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

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

The thumbnail transition is pretty cool!

Embarrassing mistake. Take this down.

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

I LOVE the thumbnail to video transition! AMAZING WORK

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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.

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

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.

'For all intents and purposes'

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

why do they keep trying to make the screen smaller?

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

Why do videos like this that are misleading still exist?

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Promotion of mass pirating. I do believe.

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

That intro is SO SLICK going from the thumbnail!

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

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.

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

I greatly admire your thought process. This was fascinating to watch, and a little disappointing because I ordered one.

Bro! You sold me on the thumbnail! 🤌
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This is fbi stuff right here :) that is some crazy investigation

So so so funny. Thanks lad!

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. :/

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

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.

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

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.

That intro was smooth as butter

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

Great technical investigation. Good job 👏

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?

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

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.

Wow 🤯🤯🤯

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?

Don't need sticks for GBA, though