While you can opt to use the 'full' Android menu if you wish, the star of the show here is the Retroid Launcher, which gives you a stripped-down Switch-style UI and even scrapes online to automatically pull in cover artwork for your ROMs ( which you will have legally acquired, of course). Sadly, the rubber flap which covers the MicroSD card slot has been retained in the Pocket 2+ – it's a pain to get open and an even bigger pain to seal shut again.Īnother change is the adoption of Android 9 (the original model shipped with Android 6), and the introduction of some fancy new firmware which massively streamlines the setup process and makes the Pocket 2+ 'feel' more like a proper games console, rather than a handheld that has been adapted to use a smartphone UI. ![]() There's 2GB of RAM as well as 32GB of internal storage, and you can once again use a MicroSD card to boost that total. There's a new Unisoc Quad-core Tiger T310 chipset powering this device, and it's a lot more adept than the RK3326 found in the original version. Under the hood is where we find perhaps the most dramatic changes. ![]() The handheld is available in a range of colours, and the Nintendo influence is clear – three of those options are based on the SNES, Game Boy and GameCube, the latter being the one we're reviewing here. The body remains identical, as does the 3.5-inch 640 x 480-pixel display – however, the latter now has a touch interface, which solves one of the biggest complaints we had with the original Pocket 2. ![]() ![]() However, as we alluded to in that opening paragraph, you'd be forgiven for assuming this is the same system as the standard Retroid Pocket 2 at first glance. As before, it's an Android-powered device with a focus on gaming and emulation, but the team at GoRetroid has been hard at work fixing some of the issues we had with the original – as well as boosting its internal specifications. You may well look at images of the shiny new Retroid Pocket 2+ and think you've seen it somewhere else before – that's because this is an iteration on the original Retroid Pocket 2, which we covered last year.
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