You can increase performance slightly but it will require hours of tweaking and siving through forums and spreadsheets to find the correct settings. It doesn’t perform well, and the small screen alongside the analogue slider just makes it a little awkward to play on. PSP and Dreamcast emulation is something we are seeing on handhelds around the $150 mark, but the Retroid Pocket 2+ after some tweaking emulates these games quite well, to a state where I am comfortable with the outcome. Now when you move onto the newer consoles I found myself having to tweak settings and change things in order to get good quality gameplay out of this handheld. One of my favourites was playing a wide number of the best Pokemon games, all while going over to our sister-site known as Pokemon Helper for the best Pokemon guides around (yes this is a plug, go take a look at what we are building!). Older consoles such as Gameboy, Neo Geo, SNES, NES and Game Gear will run well on here, and that’s quite normal nowadays, it has a wide amount of buttons to support fluid gameplay across these consoles too. So Brandon, what can it emulate? Well, the Retroid Pocket 2+ can obviously emulate more than the original, an after testing it does just that, but some emulators require tinkering and if you’ve been subscribed to the channel for a while, you know I really dislike having to put hours into messing around with settings just to get games running fluidly.

This again shows you what matters to the Go Retroid team instead of forcing a whole new handheld down your through every couple of months….

They’ve made a really great looking product here, and they even have a drop in upgrade for those of you that already have the older Retroid Pocket 2 and fancy saving a few bucks by doing it yourself.

Retroid pocket 2 play store