Thank you! Another excellent video and the production values are getting better - loved the new intro! Thanks again for bringing issues with this drive to light. I love it too, but I really wish they'd not botherd with the PC games and added more PS2/3/Xbox 360 games instead. Looking forward to future videos!
I got one during the black Friday deals and I am still going through it. It is both the most impressive thing I have ever seen for the money, and a bit of nightmare to run. I deleted several PC games from it and I own about half of them anyway, but those are unneeded on this thing. My issue came when I tried to play the switch games and my controller wasn't recognized. I had to find the emulator (which there are three, but only one is used and you don't have any idea which without guessing or in my case running task manager while in game. I then edited the emulator to add my controller and it worked perfect. The average buyer would have no way of solving this. I have used it as more of a library that I can transfer games I want to my pc and play those on a fresh emulator. Then I can delete or add others later. Plus, on my weaker laptop playing dolphin the games would stutter when run from the HDD, but when I transferred those games to my C: (and played from my own install of Dolphin) they played perfect. This is a little to be expected from a slower drive but still sucks. All the arcade games I tried played pretty much perfect.
You are a great hardware reviewer !!! Other TH-cam game content creators do not tell us the full truth about this Kinhank hard drive !!! You are the only one who told us viewers the truth about the serious issues regarding outdated emulators , lunchbox issues , gameplay issues !!! Just subscribed b!!
@@MagnumSkyWolf i would say some of the issues raised here were fixed as in emulators were more up to date and some odd emulator choices removed, but it hadn't fixed repeated roms, and there was the issue of switch and pc stuff which i didnt think should be on there and would rather have bigger ps3 and xbox libraries for example. I was under the impression launchbox wasnt the pirated one but seems i was wrong. I have bought a forever license since. Also some of the emulators still arent set up as good as they could be, so still get issues with things working. eg Cemu was latest but i had to tinker as it wouldnt see my controller. I bought it off someone on ebay who said he fixes the janky kinhanks from China. i would say its 50% better but still needed work.
Excellent job on this vide … I enjoyed it… I recently purchased this drive and I am looking forward to seeing more content from you on tips, tricks, and how to optimize… thanks
If you are ever in need of a video idea I would love to see you walk through the Tecknoparrot stuff and get it set up. It's the frontend/emulator that is giving me the most heartaches.
@@nimbylive well it's its own piece of software which they have sort of integrated into hyperspin. Could you explain exactly what the issues are and I'll take you look for you when I can.
@MagnumSkyWolf no problem. Many of the games just didn't work. Inconsistencies are tougher than just not working at all. Also, I couldn't get Street Fighter 4 to accept coins? I went into Teknoparrot and recapped all buttons and the coin button would work in every other game. I was able to get into the dip switch menu and just turned on free play, but that's more of a work around than solution. Have been successful with teknoparrot?
I got one of these for about $140 dollars on black friday and while some of the emulators are janky and the control system sometimes needs tweaking...for the roms and HD alone its worth it.
@ yeh I bought a retroid pocket five as well recently and just being able to pinch all the roms off was such a piece of cake .. subbed bro as a fellow creator I’ll keep an eye out 👊🏻
things to do for part2 video: does qbert work?, does gauntlet and gauntlet2 work? , open up the box and show us what kind of drive they put in there, show us up close video so we can see if it used up datacenter drive or new label ? Please !
Yes, this is the current version and I bought it from aliexpress. There is "fixed" version that some people sell online but I've heard from a few not everything is fixed
Ok cool! Have you tried or do you know anything about the Kris cool mods 16tb retro beast? Also I would I know if I'm buying the newer version from Amazon? Thank you
Great vid. Quick question: does your drive sound really loud when it's in operation? Mine does, but then again, that might be cause I'm so used to silent SSDs these day.
@@joho1325 Well which one is the real kinhank is the question? So many people out there claim to be kinhank but there can only be one. I got mine from aliexpress and even on that site there's 3 separate people claiming to be kinhank
I was wondering if there had been any updates and also IF i buy direct from Kinhank would i be getting a better emulator and not have the out of date shit like this had? Im an older guy who is a self confessed complete NOOB when it comes to anything PC related so any help would be greatly appreciated in what i should buy and from where. Note : I am Aussie and im finding on some sites these emulators cant be sent here
@@marmz69 Well who is the original kinhank that's the real question. They are so many claiming to be kinhank. To be honest you'll more than likely get what I have shown in the video. I have made a few videos showing you how to update and fix most of the drive.
@@MagnumSkyWolf I appreciate the reply because you are the ONLY one who has bothered in a month of trying lol I understand you have done several videos,i only found you today while looking around.I seriously am a major tec noob but if you think its easy enough then i guess i will give it a go. As for your comment about Kinhank i thought i was on their official page lol Guess maybe i wasnt then but i had been sent there by a few people.Anyways thanks again,my heads about to explode watching vids trying to find the right ones
I bought one for black friday and it just black screens whenever I launch any of the PS roms. Big sadness, I can't for the life of me find a single solution online. I also don't see launch box on the drive I got or a rom's folder to update it with a real one.
@@MagnumSkyWolf I bought the 12TB drive from their amazon store. It works if I go around and launch the emulators and roms outside of hyperspin. But if I use the hyperspin UI it just goes black and locks up my PC.
@@MagnumSkyWolf I got the 12tb drive off their amazon store. The roms will run if I launch the emulators outside of hyperspin. Other wise they black screen and my pc becomes unresponsive
Although it looks snazzy 5 in 1 its a lot of faffing about I do not understand why they didn't throw everything into either Retrobat or Hyperspin and dump those PC games. I have 2 Retrobat drives that I configured myself one is a 4 TB drive that based around the high end consuls and the 6TB is made of everything and includes around 200 systems. The only reason I would get one of these drives would be to rip the Roms off it.
Well, they had a launchbox only drive and that didn't really take off. It wasn't till they made a HyperSpin only drive that things took off for them. You are right about using these drives just to rip the roms.
I have one of these. It's fine. To be honest, it's just a bit of a hoarder mentality. I hardly have time to play anything, and when I do, it's usually just the usual few games (around the Dreamcast/ Saturn/PS2 era)
Excellent video. !! You must be very careful purchasing these drives from China !! China is well known for making lots of clones ( knock-offs ). Your video should have been lots longer !!! Don’t but drives with PC games on them !!! You are only hurting the game developers !! Some users have stated that these drives have ruined their pc s ! Kinhank is know for making lots of drives with various kinds of quality !! With modded hard drives -- may have some serious issues !!
@MagnumSkyWolf on the kinHank hyperspin 12 terabyte drive some of the PS5 games don't work I got my own PC game the same that don't work how do I put that one on there to replace it
@@bcollins7bc there are no actual ps5 games (the ps5 games are actually pc versions) i dont know anything about these drives (ive just purchased a different one and am waiting for it to turn up on the slow boat) however i did stumble across that tid bit ....so pretty much if you have a pc section just get a game and place it there... you may not have that fancy ps5 image ... but again these are not actual ps5 games..ikr kinda ..kinda a let down there but....still
You know and that's what kills me about all these TH-camrs this is such a amazing product and how great it is and here's the link and all this you know it's sickens me that all they care about is getting their little promotion in these are horribly put together always have been now if you're buying it just for the set alarm that's great and trust me I had in the past about one just to have the wrong set alone I built my own set up and then I use this just because I didn't want to spend gobs of time searching for the ROMs and in the bad thing is is man half of the ROMs is don't work it's just it's a horrible horrible setup they don't care they slap these things together half of it might work the other half might not every now and then you'll get lucky and get a good one but I see so many TH-camrs praising these things and it's like please quit be honest you know let people know the goods the pros the cons not just how great this thing is because they're not. Do they have functionality Yes there is a lot you can play there's also a lot you can't All mine wasn't configured you can't go into the emulation back ends to put on your cheats anymore You can't get into any of the satans it's like it's just all messed up. The emulators are so out of date it's horrible and guess what you ever tried to update it You've killed the hole stinking thing I've had so many games that were in Chinese that shouldn't be and then I go into say I had a problem with dolphin I had to go map my own controls Guess what everything's in Chinese can't even map the controls without using Google translate on your TV to find out how to make the controls
What’s the point of buying this ???? Gameplay issues , launchbox issues , emulators out of date !!! Lots of games will not work well !! Fellow gamers -- Kinhank is shady !!!!!!
Do either of you absolute burgers not realize how hard it is to get a rom set like this in one interface ☠️ , especially teknoparrot completely pre configured ? Do you not realize how annoying teknoparrot is to get working properly . And have a interface with 150 games pre configured is pretty insane .
I own one of the older 12tbs. It was worth it to me. My intent was to set up my own drives from using it. I prefer Retrobat and I have a lifetime Launchbox subscription. If you have time to download 12tb of content, go right ahead. You’d still have to buy a 12tb drive.
for me. I am just after the files. I can build my own but all the ROM'S and ISO's are right there
Yeah it would take forever to chase down all those different ROMs/ISOs.
I got it for the game roms too
Thank you! Another excellent video and the production values are getting better - loved the new intro! Thanks again for bringing issues with this drive to light. I love it too, but I really wish they'd not botherd with the PC games and added more PS2/3/Xbox 360 games instead. Looking forward to future videos!
Thanks for the amazing compliment. I am trying to get better at this sort of stuff.
I got one during the black Friday deals and I am still going through it. It is both the most impressive thing I have ever seen for the money, and a bit of nightmare to run. I deleted several PC games from it and I own about half of them anyway, but those are unneeded on this thing.
My issue came when I tried to play the switch games and my controller wasn't recognized. I had to find the emulator (which there are three, but only one is used and you don't have any idea which without guessing or in my case running task manager while in game. I then edited the emulator to add my controller and it worked perfect. The average buyer would have no way of solving this.
I have used it as more of a library that I can transfer games I want to my pc and play those on a fresh emulator. Then I can delete or add others later. Plus, on my weaker laptop playing dolphin the games would stutter when run from the HDD, but when I transferred those games to my C: (and played from my own install of Dolphin) they played perfect. This is a little to be expected from a slower drive but still sucks. All the arcade games I tried played pretty much perfect.
You are a great hardware reviewer !!! Other TH-cam game content creators do not tell us the full truth about this Kinhank hard drive !!! You are the only one who told us viewers the truth about the serious issues regarding outdated emulators , lunchbox issues , gameplay issues !!! Just subscribed b!!
@@BURRITO44 Thank you for the sub very kind of you. I did think it was important to let people know what they were buying and I hope it helps them
Indeed ! Even my ‘fixed’ one has still got issues
@@MrTophes I heard people supposed fixed drives. I'm assuming the major issue are fixed?
@@MagnumSkyWolf i would say some of the issues raised here were fixed as in emulators were more up to date and some odd emulator choices removed, but it hadn't fixed repeated roms, and there was the issue of switch and pc stuff which i didnt think should be on there and would rather have bigger ps3 and xbox libraries for example. I was under the impression launchbox wasnt the pirated one but seems i was wrong. I have bought a forever license since. Also some of the emulators still arent set up as good as they could be, so still get issues with things working. eg Cemu was latest but i had to tinker as it wouldnt see my controller. I bought it off someone on ebay who said he fixes the janky kinhanks from China. i would say its 50% better but still needed work.
Excellent job on this vide … I enjoyed it… I recently purchased this drive and I am looking forward to seeing more content from you on tips, tricks, and how to optimize… thanks
just got it, thanks for the info, would love to perform any fixes you have on updating the emulators. keep the videos coming, great job!
@@buffny4203 Thank you. Hope you enjoy the drive
really well done!
If you are ever in need of a video idea I would love to see you walk through the Tecknoparrot stuff and get it set up. It's the frontend/emulator that is giving me the most heartaches.
@@nimbylive well it's its own piece of software which they have sort of integrated into hyperspin. Could you explain exactly what the issues are and I'll take you look for you when I can.
@MagnumSkyWolf no problem. Many of the games just didn't work. Inconsistencies are tougher than just not working at all.
Also, I couldn't get Street Fighter 4 to accept coins? I went into Teknoparrot and recapped all buttons and the coin button would work in every other game. I was able to get into the dip switch menu and just turned on free play, but that's more of a work around than solution. Have been successful with teknoparrot?
I got one of these for about $140 dollars on black friday and while some of the emulators are janky and the control system sometimes needs tweaking...for the roms and HD alone its worth it.
@@BadMMAMath True. You're not going to get such a huge collection for such a low price
@ yeh I bought a retroid pocket five as well recently and just being able to pinch all the roms off was such a piece of cake .. subbed bro as a fellow creator I’ll keep an eye out 👊🏻
things to do for part2 video: does qbert work?, does gauntlet and gauntlet2 work? , open up the box and show us what kind of drive they put in there, show us up close video so we can see if it used up datacenter drive or new label ? Please !
Well this is not gonna be perfect but the whole idea of having these games in one drive is crazy … I don’t know why this guy can’t appreciate it!
good review!! it this the most current version of the hard drive? did you get on amazon
Yes, this is the current version and I bought it from aliexpress. There is "fixed" version that some people sell online but I've heard from a few not everything is fixed
Ok cool! Have you tried or do you know anything about the Kris cool mods 16tb retro beast? Also I would I know if I'm buying the newer version from Amazon? Thank you
What is the best retro hard drive do you recommend which retro builds and what is the best budget mini pc that can play everything
@@andrebradley1924 I honestly don't know when it comes to mini PCs but the hard drive in this video is still pretty good despite it's flaws
Great vid. Quick question: does your drive sound really loud when it's in operation? Mine does, but then again, that might be cause I'm so used to silent SSDs these day.
Most HDD have that crunching sound especially if you are running it in the external drive. I suggest if possible to put it into your pc
Do you recommend buying from Kinhank to avoid a cloned hdd?
@@joho1325 Well which one is the real kinhank is the question? So many people out there claim to be kinhank but there can only be one. I got mine from aliexpress and even on that site there's 3 separate people claiming to be kinhank
They do have website
You did not provide a link to buy !!!
Its on amazon
I was wondering if there had been any updates and also IF i buy direct from Kinhank would i be getting a better emulator and not have the out of date shit like this had? Im an older guy who is a self confessed complete NOOB when it comes to anything PC related so any help would be greatly appreciated in what i should buy and from where.
Note : I am Aussie and im finding on some sites these emulators cant be sent here
@@marmz69 Well who is the original kinhank that's the real question. They are so many claiming to be kinhank. To be honest you'll more than likely get what I have shown in the video.
I have made a few videos showing you how to update and fix most of the drive.
@@MagnumSkyWolf I appreciate the reply because you are the ONLY one who has bothered in a month of trying lol I understand you have done several videos,i only found you today while looking around.I seriously am a major tec noob but if you think its easy enough then i guess i will give it a go.
As for your comment about Kinhank i thought i was on their official page lol Guess maybe i wasnt then but i had been sent there by a few people.Anyways thanks again,my heads about to explode watching vids trying to find the right ones
I bought one for black friday and it just black screens whenever I launch any of the PS roms. Big sadness, I can't for the life of me find a single solution online. I also don't see launch box on the drive I got or a rom's folder to update it with a real one.
Did you buy the original kinhank drive with just hyperspin?
@@MagnumSkyWolf I bought the 12TB drive from their amazon store. It works if I go around and launch the emulators and roms outside of hyperspin. But if I use the hyperspin UI it just goes black and locks up my PC.
@@MagnumSkyWolf I got the 12tb drive off their amazon store. The roms will run if I launch the emulators outside of hyperspin. Other wise they black screen and my pc becomes unresponsive
Why can’t Kinhank get things right ???? Ask yourself this question please if considering purchasing this.
can you do a showcase of whatever the 24tb HyperSpin Attraction drive is seen in your file exploer please :)
@@zetec-s-joe Sure if you want. It's just a mix of the original kinhank and the 5-1
@ just be great to see a showcase of what you’ve packed together for your personal setup 👍
@zetec-s-joe Sure I'll look into it for you
Launchbox is the same as retrobat so why use it? More the files to retrobat folder..
Although it looks snazzy 5 in 1 its a lot of faffing about I do not understand why they didn't throw everything into either Retrobat or Hyperspin and dump those PC games. I have 2 Retrobat drives that I configured myself one is a 4 TB drive that based around the high end consuls and the 6TB is made of everything and includes around 200 systems. The only reason I would get one of these drives would be to rip the Roms off it.
Well, they had a launchbox only drive and that didn't really take off. It wasn't till they made a HyperSpin only drive that things took off for them.
You are right about using these drives just to rip the roms.
Are you able to copy the roms/isos onto your own drive or no?
@@Beyondsaybeats I have copied all the ROMs, videos, artwork etc I wanted to my own drive. So yes it can be done.
Are these not plug in play 👀
@@GodSon91 yes they are advertised as plug and play
Yes but other vids saying you need a pc
Plug and play (into a PC)
3:58 maybe you can disable the antivirus instead??
I have one of these. It's fine. To be honest, it's just a bit of a hoarder mentality. I hardly have time to play anything, and when I do, it's usually just the usual few games (around the Dreamcast/ Saturn/PS2 era)
That ps3 emulation was kinda nasty.
Excellent video. !! You must be very careful purchasing these drives from China !! China is well known for making lots of clones ( knock-offs ). Your video should have been lots longer !!! Don’t but drives with PC games on them !!! You are only hurting the game developers !! Some users have stated that these drives have ruined their pc s ! Kinhank is know for making lots of drives with various kinds of quality !! With modded hard drives -- may have some serious issues !!
can you tell me how do you know how to download the games on the ps5 that don't work on the 12TB Kinhank drive
I don't understand what you mean PS5 games?
@MagnumSkyWolf on the kinHank hyperspin 12 terabyte drive some of the PS5 games don't work I got my own PC game the same that don't work how do I put that one on there to replace it
@@bcollins7bc there are no actual ps5 games (the ps5 games are actually pc versions) i dont know anything about these drives (ive just purchased a different one and am waiting for it to turn up on the slow boat) however i did stumble across that tid bit ....so pretty much if you have a pc section just get a game and place it there... you may not have that fancy ps5 image ... but again these are not actual ps5 games..ikr kinda ..kinda a let down there but....still
Technically with kodi you can play a bunch of emulators and games..
Really? learn something new every day. Thanks for letting me know
You talk very dramatically
Possibly nerves lol. I'm really new to this stuff
@@MagnumSkyWolfIs that an Irish accent I hear? I'm from Wales
@@johnphillips4783 It is lad 😂
Thought it was an interesting drive, Dont need pc games, but the rest was ok.
Noooooo thanks! lol
You know and that's what kills me about all these TH-camrs this is such a amazing product and how great it is and here's the link and all this you know it's sickens me that all they care about is getting their little promotion in these are horribly put together always have been now if you're buying it just for the set alarm that's great and trust me I had in the past about one just to have the wrong set alone I built my own set up and then I use this just because I didn't want to spend gobs of time searching for the ROMs and in the bad thing is is man half of the ROMs is don't work it's just it's a horrible horrible setup they don't care they slap these things together half of it might work the other half might not every now and then you'll get lucky and get a good one but I see so many TH-camrs praising these things and it's like please quit be honest you know let people know the goods the pros the cons not just how great this thing is because they're not. Do they have functionality Yes there is a lot you can play there's also a lot you can't All mine wasn't configured you can't go into the emulation back ends to put on your cheats anymore You can't get into any of the satans it's like it's just all messed up. The emulators are so out of date it's horrible and guess what you ever tried to update it You've killed the hole stinking thing I've had so many games that were in Chinese that shouldn't be and then I go into say I had a problem with dolphin I had to go map my own controls Guess what everything's in Chinese can't even map the controls without using Google translate on your TV to find out how to make the controls
What’s the point of buying this ???? Gameplay issues , launchbox issues , emulators out of date !!! Lots of games will not work well !! Fellow gamers -- Kinhank is shady !!!!!!
Instant access to roms, some people have more money than free time I guess.
@@aler0506called having a job .
Do either of you absolute burgers not realize how hard it is to get a rom set like this in one interface ☠️ , especially teknoparrot completely pre configured ? Do you not realize how annoying teknoparrot is to get working properly . And have a interface with 150 games pre configured is pretty insane .
I own one of the older 12tbs. It was worth it to me. My intent was to set up my own drives from using it. I prefer Retrobat and I have a lifetime Launchbox subscription. If you have time to download 12tb of content, go right ahead. You’d still have to buy a 12tb drive.