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Like any product from AliExpress, the packaging is honestly nothing special. In the box you get the console itself, two wireless controllers, your power adapter and a HDMI cable.
Before we go anywhere, we have to talk about the controllers, they are awful. It’s like something you would find in a cereal box. It’s cheap, thin plastic, with awful loose buttons, and it requires x2 AAA batteries that do not come included.
Watch your thumb when you open up the back compartment as its as sharp as Bilbo’s sword!
Again, like crap. The build quality of the console itself is nothing special. They have designed it to look like a SNES Mini, which fair enough, may look appealing to some but when you hold it yourself, it feels like thin air. The shell also feels as if it could be snapped with a slight breeze from the bottom end.
The SNES features on the front do nothing, like the “cartridge slot” and front button. The only button on the Super Console X is in fact on the back, and that’s for turning it on and off.
While we’re on the back, you can see the ports. It has a AV out, ethernet port, DC in, and your HDMI port for plugging it into your TV or monitor.
On the adjacent right hand side, you will also find your SD card slot and two USB ports for adding controllers.
On the back you will find small grips to keep your console from slipping off of your desk. You will also notice a lot of ventiliation too. We did notice the Super Console X has a tendancy to get warm, but not warm enough to cause any worry.
We have not had any experience of it overheating, so although the case looks like it doesn’t help with airflow, we can assure you it hasn’t caused us any issues as of yet.
However we did notice some frame rate drops on large Dreamcast games, but not enough to harm the gaming experience. It was still playable, but not silky smooth like PS1, N64 and others.
It was surprising to see such a small little console with very little RAM play the likes of some big Dreamcast games fairly well, and that’s why we love it.
Overall the gaming performance was great, but it narrows its target audience to those that want everything up to Dreamcast, beyond that you will need something else.
