Bro, you are looking down into a deep deep deep rabbit hole.

What’s your budget and what do you want to play? I haven’t kept up with device reviews for a while, but here’s what I had in my mind at last reading:

1. Budget: Mangmi Air X

2. I’m financially comfortable: Retroid Pocket 6

3. Trust fund: some top tier Ayaneo device

These devices have come a long way and come in every for factor and budget. There are loads of videos to watch. Don’t worry about pre-loaded games, you’ll be doing all that yourself. But that’s one of the things you have to enjoy: hours of setup and figuring stuff out.

Retro Game Corps is a great place to start and their device database will be the place to go to compare devices.