OCTOBER 2019 • TECH ADVISOR 45REVIEWYou have to hold down Select and step through a few
volume options with the B and A buttons. This is clunky
and my least favourite thing about the hardware.
At least the feel of the buttons is fine. The d-pad is
nice and smooth, with an even distribution of tension
between the directions. It’s not super-smooth to
roll over from one direction to another, but I wasn’t
expecting perfection for the price. The face buttons
have just a bit more resistance on initial press than
I prefer, but there’s plenty of travel and I’ve had no
problems with false positives or missed presses.
Software
The BittBoy software support includes NES, SNES,
Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance,
Master System, Genesis, WonderSwan, NeoGeo, and
even PlayStation games via various built-in emulators.
You load your ROMs onto an SD card that fits into a slot
at the top. The operating system is already loaded on
the device, so it couldn’t be more easy to set up and
use. There are options if you want to tinker with settings
to get the most out of each emulator, but for the most
part I’ve stuck with the defaults.
Like all emulation, you aren’t using the original
hardware the games were designed for, so everything
is not guaranteed to run perfectly – or at all, in some
cases. But I’m personally not a stickler for a perfect
emulation experience – I just want it be as damn close
as possible with minimal effort. For the most part the
BittBoy achieved just that.
Older games from systems like NES and Master
System worked great. Even though the BittBoy