Hello everyone welcome back to the first video of the new year! This was a Christmas project but unfortunately ive been too ill to get it out before we finished the year. Still its here now, and we're back to weekly uploads. Hope you all had a great time. Also good news hopefully all uploads this year will be in 4K!!! Wow we've entered the modern world. Enjoy!
@@TheGhostzZ PCSX2 is a PS2 emulator. PSX was a pre-release codename for the original Playstation as well as the actual name for a PS2 based DVR in Japan.
Not gonna lie, for 90 bucks you get a Windows-compatible PC with 4 GB of RAM with Batocera installed, a whole load of pirated games, two controllers, and a case to hold it all together. I wouldn't say it's a scam, but rather a pretty good deal. It's something I would buy.
I mean, it's one with 2015 laptop hardware, but it do would be a HUGE FIND here in Brazil if it wasn't for the heavy taxing on imported stuff, I dont think its that good on first world countries tho
@Zero-Saber if you want a sleeper, low consuming build like this, you should actually get an used laptop (preferably a 4th~6th gen Intel laptop), but agreed
Have we really gotten to the point where Bootleg emulators are ghost PCs? Ironically a better deal than the modern emulation Nintendo and Sony offer, where you have a very limited selection or have to pay a membership.
@ bless chinas loose rules around piracy. In 2045 you’ll actually be playing ps5 games on some 60 dollar clone console. Gone will be the days of super Mario 69
@@Billy-burner Unlikely. You would need to acquire HDD/SDD and controllers separately. Then you would have to install Batocera and find ROMs on your own . Overall, it is possible to turn OptiPlex into emulation machine, it requires effort.
@@aleksazunjic9672 looking on marketplace right now. Optiplex 7050 micro with i7, 1tb HDD 16gb ra , Nvidia gt610 for $70.. USB controllers are like $5 ea from AliExpress and you can easily install all the rooms from a single torrent.. I know that pc in particular isn't half price, but they come up cheap very often
If you disgard the fact that all the software is pirated and the article description is misleading it's not a bad deal. Maybe it would work even better with genuine controllers and a few possible hardware upgrades. I doubt we'll see this on your channel again which is a shame because I would like to see what you could really get out of it.
@@aleksazunjic9672 Sounds like a good idea but unfortunately I live in Germany. The German Customs import service are very inquisative and very, very thorough. Last time I tried a smart phone which had , according to them, no certificate of compliance to EU regulations. So they confiscated and subsequently destroyed it.
@laurencehastings7473 Five more months dude. It's part of the German closed borders plan which is far too invasive. Neighboring countries don't even have the manpower to match the same scrutiny on goods coming out of Germany so the plan will probably have to be scrapped in July. Either that or Germany has to abolish Shengen uni-laterally which will put a bomb under the EU which'll lead to Germany to be forced to Grexit. Which will quite probably lead to a war, which will force Germany to break a lot of treaties with quite probably the entire world. Also, since Germany, like Japan, is not allowed to start wars anymore it will automatically prevent the above from happening. So before the end '25 most of the invasive import protocols will be lifted again.
It’s not regular Windows 11, but it’s Windows RE (recovery environment) beefed up to the extent that could run emulators. Such environments are usually used for manual system recovery and you can see all kind of tools left over on the desktop, like dism++, Ghost, password reset etc. Windows RE runs in RAMDisk. IDK if it's a good thing in this case, as everything is blazingly fast to load and nothing would damage the system, but all changes made to the system will be gone after a reboot.
This is an install of Batocera Linux. Kodi isn't the backend, it's just there if you also want to use it as a Media Center. Some configuration and curation did go into it, it looks like, though.
Running off a PCIe card implies it's a piece of an industrial PC that would plug into a backplane of PCIe slots. Probably used to be controlling some industrial machinery or kiosk. The passive cooling means it doesn't gum up by sucking dust into the heat sinks.
That Power Socket at about 2:15 looks a bit like one of the Tips that you’d find included with a Universal Laptop PSU just jammed in there! 😂 Happy New Year to you & yours buddy! 🙂 Anthony - Birmingham
Batocera is a fantastic Linux distro for applications like this. I have a Lenovo M75q, Gen 1, with a Ryzen 5 Pro 3400GE and Vega 11 iGPU. Its powerful enough to play PS2, Wii and Gamecube at 1080p, and even Wii U at Native. A note from the video, every machine with Batocera will see the Ryzen thermal power design option, regardless of the architecture. You'll also notice a general Overclock option, this is only possible for Raspberry Pi's. Great video, look forward to more in 2025 👍🏻
running ps2 emulation to run the ps2 versions of GTA on this little machine is honestly one of the silliest things I've seen on the video tbh, considering the pc port can run pretty well on low end, old, mobile Intel iGPUs. On 720p, or even 1080p depending on how old the device is. Also, happy new year, glad to know you're well now and also that there are new videos to come
@aleksazunjic9672 I think it has a lot to do with the OS as well, since it's not Windows, and those ports are a pain to run outside of Windows as far as I remember (altho I never tested them on Wine with Linux yet)
I mean with re3 and revc the Linux ports arguably run better than the original windows releases these days. My r36s can play vice city at 60fps, at least, so
@lillyclarity9699 oooh interesting, but running better than the Windows ports means it also runs better than the ps2 emulator running the ps2 versions (which are also the original game with no ports btw)
Interesting.. I picked up an N100 mini PC for $99 on sale.. according to something like passmark, it's multi thread score is almost 5x faster than this.. lol.
ugzz...you got a bargain there...I doubt over here in Europe we could buy it for less than double that price...I already commented this emulation box is good value compared with like Kinhanks super console x devices...or similar...which can cost way above 100 dollars...this has better processor and chipset than typical multi emulator gameboxes...but not your mini PC...but I expect you had to install your own software which some are not capable of doing..so prefer plug n play option
Chronicles is Tomb Raider 5 - 4 was Last Revelation. Aside from that, interesting device. Held back by the CPU and the RAM. If it came with an i7-8700T (just to cut back consumption/heat) with more RAM, I'm sure it'd be able to easily pull Xbox and PS2 emulation.
I've also just noticed, the title got scrambled in the portuguese auto translation, on which it is "Ps5 pro para renderizar1", or "Ps5 pro to render1" if it was to be translated back to english... I don't have auto translation toggled on, but youtube showed me the translated, scrambled title anyways
@@Lithium50 pois é, eu já tentei várias vezes, mas não achei nenhuma configuração pra arrumar, pior que isso só quando o vídeo começa com a tradução em IA, mas isso pelo menos tem como desligar e voltar pro áudio original (só ir em configurações e trocar a faixa de áudio). É bizarro, a IA do youtube é uma das coisas mais esquisitas que eu já ouvi
@@Leurak me too, specially since the auto translation sucks 90% of the time, and sometimes its hard to even guess what the original title was, because it gets scrambled by the translation, somehow
yup, hate it with passion. i generally consume content on its original language and youtube keeps trying to translate crap for me even though i don't want it to.
The pcie card setup is a somewhat standard thing for industrial pcs, you plug that into a big board that makes connections to other stuff. If something breaks, you just pull it back out and replace it in minutes
I remember Linus video where he reviewed something like this glorious ps5, and there was many emulators and Xbox Jet Set Radio too. Now its really interesting for me - are they using literally same pack with emulators and games for different systems or that Jet Set is just coincidence?
dev...that's probably the most informative comment here if correct...repurposed crypto mining add-on board you believe...another says with a debug form of Win11 for some industrial useage...quite a mix n match emulation device...beats most Kinhank super console X type boxes which can cost a fair amount...some over 100 dollars...I'd choose this over Kinhanks for better processor and chipset
Tons of such Batocera consoles, Wicked Package from China has them covered. Usually either old Celerons that no one needs any more, or Android TV boxes, with former being more capable but also more expensive. 3D printing of plastic case in a shape of modern consoles.
aleksa....I already commented this emulation box is good value compared with like Kinhanks super console x devices..as often shown on Wicked gamer and collector...which can cost way above 100 dollars...this has better processor and chipset than typical multi emulator gameboxes...but not your mini PCs...but if you have to install your own software ie Batocera or Recalbox or Retrobat which some are not capable of doing..so prefer plug n play option..this is one of the better cheaper options...I'd consider it if didn't have the knowledge I've gained from TH-camrs channels and videos...if you can pick up an N100 based mini PC for a little more then that's ideal...
@@markianclark9645 Cheapest option for emulation is usually to get some beaten up office PC, install emulators (perhaps Batocera) and find your own ROMs. But, as you said, it requires time and technical knowledge.
"Ryzen thermal power" is just a setting in Batocera (the OS on the fake ps5) in case you're using it on a Ryzen based APU. The setting is available regardless of what system you have Batocera installed on. Hope this helps!
Weird about the Xbox OG emulation when you consider it was basically just an older slower Celeryish Pentium III inside the machine and the later U Celery would have had the cores of the previous iterations within its own structure so it should have run pretty well if someone at Batocera pulled their plums out and coded up a worthier translation table to the onboard fake-o GPU of the not-a-PS5Pro. The Xbox coding was very much like the Dreamcast coding, usually a "wrapper" to create the software environment which is how we were retro-engineering Dreamcast games that never made it to the machine but ended up on the Xbox like Sega GT and it was actually quite easy to play Sega GT on the DC once you worked out the wrapper constraints. The Xbox core programming was like the DC, just a very chopped up Windows-ish front end so I would have expected a decent framerate. I also wonder how Skies of Arcadia would have sat with the GC emulator, its a bit of a pig of a game and like Xbox's Pirates of the Caribbean rather bugged on platform (PotC was awful for not only crashing but corrupting your Xbox save file so days of playtime just gone in 60 seconds, Skies also had a similar bug and bye bye save games on the Dreamcast and the Gamecube but tis one of my lifelong fave games up there with Code Veronica)
That celeron 3855u CPU is the CPU that is found in the ASUS Chromebox 3. I have one of these chromeboxes and I must say that it runs Linux Mint 21.3 extremely well and it's quite nice as a daily web browser and multimedia system. This little PS5 pro knockoff you got for $50 could potentially be a great little custom starter system for someone's kid with a fresh OS installed on it.
With Nintendo ROMs being a bit harder to come by nowadays, I’m curious to see if these will develop a market as an easy way to get the files and dump them onto an ssd
It's actually quite impressive this thing runs JSRF as well as it does, even considering the crazy improvements in OG Xbox emulation in the past few years. Not too long ago, the only "Fully Playable" Xbox game you could emulate was Halo. More of a testament to the current state of emulation but it's still no small task to emulate the OG Xbox
Since that thing's built onto a PCIe card, I wonder what the pinout is like. Is it hooked up with some PCIe lines exposed so that you can attach a graphics card to it if you have a backplane? Or is it only power? Also what do you need to type into AliExpress to get PCs on cards to show up in the search results, or are they not directly available?
I mean it's a bad deal, but it is quite crazy to think just how much entertainment a kid could get out of one of these compared to 90's bootleg consoles. Even these scams have a good amount of potential entertainment.
If its possible to install a western version of Windows on this, that thing does look like a good value HTPC. How good is this thing decoding x265 4K Video streams?
@@igimagister My guy, the internet is now 32years old. Believe it or not, but those grandparents were in their thirties when it all started. By now, they should be as savvy as the young'uns. Me being 65 is just one example. There's no cure for stupidity and I do believe excusing people that had 32 years to learn something is foolhardy. It's as with crypto, if you still get scammed now, you deserve to be scammed. Search engines are for everybody. Don't excuse stupidity as that breeds complatency.
For 100 Bucks you can get a N95 MiniPC that has about 3x the performance... but you will miss out on a dodgy Chinese Windows 11 and all the Games that are pre-installed.
Last Revelation was Tomb Raider IV, Chronicle was V! And this is exactly what I thought it'd be, I think I may have seen too many videos talking about these things by now... Also, I like how you keep calling it the "PlayStation 5 Pro", when on the box it clearly reads "PlayStation Pro 5"! A level of trickery you don't see too often, that's how they get you! You don't realise until you go back! I guess I was alwasy lucky on that front, no grandparents, but my parents did at least know where to look, plus living in a major city like Leeds...
If you treated it as a box full of pirated roms to pair with a more capable mini pc it's probably still worth the money, I'm knida impressed it runs gamecibe stuff that well.
Since I don't got the knowhow and I'm kinda scared to get cought pirating ROMS for an emulator, I'm kinda interested in something like that. I do have a gamecollection with OG discs and stuff but it gets really expensive to buy all the games and systems you wish for. So, if you already have done it: can you maybe make a video about pr-build, kinda affortable emulators that are worth its money?:) Would love to see something like that!
Every time I see a cheap knockoff console, I try to guess if it's just a famiClone or a console that claims to play more modern games (i.e. SNES or Genesis) and absolutely fails to hold a steady framerate. Let's see how I did this time (I'm guessing famiClone with moulded-but-nonfunctional shoulder buttons)... BUUUU Oh wow, I'm not only totally wrong but surprised, I haven't seen retroarch systems sold as knockoff consoles before. Very interesting.
I knew there was no chance it would be a Ryzen device. It seems like that was just a setting baked into that version of Batocera. Not a bad little machine though, for emulating some older titles. Provided the controller was decent, I’d say it’s not bad (apart from the incredibly misleading ad)
Dude this is actually a fantastic deal - there's no currently nothing on the market that can emulate ps2 on your tv like this for 90 bucks, certainly not with all the games included. Full speed ps2 emulation and a few hundred gigs of games for 90 bucks is actually an incredible deal as far as I'm concerned. I've been trying to figure out the best way to get ps2 on my tv with enough power for full speed, accurate emulation and maaaaybe a lil upscaling, for a couple of months now. Everything I've found, from China, from hobbyists, or even from diy SBC/SOC builds, end up costing over $100 before you even get to full speed ps2, much less xemu. This is actually kind of an amazing device, I'm strongly considering buying one. I actually really love the knockoff ps5 look too, God damn hilarious
I wouldn't call the PS2 emulation full speed. It runs, but without VSYNC or smooth upscaling, so some of the titles are playable but only just. You'd need to run games that some emulators struggle with to really test, something that even original hardware couldn't hold to a locked 60FPS at all times like the original _God Of War_
ITS A PCIE CARD ! Consider me seriously confused but intrigued by the NUC styling. I heard the server cluster and BTC explanation. If you have use a threadripper and some of these , you could run some serious multi threaded tasks. Simple clients but as the emulation of older systems it seems to be just in range for the stuff included. the most overpowered and janky multitap.
So you tell me that a 50£ PlayStation 5 off of China has, not only, more games but a lot better ones than what's currently available on a PlayStation 5 for actual 799,99$? What a time to be alive!
🥳🎉Happy New Year BBO, While I have no interest in buying them as I still have my PS2/3 Consoles with 68cm CRT Tv & my discs for the PS/PS2/PS3 Games I still play... these Emulation Boxes interest me in a "🤨What is it?" way too
@@FectacularSpail there are some wii games that don't use the motion controls. Castlevania is one. There is also a USB sensor bar you can buy. Then you just pair a wiimote and good to go
It makes me think, if they just spent a few more pounds on a slightly better CPU with better onboard graphics, the emulation would be a bit better and run smoother. Upgrade the controllers a little so they don't have issues and feel tacky. It would be worth it as a cool little retro emulation box. The people who grew up on PS1, PS2, Game Cube, Xbox etc, now have enough disposable income to spend up to £100 on something like this. Especially if there was a way to load more ROMs onto it. Would be great fun to invite a friend over and play some 2 player lord of the ring on GameCube like back in the day.
Actually not such a bad deal if it can run it's Batocera install well. I have a Batocera box setup, it's got 4,000 PS2 ISO's in it, around 700 PS3 ISO's and every PSX ISO I could find online and in my collection, about 750 in total. It also has all the other emulators and their games on it, currently the system says I have 39,973 games.....some don't work, some are just doubles but MOST are fully playable. The specs it requires CAN be excessive for some emulators, but I have found my setup runs 99% of the games without issue, except the PS2 version of Bully. It seems to be the only game that doesn't like the emulator without some deep level tweaking. For interested people, you don't NEED anything to special either, my system is an old HP SFF office PC, Core Two Quad at 3.93ghz, 4GB RAM and a 512mb video card. And its running on a 500GB mechanical hard drive, the ISO's are on a second 2TB HDD as storage only. Just do NOT try to update Batocera or you WILL break the install. If you upgrade the base OS, you have to upgrade ALL the files, each new version means a new build from scratch. That's the single downside of it, but as it's running offline 99% of the time anyway, it can run caveman era software if it works for all I care..... There are LITERALLY hundreds of Batocera videos on TH-cam, and some VERY knowledgeable people are using it and making it better everyday. And for anyone wondering, YES it will find , bind and USE PS3 controllers and X-Box PC controllers. I haven't tried any adaptors to see if it will recognise the original PS1, PS2 controllers, mainly because the adaptors cost three times the price of my ENTIRE Batocera setup....I'm not paying $170AUD to find out if they work or not...
It's a mostly competent little Batocera box. I like reusing hardware that otherwise would have been trashed. I don't like them calling it a PS5 Pro. The person selling it as that is probably not the person making them (IMHO). I would wipe the system and do a clean install of Batocera Linux and load it up with your own games though. For the price, you could do much worse.
So that is running Batocera. Not sure why they included windows at all, it's not necessary at all, even running windows games. You can run WINE emulation that is built in to the emulation OS Batocera. Batocera always has the Ryzen options for those machines that have Ryzen in them, but they are worthless for machines with intel CPUs. Batocera itself is dope, easy to put a full OS on almost any machine and turn it into a powerful (relative) retro gaming system. I have a few mini PCs around my house that run it and I have sold some in the past.
Consoles can be found cheap if you play the auctions on ebay enough, I got Xbox One OG's one for £4.99 and one for £4, two PS3 phats for £3 each both working and a working but not docking Switch for £17 oh and a working Mega Drive 2 for a few quid... One of my Xbox Ones I have emulated up after paying for that hackyourwallet fee to MS then I got for the Mega Drive, an everdrive cartridge which has 3000 games on a SD card and that handles the 8 and 16 bit stuff an absolute treat. Even on my fone I have the delightful Super Mario World/Yoshi's Island/NES and SNES SMB 1, 2 and 3 plus lost levels and looks gawjus on my Pixel 6 Pro :D I think we are moving to a ubiquity where games are less platform centric and play anywhere on anything.
I don't know about us "Grandparent's" getting scammed anymore, as the next gen seniors are the ones that grew up with the 8-bit revolution, and we know our💩. And still gaming!!!
Looks higher tech than my Kinhank box which was close to same price (mine looks like a mini NES) I was still impressed what it could do. Although the MAME games really do require an arcade style joystic and button layout. I did buy a GS5 Pro (looks like a mini PS5) its not nearly as impressive as this one in the video. If it had a cooler looking case and and something other than a Celeron it would be even better.
At one time not too long ago, I'd have got one just to mess, see if it would plug into a generic PCIe backplane and attach a soundcard, additional I/O etc. Or just use as an HTPC.
I mean, this is a small single board computer with a case and a preloaded ready-to-play Batocera image and 2 controllers for 80 bucks. If you don't actually expect to receive a PS 5 Pro and disregard the false advertising it's a fair deal.
This box has so much PlayStation that it's not a PS5, it's a PS V, or a PS X. The Roman numerals make it more epic you see. So it's a PS10 with the UI skinned to look like a PS4, a PS14 maybe? Who can tell. 😂 The unabashed glee and giggling as he unboxes it is contagious. For me the real kicker beyond the numbering and UI are the shiny round headed screws poking out one side, and the almost jagged plastic edge. Truly premium build quality. Why not "pull a Bringus" and mod it to run Windows or Steam OS then game on it and see how bad the performance is on HL2 and CS2.
Happy 2025 and I hope you are much better now. As for the "PS5", I think it's an attractive system, though I am guessing you can find an old mini PC that could run better. Of course with this you actually get everything, including games. I wonder if the "PS5" can accept other controllers, including say a mouse and keyboard, while in console mode. I assume it can in Windows mode. What's the non volatile storage situation?
Hello everyone welcome back to the first video of the new year! This was a Christmas project but unfortunately ive been too ill to get it out before we finished the year. Still its here now, and we're back to weekly uploads. Hope you all had a great time. Also good news hopefully all uploads this year will be in 4K!!! Wow we've entered the modern world. Enjoy!
Hi hi hi 👋
No one worries we are all happy to hear you are doing much better! Keep up the good work!
Hope you're feeling better now!
Ps-x is a playstation 2 emulator if i remember correctly!
@@TheGhostzZ PCSX2 is a PS2 emulator. PSX was a pre-release codename for the original Playstation as well as the actual name for a PS2 based DVR in Japan.
"DO NOT UPDATES THE GAME SYSTEM!!!!1!"
No worries mate, I wouldn't ever connect this thing to Internet in the first place.
And be stuck with out of date viruses???? Real gamers update their game systems to get the latest hotness in malware
Not gonna lie, for 90 bucks you get a Windows-compatible PC with 4 GB of RAM with Batocera installed, a whole load of pirated games, two controllers, and a case to hold it all together. I wouldn't say it's a scam, but rather a pretty good deal. It's something I would buy.
Agreed! it's only the deceptive product title that's iffy.
Some of these scams are actually good deals if they would just advertise them as what they actually are.
I mean, it's one with 2015 laptop hardware, but it do would be a HUGE FIND here in Brazil if it wasn't for the heavy taxing on imported stuff, I dont think its that good on first world countries tho
Or you can get a decent PC from your local used market and just buy ssd / hdd already preconfigured with batocera and filled with games.
@Zero-Saber if you want a sleeper, low consuming build like this, you should actually get an used laptop (preferably a 4th~6th gen Intel laptop), but agreed
Have we really gotten to the point where Bootleg emulators are ghost PCs? Ironically a better deal than the modern emulation Nintendo and Sony offer, where you have a very limited selection or have to pay a membership.
No way, China made a PS5 with more than 1 game
hey now, theres Ratchet n Clank AND Returnal, thats Two, thats multiple.
Very funny how this has become a meme when the ps5 has more and better games than the ps4 when it was the same age
@@urmomma2688 half of them are remakes tho. PS4 was packed with all new games and fewer remasters
@@YasinVanDoorsen ps4 launch game was a tlou remastered
Atleast that one game more than Xbox series x "es 0 games
I’m mad that I don’t actually hate it. I was expecting a famiclone, this is mildly decent for the price
Famiclones are now around $10, already for $20-30 you could expect decent 16-bit emulation.
@ bless chinas loose rules around piracy. In 2045 you’ll actually be playing ps5 games on some 60 dollar clone console. Gone will be the days of super Mario 69
You could get a second hand dell optiplex with a decent graphics card and two controllers for half the price of this garbage
@@Billy-burner Unlikely. You would need to acquire HDD/SDD and controllers separately. Then you would have to install Batocera and find ROMs on your own . Overall, it is possible to turn OptiPlex into emulation machine, it requires effort.
@@aleksazunjic9672 looking on marketplace right now. Optiplex 7050 micro with i7, 1tb HDD 16gb ra , Nvidia gt610 for $70.. USB controllers are like $5 ea from AliExpress and you can easily install all the rooms from a single torrent..
I know that pc in particular isn't half price, but they come up cheap very often
If you disgard the fact that all the software is pirated and the article description is misleading it's not a bad deal. Maybe it would work even better with genuine controllers and a few possible hardware upgrades. I doubt we'll see this on your channel again which is a shame because I would like to see what you could really get out of it.
Wicked Package from China has tons of such consoles if you are interested.
@@aleksazunjic9672I am! Thanks Alex 😀
@@aleksazunjic9672 Sounds like a good idea but unfortunately I live in Germany. The German Customs import service are very inquisative and very, very thorough. Last time I tried a smart phone which had , according to them, no certificate of compliance to EU regulations. So they confiscated and subsequently destroyed it.
@laurencehastings7473 What could I say, except fight for your freedom 😁
@laurencehastings7473 Five more months dude. It's part of the German closed borders plan which is far too invasive. Neighboring countries don't even have the manpower to match the same scrutiny on goods coming out of Germany so the plan will probably have to be scrapped in July. Either that or Germany has to abolish Shengen uni-laterally which will put a bomb under the EU which'll lead to Germany to be forced to Grexit. Which will quite probably lead to a war, which will force Germany to break a lot of treaties with quite probably the entire world. Also, since Germany, like Japan, is not allowed to start wars anymore it will automatically prevent the above from happening. So before the end '25 most of the invasive import protocols will be lifted again.
It’s not regular Windows 11, but it’s Windows RE (recovery environment) beefed up to the extent that could run emulators. Such environments are usually used for manual system recovery and you can see all kind of tools left over on the desktop, like dism++, Ghost, password reset etc.
Windows RE runs in RAMDisk. IDK if it's a good thing in this case, as everything is blazingly fast to load and nothing would damage the system, but all changes made to the system will be gone after a reboot.
This is an install of Batocera Linux. Kodi isn't the backend, it's just there if you also want to use it as a Media Center. Some configuration and curation did go into it, it looks like, though.
We have ps5 at home
wow never thought i would see you here
eyyo ozz
My condolences
Running off a PCIe card implies it's a piece of an industrial PC that would plug into a backplane of PCIe slots. Probably used to be controlling some industrial machinery or kiosk. The passive cooling means it doesn't gum up by sucking dust into the heat sinks.
To no one's surprise it has more gaems than an actual PS5
Which is more that Xbox games
PS5 has no games
it's still got no games
1:35 "the design is very human"
"Very easy to use"
If they sold this as a straight up Emulation box, it wouldn't be too bad.
Yeah they've missed a trick here. Losing out just by the dodgy branding.
That Power Socket at about 2:15 looks a bit like one of the Tips that you’d find included with a Universal Laptop PSU just jammed in there! 😂 Happy New Year to you & yours buddy! 🙂 Anthony - Birmingham
2:18 Sony improved cooling! Look at that airflow!
Batocera is a fantastic Linux distro for applications like this. I have a Lenovo M75q, Gen 1, with a Ryzen 5 Pro 3400GE and Vega 11 iGPU.
Its powerful enough to play PS2, Wii and Gamecube at 1080p, and even Wii U at Native.
A note from the video, every machine with Batocera will see the Ryzen thermal power design option, regardless of the architecture. You'll also notice a general Overclock option, this is only possible for Raspberry Pi's.
Great video, look forward to more in 2025 👍🏻
Frankenstein's monster of repurposed parts, but surprisingly functional for emulation.
This is a very legendary console 💩💩💩
It was pretty clear when it booted up that it was just running Batocera. That controller configuration menu is normal for that.
Love that transition at 12:59...Very smooth!
running ps2 emulation to run the ps2 versions of GTA on this little machine is honestly one of the silliest things I've seen on the video tbh, considering the pc port can run pretty well on low end, old, mobile Intel iGPUs. On 720p, or even 1080p depending on how old the device is. Also, happy new year, glad to know you're well now and also that there are new videos to come
They simply add what ever they have, and a lot of people who buy this do not own a PC.
@aleksazunjic9672 I think it has a lot to do with the OS as well, since it's not Windows, and those ports are a pain to run outside of Windows as far as I remember (altho I never tested them on Wine with Linux yet)
I mean with re3 and revc the Linux ports arguably run better than the original windows releases these days. My r36s can play vice city at 60fps, at least, so
@lillyclarity9699 oooh interesting, but running better than the Windows ports means it also runs better than the ps2 emulator running the ps2 versions (which are also the original game with no ports btw)
That's a big W.
It has games... which I can't say about the ps5
For a console itself, this ain’t actually a bad idea for how cheap it is
You can buy ps4s for the same amount though at least where I am
@@broughton1835 i legit prefer this though
Interesting.. I picked up an N100 mini PC for $99 on sale.. according to something like passmark, it's multi thread score is almost 5x faster than this.. lol.
ugzz...you got a bargain there...I doubt over here in Europe we could buy it for less than double that price...I already commented this emulation box is good value compared with like Kinhanks super console x devices...or similar...which can cost way above 100 dollars...this has better processor and chipset than typical multi emulator gameboxes...but not your mini PC...but I expect you had to install your own software which some are not capable of doing..so prefer plug n play option
this is literally better value than the actual ps5 pro 😭🙏
Facts
Chronicles is Tomb Raider 5 - 4 was Last Revelation.
Aside from that, interesting device. Held back by the CPU and the RAM. If it came with an i7-8700T (just to cut back consumption/heat) with more RAM, I'm sure it'd be able to easily pull Xbox and PS2 emulation.
an i7 8700T would already need active cooling and is leagues beyound a 2015 Celeron... Also MANY times more expensive than a 2015 Celeron.
8th gen i7s are on Win 11 compatibility list so tend to be comparatively pricey.
I've also just noticed, the title got scrambled in the portuguese auto translation, on which it is "Ps5 pro para renderizar1", or "Ps5 pro to render1" if it was to be translated back to english... I don't have auto translation toggled on, but youtube showed me the translated, scrambled title anyways
Essas traduções são horríveis, e ainda não dá pra desativar!
@@Lithium50 pois é, eu já tentei várias vezes, mas não achei nenhuma configuração pra arrumar, pior que isso só quando o vídeo começa com a tradução em IA, mas isso pelo menos tem como desligar e voltar pro áudio original (só ir em configurações e trocar a faixa de áudio). É bizarro, a IA do youtube é uma das coisas mais esquisitas que eu já ouvi
I wish they added a way to only show original titles. But it seems like nobody cares about it
@@Leurak me too, specially since the auto translation sucks 90% of the time, and sometimes its hard to even guess what the original title was, because it gets scrambled by the translation, somehow
yup, hate it with passion. i generally consume content on its original language and youtube keeps trying to translate crap for me even though i don't want it to.
The pcie card setup is a somewhat standard thing for industrial pcs, you plug that into a big board that makes connections to other stuff. If something breaks, you just pull it back out and replace it in minutes
I remember Linus video where he reviewed something like this glorious ps5, and there was many emulators and Xbox Jet Set Radio too. Now its really interesting for me - are they using literally same pack with emulators and games for different systems or that Jet Set is just coincidence?
Would not surprise me if it's a system image that's floating around out on the net.
On the Emulator select screen, if you had hit F1, you could get to the file system, accessed the Linux Terminal and ran Neofetch
10:40 What are you talking about, lol? These are discarded mobos from an old chinese-made Pandaminer B3 RIG.
dev...that's probably the most informative comment here if correct...repurposed crypto mining add-on board you believe...another says with a debug form of Win11 for some industrial useage...quite a mix n match emulation device...beats most Kinhank super console X type boxes which can cost a fair amount...some over 100 dollars...I'd choose this over Kinhanks for better processor and chipset
Tons of such Batocera consoles, Wicked Package from China has them covered. Usually either old Celerons that no one needs any more, or Android TV boxes, with former being more capable but also more expensive. 3D printing of plastic case in a shape of modern consoles.
aleksa....I already commented this emulation box is good value compared with like Kinhanks super console x devices..as often shown on Wicked gamer and collector...which can cost way above 100 dollars...this has better processor and chipset than typical multi emulator gameboxes...but not your mini PCs...but if you have to install your own software ie Batocera or Recalbox or Retrobat which some are not capable of doing..so prefer plug n play option..this is one of the better cheaper options...I'd consider it if didn't have the knowledge I've gained from TH-camrs channels and videos...if you can pick up an N100 based mini PC for a little more then that's ideal...
@@markianclark9645 Cheapest option for emulation is usually to get some beaten up office PC, install emulators (perhaps Batocera) and find your own ROMs. But, as you said, it requires time and technical knowledge.
I love how you use SimCity 2013 music, truly one of the best video game soundtracks of all time!
The SimCity soundtracks have gone hard for ages. Particularly a fan of SC4 and 3000. And I routinely get the MIDI SC2k ones stuck in my head.
Sleak,breathtaking,stylish,jaw dropping,awe inspiring are all words you won't use while trying to enjoy your gs5 pro!
"Ryzen thermal power" is just a setting in Batocera (the OS on the fake ps5) in case you're using it on a Ryzen based APU. The setting is available regardless of what system you have Batocera installed on. Hope this helps!
Lets goooo, just made some pasta and a new budget builds is here, we eating good today folks!!!
Weird about the Xbox OG emulation when you consider it was basically just an older slower Celeryish Pentium III inside the machine and the later U Celery would have had the cores of the previous iterations within its own structure so it should have run pretty well if someone at Batocera pulled their plums out and coded up a worthier translation table to the onboard fake-o GPU of the not-a-PS5Pro. The Xbox coding was very much like the Dreamcast coding, usually a "wrapper" to create the software environment which is how we were retro-engineering Dreamcast games that never made it to the machine but ended up on the Xbox like Sega GT and it was actually quite easy to play Sega GT on the DC once you worked out the wrapper constraints. The Xbox core programming was like the DC, just a very chopped up Windows-ish front end so I would have expected a decent framerate. I also wonder how Skies of Arcadia would have sat with the GC emulator, its a bit of a pig of a game and like Xbox's Pirates of the Caribbean rather bugged on platform (PotC was awful for not only crashing but corrupting your Xbox save file so days of playtime just gone in 60 seconds, Skies also had a similar bug and bye bye save games on the Dreamcast and the Gamecube but tis one of my lifelong fave games up there with Code Veronica)
That celeron 3855u CPU is the CPU that is found in the ASUS Chromebox 3. I have one of these chromeboxes and I must say that it runs Linux Mint 21.3 extremely well and it's quite nice as a daily web browser and multimedia system. This little PS5 pro knockoff you got for $50 could potentially be a great little custom starter system for someone's kid with a fresh OS installed on it.
im sorry, but for this price this is way better value than an actual ps5 pro. i would prefer this thing over a ps5 pro, no joke
With Nintendo ROMs being a bit harder to come by nowadays, I’m curious to see if these will develop a market as an easy way to get the files and dump them onto an ssd
Happy New Year you wonderfull british tech guy :D I'm so glad to see a new video and I was waiting a lot until this Video has dropped yohoo :D
Thanks for you videos dude, i really enjoy ur content!
It's actually quite impressive this thing runs JSRF as well as it does, even considering the crazy improvements in OG Xbox emulation in the past few years. Not too long ago, the only "Fully Playable" Xbox game you could emulate was Halo. More of a testament to the current state of emulation but it's still no small task to emulate the OG Xbox
Considering most emu boxes use low powered ARM chips from early 2010s this has more power and for less money than some emu boxes.
Since that thing's built onto a PCIe card, I wonder what the pinout is like. Is it hooked up with some PCIe lines exposed so that you can attach a graphics card to it if you have a backplane? Or is it only power?
Also what do you need to type into AliExpress to get PCs on cards to show up in the search results, or are they not directly available?
I'd expect a backplane to just work, yes.
I mean it's a bad deal, but it is quite crazy to think just how much entertainment a kid could get out of one of these compared to 90's bootleg consoles. Even these scams have a good amount of potential entertainment.
Open BoR is Open Beats of Rage, which is a style of homebrew, like a MUGEN, but it uses an open source Streets of Rage 2/3 engine.
I'd rather buy this one then the actual pro!
If its possible to install a western version of Windows on this, that thing does look like a good value HTPC.
How good is this thing decoding x265 4K Video streams?
🤔According to TechPowerUp Specs are:
CPU Specifications
Total Cores 2
Total Threads 2
Processor Base Frequency 1.60 GHz
Cache 2 MB Intel® Smart Cache
Bus Speed 4 GT/s
TDP 15 W
Configurable TDP-down 10 W
iGPU Specifications
Base Clock 300 MHz
Boost Clock 900 MHz
Shading Units 96
TMUs 12
ROPs 3
Execution Units 12
Pixel Rate 2.700 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 10.80 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 345.6 GFLOPS (2:1)
FP32 (float) 172.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double) 43.20 GFLOPS (1:4)
The iGPU compares roughly to a GT730
After seeing that warning label, I'm very curious what happens if you do update it. (maybe image the drive first)
It turned out to be much better than I was expecting to see :) At least you can play a lot of cool retro games.
Not a scam!! Cool game system and the product description was accurate
The sad bit is, if they just advertize these as retro gaming boxes, would sell a bit better. But with publishers trying to squash them... maybe not
Run it alongside lossless scaling and you have the performance of a ps5 pro for 90 dollars! I feel like Jensen saying this 😂
They're hilarious. But I wouldn't call it a scam. No one would believe that you can buy a not fake PS5 for 80 dollars.
“My grandson said he wanted a PS5, and this one is so cheap! Let me get it for him.”
This is the issue with these scams.
@@igimagister I understand it, but with a little search you'll realize that no one gives pounds for pennies.
@@igimagister My guy, the internet is now 32years old. Believe it or not, but those grandparents were in their thirties when it all started. By now, they should be as savvy as the young'uns. Me being 65 is just one example. There's no cure for stupidity and I do believe excusing people that had 32 years to learn something is foolhardy. It's as with crypto, if you still get scammed now, you deserve to be scammed.
Search engines are for everybody. Don't excuse stupidity as that breeds complatency.
if you dont mind used stuff, witch this thing also is, you can def build a skylake or Ryzen 1 PC for 100$ that will do laps on this thing.
Batocera is a Linux distro meant to feel similar to SteamOS for the SteamDeck. Probably does make sense to use that.
For 100 Bucks you can get a N95 MiniPC that has about 3x the performance... but you will miss out on a dodgy Chinese Windows 11 and all the Games that are pre-installed.
Last Revelation was Tomb Raider IV, Chronicle was V! And this is exactly what I thought it'd be, I think I may have seen too many videos talking about these things by now... Also, I like how you keep calling it the "PlayStation 5 Pro", when on the box it clearly reads "PlayStation Pro 5"! A level of trickery you don't see too often, that's how they get you! You don't realise until you go back! I guess I was alwasy lucky on that front, no grandparents, but my parents did at least know where to look, plus living in a major city like Leeds...
Love your videos dude. I love these types of things. :)
Me: Mom, can I have PS5 Pro?
Mom: No, we already have PS5 Pro at home.
PS5 Pro at home:
Hey! Its a batocera machine. Actually pretty cool. I'm sure it'd sell if they described what it actually is.
Have a happy new year Budget-Builds Official
If you treated it as a box full of pirated roms to pair with a more capable mini pc it's probably still worth the money, I'm knida impressed it runs gamecibe stuff that well.
I actually want to order one now. Whatever board they're using in there is pretty good.
It's nearly identical, the only way you can tell it's not a real PS5 is because it has games
As a pc gamer who owns a ps5, i say: "oof.mp3" 😂
The 3d printing rolls cost 90 dollars in Europe alone!
Since I don't got the knowhow and I'm kinda scared to get cought pirating ROMS for an emulator, I'm kinda interested in something like that. I do have a gamecollection with OG discs and stuff but it gets really expensive to buy all the games and systems you wish for. So, if you already have done it: can you maybe make a video about pr-build, kinda affortable emulators that are worth its money?:) Would love to see something like that!
I wonder if that's actually windows. The mousecursor is the one that comes with Linux Mint as stock.
Why are stupid ad's popping up when you pause it
Every time I see a cheap knockoff console, I try to guess if it's just a famiClone or a console that claims to play more modern games (i.e. SNES or Genesis) and absolutely fails to hold a steady framerate. Let's see how I did this time (I'm guessing famiClone with moulded-but-nonfunctional shoulder buttons)...
BUUUU Oh wow, I'm not only totally wrong but surprised, I haven't seen retroarch systems sold as knockoff consoles before. Very interesting.
I knew there was no chance it would be a Ryzen device. It seems like that was just a setting baked into that version of Batocera. Not a bad little machine though, for emulating some older titles. Provided the controller was decent, I’d say it’s not bad (apart from the incredibly misleading ad)
BudgetBuildsOfficial is back!
Love the videos
Dude this is actually a fantastic deal - there's no currently nothing on the market that can emulate ps2 on your tv like this for 90 bucks, certainly not with all the games included. Full speed ps2 emulation and a few hundred gigs of games for 90 bucks is actually an incredible deal as far as I'm concerned. I've been trying to figure out the best way to get ps2 on my tv with enough power for full speed, accurate emulation and maaaaybe a lil upscaling, for a couple of months now. Everything I've found, from China, from hobbyists, or even from diy SBC/SOC builds, end up costing over $100 before you even get to full speed ps2, much less xemu.
This is actually kind of an amazing device, I'm strongly considering buying one. I actually really love the knockoff ps5 look too, God damn hilarious
I wouldn't call the PS2 emulation full speed. It runs, but without VSYNC or smooth upscaling, so some of the titles are playable but only just. You'd need to run games that some emulators struggle with to really test, something that even original hardware couldn't hold to a locked 60FPS at all times like the original _God Of War_
I would advise turning off automatic translation. It doesn't sound good.
ITS A PCIE CARD ! Consider me seriously confused but intrigued by the NUC styling. I heard the server cluster and BTC explanation. If you have use a threadripper and some of these , you could run some serious multi threaded tasks. Simple clients but as the emulation of older systems it seems to be just in range for the stuff included. the most overpowered and janky multitap.
So you tell me that a 50£ PlayStation 5 off of China has, not only, more games but a lot better ones than what's currently available on a PlayStation 5 for actual 799,99$?
What a time to be alive!
🥳🎉Happy New Year BBO,
While I have no interest in buying them as I still have my PS2/3 Consoles with 68cm CRT Tv & my discs for the PS/PS2/PS3 Games I still play...
these Emulation Boxes interest me in a "🤨What is it?" way too
At least you don't need internet to play on this + PS account + subscription to play online. Nor additional stand with one controller included.
I am very impressed how seller in china have something decent and sellable, and at any cost turn it into a scam.
I'm really curious about the Wii emulator. How does that work? Does it work?
if gamecube runs than it means wii runs too.
it's probably dolphin.
@@Zero-Saber I'm sure it can run the games, but how do the controls work?
@@FectacularSpail there are some wii games that don't use the motion controls. Castlevania is one. There is also a USB sensor bar you can buy. Then you just pair a wiimote and good to go
It makes me think, if they just spent a few more pounds on a slightly better CPU with better onboard graphics, the emulation would be a bit better and run smoother. Upgrade the controllers a little so they don't have issues and feel tacky. It would be worth it as a cool little retro emulation box. The people who grew up on PS1, PS2, Game Cube, Xbox etc, now have enough disposable income to spend up to £100 on something like this. Especially if there was a way to load more ROMs onto it. Would be great fun to invite a friend over and play some 2 player lord of the ring on GameCube like back in the day.
Something very wrong but also equally cool about it. If these was a link in the description, I don't think I could resist buying one.
Actually not such a bad deal if it can run it's Batocera install well. I have a Batocera box setup, it's got 4,000 PS2 ISO's in it, around 700 PS3 ISO's and every PSX ISO I could find online and in my collection, about 750 in total. It also has all the other emulators and their games on it, currently the system says I have 39,973 games.....some don't work, some are just doubles but MOST are fully playable. The specs it requires CAN be excessive for some emulators, but I have found my setup runs 99% of the games without issue, except the PS2 version of Bully. It seems to be the only game that doesn't like the emulator without some deep level tweaking.
For interested people, you don't NEED anything to special either, my system is an old HP SFF office PC, Core Two Quad at 3.93ghz, 4GB RAM and a 512mb video card. And its running on a 500GB mechanical hard drive, the ISO's are on a second 2TB HDD as storage only.
Just do NOT try to update Batocera or you WILL break the install. If you upgrade the base OS, you have to upgrade ALL the files, each new version means a new build from scratch. That's the single downside of it, but as it's running offline 99% of the time anyway, it can run caveman era software if it works for all I care.....
There are LITERALLY hundreds of Batocera videos on TH-cam, and some VERY knowledgeable people are using it and making it better everyday. And for anyone wondering, YES it will find , bind and USE PS3 controllers and X-Box PC controllers. I haven't tried any adaptors to see if it will recognise the original PS1, PS2 controllers, mainly because the adaptors cost three times the price of my ENTIRE Batocera setup....I'm not paying $170AUD to find out if they work or not...
Seeing this video actually makes me kinda want one of these :)
It's a mostly competent little Batocera box. I like reusing hardware that otherwise would have been trashed. I don't like them calling it a PS5 Pro. The person selling it as that is probably not the person making them (IMHO). I would wipe the system and do a clean install of Batocera Linux and load it up with your own games though. For the price, you could do much worse.
odd thing is they didn't even have to do this, they could've just sold the thing as a mini PC
Great video. I think I'm going to buy the new Playstation 7.5 that I see listed for $100. It should be epic! That's 2.5 more than a PS 5.
So that is running Batocera. Not sure why they included windows at all, it's not necessary at all, even running windows games. You can run WINE emulation that is built in to the emulation OS Batocera. Batocera always has the Ryzen options for those machines that have Ryzen in them, but they are worthless for machines with intel CPUs. Batocera itself is dope, easy to put a full OS on almost any machine and turn it into a powerful (relative) retro gaming system. I have a few mini PCs around my house that run it and I have sold some in the past.
Consoles can be found cheap if you play the auctions on ebay enough, I got Xbox One OG's one for £4.99 and one for £4, two PS3 phats for £3 each both working and a working but not docking Switch for £17 oh and a working Mega Drive 2 for a few quid... One of my Xbox Ones I have emulated up after paying for that hackyourwallet fee to MS then I got for the Mega Drive, an everdrive cartridge which has 3000 games on a SD card and that handles the 8 and 16 bit stuff an absolute treat. Even on my fone I have the delightful Super Mario World/Yoshi's Island/NES and SNES SMB 1, 2 and 3 plus lost levels and looks gawjus on my Pixel 6 Pro :D I think we are moving to a ubiquity where games are less platform centric and play anywhere on anything.
I don't know about us "Grandparent's" getting scammed anymore, as the next gen seniors are the ones that grew up with the 8-bit revolution, and we know our💩.
And still gaming!!!
And we probably own every platform.
We are the sleeper rivals!😉
As long as our eyesight and reactions allow. 😁
Looks higher tech than my Kinhank box which was close to same price (mine looks like a mini NES) I was still impressed what it could do. Although the MAME games really do require an arcade style joystic and button layout. I did buy a GS5 Pro (looks like a mini PS5) its not nearly as impressive as this one in the video. If it had a cooler looking case and and something other than a Celeron it would be even better.
One glance at the I/O and I knew it was a raspberry pi variant 😂
At one time not too long ago, I'd have got one just to mess, see if it would plug into a generic PCIe backplane and attach a soundcard, additional I/O etc. Or just use as an HTPC.
I mean, this is a small single board computer with a case and a preloaded ready-to-play Batocera image and 2 controllers for 80 bucks.
If you don't actually expect to receive a PS 5 Pro and disregard the false advertising it's a fair deal.
The unfortunate part is that youre still giving money to them unless youre able to refund it.
This box has so much PlayStation that it's not a PS5, it's a PS V, or a PS X. The Roman numerals make it more epic you see. So it's a PS10 with the UI skinned to look like a PS4, a PS14 maybe? Who can tell. 😂
The unabashed glee and giggling as he unboxes it is contagious. For me the real kicker beyond the numbering and UI are the shiny round headed screws poking out one side, and the almost jagged plastic edge. Truly premium build quality.
Why not "pull a Bringus" and mod it to run Windows or Steam OS then game on it and see how bad the performance is on HL2 and CS2.
Happy 2025 and I hope you are much better now.
As for the "PS5", I think it's an attractive system, though I am guessing you can find an old mini PC that could run better. Of course with this you actually get everything, including games.
I wonder if the "PS5" can accept other controllers, including say a mouse and keyboard, while in console mode.
I assume it can in Windows mode.
What's the non volatile storage situation?
The PalSation Six Por 😂along with Abibas, Neki, Pumma and so on😂
That case seems like it would be a fun thing to grab off of Thingaverse to throw a Raspberry pi or something in.