PSP are best known for the various 'analogue flavours' offered by products like the Vintage Warmer multi–band compressor, MasterQ parametric EQ, and MixPack suite. It’s definitely worth picking one up if you have a $100 budget.The market for mastering limiters is crowded, but PSP's new plug–in claims to offer higher levels of naturalness and transparency. This feels close to perfect, even if the screen isn’t super crispy and nobody really likes the terrible analogue slider. The best thing about it is that the Go Retroid team has listened to their audience, they know how important an easy setup is, how useful a touchscreen would be and integrated Wifi that lets you update your console on the go. This is a genuinely good portable retro handheld and its a handheld that will be VERY hard to beat for under $100. The build quality is great, it’s aesthetically nostalgic, has a nice little touch screen which makes the experience that little bit easier and enough power to play the retro games that you miss. Overall the Retroid Pocket 2+ is by far the best retro handheld under $100 as of now. If you’re looking to pick one of these up and expect it to play PS2 and Gamecube games you will be in for a disappointing surprise.īut it will happily play your Dreamcast and PSP games, which when you think about it for $99 that’s an incredible achievement, something which hasn’t been done yet. Some users have managed to get a handful of games working but it requires you to change settings every time you to play different games, and that’s just a pain in the backside. The same goes for PS2 gameplay, yes it has a one of the best PS2 emulators in it (which might I add is still in development) but playing the best PS2 games on it is near impossible. This is something the consumer shouldn’t be doing, and although some of you may want that, the performance from Gamecube games has made me decide to state that this cannot emulate Gamecube games well at all, it’s just not powerful enough. 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.
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