 Sorry, I just I I just ate a lot of Jimmy John's I ate mine and Kim's and I'm feeling super bloated I didn't expect to be making another video about a handheld console this suit. I Okay, I There it is I wanted to unbox this because of one comment I had on my steam deck video But I wanted to clarify when I open the steam deck and I said I can't believe it just came in this box with the Power cord on the outside and it didn't come in a box box Somebody commented did you want them to write steam deck on the on the box or the mailman knew what it was and would steal it That's legit a comment. I saw it. No, I wanted it to come in a box But then inside I wanted it's not even that I wanted but I figured it would come in a box Because products usually arrive in a box I don't know why I took the time to go on that rant for one person, but whatever alright, so we have the Odin by the way very confusing name because we had the a and neo now We have the a and Odin and they're not related in any way I was live on Twitch when this thing I guess dropped and everyone in the chat and also Bob Well, like are you gonna buy this it's just released and I looked at it and I was like this thing It looks sick. I thought it would be like a steam deck or a and neo situation turns out after the fact It's more targeted towards emulation of older consoles So at first when I realized that I was like, oh, I don't know if I really want that then I mean, I'm not super big in an emulation or playing retro stuff. I mean, I have all the old retro games But then I actually had an idea and you've probably seen it in the title in the thumbnail So let's just open it because I'm really excited to do this now Bob got his weeks months ago Actually, that's because he ordered a basic one I ordered the atomic purple one and I guess that just took him a while to get the shell together Wow, very nice packaging. Oh, yeah, and I got the pro model. I forgot what I bought. It's been so long Whoa, I didn't expect it to be so small. Oh, that's so cute We got really nice clicky buttons on the d-pad and the x y a and b They've gone for a really flush look which I don't mind But when the toggles are like indented and almost flush with the console It kind of feels like I'm thumbing the whole console. I kind of like how the switch is raised up But there's also back buttons on here, which I didn't expect. So yeah, a very cute little handheld I want to quickly look at the Indiegogo page to see what I bought. Okay So I bought the Odin Pro super pack for $400 which came with the Odin Pro 128 gigabytes charging cable super doc HDMI cable screen protector hard shell bag earbuds charger Oh, yeah, it has LED lights around the toggles passive and active cooling HDMI out obviously game streaming was something else They enforced there's a picture here that has like red dead cyberpunk gears 5 so it has a 1080p LCD screen. All right, you know what? Very cool stats on this little thing. Let's get it plugged in Oh, that's a nice little animation. They got there. All right. Welcome to aya Odin. Let's get started Oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah, I don't know what the AOSP launcher is, but it looks more like a desktop So I'm gonna select the Odin launcher for now. Oh, you can change the wallpaper. Of course you can now I should be able to search for applications Okay, I have no idea how to do anything with this from here. Maybe I will literally ask Bob Hey friend. I just turned on my AI in Odin. How do I start downloading apps and stuff? Do you see the left side menu on the bottom? It should say like system apps or something. Oh Do you see the play store? Oh, oh, yeah, the left menu that slides out was over the top of it Oh, yeah, click if you want and that's all on google play Oh, I was taking your coffee taking your coffee. That's fine. If you want suggestions on the emulators again I appreciate you my fellow co-host of the nontendo podcast Which is the number one podcast on apple podcast and you can listen to it and watch it right here on youtube I appreciate you too. Okay. Bye. Sounds like every emulator is on the google play store Which I can instantly access here on the a odin so that couldn't be more simple The last thing we really have to look at is uh the dock. I mean, it's kind of neat I'm wondering why they chose like a glass protective sleeve over the top here Surely the screen doesn't stay on for you to look at right or No, well Maybe it does. This is kind of cool. And once I get it loaded up with all my nintendo emulators It's going to be a perfect addition alongside my switch and my steam deck. Oh, I'm set, baby If anyone ever said I didn't like handheld gaming. This should be the proof that I do give me some time This is going to take the whole night. I'm guessing. I'm fortunate to have lived my life at the intersection Oh, sorry. Hi. 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I turned this thing into a completely portable virtual nintendo console machine It wasn't as easy as I would have hoped but let me show you there we go, baby Just like that and yes, it actually all works So if we go to the nes and load it up, it'll take us to all my games Obviously if we pick one zelda hit play and you're playing zelda So now here is where we start running into several issues If you know your way around apps like dolphin and retro arc or whatever it is you use to emulate You probably know what to expect from here You can expect a lot of controls not being mapped right away And you having to go into the settings of each emulator and map the controls manually Wow, you might get good at that or you might know your way around that. There's always hiccups Well, I mean, I don't know where you even want to begin with the hiccups But this right here is the odin main menu and I can't do anything with it I can change the wallpaper This was my backup plan of just kind of making it look like a switch home screen But I can't actually change any of these icons So I had to download a launcher and I chose the dig launcher because I found that somebody had created a nintendo switch theme for the launcher Now the launcher isn't what's emulating the games the launcher finds the games on the console Then you tell it what app to use to emulate the games It's not too bad because if you don't have the program to launcher It will direct you to google play store to download whatever it is that you need So as much as some things are complicated other things are really easy For example getting games on here super easy Okay, really quickly I look like crap doesn't matter I'm not going to tell you where to download a rom because I'll get in trouble But I just downloaded thousand year door on my pc It is not on the odin yet the odin is plugged into my pc Just like it would be any kind of storage device. I am dragging thousand year door Over to the folder where I keep the roms on the odin. It copied to it. It's already here. Literally. I just did it It took two seconds and I'm already emulating and playing thousand year door The only thing that's frustrating Is again, you have to map the control so you have to come up here in the settings You have to do the game cube input and then you have to one by one map everything to the first controller port And it'll save it and then you can play everything portably But then we get this guy bob told me that the screen stays on when you're playing docked Which is obviously why they went with glass here But I guess they updated it which is great because it draws power leaving the screen on which you don't want So they looks like they've added an update where the screen turns off now And it just completely throws to the console It still vibrates this whole unit on the tv cabinet was going crazy while I was playing smash And I obviously plugged in the game cube controller to try emulating smash in game cube games when you plug it in It recognizes you've plugged a game cube controller into the game cube port, but it won't automatically Know what to do with it again You have to go in a dolphin and you have to map everything Which is made even worse by the fact that it's going by the first port So if you've mapped the first port on here game cube controller one is mapped to these It'll still use these even when it's docked You have to go back in the game cube controller one and then you have to map everything all over again While you're on the tv then you can play like normal Which means whenever you're done and you want that nice pulling it out of the dock And now you're playing portably which it very almost does the controls are unmapped I tried mapping the controls to the other controller port But it just wouldn't work unless I mapped it to game cube controller one I guess I'll just leave it there with getting the games on here and playing is actually pretty easy despite working around Emulators that crash constantly and have their own bugs unless you want to ride just Portably and not worry about the dock and set everything up once then you should be fine But I had a lot of other issues with this thing too. I put game pass on here I was streaming halo infinite and it worked. It's all cloud streaming But honestly, it was really receptive xbox's x cloud service is really solid honestly, but plugging it into the dock It was interesting playing halo infinite with a game cube controller But the c-stick was moving very slowly and like lightly I tried just plugging in the 360 controller and it picked it up right away It knew what I was trying to use all the controls were technically working But every time I would try and move and look around the camera would just pivot right down on my feet And I couldn't bring it back no matter what I tried to do I tried unplugging and re-plugging restarting the console restarting the game Also, this does have 4k upscaling and a game like wind waker a couple of graphical glitches aside I thought it was playing and looking really great But blowing this up for some reason it just looked horrible horrible It was like still trying to stream it to this small screen But to the whole tv it did not look good. But on here right now I mean this looks pretty sick and again no issues super responsive But again your phones can do that but you have these controls which I didn't have to map these actually just started working I'm not going to ask how or why I'm just going to be very thankful some other interesting experiences I had genshin impact does not support a controller for the android phone So what I had to do was a cheeky workaround where when you load up a game like genshin impact You can touch map all over the screen and map it to the controls So essentially what it would do is simulate you were pressing the screen when you're pressing a button pretty cool And also kind of cheating in genshin impact. I mean there's no problem with it You're playing solo mode and honestly it works fantastic Really, this is the only way to play genshin in a nice way portably There isn't why it's cheating is because in apex legends. It's a mobile version It's only mobile players and I had a couple of games with all these poor players Suffering through trying to play a game with multiple abilities and Reloading and aiming and shooting and moving and looking around and they're trying to all do it by touching their screen Like you literally watch other players suffer to try and even stand and still and aim at the same time while I'm just Beast-moting everything but not everything is great a tunnel the card game. Yeah, I know I know I talked about it in my switch video in my steam deck video and now here we are again That doesn't support on board controls. It seems like either it did say that it did But I cannot get it to work and that's not a game that you can just touch map things too Because you have like a whole hand of cards down the bottom of the screen and sometimes you might want the left one Sometimes you might want the right one. I mean, it's not really an issue because you can use touch screen But then you could also just play on your phone But I do think it's cool that because it's essentially just an android phone or tablet You can go on the play store and download literally any mobile game to play So you got mobile games. You got emulators and you've got streaming There is a lot you can do with this thing and it does all of it pretty well And it's a really nice build and it does come with a dock if you're willing to mess around with that I am really proud of this fake virtual console that I've built and for the most part it does work I made all of these icons myself by the way in the photo shop I was also proud of that a big disappointment though. This thing when I bought it it was supposed to have lights Not a selling factor, but it was a part of the draw for sure And I got mine and if you slide this menu out to the left, you've got handle light and joystick light I tried turning these buttons on and off to get the lights to work. They would never turn on So I told bob I think mine is broken and he looked it up and uh laughed at me because apparently the atomic purple version doesn't come with lights I What oh and I also didn't talk about that next to these lights that don't work You can switch between normal performance and high performance and high performance the fan kicks up But it does help get a little bit extra out of the games like with smash brothers melee on the dolphin emulator You can only play it in high performance anything less and it really chugs which i'm not too happy about I do think i'm going to stick with my switch. I'm going to stick with my steam deck These have hit a lot more for me than this has but I do like it. It is a portable lightweight emulation machine that can also stream games if you want to It's just not for me. It's not something that I need or really something that I want which begs the question Why did I buy it? Because I thought it had cool lights I hope you liked the video. If you did, please like comment and subscribe check out my twitch streams Check out my podcast the nontendo podcast. It's a whole thing. It has a whole channel. It's been a ton of fun Episode three comes out soon. I don't know