Summary
DROIX blog review of the ayaneo-pocket-micro. Published 2025-03-11 on droix.net.
FPS / Gaming Performance
- PPSSPP is a great emulator and we were able to set the rendering resolution to 3x, with no frame skipping, 16x anisotropic filtering and some other tweaks on God Of War. We got a solid 60 FPS which is great to see.
- Our last emulator is the now discontinued YuZu emulator. At 1x resolution on Cruisn’ Blast it was averaging around 30 to 40 frames per second, which given the processor is very good. If you lower the resolution to half, then we can get as high as 50 frames per second. Don’t expect many games to play this well, but you can get some decent results from lower demanding games.
Emulation Notes
- AetherSX2
- PPSSPP is a great emulator and we were able to set the rendering resolution to 3x, with no frame skipping, 16x anisotropic filtering and some other tweaks on God Of War. We got a solid 60 FPS which is great to see.
- PPSSPP on the AYANEO Pocket Micro
- AetherSX2 on the AYANEO Pocket Micro
- Citra on the AYANEO Pocket Micro
- We got decent results on the Citra emulator. We tried a bunch of games and many were perfectly playable. There are some drops in frames and shader cache lags in more demanding games, but overall they were playable afterwards!
- Vita3K on the AYANEO Pocket Micro
- YuZu on the AYANEO Pocket Micro
- Our go to trippy game TxK on the Vita3K emulator ran perfectly and we could increase the rendering resolution to 2x. With Street Fighter X Tekken we had to run at normal resolution and overall we saw good frame rates with some occasional caching lags, impressive!
- Our last emulator is the now discontinued YuZu emulator. At 1x resolution on Cruisn’ Blast it was averaging around 30 to 40 frames per second, which given the processor is very good. If you lower the resolution to half, then we can get as high as 50 frames per second. Don’t expect many games to play this well, but you can get some decent results from lower demanding games.
- Let’s first start with the performance. Despite having a lower end processor, it actually does a great job! We saw good performance in the benchmarks, though not as good as the lower cost Anbernic RG Cube. But when actually running emulators we saw decent performance for PS2, Citra and YuZu, and great results with Vita3K.
Source
Full review available at: https://droix.net/blogs/ayaneo-pocket-micro-review/