Retro Gaming Hard Drive for less than $20
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- #batocera #aliexpress #emulation #budgetgaming
In this video I try out a Batocera Hard Drive I picked up from AliExpress that only cost me $18.38. Is it any good?
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Email: BasicDadTech@gmail.com
Edit: here’s the link. It’s going for $20 now:
Just found this amazing item on AliExpress. Check it out! $20.85 68％ Off | 500G Portable External Hard Drive Batocera 33 With 110000+ Game Games for PS3/PS2/WII/PS1/N64/SS Emulator for Laptop/PC/Windows
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I've bought the same 2 weeks ago. Works great. I've put it in a Mini pc Elitedesk i5 6500T and that's nice. Have to boot on right disk and that's all. I can play all console but PS3 emulation is quite hard with this processor. I paid 18€ for this batocera disk. I'm very happy of it 👍
Thanks for showing demon front ! I am now hunting it down.
I've got an old (and ridiculously loud) Acer with an i3 4130 with igpu. It's a dedicated Batocera machine (well, until I make it quieter it'll be a dedicated dust collector) and honestly, I feel it actually works better. Heck, I think Cadilacs and dinosaurs work better on my cheap and very weak Xiaomi smart TV.
Awesome video ! How could you go wrong for the price ? Ok, there are duplicate . There are way more expensive hard drives with lots of duplicates. Not all games will work. Video should have been way longer. Most hard drives are not curated well.
this is 25 $ on aliexpress
The cases on these slide apart really easily. Do yourself a favour and do this. Then look at the date on the drive inside. Mine was over 10 years old. They're clearly repurposed laptop hdd's.
I just got one from Temu. I checked and mine was made in June 2013. It is one of the old WD Blue drives. About to go hook it up and see if I can make it work.
Hooray, less e-waiste!
As I suspected.😊
@@ukeyaoitrash2618i always felt like there's enjoyment to be had from all devices of all era, if I got an old Amiga id love to figure out the old music programs to make rave music, there's still games that could be enjoyable, every laptop I have I set up with stuff that can be run on it and don't understand how people get bored of these miracles of invention, less waste! Use it repar it and care for it like the retro console scene
@5:40 dumb question perhaps. But did you try 'Auto'?
I just ask as I just watched another video where the guy was having same issue with the arcade emu games. He set it to auuto and solved his problem apparently!
You did pay under $20 😂
Would this be good just for a backup of the roms themselves?
Definitely
Why it doesn’t start up on my window 11? I went into bios and selected it but a command prompt came up
can you take roms from hard drive and save it to your desk top ?
you have to boot it from the bios for Batocera
Hi I see the kinhank image but after dark the screen goes dark and doesn't upload the batocera consoles...help plese
So a workaround for the games not working it could be a region thing you can change the region settings and it should be able to be playable none of the emulators or anything into systems are fine-tuned
Is it possible to just plug and use this device straight into the HDMI port on the TV rather than requiring a PC?
That’s not possible.
@basicdadtech ah I see. Thank you for letting me know
Can you connect to TV?
Can this be used as an easy access legally safer alternative to downloading rom sets yourself like to use in a home arcade cabinet? Is it possible to copy the roms you want from this hdd and run them on a different system? Thanks
Yes u can. It uses batocera. So all the roms are there. U can also download and add more to it. Just press F1 from the main screen to access the file system. Really easy to use
@@ll_spud thanks for clearing that up. Might be worth it just as an easy access to the roms then.
@@cocktailzombie $20 is cheap enough. Basically paying for the hard drive and getting the roms for free. Saves u the time and trouble looking for it yourself.
@@ll_spud yeah i will get one even if i can't find it for $20 and have to pay a bit more
@@ll_spudIs the entirety of the drive able to copy to a larger drive to make it have space for more PS3 and Xbox roms, or can I copy it to a large m.2, I'm not sure if its USB boot only.
I just bought the same drive but it's not arrived yet and I'm just curious to what I can do with it.
Hi,
I got this & cannot exit games one they’re playing tried start & select, plus many other keys, nothing at all will exit a game.
Can anyone advise?
I have the same issue! Did you work it up at all?
@@jonstevens7087 no I’ve completely given up, I’ve searched everywhere on the net and asked in forums, nothing at all
Emulation is the way to go.
How the ganes play will depend on the system you're using and the configuration of the emulator for each. Of course its not plug and play and shouldn't be said to be
Can the hdd be accessed within windows environment to grab some missing roms.for a collection?
Press F1 to get to the File System. Then plug in a usb drive and you can copy over the roms to the usb drive.
Yes, windows can see all the system file of the disk. You can also add and remove rom as you want. Very Nice and cheap stuff.
Can you help me: i got the harddrive on my laptop.the laptop conect with hdmi to the tv,but i dont see anithing on the screen
Hi. Try System Settings-> Video Output
try using a desktop too.
you have to boot it from the bios for Batocera
where is the link to get it?
In the description
please does it have gta five
After this video the price went up on eBay for $100 more!
I paid 75 dollars
Si no Xbox 360???
Possible to make this work with Android boxes?
Unfortunately this won’t work with Android boxes.
Can you share store link?
Search “Kinhank 500GB Hard Drive” in AliExpress. The price is now $21.
Dope
No need for speed u, u2, mw 2005, so I'm not buying