead and close it down and start the Standalone app from the main menu that's exactly what you need to use with this because you're going to get way better performance and for N64 it does work out really well on this device in Android when you're using the correct app I've not had much luck with retroarch and the muffin core over there I mean I'm sure there's a lot of configuration that we can do with it to get it to run really well but my app a choice would be moo pin 64 plus FZ it does come pre-installed on this device and Android and basically all you need to do is start up your game and a lot of this stuff works out really really well even the harder to emulate games like Conker's Bad Fur Day is fully playable on this device this handheld also offers some decent Dreamcast emulation now it's definitely not perfect and with some of the harder to emulate games you will experience some dips in the frame rate but there's a lot of Dreamcast games you can have a great time playing on this device and in my experience I've had much better luck in Android with Dreamcast by the way this is using Fly cast score in retro Arch and I wanted to show you one more run in here I haven't messed around with any of the configurations this is Sonic Adventure 2 and it is using frame scale you'll see some dips every once in a while not horribly bad but there are easier to emulate games that work really well so overall I have enjoyed using this device I personally really love the DMG style or the old school game boy style portrait style vertical whatever you want to call it the d-pad is great just like most of the other Amber neck devices does have a really nice screen going for it it's got great battery life up to six hours depending on the brightness and what you're doing I've been averaging around four and a half hours with it with a brightness turned to 100 using Android and mostly I've been doing N64 and PS1 on this so if you're doing lighter end emulators with the brightness a little bit lower you could definitely hit that six hour mark that they advertise but in the end it's always up to you there might be some people that love the design of this there might be some people that hate the design some people are definitely going to be wishing for a little more power out of a handheld like this but this is the CPU they chose to use in these newer devices and we're getting the same performance as the RG 353p so you know if you're into the landscape style and you like the performance you saw out of this device I would go with that one but if you have to have a portrait style handheld go with the V and not the vs because you do get that extra RAM and Android built in but that's going to wrap it up for this first look video if there's anything else you want to see tested on this device just let me know in the comments below and if you're interested in learning more maybe picking one up I will leave a few links in the description but that's it for this one like always thanks for watchingforeign hey what's going on everybody it's ETA Prime pack here again today we're going to be taking a look at the brand new Amber neck RG 353v I've been messing around with this handheld for the last few days and overall I really enjoy I'm a huge fan of the Game Boy or kind of the DMG style handhelds we've got a portrait layout here instead of a landscape layout and the way they've set this up is actually really nice the V model that we're going to be taking a look at in this video does have dual boot systems so we can go with Android or Linux from microSD card and if you were a fan of how the RG 353p performs then you're in luck because we've basically got the same system here in a different layout and yes some people love the verticals some people love the horizontal it's really up to you in the end to tell you the truth I've been using the Android operating system here with this handheld more than Linux and there's one important thing that you need to know now they're offering two different models of the RG 353 we've got the V which we're going to be taking a look at in this video out and they also offer a lower nvs and this part is really important when picking one of these we've got the RG 353v and the RG 353vs as you can see the vs is going to be the least expensive model but there are some major differences here the vs only supports a single operating system so you're only going to get Linux here it also has less Ram coming in with one gigabyte instead of two you get a 16 gigabyte micro SD card no touch screen and no Android support now I will tell you if you're just gaming and Linux you're going to get the same performance here that extra gig of RAM really isn't going to help out much with emulation when it comes to Linux but if you want to run Android on a handheld like this I would highly recommend picking up the V and the price difference really isn't that much you figured that the vs would be the higher end model but nope it's the V and that's exactly what we're going to be taking a look at in this video as you can see Amber Nick has done a great job with the layout here they've got the good old d-pad that they use in a lot of their handhelds dual analog sticks now we've got switch style analog sticks here they are a bit smaller and you know you kind of expect this given that we have vertical layout here they needed to save a little bit of space and they also wanted to keep them low as possible so they're not sticking way out of this handheld I mean it's definitely a manageable set up on the bottom here we've got USB type c for charging the internal battery moving over to the right hand side we've got our power button reset button and dual micro SD card slots I'm really glad that they're still using this now Android is actually installed on the internal storage that we have here but having these dual cards does make it really easy to run a Linux operating system from one card and then store all of your games on the other all we have over here on the left hand side is our volume rocker and up top we've got a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack mini HDMI out and another USB type-c port and finally around back we've got our triggers and our shoulder buttons now when it comes to the specs remember in this video we're taking a look at the V model there are different specs between the V and the vs but for this one here for the CPU we've got the rk3566 a quad-core cortex a55 CPU running it up to 1.8 gigahertz the GPU is the Mali g52 2ee we also get two gigabytes of LP ddr4 Ram when it comes to storage the v-model does have 32 gigabytes of emmc storage built in plus we have those dual micro SD card slots these will support up to 512 gigabyte cards a 3.5 inch IPS touch display at 640x480 AC Wi-Fi Bluetooth 4.2 a 3200 milliamp hour battery and with this battery they're claiming up to six hours of gameplay and I could definitely see it with the brightness turned down but in my testing brightness at 100 volume up to around 80 playing some of my favorite games in Linux and Android on and off I'm getting about 4 hours and 40 minutes a gameplay play out of this thing so really not that bad and when it comes to the operating system for the V model we've got Android pre-installed and we can run Linux from a micro SD card first up we're taking a look at Linux and remember this is a dual boot system Linux is running from a Micro SD card now if we head over to settings we do have dedicated settings for this device here lots of great stuff built into this operating system and when it comes down to it basically we've got emulation station with some Standalone emulators and retro Arch cores now we've seen what kind of performance this CPU can put out it's not like they've upgraded the clock speed on the GPU or the CPU it's the rk3566 so when it comes down to it I'd say up to low end PSP games are really great on this even N64 and Nintendo DS I know when these new handhelds come out a lot of people are hoping that we'll get better performance than the last handheld with the same exact CPU but that's really not the case I mean over time a little optimizations are had which do help out with certain emulators for sure but it's not like swapping out the CPU and GPU to a higher end unit so yeah this isn't going to run 3DS it's not going to run PS2 it's not going to run GameCube games and if there are some that run it's going to be very few and far in between at a super low resolution with a lot of frame skip on but there's still thousands and thousands of awesome retro games that this thing will play at full speed now I do want to say that even though we've got a single speaker here it actually sounds pretty good I think it's positioned really well right in the middle there so your palms aren't going to cover it and it gets really loud at full volume and yeah I really do like the button layout here and yeah I really do and yeah I really do like the button layout here they kept it very traditional I mean there's really not much we could do here with a vertical button layout but yeah it works great like it is and when it comes to this lower end stuff you're gonna have a great time with it GBA on something like this runs flawlessly I mean we're getting really great performance and having that 3.5 inch IPS display with these really bright colors is definitely a big plus when it comes to DS emulation on this device it runs really well and it really comes down to using the DraStic emulator if you're familiar with drastic you know it's been on the market for a while and it works very very well on even lower end chipsets than we have in this thing and out of the box it's set up so all we need to do is use the shoulder buttons around back to swap the screen layout you can set it up for portrait dual screen you can set it up for vertical or you can just go full screen with the main gaming screen and it does work out really well I mean we've got plenty of power here especially since we're using drastic but I think the limit here for the hardware is higher end PSP games right now I've got Tekken 5 running with the Standalone version of PPSSPP and Linux 1X resolution opengl backend this game runs really well but it's an easier to emulate game now don't get me wrong there are a ton of easy to emulate PSP games out there that'll work great on this but even moving up to what I consider mid-range games you will have to enable frame skip here's Tekken 6 no frame skip bot and we're using the same exact settings that we were with Tekken 5. just one more step up in the franchise so with games like this you will have to turn frame skip on to kind of get a nice steady frame rate out of it and even then it's frame skip so it's gonna half that frame rate this should be running at 60 and now we're running at 30 and this may bug some people but when it comes down to it this is really what we gotta do with the chipset they're using in this device all right so now it's time to move over to Android and both of these operating systems Linux and Android have their strengths and their weaknesses and we'll go over that in a second but when it comes to Android here it's a custom version of Android 11. unfortunately we don't have access to Google Play you could always side load your favorite apps but it does come pre-installed with basically everything you're going to need for retro gaming and game streaming remember we've got AC Wi-Fi here so streaming from your PC does work out really well but keep in mind if you're going to stream a newer AAA game your aspect ratio is going to be very limited on this device it'll give you black bars on the top and bottom given that those are going to be running at 16x9 on a 4x3 aspect ratio display but if you've got something like the Dolphin Emulator set up on your PC you could definitely stream it over here and it works out really well like I mentioned both of these operating systems have their strengths and weaknesses so uh from my experience so far in Android I've had much better performance with Dreamcast and N64 for emulation and when it comes to Nintendo DS we've got access to a touch screen and it does work with the DraStic emulator as for the lower end stuff PC engine NES SNES even CPS one two and three Neo Geo Game Boy Game Boy Advance those work great in both operating systems but like when it comes to PSP we saw performance wasn't great in Linux and for some reason what I've tested so far is even worse than Android now usually that's not the case I usually get a little better performance out of Android with these lower end chips but on this system here I'm not getting that kind of performance and even in Linux it's not great for the higher end stuff down the road this could definitely change but if you end up buying one at the time of making this video then you might end up swapping between the operating systems the player favorite retro games depending on the system you want to emulate recently Amber Nick released their own front-end system for Android and it's actually pre-installed here if we swipe down from the top we can access it as you can see we've got our systems listed here we've got our game games imported we've got some artwork for those games and we can go through and start up our favorite retro games directly from the front end now a lot of the stuff is going to default to Retro Arch and when it comes to N64 you don't want to use retro Arch at least at the time of making this video so if you're getting bad performance by launching an N64 game through the front end just go ahead and close it down and start the Standalone app from the main menu that's exactly what you need to use with this because you're going to get way better performance and for N64 it does work out really well on this device in Android when you're using the correct app I've not had much luck with retroarch and the muffin core over there I mean I'm sure there's a lot of configuration that we can do with it to get it to run really well but my app a choice would be moo pin 64 plus FZ it does come pre-installed on this device and Android and basically all you need to do is start up your game and a lot of this stuff works out really really well even the harder to emulate games like Conker's Bad Fur Day is fully playable on this device this handheld also offers some decent Dreamcast emulation now it's definitely not perfect and with some of the harder to emulate games you will experience some dips in the frame rate but there's a lot of Dreamcast games you can have a great time playing on this device and in my experience I've had much better luck in Android with Dreamcast by the way this is using Fly cast score in retro Arch and I wanted to show you one more run in here I haven't messed around with any of the configurations this is Sonic Adventure 2 and it is using frame scale you'll see some dips every once in a while not horribly bad but there are easier to emulate games that work really well so overall I have enjoyed using this device I personally really love the DMG style or the old school game boy style portrait style vertical whatever you want to call it the d-pad is great just like most of the other Amber neck devices does have a really nice screen going for it it's got great battery life up to six hours depending on the brightness and what you're doing I've been averaging around four and a half hours with it with a brightness turned to 100 using Android and mostly I've been doing N64 and PS1 on this so if you're doing lighter end emulators with the brightness a little bit lower you could definitely hit that six hour mark that they advertise but in the end it's always up to you there might be some people that love the design of this there might be some people that hate the design some people are definitely going to be wishing for a little more power out of a handheld like this but this is the CPU they chose to use in these newer devices and we're getting the same performance as the RG 353p so you know if you're into the landscape style and you like the performance you saw out of this device I would go with that one but if you have to have a portrait style handheld go with the V and not the vs because you do get that extra RAM and Android built in but that's going to wrap it up for this first look video if there's anything else you want to see tested on this device just let me know in the comments below and if you're interested in learning more maybe picking one up I will leave a few links in the description but that's it for this one like always thanks for watchingforeign hey what's going on everybody it's ETA Prime pack here again today we're going to be taking a look at the brand new Amber neck RG 353v I've been messing around with this handheld for the last few days and overall I really enjoy I'm a huge fan of the Game Boy or kind of the DMG style handhelds we've got a portrait layout here instead of a landscape layout and the way they've set this up is actually really nice the V model that we're going to be taking a look at in this video does have dual boot systems so we can go with Android or Linux from microSD card and if you were a fan of how the RG 353p performs then you're in luck because we've basically got the same system here in a different layout and yes some people love the verticals some people love the horizontal it's really up to you in the end to tell you the truth I've been using the Android operating system here with this handheld more than Linux and there's one important thing that you need to know now they're offering two different models of the RG 353 we've got the V which we're going to be taking a look at in this video out and they also offer a lower nvs and this part is really important when picking one of these we've got the RG 353v and the RG 353vs as you can see the vs is going to be the least expensive model but there are some major differences here the vs only supports a single operating system so you're only going to get Linux here it also has less Ram coming in with one gigabyte instead of two you get a 16 gigabyte micro SD card no touch screen and no Android support now I will tell you if you're just gaming and Linux you're going to get the same performance here that extra gig of RAM really isn't going to help out much with emulation when it comes to Linux but if you want to run Android on a handheld like this I would highly recommend picking up the V and the price difference really isn't that much you figured that the vs would be the higher end model but nope it's the V and that's exactly what we're going to be taking a look at in this video as you can see Amber Nick has done a great job with the layout here they've got the good old d-pad that they use in a lot of their handhelds dual analog sticks now we've got switch style analog sticks here they are a bit smaller and you know you kind of expect this given that we have vertical layout here they needed to save a little bit of space and they also wanted to keep them low as possible so they're not sticking way out of this handheld I mean it's definitely a manageable set up on the bottom here we've got USB type c for charging the internal battery moving over to the right hand side we've got our power button reset button and dual micro SD card slots I'm really glad that they're still using this now Android is actually installed on the internal storage that we have here but having these dual cards does make it really easy to run a Linux operating system from one card and then store all of your games on the other all we have over here on the left hand side is our volume rocker and up top we've got a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack mini HDMI out and another USB type-c port and finally around back we've got our triggers and our shoulder buttons now when it comes to the specs remember in this video we're taking a look at the V model there are different specs between the V and the vs but for this one here for the CPU we've got the rk3566 a quad-core cortex a55 CPU running it up to 1.8 gigahertz the GPU is the Mali g52 2ee we also get two gigabytes of LP ddr4 Ram when it comes to storage the v-model does have 32 gigabytes of emmc storage built in plus we have those dual micro SD card slots these will support up to 512 gigabyte cards a 3.5 inch IPS touch display at 640x480 AC Wi-Fi Bluetooth 4.2 a 3200 milliamp hour battery and with this battery they're claiming up to six hours of gameplay and I could definitely see it with the brightness turned down but in my testing brightness at 100 volume up to around 80 playing some of my favorite games in Linux and Android on and off I'm getting about 4 hours and 40 minutes a gameplay play out of this thing so really not that bad and when it comes to the operating system for the V model we've got Android pre-installed and we can run Linux from a micro SD card first up we're taking a look at Linux and remember this is a dual boot system Linux is running from a Micro SD card now if we head over to settings we do have dedicated settings for this device here lots of great stuff built into this operating system and when it comes down to it basically we've got emulation station with some Standalone emulators and retro Arch cores now we've seen what kind of performance this CPU can put out it's not like they've upgraded the clock speed on the GPU or the CPU it's the rk3566 so when it comes down to it I'd say up to low end PSP games are really great on this even N64 and Nintendo DS I know when these new handhelds come out a lot of people are hoping that we'll get better performance than the last handheld with the same exact CPU but that's really not the case I mean over time a little optimizations are had which do help out with certain emulators for sure but it's not like swapping out the CPU and GPU to a higher end unit so yeah this isn't going to run 3DS it's not going to run PS2 it's not going to run GameCube games and if there are some that run it's going to be very few and far in between at a super low resolution with a lot of frame skip on but there's still thousands and thousands of awesome retro games that this thing will play at full speed now I do want to say that even though we've got a single speaker here it actually sounds pretty good I think it's positioned really well right in the middle there so your palms aren't going to cover it and it gets really loud at full volume and yeah I really do like the button layout here and yeah I really do and yeah I really do like the button layout here they kept it very traditional I mean there's really not much we could do here with a vertical button layout but yeah it works great like it is and when it comes to this lower end stuff you're gonna have a great time with it GBA on something like this runs flawlessly I mean we're getting really great performance and having that 3.5 inch IPS display with these really bright colors is definitely a big plus when it comes to DS emulation on this device it runs really well and it really comes down to using the DraStic emulator if you're familiar with drastic you know it's been on the market for a while and it works very very well on even lower end chipsets than we have in this thing and out of the box it's set up so all we need to do is use the shoulder buttons around back to swap the screen layout you can set it up for portrait dual screen you can set it up for vertical or you can just go full screen with the main gaming screen and it does work out really well I mean we've got plenty of power here especially since we're using drastic but I think the limit here for the hardware is higher end PSP games right now I've got Tekken 5 running with the Standalone version of PPSSPP and Linux 1X resolution opengl backend this game runs really well but it's an easier to emulate game now don't get me wrong there are a ton of easy to emulate PSP games out there that'll work great on this but even moving up to what I consider mid-range games you will have to enable frame skip here's Tekken 6 no frame skip bot and we're using the same exact settings that we were with Tekken 5. just one more step up in the franchise so with games like this you will have to turn frame skip on to kind of get a nice steady frame rate out of it and even then it's frame skip so it's gonna half that frame rate this should be running at 60 and now we're running at 30 and this may bug some people but when it comes down to it this is really what we gotta do with the chipset they're using in this device all right so now it's time to move over to Android and both of these operating systems Linux and Android have their strengths and their weaknesses and we'll go over that in a second but when it comes to Android here it's a custom version of Android 11. unfortunately we don't have access to Google Play you could always side load your favorite apps but it does come pre-installed with basically everything you're going to need for retro gaming and game streaming remember we've got AC Wi-Fi here so streaming from your PC does work out really well but keep in mind if you're going to stream a newer AAA game your aspect ratio is going to be very limited on this device it'll give you black bars on the top and bottom given that those are going to be running at 16x9 on a 4x3 aspect ratio display but if you've got something like the Dolphin Emulator set up on your PC you could definitely stream it over here and it works out really well like I mentioned both of these operating systems have their strengths and weaknesses so uh from my experience so far in Android I've had much better performance with Dreamcast and N64 for emulation and when it comes to Nintendo DS we've got access to a touch screen and it does work with the DraStic emulator as for the lower end stuff PC engine NES SNES even CPS one two and three Neo Geo Game Boy Game Boy Advance those work great in both operating systems but like when it comes to PSP we saw performance wasn't great in Linux and for some reason what I've tested so far is even worse than Android now usually that's not the case I usually get a little better performance out of Android with these lower end chips but on this system here I'm not getting that kind of performance and even in Linux it's not great for the higher end stuff down the road this could definitely change but if you end up buying one at the time of making this video then you might end up swapping between the operating systems the player favorite retro games depending on the system you want to emulate recently Amber Nick released their own front-end system for Android and it's actually pre-installed here if we swipe down from the top we can access it as you can see we've got our systems listed here we've got our game games imported we've got some artwork for those games and we can go through and start up our favorite retro games directly from the front end now a lot of the stuff is going to default to Retro Arch and when it comes to N64 you don't want to use retro Arch at least at the time of making this video so if you're getting bad performance by launching an N64 game through the front end just go ahead and close it down and start the Standalone app from the main menu that's exactly what you need to use with this because you're going to get way better performance and for N64 it does work out really well on this device in Android when you're using the correct app I've not had much luck with retroarch and the muffin core over there I mean I'm sure there's a lot of configuration that we can do with it to get it to run really well but my app a choice would be moo pin 64 plus FZ it does come pre-installed on this device and Android and basically all you need to do is start up your game and a lot of this stuff works out really really well even the harder to emulate games like Conker's Bad Fur Day is fully playable on this device this handheld also offers some decent Dreamcast emulation now it's definitely not perfect and with some of the harder to emulate games you will experience some dips in the frame rate but there's a lot of Dreamcast games you can have a great time playing on this device and in my experience I've had much better luck in Android with Dreamcast by the way this is using Fly cast score in retro Arch and I wanted to show you one more run in here I haven't messed around with any of the configurations this is Sonic Adventure 2 and it is using frame scale you'll see some dips every once in a while not horribly bad but there are easier to emulate games that work really well so overall I have enjoyed using this device I personally really love the DMG style or the old school game boy style portrait style vertical whatever you want to call it the d-pad is great just like most of the other Amber neck devices does have a really nice screen going for it it's got great battery life up to six hours depending on the brightness and what you're doing I've been averaging around four and a half hours with it with a brightness turned to 100 using Android and mostly I've been doing N64 and PS1 on this so if you're doing lighter end emulators with the brightness a little bit lower you could definitely hit that six hour mark that they advertise but in the end it's always up to you there might be some people that love the design of this there might be some people that hate the design some people are definitely going to be wishing for a little more power out of a handheld like this but this is the CPU they chose to use in these newer devices and we're getting the same performance as the RG 353p so you know if you're into the landscape style and you like the performance you saw out of this device I would go with that one but if you have to have a portrait style handheld go with the V and not the vs because you do get that extra RAM and Android built in but that's going to wrap it up for this first look video if there's anything else you want to see tested on this device just let me know in the comments below and if you're interested in learning more maybe picking one up I will leave a few links in the description but that's it for this one like always thanks for watching\n"