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I usually feel like these preloaded drives are a rip off but this one seems to be really nice. it's not just a messy dump of ROMs. It's got all the front ends screenshots, themes, videos, etc.. I think it's really worth it to have a turn key set up like this. I have a pretty extensive collection of ROMs and I still would consider buying this just so I don't have to go through the hassle of setting all the crap up and scraping the screenshots and stuff.
It is litterally a rip off in the purest sense. They downloaded a pre made hard drive image from arcade punks. Lmao. Then they loaded drives and are selling them on amazon. Its the work hours of thousands of people other than the obvious publishers and developers. Litterally a preconfigured hard drive image. 🙄
@hamamudo3011 lmao, lame excuse. Selling this stuff harms emulating in general and gives company's a lot of weight on a court room against anyone providing anything. The truth is stuff like launchbox makes setup practically automatic outside of the time locating and downloading games. And another issue is a crap ton of emulation boxes, plex boxes, android boxes, chinese mini pcs, and kodi boxes are loaded with Trojan horses, viruses, and backdoors. There is no excuse for such utter lameness. 👎
@@CapitanGreenhatthen by all means spend all of your money on whatever you want. Those of us who would rather either chance it with a pre-loaded emulation system or do it ourselves THAN spend 1000s on rare hard to find physical games and systems OR wait for companies like Nintendo to re-release them back to the market which they will never do
@@MarioSonicDKPokeFAN You are only wasting your money buying these cheap drives off Amazon and other sites. Not because the games or copies, that is just the lowest part. These drives they use are cheap, used and do not last long. The constant use on them as well, makes these basically worthless. You are basically paying $100+ for some files that need to be moved ASAP. Do it yourself, save the time and money AND you get the satisfaction of having a game list catered to specifically you.
@@danielesparza2480 dude. Hate to tell you. This is LITTERALLY a pre configured hdd image available as a torrent. They litterally downloaded the work of the community and are packaging and selling it as their own. Not to mention the errosio this does to the legality of emulation. 🙄
Before clicking on any file especially.exe files, make sure you scan everything with Windows Defender and Malwarebytes. I’m currently getting 7 detections on Malwarebytes from the Playnite folder..
I don’t care too much for the PC games being on it, most of them I already own. I want to see more of the ps3/360 generations, and PS4 games on these HHD
Building 20Tb WD Elements myself. In the process found out that the best games to keep are Xbox360 titles with Xenia. Don't know why no one jumping on that already. They starting as fast as any older console and running smooth on SteamDeck.
Xenia has been around since forever but only within the last year or so has made decent strides in emulation which is why most people ignore 360 emulation and Xenia.
@@secondleasegamer8312 Yeah if a game runs, than it runs at full speed on SteamDeck. Testing over 1000 Xbox360 Games right now. Has no shader compilation loading like RPCS3 does...
i agree with u about xenia, but ther is a but, if you want to play at full Speed xbox360 games you should have a very good PC or a very efficient APU (CPU with integrated video card like Ryzen 9 or 7)...xenia Is very difficult to run even with a GTX 1050, because the xenia emulator its more CPU demanding than GPU...
Bc you can store all the 360 games or you can store everything in existence except ps3 exbox 360+. Speaking of +. Switch and ps3 emulation is getting decent these days
really nice collection and review, thanks. is there any concern about hooking up a harddrive and it possibly running malicious software on your computer or do you give them a scan first before using?
This is starting to look better than kriscoolmod 's build right now. Kinda disappointed in the 3DS not working. Seems to happen to quite a few of these emulator builds
I bought one. INCREDIBLE! There are games in there that I haven't even thought of them in 20+ years. And it all seems pretty straight forward, but.... Where can I find out HOW to play the games? Which keys do what? I can run them, but finding the correct keys to play is frustrating. Hunting and pecking has gotten me damn near nowhere (except places I didn't want to go).
Thank you for covering these drives hopefully maybe you could cover one of the Ex Arcadia Taito type X drives that have the nice front end for modern Japanese cabinets thanks
Thanks for the great video. Most of these emulators Hard Drive systems are not perfect. Some games will work some will not. some require to configure controllers. Duplicates of games. I have a new computer with i7-12700 -16GB memory RTX 3060 512 GB SSD. and it plays all games really good.
I want to see if someone ever sells a 5TB or hard drive full of computer games only: old pc dos, windows, and AAA tiles (From the '80s to the present day)...now that's worth it. But expect major companies begin to crack down.
You can still get retro PC games from GOG at cheap prices. People get this is because you can't get many of the old console games anymore so they resort to emulation.
I saw another youtube review of this product mentioning that this comes with US versions of the games with no duplicates, meaning this is already better than most of the products out there that simply dump all games and duplicates into the HDD. Strange that this pro point is not mentioned here at all.
Download the chd file for the game you wish to play, drop the chd file in the same folder that has the game rom in it. Make sure the chd file and game rom file have the same name, and then you're all set.
Cooltoy.....do you happen to scan the drive first for malware or viruses before you connect it to your PC??? The reason I ask is that a lot of these drives have malware and Spyware on them. Just wondering if you did that check.
Came across your video, good review. Unfortunately I think I have bought the wrong (5tb) drive as I just realised that it doesn't have the Wii, Wii-U and the Switch emulators as the 4Tb drives. I have not received mine yet, but I do believe the 5Tb one doesn't have those emulators I want :(.
This is fantastic does it have daphne… If I want to use launchbox will it pick up all the roms library or the front ends are specific to system types they support ?
To pick up the the other roms and emulators with launchbox you would have to manually add some search paths in launchbox so it knows where on the drive to find them
TBH, Lauchbox is so capable and easy to setup... you are much better off downloading romsets and building your own launchbox drive. It wont be filled full of junk roms in foreign languages that way. Buying other peoples build hasnt made sense in a long time. Hyperspin was such a huge pain in the ass to setup and took so long to get media/configs handled, that it was far more worthwhile to pay for someone else's build than spend 80 hours on your own. But with Launchbox, after you've downloaded the roms and put them where they belong, you can have your full build setup and config'd in just an hour or two.
@Second Lease Gamer I fully support this statement. People will spend a ton of money on pre-configured drives, and most will never play but 5 to 10% of the games up there. I remember I made a 3TB passport drive with Bactocera on it, and decided to see if people would rather pay than do it themselves. And wouldn't you know, I charged a ridiculous price on top of that, 500$. Within 8 hours I had a sale. It's very easy to build your own collection, without the junk titles. And yet, I promise you this thing the Chinese make will simply give them that much more money.
Built a mini retro pc using a Lenovo M73 tiny desktop...but i am about to rebuild my 15 yr old HTPC and i am thinking of adding one of these drives to it. Two 20TB ssd with a 2TB M.2 n a SilverStone Milo series case. Havent decided on my board, gpu and cpu yet. Any suggestions
I just picked this up , but can’t use it yet . Dell is taking their time building my laptop ! It’s killing me to look at it , and not be able to play it .
Thank you for the review!❤ If I have a big enough hard drive can I dump all 5tb on to it so I can run directly from my PC? Or does it have to run from drive?
Got this today but have not been able to get my xbox controller to work with emulationstation. The controls are all jacked up and I can't seem to change them. Launchbox and playnite controls seem to work fine.
I just got my 5TB Hyper Base HD and my PS5 controller isnt working. Does anyone know whoch type of controller I should get? In addition, any tips on how to activate Artflix theme in Retrobat? Thanks 🙏
Hi ! Thank You for your Vids ! Can You make a video about pinball games on this System ? I've quickly seen more than 600 titles and I wanna see them. THX
wow im impressed i might have to buy this cooltoy can i ask has it got the ps1 games future cop loaded 1/2 & grand turismo ridge racer games that work on both ps1/ps2
Any one know of a place that we can just grab the source files and rom sets from. Would hate to buy a 5tb HDD when i got a stack of larger and cheaper HDDs going unused.
Very cool item. Quick question, why don't any of these feature CD-i emulation? Or maybe i just missed it. But I've watched a few of these videos and I never see it in the menus. Like im interested in Amiga CD32/1200, CD-i, Atari Jaguar, R.E.A.L. 3DO, etc.
Technically speaking there are CD-i, (CD32, Jaguar etcetera) working emulators, they don't put them in these disks maybe because few people ask for them.
@COOLTOY I’ve just brought one of these and all the games are stuttering and jittery on emulation station and launchbox could you help? I’m using a Ace magician amr5 ryzen 7 5800u mini pc to run it
So this does not require any installations on to your PC/Laptop? I only have a work laptop which is locked behind admin access for installing any new applications but would love to know if this is quite literally plug and play?
Work laptops may have restrictions in connecting external HDDs and/or running Windows applications from them. Best is to check with your admin first whether they allow running apps from external USB drive.
Anyone know why they use multiple frontends? Even if it was because people prefer certain ones. Couldnt all of them have all the systems and roms imported?
so basically a 5tb just filled with a crap ton of pre downloaded roms. seems cool i guess. but i would prefer my own retro emu :D like retroarch. edit: 200 for the 5tb. its a bit steep. but u know whats also steep? wasting a ton of time downloading all the games. honestly. if u wanna get into retro gaming this thing seems like a damn beast. seen some good reviews. and with this u dont need to find sketchy sites to get the games. plus like it said on the page perfect if u just got a gaming pc or steam deck.
From what I understand, the emulator should load the full ISO into RAM (assuming you have 16GB or more) and then run from there, so SSD will only improve on the initial loading speed of the ISO file. Game performance is mostly determined by what system/CPU is running the games.
How would one go about playing a 4 player game with this? I've never tried local multiplayer on PC, is it as simple as just plugging in 4 controllers and it works?
Hey, I could really use assistance. I bought a mini pc ( miniforums um690) just to try this product out. I’ve had this for 2 weeks and spent hours trying to figure out how to use it. I can’t figure out how to play launch box, n64 and above without stuttering. I’ve tried to access retro arch via launch box and change which core it uses to play n64 games but it doesn’t change the core and stays stuttering. If I connect it to another mini pc that already has retro arch on it and plays n64 games and above fine. But still when i access n64 games and above via launch box via this external hard drive it still stutters. Can someone please! Help me?
I Have Gaunlet Dark Legacy For My Actual PS2 And Play It Often And ItnIs The Best Home.Version Of All I've Played . Also RUSH 2049 ON my DREAMCAST which is the only version I've found to play like the arcade
i have a problem ! The error is this: Windows does not have access to the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item. dat happen when i open the retrobat the emulationstation
It is just a standard USB HDD, why would there be excess rights problem? Unless you're using an office PC with USB port restrictions, that means other USB HDD will also have the same problem. One option is to connect to another PC and copy out the files to your own HDD and use it.
so even tho i have this i've not got round to installing it & i was wondering i know its ment for pc however i was wondering if it would work on a top of the range tv via pluging it in to the usb.
No. I see lots of people here are confused on how these things work. The drive just holds the games and the media files. Think of it of copying a song to a CD. The Drive is the CD in this example. You need a computer (CD Player) capable of running the games (Songs on the CD) still. If you want to run this on a TV, its impossible, but you CAN take a modern PC, and hook it up to your TV, then hook the drive up to that same PC, and play all these games on your PC over your TV. But yeah, a lot of people are confusing this hard-drive with a computer, and its not that.
I have a total bad ass pc that can play anything, ALL I WANT is a huge ass sd/hdd/usb stick with ps1,ps2,ps3,xbox,xbox360 games. anyone know what I should get???
I bought the same exact thing and none of the PlayStation one games even load, and I seen another video with someone showed the same thing they don’t work at all
@@cooltoy Well I was mainly talking about the fact it's on a spinning disk. My PC can play pretty much anything. Just was wondering if it loaded data quick enough.
Should not have much loading time difference for old retro games between HDD and SSD, they're not like all the AAA PC games with tens of gigabytes of texture data.
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This is not the same drive you have that's on amazon it has Retrobat ,Launchbox and Playnite No EmulationStation with the light gun games at all
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I usually feel like these preloaded drives are a rip off but this one seems to be really nice. it's not just a messy dump of ROMs. It's got all the front ends screenshots, themes, videos, etc.. I think it's really worth it to have a turn key set up like this. I have a pretty extensive collection of ROMs and I still would consider buying this just so I don't have to go through the hassle of setting all the crap up and scraping the screenshots and stuff.
It is litterally a rip off in the purest sense. They downloaded a pre made hard drive image from arcade punks. Lmao. Then they loaded drives and are selling them on amazon. Its the work hours of thousands of people other than the obvious publishers and developers.
Litterally a preconfigured hard drive image. 🙄
@hamamudo3011 lmao, lame excuse. Selling this stuff harms emulating in general and gives company's a lot of weight on a court room against anyone providing anything. The truth is stuff like launchbox makes setup practically automatic outside of the time locating and downloading games. And another issue is a crap ton of emulation boxes, plex boxes, android boxes, chinese mini pcs, and kodi boxes are loaded with Trojan horses, viruses, and backdoors. There is no excuse for such utter lameness. 👎
@@CapitanGreenhatthen by all means spend all of your money on whatever you want. Those of us who would rather either chance it with a pre-loaded emulation system or do it ourselves THAN spend 1000s on rare hard to find physical games and systems OR wait for companies like Nintendo to re-release them back to the market which they will never do
@@MarioSonicDKPokeFAN
You are only wasting your money buying these cheap drives off Amazon and other sites. Not because the games or copies, that is just the lowest part.
These drives they use are cheap, used and do not last long. The constant use on them as well, makes these basically worthless. You are basically paying $100+ for some files that need to be moved ASAP.
Do it yourself, save the time and money AND you get the satisfaction of having a game list catered to specifically you.
Great review as usual. Thanks for bringing this to light. I ordered one and can't wait to give it a go.
Glad it was helpful!
@@cooltoy shouldnt of wasted your money when people in the community would do it for free
@gabemolina9449 no one will put it together like this for free
Good job 😑
@@danielesparza2480 dude. Hate to tell you. This is LITTERALLY a pre configured hdd image available as a torrent. They litterally downloaded the work of the community and are packaging and selling it as their own.
Not to mention the errosio this does to the legality of emulation. 🙄
Before clicking on any file especially.exe files, make sure you scan everything with Windows Defender and Malwarebytes. I’m currently getting 7 detections on Malwarebytes from the Playnite folder..
I don’t care too much for the PC games being on it, most of them I already own. I want to see more of the ps3/360 generations, and PS4 games on these HHD
Same
Building 20Tb WD Elements myself. In the process found out that the best games to keep are Xbox360 titles with Xenia. Don't know why no one jumping on that already. They starting as fast as any older console and running smooth on SteamDeck.
Xenia has been around since forever but only within the last year or so has made decent strides in emulation which is why most people ignore 360 emulation and Xenia.
@@secondleasegamer8312 Yeah if a game runs, than it runs at full speed on SteamDeck. Testing over 1000 Xbox360 Games right now. Has no shader compilation loading like RPCS3 does...
@Sergey Simon what kind of file types do u use for steam deck. Where I get my roms they all seem to have a huge folder content. Is that normal?
i agree with u about xenia, but ther is a but, if you want to play at full Speed xbox360 games you should have a very good PC or a very efficient APU (CPU with integrated video card like Ryzen 9 or 7)...xenia Is very difficult to run even with a GTX 1050, because the xenia emulator its more CPU demanding than GPU...
Bc you can store all the 360 games or you can store everything in existence except ps3 exbox 360+. Speaking of +. Switch and ps3 emulation is getting decent these days
I think with just the recent console and pc games it's worth the price. Curious to see someone load this into a pre-built arcade
it's definitely priced right for convenience's sake
Lol of course it’s worth the price.. if you priced out just the PC games you’d spend thousands of dollars
Thanks for showing that drive, I was curious about it. I'd love to see more virtual pinball content.
More to come!
I'm buying this tomorrow for my birthday 🎉
really nice collection and review, thanks. is there any concern about hooking up a harddrive and it possibly running malicious software on your computer or do you give them a scan first before using?
I give them a quick scan first, never had an issue found thus far
Always do a scan. !!!!!
Ahhh takes me back to the 90s
WHO BESIDES ME LIKES SHOWDOWN LEGENDS OF WRESTLING?! lofl
We clearly have refined tastes 😆
Awesome game
Me too!
😅🦍
Bobby Henan saying "he wont be able to hold him" is burned into my consciousness 😂
Can’t wait. I hope it can work with my steam deck!
Did it work? I got a rog ally
Nice video. I'm actually interested in this
Glad I could help 👍
Really impressive collection of games.
The newer games on Playnite one had me like 😯
I just want one of these with full a full Saturn library and clone controllers.
This is starting to look better than kriscoolmod 's build right now. Kinda disappointed in the 3DS not working. Seems to happen to quite a few of these emulator builds
Because these are not checked, they are copied and pasted using terrible low quality HDDs that crash within 6-8 months of usage.
how dangerous are the remaning trojans on hdd. if they getting removed can it still be playable ?
I need something like this but plug n play to the TV lol
Hi I was wondering do Spider-Man games come on this too… great review btw
I bought one.
INCREDIBLE!
There are games in there that I haven't even thought of them in 20+ years.
And it all seems pretty straight forward, but....
Where can I find out HOW to play the games?
Which keys do what?
I can run them, but finding the correct keys to play is frustrating.
Hunting and pecking has gotten me damn near nowhere (except places I didn't want to go).
In Emulation Station, you can usually use the scrape function to download the user manual for the game.
use a controller
😆
Really enjoy your channel, keep up the fantastic work, wondering if this had Sega Model 3, specifically Star Wars Arcade Trilogy?
It did not, but you could always add it by placing the rom in the folder that has the other Sega model 3 games in it on the drive
@@cooltoy thank you
Thank you for covering these drives hopefully maybe you could cover one of the Ex Arcadia Taito type X drives that have the nice front end for modern Japanese cabinets thanks
Great suggestion!
taito is a 8 gig add on, easy as pie, not hard, just shows how lazy he is for not adding it
Thanks for the great video. Most of these emulators Hard Drive systems are not perfect. Some games will work some will not. some require to configure controllers. Duplicates of games. I have a new computer with i7-12700 -16GB memory RTX 3060 512 GB SSD. and it plays all games really good.
I can’t get any of the MAME games to load on mine. Program crashes while screen says INITIALIZING. Any idea?
Try using a different MAME core.
Pretty impressive for a build this size.
That's just the hard drive. You still need a PC to play them.
@@Joeysnew532 do u thin this work with the rog ally
@@metroishereyt6662 honestly I've never used a rog ally. I've pretty much only emulated on PC and phone.
I was surprised to see those newer games
I want to see if someone ever sells a 5TB or hard drive full of computer games only: old pc dos, windows, and AAA tiles (From the '80s to the present day)...now that's worth it. But expect major companies begin to crack down.
You can still get retro PC games from GOG at cheap prices. People get this is because you can't get many of the old console games anymore so they resort to emulation.
@@acejon2162 I know GOG..I bought over 11 games and they're not copyprotected.
@@acejon2162 GOG games are not copyprotected and they can be dirt cheap, while Steam games some of them are cheap but they're copyprotected.
Thanks im definitely getting this now @Madlittlepixel just made a video on how to go in and clean up these systems or hard drives for us noobs 🎉🎉
I saw another youtube review of this product mentioning that this comes with US versions of the games with no duplicates, meaning this is already better than most of the products out there that simply dump all games and duplicates into the HDD.
Strange that this pro point is not mentioned here at all.
Great review! ✌🏼😁🎮
I'm not very techy, could you explain how to add the .chd files? Thanks, great review!
Download the chd file for the game you wish to play, drop the chd file in the same folder that has the game rom in it. Make sure the chd file and game rom file have the same name, and then you're all set.
@@cooltoy Thanks a great deal!
Cooltoy.....do you happen to scan the drive first for malware or viruses before you connect it to your PC??? The reason I ask is that a lot of these drives have malware and Spyware on them. Just wondering if you did that check.
Yes, I check anything I plug into my computers for malicious intent first.
Came across your video, good review. Unfortunately I think I have bought the wrong (5tb) drive as I just realised that it doesn't have the Wii, Wii-U and the Switch emulators as the 4Tb drives. I have not received mine yet, but I do believe the 5Tb one doesn't have those emulators I want :(.
This looks amazing. I wish I wasn't so cheap. LOL
This looks really good. I am a noob to emulation things and don’t have a pc. (Mac). So what mini pc would be best to run these games?
Does anyone know of a similar hard drive, or plug and play device, that has just PS2 games?... Like 1,000 PS2 games...
This is fantastic does it have daphne… If I want to use launchbox will it pick up all the roms library or the front ends are specific to system types they support ?
To pick up the the other roms and emulators with launchbox you would have to manually add some search paths in launchbox so it knows where on the drive to find them
Does it have daphne?
TBH, Lauchbox is so capable and easy to setup... you are much better off downloading romsets and building your own launchbox drive. It wont be filled full of junk roms in foreign languages that way.
Buying other peoples build hasnt made sense in a long time. Hyperspin was such a huge pain in the ass to setup and took so long to get media/configs handled, that it was far more worthwhile to pay for someone else's build than spend 80 hours on your own. But with Launchbox, after you've downloaded the roms and put them where they belong, you can have your full build setup and config'd in just an hour or two.
@Second Lease Gamer
I fully support this statement. People will spend a ton of money on pre-configured drives, and most will never play but 5 to 10% of the games up there. I remember I made a 3TB passport drive with Bactocera on it, and decided to see if people would rather pay than do it themselves. And wouldn't you know, I charged a ridiculous price on top of that, 500$. Within 8 hours I had a sale.
It's very easy to build your own collection, without the junk titles. And yet, I promise you this thing the Chinese make will simply give them that much more money.
Built a mini retro pc using a Lenovo M73 tiny desktop...but i am about to rebuild my 15 yr old HTPC and i am thinking of adding one of these drives to it. Two 20TB ssd with a 2TB M.2 n a SilverStone Milo series case. Havent decided on my board, gpu and cpu yet. Any suggestions
Does it come with a processor inside like a game stick or do I need a laptop or a modern TV?
I just picked this up , but can’t use it yet . Dell is taking their time building my laptop ! It’s killing me to look at it , and not be able to play it .
Thank you for the review!❤ If I have a big enough hard drive can I dump all 5tb on to it so I can run directly from my PC? Or does it have to run from drive?
You can move all the files from the hard drive to the local drive(s) on your PC if you wish yes.
I personally would copy and paste. That way, you have two copies
For the arcade shooter games, do you use light guns, if so which do you recommend or controller?
I personally prefer to use Sinden light guns when playing those types of games on my gaming pc
do these games get updated? or they js pirated games on a drive..
Got this today but have not been able to get my xbox controller to work with emulationstation. The controls are all jacked up and I can't seem to change them. Launchbox and playnite controls seem to work fine.
I just got my 5TB Hyper Base HD and my PS5 controller isnt working. Does anyone know whoch type of controller I should get? In addition, any tips on how to activate Artflix theme in Retrobat?
Thanks 🙏
Hi ! Thank You for your Vids ! Can You make a video about pinball games on this System ? I've quickly seen more than 600 titles and I wanna see them. THX
There’s multiple versions of the same model so I’m not sure which to gets
is there a game list for this? specifically GameCube and ps1?
Hi bro, great review, but I didn't see any ps3 games on this video, di u found some of those in launchbox or in retrobat?
Can you please do a video all about controllers ❤️
This is dope! This would be great to have!
Thinking of adding this thing to my legends ultimate with a dedicated PC. Wonder if my bitlcd marquee will work with launchbox
In theory yes, but someone should develop a compatibility layer for that.
forgot to ask is the chd files easy to get ? asking as a newbie in emulation. its why I am checking out these items on your channel
Yes, all you need to do is google the game name with CHD and you will find the files for download
wow im impressed i might have to buy this cooltoy
can i ask has it got the ps1 games future cop loaded 1/2
& grand turismo ridge racer games that work on both ps1/ps2
yes, it has all of those on the drive
Thx for letting me know gonna get one tomorrow just hope it will work with my mayflash f 500 ultra
I have a question so when you buy this device are all the games on there free and do they all work ?
All the games come preloaded on the device. The quality of the game’s performance completely depends on the computer you connect the drive to.
Hi ! thanks for this review ! Which touch did you use to go to the main menu ?
How do the controllers connect do you just plug it it to the laptap and it works automatically?
Does this work on the rog ally
Do you have any recommendations about controller set up? Did you run into any issues?
I had no issues using a usb Xbox one controller
@@cooltoy so basically plug and play? No controller remapping required?
Great review, one question though. can this work on a Mac desktop?
Yes
Got mine in yesterday.
Does yalls have Chinnese setting in some apps and games?
Any one know of a place that we can just grab the source files and rom sets from. Would hate to buy a 5tb HDD when i got a stack of larger and cheaper HDDs going unused.
Redump
Very cool item. Quick question, why don't any of these feature CD-i emulation? Or maybe i just missed it. But I've watched a few of these videos and I never see it in the menus.
Like im interested in Amiga CD32/1200, CD-i, Atari Jaguar, R.E.A.L. 3DO, etc.
Technically speaking there are CD-i, (CD32, Jaguar etcetera) working emulators, they don't put them in these disks maybe because few people ask for them.
Does it require to disable windows security and firewalls before startup.? Thanks.
I have retroarch on my series S. Getting all the roms has become a chore. Is the a way to buy a hard drive with just the roms?
@COOLTOY I’ve just brought one of these and all the games are stuttering and jittery on emulation station and launchbox could you help? I’m using a Ace magician amr5 ryzen 7 5800u mini pc to run it
Could you do a video tutorial on how to set it up. Retrobat and LaunchBox don’t boot upon clicking, I get an error. Am I doing something wrong?
So this does not require any installations on to your PC/Laptop? I only have a work laptop which is locked behind admin access for installing any new applications but would love to know if this is quite literally plug and play?
I did not have to install anything on my system personally.
Work laptops may have restrictions in connecting external HDDs and/or running Windows applications from them.
Best is to check with your admin first whether they allow running apps from external USB drive.
Is it only compatible to PC's? Or can you use it for
an invidia shield??
Did you find out matey? I'm looking too
Anyone know why they use multiple frontends? Even if it was because people prefer certain ones. Couldnt all of them have all the systems and roms imported?
is it possible to get those pc games to save lol i was playing prototype 2 and couldn't auto save or even manual so back to the start
so basically a 5tb just filled with a crap ton of pre downloaded roms. seems cool i guess.
but i would prefer my own retro emu :D like retroarch.
edit: 200 for the 5tb. its a bit steep. but u know whats also steep? wasting a ton of time downloading all the games. honestly. if u wanna get into retro gaming this thing seems like a damn beast.
seen some good reviews. and with this u dont need to find sketchy sites to get the games. plus like it said on the page perfect if u just got a gaming pc or steam deck.
I order mine, and i got it yesterday, but i can open the playstation 1 and game cube games, any help o suggestion, thanks
I noticed stutter on the dreamcast games due to it being on a HDD. I usually have to run cd based consoles like dreamcast and 3do on a ssd.
From what I understand, the emulator should load the full ISO into RAM (assuming you have 16GB or more) and then run from there, so SSD will only improve on the initial loading speed of the ISO file.
Game performance is mostly determined by what system/CPU is running the games.
I run DC games fine from HDD.
The first kinhank one that i bought used Botacera and i was required to boot to the HD itself. Is this one the same or does it run inside windows ?
Runs inside windows
@@cooltoy thanks !!!
How would one go about playing a 4 player game with this? I've never tried local multiplayer on PC, is it as simple as just plugging in 4 controllers and it works?
Correct
How do you obtain the CHD files? Are they in the file, just not in the correct location?
Google “game name”and CHD and you’ll find the files you need
@@cooltoy thank you🫡
Hey, I could really use assistance. I bought a mini pc ( miniforums um690) just to try this product out. I’ve had this for 2 weeks and spent hours trying to figure out how to use it. I can’t figure out how to play launch box, n64 and above without stuttering. I’ve tried to access retro arch via launch box and change which core it uses to play n64 games but it doesn’t change the core and stays stuttering. If I connect it to another mini pc that already has retro arch on it and plays n64 games and above fine. But still when i access n64 games and above via launch box via this external hard drive it still stutters. Can someone please! Help me?
I Have Gaunlet Dark Legacy For My Actual PS2 And Play It Often And ItnIs The Best Home.Version Of All I've Played .
Also RUSH 2049 ON my DREAMCAST which is the only version I've found to play like the arcade
@cooltoy 🎯🎯🎯Hey Cool ... Would this hard drive plug n play when plugged in to a Fire Stick, Fire Cube and Apple TV box?? Show us how. Thanks. 🎯🎯🎯
Nope, pc only hard drive
@@cooltoy thanks for the quick reply... what would be the cheapest but powerful enough pc we can buy to play all the games on the hard drive?
Those cheap Android TV boxes can play upto Dreamcast/PSP games. Anything above that you'll need a x86 based PC running AMD or Intel CPUs.
Are you able to back it up in case the hard disk crashes or gets corrupted?
Yes
Do you have any info on the case? Mine did not have the case included.
Sorry that would be a question for the manufacturer/seller you purchased from to answer
i have a problem !
The error is this: Windows does not have access to the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item.
dat happen when i open the retrobat the emulationstation
It is just a standard USB HDD, why would there be excess rights problem? Unless you're using an office PC with USB port restrictions, that means other USB HDD will also have the same problem.
One option is to connect to another PC and copy out the files to your own HDD and use it.
so even tho i have this i've not got round to installing it & i was wondering i know its ment for pc
however i was wondering if it would work on a top of the range tv via pluging it in to the usb.
nope
No. I see lots of people here are confused on how these things work. The drive just holds the games and the media files. Think of it of copying a song to a CD. The Drive is the CD in this example. You need a computer (CD Player) capable of running the games (Songs on the CD) still.
If you want to run this on a TV, its impossible, but you CAN take a modern PC, and hook it up to your TV, then hook the drive up to that same PC, and play all these games on your PC over your TV. But yeah, a lot of people are confusing this hard-drive with a computer, and its not that.
This is a USB drive with Windows applications that need Windows OS to run.
Can this system be ran directly from your TV or monitor, or does it have to be plugged into your PC?
Has to be plugged into the pc
Would this all run well on a AMD Ryzen 7 5800U Mini PC?
got mine today, and some games don't have sound on launch box. any ideas how to fix?
Contact the manufacturer/seller
Hey. How to play switch game on this drive? On my drive it stand i most scrap?
I have a total bad ass pc that can play anything, ALL I WANT is a huge ass sd/hdd/usb stick with ps1,ps2,ps3,xbox,xbox360 games. anyone know what I should get???
I bought the same exact thing and none of the PlayStation one games even load, and I seen another video with someone showed the same thing they don’t work at all
How was the load times on GameCube and the other higher end systems?
Good for me, but that type of thing would obviously vary depending on the end user’s PC specs
@@cooltoy Well I was mainly talking about the fact it's on a spinning disk. My PC can play pretty much anything. Just was wondering if it loaded data quick enough.
Should not have much loading time difference for old retro games between HDD and SSD, they're not like all the AAA PC games with tens of gigabytes of texture data.
@@acejon2162 I didn't figure but if the read speed was terribly slow it could cause an issue for the later systems. So just wanted to make sure.
Though not this particular drive, but I've tried PS2 and Gamecube games on both USB HDD & SSD on Batocera and no loading issues for me.
Hi Man, there Is a sort of configurations steps to do, or its just ready to play?
ready to play
@@cooltoy thanks buddy!
question does this have all of the pokemon games on it
really? is this working just like that? that's great...what about dos games?
Can you tell me if it has wwe here comes the pain for ps 2 on it?
and does it have nfl blitz 2000 and nfl blitz 2001 for ps1?
Nice vid 👍🏾
Will this work on a nvidia shield or android box?
Nope
Does it have at least XBOX 1 as seems that these drives always seem to be missing at least the xbox 1 console and games
Can you add systems and roms to this drive or is it maxed out.
There is space available for some additions.