You can now buy this nostalgic Game Boy Advance clone

Anbernic’s latest handheld, which upgrades the plan of Nintendo’s Game Boy Advance with a larger screen, other buttons, and the quality to play games done emulation, is present available. The RG34XX tin beryllium ordered done Anbernic’s website for $69.99, but is discounted to $63.99 until December 18th. It comes successful 4 colors, including the GBA’s archetypal purple and black, arsenic good arsenic transparent greenish and reddish options.

Although it looks astir identical to the archetypal GBA’s hardware, the RG34XX adds a brace of further enactment buttons, 2 much enarthrosis buttons, microSD paper slots, an HDMI port, and a larger 3.4-inch show with a 720x480 solution and a 3:2 facet ratio. The handheld besides appears to transportation implicit the GBA’s measurement dial, but it’s really a two-way toggle power allowing the measurement to beryllium adjusted up and down successful tiny increments.

The RG34XX lone became disposable for merchantability starting today, but Anbernic sent units to reviewers past week truthful we already person our archetypal impressions of the caller handheld. Russ Crandall, who runs the YouTube transmission Retro Game Corps, recovered the emulator to beryllium a “nearly perfect” recreation of Nintendo’s hardware. That tin beryllium either a bully oregon atrocious thing, depending connected however you retrieve the GBA’s ergonomics.

The RG34XX is powered by the Allwinner H700 chipset that Anbernic has already utilized successful 8 different devices. It won’t beryllium capable to play each the games released for 3D consoles similar the Nintendo 64, Sega Dreamcast, and Sony PSP, but the handheld volition grip 16-bit games with ease, and excels astatine emulating the Game Boy Advance fixed the matching surface ratio.

Retro Handhelds, a tract that focuses connected portable devices for playing classical games, besides recovered the RG34XX to beryllium an close recreation of the GBA, but recovered it a small cramped for larger hands to play. The RG34XX’s superior enarthrosis buttons, located successful the aforesaid presumption arsenic the GBA’s felt good. However, the secondary set, which are smaller and positioned person to wherever the GBA’s cartridge slot was located, were not precise comfy to use.