Anbernic Says IT IS 3:2 Screen! - RG 34XX SP Review

Don't need sticks for GBA, though

Hold on. You say it's 1280x960? So it's not just a case of part of the screen being masked off, they actually under-reported the horizontal resolution?

Wow 🤯🤯🤯

That makes sense. Probably hard to source a 3:2 screen without going the custom route and then adding another 50 to the price to compensate for the cost of a custom screen. THOUGH, what doesn't make sense, limiting the resolution. Why wouldn't you use a 3:2 resolution that uses 1280 horizontal and whatever vertical? So something like 1260x840, to keep the sharpness.

Someone please mod it to unlock the 4:3 aspect ratio and we can 3d print a new bezel

I think I'm going to wait for the next handheld that will make use of the full screen. Is there a way to mod it to take advantage of the full screen?

Great technical investigation. Good job 👏

why sell one device, when you can make it worse and sell it twice

That intro was smooth as butter

I just don't get why now we've received two separate handhelds that have cut off pixels with a 'whoops we hope you wouldn't notice' from the companies. Like I'd rather they just admit what type of screen they are using and be done with it.

So now instead of getting this. I'll just wait until they get it right

I always wondered where they found such a big display at 3:2 for the og 34xx as i love to mod gba and the largest i could ever source was 3.2 inches. Makes sense so 4:3 960p with a custom display controller from the display manufacturer to crop it to 3:2 at 3x scaled.

Anbernic released a response opposing this vid
Interesting to see where this goes

as someone who doesn't mind black bars, i would have just preferred they gave us a smaller plastic bezel and a fully visible 3.5" 4:3 screen. :/

So so so funny. Thanks lad!

This is fbi stuff right here :) that is some crazy investigation

Bro! You sold me on the thumbnail! 🤌
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I greatly admire your thought process. This was fascinating to watch, and a little disappointing because I ordered one.

So are you going to give an update that this was wrong information? It's been proven the screen truly is 3:2 with a resolution of 720x480

You mention that if they set a higher output resolution to use the entire 4:3 screen would use more memory. This is the only XX device with 2GB of RAM instead of 1GB.

Curious if it will be possible to “unlock” the full screen in the future

That intro is SO SLICK going from the thumbnail!

Don't you mean it's a 720 x 540 screen?

Promotion of mass pirating. I do believe.

How they’re able to get essentially pixel perfect scaling for 720x480 content kinda breaks my brain.

Would be really cool if you could somehow have a 1280x960 device that is able to leverage that firmware. But even still, running 5x integer scaling for (effectively) a 3.1” 1200x800 screen on a device that offers that full resolution would be excellent.

I’ll keep my pitchfork sir, they messed up with this. Sticks with a device designed for GBA?????? WHY???????

They're all selling the next best thing with a flaw on purpose so they can sell you next one acting like theyre improving it. Its gonna be RG40xxSP with another flaw

Will the 35SP work on the 34SP with some software mod if you swap them?

So it is possible to change the 3.4 to 3.5 LCD?

So it's the retroid mini all over again but accurately scaled. idk why they would limit this system so much by chopping the screen, I'd be so much more interested if the full pixels were available. Don't need joysticks for GBA... It's just puzzling why these companies make these bizarre design choices. Can always throw an overlay on for GBA and make it look more like an SP anyway.

It's official, retroid and ambernic are the same company. There's no way that 2 different companies could both be so idiotic with these fugly bezels forcing screens to be ratios that nobody wants.

I was going to bomuy this but now I kinda don't want to and wait to see if possibly they'd make one using the whole screen... that is. If all the findings are actually correct.

If you really see it with your eyes, you will know that it is a 3:2 pixel to pixel screen

"I think that clamshells are superior, and I know I'm correct." Love it 😂

Why do videos like this that are misleading still exist?

This is now a trend. More and more of handhelds with weird screens

why do they keep trying to make the screen smaller?

Damn. Almost.. this device almost the perfect one for me. IDK, for me it makes sense the other way around. Like this 34xx without analog stick, and 35xx with analog stick

'For all intents and purposes'

For most authentic GBA experience going with 3:2 is the right move. There are million other retro devices that do everything, but few that had 3:2 perfection. Anbernic get a W, Retro reviewers wanting 4:3 in this device get an L.

So close, but so many questions. Why sticks? Why that RAM? Just throwing stuff at it.

The thumbnail transition was masterful. Thanks for the video. The fact, that they artificially “worsen” their screen is beyond comprehension for me. The whole screen would be much more usable for most emulation.

This video needs to be replaced with a new video with correct information.

I LOVE the thumbnail to video transition! AMAZING WORK

So we just wait for them to pull Retroid Pocket Mini and release the "fixed" version with a 4:3 display, got it. Thanks!

They seem to be afraid to release something so good it would make people stop buying new ones lol

Embarrassing mistake. Take this down.

The thumbnail transition is pretty cool!

audio out of sync, same in the last video of yours I saw.