R36S Open Source Handheld Game Console, Multi-Color, Large Screen, 64GB Storage, Long Battery Life

this is a great buy. It's very nostalgic. i do like that it has a secondary micro sd slot to expand your gaming library by 128 gb. it does have some lagging with the newer systems, but it's easy enough to tolerate. i bout one for myself and my brother. Now, I plan on getting one for my daughter. i do also like that there are cases and screen protectors that can be purchased separately.

Despite the fact that this handheld is a knockoff of a knockoff, with a price low enough to be in the "too good to be true" territory, it does NOT disappoint! The build quality is quite cheap, but actually pretty sturdy, the buttons, d-pad, and analog nubs actually feel and work great. The screen is nothing special but is plenty bright and crisp, and the built-in speakers can go louder than most phones I've ever had, without sounding distorted. The only issue I've seen so far is that the built-in Saturn emulator binary doesn't seem to work, likely because this board has a slightly different (cheaper) chip than the $70 version, probably will need to build it from source to target this specific CPU. I wouldn't expect Saturn to run well, though. N64 can be a bit janky depending on the game (N64 emulation is janky on any platform), PSX seems to work decently, though I haven't tested many of those. Everything MAME/Retroarch runs flawlessly, though it's a real pain when you need to change MAME button bindings. There's a couple of excellent websites out there with everything you need for customizing 100 different versions of this unit, several ready made system images with various frontends to try out. If you're a tinkerer like me, you can totally customize and personalize this thing to your heart's content! I do recommend immediately making a backup copy of the included micro SD card, at minimum, and if possible swap it out for a "good" one (SanDisk, Samsung, etc), because cheap micro SD cards are unpredictable. The saying "you got what you pay for" just doesn't seem to apply for this particular unit. Yes, it's a cheaply built knockoff of another slightly more expensive knockoff, but with the sticks and buttons being as good as they are I definitely recommend it. The battery life can be anywhere from 45 minutes to nearly 4 hours, depending on what you're playing. It has 2 type C ports, one exclusively for charging and the other for "OTG", and 2 micro SD slots ( the boot SD has to be in its specified slot, the other for expansion storage). Note that there's no onboard BT or WiFi, but can use a type-C BT/WiFi adapter in the OTG port, or just USB tether your phone to it. Unless you have a specific reason why, BT/WiFi doesn't have any practical use on this device anyway, it'd be far easier and faster to load anything else you need onbthe SD card from your laptop or phone. For 99 percent of users, this unit already has everything you could possibly want already onboard, just charge it up and play! I'm not sure if it actually has whatever number of games it says on the label, but I ASSURE you there are tens of thousands, and yes, whatever retro game you're thinking about is on there (plus the JP versions which is amazing). If you're getting this for a small child, you'll want to encourage them to treat it gently, but it has no problem rattling around my backpack or my wife's purse, and the included screen protector is a nice bonus! DON'T pass this up!