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okay so courtesy of the same crazy bastards that brought us that tiny little windows-based gaming machine we have got this should be one of the first units as far as I know the GPD XD plus and if you're wondering was that intentional the answer is yes yes it was and this is actually the least bizarre thing about the Box because I don't know what the hell that is supposed to mean when you smile the world loves him when you laugh the world fears him maybe it's a riddle maybe it's some kind of probe herb maybe it just was random words from a dictionary like this it's hard to tell but what I do know is that this thing looks pretty freaking cool it's an Android based gaming device and we are gonna put it through the paces after I tell you about tunnel they're the easy to use VPN app that makes it so people can enjoy a more open Internet to try Humble bear for free go to tunnel bear comm /l tt alright first things first let's get this baby fired up so it's pretty similar in terms of the actual construction of it to the original GPD XD which is also an Android based gaming device but they have made some upgrades under the hood to make it a little bit more robust so first let's run through it just for those of you who aren't familiar bottom is pretty plain you've got an r1 r2 l1 and l2 that for whatever reason all of these are upside down so you're apparently supposed to look at them this way okay sure it's got a headphone jack which you cannot take for granted these days it's got a mini HDMI output that is HDMI 2.0 they say in the specs but then they also say hdmi 2.0 max 2560 by 1600 resolution maybe it's a software limitation micro USB still for charging so that's how you can tell there were a couple things they did not update about the chassis and micro sd other than that we've got this it's gone oh hey there it goes okay so we've got a couple of joysticks that are actually not too shabby like as far as low profile joysticks go that's not bad we've got an l3 and an r3 volume up volume down let's make some adjustments there there we go multitask button you've got whatever this button does not clear not clear what this button does start select back home which and we've got a d-pad and actually some not bad buttons here as well now challenge number one challenge number one for me is that it ships in Chinese which has some what appeared to be some like pirated ass games on it I don't know what moopan 64 pluses I don't know what that says something about detected problem well that's an English I wasn't taking it for granted so it apparently ships with this wow that is some pretty sketchy stuff right there but hey let's try it out right --always Yoshi if you pick any one other than Yoshi and Mario 64 then you suck or you're playing with me because I would have worked pretty hard to snipe Yoshi oh I'm dropping a couple frames here but it's actually not too bad so I don't know why that is right now I haven't actually obviously spent a lot of time with it I don't know if there's any tuning that I can do I've really got to get my Mario Kart game on here because this is not pretty to watch for there's seven seven a game streamer I'm not experienced with like trying to play the game while talking eat that Luigi thank you oh go away toad you suck you suck everything about you sucks Oh terrible terrible terrible terrible Oh No okay so that's enough moopan Lupin Kart 64 here let's have a look at some of the other stuff they got going on here apparently wow this thing is like pirated AF okay if this thing manages to impress me in Super Mario World then they have a good product on their hands here because I have I have not had a great experience with Super Mario World on Android emulators so far and I'm pretty sensitive to input lag in this game so let's have a look here trust me I'm actually pretty good at this game there we go this the buttons are reversed oh wow the button mapping ooh oh right okay where are the settings for this emulator all right yeah this is Chinese is all Health also the input lag is not great something's not playable it's not playable I don't know if it's in the emulators themselves or if it's in the manufacturers of the devices but there's a lot of room to improve this experience and some people like if you're super basic then I guess that's fine but well we've only got one piece one about one thing in here see I had su / Hatsune sure let's go with difficult I'm sure this thing is gonna kick my ass wait well I don't know what the buttons do Brandon oh okay so we've got they like electricity whip now that's pretty dope yeah you eat you can't do yeah thank you electricity went loving it so overall performance in the included emulators is actually pretty good and 64 we struggled a little bit but Super Famicom the joysticks feel good still d-pad is actually pretty good it's hard to find a decent d-pad these days and the buttons are reasonably clicky all considering like how low-profile the whole thing feels in terms of performance they've got some decent specs under the hood on this thing so it's a mediatek 81 76 4 gigs of ram they're using a power v r GX 2650 we've upgraded the storage to emmc 5.0 so launch times actually feel pretty darn snappy about as good as you can expect for a device that's you know this kind of a cost but so far I have one small problem still I can't figure out how to get out of this interface this like Metro UI type thing and I can't figure out how to change the language so I have to call in a specialist here now I can't tell the difference last one day I'm gonne forget how this became you know doesn't return a kiss because you're not gonna forget oh there we go so we can change the launcher in those settings so this is a more conventional Android launcher here's all your apps what's that yes yeah it's fine out here okay so can we taste your language to English oh yeah you can't change it does it say change to English in Chinese because normally it says it in the oh there we go English okay okay okay okay thank you so overall impressions now that I've got it running in English actually not a bad little device there's still a lot of stuff that's not translated to be very clear I mean look at this like all the game names under the emulator menu are still in Chinese for the Super Famicom same for the n64 like to be clear I would prefer if there was something like a Gen 2 of an Nvidia shield but for the price you're paying it's not bad if you're willing to go and like manually add Google Play services and the Google Play Store and all that stuff because the hardware's pretty good it's got a six thousand milliamp hour battery so whether you're running Android games which should run better than last gen or whether you're running emulators which mostly should run better than last gen but certain ones like Nintendo dolphin or Wii emulators won't run because they require a 64-bit processor screen is actually surprisingly good so it's a 720p 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