Everything came as expected from this seller and in a little less time than other sellers have advertised. I had a little trouble with tracking it in the US but I sent out an email that was quickly responded to so I was really happy about that. Other than that, I was very happy with the delivery. The product was packed very well and everything arrived intact. Great sellers.
I'm certain that I'm getting spoiled with this card as my first purchased card, but regardless of that, I want to give an honest review of what I like and what I think could be done better.
I'll start with the selection of emulated systems. This is an old school collectors dream with many of the late 70's and 80's systems here as well as those into and beyond the 90's. In terms of nostalgia, the star is this huge collections of old school titles across many platforms. I get a lot of joy playing with these older systems and it reminds me of growing up in the early 80's.
In terms of newer systems, I am pleased with those as well and I'll probably spend most of my actual play time in those games rather than the older ones. It is the sheer number of emulated systems which work perfectly that really makes my smile. Every game I've played so far has worked without having to tweak it to much which is nice since I'm more of a console guy amd don't enjoy messing with all the settings in a computer just to get a game that works. Themes are awesome, apps are awesome, the collections are pretty good, Port Master is an excellent addition as well as the DOS emulator, and the built-in Scraper is wonderful as well.
As for my complaints, there are a lot of duplicate titles in a couple of the systems. I can tell you that Nintendo only ever made about 1K games for the NES, so looking in that systems game folder and seeing over 4K games is a little concerning. Some of the systems are certainly padded in order to get the game counts this card has on it.
Next, many of the game titles have numbers in front of the names of them, which can make it really hard to find a specific ROM in that emulated systems folders. Occasionally the titles in a system will start with numbered titles and then become alphabetical. There's no advantage I can think of for these titles to be anything other than alphabetically listed, much less why some are numeric and others alphabetised.
The apps add a great deal of functionality to the device but it would have been nice to do some of the little things like change the games names so they can be alphabetised.
There is so much more that can be done to improve this already wonderful system, but the CrossMix Surwish OS is a huge improvement to the system by itself. I will definitely order other products from this company in the future.
