Update: The reason I do not recommend updated the XU10 OS to AmberELEC is it kills the Dreamcast custom emulator and you will lose that amazing performance. If you don't need Dreamcast then go ahead - simply download the RG351V file. here coar.ee/XU10/ - unzip it, backup the system files and replace with the ones here. I WOULDN'T though. Performance is everything.
I am very interested on XU10 devicem but, Is that the only downside? what are the coins of AmberELEC if it is installed? does it increase the perfomance in other emulators? and how do I update the original XU10 OS?
Great voice and super well made videos, feels very natural and no doubt that you will grow without competitions BUT with that said my favorite game to replay is Goemon Mystical Ninja just because it was such a weird experience for me to play it as a kid, never finished it tho.
biggest win for r36s is the fact it use ArkOS 🎉 it can automatically save state your game when you exit the game and auto load said save state when you start that game later time I can press r3 + power in game to auto save state and safely shutdown my device, later when I press power to turn on my device it will take directly to that game save state I use above auto save state each time I play my r36s support for video preview and screensaver which I can play them randomly by pressing select button, while in video mode I can press select or right d-pad to play next random video and press start to play displayed game, great for discoverability
Was so close to buying an r36s. Only reason I didn't was all the games I wanted to play run fine on my hacked froggy (FF VI on SNES, my favorite, runs just fine running the latest multicore hack). Definitely going to upgrade to the next tier at some point though.
I just ordered the R36s after seeing it being sold on facebook called something else and for over £100 so did some research and found out about the R35s. Saw it was only £33. So I bought one. But I didn't know about the other one being better performance. So hope I don't regret my purchase. I tried getting emulation station running on my steamdeck but struggled and couldn't be bothered to source all the roms myself. And any builds i downloaded didn't seem to boot into when i tried on my steamdeck. So hopefully this is a great alternative.
Great video! My R36s has that same crackling/interference when I have my WiFi dongle plugged. Luckily it's not too annoying as I only plug it in to scrape case art or do an update. As far as my favourite game to emulate it has to be Wipeout 2097, i dip into the others from the franchise but 2097 is that nostalgia vibe for me!
great vid, very in depth for such a small creator (been here since your first video :D some of the best content out there) my fav game for emulation is pokemon red/blue just because of its replay value
I have had them both. The XU-10 performs significantly better than the R36S. N64, Dreamcast and PSP is another world. Unplayable on the R36S and smooth/alright on the XU-10.
Well i bought the R36S and tbh it's only a companion device to my rog ally and Steamdeck as couldn't be bothered to set up emulation on those. I will see how bad it is. it was £30 so. who cares.
My little brother bought an R36S! Was really good, using a phone through otg to give it access to the Internet to update everything was the key to make some weird things of the old version of the os go away and update the cores of the emulators! And I say was, because he spilled water all over it, so, now is fried 😅
The XU10 just feels so much better in hand than the R36S, everything from the button quality to the plastics and the overall finish. It is easy to fix the XU10 firmware, and once that is done, the XU10 is really great. Also, the R36S battery indicator annoys me when playing at night. I have the transparent black and the transparent purple R36S consoles. They annoy me at night. I will keep both, my R36S is in my desk at work, but the XU10 is on par with Anbernic devices as far as build quality.
I am new in the Handheld world and I was looking for some tips . I love the way you describe, test and recommand. Thank you. my favorite game was mario 64. it was great
Very informative video. Never owned any handhelds, recently started looking into it. So far, R36S and ArkOS seems like the winner to me. The buttons do seem like a problem but I can maybe look over it for the price. Did the ergonomics of R36S seem really overbearing? Does it ever become more like a hindrance instead of an annoyance?
Good question: the form factor is a little uncomfortable for larger hands but the flip side is the ease of being able to throw them in a pocket. Very handy
You can easily mod the buttons to make them feel better, that's what I did and it's a night and day difference. You just cut the plastic connecting the buttons together.
Not going to lie, i was considering the xu10 until the R36S showed up. For me, the XU10 on paper just looked a lot more gimmicky and toyish, which from where im located, the XU10 was more expensive so it became harder to consider once the R36S appeared on ali. All the points you showed though, do make me want to at least consider trying it. It might be the next device i try, if i can get it around the same price as the R36S.
Also, checking again, the XU10 actually sits around the $100 mark for me(looking for longer, i did manange to find cheaper, but lowest being 70 so far), where as the R36S still sits around $50-60. That's what really sold me on the R36S. *eddited.
This device have an issue with the state files that cause the games freezes randomly on the default OS can’t figure it out so at this moment is unplayable experience for me, I’m tired to play again and again expecting a crash on any time at this moment on psx emulator.
I'm currently enjoying the first Silent Hill on my R36S, and it is awesome ! Do you have any more information on how NOT to damage the battery of the r36s ? Thanks so much for the video !
Hi - you just have to charge using USB power to ensure you don't over charge it - any higher capacity charger bar the old school Iphone ones put out too much juice and can/have damaged my devices.
I wont be original, but my favourite is Super Mario World from SNES. In fact i remember it being the first game I played on my PS3 right after I modded it many years ago 😅
It doesnt have Rk3326s, there are photos of the motherboard and its a bogstandard 3326 and also memory is just DDR3. I cant post the link to the photo as there is apparently active protection against links
Actually XU10's CPU is RK3326S, which is newer and more powerful, and it comes with JELOS installed, not AmberELEC, since the end of 2023. Overall it will offer a considerably better experience than R36S
The actual chip isn't the S variant this is confirmed by openeing the device despite it stating it is the S variant on the box. Disappointing. The reason DC emulation is best on stock is because it uses a proprietary emulator rather than the Retroarch one as well
@@MarkiTechYt I've done that all day. At one point the display started working again, but it was very distorted looking. Then after restarting it the display stopped working again.
Can someone help me find a SUPER cheap budget handheld that can PLAY at least metal gear solid & possibly psp games/GameCube Ibeen homeless for over a year and have been deeply missing my PS4 ps vits and PS5 and all my other systems. I was considering one of these devices but there's so many options out im lost at what's the best value. For the same prices I can find a ps vita offical device I can also find some of these. But I'm not sure where to place my money considering money is tight i want one thats preloaded as Ive lost so much time to trying to set these things up myself i just wanan pick up and play
@@MarkiTechYt I got the 129 gb version. 20'000 games apparently. I think. only ordered today. I am late to the game. been kinda wrapped up in my Rog ally and Steamdeck.
awesome video. Subbed and liked. Techdweeb has a bit of a guide on his review of the XU10 that shows how to unlock all the features of the OS as it seems this is actually a lockeddown version of the amberelec software that runs the Anbernic RG351V. It does casue some issues with dreamcast though apparently if you hack it that way. My Favourite game to emulate is Sunset riders. Cowboy western game that i only managed to finally finish after many years due to the save state feature on emulators.
One reason I don't recommend upgrading to Amberelec which isn't mentioned until much later in Dweebs video is that it kills Dreamcast performance which is a big no no for me
@@MarkiTechYt Agreed wouldn't do it either. Clever move from the makers of the XU10 its like they basically took the R36S, cut down on software bloat and slightly overclocked it to provide better performance out the box.
All in good time mate the device had to be swapped out as the micro SD card is faulty. I'll chat about it in next video! Hopefully the replacement won't be too long
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Update: The reason I do not recommend updated the XU10 OS to AmberELEC is it kills the Dreamcast custom emulator and you will lose that amazing performance. If you don't need Dreamcast then go ahead - simply download the RG351V file. here coar.ee/XU10/ - unzip it, backup the system files and replace with the ones here. I WOULDN'T though. Performance is everything.
I am very interested on XU10 devicem but, Is that the only downside? what are the coins of AmberELEC if it is installed? does it increase the perfomance in other emulators? and how do I update the original XU10 OS?
I've been watching lots of stuff on retro consoles lately, and i just gotta say, your videos really are some of the best out there.
Great voice and super well made videos, feels very natural and no doubt that you will grow without competitions BUT with that said my favorite game to replay is Goemon Mystical Ninja just because it was such a weird experience for me to play it as a kid, never finished it tho.
Ah thank you mate - welcome to the channel!
Hey all i said Garlic OS i meant Ark OS oops. Heres my fifth video, thanks for the device recommendation!
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Holy shit I thought I missed a big news when I heard you say garlic os xD
biggest win for r36s is the fact it use ArkOS 🎉
it can automatically save state your game when you exit the game and auto load said save state when you start that game later time
I can press r3 + power in game to auto save state and safely shutdown my device, later when I press power to turn on my device it will take directly to that game save state
I use above auto save state each time I play my r36s
support for video preview and screensaver which I can play them randomly by pressing select button, while in video mode I can press select or right d-pad to play next random video and press start to play displayed game, great for discoverability
Very good points
Dude no way! One of my favorite commentators making videos on one of my favorite topics?!?
Good stuff mate this is one of my absolute favourite pass times so thought I'd make a little hobby channel :D - Mark
Good to hear about the lack of electrical noise. I have noticed a similar issue with my R36S.
Was so close to buying an r36s. Only reason I didn't was all the games I wanted to play run fine on my hacked froggy (FF VI on SNES, my favorite, runs just fine running the latest multicore hack). Definitely going to upgrade to the next tier at some point though.
Great comparison. Your videos are a lot better than mine when I first started. Keep up the good work !!
Hey thanks mate
@MarkiTechYt You've got a great voice for this sort of thing. Seriously.
Really appreciate it, just watched some of your stuff. Really good!
I just ordered the R36s after seeing it being sold on facebook called something else and for over £100 so did some research and found out about the R35s. Saw it was only £33. So I bought one. But I didn't know about the other one being better performance. So hope I don't regret my purchase. I tried getting emulation station running on my steamdeck but struggled and couldn't be bothered to source all the roms myself. And any builds i downloaded didn't seem to boot into when i tried on my steamdeck. So hopefully this is a great alternative.
Great video! My R36s has that same crackling/interference when I have my WiFi dongle plugged. Luckily it's not too annoying as I only plug it in to scrape case art or do an update.
As far as my favourite game to emulate it has to be Wipeout 2097, i dip into the others from the franchise but 2097 is that nostalgia vibe for me!
Great choice I loved the playstation Wipeout back in the day. Mark
Maybe it has benn updated by now the R36S with a newer version of the OS maybe. I hope so co's prefer that screen.
great vid, very in depth for such a small creator (been here since your first video :D some of the best content out there)
my fav game for emulation is pokemon red/blue just because of its replay value
Thank you mate. Yeah that's a good choice to be fair those were great games.
I have had them both. The XU-10 performs significantly better than the R36S. N64, Dreamcast and PSP is another world. Unplayable on the R36S and smooth/alright on the XU-10.
Well i bought the R36S and tbh it's only a companion device to my rog ally and Steamdeck as couldn't be bothered to set up emulation on those. I will see how bad it is. it was £30 so. who cares.
Can you play multiplayer with another XU10? Been trying to find out for ages
Thanks for the video! You really helped me with picking a nice gift for friends and family.
I hope that i would get it
My little brother bought an R36S! Was really good, using a phone through otg to give it access to the Internet to update everything was the key to make some weird things of the old version of the os go away and update the cores of the emulators!
And I say was, because he spilled water all over it, so, now is fried 😅
Oh nice the idea of a phone internet is a great idea. Mark
How do you do that?
The XU10 just feels so much better in hand than the R36S, everything from the button quality to the plastics and the overall finish. It is easy to fix the XU10 firmware, and once that is done, the XU10 is really great.
Also, the R36S battery indicator annoys me when playing at night. I have the transparent black and the transparent purple R36S consoles. They annoy me at night.
I will keep both, my R36S is in my desk at work, but the XU10 is on par with Anbernic devices as far as build quality.
Totally agree, which firmware did you put on it??
Sry for noob question, but how is firmware being fixed on device like this? Is there somewhere a official support page?
chrono trigger, same here, only ever played it emulated. youre doing a great job for a new channel too btw x
Thank you mate!
I am new in the Handheld world and I was looking for some tips . I love the way you describe, test and recommand. Thank you.
my favorite game was mario 64. it was great
I still am not sure If I should go for thw XU10 or R36S or invest an go for an Anbernic RG35 plus. I just wannt play game boy advance games and ps1
I originally thought the R36S but actually the XU10 - it feels better in the hand and will run those game perfectly
@@MarkiTechYt I bought R36S as didn't know about the other one when i ordered. Bugger. I still can't wait for it to come though.
I'm definitely looking forward to emulate Makken X hopefully it's powerful enough for that
my favorite to replay is Fire Emblem for GBA. Can't get enough
Can the XU10 play GTA vice city?
Oof, another good budget option (I'm not bothered with Dreamcast). Thanks for the great vid!
Wait I recognize that voice from switchup 😂. Didnt knew you reviewed retro consoles as well
Hey mate just started this channel as a hobby. Mark
@@MarkiTechYt i have recently started collecting these too so I will certainly enjoy your content. Have a great weekend!
Very informative video. Never owned any handhelds, recently started looking into it. So far, R36S and ArkOS seems like the winner to me. The buttons do seem like a problem but I can maybe look over it for the price. Did the ergonomics of R36S seem really overbearing? Does it ever become more like a hindrance instead of an annoyance?
Good question: the form factor is a little uncomfortable for larger hands but the flip side is the ease of being able to throw them in a pocket. Very handy
You can easily mod the buttons to make them feel better, that's what I did and it's a night and day difference. You just cut the plastic connecting the buttons together.
Can you play Grand theft Auto on it?
grand theft auto vice city, yes
Not going to lie, i was considering the xu10 until the R36S showed up. For me, the XU10 on paper just looked a lot more gimmicky and toyish, which from where im located, the XU10 was more expensive so it became harder to consider once the R36S appeared on ali. All the points you showed though, do make me want to at least consider trying it. It might be the next device i try, if i can get it around the same price as the R36S.
Yeah it's just a higher quality device. Where are you located?
Australia. It definitely looks it from your video. Im going to have to see if i can get a good deal on it soon i think :P@@MarkiTechYt
Also, checking again, the XU10 actually sits around the $100 mark for me(looking for longer, i did manange to find cheaper, but lowest being 70 so far), where as the R36S still sits around $50-60. That's what really sold me on the R36S. *eddited.
@@MrMellow7 Yeah it's like £33 here in England bloody bargain mate.
This device have an issue with the state files that cause the games freezes randomly on the default OS can’t figure it out so at this moment is unplayable experience for me, I’m tired to play again and again expecting a crash on any time at this moment on psx emulator.
You must change out the MicroSD in these things
@@MarkiTechYt What do you mean copy the files off the stock SD card onto a better quality one? Will it still boot OK
I'm currently enjoying the first Silent Hill on my R36S, and it is awesome !
Do you have any more information on how NOT to damage the battery of the r36s ?
Thanks so much for the video !
Hi - you just have to charge using USB power to ensure you don't over charge it - any higher capacity charger bar the old school Iphone ones put out too much juice and can/have damaged my devices.
Good comparison vid. I’m gonna emulate some GBA on both for sure!
I wont be original, but my favourite is Super Mario World from SNES. In fact i remember it being the first game I played on my PS3 right after I modded it many years ago 😅
Great choice
my favorite game to emulate is splatter house
Great video! Super informative thank u
Glad it was helpful!
It doesnt have Rk3326s, there are photos of the motherboard and its a bogstandard 3326 and also memory is just DDR3. I cant post the link to the photo as there is apparently active protection against links
On the box that mine came with these are the specs I guess it could be a lie or they've revised them? I got this a few days ago.
@@MarkiTechYt No these specs were always there, they are just unfortunately made up.
😂 fair enough @@Ganimoth
R36S 1gb ddr3, bro
Actually XU10's CPU is RK3326S, which is newer and more powerful, and it comes with JELOS installed, not AmberELEC, since the end of 2023. Overall it will offer a considerably better experience than R36S
You say ACTUALLY like it isn't what was stated in the video haha
The actual chip isn't the S variant this is confirmed by openeing the device despite it stating it is the S variant on the box. Disappointing. The reason DC emulation is best on stock is because it uses a proprietary emulator rather than the Retroarch one as well
Does it at lease play Saturn Games? Maybe not Perfect
yep
I've bricked my r36s with a samsung phone charger. Is there anyway I can get it working again?
Yes plug it in to a laptop usb and let it charge. Mark
@@MarkiTechYt I've done that all day. At one point the display started working again, but it was very distorted looking. Then after restarting it the display stopped working again.
@@MarkiTechYt It worked! I let it sit all day and evening. I just checked on it and the screen is back on.
I’m playing SNES and Megadrive horizontal shooters and classic ps1 games!
For me, r36s ftw for budget king 2023
Test it with Jelos
Will do
Can someone help me find a SUPER cheap budget handheld that can PLAY at least metal gear solid & possibly psp games/GameCube Ibeen homeless for over a year and have been deeply missing my PS4 ps vits and PS5 and all my other systems. I was considering one of these devices but there's so many options out im lost at what's the best value. For the same prices I can find a ps vita offical device I can also find some of these. But I'm not sure where to place my money considering money is tight i want one thats preloaded as Ive lost so much time to trying to set these things up myself i just wanan pick up and play
For your requirements EITHER of these would be ideal - they come pre loaded with a 64gb card and more games than you can shake a stick at.
@@MarkiTechYt I got the 129 gb version. 20'000 games apparently. I think. only ordered today. I am late to the game. been kinda wrapped up in my Rog ally and Steamdeck.
Honestly i prefer the dpad style on the r36s idk for some reason I never got the appeal of the teardrop style, but as you said it's quite subjective
Yeah for sure definitely a personal preference thing rather than being objective
awesome video. Subbed and liked.
Techdweeb has a bit of a guide on his review of the XU10 that shows how to unlock all the features of the OS as it seems this is actually a lockeddown version of the amberelec software that runs the Anbernic RG351V. It does casue some issues with dreamcast though apparently if you hack it that way.
My Favourite game to emulate is Sunset riders. Cowboy western game that i only managed to finally finish after many years due to the save state feature on emulators.
Ah nice thanks!
One reason I don't recommend upgrading to Amberelec which isn't mentioned until much later in Dweebs video is that it kills Dreamcast performance which is a big no no for me
@@MarkiTechYt Agreed wouldn't do it either. Clever move from the makers of the XU10 its like they basically took the R36S, cut down on software bloat and slightly overclocked it to provide better performance out the box.
Why do you have Metal Gear Solid 4 photoshopped on the screens in the thumbnail?
Was meant to be Peacewalker oops
@@MarkiTechYt love the video!
I love emulating pc engine games like bonk and vigilante
gotta say my favourite games these days ar the ff series, ff1 all the way to 6 slap pretty hard
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Only If XU10 Has Wifi/Bluetooth It Would Be A New Budget King
great video really calming, my favo game to to emulate is mario bros(still trying to beat it lol).
Cheers mate
👍👍👍 very nice
16 quid on aliexpress decent
Bro Post A Community Or Make A Video About The Giveaway I've Been Waiting For It Lol. I Know I Won't Win But Curiosity 😅
All in good time mate the device had to be swapped out as the micro SD card is faulty. I'll chat about it in next video! Hopefully the replacement won't be too long
Can You Give Me It
в XU10 1 динамик, отверстия сзади - это для улучшенного охлаждения :LOL:
That's interesting! Thanks!
Woohoo!
R36s is better
Because you own it?
@@MarkiTechYt Better for him co's he owns it lol. better for me co's mines on way. lol