MrLimatex
Voip Guy
Good morning guys,
with this post, I do my first step into the english board. Why now? I was just a reader, not a writer. Now I have something to say.
Yesterday, I've received my GPD XD+. I was really really excited, because I do love handhelds from the bottom of my heart. Some years ago, someone posted the Archos Gamepad into the german board, I thought the GPD may be something like this.
What I don't like:
- Emulators and ROMS are built into the device. This is absolute a no go. Reallly, I may appreciate the effort the vendor did for the customer to be able to play instantly, after the device was turned on, but I hate that these ROMS look like they where stolen from some kind of website a few minuted ago. I don't want to say that I am an angel regarding ROMS, but I don't want to earn money with stolen content. And that is something different to the GP2x or GPH handhelds in the past. ED never shipped them with build in games. Thats something I really loved. I know, he isn't the one that puts the games on the device, but the vendor .... thats a bitch move.
- The perfomance in some 3D games. Hell yeah. A six core cpu, a hd display. I thought nothing could be better. But haha. The performance was like hell. I tried out different emulators and ROMS, but I wasn't able to play (for example) PSone games like I did on the Pandora. It was absolutly impossible for me to play the games with the same immersion like in the past. I can't play a game that is stuttering around, that as some lags or sound issues .... no.
.... nope.
What I like:
- The performance in 2D games and some 3D games. Not everything was bad. I had some nice time playing my favourite 2D games like Castlevania, Metroid, Mario and so on.
- Well working Android itself. When I compare the performance with the Pandora, the GPD of course wins. I can watch youtube without any struggle, I can access my emails fast, I can also stream movies from my NAS and more. Like with my smartphone. It had no problems with the operating system, even if it is just android and no real linux desktop. For a console of this type, android really is enough. You have tons of apps and games. And the version 7 isn't that old. Only the translation was bad. I can see here and there text in english and sometimes in german.
- The build quality. From my perspective, the PGD XD+ is well build. The sticks are quite fine, the dpad is okay (when I compare to the GP2X WIZ, its WAY better, but the NDS is still the boss in the ring) and I really like the shoulder buttons. Even the screen is okay for a device in this price range. When the device lay on my table, it looked like my Nintendo 3DS.
Summary
It breaks my heart, but after the whole day yesterday, I will send the GPD back to ED. I am really not satisfied with the device, because I also want to play 3D games as I want. Maybe my conditions for this device where way to high, but in 2018 a device for more than 200€ should be able to do this.
I will buy a Pandora again, just for the time until the Pyra is on the market. The Pandora can't play N64 well, but the GPD also coudn't as I wish. So in general the Pandora still is the boss in the ring, when it comes to emulation of PSX and so on, without stuttering.And I can even play C64 and Amiga games, without a virtual keyboard.
Maybe someone can also say thing about the console, maybe I am really just a spoiled brat, regarding handhelds.
with this post, I do my first step into the english board. Why now? I was just a reader, not a writer. Now I have something to say.
Yesterday, I've received my GPD XD+. I was really really excited, because I do love handhelds from the bottom of my heart. Some years ago, someone posted the Archos Gamepad into the german board, I thought the GPD may be something like this.
What I don't like:
- Emulators and ROMS are built into the device. This is absolute a no go. Reallly, I may appreciate the effort the vendor did for the customer to be able to play instantly, after the device was turned on, but I hate that these ROMS look like they where stolen from some kind of website a few minuted ago. I don't want to say that I am an angel regarding ROMS, but I don't want to earn money with stolen content. And that is something different to the GP2x or GPH handhelds in the past. ED never shipped them with build in games. Thats something I really loved. I know, he isn't the one that puts the games on the device, but the vendor .... thats a bitch move.
- The perfomance in some 3D games. Hell yeah. A six core cpu, a hd display. I thought nothing could be better. But haha. The performance was like hell. I tried out different emulators and ROMS, but I wasn't able to play (for example) PSone games like I did on the Pandora. It was absolutly impossible for me to play the games with the same immersion like in the past. I can't play a game that is stuttering around, that as some lags or sound issues .... no.
.... nope.
What I like:
- The performance in 2D games and some 3D games. Not everything was bad. I had some nice time playing my favourite 2D games like Castlevania, Metroid, Mario and so on.
- Well working Android itself. When I compare the performance with the Pandora, the GPD of course wins. I can watch youtube without any struggle, I can access my emails fast, I can also stream movies from my NAS and more. Like with my smartphone. It had no problems with the operating system, even if it is just android and no real linux desktop. For a console of this type, android really is enough. You have tons of apps and games. And the version 7 isn't that old. Only the translation was bad. I can see here and there text in english and sometimes in german.
- The build quality. From my perspective, the PGD XD+ is well build. The sticks are quite fine, the dpad is okay (when I compare to the GP2X WIZ, its WAY better, but the NDS is still the boss in the ring) and I really like the shoulder buttons. Even the screen is okay for a device in this price range. When the device lay on my table, it looked like my Nintendo 3DS.
Summary
It breaks my heart, but after the whole day yesterday, I will send the GPD back to ED. I am really not satisfied with the device, because I also want to play 3D games as I want. Maybe my conditions for this device where way to high, but in 2018 a device for more than 200€ should be able to do this.
I will buy a Pandora again, just for the time until the Pyra is on the market. The Pandora can't play N64 well, but the GPD also coudn't as I wish. So in general the Pandora still is the boss in the ring, when it comes to emulation of PSX and so on, without stuttering.And I can even play C64 and Amiga games, without a virtual keyboard.
Maybe someone can also say thing about the console, maybe I am really just a spoiled brat, regarding handhelds.
