AYN Odin Pro Review with video – Excellent high performance Android handheld game console (DROIX Blog)

Summary

DROIX blog review of the ayn-odin-pro. Published 2023-09-21 on droix.net.

We tried a few games and had a solid 60 frames per second on everything we tried. There were no issues at all with the performance, everything ran great.
Like the Dreamcast everything runs at a solid 60 FPS on the PS1. You can, if you wanted to, increase the graphics settings resolution scale up to 1080P to make the graphics look far nicer than the original low resolution.
Overall the Dolphin emulator performance is very good. For many games we had it running at full frames per second. But we did also see quite a few 60 FPS games dropping to as low as 40 frames per second now and again.
PSP emulation overall works excellent. You should not have any issues with the vast majority of games. Depending on how demanding the game is you can increase the upscaling for improved rendering and keep a solid 60 frames per second.

We continue our AYN Odin Pro review with some emulator performance tests. These tests were run on the High Performance setting with the fan on Smart Mode. For pretty much everything up to Dreamcast and PlayStation 1 era you should have no issues at all with emulator performance on Normal performance settings. We set up RetroArch and tried a few 8 and 16 bit consoles and they all ran perfectly. Let’s take a brief look at some of the more demanding systems
Overall the Dolphin emulator performance is very good. For many games we had it running at full frames per second. But we did also see quite a few 60 FPS games dropping to as low as 40 frames per second now and again.
PlayStation 2 emulation with AetherSX2
Citra emulator performance
The performance for the Citra emulator will massively depend on the game you are playing. Shader caching will slow down the performance and often cause lags in games. Performance does improve when the shaders are cached but you will still get some occasional lags and slowdowns. For less demanding games you will find a more enjoyable experience with faster performance.
I found it hard to dislike anything with the Odin Pro portable gaming system, everything works exactly how it should. With it only supporting Android 10 means you wouldn’t be able to officially run YuZu, but the games would not run that well anyway. All in all, it’s a really solid handheld with great performance, miles in front of the Tiger T618 based handhelds!