KINHANK K36: is it time to Retire the R36S for this Retro Handheld? | First Look

[@Coyote.five.0]

i was born in 92 , i grew up playing, dreamcast , super nintendo , nintendo , gameboy , sega genesis , n64 , ps1 , basically all the consoles in the r36s so for me i love this machine i did set my expectations accordingly, i paid 20 buks for my handheld so i know what i was getting for 20 buks , i play my hard to emulate emulators on my pc and my gaming androind phone so the r36s i only use it for retro gaming and it foes it perfectly i love my r36s because i know what are the limitations of the cpu thats why i do have a great time with it.

[@CellPhish]

I have a great time with my R36S. I was born 10yrs before you so I can play the games I grew up playing on a graphing calculator. There are handhelds I like playing my childhood games on more than the R36S getting them closets to the initial experience. My favorite thing to emulate is GB Advanced even though I didn’t have one I had a Sega GameGear. But if I have a few minutes here and there I’m always playing something on an emulator. I spent a lot of time putting together my orange R36S but the Powkiddy V10 and Anbernic RG35xxSP are a better experience for my GBA games.

[@arianesilva9036]

Great video, I like the way you narrate, very cheerful!

[@CellPhish]

Thank you appreciate that

[@9KandA2]

Talking about booties, another console similar to this one that also has that shape at the back is the D007 plus, which I whould say is a mix between the r35 plus and the k36, although the D007 came before them.

[@CellPhish]

Totally forgot about the D007. I have one in my stack of handhelds I haven’t reviewed yet. There is CFW for it so maybe I’ll take a look at it. Thank you for reminding me

[@maniac_magee3830]

Yeah modified AmberElec on D-007 Plus, vs Kinhank K36 with stock OS might be an interesting comparison

[@Ganimoth]

Strangely mine also came with extra tempered glass screen protector, but mine wasnt branded as Kinhank. AeolusUX is getting one, so I hope he makes an Arkos image for this.

[@CellPhish]

If I have time between projects I’ll try opening up Retroarch. I was planning on doing it before the video but I have a lot I’m working on right now. Would be great to have someone else do it. I think the K37’s labeled K37 came with screen covers, I’m not sure why they all don’t

[@deadfred69]

@@CellPhish my Gaminja had 2 protectors and also says K36 where yours shows Kinhank. I have a Kinhank on the way

[@TwinGunz]

Dude!!!!!!! You gotta play this game for the Sharp X68000, it’s called “The Deep”, extremely addictive. I love it. I got up to round 7 and finally got a hi score!!!! 😂

[@CellPhish]

I’ll take a look thank you

[@dariostabletopminatures]

Thank you for this one!

[@CellPhish]

Welcome

[@dariostabletopminatures]

@@CellPhish What do I buy. The K or the R?

[@CornyPuddle]

I knew it was only a matter of time until they did a handheld. They've been doing the super console x series and plug and play ssd for ever

[@CellPhish]

Yep I couldn’t figure out why they hadn’t so I had to jump on it once they did

[@TwinGunz]

Thanks for the video bro! Just ordered one. Not my first or last lol can’t wait to get that booty 😂

[@CellPhish]

It’s all about that booty 😂

[@TwinGunz]

@@CellPhish I 1000% agree :)

[@dcents5458]

Great review...we need ArkOs for this

[@CellPhish]

Yes we do. Thank you

[@Blherrou]

How confident are we that those are hall effect sticks?? At that price point, seems pretty wild.

[@CellPhish]

So all hall sticks aren’t created equally, I’m actually product testing the next generation TMR Hall Sticks right now for a couple different applications (video not to far off). I’ll tell you this, they have less snapping problems on the K36 than any Anbernic hall sticks I’ve used.

[@swervinmervin1]

I really like blue translucent..

[@CellPhish]

I’m a big fan of translucent blues as well. At the beginning of the year it seemed like that was an option for almost every handheld coming out and now we seem to be seeing a slowdown in that colorway

[@Casp3r.aka.Droid.]

The JK02 stretchy Bluetooth controller with the Moto g play 2024 all together you'll spend $75 and you'll be able to play almost every GameCube and PlayStation 2 game and yes even PlayStation 3 if you get a terabyte SD card. Because those games are big. But the phone can handle it with the new PlayStation 3 emulator. Can any of those handhelds out there for even 300 400 do that no no they cannot.

[@CellPhish]

Yes you can do that with a $200 handheld that runs Android

[@TwinGunz]

Hey how do you turn off the fps counter on this K36 ? Thanks I’m advance

[@CellPhish]

If you find it on every screen go into settings and turn off. If it’s only while gaming it’s under user interface settings in Retroarch

[@TwinGunz]

@@CellPhish unfortunately I am still having issues finding it :(. I can not figure it out. Any help is appreciated, no clue why I can’t find it

[@TwinGunz]

@@CellPhish please help !!!! Can not figure this out, bout to give up and send it back, but I like the booty :(

[@TwinGunz]

@@CellPhish ugh finally found it bro!!! Nice

[@TwinGunz]

Now I just gotta figure out how to save that to the core lol. This device seems to be harder, with the settings. Please help me out if you can bud, thanks

[@littergamer]

R36S have best color

[@CellPhish]

I kinda like this purple but my Orange R36S is my favorite color in that handheld line

[@dcents5458]

There's a big problem with this handheld (I have one too) There is no Network Settings with this Weird version of Emuelec...Version ES 4.7..."ES?"!! No Network Settings...I even tried through Retroarch...and it will not connect

[@CellPhish]

Yep, I tried every way I know how to do it as well. I’ve got a couple projects right now but if I can find time I’m going to try and change out the RA backend and see if that fixes it.

[@dcents5458]

​@CellPhish please do. Also. I tried two different R36s Factory Sd cards in my Kinhank K36....neither will load. We really need an ArkOs build...or at least...get the WiFi working with a dongle on the K36

[@TwinGunz]

Yeah I still can not figure out how to save the fps counter to make it go away, any help much appreciated!!! P.S. oh……. That booty lol

[@CellPhish]

If you set it in Retroarch and then save the config you should be solid. If that doesn’t work their config is overriding yours and you will need to delete that delete that by overriding g their core save

[@minhmaidinh3769]

can u connect this device to internet ? thanks

[@CellPhish]

I e tried with an external WiFi dongle and so far no dice. It has to be a software thing however because this SOC should allow use of external WiFi

[@UkeofCarl]

Twenty five quid plus taxes. Not bad!

[@CellPhish]

It’s priced close enough to the R36S

[@UkeofCarl]

@@CellPhish Aye, both are a bargain. What a world we live in!

[@Casp3r.aka.Droid.]

Only problem with all these retro handhelds even the most expensive. They can barely play half your PSP library. Forget GameCube and Playstation 2. See all you people who like to spend $300 on a nice big handheld or even 50 to 60 dollars on one of these dumb little Nintendo looking handhelds you must really be cool with just playing 8-bit and 16-bit games and maybe a couple PSP games. See that doesn't work for me. Is it can't handle GameCube and Playstation 2 I don't want it. And I don't mean just play some of the games. I mean at least 95% of the library. Only thing that can do that right now is a nice Android cell phone with a stretchy controller convert it into a handheld only use it as a handheld it blows all these retro handheld out the water. Until they make a chipset that can actually handle GameCube and PlayStation 2. I don't give a s*** about them. Most of them don't even have two gigs of RAM. The Moto g play 2024 has a series 700 snapdragon processor 6 gigs of RAM 90 Hertz display. A 6.6 inch hole punch hole punch display no bezels. only 64 gigs of storage but you can get 124 g for a little more. And can support a terabyte SD card. But either one comes with stock Android and everything else I mentioned. It will play 97 percent of GameCube and PlayStation 2 games and 99% of PSP and Dreamcast. Only reason it can't play the rest of the games. That's down to the emulators not the power of the device. Get the JK02 controller for $25 for it at Walmart.cam it looks like a PlayStation controller that's Bluetooth and its stretchy you know the black and white scheme. With the Moto g play 2024 edition make sure it's the 2024 not the 2023. And you just got yourself a powerful retro handheld for $75 that looks like a mini PlayStation portal. It looks like what Sony should have made the PlayStation portal b&b an actual successor to the PSP. That's what the Moto PlayStation is. And did I mention you could hook it up to your TV with a HDMI to USB type-c cable. So you can make your own little dock. And invite your friends and connect different Bluetooth controllers. And use the handheld. In control remote as well if you want to while it's streaming to your TV no latenc.

[@CellPhish]

I’m sorry you have no idea what you are talking about. You also don’t understand this hobby and that is ok. I’m glad you took the time to write your opinions but a lot of what you are saying is inaccurate. You should do some research if you feel so strongly because within the budget you are listing here you can find more powerful handhelds than you think you can. For starters for $300 you can get one of the best handhelds on the market running Android with 8gb of ram running a Snapdragon 8 Gen2. For another $50 you can get it with 12GB of ram. You can even emulate windows on a lot of these and wait for it… run gamepass. If you are interesting in what I think you are trying to make a point of there are emulators that will far out pace your expectations. Depending on how deep into this you want to get there are plenty of handhelds that phones haven’t been able to touch yet within their price range. ‘And did I mention you could hook it up to a tv” well not it but most of these handhelds hook to a tv through either HDMi or DisplayPort (through type c like your phone) outputs. I hope you have a great rest of your day. If you really want to learn about this hobby I would recommend taking some of that energy you put into writing all these posts and hit up that google machine to learn about what is easily accessible. You never know you may find yourself going down the handheld gaming rabbit hole. Thank you for checking out my video

[@Tazuks]

What is blue waffling about 😂😂😂.you have absolutely no idea of what you talking about

[@Casp3r.aka.Droid.]

@@Tazuks no I do it's called using talk to text while I was driving idiot

[@Casp3r.aka.Droid.]

@@Tazuks I mean who's the true idiot when I see something going off that doesn't make sense I obviously know they were using talk to text and didn't read what they were saying. No I didn't read what I was saying when I was driving. You know cuz you can watch and listen to KZbin videos on your Tesla dashboard and you can reply just by talking

[@Casp3r.aka.Droid.]

None of those handhelds can't even play Xbox. But an Android phone with a stretchy controller and a emulator can. I don't understand why you people want to spend all this money on these dumb little handhelds that can't even compete what's a mid-range Android cell phone made in 2024 you know the tech is cheap now so you can actually get a mid-range cell phone that will compete with last flagship phones from 2 years ago

[@CellPhish]

Gross. I hate gaming on my Android or iPhone and a lot of other people do to. This hobby is about retro gaming. You can play XBox on just about anything other than Linux that’s not real special. With a dedicated handheld you get a device that is constantly getting supported by the community you can tailor to your wants/needs that also doesn’t use your cellphone battery it’s incredible. I would assume by your overwhelming amount of comments about how stupid this hobby is you’ve never actually given it a shot. You aren’t gaining anything by using your phone with a controller… you are still carrying an extra device that is often more clunky to tow around. Also a lot of these run Android but I wouldn’t expect you to know that. When you are digging through your backpack trying to find your controller to plug in I’ll just pull my emulator from my pocket and have a game running inside 20 secs. Great for when you’ve got a couple minutes to kill. It will cut down on your TikTok time but I would encourage you to give it a try.

[@evolutionarydeadend6812]

I don't understand, so I'll choose to be a hater.

[@Casp3r.aka.Droid.]

@@evolutionarydeadend6812 good for you. I don't know what you're hating about. Or what's there not to understand about turning a phone into a more capable handheld. But hates going to hate. That's why you sit on the internet all day. Do you even go outside and interact with real people.

[@jackripper5270]

ALL... Of these handhelds are awesome!!! I think I'm going to get the anbernic 405v ... And I'm going to get my 8yr old son one for Christmas... Probably the 40xx H ...or the trimui smart pro? I want a vertical, and I think he would want a horizontal... We are really close to having the power to play anything!!! I'm a noob, I'm just now getting started... But if you like video games... How can you hate on these??? Let us be.... We don't need your negative vibes... We like it.... And we don't care if you don't lol... But it says alot about you! As a person... And I'm not impressed 😁

[@adamlee730]

Because Playing on a handheld feels more like the real thing, for example I have the Anbernic RG35XX and it feels almost identical to a Gameboy in its comfort amd design, and the capabilities are amazing, playing all the way through PS1 games, it's not about the screen, but the nostalgia