4.0 out of 5 stars

Aside from short battery life, this is the one for 3d retro/MAME Arcade gaming and even PC games!

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I didn’t purchase the product from here but wanted something that wouldn’t require me to be online all of the time and would allow me to drag and drop files easily to play games. I know that the steam deck is very price friendly for what it offers but for someone who was living nomadic at the time, I had very limited access to WiFi so I knew that the Deck wouldn’t be up my alley for that simple reason being. So I took a gamble on buying this product instead around December of 2022. Still to this day play it and I’ll get the battery criticism out of the way. Depending on the Watts (tdp) that you have set for the handheld will have the battery life between 1 and a half to 3 hours, so I just leave it on the charger since I don’t mind playing it at home.For me, I really love playing arcade games and the 3d arcade games at that. I was never able to play the Arcade version of games on my old PC like Tekken Tag Tournament, Bloody Roar 2, Steep Slope Sliders, San Francisco Rush, Mortal Kombat 4, Cruis’n World, Gauntlet Legends, Ridge Racer, NFL Blitz. Yes, you can play the actual Arcade version of these games that are smaller size files than the console versions that are bigger files. I even managed to get Sega model 2 (Virtua Fighter 2, Sega Rally Championship, Top Skater, even Virtua Cop with mouse support), Sega Model 3 (Virtua Fighter 3, Sega Rally 2, Virtual On 2), DEMUL (runs Hikaru arcade games like Air Trix and Planet harriers).I really made sure to try out every program that I was usually unable to get running on my previous PCs and I must say that every ran well. And if it didn’t (for instance the Xbox emu Xemu and PS3 emu RPCS3), I just go to the Ayaspace app and turn up my tdp(Watts) in between 14-18W and it runs smooth for the most part. With the controls, I really love the analog triggers for racing games for I feel more control with acceleration and braking. But I will admit that whenever it came to setting up my controls, the main inputs I struggled to set were the left stick button and right stick button. I would keep setting the input to left stick x-axis or right stick y-axis accidentally and kept position my thumbs to input the stick buttons like L3 and R3. They do click, it’s just that the movement on the analog sticks can be pretty sensitive when it comes to setting up input on that part. No analog stick drifting thankfully!In all it’s understandable if this product is too much for you to spend on, but if like me you just mainly Play retro games all the way up to OG Xbox, Wii/Switch, PS2/PS3 and love 3D arcade gaming that’s usually difficult to play on other devices then I highly recommend this product. Also recommended for those who live the Nomadic RV life and don’t mind offline gaming. Just be sure to keep it on the charger for extended period play. And it’ll hook up to your TV via USB-C to HDMI converter cable. Check out YouTube videos on the product if needed for there are folks who regret having this product, but I don’t regret it since I’m not too focused on overboard high graphics and more focused on gameplay at the end of the day.

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Recomiendo una versión mejor

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Quizás tuve la mala suerte de tener drift con los joystick que se supone son antidrift, yo recomendaría más la Steam deck pues aya neo saca nuevos modelos olvidando los anteriores y la atención al cliente es deficiente.

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