Yo wicked did you find a way to rotate vertical shmups etc in arcade most because most of my faves are sideways and unplayable, greetings from Dublin Ireland 💚🇮🇪🍀
Nope, not at all. Its great for a cheap GB, GBC, MD player and a few others but for a little more you could have much more. It all depends upon what the budget is. By the way, your watch channel is dangerous man. Made me go out and buy a very nice looking Megia.
There's nothing wrong with these watches. Wear with gay abandon, don't worry about being robbed for them or spending loads repairing them in a few years. Also, you can wear a different one every day. You don't wear the same clothes all the time, so why wear the same watch...
Yeah, clearly, as the games are unplayably slow with constant sound skipping. I'm sure if they're selling this thing at a profit for $45, the SOC must be dirt-cheap.
Yeah, that's how I'd look at it. For GameBoy it's fantastic. The games look wonderful on this screen and run great. Some other systems run really well too.
I think I left this comment on one of Mark's other Q90 videos but I really hate seeing this little machine used with the stock firmware. It's pretty bad. But with the Miyoo firmware now available it really shines. It's my favorite little cheap device along with the V90.
Its a bittboy pocket go with a bigger screen and analogue pad. Im gunna get one of these when they come on amazon prime uk as my pocket go is great for on the go but this will be my home handheld as having that bigger screen will enable serious long sessions
Oh yeah. Duke Nukem Advance is a real killer. If you can run this on your device - you will run every Gameboy Advance game. At least they are slowly learning. We are now having two speakers instead of single one plus camera that nobody will ever use
I doubt whomever manufactures these things has anything to do with the emulation cores it uses, and I doubt the manufacturer of this/the original emu devs care about how well it runs on a cheaper device like this. I doubt their testing was more extensive than ensuring each included emu boots the games.
The PlayStation is 25 years old and the Chinese companies still release handhelds, which are too slow to handle PS1-Games. The PS1-CPU clocks with 34MHz. What's going wrong?
The Sega Saturn is 26 years old, and still we can't emulate it properly. What's going wrong ? :P That is the thing. Emulators and good optimisation make everything possible. While this device shown on video may be struggling with it, I guess its possible to run it at most linux based systems flawlessly. With a little tweaking I believe you could play some games no problem. A few examples of emulation being still not perfect: You do have an option to emulate more systems at PSP than on more powerful PS2, and many people claim that the first Xbox is a better emulation platform than the "next gen" Wii - all due to Xbox architecture being x86. Super Nintendo emulation seems to be much more troublesome than Mega Drive, even though both are 16-bit systems from the early 1990s. But even the glitchy Super Nintendo emulators can often at least run Starfox, while its very rare to even run Virtua Racing. Even though Nintendo 64 emulation become possible even in the 90s, its still much more troublesome to run N64 games on low end devices. Sega Saturn emulation - despite improving a lot lately - is still far from perfect. Other consoles from that period like Panasonic Real or Atari Jaguar have got mixed results in emulation leaving Playstation being actually the easiest to emulate. At least my favourite subject being the usual problems indicating the emulator creating glitches - starting from graphical like lack of transparency, bad quality textures, or missing polygons, moving into the real gameplay problems, in some cases even making the game hard to play (freezing, some options being disabled, lack of multiple button press support and so on ...)
@@KISSbestfan , I tested bleem in the past and it run at 1600x1200 with the TNT 2 Ultra. That's 21 years old hardware. Most of those handhelds are more powerless compared to hardware from 1999
@@rob4222 Roberto sure you dont get much with them, but then again, emulation was born on the computers, and those handhelds often use linux distros, or even sometimes custom ones. I guess thats the main reason. Many of them uses Sunplus chips, the company that probably supplied half of those PSP clones, as well as some Wii clones back in 2008-2009. Those can be found often at STB's or DVD players from that period, so yep I guess those are underpowered, and were meant for 8 and 16 bit titles mostly (with 32 bit Gameboy Advance). Not sure about Powkiddy products, and their technology, but I guess they may be making a few lines of products, or doing a B2B cooperation with other manufacturers, after all they also did some NoaC based handhelds. The best solution for the handhelds would be another B2B cooperation with an SBC manufacturer like for example Banana Pi, lately they did a similiar computer to the RPi Zero. But you know how it is with manufacury costs. They all want to earn money.
@@teddym2808 I havent tried Saturn emulation since some time, but as far I remember multi CD games were still not functional. Still its a cool info to hear that its still progressing.
Just received mine and Im aware of the issues buts what's bugging me the most is there's no option to rotate vertical shmups etc in any arcade mode making some of my faves unplayable, any tips or advice? Thanks from Dublin Ireland 💚🇮🇪🍀
I bought an Ldk vertical for $41 and this powkiddy q90 for $29, this devices dont have a lot of differences, of couse the ldk is a little powerful than q90, but if you want just to play rpg games, the powkiddy is the cheaper and better option.
@@kevinleite6309 They are definitely fun little units in their on right. How time flies in the world of purpose built retro gaming. These two units seem absolutely light years behind now with the Retro Pocket 2. Crazy times lad.
@@STR82DVD so true man, unfortunately i don't like that android based devices, but the Retroid 2 it's very impressive, actually. This device supports local multiplayer, wow! I really don't believed when i readed. Really new times for this machines.
bought mine for 10 bucks. i just use it for gba games. but im planning to upgrade myself to Funkey S. this one is portable. but i'd rather have the one with my keys.
Is the os built into the device or on the sd/tf card? Because I want to know can I put a bigger sd card full of games into the slot or can I only add roms to the pre installed card? Thanks
Cute form factor ruined by flawed software... Wish they could improve on this as they have other products that are quite good... Here's me binging on the new episodes that I missed from your channel! Kudos! Stay safe.
Because it's using a low-end SoC to keep costs down and games like Afterburner used (at the time) higher-end scaler arcade hardware that requires decent CPU muscle to emulate.
It depends on the emulator. The GBA was a good bit more powerful than the SNES, but also a lot simpler as it had less special hadware chips to deal with.
If it's coming over by boat, any possible Coronavirus on surfaces wouldn't survive the trip. I'd be more worried about International students/college kids on spring break than goods from China as it pertains to the spread of Coronavirus.
We need to be educated about the Covid19 or the wuhanflu as it should be called. The virus dies after an hour or two of being on a surface. Items coming from China will not hold and active virus. If they did have a carrier touching them at one point the virus would be well dead by the time the item was put in to the warehouse, never mind shipped anywhere.
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I was not happy with this one, to expensive and we have better options now a days, Great video !
Yo wicked did you find a way to rotate vertical shmups etc in arcade most because most of my faves are sideways and unplayable, greetings from Dublin Ireland 💚🇮🇪🍀
Wicked
Cheers for taking the time. Don't think it's an upgrade from my Anbernic RG300 though. I'm sure something will beat it soon...
Nope, not at all. Its great for a cheap GB, GBC, MD player and a few others but for a little more you could have much more. It all depends upon what the budget is.
By the way, your watch channel is dangerous man. Made me go out and buy a very nice looking Megia.
There's nothing wrong with these watches. Wear with gay abandon, don't worry about being robbed for them or spending loads repairing them in a few years. Also, you can wear a different one every day. You don't wear the same clothes all the time, so why wear the same watch...
Im happy in this device mine got 30$ not bad for the price it's really worth it to be honest.🙂😁
Love your videos, they remind me of Ashen's videos.
That massive black border/bezel would do my head in!
The psx emu on this cheap consoles is just a bonus, don’t set high expectations
Yeah, clearly, as the games are unplayably slow with constant sound skipping. I'm sure if they're selling this thing at a profit for $45, the SOC must be dirt-cheap.
Yeah, that's how I'd look at it. For GameBoy it's fantastic. The games look wonderful on this screen and run great. Some other systems run really well too.
Odd World, Incredible Crysis and I.Q. work perfectly.
we're really loving that, uhh, bokeh you got there.
Haha, yeah. Sorry about that. Bloody camera locked on to the mic stand.
SOR2 has a special sound with this, like a different synth with a smoother feel...
That wasn't streets of Rage 2. That's a PC remake which is fantastic. It's by a Brazilian team called Bomber games. Check it out if you can.
@@RetroCore Oh, that's SOR Remake? My bad.
why didn't you get the transparent version looks so much nicer
If I was buying this for my own personal use I probably would have. But I only got this for the review so I wasn't too bothered.
I think I left this comment on one of Mark's other Q90 videos but I really hate seeing this little machine used with the stock firmware. It's pretty bad. But with the Miyoo firmware now available it really shines. It's my favorite little cheap device along with the V90.
Its a bittboy pocket go with a bigger screen and analogue pad. Im gunna get one of these when they come on amazon prime uk as my pocket go is great for on the go but this will be my home handheld as having that bigger screen will enable serious long sessions
Go with a pocketgo v2, bigger than both and can handle ps1
@@muntdouken9841 i may do when the price comes down a bit. I want something that can handle n64 ideally
Oh yeah. Duke Nukem Advance is a real killer. If you can run this on your device - you will run every Gameboy Advance game.
At least they are slowly learning. We are now having two speakers instead of single one plus camera that nobody will ever use
Yep. I'd rather have stereo audio than a crappy camera.
Someone should definitely message the developer of this to inform them of the PC Engine Emulation problem.
I doubt whomever manufactures these things has anything to do with the emulation cores it uses, and I doubt the manufacturer of this/the original emu devs care about how well it runs on a cheaper device like this. I doubt their testing was more extensive than ensuring each included emu boots the games.
The PlayStation is 25 years old and the Chinese companies still release handhelds, which are too slow to handle PS1-Games. The PS1-CPU clocks with 34MHz. What's going wrong?
The Sega Saturn is 26 years old, and still we can't emulate it properly. What's going wrong ?
:P
That is the thing. Emulators and good optimisation make everything possible. While this device shown on video may be struggling with it, I guess its possible to run it at most linux based systems flawlessly. With a little tweaking I believe you could play some games no problem. A few examples of emulation being still not perfect:
You do have an option to emulate more systems at PSP than on more powerful PS2, and many people claim that the first Xbox is a better emulation platform than the "next gen" Wii - all due to Xbox architecture being x86.
Super Nintendo emulation seems to be much more troublesome than Mega Drive, even though both are 16-bit systems from the early 1990s. But even the glitchy Super Nintendo emulators can often at least run Starfox, while its very rare to even run Virtua Racing.
Even though Nintendo 64 emulation become possible even in the 90s, its still much more troublesome to run N64 games on low end devices. Sega Saturn emulation - despite improving a lot lately - is still far from perfect. Other consoles from that period like Panasonic Real or Atari Jaguar have got mixed results in emulation leaving Playstation being actually the easiest to emulate.
At least my favourite subject being the usual problems indicating the emulator creating glitches - starting from graphical like lack of transparency, bad quality textures, or missing polygons, moving into the real gameplay problems, in some cases even making the game hard to play (freezing, some options being disabled, lack of multiple button press support and so on ...)
@@KISSbestfan , I tested bleem in the past and it run at 1600x1200 with the TNT 2 Ultra. That's 21 years old hardware. Most of those handhelds are more powerless compared to hardware from 1999
@@rob4222 Roberto sure you dont get much with them, but then again, emulation was born on the computers, and those handhelds often use linux distros, or even sometimes custom ones. I guess thats the main reason.
Many of them uses Sunplus chips, the company that probably supplied half of those PSP clones, as well as some Wii clones back in 2008-2009. Those can be found often at STB's or DVD players from that period, so yep I guess those are underpowered, and were meant for 8 and 16 bit titles mostly (with 32 bit Gameboy Advance). Not sure about Powkiddy products, and their technology, but I guess they may be making a few lines of products, or doing a B2B cooperation with other manufacturers, after all they also did some NoaC based handhelds.
The best solution for the handhelds would be another B2B cooperation with an SBC manufacturer like for example Banana Pi, lately they did a similiar computer to the RPi Zero. But you know how it is with manufacury costs. They all want to earn money.
@@teddym2808 I havent tried Saturn emulation since some time, but as far I remember multi CD games were still not functional. Still its a cool info to hear that its still progressing.
@@teddym2808 I'd be very happy ! New experience in emulation is always good
Just received mine and Im aware of the issues buts what's bugging me the most is there's no option to rotate vertical shmups etc in any arcade mode making some of my faves unplayable, any tips or advice? Thanks from Dublin Ireland 💚🇮🇪🍀
I like the form factor and the looks of it but the device has bad emulators or doesn't have the power to run games properly. I like your channel !!!
Yup, saving me money on this review.
I bought an Ldk vertical for $41 and this powkiddy q90 for $29, this devices dont have a lot of differences, of couse the ldk is a little powerful than q90, but if you want just to play rpg games, the powkiddy is the cheaper and better option.
@@kevinleite6309 They are definitely fun little units in their on right. How time flies in the world of purpose built retro gaming. These two units seem absolutely light years behind now with the Retro Pocket 2. Crazy times lad.
@@STR82DVD so true man, unfortunately i don't like that android based devices, but the Retroid 2 it's very impressive, actually. This device supports local multiplayer, wow! I really don't believed when i readed. Really new times for this machines.
bought mine for 10 bucks. i just use it for gba games. but im planning to upgrade myself to Funkey S. this one is portable. but i'd rather have the one with my keys.
Nice price👍
Looks like the Temper config file might be write protected on the SD card.
Ooh, good call. I should check that. But wait, micro SD cards don't have a write protect do they?
@@RetroCore If I remember it has a switch on the left side of The micro sd card
@@allanalmeidapa You're thinking full size SD cards. Micro cards do not have a switch.
@@RetroCore maybe the file itself has the "read only" attribute turned on, for whatever reason.
I got this today for 23 euro's its good for gb gbc gba and snes
Got mine for 30$ just gotta wait a week.
Nice price!
What was the isometric GBA game that came after Duke?
Think it was max payne.
That's right. I bwas Max Payne.
Is the os built into the device or on the sd/tf card? Because I want to know can I put a bigger sd card full of games into the slot or can I only add roms to the pre installed card? Thanks
I'm sure it had two SD card slots. Can't remember now.
@@RetroCore unfortunately not 😭 thanks for reply 👍
It's not one of the worst ones out there, but I think I'll stick with my GP2X :p
Hello do you know how to adjust the screen brightness?
No. There is a button combination but I always forget what it is. Check forums that talk about Dingoo OS devices like this.
Cute form factor ruined by flawed software... Wish they could improve on this as they have other products that are quite good... Here's me binging on the new episodes that I missed from your channel! Kudos! Stay safe.
Did you try out a custom firmware on it yet?
I saw something on the net. I have two of these units so I'm thinking a side by side comparison.
which one is better ? x12plus or q90 ?
Maybe the Q90
Yeah... no. Thanks for another money saving review Mark.
Probably they used real nokia phones to just get the battery and put it in the device, probably why this is expensive :p
Hope you get the Ordroid Go Advance? Veeeery neat device
I tried to get one for review but the weren't interested in sending on my way.
How come the Master System didn't get any love?
Sorry. It would have been just fine to be honest. If I do a follow up video with a hacked firmware I'll give it a try.
So why exactly wouldn't it be able to run Afterburner properly? Seems you knew it wouldn't work right off the bat. Why is that?
Because it's using a low-end SoC to keep costs down and games like Afterburner used (at the time) higher-end scaler arcade hardware that requires decent CPU muscle to emulate.
As Oi Oi mentioned, super scaler games need a lot of Cpu power which lowend systems can't offer.
@@RetroCore Ah I see, I didn't realize super scaler games were that intensive. Good to know.
a bit hit and miss there, Mark! Nice screen though
Yeah, there are plus points but a few negative points also.
Cute device, but a stronger one for PS1 and GBA isn´t that much more expensive :)
True.
Thank you, RC, sorry u had to waste money on this one...
That's okay. I can always sell it on Yahoo Auctions.
Copy Nintendo switch lite styling...check
Copy Apple packaging ...check
@ 6 minutes in I knew this was a pass for me.
I dont get why gba performs better than snes when gba is an enhanced snes!
It depends on the emulator. The GBA was a good bit more powerful than the SNES, but also a lot simpler as it had less special hadware chips to deal with.
Bluuuuuuuuuuury
Nope to PS1 with this. The RG350 is still the best.
Just a few seconds in and the thing looks like it should warrant hard pass.
And from the comments, this feels like another Dingoo clone.
and ofc virtua racing and star fox won't work huh?
Most likely. They aren't included with the built in games.
Me like
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pass!
I wouldn’t buy ANYTHING shipping from China right now, maybe ever again.
rather extreme
If it's coming over by boat, any possible Coronavirus on surfaces wouldn't survive the trip. I'd be more worried about International students/college kids on spring break than goods from China as it pertains to the spread of Coronavirus.
Keep a can of Lysol, and some antibacterial hand wipes at the ready, and you're good.
We need to be educated about the Covid19 or the wuhanflu as it should be called.
The virus dies after an hour or two of being on a surface. Items coming from China will not hold and active virus. If they did have a carrier touching them at one point the virus would be well dead by the time the item was put in to the warehouse, never mind shipped anywhere.