ATTENTION: PEOPLE ARE SAYING THERE ARE VIRUSES ON IT. I DID NOT GET ANY WARNINGS FROM MY ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE. I DON'T SEE HOW RUNNING BATOCERA AND SOME EMULATORS AND ROMS CAN NUKE THE COMPUTER. I DIDN'T OPEN THAT "INSTALL FIRST" FILE, SO IT MAY BE THAT. WORST CASE, BUY THIS AND JUST TRANSFER THE ROMS/EMULATORS TO YOUR COMPUTER AND BE DONE WITH IT. BE WARNED AND BE SAFE! THANKS FOR WATCHING!
When I purchased one of those drives (not that specific one) all the "viruses" were inside the PS4 and Windows Games so I just took the retro games and never messed with the newer games. I didn't trust all the cracked exe files but they could of been false positives who knows better safe than sorry.
I'd just run everything off the hard disk. as long as you don't install anything, I don't see how this could "infect" your computer, if they even are viruses at all
@@danusty that's not how computers work, the moment you run any of the exe files off the hard drive your computer will immediately be infected if they are actually Trojans and not false positives
Batocera is actually a Linux-based gaming OS that uses emulation station as a front end. It boots directly into the OS, does not run in windows or virtual boxes. Retro-bat is a branch of batocera, apparently designed to run inside Windows, like Launchbox. This will be my first time trying it, excited to see how it works out...
One review claims 20. The other review with a photo attached as proof claims it's 11. So either 11 or 20, take your pick. LMAO. I prefer ZERO, so I'm not ordering this thing.
I read the reviews on Amazon quite few people bitching saying they scanned it first and over 20 viruses were found and more than one buyer bitching about it why I bought a 1tb usb harddrive n made my own batocera build,it didn't come over night alot of downloading however I know mine isn't one giant trojan horse drive.😮
Batocera is a known Linux distribution to do exactly that: organize your roms and play them with built in emulators. Its higly customizable and runs on any machine - even old Think clients for 30 bucks. (You will need a BT-Dongle or USB-Controller though)
Easy way to get batocera and a huge collection of games on a PC without internet connection? I'd definitely not plug it into anything connected to my home internet let alone something with personal info. Honestly windows is likely to get viruses regardless of what you download off the net so having your emulation system quarantined from everything else just makes sense anyways.
They're never 100% but Windows comes pre installed with spyware. Best to use these with dedicated off-line hardware emulation boxs. Aka, build a mini PC and never go online with it
Read this in their multiplayer description section: "At the same time, it is definitely a good gift. If you give it to your children, you can play with them to bring the distance between parents and children; if you give it to your friends, you can play classic childhood games together and recall your childhood together; if you give it to your family, you can increase the happiness of the family Entertainment show. Definitely a good holiday gift."
to be honest, the "trojans and viruses" are probably false positives on some parts of the emulators and bios files, or the fixed exes that bypass steam on those PC games.
Hi man great vid and you got a new subscriber. Fir the virus detection it could be because of the frontend launching other exe that is the emulator or even the update parser for media and see if new games have been added.
The last thing I'd ever plug into my computer is some pre-prepared external hard drive or USB thumb stick loaded with illegal software from [insert any major online store here]. Even if I don't run Windows so the malware risk is not really there--but then, you probably can't even run any of the included software without Windows anyway, so in that case I guess I'm outside of the target market anyway. I'll just get the ROMs myself and set them up on a system with RecalBox or Batocera... which is actually what I've done.
If you’re worried about malware, and have a powerful enough computer, with modern virtual machine software you can make use of the GPU there too and run this inside a virtual machine. That way if the system gets corrupted you just delete it and reinstall.
A lot of the roms that come on stuff like this are no good (not verified or compressed), and you risk viruses like one I’ve encountered that disables your wifi card at startup, mostly killing your favorite old laptop. Seen it happen more than once. I have some retro handhelds and I say get one, but throw away that sd and put custom os on it and verified roms. The sd that came on the miyoo refused to be formatted! That tells you everything. If you’ve ever copied unverified roms from these collections a lot of them don’t even work later. They’re considered bad dumps for a reason. Good roms will usually tell you the region they’re from in the file name too. I can’t download games for anyone, but I have downloaded a lot of verified roms for myself. All I can say is if you never get started you’ll never get finished lol
Hey guys....Saw this on Amazon: There are MANY great retro game options out there, but this solution included 11 viruses and malware. Running these executables puts your system at risk, and you should not hook this hard drive up to your computer. It is compromised.
Get them. Get the awesome higher-end Beelink Mini PCs that can run through Switch and your Steam games. I'm just counting down the days til TTYD's demake leaks and gets a 60fps patch
Just to let you know the Sufami is the Super Famicom (SNES) but it will probably have the Japan exclusives like the Sailor Moon games in the preview. And I believe the Turbo was some hardware that you could get for the Super Famicom, but not sure.
U know RGT u should do classic game reviews... Ur so funny and I love your comments playing all of these classic fighting games.... Do more videos like this please
Been wanting to try true crime New York. I got the first game with my GameCube back in 03 and absolutely loved that one. I downloaded both of them for my ps2 emulator but haven’t tired NY yet
I got that hard drive. The working Nintendo Switch Emulater is worth the price... I didnt get any viruses on my pc snd i got full paid AVG protection too !!
No twisted metal... Not a bad selection otherwise. Can you extract all the roms, including pc? My pc can't handle alot of this but I have other devices that can (looking at you, steam deck).
since your video went live its already been taken down. at start of vid was up and would ship to UK now after watching vid and going to order wont let me and has been removed from basket
I ordered one and then canceled it. I saw the reviews. It has viruses on it I didn't want to risk anything. Unfortunate because it is such a great deal.
Use a separate computer. There's ones you can buy cheap that are just for this that you can have separate from your main so it doesn't affect your good computer
Okay, bought this off your link, so hopefully you get enough to buy a cup of coffee out of it, lol! After all, it's only selling for $40, commission off this can't be very much, can it? My plan is to immediately clone it to a separate hard drive as a backup. For the price, I'm expecting some sketchy hardware choices, so failures are probably imminent. Most likely device is older laptop hard disk drive with a usb adapter. Trying to figure out how this is configured. It's clearly not a stand-alone system, like a super console x or batocera drive, that boots into its own operating environment. How are they getting Retro-bat to run in windows? Are they using some kind of virtual-box set up? I've never got anything above ps2 to run in emulators, so am getting this for the ps3 (if it's REALLY ps3, and not just the pc versions of some ps3 games!) and switch emulators. Hoping this works out. What can I say? Just spent $40 to doordash 2 FlashJacks cheeseburgers to my house, guess (if this actually works) it will be worth the risk!
The "Viruses and Trojans" that people are claiming here are FALSE POSITIVES due to the PC games they have installed. To run those games without thier launchers (aka steam), you need to run an altered .exe file. These files will show up as viruses from time to time, and are usually false positives. I don't think you;d have anything to fear as far as viruses go.
Everybody's favorite Nintendo UA-camr Link didnt work but i got it ✅ 40 bucks?! worth it just for those PC games Definitely should have shown one of those
ATTENTION: PEOPLE ARE SAYING THERE ARE VIRUSES ON IT. I DID NOT GET ANY WARNINGS FROM MY ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE. I DON'T SEE HOW RUNNING BATOCERA AND SOME EMULATORS AND ROMS CAN NUKE THE COMPUTER. I DIDN'T OPEN THAT "INSTALL FIRST" FILE, SO IT MAY BE THAT. WORST CASE, BUY THIS AND JUST TRANSFER THE ROMS/EMULATORS TO YOUR COMPUTER AND BE DONE WITH IT. BE WARNED AND BE SAFE! THANKS FOR WATCHING!
When I purchased one of those drives (not that specific one) all the "viruses" were inside the PS4 and Windows Games so I just took the retro games and never messed with the newer games.
I didn't trust all the cracked exe files but they could of been false positives who knows better safe than sorry.
I'd just run everything off the hard disk. as long as you don't install anything, I don't see how this could "infect" your computer, if they even are viruses at all
@danusty -- if you run an infected executable, it doesn't matter if you 'install' it or not -- it can and will infect your computer.
@@danusty that's not how computers work, the moment you run any of the exe files off the hard drive your computer will immediately be infected if they are actually Trojans and not false positives
My man don’t tell me you just did a windows scan 😂
The coolest game he didn’t mention is “worm” as in the worm that’s going to destroy all of his local files making the PC unusable. lol
Very unlikely.
Hey, can you do us a favor? Run a virus check on it and let us know what you see on your end?
Thanks!
"What's your last name? Pad?" That one got me. lol
Yeah that was hilarious lol
I wasn't familliar with Batocera, but it looks like an awesome front-end. Maybe I'll grab it as a great way to organize and build my own collection.
It's great for light guns
How tf do you have that many subscribers with low views?
Batocera is actually a Linux-based gaming OS that uses emulation station as a front end. It boots directly into the OS, does not run in windows or virtual boxes. Retro-bat is a branch of batocera, apparently designed to run inside Windows, like Launchbox. This will be my first time trying it, excited to see how it works out...
Damn, have you never used Batocera and EmulationStation before? Nothing new at all 😁
How many spyware files come on the drive to make this cost $40?
11
One review claims 20. The other review with a photo attached as proof claims it's 11. So either 11 or 20, take your pick. LMAO. I prefer ZERO, so I'm not ordering this thing.
I read the reviews on Amazon quite few people bitching saying they scanned it first and over 20 viruses were found and more than one buyer bitching about it why I bought a 1tb usb harddrive n made my own batocera build,it didn't come over night alot of downloading however I know mine isn't one giant trojan horse drive.😮
@@anthonyleone2744 will Norton get rid of them?
Broooooo!!!! I'm sold! Getting it before it's taken down. This thing looks incredible! Can't wait for it to come in.
Batocera is a known Linux distribution to do exactly that: organize your roms and play them with built in emulators. Its higly customizable and runs on any machine - even old Think clients for 30 bucks. (You will need a BT-Dongle or USB-Controller though)
How is your computer doing today? Did you see the reivews on this product? Multiple people were talking about viruses and malware from this device.
I couldn't control my laughter when you got to the PC games
Is there a way you can just buy the viruses and worms without the games?
😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Whats the point of this if you already have a pc? Especially if everyone is saying it's full of viruses
Easy way to get batocera and a huge collection of games on a PC without internet connection? I'd definitely not plug it into anything connected to my home internet let alone something with personal info. Honestly windows is likely to get viruses regardless of what you download off the net so having your emulation system quarantined from everything else just makes sense anyways.
I'd worry about this. Brand new games that are out now, someone's getting sued hardcore.
They can’t do anything to us
Zevia needs to come on board and sponsor your channel. People that have never had one, go grab a cola flavor and thank me later.
Lol, the Amazon reviews say there are a bunch of viruses on the files in the drive.
Lol
You know these are false flags right? Do you expect to run cracked games and not have the antivirus to go haywires?
@@h.a.6790he is someone who doesnt pirate at all
@@h.a.6790 There is absolutely *no way* this thing is 100% clean... 🤦🏻
They're never 100% but Windows comes pre installed with spyware. Best to use these with dedicated off-line hardware emulation boxs. Aka, build a mini PC and never go online with it
Read this in their multiplayer description section: "At the same time, it is definitely a good gift. If you give it to your children, you can play with them to bring the distance between parents and children; if you give it to your friends, you can play classic childhood games together and recall your childhood together; if you give it to your family, you can increase the happiness of the family Entertainment show. Definitely a good holiday gift."
Enjoy those Trojans on your PC, bro!
His PC seen worse
Then will infect all of your iot devices so even if you remove the virus they're still in.
to be honest, the "trojans and viruses" are probably false positives on some parts of the emulators and bios files, or the fixed exes that bypass steam on those PC games.
@@DerivitivFilms I guess you are right.
false postives relax
Retrobat is a solid front end system. Nice find!
Hi man great vid and you got a new subscriber.
Fir the virus detection it could be because of the frontend launching other exe that is the emulator or even the update parser for media and see if new games have been added.
Just got one. Thanks dude
The last thing I'd ever plug into my
computer is some pre-prepared external hard drive or USB thumb stick loaded with illegal software from [insert any major online store here]. Even if I don't run Windows so the malware risk is not really there--but then, you probably can't even run any of the included software without Windows anyway, so in that case I guess I'm outside of the target market anyway. I'll just get the ROMs myself and set them up on a system with RecalBox or Batocera... which is actually what I've done.
But can’t roms your find online also contain malware
Just curious: did you ever get around to playing the PC/Steam games on the HDD, and if so, how did they run?
Great video on this Amazon $40 game console. I'm going to check this out!! Thanks @RGT85
I'd love a plug and play with GC, Dreamcast,cand PS1/PS2 games. Never had a Dreamcast, the other two would be for nostalgia.
If you’re worried about malware, and have a powerful enough computer, with modern virtual machine software you can make use of the GPU there too and run this inside a virtual machine. That way if the system gets corrupted you just delete it and reinstall.
Or just find the roms yourself so you don't gotta deal with this nightmare.
@@MrSamuelAdam4it’s not the roms that are the issue. It’s getting the emulators and bios files and whatnot that are hard to find and kinda confusing.
A lot of the roms that come on stuff like this are no good (not verified or compressed), and you risk viruses like one I’ve encountered that disables your wifi card at startup, mostly killing your favorite old laptop. Seen it happen more than once. I have some retro handhelds and I say get one, but throw away that sd and put custom os on it and verified roms. The sd that came on the miyoo refused to be formatted! That tells you everything.
If you’ve ever copied unverified roms from these collections a lot of them don’t even work later. They’re considered bad dumps for a reason. Good roms will usually tell you the region they’re from in the file name too.
I can’t download games for anyone, but I have downloaded a lot of verified roms for myself. All I can say is if you never get started you’ll never get finished lol
Wdym? Miyoo sd couldn't be reformatted? I just did it last night...
Lol this is insane. Great review. Love when you do content like this
Hey guys....Saw this on Amazon: There are MANY great retro game options out there, but this solution included 11 viruses and malware. Running these executables puts your system at risk, and you should not hook this hard drive up to your computer. It is compromised.
Get them. Get the awesome higher-end Beelink Mini PCs that can run through Switch and your Steam games. I'm just counting down the days til TTYD's demake leaks and gets a 60fps patch
"im not the drug dealer, im just the middle man... although you can find the drugs right here in the description box below" :D
What's a good mini pc to play this with. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
My son used ur link and ordered one thanks bro!
Mednafen just got a SEGA Saturn Update for PC. The M30 Bluetooth Controller works well with the Orange 8Bitdo Dongle.
Zevia!!!! Good drink choice my man, I'm a fellow Zevia fan! It's nuts that thing plays switch at all, even if its basic.
That laugh at 24:59 tho hahaha
Hay RGT great vid…. Did the N64 section have ALL the WWF/WCW games?
So question do these gaming drives only work on pc? Or can you hook this up to consoles like the Xbox and ps5 to run the emulators
The female sanitation product joke made me lol inside.
Great video you should tell specs on pc so we can compare what we will be running and how it may perform.
Just to let you know the Sufami is the Super Famicom (SNES) but it will probably have the Japan exclusives like the Sailor Moon games in the preview. And I believe the Turbo was some hardware that you could get for the Super Famicom, but not sure.
You always should do a scan on these. luckly the harddrive I have only had one compromised file on it that was taken care of.
I want to check out those usb battery pack ones that have a screen on them for portable gaming.
RGT85: Amazon can’t sell this!!!!
Amazon: *sells it*
Amazon seller is just an RGT85 sock
Thank you very much. I just audit one from amazon, thanks
I wish they had these things that plug into the TV this good lol
Super console x pro
RGT85 out here, admitting to consume that premium zaza.
I literally burst out laughing when I saw Super Mario Odyssey. 😂
Retro bat is the best frontend I use it for my PC it's great and is very customizable.
I wonder if you have a docked steam deck. Would this work?
“I’m not the DRUG DEALER!”
I’m the drug user 😎
🤣🤣🤣
I’ve been wanting to pick up a retro box off Amazon for awhile.
Damn you RGT! You forced me to buy one! 🤣. I honestly hope the affiliate link does pay you kind of decent.
They’re selling it for the equivalent of $63 USD in Canada right now at $87 Canadian.
Buddy it's $35 Canadian on Ali express...
@@Hydro-Ponik cool if true
Worth
Lol Amazon and it's crazy naming conventions for these plug and play system.
You can exactly be mad at spawnwave for putting "cancelled" in his thumbnail if you put a jail cell on yours 😂
U know RGT u should do classic game reviews... Ur so funny and I love your comments playing all of these classic fighting games.... Do more videos like this please
Would’ve been cool if they had Xbox and Xbox 360 titles like KOTOR, Halo, Fable, Morrowind, Splinter Cell, Gears, Forza etc
That requires the hard drive to have it's data storage in Terabytes, not Gigabytes. You want the modern roms, get the pricier drives.
Had one for about 3 weeks now. Ended up just playing vampire survivors the whole time. Haven't had any virus notifications. £20 from Ali express
With this device, Shawn doesn’t have to worry about his dumper all video.
Also could u include wat ur pc specs were for running this like how much ram I need to run this
Second sight is my favorite game to it’s highly underrated and I recommend playing it if you haven’t
lol i just purchased one thx RGT 85!
I'm going to pick it up it looks amazing
Been wanting to try true crime New York. I got the first game with my GameCube back in 03 and absolutely loved that one. I downloaded both of them for my ps2 emulator but haven’t tired NY yet
I remember you could play as Snoop Dog lolol
With a steam deck and a large capacity mini SD card you could have this on the go!
What yall call illegal, i call capitalism. Just ordered mine ✊🏿
Link was olny in the gamecube version... and I diddnt use av cables I used s video for crisper graphics?
The new System Shock remake!
Man i wish they had this in Canada
I got that hard drive.
The working Nintendo Switch Emulater is worth the price...
I didnt get any viruses on my pc snd i got full paid AVG protection too !!
No twisted metal...
Not a bad selection otherwise.
Can you extract all the roms, including pc? My pc can't handle alot of this but I have other devices that can (looking at you, steam deck).
since your video went live its already been taken down. at start of vid was up and would ship to UK now after watching vid and going to order wont let me and has been removed from basket
Is hunter the reckoning on here? If not it should not be hard putting it on right?
I’ve just ordered a Pandora box ultra from alibaba and I can’t wait!
Is that the one with the 2 arcade stick base?
I just ordered it. I've bought a few of these kid of things before. I just transfer he robs and the emulators. It becomes a rom storage drive for me.
They can it’s a private seller just using Amazon as a platform like eBay or yahoo auctions
They have a 12 tb drive I've seen a few guys review. It's insane how many games they have on them. Amazon product also.
There is a retro East with 100tb
Can you make a separate video showcasing the light gun games?
How does the touch screen work for the DS and Wii U games?
Goblin commander rocks. Lol
I ordered one and then canceled it. I saw the reviews. It has viruses on it I didn't want to risk anything. Unfortunate because it is such a great deal.
PC Games cracks can trigger false positives. I know it.
Use a separate computer. There's ones you can buy cheap that are just for this that you can have separate from your main so it doesn't affect your good computer
@@sagnbaby smart
I got mine and it works great. I'm still trying to figure out the button mapping
Seriously I’m gonna buy this like whoa it’s $147+ import in Canada but hella worth it
Carful, RGT won't care if your PC gets a virus
Yes my child
bought one of these just to check it out a few months ago, people could also buy the bigger space one and copy everything and refund it through amazon
Well I ordered
It's got to cross the Atlantic first though but...
We'll see
...dude!
Okay, bought this off your link, so hopefully you get enough to buy a cup of coffee out of it, lol! After all, it's only selling for $40, commission off this can't be very much, can it?
My plan is to immediately clone it to a separate hard drive as a backup. For the price, I'm expecting some sketchy hardware choices, so failures are probably imminent. Most likely device is older laptop hard disk drive with a usb adapter.
Trying to figure out how this is configured. It's clearly not a stand-alone system, like a super console x or batocera drive, that boots into its own operating environment. How are they getting Retro-bat to run in windows? Are they using some kind of virtual-box set up?
I've never got anything above ps2 to run in emulators, so am getting this for the ps3 (if it's REALLY ps3, and not just the pc versions of some ps3 games!) and switch emulators. Hoping this works out.
What can I say? Just spent $40 to doordash 2 FlashJacks cheeseburgers to my house, guess (if this actually works) it will be worth the risk!
The "Viruses and Trojans" that people are claiming here are FALSE POSITIVES due to the PC games they have installed. To run those games without thier launchers (aka steam), you need to run an altered .exe file. These files will show up as viruses from time to time, and are usually false positives. I don't think you;d have anything to fear as far as viruses go.
Does it have Killer Instinct and KI2 on MAME?
Vids like this will solidfy RGTs position as not a Nintendo youtuber
Thanks for the upload bro i appreciate it..
surprised you havent covered the Majoras Mask recomp - especially as a fan of emulation.
... why would Link be in the Dreamcast Soul Claibur?
That's cool. I had to setup my own batocera. Instead of making a bootable usb, all I had to do was buy from amazon!? Missed opportunity. 🤷♂️
This is a harddrive, not at "Retro Game Console".. And also, Amazon does sell it. Clickbait is stupid.
Yo! RGT! if you have one see if it will work on an Asus rog Ally. That would be cool.
Can you use a bluetooth xbox or playstation controller or do you have to use theirs?
Yep
I enjoy your longer gameplay videos.
Why doesn't ANBERNIC / POWKITTY / ETC make tiny consoles? No screen, no buttons, no battery. They have the reputation and experience.
Influencing his fans with products that will potentially be a serious issue including data mining of personal information. Good job 👍
RGT85 : Do A Part 2 Of These Games I Hope There Are No Viruses
Everybody's favorite Nintendo UA-camr
Link didnt work but i got it ✅
40 bucks?! worth it just for those PC games
Definitely should have shown one of those