Miyoo sent me one of their newest handhelds: the Miyoo Mini Flip to review. Its made to be a clear nostalgic nod (in design) to the old GBA SP:
The tiny thing is adorable (and it’s so small!), it’s perfect for the classic systems (though you won’t get N64, Dreamcast etc), and I’ve essentially found this has been my modern Game Boy Advance SP. For the GBA, GB and GBC systems it’s just perfection. I love how you can customize the surroundings with community-made contributions, like this one:
There’s a handful of small downsides, like perhaps if you’re old-old with poor eyesight, the screen might be a bit too small for you, but this was an easy recommendation from me.
If I didn’t already have a Miyoo Flip v2 I would buy this version in a heartbeat. The love the clamshell design and portability of these things is a huge upside and I take it everywhere with me. I have been using MinUI on mine and it works great (especially quick save state and resume on open) but after reading your article I decided to change it up and move over to Knulli which has a lot more options.
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It’s great to see all these new consoles, mobile games, Steam Decks, etc being launched but with my aging eyes, I can’t enjoy them anymore.
Born too soon I guess. 🤷
I feel you, I’m in the same boat
it would be cool if there was something like the Game Boy Magnifier for those modern systems
I got you sorted!!!
Eat that poor banana already!
I shudder to think if I were so brave as to use the same banana each time. It would be a bit worse for wear by now!
(small edit) Actually, this may very well be the same one as from my last review!
It may be time to use that one for banana bread! The browner the better
If I didn’t already have a Miyoo Flip v2 I would buy this version in a heartbeat. The love the clamshell design and portability of these things is a huge upside and I take it everywhere with me. I have been using MinUI on mine and it works great (especially quick save state and resume on open) but after reading your article I decided to change it up and move over to Knulli which has a lot more options.
Did they fix the hinge problem? I read last year there was bad quality control.
This is a totally new model. That one was larger and had thumb-sticks, this one’s much smaller and ditched the sticks (and yes, fixed the hinge woes!)
Thank jeebus the hinge issues are done!
Love my Funkey. It’s so fun busting this out of my coin pocket to play some Gran Turismo. Hilariously impractical, but fantastically novel.
Im getting hand cramps just looking at that image
Weirdly you get used to it! I played most of Mother 3 on this little guy.
I think it’s pretty obvious that they’re both very much drawing inspiration from the SP.
And that FunKey might even push my younger eyes to be squinting! 5 years of play time is amazing for one of these, well done!
Any chance you can get a picture of it next to an original SP for size comparison?