R36S Handheld Game Console Linux System

I think this is a great little gaming system. It runs on ArkOS and uses emulation station. This is a very easy operation system to learn. While on any menu screen it shows at the bottom of the screen what buttons do what. So until you learn them all you need to do is look at the screen for instructions. The screen on this is very nice! It's plenty bright and vibrant. I keep mine at 65% and that is plenty bright in a dark or lit room. The general build of mine seems nice and the plastic feels solid and doesn't flex when gripped. I think the d-pad works well and is not stiff at all like some game systems. The A B X Y buttons all work great for me although some might find the buttons to be on the smaller size. The sound is decent for only having one speaker. As far as game play pretty much every game I tried works as good as I would expect. The only game emulator that I had any issues with was under the MAME2003 category. Some of the games would not start and it would just return to the menu. This is probably because some of the games listed under this category need a different emulator and won't work with MAME2003. You can change emulators for every system on this device except for the MAME2003 for some reason. The games that wouldn't work probably would have worked with fbneo as the emulator if I had been able to switch to that. Anyway all of the other systems work fine and you can switch emulators on them to improve game play. All dreamcast games I tried worked. All psp mini games I tried worked. All ps1 games I tried worked. There are over 14,000 games that come on this thing so the few that I found that don't work is just a drop in the bucket compared to what does work. The battery life on this so far has been great and the battery is easily accessible because this actually has a battery door that's easy to open. I have found that I have been able to play for long periods without my hands getting cramped so to me this form factor is comfortable but I do not have large hands. All in all this is a good starting point for someone looking to get into retro gaming without a large learning curve. A good value for what you get.

I have been seeing these all over the internet as viral ROM handheld players in the old fashioned gameboy-like style. This thing is impressive and plays the majority of games really well. It has tons and tons of titles and tells you how to import more from your PC if need be. The screen quality is incredible and it gives a modern feel to the nostalgic games I play. Great as a gift for someone that grew up with these games or for yourself. The only gripe I have with it is that it is not intuitive as to how to switch games when you're already in one. I just turn it off and turn it back on.

I don't know much about games, but my boy loved it and he says it was his best gift! My sister has already seen it and is going to order it too

This handheld gaming console is an absolute smoking hot value! It includes a huge variety of games from a wide variety of consoles. Despite its small size, it has lots of control options. It even allows for using touch controls on DS games via a cursor and the bottom right joystick. The screen is bright and vibrant. We haven’t tried adding additional games, because everything we have wanted has been included. Some of these consoles have confusing menus; this one is the complete opposite. You can easily cycle through consoles, and there is a search function that allows you to find any game you want. Overall, I cannot recommend this R36S handheld game console highly enough.

Wow… my childhood