JXD Multifunctional Video Game Console 5.1 inch 7500 Free Retro Games Handheld Game Console Portable Pocket Children’s Game Player Mini Arcade Emulator Device mp3/4 Holiday (White)

Lots of games on a large screen
This is one of many retro handhelds I’ve bought in the past few months. I really love these cheaper ones because of all the hacked games on it besides the arcade and console classics! Sure the console itself is cheaper quality. But what it lacks in that department it surely makes up for in the game experience.

Lots of games, long battery life, cheaply built.
I bought it for myself. I’m a full-grown adult. The screen is reasonably large, and the display is acceptable, with plenty of games to choose from. The battery life is outstanding. However, the device feels cheaply made—it’s no PSP. It doesn’t have a premium feel in my hands. The screen is made of softer plastic, and there are bubbles on the edges. Initially, I thought it was a screen protector, but I haven’t been able to remove it.

Not a bad device, but not great…
Since technology is becoming more and more advanced, there’s plenty of new and up-coming devices every year that makes life easier and fun. Emulator devices are also becoming more and more popular as well as more advanced. These days, emulator devices can play multiple types of systems ranging from 8-bit to 32-bit (and higher) games.This new JXD is no exception. With the ability to do many of the classical gaming consoles from the late 1980’s to mid 1990’s, there’s plenty of games to play. I have been a fan of JXD over the years and this one is no exception. (I actually first purchased one of the early models that was designed on the android OS)This device can do many of the classical consoles as follows…NESSNESSega GenesisGameboyGameboy ColorGameboy Advanced… and some others. It also does a few arcade classics, which already come with some good arcade titles. Most of the titles work great and play well. The controls take some getting used to, but you can change them around a bit for your own personal use.The device comes in a neat box and contains the following…1 gaming JXD device1 USB cord (for charging the device and adding games from your PC)1 plug for use with the USB for charging only1 soft slip case to keep your JXD from dust1 set of wired ear-piece to listen to sound privately1 video cord so you can play your games on a bigger screen1 instruction bookletThe device itself looks like a modified PSP with 2 analog sticks, control pad on the left and 4 buttons on the right, a START and SELECT buttons and 2 shoulder buttons for your L and R buttons.It can also view image files, play mp3 files, read TXT files, and play videos of various formats. (I haven’t had a problem with scaling as it seems to auto-correct the size of the videos and pictures to fit the screen) You can view videos and pictures in either file view or thumbnail view. It comes with a 16-gig SD card (TF card) so you have more than enough space to add games, videos, music, TXT files, and pictures that you like. If you also want to take photos or record a video, it has camera on the back of the device to do just that. Mind you the quality is pretty low, so don’t expect to take great quality photos like a professional.THE CONS========Sadly, the devices does have some problems, they are as follows…1.) Some ROMs don’t play perfectly2.) Some ROMs had sound/music issues (drums or bass notes missing, Weapon Lord had sound issues)3.) Some ROMs did have some graphical issues (“Pinbot” and “Ikari Warriors III” for NES)4.) Although most 8-bit games played well, the 16-bit games had speed issues (Streets Of Rage 2)5.) Although most console ROMs were easy to copy over, adding playable arcade games is a challenge6.) The USB cord was only about 1 ft. long, although not a major issue if you can find a longer cord7.) The instruction booklet mentions various JXD models, but hard to tell which one is as it’s black&white8.) This model is NOT a touch screen, must use controller to move around the menus9.) When viewing images in “thumbnail” mode, it writes an additional small file for cachingFor the most part, most of the games I added worked pretty well. The device can play multiple formats of the console games (SMD/BIN for Genesis, SFC/SMC for SNES, etc.) It can also play some hacked ROMs, but not all of them. A few games I tried either gave an “Invalid Error” or reset the JXD device. The only arcade games I could play were the ones that came with the device and they were icons which you could select. Also, if you select the “3D Arcade Games” icon, it gave you a list of some other arcade games you could play. There’s actually quite a bit so you will enjoy the list it has. If you can play more arcade games, I haven’t figured out how or what was used to get added games to work. Supposedly you could play the “Capcom” and “NeoGeo” arcade style games. If it’s true, it requires a bit of work to get them to play, as simply adding them to a folder and then selecting them, isn’t enough. The instruction manual only talked about what the device does and what each part of the device does. It also talked about the various models they had. Sadly it was hard to figure out which model I had since all the images were black and white and all the models seemed to be based on the “white” colored model, so they all looked the same, despite the fact that they all claimed to be different from each other. Lastly, the screen is pretty much a color LCD, and a cheap one at that. Staring at it once in a while gave me a headache because of the color tone.Overall it’s not a totally bad device, but you will have to figure out which games work well and which won’t. Most games work okay, but a few games ran on what seemed like 20 fps or less. (Streets Of Rage 2 varied from time to time, sometimes ran at 30 fps, other times at 20 or less) Most of the NES titles ran in it’s full speed, as well as the Gameboy and Gameboy Advance games. Just be careful as some NES games aren’t emulated perfectly. (“TMNT III” for NES had music issues, “Pinbot” and “Ikari Warriors III” for NES had graphical issues, “Dragon Warrior IV” for NES couldn’t play, except the one that came with the JXD worked fine, but it’s the Jap version) Still, not a bad device to have.Hope my review helped you figure out if this is worth it. ^_^

clunky menu system, volume default is full loud, cheap junk
Got this in and was excited upon opening it up. Build quality is decent , screen looks great. The dpad is not that great and the analog sticks are dry and get stuck in spots. This system does not have 3000 games. Tons of duplicate and many of them don’t play well at all. When you power on the unit the volume is set to full blast until you adjust it down. The worst part is the way you pick games and start them , its very confusing and frustrating . My 8 year old kid could not figure it out and he has already given up on it. I wouldn’t recommend this for anyone especially not kids as its confusing and cumbersome to use.