Miyoo Mini - the BEST mini retro handheld especially with OnionOS!

The latest addition to my already impressive retro handheld collection is the Miyoo Mini, a machine which punches way above it’s £40 price point in a number of ways, this, in my opinion is the best mini retro handheld you can buy, stay tuned to find out why…..

Firstly, the build quality is superb, it doesn’t feel at all cheap or flimsy, it has a decent bit of weight to it and looks and feels great to use, in terms of size it’s very pocket friendly but not so small as to be unusable.  The d-pad, buttons and shoulder buttons (located on the back of the machine) are all of a high standard and are extremely responsive. 

Next, the screen, this is bright and colourful with minimal bezels around the edge meaning your retro games are going to look amazing!

Lastly - performance.  Out of the box using the stock firmware supplied the performance is very good, however for best results I would highly recommend you download and install the truly superb custom firmware - the wonderfully named OnionOS (pictured above), the latest version of which is available from https://github.com/jimgraygit/Onion

This offers all-round improved performance, a much larger selection of supported machines, pre-configured Retroarch and a really slick and professional looking interface topped off with extremely simple to follow installation instructions.

The firmware supplied with the machine supports a great variety of machines - SNES, Megadrive, GameBoy, GameBoy Advance, GameBoy Color, PS1 to name but a few but OnionOS provides many extra machines including Atari2600, Atari Lynx, Virtual Boy, Vectrex - all of which also play really well.

The machine comes in two colours, white (pictured above) and a sort of beige colour.

I cannot recommend this machine highly enough if you’re looking for a pocket friendly, excellent quality machine with great performance, I absolutely love it!  The only downside is it’s proved so popular that, at the time of writing it’s currently out of stock at the official Miyoo Global Store on AliExpress but hopefully it’ll come back in stock soon!

As a postscript I was looking for a case to keep it in and discovered, thanks to the Retro Handhelds group on Discord that a Zippo cigarette case (available for around £10 from Amazon) fits it perfectly!