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Okay. My question is...for the gamer on a budget. Getting a Raspberry Pie is nearly impossible in my area because everyone wants 500 bucks for them or more, the PS classic has all of a sudden gone insane in price. This seems to be the only decent option left that would be in the $70-120 range. But....as you have pointed out, these have their issues. So how does one go about cleaning up duplicate games/adding missing games back in and making it run a little better?
I used to work for Amazon and some products are counterfit, they don't care, from pirated dvds to soft toys, as long as they make their profit it's fine by them.
Yup. Not "can't" but "won't". Shameful. How can we trust this review/product placement if he's not going to do the work? Two minutes per game to see if it loads up, plays, and looks ok isn't much to ask. That's only 208.33 eight-hour days. Slacker.
The fact that cheap systems are selling shows there is a market for them. It seems it would be relatively easy for someone (with the know-how) to develop a high quality system and dominate the market.
They would then be sued into oblivion. Part of why these things are able to sell is because the companies are fly by night shell companies. The minute that there was an organized well built option the lawyers will be on top of them.
No kidding. There is a market for these things. If one of these consoles doesn't completely suck and is playable right out of the box, they would sell so many units they'd they 'd get shut down for being too successful at selling unlicensed games.
@@winchestersons6258 Same here... My Modded OG Xbox gets more playtime then any modern console. I bought 2 Street FIghter 2 (15th Anniversary) Arcade sticks to play MAME arcade games with and it's a blast to play with friends. I just checked eBay and those arcade sticks sell for over $200 each now. Damn.
What I can tell you about some of the duplicates is some of them are the original game when you play them from beginning to end and you have to unlock every level and then the duplicate version is like the developer version where everything is already unlocked. I can't say that the case with all of them but some of them I've noticed that
I highly recommend the game box hero Clean setup, easy to find consoles/games and 0 duplicates. I’ve had it for a few years and have had no issues BESIDES some N64 and PS games running slow.
Let's be fair and real here, as someone who has seen many rom dump compilations, most duplicates are not actually duplicates they are different regions of the games and revisions with bug fixes or patches. Very very rarely will there be two or more of the same game revision, same region (actually a duplicate) in any set.
This box certainly looks better than the last one. This does have nice presentation. Still, They need to spend a week curating their list and making sure the key games they have actually work.
They don't try too hard, and you should never expect them too. We're talking about Chinese consoles here, not western or Japanese consoles. This thing actually looks pretty dang good considering it's a Chinese console though. It runs almost everything pretty well, and can even run Dreamcast games. You can clean those game lists up yourself. Any game that doesn't run well you might be able to improve by changing some settings. It might be a bit of a long shot, but it's worth a try. Anything that doesn't work at all may very well be due to a bad rom, iso or whatever, so you could try replacing it with one you know is good and see if it runs. Honestly, this console seems like an okay option to me, although not by any means a great one. It's biggest problem is the price. You can get something even better for a lot cheaper. But if they were to drop that price down to about 60 or 70 bucks (probably not gonna happen), then it would be a much more appealing opinion. It still wouldn't be the *best* option, but it'd be a pretty decent one for sure.
This is the perfect gift for a younger kid just learning to game and can play all the classics and more innocent games imo then letting them play the new stuff.
I play my retro games these days on an old PC hooked up to my TV and it's fine. I wanted to do another Pi build and I was shocked how much more they are these days. I think I picked up mine back in 2017 for about $35. Now those things go for hundreds. It's ridiculous.
@@TraderJoe007 raspberry pi, its a single board computer that lots of people use for retro gaming among many other things. Look up retro pi, its a front end designed for raspberry pis for retro emulators
You're right, video guy, the number of games tend to run in X2 to X4 duplicates for most consoles. I've been telling people this for around 8-12 years and "finally" people are catching up. This menu is VERY lazy compared to some. But there are "two" types of duplicates, there are "category" duplicates and there are duplicates like putting the same game on different consoles which are (in fact) two different games between consoles but they're giving you the same experience, just using two consoles to do it. It's a waste of money, the processors are almost "always" a little below par specs because they try to put games over the set level of CPU power they need.
Iyo, what do you think is the best emulator box on Amazon ? Also what is the best for the price? I've always wanted an emulator box that's plug and play, and nes through saturn. I'd appreciate any help
Just some insight from my time with NFS for the 3DO on a 3DO is that the game was sluggish even back then. Thing is, it made the cars feel like they had more weight. Also, that FMV guy could be so mean sometimes.
With these you're basically paying for the labor to have the emulators pre-setup. And there's nothing wrong with that, time is money after all. They can take quite a bit of time to get setup and get configured properly, so it's great to have an option like this where it's ready to go for those that prefer that. But there's nothing special about the hardware, you can do the same with a RaspPi, old console, old PC, etc. The security concerns with these types of pre-built boxes would push me to one of those other alternatives, or if you opt for one you might want to stick it on a more limited IoT LAN.
Would be willing to wager that the "duplicates" are different versions both revision and region. Some titles have 4 or 5 different versions of the same game that got released not even counting the regional versions.
The voice of reason. Makes me wish retro gaming wasn’t such a “thing” now. Besides everything decent being hard to find or getting stupid markups, we have our social media ads hawking this junk (gets even worse now that Christmas time is coming) promising a seamless experience to people who don’t know any better. Not to mention certain other TH-cam channels calling these things “emulation beasts” over and over (“pakkidge frum chinaaaaa” >puke
I can NOT stand him! Toilet paper manual. Toilet paper manual. Toilet Paper manual. What does he want, a full color, hard cover book? All of his reviews are the same.And don't even get me started on his annoying accent.
I still play my retro pie it's a raspberry pi ,it has 32000 games and 28 systems and I use two old Xbox 360 streetfighter 4 arcade sticks and it's amazing ,built it myself and few years ago
I need one of these eventually, I got the USB Data Frog 🐸 plug and play Genesis that comes with 2 6 button controllers and that’s actually really good 🎮 Also, The best one I’ve ever seen of these for the money is the Arcade box
Ps classic with autobleem all day long 👍, I like watching your reviews of all these random emulation devices out there, hoping and waiting for the day when you are blown away by one, I also get the unorganized rom lists these type of devices have with duplicates and bloatware roms and such, I enjoyed making my own build on autobleem for the ps classic, feels a little more personal, not everyone has that ability however.
I thought about getting one of these emu boxes preloaded with games about 3 years ago. What stopped me was not knowing if all the games I card for were going to be on there without a million clones. In the end I got a raspberry Pi3B+ before COVID made everything impossible to get. I installed RetroPie from scratch and literally put the whole US libraries of NES, SNES, Genesis, 32x, virtualboy, master system, game gear, turbo Grafx 16, game boy, game boy color, Gameboy advance, lots of arcade games, vectrex, colecovision and had a nice time too.
@@marccaselle8108 I didn’t quite think the ps classic was as capable as it was, but I got it brand new for a low price at the time $20 bucks, couldn’t beat it
If I was to import these consoles for resale, I would have to weed out the duplicate games and the games that don’t work and maybe replace the controllers with ones of better quality. Good video, very informative.
Won't be until an American company re-engineers one, and puts in the work for quality testing. But then the price is likely to skyrocket. No way to have your cake and eat it to, especially when you can get sued in a heartbeat since you don't legally own these roms.
I bought a used Wii system at a yard sale last year, that included a small external hard drive. When I got home and turned it on, it had every game emulator listed on the screen up to Gamecube. It has something like 50,000 games on it I believe, including virtually every game for every system up to Gamecube, and then for Dreamcast, older PC games, Atari 400/800, C64 etc. only a few for each. I was surprised at how well the Wii system ran the emulators, the only issues I've really had were with a few N64 games, like Conquers Bad Fur Day which tends to lag at points and always crashes. All Gamecube games work great. My main issue is with the controller. Some games you can play and some I guess need some sort of adapter to use a different controller, I'm not sure. Whenever I play MAME games, hitting one of the action buttons also brings up the main volume control, which makes using MAME impossible. I'm still happy that I can play everything else though, and basically for nothing, since I only paid $20 for the entire Wii setup.
You can plug a GameCube controller into a lot Wii consoles, four of them actually, and on those models it's not actually emulating Gamecube it actually has the Gamecube hardware in it as well. For a working example with the addons you describe that is one heck of a value you got.
It's just Batocera with Linux running behind it. The performance issue isn't so much down to the processor, but the limitation of the emulators that are compatible with Batocera. I've had the same issues with the same kind of games with the same kind of emulators on a multitude of different processors with more powerful iGPUs. I wish they would create a version that has windows running in the background instead, as there are just much better emulators available for that OS.
Great video, well presented thanks. I was expecting one of those "LOL LOOK AT THIS ADORABLE RETRO GAMING CONSOLE GUYS!!11" type videos but this is an awesome review. When I do get time to game I'm typically on my Switch, but I am kinda being drawn to these systems... When I find the right one I might pull the trigger.
I ended up a few weeks ago getting a Beelink G35 mini pc for $5, turned it into a Batocera retro pc. Was a great day lol. May get one of these for my brother for Christmas
I'm getting it's the way this is set up to push everything to a certain resolution. Some games don't support certain video types and you get those "glitches" and "messed up backgrounds" the video mode is key. That's why I build my own emulators, I can assure there's multiple video resolutions. Racing games are some of the worst about this! Also what type of sound the games uses also causes issues for emulators as well.
Personally, I still think the best ‘bang for your buck’ is still a MiSTER fpga. Plays most games as closely as possible to their original spec. All of the hardware with a 128mb module and 8bitdo controller will only set you back maybe $300
Where can you find a MiSter for $300? I was on ultimate Mister the other day thinking I would jump in and that stuff was running for around $600. Ebay prices are for around that amount as well. For that kind of money I'll stick with my PC and Raspberry Pi
@@GisherJohn24 depends on the core - not sure about Mame but for some Of the dedication Jotego cores for example, you can get to the boards dips through the mister menu. The same can be done for uniBios with NeoGeo MVS to switch stuff like credits and regions. Unfortunately though it depends largely on the core you’re using, but in most cases dipswitching is in there.
You could pick up a used Thin client with a Ryzen 3200GE for under $200 with a 128GB ssd and 8GB of ram that would stomp all over the MiSTER. It won't be as accurate but it will also emulate far more systems and as a bonus it is a real x86/x64 PC that can do whatever a PC can do.
I’ve been a fan of video games since my very first console a Super Nintendo I got in 1994. My absolute favorite games are the original Mortal Kombat games 1, 2, 3, UMK3, MK Trilogy, and MK4. Do you know the best way for me to get to play the best quality versions of these classics? Preferably the Arcade versions or PlayStation versions because the graphics and sounds were best. I also love the Midway arcade classics “NBA Jam,” and “WWF Wrestlemania The Arcade Game.” I don’t know anything about computers to make my own setup or anything and prefer not to pay for a console that has thousands of games I will never play. How could I get a hold of these games to enjoy at home? Any suggestions? Easiest way possible is preferred. Thank you!
Cool video, I just use my ps classic with bleemsync and my android phone with a gamecube and ps2 emulator. Nothing better than being able to just pull out ur phone and play old games with a blutooth controller.
you can buy the android box itself on Android for way less money, install emuelec yourself with games you want, get your own controllers that are probably better than what they include.
I bought a preloaded rasberry pi 3b plus from a website a few years ago they came with the same PS2 knock off controllers it ran on retro pie. Worked for a couple of years. Some games simply wouldn't boot. The thing was very fragile and one day my system fell less than two feet to the ground and stopped working so i chucked it in the garbage. Some arcade games i wanted to play worked on it. Im in the market for a preloaded rasberry pi again and will wait for a trusted seller to have them back in stock. These types of Chinese emulation boxes are good for a semi casual gamer.
Just get a legends ultimate arcade for ~$600. Then you can download an SD card image and flash it with your PC. Takes a few hours for it to complete and you have EVERYTHING, plus a decent piece of arcade hardware that won't impress the purists. I own one of those in addition to a couple "pure" arcade machines.
I wonder what the data policies are on these things. If it connects to an account or wi-fi for access, it’s likely drawing your data; potentially more than just gaming data.
Iyo, what do you think is the best emulator box on Amazon ? Also what is the best for the price? I've always wanted an emulator box that's plug and play, and nes through saturn. I'd appreciate any help
I have been spending many hours of many days sifting through rom's for the Steam Deck and removing duplicates and language versions that are simply not required. Favouring the US versions of games (for frame rates) unless of course it was only released in Europe then include that version. Still doing it and its a process worth doing for a real clean list.
My gosh😱why is this so hard for these people to make a system to run up to Sega Naomi? My Nvidia Shield runs all these systems fine, but it doesnt dual boot into an emuelec type interface. A few of the frontends from the app store are ok, but not great
Not having the time to dig into videos and guides means I have no idea what the best setups are for home theater retro gaming system. I have a Pi setup but I neglect it. I have a htpc case that I planned on building something decent with i5 low end. Need a Bluetooth adapter for controller. Would take the easy way out with something like this box if there was one that was good enough to be recommended. Would be happy with ps1 SOTN and stuff like DraculaX playing.
It's socks that these are paid reviews and no one even talk about playing the console, just a bunch of "great job putting the video together man thanks!"
Anytime I download a ROM set for one of my flashcards Etc I meticulously separate them by region and alphabet lettering ie, A-E USA, F-I USA... and so on.
I hate that these consoles always use the ps2 controller design when ripping off a controller. I mean I wish they ripped off and made more xbox 360 controller clones to add to these kind of consoles instead.
I do nes SNES pcengine Genesis emulation on my ZFold3 And Tab S7 PLUS And Everything Plays Fine . I Hook Up To My Projector And It's AweSomeNess PerSoNiFied.
I LOVE those little devices. Specially the ones with a nice retro styled shell. Since I mostly care about 8 bit and 16 bit there are rarely significant performance issues. My main issue about them are the rom selections. It really seems like they just download and paste whatever they find. So the little time I have to invest in them is fixing some folders.
I would bludgeon a gaggle of nuns for a super Nintendo rom of Maui mallard: in dark shadow. Got a super Nintendo gifted to me after a bad accident as a kid that meant I couldn't risk random falls and whatnot and had to just be super chill for about a year and that was one of the games I got with it. Briefly considered buying a whole ass super Nintendo and AVG tv because I can find the cartridge on eBay for like $50 but that's probably a more frivolous purchase than my battle ready stimulus katana 😅 I'd feel bad about that purchase but it was from a local blacksmith so 🤷
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Okay.
My question is...for the gamer on a budget. Getting a Raspberry Pie is nearly impossible in my area because everyone wants 500 bucks for them or more, the PS classic has all of a sudden gone insane in price.
This seems to be the only decent option left that would be in the $70-120 range.
But....as you have pointed out, these have their issues. So how does one go about cleaning up duplicate games/adding missing games back in and making it run a little better?
That link puts up some doggie 4k stick 😭
May I please have the older retro games that you don't need😭😹 I'll give it to my Lil bro for Christmas
Would you Recommend this???
@@YoshiIsCool1 no the link is some cheap dongle, have a search for Pandora retro
I used to work for Amazon and some products are counterfit, they don't care, from pirated dvds to soft toys, as long as they make their profit it's fine by them.
"I cannot test every game on this console" Not with that attitude, you cannot!
😂😂
😂😂 Called out
Yup. Not "can't" but "won't". Shameful. How can we trust this review/product placement if he's not going to do the work? Two minutes per game to see if it loads up, plays, and looks ok isn't much to ask. That's only 208.33 eight-hour days.
Slacker.
Facts!
😂🤣
The fact that cheap systems are selling shows there is a market for them. It seems it would be relatively easy for someone (with the know-how) to develop a high quality system and dominate the market.
They would then be sued into oblivion. Part of why these things are able to sell is because the companies are fly by night shell companies. The minute that there was an organized well built option the lawyers will be on top of them.
Someone already did, a few companies actually. Nintendo, sony, sega etc...
Ready to give them my money
Who can make best throwback system? Oh!Yeah like Atari,Nintendo, Sega, Sony. Oh yeah they have the rights to the games.
you realize that this is illegal? even the big, like Nintendo and Sega, cannot do it without paying the studios to use the games.
Damn... First company to make just a simple "clean" & organized version of one of these to market is going to make a killing....
No kidding. There is a market for these things. If one of these consoles doesn't completely suck and is playable right out of the box, they would sell so many units they'd they 'd get shut down for being too successful at selling unlicensed games.
@@jaymethysell5111 and that's the problem they want to blend in with all the other background noise
Original nodded xbox. I have one with pretty much every game up until 2001. This includes ps1 and Xbox games. 99% of the games work. Has hdmi as well.
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@@winchestersons6258 Same here... My Modded OG Xbox gets more playtime then any modern console. I bought 2 Street FIghter 2 (15th Anniversary) Arcade sticks to play MAME arcade games with and it's a blast to play with friends. I just checked eBay and those arcade sticks sell for over $200 each now. Damn.
Really really really like how you have multiple examples on the screen at the same time
What I can tell you about some of the duplicates is some of them are the original game when you play them from beginning to end and you have to unlock every level and then the duplicate version is like the developer version where everything is already unlocked. I can't say that the case with all of them but some of them I've noticed that
Yea and some are like jap or USA or Europe version etc
I highly recommend the game box hero
Clean setup, easy to find consoles/games and 0 duplicates.
I’ve had it for a few years and have had no issues BESIDES some N64 and PS games running slow.
Let's be fair and real here, as someone who has seen many rom dump compilations, most duplicates are not actually duplicates they are different regions of the games and revisions with bug fixes or patches. Very very rarely will there be two or more of the same game revision, same region (actually a duplicate) in any set.
This box certainly looks better than the last one. This does have nice presentation. Still, They need to spend a week curating their list and making sure the key games they have actually work.
Why? You don't usually find out until after they've ripped you off.
They don't try too hard, and you should never expect them too. We're talking about Chinese consoles here, not western or Japanese consoles.
This thing actually looks pretty dang good considering it's a Chinese console though. It runs almost everything pretty well, and can even run Dreamcast games. You can clean those game lists up yourself. Any game that doesn't run well you might be able to improve by changing some settings. It might be a bit of a long shot, but it's worth a try. Anything that doesn't work at all may very well be due to a bad rom, iso or whatever, so you could try replacing it with one you know is good and see if it runs. Honestly, this console seems like an okay option to me, although not by any means a great one. It's biggest problem is the price. You can get something even better for a lot cheaper. But if they were to drop that price down to about 60 or 70 bucks (probably not gonna happen), then it would be a much more appealing opinion. It still wouldn't be the *best* option, but it'd be a pretty decent one for sure.
@@jaysdood are you not familiar with amazons return policy?
This is the perfect gift for a younger kid just learning to game and can play all the classics and more innocent games imo then letting them play the new stuff.
No younger kid would ever touch this retro stuff. This is for big kids
Make them go outside and split wood
I play my retro games these days on an old PC hooked up to my TV and it's fine. I wanted to do another Pi build and I was shocked how much more they are these days. I think I picked up mine back in 2017 for about $35. Now those things go for hundreds. It's ridiculous.
The chip shortage causes the price to go way up on them.
Whatsba pi?
What's a pi ?
@@TraderJoe007 raspberry pi, its a single board computer that lots of people use for retro gaming among many other things. Look up retro pi, its a front end designed for raspberry pis for retro emulators
Supply and demand definitely inflated the price 🤑
It would be awesome if these were fully curated and would buy it, but I am really digging this stuff on a Kinhank box. So worth it and such a blast
This is an honest review now that I I find myself buying retro game build consoles- not all games are going to run smoothly.
i just bought a cheap dell laptop and i can emulate everything from nes to ps2 with no hitches. i watch a lot of your videos.
I just want a cheap way to play snes Nintendo games with my kids. The snes classic would be perfect. I just need an alternative!
You're right, video guy, the number of games tend to run in X2 to X4 duplicates for most consoles. I've been telling people this for around 8-12 years and "finally" people are catching up. This menu is VERY lazy compared to some. But there are "two" types of duplicates, there are "category" duplicates and there are duplicates like putting the same game on different consoles which are (in fact) two different games between consoles but they're giving you the same experience, just using two consoles to do it.
It's a waste of money, the processors are almost "always" a little below par specs because they try to put games over the set level of CPU power they need.
Iyo, what do you think is the best emulator box on Amazon ? Also what is the best for the price? I've always wanted an emulator box that's plug and play, and nes through saturn. I'd appreciate any help
I'm one of those people who doesn't have the desire to make one myself and I've yet to find a prebuilt one for sale that works like a real console.
Just some insight from my time with NFS for the 3DO on a 3DO is that the game was sluggish even back then. Thing is, it made the cars feel like they had more weight. Also, that FMV guy could be so mean sometimes.
Yeah but some of these emulations are like 3-5 fps lol... at least the original console would do a solid 10-15. =p
With these you're basically paying for the labor to have the emulators pre-setup. And there's nothing wrong with that, time is money after all. They can take quite a bit of time to get setup and get configured properly, so it's great to have an option like this where it's ready to go for those that prefer that. But there's nothing special about the hardware, you can do the same with a RaspPi, old console, old PC, etc. The security concerns with these types of pre-built boxes would push me to one of those other alternatives, or if you opt for one you might want to stick it on a more limited IoT LAN.
Would be willing to wager that the "duplicates" are different versions both revision and region. Some titles have 4 or 5 different versions of the same game that got released not even counting the regional versions.
The voice of reason. Makes me wish retro gaming wasn’t such a “thing” now. Besides everything decent being hard to find or getting stupid markups, we have our social media ads hawking this junk (gets even worse now that Christmas time is coming) promising a seamless experience to people who don’t know any better. Not to mention certain other TH-cam channels calling these things “emulation beasts” over and over (“pakkidge frum chinaaaaa” >puke
I can NOT stand him! Toilet paper manual. Toilet paper manual. Toilet
Paper manual. What does he want, a full color, hard cover book? All of his reviews are the same.And don't even get me started on his annoying accent.
I still play my retro pie it's a raspberry pi ,it has 32000 games and 28 systems and I use two old Xbox 360 streetfighter 4 arcade sticks and it's amazing ,built it myself and few years ago
I need one of these eventually, I got the USB Data Frog 🐸 plug and play Genesis that comes with 2 6 button controllers and that’s actually really good 🎮
Also, The best one I’ve ever seen of these for the money is the Arcade box
Ps classic with autobleem all day long 👍, I like watching your reviews of all these random emulation devices out there, hoping and waiting for the day when you are blown away by one, I also get the unorganized rom lists these type of devices have with duplicates and bloatware roms and such, I enjoyed making my own build on autobleem for the ps classic, feels a little more personal, not everyone has that ability however.
I thought about getting one of these emu boxes preloaded with games about 3 years ago. What stopped me was not knowing if all the games I card for were going to be on there without a million clones.
In the end I got a raspberry Pi3B+ before COVID made everything impossible to get. I installed RetroPie from scratch and literally put the whole US libraries of NES, SNES, Genesis, 32x, virtualboy, master system, game gear, turbo Grafx 16, game boy, game boy color, Gameboy advance, lots of arcade games, vectrex, colecovision and had a nice time too.
@@marccaselle8108 I didn’t quite think the ps classic was as capable as it was, but I got it brand new for a low price at the time $20 bucks, couldn’t beat it
Agree! Bought mine new for $40 and put retroarch and project eris on there.
@@SlaughteredDecay noice
I did this too. I also have an android and play ps2 and gamecube games on it.
I have MAME and 6,000 games on tons of my devices.
If I was to import these consoles for resale, I would have to weed out the duplicate games and the games that don’t work and maybe replace the controllers with ones of better quality. Good video, very informative.
then you'd have to charge more.. you'd price yourself out of the market, better to just leave as is.
You'll be sued
@@ChrisXCXCX by who in my part of the world lol 😂
@@internetjunkie5241 were you stay?
@@ChrisXCXCX Earth ☺️
For the average person like me that owns no video games whatsoever, something like this setup would be great 👍,Liked the video
Anything that can play Sega Saturn decently is ok in my books 🤘🏾
I will just save up for the steam deck
Steam deck at home
@@chungusamongus519 bought the steam deck and I enjoy playing with it!
Still waiting one one of these that is "cleaned up"! Nice interface, organized, no duplicates, non working/glitzy games removed.
Won't be until an American company re-engineers one, and puts in the work for quality testing. But then the price is likely to skyrocket. No way to have your cake and eat it to, especially when you can get sued in a heartbeat since you don't legally own these roms.
I bought a used Wii system at a yard sale last year, that included a small external hard drive. When I got home and turned it on, it had every game emulator listed on the screen up to Gamecube. It has something like 50,000 games on it I believe, including virtually every game for every system up to Gamecube, and then for Dreamcast, older PC games, Atari 400/800, C64 etc. only a few for each. I was surprised at how well the Wii system ran the emulators, the only issues I've really had were with a few N64 games, like Conquers Bad Fur Day which tends to lag at points and always crashes. All Gamecube games work great. My main issue is with the controller. Some games you can play and some I guess need some sort of adapter to use a different controller, I'm not sure. Whenever I play MAME games, hitting one of the action buttons also brings up the main volume control, which makes using MAME impossible. I'm still happy that I can play everything else though, and basically for nothing, since I only paid $20 for the entire Wii setup.
You can plug a GameCube controller into a lot Wii consoles, four of them actually, and on those models it's not actually emulating Gamecube it actually has the Gamecube hardware in it as well. For a working example with the addons you describe that is one heck of a value you got.
get the ones they use the celeron chips that are mini pcs they run the games really well
It's just Batocera with Linux running behind it. The performance issue isn't so much down to the processor, but the limitation of the emulators that are compatible with Batocera. I've had the same issues with the same kind of games with the same kind of emulators on a multitude of different processors with more powerful iGPUs. I wish they would create a version that has windows running in the background instead, as there are just much better emulators available for that OS.
Ahhh the good ol' Frigga'Dayg... solid.
So what’s the BEST game box you recommend?? At ANY price point?
Great video, well presented thanks. I was expecting one of those "LOL LOOK AT THIS ADORABLE RETRO GAMING CONSOLE GUYS!!11" type videos but this is an awesome review.
When I do get time to game I'm typically on my Switch, but I am kinda being drawn to these systems... When I find the right one I might pull the trigger.
I use to have a vectrex decades ago loved that machine
One of the main reasons I am looking at console. I miss my Vectrex.
@@ericarobinson2463 me too great times with that machine
I ended up a few weeks ago getting a Beelink G35 mini pc for $5, turned it into a Batocera retro pc. Was a great day lol. May get one of these for my brother for Christmas
5 usd? even 50 would be a deal, lol. Wish i could find one at that price!
@@makoto4341 yep it was at a thrift store for $5 brand new. They thought it was just a cheap TV box
I'm getting it's the way this is set up to push everything to a certain resolution. Some games don't support certain video types and you get those "glitches" and "messed up backgrounds" the video mode is key. That's why I build my own emulators, I can assure there's multiple video resolutions. Racing games are some of the worst about this! Also what type of sound the games uses also causes issues for emulators as well.
How Easy Is It To Build a Kick Ass Emulator ?
1:30 this is hilarious this is why you're my favorite youtuber
Very informative. Shared with my gaming crew.
Personally, I still think the best ‘bang for your buck’ is still a MiSTER fpga. Plays most games as closely as possible to their original spec. All of the hardware with a 128mb module and 8bitdo controller will only set you back maybe $300
Where can you find a MiSter for $300? I was on ultimate Mister the other day thinking I would jump in and that stuff was running for around $600. Ebay prices are for around that amount as well. For that kind of money I'll stick with my PC and Raspberry Pi
Dude the super console X I bought for $75 works just fine and has more games than I can even get to checking out.
anyone know how to get to the dipswitches? For example, I played pacman on mame, and the ghosts change back super fast... Can I alter that somewhere?
@@GisherJohn24 depends on the core - not sure about Mame but for some
Of the dedication Jotego cores for example, you can get to the boards dips through the mister menu. The same can be done for uniBios with NeoGeo MVS to switch stuff like credits and regions. Unfortunately though it depends largely on the core you’re using, but in most cases dipswitching is in there.
You could pick up a used Thin client with a Ryzen 3200GE for under $200 with a 128GB ssd and 8GB of ram that would stomp all over the MiSTER. It won't be as accurate but it will also emulate far more systems and as a bonus it is a real x86/x64 PC that can do whatever a PC can do.
I’ve been a fan of video games since my very first console a Super Nintendo I got in 1994. My absolute favorite games are the original Mortal Kombat games 1, 2, 3, UMK3, MK Trilogy, and MK4. Do you know the best way for me to get to play the best quality versions of these classics? Preferably the Arcade versions or PlayStation versions because the graphics and sounds were best. I also love the Midway arcade classics “NBA Jam,” and “WWF Wrestlemania The Arcade Game.” I don’t know anything about computers to make my own setup or anything and prefer not to pay for a console that has thousands of games I will never play. How could I get a hold of these games to enjoy at home? Any suggestions? Easiest way possible is preferred. Thank you!
Cool video, I just use my ps classic with bleemsync and my android phone with a gamecube and ps2 emulator. Nothing better than being able to just pull out ur phone and play old games with a blutooth controller.
you can buy the android box itself on Android for way less money, install emuelec yourself with games you want, get your own controllers that are probably better than what they include.
The PlayStation games don't have music because they are PBPs, not because they are bad rips
I bought a preloaded rasberry pi 3b plus from a website a few years ago they came with the same PS2 knock off controllers it ran on retro pie. Worked for a couple of years. Some games simply wouldn't boot. The thing was very fragile and one day my system fell less than two feet to the ground and stopped working so i chucked it in the garbage. Some arcade games i wanted to play worked on it. Im in the market for a preloaded rasberry pi again and will wait for a trusted seller to have them back in stock.
These types of Chinese emulation boxes are good for a semi casual gamer.
Just get a legends ultimate arcade for ~$600. Then you can download an SD card image and flash it with your PC. Takes a few hours for it to complete and you have EVERYTHING, plus a decent piece of arcade hardware that won't impress the purists. I own one of those in addition to a couple "pure" arcade machines.
I wonder what the data policies are on these things. If it connects to an account or wi-fi for access, it’s likely drawing your data; potentially more than just gaming data.
would be interesting to monitor the network traffic from it
for all you know it could be part of a mining operation lol
@@alexguolo5872 Yep. Exactly. Lol. Cheap information.
Batocera is nicest for looks an setup but Rpi4 RetroPie is the all in one.
0:39 I legitimately thought the box said it has a Quad-Core ASS. "Oh, this is definitely from China."
Does this one have a physical power toggle? Not for nothing but I'm not a huge fan of leaving one of these AliExpress boxes turned on while I'm away.
Just Unplug It
I personally do emulation of NES SNES GENESIS TURBOGRAFX16 on my S7plus Tablet And ZFold3 Using A PS3 Controller And It Works Perfect .
Would you trust the toggle?
@@dodgedak03 yeah, generally a toggle on these cheap boxes is just a conducive bridge between the power supply and the unit.
Good point.Turing it off either way
I told my daughter that she can be anything she wants to be except an Amico 🤠
Iyo, what do you think is the best emulator box on Amazon ? Also what is the best for the price? I've always wanted an emulator box that's plug and play, and nes through saturn. I'd appreciate any help
I have been spending many hours of many days sifting through rom's for the Steam Deck and removing duplicates and language versions that are simply not required. Favouring the US versions of games (for frame rates) unless of course it was only released in Europe then include that version. Still doing it and its a process worth doing for a real clean list.
Amazon doesn't care they'll take the money. Some of these companies should sue them
My gosh😱why is this so hard for these people to make a system to run up to Sega Naomi? My Nvidia Shield runs all these systems fine, but it doesnt dual boot into an emuelec type interface. A few of the frontends from the app store are ok, but not great
Nice video. Do you found the Sega games the sonic games ? If yes how many if you remember thank you
Almost got this. Glad I watch this first.
i wish that consoles like this one wood have more sega saturn games like die hard arcade daytona
You can always add them onto the SD card.
Great vídeo, thanks a million! ✌🏼😁🎮
Dude,
Give me your choice of best, plug and play retro games for smart tv.
Out of all the ready to go consoles you’ve tested, which mega game list console is your favorite?
I would like to know this as well
He says in the video... that he doesn't recommend any of them🤷
Straight from Arcade Punks to Amazon.....absolute chancers
Not having the time to dig into videos and guides means I have no idea what the best setups are for home theater retro gaming system. I have a Pi setup but I neglect it. I have a htpc case that I planned on building something decent with i5 low end. Need a Bluetooth adapter for controller. Would take the easy way out with something like this box if there was one that was good enough to be recommended. Would be happy with ps1 SOTN and stuff like DraculaX playing.
So which of these systems would you recommend? the best one maybe?
Ok, so what's the "least bad" out the box option?
A few questions are there save states?
How do you turn it off?
Can you add emulators or missing games?
There are just so many of these units available. Seems to depend on who you ask as to which is the best.
It's socks that these are paid reviews and no one even talk about playing the console, just a bunch of "great job putting the video together man thanks!"
Sold - to me. Very nice device 😃. So thank you for presentation.
Frigadaeg lol gotta love the name’s of these things
The way you speak totally reminds me of Todd from breaking bad. Anybody else??
9:13 I am one of them...for me i am not expert in setup...i am user gamers.. i wish i would you guys can self build setup
Can i buy one of these things and install its content on a bigger pc with a gpu. So it performs better? O it doenst work on windows
FRIGEDAEG stands for - For Real ingenuity go elsewhere doom awaits every gamer😂just thought of that
Thanks for the review!
There was a certain fun with those old games, that's got a bit lost today.
Does it have Hockey games ????
This machine is using Batocera so probably you can change emulators for game that wont load up. Also change stuff around that will help.
I would still choose my sheild, but it needs more internal storage
So while it has The Need For Speed, it has the need for speed.
Do you have a list of these consoles you recommend? Most if not all of the videos I’ve watched, are the same complaints. Which one(s) is/are best?
Frigedaeg is apparently Old English for Friday. haha
What does a “raspberry pie with retro pie” mean? I’m runnning wii games on my MSI PC rn I’m new too this.
It's not bad, but I prefer RetroPi, takes a bit but the with latest model PI, I can get PS2, Gamecube Xbox to work fine.
bro. build a box…THE box for us all
Anytime I download a ROM set for one of my flashcards Etc I meticulously separate them by region and alphabet lettering ie, A-E USA, F-I USA... and so on.
Without telling us where you find rommsets, maybe you can pass along advice on finding quality rom sets?
Does this have a complete turbografx chip card and cd collection ?
If this could be squeezed into an older generation apple TV it would he amazing
I was thinking about buying something like this. What's the best out there?
Need for speed literally has a need for speed
I hate that these consoles always use the ps2 controller design when ripping off a controller. I mean I wish they ripped off and made more xbox 360 controller clones to add to these kind of consoles instead.
Too pricey. Thanks for sharing tho!
I do nes SNES pcengine Genesis emulation on my ZFold3 And Tab S7 PLUS And Everything Plays Fine . I Hook Up To My Projector And It's AweSomeNess PerSoNiFied.
I LOVE those little devices. Specially the ones with a nice retro styled shell. Since I mostly care about 8 bit and 16 bit there are rarely significant performance issues.
My main issue about them are the rom selections. It really seems like they just download and paste whatever they find. So the little time I have to invest in them is fixing some folders.
I would bludgeon a gaggle of nuns for a super Nintendo rom of Maui mallard: in dark shadow.
Got a super Nintendo gifted to me after a bad accident as a kid that meant I couldn't risk random falls and whatnot and had to just be super chill for about a year and that was one of the games I got with it.
Briefly considered buying a whole ass super Nintendo and AVG tv because I can find the cartridge on eBay for like $50 but that's probably a more frivolous purchase than my battle ready stimulus katana 😅
I'd feel bad about that purchase but it was from a local blacksmith so 🤷
@@justincase3230 maui mallard:in cold shadow on nes you mean? It pops up right away from my Google search
@@PeaceOwlGaming nah the SNES. Next one up from the NES. Though that could be a good backup, cheers :)
@@PeaceOwlGaming yeah I actually found it stupid easy, dunno why it was so hard to find a few years back.
Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. v. Connectix Corp.
Emulators are just plain legal.
Please note that roms are not.
How about showing how you would setup your own emulator station, whether that be a slim/mini PC, RetroPie, etc.
I have in numerous videos over the years
I just need to know which one is the best bang for the buck. I’m not a PC or tech savvy kind of guy
Nice video and review.
I am looking for a device to play SNES, Sega Master System and Sega Mega Drive only.
Any suggestions???
Thanks!!!
I've had this box for years it's an older version.
I bought it and never really used it, I use a Nvidia shield 🤷🏼♂️