Miyoo Mini Plus 2026: A 6,041-ROM Game List, 7.5/10

Type miyoo mini plus game list into a search box and you have asked a question with no honest answer. There is no list. There is no manufacturer catalog, no first-party roster, no legally-cleared 6,041-title manifest signed off by a company called Miyoo. What you get instead is a $53 Linux handheld roughly the size of a stack of credit cards, and a microSD card that some reseller filled with whatever ROM dump was convenient that quarter — 6,041 files on one listing, 28,000 on another, a vague “10,000+” on a third. The number is marketing. The card is a landfill. And buried in that landfill are perhaps a few hundred of the best games ever made, which is the only reason any of us are here.

So this is a review of two things at once. One of them — the “game list” — does not technically exist. The other — the Miyoo Mini Plus — very much does, and remains, in 2026, the most disproportionately good $53 in retro hardware. We are going to take both apart: the silicon that runs the games, the firmware that makes it bearable, the systems it genuinely handles versus the ones it merely survives, and the enormous alphabetically-sorted heap of ROMs that resellers keep calling a “list.” Rating at the bottom. Half of it is already in the URL.

There Is No Game List. That Is the Whole Story.

A search term that dissolves when you look at it

Nintendo shipped a game list. So did Sega, so did Sony — a finite, numbered, licensed catalog a legal department could point at and a marketing team could count. The Miyoo Mini Plus ships with exactly zero games of its own. Miyoo, the Shenzhen outfit that makes it, sells hardware and firmware. Everything you actually play is added downstream, either by a reseller loading a card at the warehouse or by you at the desk. When you search for “the game list,” you are searching for a document that no accountable party ever wrote.

It is worth remembering how strange that is, historically. Jimmy Maher, writing as the Digital Antiquarian, has documented at length how ferociously Nintendo policed its own game list in the 1980s — the 10NES lockout chip, the Seal of Quality, the licensing quotas that capped how many titles a third party could publish per year. A curated list used to be an instrument of corporate control, a moat. On the Miyoo, the “list” is the inversion of all that: an un-curated dump assembled by volunteers and vendors, running on hardware Nintendo never sanctioned and can no longer police. The list is not a product. It is the absence of one, sold as if it were the main feature.

Two different objects get called “the list”

When people say “game list,” they conflate two very different things. The first is the platform-support matrix — which systems the hardware can emulate. That is fixed, knowable, and honest. Per MechDIY’s own FAQ-style copy, the device targets FC/Famicom, SFC/SNES, MD/Mega Drive, GG (Game Gear), SMS (Master System), GBA, GBC, GB, FBA (arcade), PCE (PC Engine), and PS (PlayStation). That is the review-worthy fact, and it is the same on every unit sold.

The second object is the preloaded ROM bundle sitting on whatever card shipped in the box. That one is arbitrary, bloated, and different on every listing. Conflating the two is how a buyer ends up believing they purchased “6,041 games” when they actually purchased an emulation box plus a directory that nobody curated, deduplicated, or legally cleared. The support matrix is a capability. The bundle is a byproduct. This review treats the first as the product and the second as evidence.

Why the number only ever goes up

Track the figure across sellers and it climbs like a meme stock. GameCove lists 6,041 on its 128GB card. Other vendors advertise 8,740. Plenty round the whole thing up to “10,000+.” And RetroGameIntensity’s storefront brags, without apparent embarrassment, of 28,000 games built in. The device did not change. The card did not physically grow between those listings — 128GB is 128GB. What escalated is the willingness to count a single ROM file as a “game.” More files means a bigger number, a bigger number means a better listing, and a better listing sells more cards. The count is a marketing surface, not a fact. We will dismantle the 6,041 specifically in its own section, because the way that number is built tells you everything about what you are really buying.

What You Are Actually Holding

The SoC nobody benchmarks

Under the plastic sits a SigmaStar SSD202D: a dual-core ARM Cortex-A7 clocked at 1.2GHz, paired with 128MB of RAM and a Mali-400 MP2 GPU. Read that RAM figure again — 128 megabytes, not gigabytes. A budget phone from a decade ago had ten times as much. This is not a chip that lost a spec race; it is a chip that never entered one. Its entire job is to be a PlayStation and everything below it, cheaply and cool enough to sit against your palm without a fan.

XDA’s Adam Conway, in a 9/10 review, put it plainly: the SSD202D has “dual Arm Cortex A7 cores and 128MB of RAM,” and it is “not going to be setting benchmark records … but that’s more than good enough for most retro titles.” That is the correct frame. You do not benchmark this device against a Steam Deck; you benchmark it against the question “does Chrono Trigger hold 60fps,” and the answer is yes. Anyone quoting you Geekbench numbers for a Miyoo has misunderstood the assignment.

The screen is the reason to buy it

The single component that justifies the purchase is the display: a 3.5-inch IPS panel at 640×480, native 4:3, around 450 nits of brightness, and roughly 229 pixels per inch. That 4:3 ratio is not a compromise; it is the correct shape for the NES-through-PS1 library, which means no pillarboxing, no stretching, and clean integer-ish scaling for most 8- and 16-bit output. Retro Game Corps, reviewing the Miyoo line, called the panel simply “crisp,” and that undersells it.

PropelRC went further, noting the screen is “229 PPI … sharper than the original Nintendo 3DS,” and that at “450 nits” it is genuinely “playable outdoors.” For a device whose natural habitat is a train seat or a couch at dusk, outdoor legibility is not a footnote — it is the difference between a device you carry and a device you leave on a shelf. The Miyoo’s screen punches so far above its price that it distorts the whole value equation; you are, in effect, buying a very good little panel that happens to come with a computer attached.

Build, battery, and the radios it lacks

Physically it is 165 grams, 108×78×22 mm, and unapologetically plastic. Conway’s review flagged that the “entirely-plastic build … can make it feel cheap,” and he is right, though at this price the complaint files itself under “you get what you pay for.” The battery is a 3,000mAh cell (some listings say 3,200). Real-world endurance, per PropelRC’s testing on community firmware, runs about 6–7 hours on SNES, up to 7.5 hours on Game Boy, and roughly 5 hours on PS1. Any listing promising “12 hours” is quoting a fantasy; even the stock firmware only manages about four hours before the community OS rescues it.

The omissions matter more than the plastic. There is no Bluetooth and no HDMI out. Charging is over USB-C but slow — roughly 5W, about three hours for a full top-up. There is Wi-Fi (b/g/n), which exists almost entirely to serve RetroAchievements and, on the beta firmware, netplay. If your mental model of a handheld includes casting to a TV, pairing a controller, or fast-charging in the airport lounge, recalibrate now: the Miyoo does none of it, and was never designed to.

OnionUI Is the Real Product

Why you reflash before you play

Here is the part the “game list” listings never tell you: the software that ships on the device is not the software you want. The stock Miyoo OS is functional and forgettable. The reason enthusiasts adore this handheld is OnionUI, the community firmware that replaces it — and the first thing a serious owner does is wipe the reseller’s card and start clean. PropelRC is blunt about the bundled storage: it is full of “low-quality ROMs … replace immediately.” The card that generates the marketing number of “6,041 games” is, to anyone who knows better, the first thing to go in the bin.

The payoff for switching is measurable. On the stock OS, PropelRC recorded roughly four hours of battery; on OnionUI, six to seven, plus RetroAchievements support and a dramatically better launcher. The firmware “adds 3 hours of battery life” more or less for free through better power management. When people say the Miyoo “wins on software,” this is what they mean: the silicon is ordinary, but the community layer on top of it is exceptional.

Version reality: 4.3.1 stable, 4.4.0-beta

Be precise about versions, because the listings are not. The real project is OnionUI, hosted at github.com/OnionUI/Onion. The stable release is v4.3.1-1, frozen since June 2024; the newest tag is v4.4.0-beta-20260120, dated 21 January 2026. That beta made the faster gpSP the default GBA core and, more interestingly, added netplay — including a Game Boy Advance link cable emulated between two physical Miyoos over Wi-Fi. If a product page brags about “Onion 2.0” or some 1.x build, that is a stale copy-paste; the firmware moved on years ago.

Version 4.3.0 also quietly added Nintendo DS and PICO-8 cores. Do not get excited about the DS one. The core exists, but running two DS screens stacked on a single 3.5-inch non-touch panel, driven by a 1.2GHz A7, is a technicality rather than a use case. It is in scope the way climbing a ladder in dress shoes is in scope. We will return to the ceiling in the systems section; for now, treat DS as “present, impractical,” not “supported.”

The Game Switcher and the folder tree

OnionUI’s signature feature is the Game Switcher, a quick-launch and resume overlay that lets you flick between recently played titles and pick up exactly where you left off — the closest thing this class of device has to a console’s suspend/resume. Combined with per-title save states, it turns the Miyoo into something you genuinely can put down mid-boss and resume on the next train.

Under the hood, the SD card follows a legible structure. Knowing it is the difference between “my games won’t show up” and a working library:

/ (SD card root)
├── miyoo283_fw.img   # firmware image, flashed on first boot
├── BIOS/             # e.g. PS1 SCPH bios, gba_bios.bin
├── Emu/              # emulator cores + per-system config
│   ├── PS/  SFC/  MD/  GBA/  GBC/  GB/  FC/  PCE/ ...
├── RetroArch/        # the RetroArch install + retroarch.cfg
├── Roms/             # your games, sorted into system subfolders
└── miyoo/            # Onion app + Game Switcher state

Config precedence follows RetroArch’s usual order — per-game overrides beat per-directory, which beat per-core, which beat global — so you can force, say, a specific PS1 title into a slower-but-accurate core without touching anything else. Save files and save states live alongside the ROMs. It is not complicated; it just rewards ten minutes of reading before you dump 6,041 files into Roms/ and wonder why the menu takes a minute to load.

Specs and Bundle Details

The reference table

Here is the whole device, plus the bundle attributes that the “game list” framing usually leaves out — platform, year, size, controls, saves, license, and price in one place:

How to read the ceiling

The two numbers that set the entire experience are 128MB of RAM and a dual-core A7. Together they draw a hard wall at the PlayStation. Everything at or below 32-bit — the whole 8-bit and 16-bit era, all three Game Boy generations, PC Engine, Neo Geo, CPS arcade, and PS1 — runs comfortably. Everything above it (N64, DS, PSP, Saturn, Dreamcast) is either a stunt or a non-starter. If a game predates 1998 and is not a 3D-heavy N64 title, assume it runs. That single heuristic is more useful than any spec sheet.

The one row sellers lie about

Two entries in that table get routinely falsified in listings. The first is battery: real endurance tops out around seven hours on light systems, yet “12-hour” claims circulate freely. The second, of course, is the “game list” row — the 6,041-to-28,000 spread that we treat as a marketing artifact rather than a count. When a spec is that elastic across identical hardware, it is not a spec. It is a sales pitch wearing a spec’s clothing.

What Actually Runs, System by System

The comfortable tier: 8-bit, 16-bit, and every Game Boy

This is the Miyoo’s home. NES/Famicom, SNES/Super Famicom, Mega Drive/Genesis, Master System, Game Gear, PC Engine, all three Game Boys, and Neo Geo plus CPS-1/CPS-2 arcade all run at full speed with room to spare. Conway’s verdict — “Game Boy Advance titles run flawlessly” — holds across the board. PropelRC’s headline test is the one to remember: “Chrono Trigger (SNES): Perfect 60fps throughout my 12-hour playthrough.” A twelve-hour session with no frame drops on a $53 device is the entire pitch in one sentence.

The 2026 blogger consensus agrees. Pixel-Swish, in a review pointedly titled “Ok, I get the hype now,” ranked The Minish Cap as the single best thing to play on it — a Capcom/Flagship GBA Zelda, GameSpot’s 2005 handheld Game of the Year, built around the Kinstone-fusing gimmick and rendered pixel-perfect on this panel. The representative “iconic 30” that resellers love to picture — Super Mario World, A Link to the Past, Pokémon Red/Blue, Sonic the Hedgehog, Street Fighter II, Mega Man X, Chrono Trigger — is exactly the material this hardware was built to serve. On the handheld side, expect Pokémon, Zelda, Tetris, and Kirby on GB/GBC, and Pokémon, Castlevania, Final Fight, and Metroid on GBA, all without asterisks.

The PS1 headline

The reason the Miyoo feels like more device than it costs is PlayStation 1, and it delivers. The library that runs reliably at full speed includes Final Fantasy VII, VIII, and IX; Crash Bandicoot 1–3; Spyro 1–3; Metal Gear Solid; Tekken 3; Gran Turismo 1 and 2; and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Conway’s summary — “PlayStation 1 games are a treat to play anywhere” — is accurate, with one honest caveat from PropelRC: expect “minor slowdown in Gran Turismo 2,” which leans harder on the CD subsystem than most.

Symphony of the Night deserves special mention because it is the platonic Miyoo game: a 2D sprite masterpiece that asks nothing of a 3D pipeline. Directed by Toru Hagihara with Koji Igarashi (the IGA of later “Igavania” fame) as assistant director, and scored by Michiru Yamane, it is the game that named a genre. For the deeper history there, Kurt Kalata’s team assembled an entire Hardcore Gaming 101 book on Castlevania — the kind of primary-source lore that a bundled ROM listing will never give you.

The N64 asterisk (and where the ceiling actually is)

Sellers and some guides claim N64 support. Technically true; practically a party trick. The lightest titles — Super Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, and GoldenEye “with tweaks” — can be coaxed to run, but GBAtemp’s testing pegs demanding N64 games at 70–85% speed, and PSP as flatly “not viable.” That is not a library; it is a demo you show a friend once. If N64 is genuinely on your want list, do not buy a Miyoo for it. Buy hardware built to upscale it properly — something like the dedicated Analogue 3D and its N64 upscaling pipeline, which exists precisely because N64 is hard to do well.

The same restraint applies to Nintendo DS (a core exists post-4.3.0, but one non-touch screen kills it) and PSP (forget it). The Miyoo’s honest ceiling is PS1. Every “it also does N64/DS/PSP!” bullet on a product page is a seller stretching the truth to pad the systems count — the exact same instinct that inflates 6,041 into 28,000.

Decoding the 6,041 (It Is a Dump, Not a Catalog)

Alphabetical soup: reading GameCove’s first page

Look at how GameCove’s 128GB “6,041” list actually opens and the illusion collapses. The first entries are: 007 - Everything or Nothing (USA, Europe) (En,Fr,De); 007 - NightFire; 10 Super Jogos (Brazil); 10-Pin Bowling; and 102 Dalmatians - Puppies to the Rescue. That is not a curator’s top picks. That is a raw archive sorted by filename, numbers-and-symbols first, straight out of a No-Intro or GoodTools set:

007 - Everything or Nothing (USA, Europe) (En,Fr,De)
007 - NightFire (USA)
10 Super Jogos (Brazil)          # pirate multicart
10-Pin Bowling (USA)
102 Dalmatians - Puppies to the Rescue (USA)
...
2025 - Frogger's Adventures - Temple of the Frog
2026 - Shikakui Atama wo Marukusuru Advance ... (JP)

A curated “list” leads with Chrono Trigger. A dump leads with a licensed James Bond tie-in and a Brazilian bootleg multicart, because the dump has no opinion. It is a filesystem, presented as a recommendation.

The “2025 / 2026” filenames that are not years

The single cleanest proof that these lists are un-curated archives is hiding in the filenames. GeekBuying, which has published system-split lists since May 2023, includes entries like 2025 - Frogger’s Adventures - Temple of the Frog and 2026 - Shikakui Atama wo Marukusuru Advance - Kokugo Sansu Rika Shakai (JP). Those leading numbers are not release years — a card sold in 2023 obviously cannot ship a game from 2026. They are catalog index numbers from a numbered ROM set, and the “Shikakui Atama” titles are a Japanese edutainment series that happens to sit at that index. If you needed a smoking gun that a seller is redistributing a full numbered archive rather than hand-picking games, that is it. The GB/GBA lists carry the same tells: Pokémon - Blue Version sits next to Pokémon - Crystal Version (Rev A) — the “Rev A” being a dump-set revision tag, not a different game.

Dedupe math: from thousands to a few hundred

Now do the arithmetic the sellers hope you never do. The 6,041 is inflated by four kinds of duplication: regions (USA / Europe / Japan / Brazil versions of the same title), revisions (Rev A, Rev B), hacks (a “Super Mario Bros 25th Anniversary” entry is a fan hack, not a release), and bootleg multicarts (that 10 Super Jogos (Brazil) is a pirate compilation counted as one “game”). The Mega Drive folder makes the pattern obvious: it opens with 688 Attack Sub, After Burner II, Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle, Alien Soldier, Alisia Dragoon, and Altered Beast, then licensed filler like Adventures of Batman & Robin, Addams Family Values, American Gladiators, and The Aquatic Games Starring James Pond and the Aquabats — alphabetical, comprehensive, indiscriminate.

The Neo Geo folder is the tell of tells: it claims 412 titles, but SNK only ever released around 150 official MVS games. The extra ~260 are regional duplicates, bootlegs, and hacks. Extend that ratio across the whole card and the “6,041” dedupes into the low thousands of distinct titles — of which, realistically, a few hundred are games you will ever load twice. The number is real in the sense that the files exist. It is fiction in the sense that implies a library worth 6,041 decisions. Nobody made 6,041 decisions. Nobody made any.

Five Ways It Actually Plays

The casual and the completionist

For the casual player, the Miyoo is close to ideal. Wake it, hit the Game Switcher, resume a run of Tetris or Sonic, play for the length of a bus ride, sleep it. There is no launcher friction, no updates nagging you, no account login. The 4:3 screen and instant resume make it the retro equivalent of a paperback — something you dip into, not something you boot up.

For the completionist, it is quietly excellent, because it turns a phone-sized slab into an RPG-grinding machine. Chrono Trigger, with its thirteen endings, is the poster child: save states let you branch the New Game+ runs, native SRAM keeps your canonical file safe, and OnionUI’s Wi-Fi enables RetroAchievements, which hands the completionist an actual checklist to 100%. Six-to-seven hours of SNES battery covers a full evening’s session, and the Game Switcher means you never lose your place between them.

The speedrunner and the co-op problem

For the speedrunner, temper expectations. Save states are superb for practicing individual segments and grinding a boss pattern, and for setting personal bests the device is fine. But it is not leaderboard hardware: there is measurable input latency, no frame-precise verification, and no way to prove a run was unassisted. Practice on the Miyoo; submit from a setup built for it.

For couch co-op, this is the hard wall. There is one screen, one d-pad, no second controller port, no HDMI out to a TV, and no Bluetooth for a wireless pad. OnionUI’s 4.4.0-beta adds Game Boy Advance link-cable netplay between two Miyoos over Wi-Fi — genuinely charming for trading Pokémon — but that requires two devices, not two players on one couch. Same-screen two-player Contra or Streets of Rage is technically possible only if both of you fight over a single d-pad, which is to say: don’t. Co-op is the one scenario where the Miyoo simply says no.

The commuter / mobile case

For the mobile player, this is the entire point of the thing, and where it beats far more expensive hardware. At 165 grams it disappears into a jacket pocket. The 450-nit screen is, per PropelRC, “playable outdoors,” which a glossy Steam Deck panel emphatically is not in direct sun. Six-to-seven hours of battery outlasts most commutes and short-haul flights, and instant resume means a red light or a station stop costs you nothing. The only mobile-specific gripes are the slow ~5W charging — top it up the night before, not on the way out — and Wi-Fi-only connectivity, which matters solely for achievement sync. As a pocket machine for everything up to PS1, nothing near this price is more pleasant to actually carry.

The Marquee Games vs Their Genre Peers

The JRPG bench

Since the bundle’s genuine value lives in its role-playing games, the only comparison that matters is how the marquee JRPGs and action-RPGs behave on this hardware. Five headliners cover the range from best-case SNES to CD-streaming PS1: Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy VI, Final Fantasy IX, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, and Xenogears. All five run. The interesting differences are in loading, slowdown, and how the missing analog stick affects each.

The table

What the table does not capture

The spec that separates these games is not framerate — it is provenance and control. The two SNES titles are effectively perfect, because the SSD202D was born to run 16-bit. The three PS1 titles run at full speed but pay a small CD-access tax on transitions, and the heaviest of them (Xenogears) will occasionally dip the same way Gran Turismo 2 does. None of them need the analog stick the Miyoo lacks, which is why they were chosen; a game built around the DualShock’s sticks would be a worse fit.

The history behind the table is half the fun. Chrono Trigger was the 1995 “Dream Team” project — Hironobu Sakaguchi, Dragon Quest’s Yuji Horii, and Dragon Ball’s Akira Toriyama in one room. Xenogears came out of Square in 1998 under Tetsuya Takahashi, who would leave to found Monolist Soft the following year. And Hardcore Gaming 101’s writers, who have never met a technical footnote they didn’t chase, once called Star Ocean: Blue Sphere — a Game Boy Color RPG, another genre the Miyoo runs perfectly — “one of the most technically impressive RPGs ever to grace the Game Boy Color.” That is the depth of context a curated review offers and a 6,041-file dump erases.

Pricing and Availability

The bare-device price vs the card tax

The number to anchor on is roughly $53.99 for the bare device — the figure PropelRC used when it called the Miyoo “unbeatable value” at “the $53 price point.” Bundling a card pushes that to about $59.99 for 64GB and $69.99 for the 128GB “6,041” configuration on AliExpress. That ~$16 “card tax” is money spent on a directory an enthusiast deletes on day one. You are, in effect, paying extra for the thing you will throw away.

The table

The clean path (and why it is better)

The legal ground here is settled and worth stating plainly. Emulators are legal — that was decided in Sony Computer Entertainment v. Connectix (9th Cir., 2000), which held that reverse-engineering a console BIOS to build an emulator was fair use. Distributing and downloading copyrighted ROMs is not. So the “6,041 games” on a reseller card sit squarely in the grey-to-black zone, whatever the listing implies.

The honest “game list” is the one you build. Two clean routes exist. Dump your own cartridges — a weekend project with the right adapter, and we walk through it in our guide to dumping SNES and Genesis carts in 13 steps. Or start from a curated, legitimacy-minded open pack such as Tiny Best Set: GO! on the Internet Archive, which selects the essentials instead of dumping everything. Homebrew — games like the Tetris-clone Apotris — is 100% clean and runs beautifully. A hundred games you chose beats six thousand you didn’t.

Who Should Load What

Five recommendations

1. The commuter — load the GBA, GBC, and SNES-RPG folders and nothing else. Pick-up-and-play library, best battery life, and the 450-nit screen earns its keep on a sunlit train.
2. The lapsed SNES kid — go straight to the SFC folder: Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy VI, Super Metroid, A Link to the Past, Super Mario World. This is the tier the hardware runs flawlessly, and probably the reason you clicked.
3. The PS1 nostalgic — curate roughly 30 PS1 ISOs, not the entire folder. Symphony of the Night, Final Fantasy IX, Metal Gear Solid, Tekken 3. Keep Gran Turismo 2 if you can live with minor slowdown.
4. The RetroAchievements hunter — install OnionUI, connect Wi-Fi, and treat the device as a portable 100%-completion machine. The achievement layer turns grinding into a checklist.
5. The tinkerer — wipe the card and experiment with alternative front-ends: MinUI for minimalism, Allium, or Koriki. The Miyoo’s software scene is half the hobby.

Who should skip it

Skip the Miyoo if your want list includes N64, PSP, DS, Saturn, or Dreamcast — the ceiling is PS1 and pretending otherwise ends in disappointment. Skip it if couch co-op matters, because one screen and no video-out kills it. And skip it if you need an analog stick for 3D-heavy libraries. For those buyers, move up the ladder: a proper Android handheld like the Retroid Pocket 6, which we put against the discontinued G2, clears PS2 and beyond; an FPGA MiSTer Multisystem 2 gives you cycle-accurate hardware emulation; and a cheap PC running Batocera gives you a genuinely curated big library with no ceiling at all.

The upgrade ladder

Situate the Miyoo honestly and it becomes easy to recommend. The ladder runs: Miyoo Mini Plus (~$54, everything up to and including PS1) → Retroid Pocket 6 (~$244, up to Switch/PS2 with analog sticks and HDMI) → MiSTer Multisystem 2 (~$216 and up, FPGA accuracy for purists) → Batocera on a PC (whatever you have lying around, no ceiling). The Miyoo owns the bottom rung, and the bottom rung is where most people should start — it is the cheapest way to find out whether you actually play retro games or merely enjoy the idea of owning them.

Pros, Cons and the Verdict

Pros

• A 3.5", 640×480, 450-nit IPS screen that punches absurdly above a $53 price — “crisp” (RGC), “sharper than the original 3DS” (PropelRC).
• OnionUI: the best community firmware in its class, with Game Switcher resume, RetroAchievements, and near-doubled battery over stock.
• Flawless performance on everything up to and including PS1 — “Chrono Trigger: perfect 60fps,” “GBA titles run flawlessly.”
• Genuinely pocketable at 165g with 6–7 hours of real-world battery.
• The best-value entry point in retro handhelds, full stop.

Cons and the legal asterisk

• No Bluetooth, no HDMI out, slow ~5W charging, no analog stick.
• Plastic build that “can make it feel cheap” (XDA).
• N64 is a light-titles-only party trick; DS and PSP are effectively off the table.
• No couch co-op — one screen, one d-pad, no second port.
• The headline “game list” is an un-curated ROM dump of dubious provenance that you should replace on arrival. And the legal asterisk stands: the device and its emulators are legal, but the bundled ROMs remain the property of their rights-holders, whatever the seller’s listing implies.

The rating

As a piece of hardware and firmware, the Miyoo Mini Plus is a clear 8.5 — the exact number PropelRC landed on, and close to XDA’s 9/10. But we are not reviewing the hardware in a vacuum. We are reviewing the thing you searched for: the “game list.” And the game list is the single weakest part of the package — a marketing figure stapled to an alphabetized landfill, escalating from 6,041 to 28,000 with no more games behind it, on hardware that never shipped a catalog of its own. That gap between what is advertised (a curated library) and what is delivered (a raw dump you must fix yourself) costs it a full point.

Verdict: 7.5 / 10. Buy the device — it is the best cheap retro handheld in existence. Then ignore the list, wipe the card, install OnionUI, and build the library you actually want. The Miyoo Mini Plus is a superb machine wearing a fictional catalog. Pay for the machine. The catalog was never real.