Retroid Pocket 2 Plus

The RP2+ is one of the best budget handhelds I have used and I have a few, It plays everything I throw at it, from Spectrum to Dreamcast, along with some Saturn and plenty of PSX and Arcade, setup is not turn on and off you go there is a little more to it, but there are plenty of videos online to get you going, I was up and running in an hour or so, the touch screen is so perfect and helpful too, since then I have tweaked it myself getting everything how I want it, I would suggest buying a 128gb MicroSD card I went with a U3 class 10 A2 and its perfect, fits all my games on no problems along with some movies and other stuff.

All in all its a a great handheld console, runs android so you get access to google play and everything else, decent battery though I am only getting about 5 hours from it, but plugging it into something is simple enough and there is always a usb-c charger somewhere, I hook my Bluetooth headphones up to it and the sound is great even from the built in speakers when they get used, oh don't forget to grab a case for it too as they seem to be pretty hard to find.

As for DroiX, they were great, super nice and very helpful customer support keeping me up to date every step of the way with my order, delivery was really fast once they had stock, hopefully they will be getting the Ayn Loki's in stock so I can grab one of them too.

Its fun grab one while you can.

This is my first retro handheld. I have previously set up retropie on raspberry pi4. In comparison this was a little easier to set up. You still need to know what you are doing and it takes an investment of time to get everything up and running. So far I've been able to get most older consoles up and running such as SNES and Megadrive etc.. without any problems or tweaking. Still working on playstation, N64 and Saturn. Dreamcast working perfectly. There is a great set up guide on YouTube which really helped with a lot of things I couldn't work out myself. Im still working through the tutorials and setting things up and tweaking settings. Overall for the price it's the best value for what it can do compared to other handhelds in this price range. What it can do for the price is pretty amazing really. I wanted to try an entry level handheld before I committed to something more expensive like the AYN Odin Pro but to be honest I don't see me requiring anything else for some time now. Really pleased I bought this as I feel for what I wanted it to do the other handhelds on the market would have been an unnecessarily expensive purchase. I don't require it to play anything above Dreamcast/playstation so it suits my needs perfectly. Good build quality. Battery life looks good so far. Screen and picture is good for this price range. The controllers are responsive and comfortable to use. Touch screen is fit for purpose. I can't fault it at all, for my needs at least. As for Droix: item delivered as described and earlier than expected!

Retroid Pocket 2 Plus Retro Handheld

In terms of the actual handheld is say it’s 4.5, only really let down by the slightly weird right stick (the gate feels off or something), kinda wish it was another like the left stick but it is barely used anyway. As for set up I kept getting a load of errors and never actually got it to work as intended, instead I just boot into RetroArch and do everything in there because I couldn’t get the launcher with the nice thumbnails to work properly, and when I did it had 2 warnings to dismiss every time etc. Now that I’ve found a way to use it though and the controls are correct if feels very good to play with, and the battery life seems insane currently. I had 3.5 hours on the train playing earlier this week with Bluetooth headphones and it was still only down to 86%. Overall, very happy with the console, looking forward to playing some other emulated consoles once I work out how to get them rolling.

I’m getting so much joy from this device. I’m on Retro heaven.

Quality device and I couldn’t be happier with this purchase.