For a long time now the Miyoo Mini Plus has been the best mini, pocket friendly retro emulation handheld but now a little known company called TrimUI has launched a new device called the Brick, is it good enough to dethrone the Mini Plus? Let's find out......
The Brick comes in Black, White, Red and Purple and size wise is about the same height as a Mini Plus but quite a bit narrower. When I received my black device I was initially surprised at how small it was, more so than I'd expected but it's actually the perfect size to play on and carry around, it feels great to hold. The quality of the build is excellent and the d-pad, shoulder buttons and face buttons are all nice and responsive.
Performance wise the Brick can play everything up to and including PS1 with ease, currently the custom firmware options are a little limited consisting of MinUI and a pre-release Alpha build of Knulli (not yet fully featured) so I went with MinUI and I'm glad I did as it's an excellent choice and a perfect fit for the Brick. It's a clean, simple, un-fussy piece of firmware that focuses mainly on getting out of the way and letting you play your games.
The games themselves look fantastic on the Brick's bright and vivid screen, impressive for such a small machine.
The only issue I have with this is that many of the Final Burn Neo games such as the 194x series are displayed vertically not horizontally making them very difficult to play and despite tinkering with every setting going there is no way of rotating them. This is strange as the two Wonderswan Color titles, Judgement Silversword and Tetris that launch vertically can be rotated the right way up. Hopefully this will be fixed with a future MinUI update.
Overall this has taken over from the Miyoo Mini Plus as my favourite mini, pocket friendly retro handheld and is well worth checking out.
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