Miyoo Mini Plus 2026: 6,041 ROMs, No List, 7.5/10

Type miyoo mini plus game list into a search bar and you are, whether you know it or not, asking a question with no answer. There is no list. There is no catalog. Miyoo — the Shenzhen outfit that assembles the thing — has never in 2025 or 2026 shipped a numbered, proprietary library the way Nintendo ships a Switch 2 lineup or Sony curates PlayStation Plus. What you are actually asking about is a compatibility envelope, a piece of community firmware called Onion OS, and a spreadsheet of 6,041 ROM files that a retailer in the Philippines happens to sell pre-loaded on a microSD card. This review is about all three, and about the quiet legal problem sitting underneath them. We will play through the games people actually recommend, benchmark the hardware honestly, price it without the marketing, and — because someone has to — read the fine print.

The List That Isn't

The premise is a category error

Every other handheld review on this site starts with a product. This one starts with the absence of one. The Miyoo Mini Plus does not have a game list in the sense that phrase implies — a fixed, authored, versioned catalog that ships from the factory and gets patched over time. It has a CPU that can emulate certain consoles, a screen to show them on, and an SD card slot. Everything else is user-supplied. The "list," such as it is, is whatever you drag into the Roms folder before you screw the back panel shut. Asking for the official Miyoo Mini Plus game list is like asking for the official list of songs that will play on a blank cassette: the medium is defined, the content is your problem.

If you want proof by absence, go read Wikipedia's rundown of video games released in 2026. There is no Miyoo Mini Plus entry, because there is nothing to enter. No developer — not Nintendo, not Sony, not Sega, not Miyoo itself — announced a 2026 title, remaster, or versioned bundle for this device. Every game that runs on it was released for some other console, years or decades ago, and reaches the Miyoo only through emulation. The device is a time machine, not a storefront, and time machines do not have release calendars.

What retailers mean when they say "game list"

The number you will see bolted to this device is 6,041 games. It comes from GameCove, a retailer that in June 2026 listed the Miyoo Mini Plus with a pre-loaded microSD spanning GBA, SNES, PS1, and NES. That figure is real in the sense that someone counted the files. It is fictional in the sense that it describes one seller's particular SD image, not the hardware's capability and not anything Miyoo authored. Load a different card and the number changes. Delete the sports titles you will never touch and it drops by a few hundred. The 6,041 is a snapshot of a retailer's inventory decision dressed up as a spec — treat it the way you'd treat "comes with 500 channels" on a cable box: technically true, mostly filler, and not the reason you bought the box.

Other sellers do the same dance with different words. LITNXT markets the unit as "loaded with games and Onion operating system out of the box." Read that carefully. "Loaded with games" is a description of a pre-copied SD card, not a promise of an official catalog, and — as the legal section will explain at length — "loaded with games" is precisely the phrase a copyright lawyer circles in red. The point stands: no two "loaded" listings agree on the count, because the count was never a spec. It was always a decision made downstream of the factory by someone with a folder full of ROMs and a shipping account.

Onion OS is the actual product

Strip away the ROM count and what remains is the thing that earns the device its reputation: Onion OS, version 1.6.4 as of early 2026. Onion is community-built, open-source firmware — not a Miyoo product, not a proprietary list, not anything with a sales team behind it. It replaces the stock interface with box art, folder organization, save-state management, per-system emulator selection, RetroAchievements support, and a boot time measured in single-digit seconds. When DROIX reviewed the closely related Anbernic RG35XX Plus running the same firmware, the verdict on Onion was blunt: it is "simply phenomenal." That is not marketing copy. That is a reviewer describing free software written by volunteers.

This is the inversion at the heart of the device. You are buying a modest piece of Chinese hardware whose single best feature was authored, for nothing, by people who will never see a cent of the retail markup. The "game list" is a mirage; Onion OS is the substance. Keep that distinction in your pocket. It explains why the device is beloved, why the marketing is misleading, and why the whole arrangement sits on legal ground that ranges from "fine" to "please consult a lawyer."

Specs, Onion OS, and the 6,041 Number

The hardware, on paper

The Miyoo Mini Plus runs a 400MHz Allwinner V853 processor behind a 3.0-inch IPS panel rated by PropelRC's review at around 450 nits of brightness. That is the whole story on silicon, and it is deliberately modest. This is not a machine built to brute-force sixth-generation 3D; it is built to run 8-bit and 16-bit libraries flawlessly, handle GBA and SNES without breaking a sweat, and reach — carefully — into PlayStation territory. The screen is the real luxury: a sharp, bright IPS panel at a pixel density that makes SNES sprite art look the way it did in your memory rather than the way it actually looked on a smeary 1994 CRT. Battery lands in the six-to-seven-hour range for SNES play, and Onion, per PropelRC, "adds 3 hours of battery life" over the stock firmware — a rare case of software that makes hardware last longer.

The 6,041-game aggregation, decoded

Here is what the 6,041 figure actually decomposes into. The bulk is SNES and GBA — the two libraries this hardware was born to run — padded out with the complete NES catalog (cheap in bytes, generous in count) and a curated slice of PS1 titles the V853 can handle. The count is inflated the way every "thousands of games" pitch is inflated: region duplicates, revision variants, unlicensed shovelware, and hundreds of titles nobody has launched since the Clinton administration. The signal-to-noise ratio of any 6,041-game set is brutal; realistically you will play forty of them. We keep a running teardown of exactly what that set contains and where the padding hides in our 6,041-ROM breakdown, and the short version is this: the number is marketing, the forty games are the product, and the other 6,001 are ballast that makes the SD card feel expensive.

The specs table

Because this is nominally a review of a game list, the spec sheet has to describe both the machine and the library it hosts. Here is the full accounting — hardware and catalog in one place — with every number traceable to the device's documented compatibility or the retailer aggregation it ships on.

Physically, the "list" is a directory tree on a FAT32 card. Onion expects a specific layout, and understanding it is the difference between a working device and a black screen on first boot:

SD Card (FAT32)
├── BIOS/                # PS1 / GBA BIOS files, where a core requires them
├── Roms/
│   ├── NES/            # <1 MB per title — count inflates the total, bytes don't
│   ├── SNES/           # 0.5–4 MB per title — the core of the library
│   ├── GBA/            # 4–32 MB per title — the other core
│   ├── PS/             # 300–700 MB per title — a handful, not thousands
│   └── GB, GBC, GG, MD, PCE, ...
├── Saves/              # battery saves + Onion save states live here
└── .tmp_update/        # Onion OS 1.6.4 boot payload

Note the arithmetic buried in that tree. The NES folder contributes the most titles and the fewest bytes; the PS1 folder is the reverse. That is how a card advertises "6,041 games" while devoting most of its physical capacity to two hundred PlayStation discs you'll finish maybe three of.

The Hardware Ceiling

8-bit and 16-bit: trivial

Everything through the 16-bit era is a solved problem on this hardware, and it is worth saying plainly because the marketing never bothers to distinguish. NES, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Master System, Genesis, and the entire SNES library run at full speed with no asterisk. The 400MHz V853 is doing something it finds trivial: reproducing machines that ran at a few megahertz thirty years ago. There is no frame-pacing anxiety here, no dropped audio, no "performance may vary." When PropelRC put a stopwatch to it, the marquee 16-bit RPG returned "Chrono Trigger (SNES): Perfect 60fps." That is the ceiling for this tier: perfect. If your entire interest in retro gaming stops at the SNES — and for a great many people it does, and reasonably so — the Miyoo Mini Plus is effectively a flawless device and the rest of this section is academic.

GBA and SNES: the sweet spot

The Game Boy Advance is where the device stops merely coasting and starts to look purpose-built. The GBA library is enormous, portable by design, and perfectly matched to a 3.0-inch screen — this is the content the form factor was made for. Minish Cap, Yoshi's Island (in its GBA re-release as well as the SNES original), the Mario Kart, the Castlevanias, the Fire Emblems: all of it runs clean, full-speed, with the kind of input latency that makes precision platformers and turn-based tactics feel correct rather than emulated. If you want to understand why this tier is so smooth, it comes down to the emulation cores Onion ships — and if you want to go deeper on how those cores are built and tuned, our RetroArch cores walkthrough covers the machinery under the hood. The practical takeaway: SNES and GBA are the two libraries where this device has no weaknesses worth naming.

PS1: the ceiling, and where it cracks

PlayStation is the edge of the map. The V853 can emulate PS1, and the 6,041-game sets lean on that fact hard, but "can" is carrying weight in that sentence. Turn-based and 2D-forward PS1 titles — Final Fantasy IX, the sprite-heavy RPGs, the menu-driven epics — run well and are genuinely enjoyable on the panel. Twitchy, geometry-heavy 3D is where the machine shows its price tag. PropelRC's testing caught "minor slowdown in Gran Turismo 2," which is a fair, representative result: the harder the game pushes polygons, the more the V853 has to think about it. Push past PS1 entirely and the picture is honest to a fault — community testing at GBAtemp pegs light N64 titles at near-full-speed, demanding N64 down at 70–85%, and PSP simply "not viable." That is not a flaw; it is a scope. Miyoo built exactly enough machine to own the 8-to-32-bit range and drew the line before the hard stuff. Buy it for what it is, not for the folders it can technically populate.

The Marquee Play-Through

Minish Cap and A Link to the Past

Start where the actual recommendations start. Shaz, who runs the Pixel Swish channel, published a "Top 6 Games on the Miyoo Mini Plus" in June 2026 and put The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap (GBA) in the number-one slot. It is the correct call. Minish Cap is a Capcom-developed Zelda from 2004, small in scope, dense in craft, and it looks immaculate on the IPS panel — the shrinking-hero gimmick reads beautifully at this pixel density, and the whole thing fits a commute the way a full-fat console Zelda never could. Playing it here is the platonic use of the device: a hand-drawn Nintendo classic, full speed, in your palm.

Climb one tier and you reach the game that anchors nearly every user list, including a widely-shared June 2026 Top 10 thread on r/MiyooMini: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES, 1991). Three decades on, it remains a masterclass in pacing and it runs, as everything 16-bit does here, perfectly. The dark-world reveal still lands; the dungeon design still teaches without a single tutorial pop-up. If the Miyoo had to justify its existence with one cartridge, this is the one that does it.

Chrono Trigger and Yoshi's Island

The same Reddit Top 10 pairs A Link to the Past with Chrono Trigger (SNES, 1995), and here the historical commentary writes itself. Chrono Trigger was the product of a so-called "Dream Team": Final Fantasy's Hironobu Sakaguchi, Dragon Quest's Yuji Horii, and Dragon Ball's Akira Toriyama on character art. It is frequently cited as the finest JRPG ever built, and on this device it is — verifiably, per PropelRC's stopwatch — a "Perfect 60fps." The multiple-endings structure and the New Game Plus loop are tailor-made for a device you keep in a jacket pocket and return to in fragments.

Shaz's Top 6 also flags Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (SNES, 1995), and it belongs on any short list for a different reason: it is a technical showpiece. The Super FX-assisted, crayon-textured art style was a middle finger to the idea that 16-bit hardware had a ceiling, and the IPS panel flatters every hand-drawn frame of it. Between them, Chrono Trigger and Yoshi's Island demonstrate the two things the Miyoo does best — flawless 16-bit RPG pacing and flawless 16-bit spectacle — with no compromise on either.

Xenogears: the PS1 stress test

Then there is Xenogears (PS1, 1998), Shaz's boldest inclusion and the one that tells you the most about the hardware. Xenogears is a sprawling, philosophically overloaded Square RPG famous for a second disc so under-budget that large stretches of its plot are literally delivered by a character narrating from a chair. On the V853 it runs — this is a 2D-forward, menu-driven PS1 game, exactly the kind the device handles gracefully — but the load times and the occasional battle-transition hitch remind you that you are at the edge of the machine's comfort zone, not the center of it. It is the perfect closing act for the play-through: proof that the Miyoo reaches PlayStation, delivered by a game that also proves reaching isn't the same as owning. Here is how the marquee titles stack up as a genre cohort on this specific hardware:

The Rare Picks

Star Ocean Blue Sphere

The most interesting corner of Miyoo culture isn't the greatest-hits list — it's the rarity hunt, and a June 2026 "Top 5 Rarest Games" video crowned Star Ocean: Blue Sphere (Game Boy Color) its number-one pick. This is a genuine curio: a 2001 tri-Ace RPG released only in Japan, late in the GBC's life, that most Western players could not experience at all until fan translation and emulation caught up with it. Hardcore Gaming 101's coverage of the Star Ocean series is the place to understand why a portable side-story on eight-bit-plus hardware became a collector's white whale. On the Miyoo it runs, of course, trivially — GBC is nothing to the V853 — and that is exactly the point of the rarity list. The device's value proposition for enthusiasts isn't Chrono Trigger, which you can play anywhere. It's Blue Sphere, which you effectively cannot play legitimately anywhere, and which the Miyoo will render flawlessly the instant you supply the file. Hold that thought for the legal section; the rare-import case is both the strongest emulation argument and the murkiest one.

Green Memories and the homebrew question

The same rare-games video listed Green Memories (Game Boy Color) at number five, and it flags a category the marketing never mentions: homebrew. Green Memories is a modern, community-made GBC title — not a commercial release, not an unlicensed copy of one, but original work built for a dead platform by people who love it. This matters enormously and we will return to it, because homebrew is the one part of the 6,041 you can load with a completely clear conscience. There is no copyright holder to injure, no publisher to placate; the authors made the thing to be played and distributed. When a rare-games list mixes a Japan-only tri-Ace RPG with a fan-made GBC original, it is unknowingly drawing the exact line the law draws: one of those files is somebody's property, and one of them is a gift.

2021 Moon Escape

Rounding out the curios, a separate June 2026 game-list video put 2021 Moon Escape (Game Boy) at number four — a 2021 homebrew title, playable on the Miyoo through Game Boy emulation, that did not exist when the actual Game Boy was on shelves. Sit with that for a second. Here is "new" software, authored in this decade, for hardware that Nintendo discontinued before most of its current players were born, arriving on a 2026 handheld via a folder called GB. This is the part of the retro scene the release calendars can't capture and the manufacturer catalogs will never list: living homebrew for dead consoles. For the historical arc of how amateur and preservationist software culture grew up alongside — and often in tension with — the commercial industry, Jimmy Maher's Digital Antiquarian is the definitive long-form chronicle. Moon Escape is a footnote to that history, and the Miyoo is where footnotes get played.

The List vs the Competition

Miyoo Mini Plus vs RG35XX

The Miyoo's only serious rival in the sub-$100, palm-sized, vertical-and-horizontal bracket is Anbernic's RG35XX family. The honest comparison is not about the games — both play essentially the same emulated libraries — but about the firmware and the hardware bias. DROIX, who reviewed both, called the RG35XX Plus a "legitimate £60 hybrid console" and praised Onion in the same breath it runs. Anbernic's hardware is arguably the sturdier object; DROIX noted the RG35XX "feels denser, more durable." Where Anbernic stumbles is software maturity. Retro Game Corps warned that the RG35XX's asterisked systems "cannot play every game at full speed, and so performance may vary," and that the GarlicOS alternative was, at review time, "still in an early alpha state." Onion, by contrast, was ready and phenomenal. We put the two head to head in detail in our Miyoo vs RG35XX breakdown, and the through-line is exactly that: Anbernic can win on RAM and build and still lose on the strength of the firmware.

vs Anbernic's bigger models and Retroid

Step up in price and the comparison changes shape. Anbernic's larger models push into DS and PSP territory — XDA's RG35XX review noted "Nintendo DS at full speed, and Pokemon Black 2 runs at full speed," though at a cost, "two to three hours of playtime with Nintendo DS emulation." That is a different device for a different buyer. The Retroid Pocket line is a different animal entirely: an Android games console that happens to emulate, capable of PS2 and GameCube the Miyoo cannot dream of, at a price the Miyoo undercuts by a factor of three. If your ambitions run past PS1, that is the fork in the road, and our Retroid Pocket 6 vs G2 comparison lays out what the extra money buys — roughly twice the GPU and native-1080p 3D, versus the Miyoo's pocket purity. The Miyoo is not competing with those; it is competing with the idea of carrying less.

vs the Analogue Pocket approach

The philosophical opposite of the Miyoo is the Analogue Pocket, which rejects the whole "6,041 files on an SD card" premise in favor of FPGA hardware and — critically — original cartridges. Where the Miyoo hands you thousands of ROMs of dubious provenance, the Pocket asks you to insert the actual Game Boy cartridge you own. It costs several times more and plays a fraction as many systems out of the box, but it sidesteps the legal question the Miyoo can't. Here is the field, compared on the axis that actually differs — how each device relates to its "game list":

The Legal Question

The ROMs are (mostly) unlicensed copies

Here is the part every other review either skips or fumbles. A ROM of a commercial game — Chrono Trigger, A Link to the Past, Final Fantasy IX, Donkey Kong Country, Mario Kart: Super Circuit, 007: Everything or Nothing — is a copy of a copyrighted work. In the United States and most of the world, making, distributing, or downloading that copy without the rightsholder's permission is infringement, full stop. "Abandonware" is not a legal category; it is a folklore term. The fact that Nintendo no longer sells the SNES cartridge does not place A Link to the Past in the public domain — copyright on a 1991 work runs for decades yet. The fact that you once owned the cartridge does not grant you a license to download someone else's dump of it, however intuitive that feels. The 6,041-game set is, in the main, a pile of unlicensed copies, and no amount of "but I'm preserving history" changes the statute. This site does not tell you what to do with that information; it tells you the information is true.

Homebrew is the clean exception

The bright, unambiguous exception is homebrew — and it is why the rare-games picks matter beyond novelty. Green Memories and 2021 Moon Escape were authored by their creators for free distribution on emulated hardware. There is no injured rightsholder, no unlicensed copy, nothing to consult a lawyer about. You can load them, play them, and share them with a completely clean conscience, because that is what their authors intended. An entire, growing, legally spotless library exists for this device, and it is the one the marketing never counts toward its 6,041. If your goal is to enjoy the Miyoo without a copyright asterisk hanging over every folder, homebrew plus your own dumps is the entire honest game plan.

The emulator is legal — the retailer bundle is the liability

Two things clear the law entirely, and they are worth stating precisely because they are so often conflated with the ROMs. First, the emulator itself is legal. This is settled: in Sony Computer Entertainment v. Connectix (9th Cir., 2000), the court held that reverse-engineering a console's BIOS to build an emulator was fair use. Onion OS and its cores are not the problem. Second, dumping your own cartridges is the clean path to a library — tedious, yes, but yours by right; our Retrode cart-dumping guide walks the whole process. What is not clean is the retailer bundle. When GameCove or any seller ships a card "loaded with games," they are distributing thousands of unlicensed copies for profit — commercial infringement, the kind that draws actual lawsuits. The device is fine. The firmware is fine. Dumping your carts is fine. The "6,041 games included" listing is the single most legally exposed object in this entire review, and you are the one buying it.

Pricing and Availability

What Miyoo charges (nothing fixed)

Miyoo does not publish a fixed global MSRP the way Nintendo or Sony does, which is itself telling — the price you pay is set by whichever reseller you find, in whichever region, with whichever SD card stuffed inside. That is why any price in this section is a street price, not a manufacturer figure, and every number below should be read with that asterisk. The nearest thing to an anchor comes from DROIX, who characterized the closely related RG35XX Plus as a "legitimate £60 hybrid console" — a fair marker for the entire sub-class the Miyoo lives in. Around that figure, expect the Mini Plus to swing based almost entirely on one variable: how big the pre-loaded card is and how many copyrighted ROMs someone crammed onto it.

What the retailers charge

The pricing table below reflects typical mid-2026 street ranges across the channels named in the research, framed honestly by what you actually receive and what the catch is. Note that the more a listing brags about its game count, the more of your money is buying the seller's copyright liability rather than the seller's hardware.

The SD-card-bundle trap

The single most important purchasing insight is that the premium between a bare unit and a "loaded" one — call it twenty to forty dollars — is not a hardware upgrade. It is identical silicon with a different microSD card, and that card's entire added value is a folder of files you could assemble yourself for free (homebrew) or dump yourself legally (your own carts). You are, in effect, paying a middleman to commit the copyright infringement on your behalf and mail it to you. That may be convenient. It is not, in any sense, a better device. The Machine's counsel: buy the bare unit, put the difference toward a fast card, and populate it yourself with a clear head about what belongs in each folder.

How It Actually Plays: Five Scenarios

The casual and the commuter

The casual player is who this device was designed for and where it is nearly perfect. Boot time is a few seconds, Onion remembers where you were, the library skews toward pick-up-and-play 16-bit classics, and battery clears six hours of SNES. There is no launcher, no update nag, no storefront trying to sell you anything. You turn it on, you play Zelda, you turn it off. For this person the "no official list" problem is invisible — they'll load thirty games once and never think about the other six thousand.

The mobile/commuter player is the same story with a stopwatch running. The 3.0-inch form factor is the whole pitch: it disappears into a jacket pocket in a way no Switch or Retroid or Steam Deck can. Minish Cap on a train, Chrono Trigger in a waiting room, a homebrew Game Boy oddity in a queue. This is the device's home turf, and it wins it outright. Six-to-seven hours of battery outlasts most commutes for a week.

The completionist

The completionist is well served with one caveat. Onion's save states are generous and per-slot, RetroAchievements support (per PropelRC) adds a genuine 100%-hunting layer, and the marquee RPGs — Chrono Trigger's multiple endings, Xenogears' sprawl — reward exactly this temperament. The caveat is PS1: if your completion targets include the heavier 3D PlayStation library, the occasional slowdown (Gran Turismo 2's "minor slowdown" is the canary) means some 100% runs are better done elsewhere. For 8-to-16-bit completion, though, this is an excellent tool.

The speedrunner and the co-op pair

The speedrunner should approach with clear eyes. For casual, personal-best 16-bit running the low input latency and instant save states are a joy. For competitive or leaderboard running, emulator-based times face the usual scrutiny — communities differ on whether handheld-emulator runs are admissible, and save states are disqualifying in most serious categories. As a practice device it's superb; as a submission platform, check your leaderboard's rules first.

The co-op or multiplayer pair is where the device simply taps out, and honesty demands stating it. This is a single-screen, single-controller handheld with no second set of inputs and no link-cable emulation worth relying on. The co-op SNES and GBA classics — the ones built for two — are effectively single-player here. If shared play is your priority, this is the wrong device by design; look to something with controller-out or a bigger shared screen. The Miyoo is a solitary instrument, and it is unapologetic about it.

Who Should Buy It

Strong recommendations

Buy it if you are an 8-to-16-bit purist. If your love of retro gaming lives and dies with the NES, SNES, Genesis, and Game Boy families, this device is close to flawless and absurdly cheap. Nothing at this price plays these libraries better or in a more pocketable shell.

Buy it if portability is the whole point. The people who will keep this device for years are the ones who value that it vanishes into a pocket. As a genuine everyday-carry emulator, it has no equal in its size class — the Retroids and Steam Decks of the world win on power and lose on this exact axis.

Buy it if you value software done right. Onion OS is, in DROIX's words, "simply phenomenal," and it is the reason to prefer this over an equivalently-specced rival running immature firmware. You are buying the community's work as much as Miyoo's.

Conditional recommendations

Buy it for a homebrew-and-own-dumps library if the legal question weighs on you. There is a complete, growing, legally spotless way to enjoy this device — Green Memories, Moon Escape, and your own cartridges — and it is genuinely satisfying. Just go in knowing the retailer's 6,041 is not that.

Buy it as a second device if you already own something bigger. It makes a superb companion to a Steam Deck or Retroid: the thing you actually pocket when the big machine stays home. As a complement it's a bargain; as your only device it may frustrate anyone with PS2-and-up ambitions.

Who should skip it

Skip it if your interests start at PS1 3D or above. The V853 reaches PlayStation and stops. If your dream library is PS2, GameCube, or PSP, you are shopping in the wrong aisle — that's the Retroid conversation, not this one. Skip it, too, if co-op is non-negotiable, or if you specifically wanted an official, curated, legally-clean catalog — because, as the whole first half of this review established, that object does not exist.

Pros, Cons, and the Verdict

The pros

• Onion OS 1.6.4 — community firmware so good ("simply phenomenal," per DROIX) it outclasses rivals' stock software and adds ~3 hours of battery on top.
• Flawless 8-to-16-bit performance — NES through SNES and GBA run at full speed with no asterisk; Chrono Trigger clocks a verified "Perfect 60fps."
• Genuine pocketability — the 3.0-inch shell disappears into a jacket in a way no larger handheld matches.
• Bright IPS panel — ~450 nits makes 16-bit sprite art look the way memory insists it did.
• Absurd value — a sub-class DROIX pegs around a "legitimate £60" that plays decades of gaming history.

The cons

• The "game list" is a fiction — no official catalog exists; the 6,041 is one retailer's aggregation, mostly of unlicensed copies.
• PS1 is the ceiling, and it cracks — heavy 3D shows slowdown; N64 is partial; PSP is "not viable."
• Legal exposure baked into the pitch — the "loaded" bundles are commercial ROM distribution, and you're the buyer.
• No co-op, no second controller — the multiplayer classics are single-player here.
• Provenance is your problem — the device is clean; what you put on it may not be.

The verdict: 7.5/10

Judge the Miyoo Mini Plus as an object and it is a 9 — a beautifully-scoped, gorgeously-screened, community-perfected little machine that plays thirty years of the best 2D games ever made and fits in a pocket, for the price of a AAA release. Judge the "game list" — the thing you actually searched for — and it is a 3: a marketing fiction stitched together from a retailer's ROM folder and a copyright liability with your name on the shipping label. Average those honestly, weight for the fact that most buyers will love the device and quietly ignore the legal fine print, and you land at 7.5/10. The hardware and Onion earn nearly full marks. The premise that there is a curated 2026 catalog to buy earns none. Buy the machine, load it with homebrew and your own dumps, and it may be the best twenty-first-century way to play the twentieth century's best games. Just don't go looking for a list that was never written.