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Ron, what is the best retro emulation console in your opinion? I wouldn't mind buying one because I simply don't have the time to set one up on my own.
I built myself an EmuELEC 4.0 box two years ago. I first bought an SCX Pro then realized I can make the same thing. So I bought a TV box, installed EmuELEC 4.0, just copied the BIOS and ROM files over, and voila...more powerful system based on the S905X3 and 2GB RAM. I also paired it with a couple of new wireless gamepads from EasySMX. Cost me $70.
These are perfect for Arcade1up mods and/or a minimalist type of setup. You always have to keep your expectations in check, which is what you do an excellent job of pointing out. Idk why I enjoy these reviews so much lol. I think we’re all secretly hoping for one to be mind blowing or something.
I bought something similar on LAZADA in Thailand that hs 1000's of games that consists of a sm ll hdmi unit, two wireless game controllers and a usb cable used to power the unit that plugs directly into the usb port on the television or projector. Games in progress can be saved, individual games can be saved as favorites and so far, every game I have tried to play has worked flawlessly. There are duplicates, the same as described in the video, but that is no issue because the games that I remeber from my younger years are there and those are the ones I want to play. Additionally, the controllers work great, I see no noticable lag and after playing for about a year or so, both controllers are still working fine and neither one seems to be suffering any issues from use. One of my all time favorite purchases.
@@Nosaveddataretro did you look at the game list it's pathetic. they are missing the best games from so many systems. have 1 360 game. no real sega games. cool you have videos for your games. guess what you dont have. THE BEST GAMES TO PLAY. absolute FAIL.
Save you money and go for the super console x4 plus, i got one of these x2 pro and the PSX games ( not all)have either no sound graphics issues or refuse to load, tried all the emulators the 3 games that my buyer picked up on b4 he returned it run fine on the x4
Hey it’s worth it to just create a rom library . Put file on your computer as a library . Then copy the games you own into a file . Add your library into any device for emulation . Thousands of hours and viruses saved vs downloading roms .
Still on the fence if I’ll grab one , I see no difference from the x2 and the x2 pro. Better image quality? What sells me is the library of games , especially game boy colour. Big gems on there, especially Super Nintendo. If you are a collector who simply doesn’t have space or money to own every physical copy, this might be for you. Yeah some of the games don’t work, but I’ve also seen on other channels you can change settings on the games to make them a bit more playable. Sad with yoshis story, that game is amazing. Who remembers playing it on the n64 consoles they had set up at McDonald’s at the wal marts ?!?! There are games I have never heard of that look very interesting. As a kid I never got to play the neo geo stuff , or owned a game gear or any sega stuff, Nintendo and Sony all the way lol
And yet it is stupidly illegal. Nintendo games on a game machine not made by Nintendo? The big Nintendo attack is waiting around the corner to be unleashed on anyone selling this thing and maybe anyone owning it.
The reason why there are so many different versions is due to updates. It's relevant if you have a particular play style. For example, many versions of fighting games have updates to fix CPU advantage, giving players a fairer playing experience.
Great work! On your next review can you please focus some attention to MAME type games? Specifically NBA Jams or NBA Hang Time? I always seem to run into problems emulating those
Took me forever to figure out how to switch games without resetting. Best I can figure if you push the buttons down on the joysticks together you get to a menu you can exit the game and get back to the menu. If someone knows a different way I'd be interested ... Hot key doesn't seem to do much
I still have retro consoles from my childhood, but I generally emulate the games I have on Windows PCs. Batocera looks like a worthwhile game based Linux distro. A review of Batocera would make a worthwhile video, IMO.
The main two questions I think everyone has is number one, can you add your own ROMs to it and then too, is there any input lag when using Bluetooth controllers. No one ever seems to address the importance of input lag on these machines. Whether it be retropie builds on raspberry pi 1 through the newest iterations or, these emulation machines. If the only way you can play these with your Bluetooth controllers is with a half-second input lag, it makes them completely unusable for Ninety-Nine percent of us.
I can say they is some lag on the included controllers with these super consoles. I have the X cube and I swapped them out for a wired PS3 and an 8bitdo SNES controller and it works awesome now. & yes you can add your own ROMs and delete ones off the system.
What's a good one that has every PlayStation 1 and PlayStation 2 game on it? I'm looking for one with all the old Tomb Raider games on it and the Tenchu Stealth Assassin's games on it. That is worth the money that ain't a full PC.
absolutely agree, I only got one that was pre loaded in my life, and the rom list for ps1 was all in Portuguese, I would love to see a quality rom list, btw that same buy all the audio was missing too
As long as I can finally find a decent running MvC2 running in one of these machines, I'll buy it. For me it's worth it than the astronomical prices from the physical console games to the scalpers buying all the arcade 1up versions of the game.
I’ve wasted money on several boxes from China, etc, etc… I tried Kinhank stuff as well I would say most games do run great and some are just downright horrendous to play, but for the cheap route it’s not bad either I suggest if you really want every game running smoothly you have to pay extra, but it’s a chore to do though so I go cheap 😂
I have same one and I do not get any slowdown at all even on the games you mentioned. What cpu and gpu are you running? I got an Intel 10900k with a 4070ti and 64gb ddr4 ram.
The issue here is including unnecessary ROMS which you cant even use elsewhere because you may run into a problem. Otherwise I would have got it just to have a ready back up of ROMs for the miniPC I can build myself. Is there a way to buy ROMS (up to Wii U and PS3) on demand or may be the most popular titles?
There are emulated collections like the NeoGeo Pocket collection that contain the ROMs. Also, there are virtual consoles on Wii U and 3DS for everything Wii and before Wii but you obviously need a 3DS/Wii U and the eShop is going to close very soon.
I've bought a couple of them and yeah there all about the same. I look at Quality not quantity. If it plays "Killer Instinct" the Arcade perfect, That's a good sign of performance and if there's not Alot of copies. Also a controller with a good D-Pad, Especially for Fighting Games.
Does anybody knows how to play with other controllers? I have used several and they work in the menus, but once in the game the buttons remap and most games are unplayable. So I want to know how to prevent the auto button remap, as it happens in almost every console.
There must be tons of people who have every ROM from the 80s and 90s burned to cds or something. Selling them is pretty sus… they’re not theirs to sell, but a lot of people don’t want to or don’t know how to get the games themselves.
Hey Ron I've been looking for a replacement to the Nvidia shield Tv pro 2019. Gave it away and don't feel like spending $200 bucks to replace it. Do you know of a cheaper better alternative? I loved the 4k HDR on it.
Out of 108k games, probably about 100k are either duplicates, don't work right if they even work at all, or foreign language versions, some even fall in more than one of these categories.
If you want to do it yourself....I hear ya....it's all I can do to get roms on an ever drive. I would pay the 100 bucks though to play games on my big flat screen without having to use that sketchy thing I got that boosts to 480i for old systems that's a pain and gets so hot it scares me.
I just bought the HK1 Box with remote. It's really cheap. They even gave away there other air mouse remote. There are just disposing it to lose there inventory. Its runs well up to PlayStation One on RetroArch. It also runs most of the N64 games on full speed on the standalone M64 emulator.
There is only two systems I like to know if they work, and for some strange reason -even thou they both are 30 years apart from each other - they both seem impossible to emulate. Its the Nintendo 64, and the Oddessy 2 (Philips G7000 ?) 😄
they are all mostly some versions of Raspberry pi board or similar .. all the same hardware. I think it's much better to build your own retroarch OS/ emulationstation on a NUC or a set-top mini PC instead.
You did us a favor and tested it out and yeah it sucks that it didn’t live up to it’s potential. Have you ever tried locate a emulator that people put in a Wii system or psp ? I’d like you to find a Wii emulator and see if it’s worth buying.
It's so hard to choose one of these systems. I don't have a pc to do any modifications so i want something totally PNP. I got one years ago that was total crap and figured was time to try again.
To people who build these please load only games that works, we don’t need 100k games give us few thousand that works well or even few hundred. Quality not quantity
I am new to this, and is very hard to find where to get Roms from, so I am actually thinking about getting one of these devices and copying the roms from it.
I don't know if you can help they need to provide specific instructions with some files I tried playing a game in the open beats file when I pushed what I thought was the start button it brought up some png thing now when I try to play games in this file I get a small box in the corner with the title of the game if I try to play any other games in this file they get thrown on the list in the small box with no way to access them is there a simple way to restore this file I don't own a main computer I bought this so I wouldnt have to do nothing except play the games
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Ron, what is the best retro emulation console in your opinion? I wouldn't mind buying one because I simply don't have the time to set one up on my own.
Do you know what that anime mahjong game actually is called? It looks pretty good. Thanks for the video.
@Madlittlepixel Def better then the online mate. My tastes are way more refined and Japanese then most mainstreamers
When did it became legal to sell pirated roms ? 😅
Does this have entire Retro Libraries ?
The spirit of the Soulja Console lives on in the hearts of each of us.
RIP 😭😭😭
Slowja Box 2.0 confirmed?
Burning on in the heart... that spirit is too strong to just exist. Heartburn if you will.
Crank Dat X-2 Pro
😂😂
I dunno, I'd easily get this for having a decent dreamcast emulator. Marvel vs. Capcom 2 and Jet Grind Radio would easily do it for me
Can you do like a top 10 video of the top 10 of these you've reviewed so far?
I built myself an EmuELEC 4.0 box two years ago. I first bought an SCX Pro then realized I can make the same thing. So I bought a TV box, installed EmuELEC 4.0, just copied the BIOS and ROM files over, and voila...more powerful system based on the S905X3 and 2GB RAM. I also paired it with a couple of new wireless gamepads from EasySMX. Cost me $70.
where or how can dumb-dumbs get someone to sell us a custom build like that?
@@scod9746 just get something like one of these boxes in this video.
10:28 😂😂 I can’t believe there’s el chavo fighting game
Lol
Wtf😂
These are perfect for Arcade1up mods and/or a minimalist type of setup. You always have to keep your expectations in check, which is what you do an excellent job of pointing out. Idk why I enjoy these reviews so much lol. I think we’re all secretly hoping for one to be mind blowing or something.
Facts
I bought something similar on LAZADA in Thailand that hs 1000's of games that consists of a sm ll hdmi unit, two wireless game controllers and a usb cable used to power the unit that plugs directly into the usb port on the television or projector. Games in progress can be saved, individual games can be saved as favorites and so far, every game I have tried to play has worked flawlessly. There are duplicates, the same as described in the video, but that is no issue because the games that I remeber from my younger years are there and those are the ones I want to play. Additionally, the controllers work great, I see no noticable lag and after playing for about a year or so, both controllers are still working fine and neither one seems to be suffering any issues from use. One of my all time favorite purchases.
My mom’s vibe only plays one game, I’ve never played it but she seems to love it🤷♂️
Which emulation console is the best in your opinion? Also does this have save state? And can you save state multiple games at once?
The day someone makes one of these in a NON LAZY fashion is the day I will pick one up.
Lightning modz, fantastic machine and they offer updates which they will do for you
@@Nosaveddataretro shush….don’t get them raided😅
@@Nosaveddataretro did you look at the game list it's pathetic. they are missing the best games from so many systems. have 1 360 game. no real sega games. cool you have videos for your games. guess what you dont have. THE BEST GAMES TO PLAY. absolute FAIL.
There are plenty made in a non lazy way; home builds. Buying it is the lazy fashion.
Just buy a pi then diy
Save you money and go for the super console x4 plus, i got one of these x2 pro and the PSX games ( not all)have either no sound graphics issues or refuse to load, tried all the emulators the 3 games that my buyer picked up on b4 he returned it run fine on the x4
Not bad for a compact retro system . I'd buy it.
Hey it’s worth it to just create a rom library . Put file on your computer as a library . Then copy the games you own into a file . Add your library into any device for emulation . Thousands of hours and viruses saved vs downloading roms .
Still on the fence if I’ll grab one , I see no difference from the x2 and the x2 pro. Better image quality? What sells me is the library of games , especially game boy colour. Big gems on there, especially Super Nintendo. If you are a collector who simply doesn’t have space or money to own every physical copy, this might be for you. Yeah some of the games don’t work, but I’ve also seen on other channels you can change settings on the games to make them a bit more playable. Sad with yoshis story, that game is amazing. Who remembers playing it on the n64 consoles they had set up at McDonald’s at the wal marts ?!?! There are games I have never heard of that look very interesting. As a kid I never got to play the neo geo stuff , or owned a game gear or any sega stuff, Nintendo and Sony all the way lol
And yet it is stupidly illegal. Nintendo games on a game machine not made by Nintendo? The big Nintendo attack is waiting around the corner to be unleashed on anyone selling this thing and maybe anyone owning it.
The reason why there are so many different versions is due to updates. It's relevant if you have a particular play style. For example, many versions of fighting games have updates to fix CPU advantage, giving players a fairer playing experience.
To have almost every game from the game boy colour era is a huge sell for me
Great work! On your next review can you please focus some attention to MAME type games? Specifically NBA Jams or NBA Hang Time? I always seem to run into problems emulating those
10:35 Chaves Street is based in El Chavo Del 8, which is a really popular show in Latin America
Could you make a video an show us how to create our own system if you know how to do that?
Cant help but notice how similar your voice is to Wreck-it Ralph/John C Riley!! Love the videos!
Sounds nothing alike.
Are there any good alternatives that have roms for multiple systems without all the Japanese versions and duplicates?
Took me forever to figure out how to switch games without resetting. Best I can figure if you push the buttons down on the joysticks together you get to a menu you can exit the game and get back to the menu. If someone knows a different way I'd be interested ... Hot key doesn't seem to do much
Do the early systems like Atari 2600 and Colecovision have all the games and run well?
I still have retro consoles from my childhood, but I generally emulate the games I have on Windows PCs. Batocera looks like a worthwhile game based Linux distro. A review of Batocera would make a worthwhile video, IMO.
I tried Batocera on a USB stick and I find it to be buggy, particularly the file explorer that's built-in. I'm sticking with EmuELEC.
Bro I never seen this Chavo Del Ocho game? 10:27 I need to search it up for some good laughs 😂
Fist one was great 2 years old still works well
The main two questions I think everyone has is number one, can you add your own ROMs to it and then too, is there any input lag when using Bluetooth controllers. No one ever seems to address the importance of input lag on these machines. Whether it be retropie builds on raspberry pi 1 through the newest iterations or, these emulation machines. If the only way you can play these with your Bluetooth controllers is with a half-second input lag, it makes them completely unusable for Ninety-Nine percent of us.
I'm also waiting for your 1st question to be answered.
@@RandemNJ It's really the Lag question for me. Almost unplayable if the input lag is crazy
@@iwonderifthisislegal I hear ya
@@RandemNJ They show you how to do it via the Tutorial Video highlighted at 5:55 in this video... so yes, you can add/remove your own ROMs.
I can say they is some lag on the included controllers with these super consoles. I have the X cube and I swapped them out for a wired PS3 and an 8bitdo SNES controller and it works awesome now.
& yes you can add your own ROMs and delete ones off the system.
What's a good one that has every PlayStation 1 and PlayStation 2 game on it? I'm looking for one with all the old Tomb Raider games on it and the Tenchu Stealth Assassin's games on it. That is worth the money that ain't a full PC.
Gold content as usual brother 💪🏾
Love your reviews bro, especially the HONESTY!
absolutely agree, I only got one that was pre loaded in my life, and the rom list for ps1 was all in Portuguese, I would love to see a quality rom list, btw that same buy all the audio was missing too
As long as I can finally find a decent running MvC2 running in one of these machines, I'll buy it. For me it's worth it than the astronomical prices from the physical console games to the scalpers buying all the arcade 1up versions of the game.
Did you like it?
Still fun if you don't want 200£ consol and games at 20£ each to have a box full of this super computer x fist one amazing
WTF.... El Chavo del Ocho had a video game?
Never seen that before.
😂 its a fan made game. Kinda funny
@@Madlittlepixel they did release el chavo kart for PS3 and Xbox 360 I believe the wii too that wasn't fan made. The ps3 version can get quite pricey.
@@xXJEDI007Xx were those distributed outside of Mexico?🤔
@@Madlittlepixel El Chapulín Colorado recently got an action figure from Argentina and it sold quick. It's very good!👌
@@hectormontalvo5565 I don't know I'm not Mexican but I did see it in a store in Canada.
I’ve wasted money on several boxes from China, etc, etc… I tried Kinhank stuff as well
I would say most games do run great and some are just downright horrendous to play, but for the cheap route it’s not bad either
I suggest if you really want every game running smoothly you have to pay extra, but it’s a chore to do though so I go cheap 😂
I have same one and I do not get any slowdown at all even on the games you mentioned. What cpu and gpu are you running? I got an Intel 10900k with a 4070ti and 64gb ddr4 ram.
The issue here is including unnecessary ROMS which you cant even use elsewhere because you may run into a problem. Otherwise I would have got it just to have a ready back up of ROMs for the miniPC I can build myself. Is there a way to buy ROMS (up to Wii U and PS3) on demand or may be the most popular titles?
There are emulated collections like the NeoGeo Pocket collection that contain the ROMs. Also, there are virtual consoles on Wii U and 3DS for everything Wii and before Wii but you obviously need a 3DS/Wii U and the eShop is going to close very soon.
If it has Golden Eye that’s about all you need
Loves these box review videos.
I've bought a couple of them and yeah there all about the same. I look at Quality not quantity. If it plays "Killer Instinct" the Arcade perfect, That's a good sign of performance and if there's not Alot of copies. Also a controller with a good D-Pad, Especially for Fighting Games.
Does anybody knows how to play with other controllers?
I have used several and they work in the menus, but once in the game the buttons remap and most games are unplayable. So I want to know how to prevent the auto button remap, as it happens in almost every console.
There must be tons of people who have every ROM from the 80s and 90s burned to cds or something. Selling them is pretty sus… they’re not theirs to sell, but a lot of people don’t want to or don’t know how to get the games themselves.
Hey Ron I've been looking for a replacement to the Nvidia shield Tv pro 2019. Gave it away and don't feel like spending $200 bucks to replace it. Do you know of a cheaper better alternative? I loved the 4k HDR on it.
You've got trolled Madlittlepixel 🤣🤣🤣 9:53
Out of 108k games, probably about 100k are either duplicates, don't work right if they even work at all, or foreign language versions, some even fall in more than one of these categories.
If you want to do it yourself....I hear ya....it's all I can do to get roms on an ever drive.
I would pay the 100 bucks though to play games on my big flat screen without having to use that sketchy thing I got that boosts to 480i for old systems that's a pain and gets so hot it scares me.
With the included usb hub what did you end up using it for?
Some of the games require you to input with a usb keyboard and mouse. The hub has 4 usb jacks.
I just bought the HK1 Box with remote. It's really cheap. They even gave away there other air mouse remote. There are just disposing it to lose there inventory.
Its runs well up to PlayStation One on RetroArch. It also runs most of the N64 games on full speed on the standalone M64 emulator.
Newbie here. Can you delete duplicate games off system? I dont have a computer
So, please let us know what are best emulator consoles????
build a HTPC and be done with it. So you can run most modern games and most roms.
So in your opinion whats the best rom machine for quality and quantity?
yeah I would also like to know what machine is best with all the games on it, SEGA CD
I already have 2 of these Super Consoles already, mine doesn't have 3DO or Saturn but it has everything else.
Is there a list of games
Chavo del ocho game at min 10 ? 45 sec? Whats it called?
Some day these will come with tested and properly configured roms.
But that day is not today!🤔
The trouble with these things are is the average end consumer sees "More Games better value" and until that changes, nothing will change.
What rvideo/tv resolution should you set super console x2 on? It starts at 720p
Which retro system do you recommed? Or do a top 3 video..🎉🎉🎉🎉
There is only two systems I like to know if they work, and for some strange reason -even thou they both are 30 years apart from each other - they both seem impossible to emulate.
Its the Nintendo 64, and the Oddessy 2 (Philips G7000 ?)
😄
Project 64 works great for Nintendo 64 emulation................
Do they have save states or how does it work? You can save in the games just as you would a cartridge etc?
Hey but at least the Need For Speed dating sim runs at 60 FPS!
Your right that one game reminds me of a purple mini Mike trip...
Are there save states?
Is that the Soulja Boy Series S?
I wonder if Mystic ark 2 is on it for PS1?
What Mario, Zelda,and Metroid games are included (that actually work well)?
they are all mostly some versions of Raspberry pi board or similar .. all the same hardware. I think it's much better to build your own retroarch OS/ emulationstation on a NUC or a set-top mini PC instead.
You did us a favor and tested it out and yeah it sucks that it didn’t live up to it’s potential. Have you ever tried locate a emulator that people put in a Wii system or psp ? I’d like you to find a Wii emulator and see if it’s worth buying.
It's so hard to choose one of these systems. I don't have a pc to do any modifications so i want something totally PNP. I got one years ago that was total crap and figured was time to try again.
To people who build these please load only games that works, we don’t need 100k games give us few thousand that works well or even few hundred. Quality not quantity
reviewer: they should just include quality games that work on the system
chinese factory: bigger number = better
Try running the N64 games on the android side to see if you are still getting glitches
Next week will be the more better and more improved super supa box.
What is the best of these emulation plug and plays?
Does it have a PS3 rom, like the Resistance Trilogy, Resistance fall of man, Resistance 2 and Resistance 3.
Id gladly build my own but idk what to look for. Do you have a build?
So in your opinion, what is the best emulation console?
I would also like to know that 😊
Any of these devices have the ARCADE version of Hook on it?
Can you do a video on how to build your own do we get a cheap one that works and isn't a rom dump.
Can you go in the rom directory and add/delete roms?
I'd stick one of these in my arcade cabinet and be done
Is there a preloaded box like this that does gamecube and ps2 or am I just dreaming?
I see Crazy Taxi and Jet moto, I'm sold!!
I have no PC or Laptop or Tablet, i want something with PS2, SNES, Dreamcast and the different arcade collections. What should i get?
Is there a Plug N Play you recommend with PS1 MUSIC working on it?
Is this worth it for basic games from the 80s and 90s.
I am new to this, and is very hard to find where to get Roms from, so I am actually thinking about getting one of these devices and copying the roms from it.
What emulator do you recommend that include Atari, arcade and PS2 games?
I don't know if you can help they need to provide specific instructions with some files I tried playing a game in the open beats file when I pushed what I thought was the start button it brought up some png thing now when I try to play games in this file I get a small box in the corner with the title of the game if I try to play any other games in this file they get thrown on the list in the small box with no way to access them is there a simple way to restore this file I don't own a main computer I bought this so I wouldnt have to do nothing except play the games
Thanks for your review bud
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Does this one have a built in fan?
I need help connecting my ps4 controller it will work in the menu bt not in gameplay
What's the best device for my TV within $100 that does not have duplicate roms?
can u use Retro achievments with it its a Trophy system from Retroarch
Can you plug in your own Retropie sd card and play it?
Do these have the xmen arcade game and marvel vs capcom?
Are there any consoles that carry all or most of GameCubes games ? Looking for one for my niece but can’t find one anywhere
Best thing to do is find a modded wii or wii u with pre loaded games
@ would you have a recommendation for that ? Maybe a link 🙏 appreciate you replying
Does it have any console version of castlevania?