You Can Now Buy This Nostalgic Game Boy Advance Clone

Anbernic’s latest handheld, which upgrades nan creation of Nintendo’s Game Boy Advance with a larger screen, different buttons, and nan expertise to play games done emulation, is now 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 nan GBA’s original purple and black, arsenic bully arsenic transparent greenish and reddish options.

Although it looks astir identical to nan original GBA’s hardware, nan RG34XX adds a brace of further action buttons, 2 overmuch enarthrosis buttons, microSD insubstantial slots, an HDMI port, and a larger 3.4-inch show pinch a 720x480 solution and a 3:2 facet ratio. The handheld too appears to proscription complete nan GBA’s measurement dial, but it’s really a two-way toggle move allowing nan measurement to beryllium adjusted up and down successful mini increments.

The RG34XX only became disposable for discarded starting today, but Anbernic sent units to reviewers past week truthful we already personification our first impressions of nan caller handheld. Russ Crandall, who runs nan YouTube transmission Retro Game Corps, recovered nan emulator to beryllium a “nearly perfect” recreation of Nintendo’s hardware. That tin beryllium either a bully aliases bad thing, depending connected really you retrieve nan GBA’s ergonomics.

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

Retro Handhelds, a tract that focuses connected portable devices for playing classical games, too recovered nan RG34XX to beryllium an meticulous recreation of nan GBA, but recovered it a mini cramped for larger hands to play. The RG34XX’s superior enarthrosis buttons, located successful nan aforesaid position arsenic nan GBA’s felt good. However, nan secondary set, which are smaller and positioned personification to wherever nan GBA’s cartridge slot was located, were not very comfortable to use.