The Wii U Gamepad screen has some cooler colors so that actually doesn't surprise me. Probably using the real Wii U gamepad display from one that is working but in poor condition, this would maybe explain why they decided to used an aftermarket Gamepad shell.
Hey Jacor R i purchased the Super mario land/Super mario land 2 DX gba cartridge and i just wanna say thank you for giving this sad sap something to be happy about!
Good video. While these things might have been an interesting concept a few years ago, there’s no way to justify buying one of these when a $400 Steam Deck runs the entire PS2 library better than the PS2 and does MUCH more than just that.
I have a steam deck and not all PS2 games run great on it. Most do, but I get your point. I would never buy one of these now that I have my steam deck.
There's definitely a margin in these products, there's a huge market in china for repurposed tech. I imagine they're bulk buying in PS2s and other possibly faulty or just scuffed up consoles and repurposing them. Yes there's R&D into it but custom pcbs are cheap & handhelds are becoming popular again so parts like the screens and batteries are getting cheaper (plus labour is cheap in china). Another example of over-engineered repurposed tech would be laptop GPUs that are being turned into desktop compatible PCI-E cards, which are in quite the abundance at the moment. Tbh this is my favourite type of tech because of how clever the engineering is in some of it. Plus i mean if I had the means to bulk buy in PS2s for probably between $10-40 per console and then repurpose and resell them for like $500 i would. These companies likely make some smaller tech products so have their own in-house production and design engineers. Selling just a couple of these consoles is likely paying for the consoles alone, and the multiple revisions is likely just trying to find a design that will sell the best, once they've got a 'best seller' they'll likely hone in on that. Watch Linus Tech Tips' video on the chinese setups if you want an insight into the culture of repurposing old tech/appliances.
The one that you didn't know what the design was based on looks very similar to those ds consoles with broken upper screens that people make into gameboys, just the square shape, the triggers, and the protruding screen just screamed ds to me lol
I like the concept of a PS2 as a portable as much as the next guy, but it's still $500-$600 for a clunky plastic mess. Like I said it's great idea but not great on delivery. People liked the PSP because it has features the PS2 had and more. But I'm hoping this is in the right way of exposing PS2 tech to new tech. In hopes of seeing a masterpiece. But you'd expect things to get ugly in the development of working masterpiece. Great video Jacob R.
the wiiu pad is amazing because its actually really smart, and a great usage for these, or for any kind of aftermarket portable console project, since the gamepad is literally useless without the wiiu and surely theres a healthy supply of those.
If they are making a 300 dollar profit and selling even 2-4 a month the seller is making around 600 to 1200 dollars in profit doing something he/she loves, also 600-1200 in china/asia would be a pretty decent monthly salary.
He's not saying it is or isn't a lot of money, he's saying it's a relatively fair price for what the product is. Cost is relative to the value of a product. You certainly wouldn't say that $500 is too expensive for a car, correct? Or how about $20k for a house? That's absurdly cheap for that product, yet if you spent $20k on a diamond plated PS5 that'd be equally absurd in the other direction.
@@tyronejennings599 But expensive for *what*? It's a novelty item that's a completely unnecessary purchase for anyone in the market for this kind of device. You basically have to have disposable income of some kind to justify buying one of these. In that context, where the $500 isn't being possibly spent on actually important things like food or rent or whatever, it's not a lot of money at all. I wouldn't buy it, and I'm sure 95% of viewers wouldn't either, but that's likely because you value many other things you could spend $500 extra on instead of a novelty item like this. Being expensive isn't an objectively measurable concept, it's relative to the person spending the money and the value of the product, that's all.
That's not a 1:1 comparison. These have actual PS2s in them, a Steam Deck emulates a PS2. Nothing necessarily wrong with that, it's just a totally different product.
i honestly liked the square one the most because it's probably easier to hold than the other three really cool stuff they made there edit 1: 8:54 these consoles were probably manufactured by in sweatshops and that's why they can offer those pieces of hardware for those lower prices desptie all of them being custom made
wth bro, any mid range+ android smartphone can run ps2 emulation, no need things like that. If you want real buttons you can attach some controller to your smartphone. At least you can buy steam portable console.
I mean think about it , if they can make a portable PS2 system for 10-20 dollars and sell it for 450-500 its worth it. I looked up the parts in china for making one and its crazy how cheap it is to make.
It's a older camera..like 2012ish. A Nixon to be exact. I have it lol. The moment I seen it, I immediately went and grabbed it and it is extremely similar besides the ridges on the side. Could be a coincidence but it looks extremely similar.
To be complete the 8 inch screen one should have the disc drive as well the memory card slots and HDMI output as it has al the original ports in the back lol
3:54 Now I’m noticing how small the PS2 Slim really is.. (I have a Wii U so I know the real size of the Wii U Gamepad) how did they manage to make the PS2 that small back then ? The PS2 Fat is a giant when compared to the PS2 Slim.
If you ever take a fat PS2 apart you'll see that the actual board is surprisingly small in proportion to the size of the machine. Dropping the HDD bay and making the disc drive top loading was probably 80% of the work, and making the power supply external was also huge. I'm not sure why they needed to make it quite *that* small, but logically that's why they were able to get away with it. Still super impressive, I'd be amazed if they were able to get away with a drop in size like that today, even on the digital PS5.
@@DannyTheEditor Oh I didn’t know that 😮 before you wrote this I thought they somehow managed to make the CPU / GPU much more efficient by making it on a much smaller node compared to the PS2 Fat, now I know why the PS2 Slim is so small, thanks for telling me.
@@DannyTheEditor I think that they could’ve let the disc drive be like it was before by front load and for that make the PS2 Slim a bit bigger because it gives the console some quality.
@@armeniancrusader301 Yeah they did that too but only on the later models, I'm pretty sure the original slim design used nearly the same exact chip as the fat. The last PS2 slim model got so efficient they ended up putting the power supply back inside the console. Super tiny board.
@@DannyTheEditor Yeah I can imagine now how tiny the board of the last PS2 Slim model is. Let’s hope that Sony will make a PS5 Slim (with a disc drive of course or at least make a disc and a digital edition) at least the size of the PS4 Pro because the PS5 is a big console.
2:30 its a hobby, and someone buying what you made as a hobby was fulfilling. Its like they trust you with your skills. I just dont know with the chinese ps2 mods
I do like these and own a few emulator handhelds (I realise these are "original" boards) all in the bottom of a drawer somewhere since I got a Steamdeck...and part of me is kind of sad about that.
Why do I have this feeling that in a few weeks, you'll make a video with the intro of "I spent $3742.51 on custom PSP home consolized consoles from Aliexpress and in this video, we're gonna use them and break down if they're worth the money."?
2:36 the answer could very well just be its their hobby. for example i would love to build moped engines and maybe turn a slight profit but i would mostly have fun doing it. idk makes sense to me bc they’re both niche hobbies 🤷♀️
You know what would be really cool, if you could install a vita TV inside probably the huge one so you could utilise the 2nd input. I'm sure someone could work a way to use the built in controller as well.
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If you had $500 to spend on one of these consoles… which one are you buying?
Definitely think the Wii U Zelda Gamepad is a cool display piece
Wii U one
Nintendo Wii U Zelda theme PS2 that's awesome
I'm a Steamdeck owner
@@cyphaborg6598 thats a lot smarter than buying a 20$ ps2 thats been repurposed into a bulky handheld and sold at a premium
Playing a PS5 on a PS2 portable console that’s inside of a Wii U gamepad 😂 might be the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever seen
or the Wiis2 U
The biggest crossover ever
It looks legendary
Cursed
I'm surprised you didn't start a negative continuum where all corporations implode into non existence and everyone goes back to bartering.
The Wii U one is crazy and hilarious
Facts
Using the Wii U gamepad for a ps2 portable is really smart unironically. I always liked the feel of the Wii U gamepad ❤️
The USB is a deal breaker for me as it will cause issues (stuttering) in some games especially in FMVs.
Seeing as though they have memory cards inside, I'm sure you could install mx4sio.
One of them has a MX4SIO, which is a bit faster then USB 1.1
The Wii U Gamepad screen has some cooler colors so that actually doesn't surprise me. Probably using the real Wii U gamepad display from one that is working but in poor condition, this would maybe explain why they decided to used an aftermarket Gamepad shell.
Hey Jacor R i purchased the Super mario land/Super mario land 2 DX gba cartridge and i just wanna say thank you for giving this sad sap something to be happy about!
8:03 The two on the top are using the official OPL and the two on the bottom are using the daily build OPL that doesn't exists anymore!!!
Good video. While these things might have been an interesting concept a few years ago, there’s no way to justify buying one of these when a $400 Steam Deck runs the entire PS2 library better than the PS2 and does MUCH more than just that.
Nothing will play PS2 games better than a PS2
@@S3MTX A lot of things will. A PS2 can’t upscale, or display widescreen. Of implement other graphical improvements.
@@S3MTX my phone runs ps2 game better than ps2, your phone probably do the same.
I have a steam deck and not all PS2 games run great on it. Most do, but I get your point. I would never buy one of these now that I have my steam deck.
@@S3MTX looks like someone that lives in the past lol hardware today plays way better than any ps2 will, even a cheap android phone would be better
There's definitely a margin in these products, there's a huge market in china for repurposed tech. I imagine they're bulk buying in PS2s and other possibly faulty or just scuffed up consoles and repurposing them. Yes there's R&D into it but custom pcbs are cheap & handhelds are becoming popular again so parts like the screens and batteries are getting cheaper (plus labour is cheap in china). Another example of over-engineered repurposed tech would be laptop GPUs that are being turned into desktop compatible PCI-E cards, which are in quite the abundance at the moment. Tbh this is my favourite type of tech because of how clever the engineering is in some of it. Plus i mean if I had the means to bulk buy in PS2s for probably between $10-40 per console and then repurpose and resell them for like $500 i would. These companies likely make some smaller tech products so have their own in-house production and design engineers. Selling just a couple of these consoles is likely paying for the consoles alone, and the multiple revisions is likely just trying to find a design that will sell the best, once they've got a 'best seller' they'll likely hone in on that. Watch Linus Tech Tips' video on the chinese setups if you want an insight into the culture of repurposing old tech/appliances.
I love these. Ever since I saw a briefcase PS2 in the early 2000s I've been fascinated by portable mini consoles.
Cap
This would have been so cool when I was younger
Agreed, my mind would have been blown if I was 10 years old lol
@@jrob0021 hey, are worried about any of these devices randomly blowing up or malfunctioning? I sure would be
@Jacob_R2_ what?💀
It looks like the original seller sells these on taobao for ¥2300-¥2650 ($336 USD - $388 USD) for anyone interested in them.
im gonna buy it and post it in r/fashionreps
Todays Jacob video “Let’s smell consoles”.
It's the best part of the job. Especially that GameStop PS5 from a few weeks ago 🤮
The one that you didn't know what the design was based on looks very similar to those ds consoles with broken upper screens that people make into gameboys, just the square shape, the triggers, and the protruding screen just screamed ds to me lol
5:01 the model kinda look like a oversize micro SD card, if you take a hard look at it 😬
I like the concept of a PS2 as a portable as much as the next guy, but it's still $500-$600 for a clunky plastic mess. Like I said it's great idea but not great on delivery. People liked the PSP because it has features the PS2 had and more. But I'm hoping this is in the right way of exposing PS2 tech to new tech. In hopes of seeing a masterpiece. But you'd expect things to get ugly in the development of working masterpiece.
Great video Jacob R.
“It’s pretty ridiculous, but it’s pretty cool”
Awesome video always like to see different things on the channel
Thanks for watching!
the wiiu pad is amazing because its actually really smart, and a great usage for these, or for any kind of aftermarket portable console project, since the gamepad is literally useless without the wiiu and surely theres a healthy supply of those.
the handheld at 1:08 reminds me of a giant sim card lol
It's clearly a money laundering scheme and those blokes are somehow ps2 retro gamers so they thought they might as well be investing in R&D for these
The small one looks like a sega nomad
i was just talking to my friend that something like this would be a great use for broken wii u game pads
If they are making a 300 dollar profit and selling even 2-4 a month the seller is making around 600 to 1200 dollars in profit doing something he/she loves, also 600-1200 in china/asia would be a pretty decent monthly salary.
And *whyyy* would you spend over 2k on AliExpress…? People fr have no idea how to save their money. 😭😭
$500 for a console you can probably emulate on your phone haha wtf
i might just play ps 2 games on an old android phone instead.. a 2nd hand phone only cost 50 usd
That Wii U one is crazy 😂
That rectangular one, maybe supposed to model the "GameBoy Micro"?
Exactly what I thought
@17:00 I think it supposedly meant to model the proprietary Memory stick for the psp's and vitas
I can almost guarantee that the seller didn't design any of them, they probably just ripped the designs straight from the bitbuilt forums.
I remember my brothers having a Playstation portable
"This one here is just absolutely massive, its huge", that's what she said lol🤣
PS2 inside WiiU gamepad , now we know what Link was doing all that time . He was playing GTA San Andreas 🤣
The little square one just looks so good
I hope they dont use Wii U's for this - and make custom moulds etc. Wii U's should be repaired and made into Wii Us not common old playstations
This dude says $500 isn't a lot ?? That's literally one of the reasons why I still don't have a PS5 or Series X cos $500 is expensive af.
He's not saying it is or isn't a lot of money, he's saying it's a relatively fair price for what the product is. Cost is relative to the value of a product. You certainly wouldn't say that $500 is too expensive for a car, correct? Or how about $20k for a house? That's absurdly cheap for that product, yet if you spent $20k on a diamond plated PS5 that'd be equally absurd in the other direction.
@@DannyTheEditor You have your opinion & I have my opinion & I'll leave it at that. $500 is expensive
@@tyronejennings599 But expensive for *what*? It's a novelty item that's a completely unnecessary purchase for anyone in the market for this kind of device. You basically have to have disposable income of some kind to justify buying one of these. In that context, where the $500 isn't being possibly spent on actually important things like food or rent or whatever, it's not a lot of money at all. I wouldn't buy it, and I'm sure 95% of viewers wouldn't either, but that's likely because you value many other things you could spend $500 extra on instead of a novelty item like this. Being expensive isn't an objectively measurable concept, it's relative to the person spending the money and the value of the product, that's all.
They should have just slapped the disc drive on it lol
For some reason I can never find these on AliExpress. Are they only shipping to certain countries? I'm not in the US.
why buy any of these for 500$ if you can have a steam deck for less?????
That's not a 1:1 comparison. These have actual PS2s in them, a Steam Deck emulates a PS2. Nothing necessarily wrong with that, it's just a totally different product.
I was thinking about ordering from your website and I was wondering, do you clean the consoles before shipping them?
nah bro
i honestly liked the square one the most because it's probably easier to hold than the other three
really cool stuff they made there
edit 1: 8:54 these consoles were probably manufactured by in sweatshops and that's why they can offer those pieces of hardware for those lower prices desptie all of them being custom made
Wii u game pad nockoffs are a thing?
wth bro, any mid range+ android smartphone can run ps2 emulation, no need things like that. If you want real buttons you can attach some controller to your smartphone. At least you can buy steam portable console.
4:10 It is a knock off , you can buy it on AliExpress for something like $30
If you don’t know what I’m talking about it’s a mod for a broken DS
I mean think about it , if they can make a portable PS2 system for 10-20 dollars and sell it for 450-500 its worth it. I looked up the parts in china for making one and its crazy how cheap it is
to make.
Not sure why they went with an off white color for the shoulder buttons. They should've been transparent like the PSP and Vita.
5:45 that ps2 looks like it was model after a sim card! 😄
These consoles somehow exist
I’d say that $500 bucks is pretty good motivation. Say it takes them 5 hours that’s $100 an hour. 10 hours is $50 an hour.
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Square one looks like a game and watch
RIP AetherSx2 😭
it wasn't taken down it just stopped receiving updates
The square one looks like it's modelled of the Nintendo Wii console, you can tell with the bottom cut out angle.
or the bottom half of an old ds
It's a older camera..like 2012ish. A Nixon to be exact. I have it lol. The moment I seen it, I immediately went and grabbed it and it is extremely similar besides the ridges on the side. Could be a coincidence but it looks extremely similar.
I like the giant one the most it looks awesome The one that I would actually buy though would probably be the Wii U one
Pc ps2 emulation getting to a point that this is not needed. Get a ally or rog and you good to go and can play steam and emulate other systems.
Looks like a sega genesis nomad. The square one.
The Chinese are going to turn Blade Runner into a reality.
Hearing you say “ Wii U game pad “ has to be single handedly the most annoying thing on the internet
To be complete the 8 inch screen one should have the disc drive as well the memory card slots and HDMI output as it has al the original ports in the back lol
I just like the Zelda Wii u gamepad that they turned into a PS2 portable console.
Good stuff man
3:54 Now I’m noticing how small the PS2 Slim really is.. (I have a Wii U so I know the real size of the Wii U Gamepad) how did they manage to make the PS2 that small back then ? The PS2 Fat is a giant when compared to the PS2 Slim.
If you ever take a fat PS2 apart you'll see that the actual board is surprisingly small in proportion to the size of the machine. Dropping the HDD bay and making the disc drive top loading was probably 80% of the work, and making the power supply external was also huge. I'm not sure why they needed to make it quite *that* small, but logically that's why they were able to get away with it. Still super impressive, I'd be amazed if they were able to get away with a drop in size like that today, even on the digital PS5.
@@DannyTheEditor Oh I didn’t know that 😮 before you wrote this I thought they somehow managed to make the CPU / GPU much more efficient by making it on a much smaller node compared to the PS2 Fat, now I know why the PS2 Slim is so small, thanks for telling me.
@@DannyTheEditor I think that they could’ve let the disc drive be like it was before by front load and for that make the PS2 Slim a bit bigger because it gives the console some quality.
@@armeniancrusader301 Yeah they did that too but only on the later models, I'm pretty sure the original slim design used nearly the same exact chip as the fat. The last PS2 slim model got so efficient they ended up putting the power supply back inside the console. Super tiny board.
@@DannyTheEditor Yeah I can imagine now how tiny the board of the last PS2 Slim model is.
Let’s hope that Sony will make a PS5 Slim (with a disc drive of course or at least make a disc and a digital edition) at least the size of the PS4 Pro because the PS5 is a big console.
2:30 its a hobby, and someone buying what you made as a hobby was fulfilling. Its like they trust you with your skills. I just dont know with the chinese ps2 mods
They probably aren't designing them. If I had to guess, I'd say they're finding designs on the internet and just printing them themselves.
These devices look gigantic for someone’s pants. Albeit, the idea is innovative, but the size and weight are just out of this world😂😂😂
I do like these and own a few emulator handhelds (I realise these are "original" boards) all in the bottom of a drawer somewhere since I got a Steamdeck...and part of me is kind of sad about that.
i wanna buy that WiiU PS2 from you but that things expensive lol
I feel like they probably sell a lot of these locally or on other sites and just have them up on Ali express just passively
You should make a video to see if you can get the wii u game pad back yo it's original state, if you even can.
Not me ordering another ps2 and Wii U game pad
Could you try setting up these consoles with Gran Turismo 3 ilink battles, I always wanted to play this but never saw this :-(
Honestly the wii u thing is pretty cool
Why do I have this feeling that in a few weeks, you'll make a video with the intro of "I spent $3742.51 on custom PSP home consolized consoles from Aliexpress and in this video, we're gonna use them and break down if they're worth the money."?
Don’t tempt me
@@jrob0021 I'm a bad influence, so I've gotta tempt you with it. :P The PSP is kind of my favorite console ever too, so that helps.
2:36 the answer could very well just be its their hobby. for example i would love to build moped engines and maybe turn a slight profit but i would mostly have fun doing it. idk makes sense to me bc they’re both niche hobbies 🤷♀️
i just bought a steam deck and emulate ps 2 games lol
It insane that these things are real you pretty much can play Burnout revenge on the bus.
the huge one is nice with that big screen and the flush sd card... i'd buy one
Looks like a 5:6 screen. Definitely better for ps2 games compared to 16:9
The square one is like a big memory card
Yeah ....alot of us wanna spend 250 bucks on a broken ps2 meanwhile ps2 costs 30-50 bucks .
the creator is a youtuber so it was worth time
you know its not legit when they name their products by the spec and not a simple name or product number
Me and my sister used to have a ps3 but in 2018 we got a ps4
That’s not all that hard to put together. $500 for that? I’m about to start cooking lol
Looks like the small one is modeled after an original dmg, look at the slice on the right bottom corner
Very informative. 👌👍
The only thing different from the Wii U GamePad are the analog sticks, those aren't the same ones.
All that money.....and you could have just got a steam deck lol
Yeah would be much safer and more reliable I’m sure
for $500, just get a Steam deck and emulate the ps2
You got a link for the wii u one?
2:12 Sometimes you do it for the fun not for the business
The portable PS2 that you say resembles something but not sure. It's shaped like an sd card adapter. Weird
But do they have pressure sensitive buttons?
You know what would be really cool, if you could install a vita TV inside probably the huge one so you could utilise the 2nd input. I'm sure someone could work a way to use the built in controller as well.
now that is something of a project i would want to do. a larger vita with no backtouch bs! complete with triggers and l3/r3!
You probably could, it’s so large lol
@@jrob0021 bro you got bots in ur comments lmao
If I had buy one I say Zelda just felt it was best around package.
think the square one is a game gear saga
i think the wiiu gamepad one would run coolest cuz it doesnt have crappy tin foil cooling but maybe im wrong
Is the camera in the Wii u gamepad hooked up?