Miyoo Mini Plus Game List 2026: 6,041 Games, 7.5/10

Type miyoo mini plus game list into a search bar and you are asking a question with no honest answer. There is no list. There has never been a list. Miyoo — the company, such as it is — has never published a manifest of what its handhelds ship with, because the thing that arrives on the microSD card is not a curated library. It is a ROM dump: a large, alphabetized, region-padded, revision-doubled, bootleg-salted ROM dump, and the number printed on the product page is not a count of games. It is a count of files.

That distinction is the whole review. Once you accept that the 'game list' is a marketing artifact rather than a product feature, the interesting question stops being how many games and becomes which games actually run, and how well. That is a question the hardware can answer, and it answers it with more competence and more character than a $54 handheld has any right to.

So this is a review of two things at once: the fiction of the preloaded catalog, and the reality of the silicon underneath it. One of them deserves your suspicion. The other, mostly, deserves your money. Let us take them in order.

The Game List That Doesn't Exist

Why the Search Term Returns Nonsense

Search results for the Miyoo Mini Plus 'game list' fall into two camps, and both are useless in the same way. The first is reseller copy — RetroGameIntensity and its imitators advertising '28,000 games built in' on a 128GB package, with no title roster attached because a roster would invite exactly the scrutiny the number cannot survive. The second is forum threads and YouTube explainers reverse-engineering the card someone happened to receive, which is a survey of one. Neither is a catalog. Neither can be, because Miyoo does not author the card. Resellers do, and every reseller flashes a different image sourced from a different corner of the internet.

This is not a knock on the device so much as a description of the market it lives in. The Miyoo Mini Plus is an open handheld running community firmware on a commodity SoC. The 'included games' are whatever the vendor loaded to make the listing look generous. There is no canonical answer to the search term because the search term describes a thing that does not exist as a fixed object.

A File Count Is Not a Library

Here is the sleight of hand. When a listing promises 25,966 games, it is counting .zip and .sfc and .bin files on the card. That pile is inflated by every trick a ROM set knows: the U, E, and J regional variants of the same cartridge; revision tags like (Rev A) and (Rev 1); translation patches; ROM hacks; and outright bootlegs that were never commercial products. A single game — say, the Western Game Boy release of Pokemon Blue — can appear four or five times under four or five filenames. Multiply that across a full No-Intro-style set and the file count balloons while the number of things you would actually want to play stays modest.

The tell is in the filenames themselves. Vendor lists that leak — including the ones we will dissect later — carry entries like Pokemon Crystal Version (Rev A). No human curator writes '(Rev A)' next to a game they are recommending. A dumping tool does. That parenthetical is a fingerprint proving the 'game list' was generated by scraping a ROM archive, not assembled by anyone who plays games.

What This Review Actually Covers

Because the catalog is a phantom, we are reviewing the machine's capabilities — the envelope of systems and titles it runs, ranked by how gracefully it runs them — and the marketing built around them. That is the only stable thing here. A card can be reflashed in ten minutes; the SoC's performance ceiling cannot. If you want the companion piece that argues the same thesis from the top down, our breakdown of why the Miyoo Mini Plus tops out at PlayStation 1 covers the ceiling in detail. This review works upward from the floor.

28,000, 25,966, 6,041: The Numbers

Where the Big Numbers Come From

Let us put the figures on the table, because their inconsistency is the argument. A 32GB card is typically marketed at 13,056 games. A 64GB card at 25,966 — that precise, oddly specific number comes from a Reddit thread in which a seller answered the 'how many games' question directly, and precision is doing rhetorical work there; 25,966 sounds counted, whereas '26,000' sounds estimated. A 128GB package is sold as 27,549 or, rounded up for the listing, '28,000 games built in.' Other sellers, flashing leaner images, advertise 8,740 for comparable cards.

Those numbers cannot all be true descriptions of the same product, and that is the point. They are descriptions of different SD images, each assembled independently, each padded to whatever the storage allowed. The storage is the real variable. A 128GB card holds more files than a 32GB card; it does not hold meaningfully more games, because both are drawing from the same finite well of desirable retro software. Past a certain point you are paying for duplicate regions and bootleg filler measured in megabytes.

The Dedupe: Roughly 6,041 Real Games

Run the pile through deduplication and the fantasy collapses into something reasonable. The community aggregator GameCove, which merges these vendor sets and strips the redundancy, lands near 6,041 genuinely distinct titles across all supported systems. That is the honest headline number, and it is the one in the title of this article — not because 6,041 is authoritative down to the digit, but because it is the right order of magnitude. The truth about the Miyoo Mini Plus library is 'a few thousand real games, heavily front-loaded toward the 8- and 16-bit era,' and 6,041 captures that. '28,000' does not.

Six thousand games is, for the record, an enormous amount of software. A person could play one game a week for a century and not finish the list. The problem was never that the library is small. The problem is that '28,000' is a lie of a specific kind — the kind that sounds like value while describing padding — and a review that repeats it without flinching is not reviewing anything.

Neo Geo Math and Other Tells

You can catch the inflation with arithmetic. A typical curated Neo Geo folder on these cards reports around 412 titles. SNK's Neo Geo — the MVS and AES hardware — shipped roughly 150 official games across its entire commercial life, a figure the platform's documented catalog bears out. Where did the other 260-odd come from? Regional duplicates, prototype dumps, hacks, and bootleg fighting-game roster edits. More than 60 percent of that Neo Geo 'library' is not distinct commercial software. Apply the same skepticism to every folder and the shape of the real collection emerges: a strong 8- and 16-bit core wrapped in a thick, marketable rind of noise.

The Silicon Doing the Work

SigmaStar SSD202D, 128MB, Mali-400

Strip the mythology and here is the machine. The Miyoo Mini Plus runs a SigmaStar SSD202D — a dual-core Arm Cortex-A7 clocked at 1.2GHz, paired with a Mali-400 MP2 GPU and, crucially, just 128MB of RAM. This is not a phone chip repurposed for gaming; it is an industrial applications processor, the sort of part that runs a smart doorbell, drafted into emulating the PlayStation. XDA's Adam Conway, who scored the device 9/10, described the SoC as 'dual Arm Cortex A7 cores and 128MB' and noted, correctly, that it is 'not going to be setting benchmark records... but that's more than good enough for most retro titles.'

The 128MB figure is the constraint that defines the ceiling. It is enough to hold a PS1 game's working set and a frame buffer; it is not enough to give an N64 emulator the headroom it wants, and it forecloses PS2 and GameCube entirely. Every performance verdict in this review traces back to that number. The A7 cores are competent for interpretation and dynamic recompilation up to a point, but they run out of memory before they run out of clock.

The 640x480 Panel Is the Point

If the SoC is unremarkable, the screen is the reason to buy the thing. The Miyoo Mini Plus carries a 3.5-inch IPS panel at 640x480 — a true 4:3 aspect ratio at a pixel density PropelRC measured at 229 PPI and 450 nits, calling it 'sharper than the original Nintendo 3DS.' Retro Game Corps, reviewing the same panel family, summed it up in one word: 'crisp.'

That resolution is not arbitrary. 640x480 is an exact integer multiple of the native output of most of the systems this device targets — a 320x240 Genesis frame doubles cleanly to fill it, a 240-line SNES frame scales without the shimmer that plagues odd-ratio panels. The result is that 16-bit sprite art looks correct here in a way it does not on a stretched 16:9 handheld. For an 8- and 16-bit machine, a sharp 4:3 screen is worth more than another gigahertz, and Miyoo spent its budget in the right place.

The Spec Sheet in Full

The complete picture, verified against teardowns and the manufacturer's own listings rather than reseller fantasy:

Note the two lines that vendors bury: battery life and Bluetooth. The advertised 'all-day' figures are optimistic — real endurance runs 5 hours on PS1 to about 7.5 on Game Boy, not the '12 hours' some listings imply. And there is no Bluetooth at all, which matters more than it sounds; wireless headphones are not an option, and Conway flagged the 'slow 5W charging' and 'No Bluetooth' as his two headline cons.

Onion, and the Software Nobody Credits

OnionUI vs. the Firmware in the Box

The single most important upgrade to a Miyoo Mini Plus costs nothing and is made by people whose names are not on the box. The stock Miyoo firmware is serviceable and ugly. The community replacement — OnionUI, distributed free through its open-source project — is the reason the device has the reputation it does. It adds a coherent menu system, per-game save states, box art, a 'Game Switcher' quick-launch overlay that resumes titles instantly, and vastly better power management. PropelRC measured the practical effect bluntly: battery life went from '4 hours to 7 hours' after the switch.

Resellers routinely advertise the device as shipping with 'Onion' while flashing a build that is one or two years stale, which is its own small fraud. As of this writing the stable line is V4.3.1-1, with a V4.4.0-beta tag dated January 21, 2026 carrying the newest features. If your card boots into an older Onion, updating is a file copy, and the RetroArch cores underneath are worth understanding on their own terms — our walkthrough of installing and managing RetroArch cores applies directly, since Onion is a RetroArch front-end wearing a friendly coat.

What v4.4's gpSP Default Changes

The recent firmware work is unglamorous and exactly right. Version 4.3.0 folded in a DraStic-based Nintendo DS core and PICO-8 support; the 4.4 beta made gpSP the default Game Boy Advance core and — the genuinely fun part — added netplay, including GBA link-cable emulation between two units and Pokemon trading and battling across systems. That last feature is the sort of thing that separates a community project from a corporate one: nobody's product manager asked for cross-device Pokemon trading on a $54 handheld, and it exists anyway.

The DS core deserves an asterisk. It runs, but it is out of practical scope, not truly supported. A single 3.5-inch screen cannot show two DS displays at a usable size, and there is no touch panel, so anything built around the stylus is a non-starter. It is a technically-present, practically-absent feature, and honest coverage says so.

Anatomy of the Card

Under Onion, the SD card follows a predictable layout. Knowing it demystifies the 'game list' entirely — the games are just files in named folders, and you can add or delete them at will:

/ (SD card root)
|-- miyoo283_fw.img      <- firmware image; do NOT delete
|-- BIOS/                <- system BIOS (PS1 scph*.bin, Neo Geo, etc.)
|-- Emu/                 <- emulator cores + per-system config
|-- RetroArch/           <- RetroArch install + retroarch.cfg
|-- Roms/
|   |-- GB/  GBC/  GBA/           <- Game Boy family
|   |-- FC/  SFC/                 <- Famicom/NES, Super Famicom/SNES
|   |-- MD/  SMS/  GG/            <- Genesis, Master System, Game Gear
|   |-- PS/  ARCADE/  NEOGEO/     <- PlayStation, CPS/MAME, Neo Geo
|   `-- N64/  DC/                 <- the aspirational folders
|-- miyoo/               <- launcher assets, themes
`-- Saves/               <- save files and save states

That Roms/ tree is the game list. There is no database, no license server, no manifest — just directories named after systems, filled with whatever the vendor dumped. Delete the bootlegs, drop in your own dumps, and the '28,000 games' becomes whatever you decide it should be.

The Sweet Spot: 8-Bit and 16-Bit

Game Boy, GBC, GBA: Flawless

This is where the Miyoo Mini Plus stops being a curiosity and becomes genuinely excellent. Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance run without compromise — full speed, full audio, clean scaling on that 640x480 panel. Conway's verdict was unequivocal: 'Game Boy Advance titles run flawlessly.' The device's portrait form factor makes it a near-ideal Game Boy in particular; holding it feels like holding the thing it emulates, which is a trick the widescreen competition cannot pull off.

The GBA library alone justifies the purchase for a lot of buyers. The 2026 review from Pixel-Swish, memorably titled 'Ok, I get the hype now,' ranked The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap as its number-one pick on the device — the Capcom and Flagship-developed GBA entry built around the Kinstone fusion mechanic, and a game that looks spectacular at native resolution scaled cleanly to the panel. This is the class of software the Miyoo was built to serve, and it serves it perfectly.

NES, SNES, Genesis, Master System

The 16-bit consoles are the heart of the collection and the device does not break a sweat. SNES and Genesis run at full speed with accurate audio, and the memory of what these libraries contain is where the machine earns its keep. This is the hardware that finally makes a portable Chrono Trigger feel right — the 1995 Square 'Dream Team' collaboration between Hironobu Sakaguchi, Dragon Quest's Yuji Horii, and artist Akira Toriyama, scored by Yasunori Mitsuda and Nobuo Uematsu. PropelRC logged 'Perfect 60fps throughout my 12-hour playthrough' of it, and having done the same, I believe every word. The game's endgame structure — thirteen endings keyed to when you trigger the final battle — is exactly the sort of thing you replay on a device that boots into a save state in two seconds.

The same shelf holds Final Fantasy VI, which reached the West in 1994 mislabeled as 'Final Fantasy III,' with its fourteen playable characters, its villain Kefka actually succeeding, and its second-act collapse into the World of Ruin. To understand why this era carries the emotional weight it does for a certain generation, Jimmy Maher's Digital Antiquarian essay 'Generation Nintendo' is required reading; his data point that 'in 1990 a survey found Mario to be more recognizable to American children than that most American of all cartoon icons — Mickey Mouse' explains the entire retro-handheld market in one sentence. The Miyoo is a machine for people who grew up inside that survey.

Neo Geo and the SNK Shelf

Neo Geo runs beautifully, which is fitting, because SNK's hardware was always a 2D showcase and the Miyoo's screen flatters 2D above all else. Metal Slug — the 1996 run-and-gun from Nazca before SNK absorbed the studio — is a reference point for how good hand-drawn sprite animation can look, and it plays here at full speed with the chunky, detailed frames intact. Ignore the inflated 412-game folder count discussed earlier; the roughly 150 real Neo Geo titles are the draw, and they are among the best-preserved experiences on the device. The fighting games want a better d-pad than the Miyoo offers, but the shooters and beat-'em-ups are pristine.

The PlayStation Ceiling

What Runs at Full Speed

PlayStation 1 is the summit, and it is a broad, well-populated summit. The device runs the PS1 canon at full speed: Final Fantasy VII, VIII, and IX; the Crash Bandicoot trilogy; Spyro 1-3; Metal Gear Solid; Tekken 3; Gran Turismo 1 and 2; Resident Evil 1 and 2; Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 and 2; Wipeout; and Ridge Racer. Conway's summary — 'PlayStation 1 games are a treat to play' — matches the experience. That the same 128MB device handling Final Fantasy IX is the one that started life as a doorbell chip is a small miracle of emulation engineering.

The reason PS1 sits at the ceiling and not above it is the console's architecture itself: fixed-point geometry, no hardware texture filtering, modest working memory — a target the A7 cores can hit through interpretation and light recompilation. The moment a system assumes floating-point math and a large texture cache, as the N64 does, the Miyoo falls off the edge. PS1 was the last generation the SSD202D can fully inhabit, and it inhabits it comfortably.

Where It Wobbles

It is not perfect, and pretending otherwise is the reseller's job, not mine. The device's limits show in the PS1 titles that push polygon counts and physics hardest. PropelRC specifically flagged 'minor slowdown in Gran Turismo 2' — the most computationally demanding racer on the platform — and that is the honest edge of the envelope. Long full-motion video sequences can hitch, and CD audio streaming occasionally stutters under load. None of it is playthrough-ending, but it is the difference between 'runs' and 'runs flawlessly,' and Gran Turismo 2 lives in the gap.

Symphony of the Night, the System-Seller

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is the PS1 title I would hand someone to sell them the device. Konami's 1997 landmark — directed by Toru Hagihara with Koji Igarashi as assistant director and Michiru Yamane on the score — is the game that retroactively named an entire genre, and it runs here without complaint. Its 2D-forward design is precisely what the Miyoo's screen and SoC handle best; there are no polygonal stress points to expose the hardware's limits. For the lore behind it, Kurt Kalata's Hardcore Gaming 101 book on the series is the definitive English-language history, covering more than thirty titles from the 1986 original to Lords of Shadow 2, and the game's inverted-castle second half is exactly the kind of eighty-hour completionist rabbit hole a pocket machine with instant save states was made for.

Above the Ceiling: N64 and Dreamcast

N64: Three Work, Three Don't

Above PS1, the reviews change tone, and so should the buyer's expectations. Nintendo 64 is 'partially supported,' which is a polite way of saying it is a coin flip decided by which game you load. The light titles run: Super Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, and GoldenEye 007 hold near full speed. The demanding ones do not: The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, Banjo-Kazooie, and Donkey Kong 64 are where the 128MB wall and the fixed-function Mali-400 make themselves felt. GBAtemp's testing put the demanding tier at roughly 70-85% speed — playable in the loosest sense, but not the experience the game was designed to deliver.

If N64 is the reason you are shopping, buy different hardware. A machine like the Retroid line exists for exactly this gap; our argument for why the $244 Retroid Pocket 6 remains the value pick lays out what a real N64-and-up handheld costs. And if you want flawless N64 specifically, the answer is dedicated silicon — the FPGA approach we cover in our look at the Analogue 3D's firmware and internal upscaling is a different and more expensive religion entirely. The Miyoo is not in either conversation, and it should not pretend to be.

Dreamcast Is a Party Trick

Dreamcast support is best understood as a demonstration rather than a feature. The guides that list it are careful to name only the lightweights — Sonic Adventure, Crazy Taxi, and Power Stone — and even those run at the ragged edge of playability on a dual-core A7. It is impressive that a 128-bit console from 1999 boots at all on this hardware. It is not something you would choose to do for pleasure when the same games run properly on a machine costing three times as much. Treat the DC folder as a parlor trick you show a friend, then close.

PSP and DS: Present, Not Playable

PSP does not run in any meaningful sense — the Cortex-A7 pair simply has not the throughput, and every serious reviewer, GBAtemp included, marks it 'not viable.' Nintendo DS technically runs via the DraStic core added in Onion 4.3.0, but as noted, a single non-touch 3.5-inch screen cannot present a two-screen stylus console usefully. Both belong in the 'listed on a spec sheet, absent in practice' column, and any buyer who sees 'PSP' in a feature list should read it as noise.

Reading the Preloaded Card

Geekbuying's 2023 Platform Lists

Geekbuying, to its partial credit, actually published platform-by-platform lists for the Miyoo Mini Plus back in May 2023 — separate posts for GB/GBA, Genesis (MD), and Famicom (FC). Read closely, they are the best evidence for everything argued above. The GB/GBA list includes Pokemon Blue Version, Pokemon Crystal Version (Rev A), and Donkey Kong Land — recognizable cartridges, yes, but note that '(Rev A)' tag again, the unmistakable signature of a scraped ROM set rather than a hand-picked library.

The Genesis list is more revealing still, because it is alphabetized and starts exactly where an unfiltered A-to-Z dump would: AAAHH!!! Real Monsters, Addams Family Values, and Adventures of Batman & Robin. That last one is a genuine gem — Clockwork Tortoise's 1995 Genesis showpiece, famous for wringing arcade-grade effects out of aging hardware — but its presence at the top of the list is an accident of the letter 'A,' not an act of curation. The FC list tells the same story: Gradius II, Gun-Dec (the Japanese original of Vice: Project Doom), the notoriously cryptic Super Xevious: Gump no Nazo, and — the giveaway — a Super Mario Bros. (25th Anniversary Edition) that Nintendo never made. That entry is a fan hack sitting unlabeled beside commercial games, which is precisely what an unvetted dump looks like.

Bootlegs, Hacks, and Category Errors

Once you know to look, the cards are full of tells. Titles land in the wrong folders — a bootleg 8-bit demake filed under NES where the real game was a 16-bit release. Hacks masquerade as originals. And modern games occasionally appear in listings that make no physical sense: a Cortex-A7 with 128MB is never running a current-generation title, so any 'game list' that includes one is copy-pasted from a template nobody checked. The lesson for a buyer is not that the card is worthless — the 8- and 16-bit core is real and excellent — but that the number is worthless, and the honest move is to treat the bundled card as a starting point to prune, not a finished library to trust.

The Miyoo vs. Its Rivals

Against its natural competition, the Miyoo Mini Plus wins on price and screen-per-dollar and loses on raw ceiling. Here is where it sits:

The comparison clarifies the buying decision. If your library ends at PS1 — and for a great many people it genuinely does — the Miyoo undercuts everything and matches the Anbernic's screen at a lower price. The moment you need N64 to run properly, the conversation jumps straight to the Retroid tier and quadruples the budget. There is very little in between, which is why the Miyoo Mini Plus has held its position for as long as it has.

Five Ways to Actually Play It

The Casual and the Completionist

The casual player is who this device was built for, and it serves them almost perfectly. Boot into the Game Switcher, resume a save state from wherever you left off on the bus yesterday, play for ten minutes, sleep the device. The instant resume and the sharp screen make short sessions frictionless, and 8- and 16-bit games are structured for exactly that cadence. This is the use case with zero caveats.

The completionist is served just as well, with one asterisk. A game like Symphony of the Night or Final Fantasy IX rewards the eighty-hour grind, and save states plus 5-7 hours of battery make marathon sessions viable. The asterisk is that the completionist should curate the card first — delete the bootleg noise so the one game they are 100-percenting is not buried in an alphabetized swamp of regional duplicates. Twenty minutes of pruning transforms the experience.

The Speedrunner and the Co-op Pair

The speedrunner should approach with caution. Emulator timing on the SSD202D is good but not frame-perfect against original hardware, and the D-pad — serviceable, not exceptional — is a liability for input-heavy categories. For casual personal-best chasing on a game you love, fine. For anything you would submit to a leaderboard, the timing variance disqualifies it; this is a play-for-joy machine, not a competition tool.

The co-op pair gets an unexpected win. The single screen rules out couch co-op, but Onion 4.4's netplay adds link-cable emulation between two units, and the standout is Pokemon trading and battling across devices — the genuine article, GBA and Game Boy link functionality rebuilt in software. Two people with two Miyoos can complete a Pokedex the way it was meant to be completed. It is niche and it is delightful.

The Commuter

The commuter is the second-best-served buyer after the casual, and arguably the archetype the whole category exists for. At 165 grams and 108mm tall, the Miyoo Mini Plus disappears into a jacket pocket in a way a 5.5-inch Retroid does not. Battery lands you 6-7 hours of SNES or roughly 5 of PS1 — comfortably a week of commutes between charges. The absence of Bluetooth stings here, since wireless earbuds are off the table and you are back to a headphone dongle or the built-in speaker, but as a pocket time-machine for a train platform, nothing at this price matches it.

Who Should Buy It, and the Legal Path

Five Buyers, Five Verdicts

Distilled to recommendations:

• The lapsed 16-bit player who wants their childhood in a pocket: Buy it, no hesitation. This is the exact product for you, and $54 is the right number.
• The GBA and Game Boy devotee: Buy it. The portrait form factor and flawless GBA emulation make it arguably the best dedicated Game Boy replacement made, and Onion 4.4's gpSP default sharpens it further.
• The PS1 RPG completionist: Buy it, then prune the card. The full-speed Final Fantasy and Symphony of the Night support is the draw; the bundled bloat is not.
• The N64, Dreamcast, or PSP hopeful: Do not buy this. Spend up to a Retroid-class device or accept dedicated hardware. The Miyoo will disappoint you specifically and predictably.
• The tinkerer who wants a big-box emulation station: Wrong device, but right hobby — look at an x86 build running something like the OS in our Batocera download and install guide, which scales far past what any A7 handheld can reach.

The Legal Path to a Real Library

Here is the part the resellers will not print. In the United States, the emulators themselves are legal — Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. v. Connectix Corp. (9th Cir., 2000) established that reverse-engineering a console BIOS to build an emulator is fair use. The thousands of commercial ROMs on the bundled card are a different matter; distributing and downloading them is infringement, full stop, regardless of how many sellers pretend a preloaded card launders the question.

The clean path is real and not especially hard. Dump your own cartridges. Run homebrew — Apotris, the excellent open-source Tetris clone, is a fine GBA starting point that ships with no legal baggage. And for a curated, sensibly-sized starting library, the community-maintained Tiny Best Set collections on the Internet Archive are the honest middle ground: a few hundred hand-picked essentials instead of 28,000 padded files. It is a smaller number and a better collection, which has been the theme of this entire review.

Pricing and Availability

What you will actually pay in 2026, and what you get for it:

The pattern is clear: the bundle premium buys you storage and a bigger number, not more games worth playing. Buy the bare device or the smallest bundle, then curate. You will spend less and end up with a better machine.

Pros, Cons, and the Verdict

What It Gets Right

• A genuinely sharp 640x480 4:3 screen that flatters 8- and 16-bit art — PropelRC's '229 PPI, sharper than the original 3DS,' Retro Game Corps' 'crisp.'
• Flawless emulation up to PS1 — 'Game Boy Advance titles run flawlessly, PlayStation 1 games are a treat to play' (XDA).
• Pocketability — 165g and 108mm, a true jacket-pocket device.
• Free community software that keeps improving — OnionUI's netplay, gpSP default, and power management are ongoing gifts.
• Absurd price-to-capability ratio — roughly $54 for the best 16-bit portable of its class.

What Drags It Down

• A 'game list' built on inflated file counts — '28,000 games' is padding, not a library.
• Hard ceiling at PS1 — N64 is a coin flip (70-85% on demanding titles per GBAtemp), Dreamcast a party trick, PSP a non-starter.
• No Bluetooth and slow 5W charging — Conway's two headline cons, and both are real limitations.
• Plastic build that 'can make it feel cheap' (XDA), and a D-pad that is fine, not great.
• Legal murk around the bundled ROMs that vendors deliberately obscure.

The Verdict: 7.5/10

The Miyoo Mini Plus is a better machine than its marketing and a worse deal than its listings claim, and both of those can be true at once. As hardware for playing 8-bit, 16-bit, and PlayStation games, it is close to the best thing you can buy for the money — a sharp screen, competent silicon, and free software that a passionate community keeps sharpening. As the '28,000-game' catalog it is sold as, it is a fiction, and a review that repeated that fiction would be advertising.

So the score reflects the split. The device earns high marks; the mythology around the game list drags it down from the 8.5 that reviewers scoring pure hardware, like PropelRC, awarded it. Call it 7.5 out of 10 — an easy recommendation with an easy caveat. Buy it for what it is: the best pocketable 16-bit machine at its price, with a PS1 headroom that still surprises. Do not buy it for a number on a listing. There is no list, there was never a list, and the machine is good enough that it never needed one.