It's a no brainer. $300, instead of $3,000,000. Also, the younger geeks on here don't realize that people in their 30's and 40's don't always want to spend the time to collect all of these files online. I've being doing emulators and roms since 1996, and it gets tiresome after awhile.
emulators are great (most of the time), since sometimes i came across things like: Spyro 3 don't has any background music or games that just straight don't load in the emulator that i'm using... so, finding the right file is difficult, but the result is worth it.
At 70yrs old,My last game was Mario on 64,,I'm not stupid but really just wnt a few games to pass my retirement ! ??any suggestions,thinking bout going all out withn the OC 3,,
I got the 4TB 2.5 version of this for around $100 a few months ago and I was very happy with it because it wasn't just a ROM dump, it was all set up pretty well. If I knew the quality of this and hadn't already bought it, I'd not hesitate to buy the 12TB one at all. Wasn't thousands of bullshit games with many dupes or anything, just all the popular titles you'd likely want to play for many systems.
Are you able to play 2 player or vs game modes? If so then yes these things are very worth it and I would love to have one to set up like an arcade or simulator style.
@@justdoinit2378 I haven't tried, but it's just using launchbox to launch retroarch, mupen, yuzu, etc. etc. - so there's no real magic going on here. Should be able to support 2-player just as well as any emulator of choice.
@@keepitshort4208 No real PS4, the 12 PS4 titles are just the PC versions of games available on both the PC and PS4, like GTAV, The Witcher 3, and RDR2. Emulation for the PS4 is very primitive at the moment, so this kinda makes sense. PS3 and Switch though are real ROMs, though, but the count isn't too high. 21 PS3 titles ('Afro Samurai.ps3' BLES00254 BLES01469 BLUS30230 'Castlevania - Lords of Shadow 2.ps3' Catherine.ps3 "Demon's Souls.ps3" 'Devil May Cry 4' "Dragon's Crown.ps3" 'God Of War 3' 'God Of War Collection' 'Lollipop Chainsaw.ps3' 'Mass Effect 2' 'Ratchet & Clank - Into the Nexus.ps3' 'Ratchet & Clank Trilogy.ps3' 'Rayman Origins.ps3' 'Ridge Racer 7.ps3' 'Soul Calibur IV.ps3' 'The Tomb Raider Trilogy' 'Wolf Among Us, The.ps3' '[Silent Hill Homecoming][BLUS30169][7.2]' ) and 18 Switch titles ('0217 - Flashback (Europe) (en,fr,de,it,es).xci' ARMS.nsp 'Borderlands Game of the Year Edition.nsp' Celeste.nsp 'Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy.nsp' 'Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled (XCI)' 'Do not feed the monkeys.xci' 'Enter the Gungeon.nsp' 'Hello Neighbor.nsp' 'Hollow Knight.nsp' 'Mega Man X Legacy Collection 2.xci' 'SONIC FORCES.nsp' 'Salt And Sanctuary.nsp' 'Splatoon 2 (US).nsp' 'Super Mario Odyssey.nsp' 'The Legend of Zelda Links Awakening.nsp' 'The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom.xci' 'The Legend of Zelda_ Breath of the Wild.xci'). Can't comment on how most of those play since I haven't really touched them, but the Switch ones at least should work pretty smoothly (I tried mario odyssey, it was fine), haven't touched the PS3. The list seems pretty well curated, there are dupes of the 8 and 16 bit systems, but it's not a bunch of garbage, just maybe multiple revs of the same game or something like that. It doesn't look like it has any entire ROM dumps. But it has nearly all the popular titles of the platforms, and that's what I was looking for. But if I knew it was this well curated I'd be open to buying a larger drive. But the 12TB wasn't around when I bought. Hope that helps.
What a wild time to be alive. I would have been in heaven with this as a kid. Like you said though, I'd probably just build something like this today on my own PC for way less clutter
@@joshuadenson996 Sure, it's just a matter of putting ROM's and emulators into a front end software like Launch Box and then putting all of that onto an external drive of sorts. There are tons of how to videos out there for this kind of stuff
@@joshuadenson996 hyper spin is easy to install, but finding most of the roms for certain emulation is harder if you don’t know where you’re looking. And the time it requires to download all the games
The amount of work this takes to organise and configure to work is monumental having it all like this is really amazing, You won’t be able to play most of these in your lifetime
It's not really all that hard to do yourself. With programs like retroarch, retrobat, and emulationstation (which is what most of these devices use) it's all pre-configured. It's just a matter of dropping the game files in the proper folders. Full libraries of games can easily be found online to the point you can download them all in a single batch, or grouped alphabetically. Depending on your download speeds and how many different platforms you decide to set up, you can have something exactly the same as this set up within an hour.
@@Kirkyeeheewithin the hour lmao Asking honestly, do you think there's actually any torrents available with a collection this big that actually runs at a reasonable speed with enough seeders? Because with the state of torrents these days I really doubt it
@@coyotemoon722 not difficult at all I got emulationststion setup on my raspberry pi 3b+ 😂 but this is hyper spin pretty easy to follow the instructions from the site; other then that almost games will be hard to find online
sending 300 bucks straight into some Chinese communist assholes pocket for stolen software from your own country. Don’t trust our geopolitical enemies with a PC component that ties into your computer and network
Your son is very lucky to have 100,000 games to play covering all the arcades and consoles from the 1970's up to the Switch. Good luck getting him to do his homework. Thanks for this extensive review. Convinced me to pull the trigger on it.
Sadly this is not the reality.. I've setup rom machines for thousands of titles in the past and my son always just shrugged at it. Games look too good these days. The old games have no appeal to the youngins
@@sotoninIsn't that the truth! It's just how things change tbh. I fear for them and reliving their childhood games though with all of their media being digital downloads.
@@sotoninI get this from my kid too. But keep at it, sit and play with him. I did this with my kids and he even asks for certain games like NBA Jam and Twisted Metal from time to time. The real challenge is getting him away from these garbage streamers playing absolute trash on TH-cam that he spends hours watching. Not even good games, what would've been the equivalent of Flash games a few years ago. I guess they watch for the personalities. I also have a massive Plex library too. Getting him to watch stuff on there is like pulling teeth, but he'll gladly watch things with me, like old horror movies. We love those.
@@sotonin I'm 18 and I'm obsessed with retro games, particularly early 3d games from the early-late 90s (doom, banjo kazooie, super mario 64, ocarina of time, tomb raider, lsd dream emulator, final fantasy 7, quake etc.) My parents can't understand why I like it so much despite them growing up with it, lol
I think this is great for anyone starting out in emulation or even if you have a few collections. If you've ever tried to get a hold of collections before, especially systems like Teknoparrot and Atomiswave to name a few, then you know what a headache it can be. The configurations for those emulators can also be a minefield. This is great to just have those collection's available in one place which you can then set up how you want. Is it worth $300? Maybe if you think about trawling the net for those roms and getting the config files, etc and the time to do all that. The drive itself is worth around $180 I guess. Great video btw, cheers. What a lucky, lucky kid! 😁
I ordered one, out of all you have reviewed this one seems like the most worth it, You get a great list of games with little missing and it's not $5k like the 96tb Chris Cool mod. I have my own hard drive with roms and isos Ive collected over the years from my own collections and downloads but honestly I don't have the time to really set up a dedicated drive like this. I haven't received it yet but I'll update this and give my thoughts. Update: So It finally arrived a few days ago and I've been testing around and playing with it in between working. I gotta say it's a pretty kick ass drive, it's a little loud, and I've had some controller and graphical glitches with some games the way they are configured, but most of the games work fine. Its filled to the brim with games with only 60gb of free space for adding any missing games. Speaking of, compared to my personal collection which some of which are romsets, I only counted a few missing games, PS3 being the main one, not a lot of PS3 games on this drive. There are also not a lot of PC games and Switch games which honestly makes perfect sense being not as big. Im not to familiar with Hyperspin and Rocketlauncher but I do think these are older versions of them, Honestly the frontend not working is the least if my issues as long as the games are there I can always replace the frontend with a better one, that being said the frontend doesn't suck to use and it's nice having videos pre set up for every game. Overall I'd definitely recommend this drive, It's a full hard drive so it is pretty large but this pared with a decent mini pc and you got a nice console replacement.
@@eb3005 Yeah I noticed that before I ordered, I figured the only people who bothered to leave a review are probably the people that didn't understand that the drive has to be a D drive.
I use those same drives for my server (the 18tb versions.) So far so good, haven't had any problems. I have a similar 8tb Hyperspin setup I got back in 2018. Still works great on an external seagate drive but this one is nice. However, the 96tb Chris Cool Mods setup is the ultimate. 👍
Emulation drives sold online are one of those things where the longer you procrastinate buying one, the BETTER a version when you finally do. Was going to buy a $35 thumb drive one off Amazon, but this one looks WAY more sexier in interface, immediate play and selection. I suggest to anyone who gets this, instantly make a copy of it all on a 2nd drive too.
if you're going to pay for pirated games then i feel sorry for you because they're free the drive you will buy will have bug issues and alot of games won't play as normal as you would expect
@xtensionxward3659 it's almost impossible or expensive as hell to even get most of these games and consoles, this isn't about pirating apart from maybe the new console generation. But even then who cares anymore, the industry will never change. I sure af don't want to pay £60 to play an old pokemon or hundred trying to get an old console in good working condition
@@xtensionxward3659The internet is free too, but we still pay for it. Energy is infinite, but we still get charged for it. We have an abundance of water, but still pay for it.
It's definitely pretty cool to see this kind of stuff today just showcasing how far we've come with video games at this point. But for someone like me, I find this overwhelming as hell. Sometimes too much IS too much, even for me lol
@@Mike-sp7zv Definitely great for that. I know if I go back in time and show this to my kid self, he would flip out. Just show him the games up to that point in time and hide the rest lol
thanks for the information .. I think I am investing in this Drive for my retro game collection thing!! This 12 tb drive gives me all the games I need and complete's my collection. I definitely have to get this one!!
this is definitely a clean collection. as others have noted, I guess an alternative to decluttering & building a clean collection yourself is to just pick and choose games you want and copy them over to another drive. I have a pair of mirrored 6TB HDDs and when it comes down to it, my core collection with all my favorites from nearly every system fits on a 128GB micro SD - a 256GB drive would allow me to add a handful of my favorite PS3 titles and call it a day!
@udance4ever its possible to copy not just the rom files but also the frontend software to another drive and have it function and look just like this one does right? I am curious to buy this drive but want to be sure I can copy the entire experience with just select games over to an SD card to take on the go with me
@@jordandiaz5526 yup - totally possible. while it's a slow project, I'm working on a script that'll take a larger drive (eg. 6TB) and extract a target build (eg. 256GB) that is standalone & boots on its own. for now, just clone the boot partition (6GB) and manually copy everything but the roms directory in the SHARE partition. then you can pick & choose as you please! you'll have to do a bit of scraping to get all the images but its all automated once you figure out how it works (pretty amazing actually) good luck!
@@udance4everThree questions, 1) One of the other comments indicated there were a bunch of viruses that came native on the drive. Have you experienced this? 2) Can you confirm that you are able to open the drive in Windows and see the file structure where you could copy a particular rom for a particular console out of the drive and place it in a different drive /computer. I am asking this because I would like to build a retro game system using Raspberry Pi but this SBC is limited in what game era it can run so I want to isolate the roms that it will have no problem running on a separate drive. 3) Are you planning to freely distribute your script mentioned in your post, or are you going to sell it? It sounds like it could be very useful
@@Sartre_Existentialist (1) I personally haven’t had a virus issue because I build Batocera off the developer site (this is my recommendation to you too!) (2) to be clear, I don’t have this drive (and neither do I have Windows!) and I’ve seen enough in the video to know it is a standard Batocera install - it would be very straightforward to do what you want to do without having to run the risk of booting a drive from a 3rd party seller (3) thanks for the nudge - I do plan to upload the script to github at some point but I don’t see this happening in the near future w the limited time i have this year. It probably would be done by now if I had my codebase I left behind at a startup I used to work at! *sigh* lol
Back in 1985 you would have to use a Commodore 64 or an Apple II to try to handle the emulators. Unless you said you were from the future and brought back your all-powerful Intel Celeron.
I’ve been using 2 8TB drives I got on Amazon to run my Plex server for years. No complaints. And I have one that has all my PS4 games on it that I use with my ps5.
This drive + midrange $500 PC (or build your own using 2nd hand high end component from last generation like Ryzen 2700X / i7 10700K with GTX 1660) means you basically have "All games" from Atari 2600 era towards PS3 era. (PS4 emulator isn't good many bugs and choppy framerate, unless you play it in top of the line PC) that drive, it worth the price just for "ROMS" alone, even empty 12 TB cost about 300 bucks.
Drew, I remember back a bit when the biggest gaming build that was available anywhere was "Reys 128GB" for the Raspberry Pi 3B. Wow, how far we've come in retro gaming preservation! 🕹️🎮👍
I have a massive collection of games myself...but I'm actually considering picking up this drive. Why? Because after the HUNDREDS of hours I've spent putting my own collection together, this is one of the first drives I've seen that doesn't appear to have missing or broken wheel art, let alone all of the themes included. Hyperspin is a bear to work with, but this drive looks pretty sweet. Besides that, I'm tired of trying to be a completist. Trying to complete sets of games that I'll never play even 10% of.
Except you'd be paying almost $300 for a drive when, as you admit you probably are never even going to address 10% of these 10,000 games, and I'm sure there's at on of bloat in there like regional copies and every year version of Madden etc. - I just don't understand people who compulsively need to collect either digitally or physically a great quantity of games they'll never play. That and this drive includes contemporary titles that are still being sold.
This might be good just to save time sailing the high seas for roms. Once you have them, it can be a lot of work to curate and organize them. On a positive note, It’s not like they are ever going to change. Once you get your collection configured the way you want it, you’re done. Really, the only thing that might change is the emulator and frontends you use.
Pretty amazing little product. With so much choice of entertainment these days, people can play anything they wish, but an advantage of computer games in the early days before the internet was that although the graphics were horrible, everyone played the same games so wherever you travelled, you could jump in and play competitively with other people. The early systems like Atari or even the Vic20, C64, etc had the cartridges which allowed instant play without loading tapes or disks. Another advantage was we could jump into command prompt and quickly make games of our own using mostly Basic, but sometimes used Pascal, C++ and even Machine Code. During the 80's we made games like basic driving simulators like REVS, or choose your own adventure style games. Then I finished highschool in 91 and totally abandoned computers for a decade.
@jimbotron70 : I ran some databases for work, but otherwise it was the grunge era. I was busy with sex, drugs, and rocknroll. All the usual young guy shenanigans. I only played playstation during the 90's. I'm considering learning python to mess around with AI but I am entering the lazy stage of my life.😄
What kind of cybersecurity analysis have you done on these executables, teamviewer software etc? I’d be checking my DNS packets especially if you ditched the firewall. Stay safe! Love all the games though!
That was my first thought as well. Turning off firewall, Antivirus and installing executables that come distributed on a Chinese product is nothing but reckless. If anyone buys this thing, either use it as a ROM dump you only copy from or run it on a segregated machine that is not in any way connected to your main network . Advising people to turn off any and all security features in a video is extremely dangerous on the creators part.
@@idontlikespmDidn't watch the whole video, did he actually do that? Yeah, that alone is reason to never listen to anything this guy says ever again. I personally would never connect something like this to my PC as I'm sure it's full of dodgy shit. and nobody I know with a modicum of computer knowledge would either. If you really think you're going to get 10,000 copyrighted pieces of software for a relative pittance, that somebody who would brazenly sell a drive full of copyrighted software wouldn't also harvest your personal information without blinking, I've got a bridge to sell you.
what a time to be alive, along with the convenience like this and good emulation devices coming out and easily modded hack for most older devices. the sad thing is that now im a 35 yr old dad who dont have the time to game. ill probably buy this and give it my baby son when he's older lol
I've curated a massive library for my kids and grandkids to appreciate. My kid now has grown up with all these free games and really doesn't understand the value of all of this, but I don't care, it's still a labor of love and we've made so many great memories playing all throughout gaming history. Maybe he'll appreciate it more when he's older, but for now it's fun to show him what this all came from.
OMG 😮 this is insane 😮!! I'm sold! I'm getting this... It's a no brainer, guys.... c'mon 🎉it has every retro game ever created plus a good interface ❤ awesome. Great job 👏 I have just joined your channel and we are connected now!!
@@MICHAELSIMMONS-z1m If your computer/laptop has a 2nd USB port .. then you'll be able to play games for 2 players...if you want to play 4 player games, you'll need a USB splitter. Most games can be saved... depending on the emulator they're installed from. 👍
@@MICHAELSIMMONS-z1mcorrection: you can get to use a PlayStation 4 controller 🎮 as well.... BUT some of the buttons won't be functional so it will best to use a Xbox 360 controller.
My biggest fear about buying one of these hds is that they come with malware that will install a back door where they have access to the contents and info of your computer, idk maybe I’m just paranoid but you never know with china lol look what happened with hwawei phones
@@drewtalksYou'd need to go further than that & disable the network adapters & make sure it's not on the same workgroup, otherwise it could still affect other things on the local network.
I just bought this drive today, says it should be here around October 20th. Will compare it to my roughly 7TB of ROMs I've painstakingly downloaded over the years. I'll do a directory tree/file text dump of the drive and upload it to google drive if anyone wants to know what's on it. I'll update when I receive it.
I just read the reviews on Amazon and there's a lot of negative reviews some people are saying you have to have medium to expert level skills to know what you're doing hopefully everything goes right for ya( waiting on update) for myself also considering buying but I'm a noob 🎉
@@Tu.Mama.Perro. That is HS in general needs a lot of configuration and extra apps need to be setup to get it to work. The only thing this drive is good for is a repository you can pull from and that's if the seller has actually audited all the roms to make sure they are working and not corrupted.
Very interested in buying this as well, please let us know when you get it and how the installation process and ease of access works. Appreciate the update.
I love most of this, but like some people are saying, I wouldn’t really play the PS4 or Switch games at the moment,for ethical reasons, while there’s still support for those options. The rest of the drive though, it’s an amazing collection (I’m pretty sure I saw Yu-Gi-Oh Tag Force and even some Yu Yu Hakusho games O.O) looks great for anyone who has been freaking out about the idea of game preservation but doesn’t know where to start. Almost everything right here, in a convenient package. (Although, I would worry about spyware still. When a deal seems too good to be true…)
Oh yeah, I'm sure this thing is full of spyware, viruses, a company that would brazenly resell copyrighted material that is still being sold wouldn't blink at harvesting user information, in fact at least one of the user reviews references finding viruses on this thing. Anybody who willingly connects shit like this to their computer/network is dumb as shit.
The Two big red flags for me is Team Viewer installed and games triggering your firewall. Did you even do a virus scan on this? If you get one stick in a separate PC with no personal use, data, logs stored, base OS and that is it. Buyer beware on the security issues.
Surprised there aren't more comments on the tremendous security concerns of just plugging in a random hardrive to your main rig that you presumably do things like online banking on These are the same people plugging in USB drives they find in the parking lot
@@loquitogusanitojust plugging something wont do anything unless it had explosives or had a hardware killer, nowadays autorun doesnt exist. Unless you manually execute a trojan .exe, probably this one has
Looks cool to someone like me who played lots of games on console, but i never got into computers, at all. I know nothing about them and installing Roms and shit confuses me and i would probably end up with a virus. Seems a little overwhelming to me, hence why i stick with consoles, but this looks so cool.
I clicked on the link and it’s basically the same thing he’s not telling the whole truth in the video you still need to reprogram it and do a lot of things it’s not plug and play
I had hyper spin arcade drive but when it’s time to update that’s when problems developed with other games on wheel so I decided to do my own through launchbox
I'm very happy with mine 🎉 mine was a bit cheaper.. cost me 280 bucks... Also the intro is very different from yours. (Mine has the HyperSpin Attraction intro) but apart from that, all menus and HyperSpin wheel are the same. Great product and no regrets at all.
I bought an old Wii a few years ago at GameStop on Black Friday for $25. I homebrewed it. I can play any old game ever made on any system simply by downloading it onto my sd card and plugging it into the Wii. Way Cheaper!!
I'm sure you can't play ANY game, after all, the Wii is using a very old CPU at this point, but it should handle many old systems well enough, and you won't have your personal information harvested like with this dodgy drive.
@@yellowblanka6058 Sega Genesis Atari game boy Nintendo super Nintendo N64 commodore Dreamcast anything you can think of it will play that old crap and I seriously mean that and I'm not joking.
@@dboogeman2002I know for a fact that N64/Dreamcast emulation will be dodgy - even modern emulation boxes (albeit lower cost SoCs) with far better CPUs have their issues with N64/Dreamcast emulation so I'm certain the old 749 Mhz G3 variant in the Wii will struggle - the few N64 games on the official VC had to use per-game configs and hacks to eek out playable speed, I know that from datamining etc. but I'm sure it will handle PS1, 16-bit consoles and many arcades just fine. Basically any cheap modern SoC will handle emulation better than the Wii.
I would haved loved to get this in the UK, so I set up my own with emulationstation-de using mega bezel; shmups looks so good in tate mode, feels like I'm in the arcade.
The four recent comment on this gaming drive at Amazon had warnings and ratings 1 out of 5. I bought their 2T Kinhank drive and not all games played as well.
Not to burst any bubbles here but if you haven't realized it a month later, the light guns don't work on new model/modern TV's, they need the shiny reflective surface of glass (such as on the old picture tube TV's) to register, found that out the hard way after buying one of those tiny NES systems and discovering duck hunt on it that was unplayable with the light gun
There are plenty of guns out there now that will work on modern tv sets and playable with these retro emulation systems, including things like Duck Hunt.
So what's to stop me from buying this, getting this same hard drive online (I see refurbs available for $120), and pirating the pirates by selling it for like $150?
The most difficult part of doing all this yourself is getting pinball and setting all the machines up imo. They scrubbed the net of "roms" for pinball machine emulation to sell to people online.
I bought an 18TB drive for a seller on Etsy but it had no switch, PS4 or Xbox 360. It did have the entire Dreamcast, ps1, 2, Xbox, Psp, Wii, and the lower end collections. I have yet to go through everything on it but it has a lot. I might still get this for the 360 games and the forbidden fruit (switch). I’d advise if you decide to get it to backup the drive. It’s not a huge investment but I’d rather put it on a brand new drive. I’d also play around like Drew said and make your own collection. You have the games so you could put something together. There are a lot of cool front ends out there.
Love to tinker with various frontends, but rocket launcher is a pain in da azz, emulation station is so user friendly taught myself how to design themes, custom bezels and artwork. I can see this as a convenient way obtaining a sh¡t ton of roms and media, without going to sketchy sites.
Going on pure gut instinct, I'd be willing to bet that the PS1 and PS2 collections include the most commonly available games, and the stuff that isn't too hard to find, while omitting the truly obscure stuff. I'd be very surprised if it includes; PS1: Macross Digital Mission VF-X-(Japan) PS1: Macross Plus - Game Edition (Japan) PS1: Paris-Marseille Racing (France) PS1: Paris-Marseille Racing II (France) PS2: Shinseiki GPX Cyber Formula Road to the Infinity (Japan) PS2: Shinseiki GPX Cyber Formula Road to the Infinity 2 (Japan) PS2: Shinseiki GPX Cyber Formula Road to the Infinity 3 (Japan) PS2: Shinseiki GPX Cyber Formula Road to the Infinity 4 (Japan) In general those games don't show up on "ROM" sites. In fact, for each of those, I only ever found them on one site, and the sites for those PS1 games are long gone.
None of those games are on there, but a simple google search will get you what you're looking for. I have those games on a different collection from a Google search.
which is why retro emulation is important.. cos once the devs make their money and they are no longer for sale they dont care what happens their games.
Right. The idea is to get this that has 90 percent of the shit anyone could ever want and then just fill in the gaps on your own which would be insanely simple at that point
@@chiarosuburekeni9325 You're right that most of the people who buy this will probably never want anything else. I just think it's kind of ironic that they include the stuff that's easy to find and which can be obtained from multiple sources, while the more obscure stuff that people may not be able to find on their own, isn't included.
Part of the fun is seeing what they do put on their lists for PS1 or PS2 games and instantly being able to try some of the more obscure titles that you are too lazy to setup on your own collections. But I'm sure RTL Biathalon for the PS2 won't make their list but it makes mine.
Oh they're not pulling their hair out, they are probably working behind the scenes scouring the internet and discord servers to figure out who made this, send them a cease & desist letter, and have them served papers to appear in court for theft of IP, copyright infringement, and any other charges they can throw at them. Which is why I'm surprised to see this still listed for sale on Amazon...and why I'm tempted to buy it...
I love how your son is just chasing that kid and beating his ass at the end. ;-) Reminds me of my daughter at 4 who was playing EverQuest and getting constantly guardsmacked for doing psycho things in game and 3 years later was PvPing in World of Warcraft as an ambushing rogue. ;-) As for this unit: a 12tb drive with damn near every game in existence, most of which are pre-set up for me? The absolute months of time it would take me to build something like this is worth the $300 alone!
I'm literally building my GRS 4 player cabinet at the time I discovered this video, and I'm thinking this hard drive might be the solution I'm looking for. My cabinet comes with a Raspberry Pi 4 with 7000 games, but I'm going to be converting to an i7 with an RTX3070, so that hard drive would be perfect. Definitely adding this to my Amazon shopping cart. I wonder how well it'll allow me to navigate on my PC using a joystick & buttons.
@@MICHAELSIMMONS-z1m I've been rather lazy with setting up the PC for my cabinet. There are a lot of dynamics I'd have to figure out besides just the controls. First and foremost is how I'd be able to power on the PC each time I turn on the cabinet. I don't want to burn out the PC by leaving it on full-time (not to mention the electric bill), so I'll have to dedicate a lot of time to get all my questions answered from various sources. I guess I can start with Reddit.
I prefer playing my older games through retroachievements. There is something awesome about collecting achievements voted on by players in games I grew up playing. Also competing for high scores against the world is way better than against my 3 year old.
It only got a 3.1 rating so I'm a little skeptical about buying it. Is it really plug and play? A lot of the reviews were saying that it's not plug and play.
It's a no brainer. $300, instead of $3,000,000. Also, the younger geeks on here don't realize that people in their 30's and 40's don't always want to spend the time to collect all of these files online. I've being doing emulators and roms since 1996, and it gets tiresome after awhile.
I totally agree. I'd gladly pay the price to not spend countless hours chasing all of this down.
emulators are great (most of the time), since sometimes i came across things like: Spyro 3 don't has any background music or games that just straight don't load in the emulator that i'm using...
so, finding the right file is difficult, but the result is worth it.
How about the OG’s in their 50’s who started with Atari and threw all those systems away 😂
At 70yrs old,My last game was Mario on 64,,I'm not stupid but really just wnt a few games to pass my retirement ! ??any suggestions,thinking bout going all out withn the OC 3,,
Can I plug this hard drive into my Nvidia Shield and play with a Bluetooth controller???
I got the 4TB 2.5 version of this for around $100 a few months ago and I was very happy with it because it wasn't just a ROM dump, it was all set up pretty well. If I knew the quality of this and hadn't already bought it, I'd not hesitate to buy the 12TB one at all. Wasn't thousands of bullshit games with many dupes or anything, just all the popular titles you'd likely want to play for many systems.
Are you able to play 2 player or vs game modes? If so then yes these things are very worth it and I would love to have one to set up like an arcade or simulator style.
@@justdoinit2378 I haven't tried, but it's just using launchbox to launch retroarch, mupen, yuzu, etc. etc. - so there's no real magic going on here. Should be able to support 2-player just as well as any emulator of choice.
How many games were in the more modern era like PS4 and switch also curious about PS3
Appreciate the reply 👍🏼
@@keepitshort4208 No real PS4, the 12 PS4 titles are just the PC versions of games available on both the PC and PS4, like GTAV, The Witcher 3, and RDR2. Emulation for the PS4 is very primitive at the moment, so this kinda makes sense.
PS3 and Switch though are real ROMs, though, but the count isn't too high. 21 PS3 titles ('Afro Samurai.ps3' BLES00254 BLES01469 BLUS30230 'Castlevania - Lords of Shadow 2.ps3' Catherine.ps3 "Demon's Souls.ps3" 'Devil May Cry 4' "Dragon's Crown.ps3" 'God Of War 3' 'God Of War Collection' 'Lollipop Chainsaw.ps3' 'Mass Effect 2' 'Ratchet & Clank - Into the Nexus.ps3' 'Ratchet & Clank Trilogy.ps3' 'Rayman Origins.ps3' 'Ridge Racer 7.ps3' 'Soul Calibur IV.ps3' 'The Tomb Raider Trilogy' 'Wolf Among Us, The.ps3' '[Silent Hill Homecoming][BLUS30169][7.2]' ) and 18 Switch titles ('0217 - Flashback (Europe) (en,fr,de,it,es).xci' ARMS.nsp 'Borderlands Game of the Year Edition.nsp' Celeste.nsp 'Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy.nsp' 'Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled (XCI)' 'Do not feed the monkeys.xci' 'Enter the Gungeon.nsp' 'Hello Neighbor.nsp' 'Hollow Knight.nsp' 'Mega Man X Legacy Collection 2.xci' 'SONIC FORCES.nsp' 'Salt And Sanctuary.nsp' 'Splatoon 2 (US).nsp' 'Super Mario Odyssey.nsp' 'The Legend of Zelda Links Awakening.nsp' 'The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom.xci' 'The Legend of Zelda_ Breath of the Wild.xci').
Can't comment on how most of those play since I haven't really touched them, but the Switch ones at least should work pretty smoothly (I tried mario odyssey, it was fine), haven't touched the PS3. The list seems pretty well curated, there are dupes of the 8 and 16 bit systems, but it's not a bunch of garbage, just maybe multiple revs of the same game or something like that. It doesn't look like it has any entire ROM dumps. But it has nearly all the popular titles of the platforms, and that's what I was looking for. But if I knew it was this well curated I'd be open to buying a larger drive. But the 12TB wasn't around when I bought.
Hope that helps.
These are always a risk to buy. There have been numerous counts of malware and rootkits being hidden on this sort of drive and devices like this.
What a wild time to be alive. I would have been in heaven with this as a kid. Like you said though, I'd probably just build something like this today on my own PC for way less clutter
You know how to do that ?
@@joshuadenson996 Sure, it's just a matter of putting ROM's and emulators into a front end software like Launch Box and then putting all of that onto an external drive of sorts. There are tons of how to videos out there for this kind of stuff
Takes to long. Just buy it. Time is money.
@@TheBigb1973 I respect that
@@joshuadenson996 hyper spin is easy to install, but finding most of the roms for certain emulation is harder if you don’t know where you’re looking. And the time it requires to download all the games
Would be so cool to hook it up to a modded arcade cab.
You could just build your own. Something like a Megacade.
The amount of work this takes to organise and configure to work is monumental having it all like this is really amazing,
You won’t be able to play most of these in your lifetime
It's not really all that hard to do yourself. With programs like retroarch, retrobat, and emulationstation (which is what most of these devices use) it's all pre-configured. It's just a matter of dropping the game files in the proper folders.
Full libraries of games can easily be found online to the point you can download them all in a single batch, or grouped alphabetically.
Depending on your download speeds and how many different platforms you decide to set up, you can have something exactly the same as this set up within an hour.
@@Kirkyeeheewithin the hour lmao
Asking honestly, do you think there's actually any torrents available with a collection this big that actually runs at a reasonable speed with enough seeders? Because with the state of torrents these days I really doubt it
@@KingMinish Torrents, no. Direct links. Absolutely. It's just a matter of knowing where to look. **Cough*Theinternetarchive*cough**
@@Kirkyeeheewhat are you talking about man 😭😭
@@sbifits true 💀
Def worth it honestly, it saves you a lot of time for people like me who would get lazy after trying to download 50+ games.
The Amazon comments say it's difficult to set up/configure, one saying you need hacker-level IT skills. How difficult is it?
@@coyotemoon722 not difficult at all I got emulationststion setup on my raspberry pi 3b+ 😂 but this is hyper spin pretty easy to follow the instructions from the site; other then that almost games will be hard to find online
@@coyotemoon722it's easy af to set up. Pretty much plug and play with some basic computer knowledge.
@@coyotemoon722 hacker level IT skills lmao. An old person who has trouble figuring out the knobs on the washing machine wrote that.
sending 300 bucks straight into some Chinese communist assholes pocket for stolen software from your own country. Don’t trust our geopolitical enemies with a PC component that ties into your computer and network
Your son is very lucky to have 100,000 games to play covering all the arcades and consoles from the 1970's up to the Switch. Good luck getting him to do his homework. Thanks for this extensive review. Convinced me to pull the trigger on it.
Sadly this is not the reality.. I've setup rom machines for thousands of titles in the past and my son always just shrugged at it. Games look too good these days. The old games have no appeal to the youngins
@@sotoninIsn't that the truth! It's just how things change tbh. I fear for them and reliving their childhood games though with all of their media being digital downloads.
@@sotoninI get this from my kid too. But keep at it, sit and play with him. I did this with my kids and he even asks for certain games like NBA Jam and Twisted Metal from time to time.
The real challenge is getting him away from these garbage streamers playing absolute trash on TH-cam that he spends hours watching. Not even good games, what would've been the equivalent of Flash games a few years ago. I guess they watch for the personalities.
I also have a massive Plex library too. Getting him to watch stuff on there is like pulling teeth, but he'll gladly watch things with me, like old horror movies. We love those.
@@sotonin I'm 18 and I'm obsessed with retro games, particularly early 3d games from the early-late 90s (doom, banjo kazooie, super mario 64, ocarina of time, tomb raider, lsd dream emulator, final fantasy 7, quake etc.) My parents can't understand why I like it so much despite them growing up with it, lol
This channel should be called ‘Drew eats his dinner whilst recording this’ 😂
Yeah wtf was that lol
Great video aside from muckbang 🤢
I’m glad I’m not the only one who noticed that.
I think this is great for anyone starting out in emulation or even if you have a few collections. If you've ever tried to get a hold of collections before, especially systems like Teknoparrot and Atomiswave to name a few, then you know what a headache it can be. The configurations for those emulators can also be a minefield. This is great to just have those collection's available in one place which you can then set up how you want. Is it worth $300? Maybe if you think about trawling the net for those roms and getting the config files, etc and the time to do all that. The drive itself is worth around $180 I guess. Great video btw, cheers. What a lucky, lucky kid! 😁
I ordered one, out of all you have reviewed this one seems like the most worth it, You get a great list of games with little missing and it's not $5k like the 96tb Chris Cool mod. I have my own hard drive with roms and isos Ive collected over the years from my own collections and downloads but honestly I don't have the time to really set up a dedicated drive like this. I haven't received it yet but I'll update this and give my thoughts.
Update: So It finally arrived a few days ago and I've been testing around and playing with it in between working. I gotta say it's a pretty kick ass drive, it's a little loud, and I've had some controller and graphical glitches with some games the way they are configured, but most of the games work fine. Its filled to the brim with games with only 60gb of free space for adding any missing games. Speaking of, compared to my personal collection which some of which are romsets, I only counted a few missing games, PS3 being the main one, not a lot of PS3 games on this drive. There are also not a lot of PC games and Switch games which honestly makes perfect sense being not as big. Im not to familiar with Hyperspin and Rocketlauncher but I do think these are older versions of them, Honestly the frontend not working is the least if my issues as long as the games are there I can always replace the frontend with a better one, that being said the frontend doesn't suck to use and it's nice having videos pre set up for every game. Overall I'd definitely recommend this drive, It's a full hard drive so it is pretty large but this pared with a decent mini pc and you got a nice console replacement.
Let us know what happens. Amazon reviews say it doesn't work
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@@eb3005 Yeah I noticed that before I ordered, I figured the only people who bothered to leave a review are probably the people that didn't understand that the drive has to be a D drive.
Please let us know when you get it and how it is. 😊
Looking forward to your update, very interested in purchasing but the reviews are making me doubt
I use those same drives for my server (the 18tb versions.) So far so good, haven't had any problems. I have a similar 8tb Hyperspin setup I got back in 2018. Still works great on an external seagate drive but this one is nice. However, the 96tb Chris Cool Mods setup is the ultimate. 👍
Anyone can upload a list of all the games of CrisCool 96Gb? Seems a lot of work and a live museum to keep at home
@@Van-Helssen you can't download 98tb :))
@@freecoursesukwell... not with that attitude. 😂
Chris cool mods is the most over priced shit ever
Wanna bet?
Emulation drives sold online are one of those things where the longer you procrastinate buying one, the BETTER a version when you finally do. Was going to buy a $35 thumb drive one off Amazon, but this one looks WAY more sexier in interface, immediate play and selection. I suggest to anyone who gets this, instantly make a copy of it all on a 2nd drive too.
if you're going to pay for pirated games then i feel sorry for you because they're free
the drive you will buy will have bug issues and alot of games won't play as normal as you would expect
@xtensionxward3659 it's almost impossible or expensive as hell to even get most of these games and consoles, this isn't about pirating apart from maybe the new console generation. But even then who cares anymore, the industry will never change. I sure af don't want to pay £60 to play an old pokemon or hundred trying to get an old console in good working condition
@@SOL-UK its a good point of view
@@xtensionxward3659The internet is free too, but we still pay for it.
Energy is infinite, but we still get charged for it.
We have an abundance of water, but still pay for it.
Also Seagate EOXS isn't going to fail that easy it's designed for data centers with read/writes.
It's definitely pretty cool to see this kind of stuff today just showcasing how far we've come with video games at this point.
But for someone like me, I find this overwhelming as hell. Sometimes too much IS too much, even for me lol
I do like that it preserves the games.
@@Mike-sp7zv Definitely great for that. I know if I go back in time and show this to my kid self, he would flip out. Just show him the games up to that point in time and hide the rest lol
thanks for the information .. I think I am investing in this Drive for my retro game collection thing!! This 12 tb drive gives me all the games I need and complete's my collection. I definitely have to get this one!!
Sweet collection, the menu for me though is just a mess. I like a cleaner front end with less bells and whistles.
this is definitely a clean collection. as others have noted, I guess an alternative to decluttering & building a clean collection yourself is to just pick and choose games you want and copy them over to another drive. I have a pair of mirrored 6TB HDDs and when it comes down to it, my core collection with all my favorites from nearly every system fits on a 128GB micro SD - a 256GB drive would allow me to add a handful of my favorite PS3 titles and call it a day!
Clean except for the fact buyers are finding keyloggers hidden in the drives.
@udance4ever its possible to copy not just the rom files but also the frontend software to another drive and have it function and look just like this one does right? I am curious to buy this drive but want to be sure I can copy the entire experience with just select games over to an SD card to take on the go with me
@@jordandiaz5526 yup - totally possible. while it's a slow project, I'm working on a script that'll take a larger drive (eg. 6TB) and extract a target build (eg. 256GB) that is standalone & boots on its own. for now, just clone the boot partition (6GB) and manually copy everything but the roms directory in the SHARE partition. then you can pick & choose as you please! you'll have to do a bit of scraping to get all the images but its all automated once you figure out how it works (pretty amazing actually) good luck!
@@udance4everThree questions, 1) One of the other comments indicated there were a bunch of viruses that came native on the drive. Have you experienced this? 2) Can you confirm that you are able to open the drive in Windows and see the file structure where you could copy a particular rom for a particular console out of the drive and place it in a different drive /computer. I am asking this because I would like to build a retro game system using Raspberry Pi but this SBC is limited in what game era it can run so I want to isolate the roms that it will have no problem running on a separate drive. 3) Are you planning to freely distribute your script mentioned in your post, or are you going to sell it? It sounds like it could be very useful
@@Sartre_Existentialist (1) I personally haven’t had a virus issue because I build Batocera off the developer site (this is my recommendation to you too!) (2) to be clear, I don’t have this drive (and neither do I have Windows!) and I’ve seen enough in the video to know it is a standard Batocera install - it would be very straightforward to do what you want to do without having to run the risk of booting a drive from a 3rd party seller (3) thanks for the nudge - I do plan to upload the script to github at some point but I don’t see this happening in the near future w the limited time i have this year. It probably would be done by now if I had my codebase I left behind at a startup I used to work at! *sigh* lol
absolutely love the overwhelming feeling of consoles and choices
any @@MICHAELSIMMONS-z1m
Could you imagine taking this HDD back in time to 1985? You'd be a GOD!
Loli don't think the old 386 could handle any of the emulators haha 🤣
Better take the whole rig or you’d just be a fool with an useless HDD 😂
Back in 1985 you would have to use a Commodore 64 or an Apple II to try to handle the emulators. Unless you said you were from the future and brought back your all-powerful Intel Celeron.
@@peterstaklis3712 But why would you take intel celeron?!
Because even a celeron should be able to run most of the games and would be considered mighty in 1985. Plus it’s cheap.
This would be good if you have an older PC lying around. Set it up to boot into this, HDMI to a TV and BOOM super gaming console
My computer is hooked to a 65" 4k tv in my living room.
@@Successiswhatmakesyouhappy mines too and 1 in the bedroom.
@@americangaijin8743 Same I also have a 55" in my bathroom and a 70 inch 4k tv in each of my 5 guest bedrooms.
@@dentyo5238 Same. I also have a 10" screen inside my toilet and a 6" that pops out of my toaster.
@@kayakexcursions5570 Nice man!! 😎
I’ve been using 2 8TB drives I got on Amazon to run my Plex server for years. No complaints.
And I have one that has all my PS4 games on it that I use with my ps5.
Man that's crazy, maybe one day. Right now I'm content with my classic console minis.
This drive + midrange $500 PC (or build your own using 2nd hand high end component from last generation like Ryzen 2700X / i7 10700K with GTX 1660) means you basically have "All games" from Atari 2600 era towards PS3 era. (PS4 emulator isn't good many bugs and choppy framerate, unless you play it in top of the line PC)
that drive, it worth the price just for "ROMS" alone, even empty 12 TB cost about 300 bucks.
Drew, I remember back a bit when the biggest gaming build that was available anywhere was "Reys 128GB" for the Raspberry Pi 3B. Wow, how far we've come in retro gaming preservation! 🕹️🎮👍
true story!
I have a massive collection of games myself...but I'm actually considering picking up this drive. Why? Because after the HUNDREDS of hours I've spent putting my own collection together, this is one of the first drives I've seen that doesn't appear to have missing or broken wheel art, let alone all of the themes included.
Hyperspin is a bear to work with, but this drive looks pretty sweet. Besides that, I'm tired of trying to be a completist. Trying to complete sets of games that I'll never play even 10% of.
the answer is yes to all (including the nightmare) @@MICHAELSIMMONS-z1m
Except you'd be paying almost $300 for a drive when, as you admit you probably are never even going to address 10% of these 10,000 games, and I'm sure there's at on of bloat in there like regional copies and every year version of Madden etc. - I just don't understand people who compulsively need to collect either digitally or physically a great quantity of games they'll never play. That and this drive includes contemporary titles that are still being sold.
@@yellowblanka6058 $300 wow so terrible
This might be good just to save time sailing the high seas for roms.
Once you have them, it can be a lot of work to curate and organize them.
On a positive note, It’s not like they are ever going to change. Once you get your collection configured the way you want it, you’re done.
Really, the only thing that might change is the emulator and frontends you use.
I didn’t mention any controllers…
That's a really good front-end and I kind of want it for my Emulation Station setup
Pretty amazing little product.
With so much choice of entertainment these days, people can play anything they wish, but an advantage of computer games in the early days before the internet was that although the graphics were horrible, everyone played the same games so wherever you travelled, you could jump in and play competitively with other people. The early systems like Atari or even the Vic20, C64, etc had the cartridges which allowed instant play without loading tapes or disks. Another advantage was we could jump into command prompt and quickly make games of our own using mostly Basic, but sometimes used Pascal, C++ and even Machine Code.
During the 80's we made games like basic driving simulators like REVS, or choose your own adventure style games. Then I finished highschool in 91 and totally abandoned computers for a decade.
How could you in the 90s, lol.
@jimbotron70 : I ran some databases for work, but otherwise it was the grunge era. I was busy with sex, drugs, and rocknroll. All the usual young guy shenanigans. I only played playstation during the 90's.
I'm considering learning python to mess around with AI but I am entering the lazy stage of my life.😄
@@MICHAELSIMMONS-z1m You can use any controller recognized by your OS.
Can you play 2 player or vs game modes on these things?!? If so then these things are incredible n very much worth the price.
The same question in my mind? How many players can play using this hard drive?
@@sward4king4 on 4 player games it works the same as a emulator you downloaded yourself just saves you time and confusion
we need more retrobat builds !
Or just people who actually buy games not broke ass bootleggers who hurt the industry
No we don't
No we don't like the guy said above🤣🤣🤣
The Amazon reviews for this drive are AWEFUL.
What’s the drive called?
@@Michael.RedKnight the amazon link is in the description.
Nice, but it would have been nice if they had used a less used drive letter than "D"... I would think that would make it a pain for a lot of people.
What kind of cybersecurity analysis have you done on these executables, teamviewer software etc? I’d be checking my DNS packets especially if you ditched the firewall. Stay safe! Love all the games though!
That was my first thought as well. Turning off firewall, Antivirus and installing executables that come distributed on a Chinese product is nothing but reckless.
If anyone buys this thing, either use it as a ROM dump you only copy from or run it on a segregated machine that is not in any way connected to your main network .
Advising people to turn off any and all security features in a video is extremely dangerous on the creators part.
@@idontlikespmDidn't watch the whole video, did he actually do that? Yeah, that alone is reason to never listen to anything this guy says ever again. I personally would never connect something like this to my PC as I'm sure it's full of dodgy shit. and nobody I know with a modicum of computer knowledge would either. If you really think you're going to get 10,000 copyrighted pieces of software for a relative pittance, that somebody who would brazenly sell a drive full of copyrighted software wouldn't also harvest your personal information without blinking, I've got a bridge to sell you.
@@yellowblanka6058 exactly
I would totally buy something you build, just sayin
There should be a random mode where it randomly throws you into the middle of a game as it shuffles through them at a set time limit.
my pre-made arcade cabinet does that... but it "only" has 3000 games
what a time to be alive, along with the convenience like this and good emulation devices coming out and easily modded hack for most older devices. the sad thing is that now im a 35 yr old dad who dont have the time to game. ill probably buy this and give it my baby son when he's older lol
I've curated a massive library for my kids and grandkids to appreciate. My kid now has grown up with all these free games and really doesn't understand the value of all of this, but I don't care, it's still a labor of love and we've made so many great memories playing all throughout gaming history.
Maybe he'll appreciate it more when he's older, but for now it's fun to show him what this all came from.
OMG 😮 this is insane 😮!! I'm sold! I'm getting this... It's a no brainer, guys.... c'mon 🎉it has every retro game ever created plus a good interface ❤ awesome. Great job 👏 I have just joined your channel and we are connected now!!
@@MICHAELSIMMONS-z1m If your computer/laptop has a 2nd USB port .. then you'll be able to play games for 2 players...if you want to play 4 player games, you'll need a USB splitter. Most games can be saved... depending on the emulator they're installed from. 👍
@@MICHAELSIMMONS-z1mcorrection: you can get to use a PlayStation 4 controller 🎮 as well.... BUT some of the buttons won't be functional so it will best to use a Xbox 360 controller.
@@unlimited-6183does it only work with pc or can I plug it in to my tv or Xbox or my windows computer
Thank you for sharing this video! Great detail, I was wondering would we see gameplay maybe but it taking that away from it. This helped a lot 👍🏾👍🏾
Great hyperspin menu demo, but do the games actually load?
My biggest fear about buying one of these hds is that they come with malware that will install a back door where they have access to the contents and info of your computer, idk maybe I’m just paranoid but you never know with china lol look what happened with hwawei phones
then put it on a computer not connected to the internet or pass
@@drewtalksYou'd need to go further than that & disable the network adapters & make sure it's not on the same workgroup, otherwise it could still affect other things on the local network.
They very much do all this chinese knock off bootleg trash is loaded with malware
Review on Amazon said they found a Keylogger on this one@@UnknownZ3bra
Not all of it has malware! You have to look.
Waited 22 mins for you to get to the Sega Saturn stuff and u gave it 2 seconds, some real B.S homie
This is like the 96 terabyte setup that khriscoolmod has, but much much smaller and cheaper.
Yeah, the problem with his stuff is it's absurdly expensive. The 96TB ends up being like 5k or 8k or some shit. Very hard to justify.
I love how the link to Amazon has comments screaming don't buy. And not plug n play
I just bought this drive today, says it should be here around October 20th. Will compare it to my roughly 7TB of ROMs I've painstakingly downloaded over the years. I'll do a directory tree/file text dump of the drive and upload it to google drive if anyone wants to know what's on it. I'll update when I receive it.
I just read the reviews on Amazon and there's a lot of negative reviews some people are saying you have to have medium to expert level skills to know what you're doing hopefully everything goes right for ya( waiting on update) for myself also considering buying but I'm a noob 🎉
@@Tu.Mama.Perro. That is HS in general needs a lot of configuration and extra apps need to be setup to get it to work. The only thing this drive is good for is a repository you can pull from and that's if the seller has actually audited all the roms to make sure they are working and not corrupted.
jw5031 please count me in, I am curious
Very interested in buying this as well, please let us know when you get it and how the installation process and ease of access works. Appreciate the update.
Updates???
Dude if they had this thing during the covid lockdown....they would have made sooo much money
I love most of this, but like some people are saying, I wouldn’t really play the PS4 or Switch games at the moment,for ethical reasons, while there’s still support for those options.
The rest of the drive though, it’s an amazing collection (I’m pretty sure I saw Yu-Gi-Oh Tag Force and even some Yu Yu Hakusho games O.O) looks great for anyone who has been freaking out about the idea of game preservation but doesn’t know where to start. Almost everything right here, in a convenient package.
(Although, I would worry about spyware still. When a deal seems too good to be true…)
Can you plug this hard drive up to your tv and play games on it?
@@boxdoge8466 I dunno. I haven’t gotten one right now.
do play switch games because you can run them on 4k 60 fps, not unethical
Oh yeah, I'm sure this thing is full of spyware, viruses, a company that would brazenly resell copyrighted material that is still being sold wouldn't blink at harvesting user information, in fact at least one of the user reviews references finding viruses on this thing. Anybody who willingly connects shit like this to their computer/network is dumb as shit.
THANKS DREWTALKS I GOT THIS PER RECOMMDATION HAD MALWARE ECT TOOK OUT MY MINI PC.
Sounds highly unlikely
The Two big red flags for me is Team Viewer installed and games triggering your firewall. Did you even do a virus scan on this? If you get one stick in a separate PC with no personal use, data, logs stored, base OS and that is it. Buyer beware on the security issues.
I was wondering the same thing.
Surprised there aren't more comments on the tremendous security concerns of just plugging in a random hardrive to your main rig that you presumably do things like online banking on
These are the same people plugging in USB drives they find in the parking lot
@@loquitogusanitojust plugging something wont do anything unless it had explosives or had a hardware killer, nowadays autorun doesnt exist. Unless you manually execute a trojan .exe, probably this one has
ultimate apocalypse gaming device
Looks cool to someone like me who played lots of games on console, but i never got into computers, at all. I know nothing about them and installing Roms and shit confuses me and i would probably end up with a virus. Seems a little overwhelming to me, hence why i stick with consoles, but this looks so cool.
Amazing how they can fit all of this on a mere 12tb hd.
Beside the fact the work that went into this is simply mindblowing
Emulation is the way to go
I bought this one from Ali Express but it was Dead on Arrival so I returned it. This makes me want to get it from Amazon now.
I clicked on the link and it’s basically the same thing he’s not telling the whole truth in the video you still need to reprogram it and do a lot of things it’s not plug and play
I had hyper spin arcade drive but when it’s time to update that’s when problems developed with other games on wheel so I decided to do my own through launchbox
I'm very happy with mine 🎉 mine was a bit cheaper.. cost me 280 bucks... Also the intro is very different from yours. (Mine has the HyperSpin Attraction intro) but apart from that, all menus and HyperSpin wheel are the same. Great product and no regrets at all.
Hi great video. Couple of questions, can it play it on a tv & also what’s it called on Amazon to order
It needs a 'play random button' and a 4 way split screen, so you can play 4 squares at the same time and roll them like tiktok or slot machine.
you could figure that out for yourself somehow i bet
So like gaming gooning
Someone needs to sell a smaller one without bloatware that is fully configured and tested 100%, at an affordable price, and they would make bank
There are some out there. Kriscoolmod.
I bought an old Wii a few years ago at GameStop on Black Friday for $25. I homebrewed it. I can play any old game ever made on any system simply by downloading it onto my sd card and plugging it into the Wii. Way Cheaper!!
I'm sure you can't play ANY game, after all, the Wii is using a very old CPU at this point, but it should handle many old systems well enough, and you won't have your personal information harvested like with this dodgy drive.
@@yellowblanka6058 it will play any game from PlayStation 1 and older. Maybe even PlayStation 2 but it will without a doubt play them.
@@yellowblanka6058 Sega Genesis Atari game boy Nintendo super Nintendo N64 commodore Dreamcast anything you can think of it will play that old crap and I seriously mean that and I'm not joking.
@@dboogeman2002I know for a fact that N64/Dreamcast emulation will be dodgy - even modern emulation boxes (albeit lower cost SoCs) with far better CPUs have their issues with N64/Dreamcast emulation so I'm certain the old 749 Mhz G3 variant in the Wii will struggle - the few N64 games on the official VC had to use per-game configs and hacks to eek out playable speed, I know that from datamining etc. but I'm sure it will handle PS1, 16-bit consoles and many arcades just fine. Basically any cheap modern SoC will handle emulation better than the Wii.
@@yellowblanka6058 The Wii cost $35 US ...... How much does the other option cost?
I would haved loved to get this in the UK, so I set up my own with emulationstation-de using mega bezel; shmups looks so good in tate mode, feels like I'm in the arcade.
31:04 Your son chasing that kid down was hilarious 😂
The four recent comment on this gaming drive at Amazon had warnings and ratings 1 out of 5. I bought their 2T Kinhank drive and not all games played as well.
Yeah the comments said it doesn't even load, makes me think they didn't change their drive letter
So is it legit or not? I wanna get one
I think it is but it's Amazon return it if it doesn't work
This is the hard drive you buy when you're a gamer and you know the world is ending.
Just imagine how much work must have gone down to get the rights for all these games!!! 😮😮😮
This is sarcasm right? loool
With the rights to sail the seven seas, of course!
Why didn't Soulja boy just do this instead?!
Not to burst any bubbles here but if you haven't realized it a month later, the light guns don't work on new model/modern TV's, they need the shiny reflective surface of glass (such as on the old picture tube TV's) to register, found that out the hard way after buying one of those tiny NES systems and discovering duck hunt on it that was unplayable with the light gun
There are plenty of guns out there now that will work on modern tv sets and playable with these retro emulation systems, including things like Duck Hunt.
@@rickwj324 ah ok 👍they must've corrected the problem?
It was quite some years ago when I bought that mini NES and tried
It's looks good but all those bad reviews on Amazon are scary
Terrifying. It’s just sitting in my cart. Cant click buy because the reviews
Same. Can’t get over the gut feeling.
That's Worth it, if you want to start retro collection and don't have access to downloads
It does look slightly chaotic.
Is it possible to swap Hyperspin out and use Launchbox instead ?
I am sure you can but jeez a lot of work
@@drewtalks LOL. I figured as much. Looks like I'll have to get used to Hyperspin or make my own - talk about a lot of work. 😁
I want a linux based one like emuelec, so it can be ran on arcades (windows can too but it is not as sturdy long term)
Good Lord, a better interface would be either list or small icons. Whatever lists the most games onscreen at a time. Awesome overall.
So what's to stop me from buying this, getting this same hard drive online (I see refurbs available for $120), and pirating the pirates by selling it for like $150?
You should make another video on how to set this up exactly
Id be super curious to see how this would work if u connected to a steam deck
Would be good but wouldn’t be mobile because of the big hard drive
Pretty amazing price, knowing that EXOS drives are professional helium drives running at high-speed (about 260MBps).
The most difficult part of doing all this yourself is getting pinball and setting all the machines up imo. They scrubbed the net of "roms" for pinball machine emulation to sell to people online.
No, they didn't. Nobody scrubbed the internet of pinball roms. Pinball roms are just as easy to get as any other rom.
lmfao do you know how to search the internet? nothing is scrubbed 🤣🤣
what even is "scrubbing the net" lmao are you high
@@mr_whyyWell it does say "conspiracy network" in his username so maybe this is his latest conspiracy theory? 🤣
Drew, where can I get the complete collection for all PlayStations, Xboxes, and Nintendos?
waiting for the nintendo lawsuit
This is absolutely worth it even if it was for 1 system. 3DO system and 2 good games will cost you about $300 alone
...just emulate it, why are you spending the money???????
Notice how he doesn't play a single one of these games lol.
did you watch the whole video?
I think I'll wait till the 500TB comes out
Been looking for something with all Saturn and dreamcast games
I bought an 18TB drive for a seller on Etsy but it had no switch, PS4 or Xbox 360. It did have the entire Dreamcast, ps1, 2, Xbox, Psp, Wii, and the lower end collections. I have yet to go through everything on it but it has a lot. I might still get this for the 360 games and the forbidden fruit (switch). I’d advise if you decide to get it to backup the drive. It’s not a huge investment but I’d rather put it on a brand new drive. I’d also play around like Drew said and make your own collection. You have the games so you could put something together. There are a lot of cool front ends out there.
Thanks for this! Wow!
anytime, it is wow!
Love to tinker with various frontends, but rocket launcher is a pain in da azz, emulation station is so user friendly taught myself how to design themes, custom bezels and artwork. I can see this as a convenient way obtaining a sh¡t ton of roms and media, without going to sketchy sites.
Just when you show Flash, Java....I'm just shocked at the continual list of games...This is basically the LIBRARY of the ENTIRE published games.
Going on pure gut instinct, I'd be willing to bet that the PS1 and PS2 collections include the most commonly available games, and the stuff that isn't too hard to find, while omitting the truly obscure stuff. I'd be very surprised if it includes;
PS1: Macross Digital Mission VF-X-(Japan)
PS1: Macross Plus - Game Edition (Japan)
PS1: Paris-Marseille Racing (France)
PS1: Paris-Marseille Racing II (France)
PS2: Shinseiki GPX Cyber Formula Road to the Infinity (Japan)
PS2: Shinseiki GPX Cyber Formula Road to the Infinity 2 (Japan)
PS2: Shinseiki GPX Cyber Formula Road to the Infinity 3 (Japan)
PS2: Shinseiki GPX Cyber Formula Road to the Infinity 4 (Japan)
In general those games don't show up on "ROM" sites. In fact, for each of those, I only ever found them on one site, and the sites for those PS1 games are long gone.
None of those games are on there, but a simple google search will get you what you're looking for. I have those games on a different collection from a Google search.
which is why retro emulation is important.. cos once the devs make their money and they are no longer for sale they dont care what happens their games.
Right. The idea is to get this that has 90 percent of the shit anyone could ever want and then just fill in the gaps on your own which would be insanely simple at that point
@@chiarosuburekeni9325 You're right that most of the people who buy this will probably never want anything else. I just think it's kind of ironic that they include the stuff that's easy to find and which can be obtained from multiple sources, while the more obscure stuff that people may not be able to find on their own, isn't included.
Part of the fun is seeing what they do put on their lists for PS1 or PS2 games and instantly being able to try some of the more obscure titles that you are too lazy to setup on your own collections. But I'm sure RTL Biathalon for the PS2 won't make their list but it makes mine.
Wow, that's some impressive piracy. I like the work put into this.
How do these companies that do this NOT get the crap sued out of them by Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft , and all the countless 3rd party developers?
Because they're in China and China will not enforce copy right protection unless its a Chinese company
**Trump voice** "CHI-NAH"
China doesn't play with fairness. They steal IPs and the like.
Because those companies are making a fortune on the latest and greatest tech.
You're the smartest person in the world! Good job 👍
I can see the executives at Nintendo pulling their hair out right now😂
Oh they're not pulling their hair out, they are probably working behind the scenes scouring the internet and discord servers to figure out who made this, send them a cease & desist letter, and have them served papers to appear in court for theft of IP, copyright infringement, and any other charges they can throw at them.
Which is why I'm surprised to see this still listed for sale on Amazon...and why I'm tempted to buy it...
I love how your son is just chasing that kid and beating his ass at the end. ;-) Reminds me of my daughter at 4 who was playing EverQuest and getting constantly guardsmacked for doing psycho things in game and 3 years later was PvPing in World of Warcraft as an ambushing rogue. ;-) As for this unit: a 12tb drive with damn near every game in existence, most of which are pre-set up for me? The absolute months of time it would take me to build something like this is worth the $300 alone!
The reviews on Amazon are really really bad...
Lots of reviews claiming it was DOA and the seller’s communication was terrible
I don't believe the ps4 emulator is far enough along to play any of those included roms.
As he says in the video, they are PC ports of PS4 games. Think drm free or cracked versions of the PC game. PS4 emulation is not there yet.
This video is a fascinating various consoles, with impressive performance and quality. 😮
IDK Man...did anyone read those Amazon reviews? Buyer beware.
Anyone can leave a bad review lol
@drewtalks You're a shill, and should be disgusted. How much are they paying you?
Lol buy the product and prove me wrong, Amazon has free returns
There’s no reviews that were bad on the product, lol I just looked are you upset you can’t afford this?
I'm literally building my GRS 4 player cabinet at the time I discovered this video, and I'm thinking this hard drive might be the solution I'm looking for. My cabinet comes with a Raspberry Pi 4 with 7000 games, but I'm going to be converting to an i7 with an RTX3070, so that hard drive would be perfect. Definitely adding this to my Amazon shopping cart. I wonder how well it'll allow me to navigate on my PC using a joystick & buttons.
Navigating a wheel is dead simple.
@@MICHAELSIMMONS-z1m I've been rather lazy with setting up the PC for my cabinet. There are a lot of dynamics I'd have to figure out besides just the controls. First and foremost is how I'd be able to power on the PC each time I turn on the cabinet. I don't want to burn out the PC by leaving it on full-time (not to mention the electric bill), so I'll have to dedicate a lot of time to get all my questions answered from various sources. I guess I can start with Reddit.
This is fools gold. They never work as advertised.
This looks so good👍👍👍
Does Amazon allow these kinda products to stay in the store?
I wonder if this has been setup as a torrent yet. If you pirate a pirated collection of games, it cancels out, right?
I prefer playing my older games through retroachievements. There is something awesome about collecting achievements voted on by players in games I grew up playing. Also competing for high scores against the world is way better than against my 3 year old.
It only got a 3.1 rating so I'm a little skeptical about buying it. Is it really plug and play? A lot of the reviews were saying that it's not plug and play.
Reviews make it seem like a dud