Hey everybody, this is Russ from Retro Game Corps. I didn't think I needed to say this, but I got a few questions about it. There was zero money exchanged in the creation of this video. The developers reached out to ask for help with testing and promotion, and I immediately saw how great the platform was, and decided to make a dedicated video on it. WebRcade is 100% free, it's a hobby project that the developers decided to share with the world. There's no catch! If I was ever paid for a video I would most definitely say so, although I don't have plans for that at all. The whole point of this channel is to share my love of retro gaming with others, and webRcade is a perfect example of that. Edit to add a couple quick tips: - if using an iPhone, make sure it's not on silent mode (that little switch on the side), and tap the screen once when the game starts so that you can get sound - on Xbox, press L2 + L3 to bring up the webRcade menu
Anyone who names a pet after a different animal all together (dog named Moose and eventually one named bear) is generally beyond reproach. Keep up the good work.
I actually just set this up on my 4k fire stick via the Amazon silk browser and a 8bitdo pro controller and it works surprisingly well! Thanks for introducing me to this!
This video came at the exactly right time. I was losing my mind over getting retroarch to work on my chrome OS device. This saves the day!!! Thanx a lot!
This is amazing and very clever in how it works. The first thing it brings to my mind is whether or not I could edit the json to use urls that are local to my devices storage (iOS). If that were done and webrcade added a service worker js to their app so that it ran offline that would enable full offline play which is handy when flying.
This is simply awesome! As soon as they add cloud saves, savestates and the support for PSX games I'll probably move my complete collection into my private cloud and to WebRcade. Never setting up an emulator on any device again! The retro gaming future seems to shine very bright! :)
this is actually really cool, i've been meaning to emulate on my ipad but there is (or rather was) no easy way of doing that. will definitely try that out! cheers!
This is a great option for us IOS users. Look forward to trying this on my iPad. It will be cool to watch this develop and see if they are able to emulate higher end systems.
YES. This is already a very cool thing, but cloud saves would be the best thing they could add. I'd want that even more than more powerful systems. Honestly, keeping it 16-bit and below would make it more portable from system to system. Not sure every single thing with a browser has the power to play N64, but if we're talking 16-bit and below, the whole "you can run it on a potato" cliche works out very well. Add cloud saves to that, and suddenly this actually has something over other solutions.
Great video, this is incredible news for retrogamers. By the way, talking about emulation, did you make a video on setting up RetroArch, selecting best cores and such? The amount of options, especially on cores available, truly makes it overwhelming.
It’s tough because the best settings vary by device. So I try to integrate them into general device videos because a single RetroArch video is kinda impossible to make ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@RetroGameCorps I have a S20 FE Snapdragon, it's almost the same as your LG V60, with SD 865 and 8GB RAM. I believe most people would use something on the lines of SD 7XX and above to this day. Of course, it could be a video just pointing out what cores you like as reference for the main 8 to 32 bit consoles. But I understand you saying it's a complex task to make a dedicated video to RetroArch.
Awesome vid and a great idea much easier than Xbox dev mode and other awkward streaming services. Forgot to mention though that in the UK you are limited to just 2gb of storage on Dropbox unless you pay for more.
Set up a feed and it works great. I wasn’t able to get any scraping of pictures or info on my roms at all, not sure how to ‘try again’ or what the requirements are for the rom names. But I love it anyway, so happy to play on my iPhone or my Xbox Series S. Now if they could just have cloud saves/states it would be PERFECT . So a dad like me could be working on an SNES RPG on the tv, and when my wife or kids need the tv I can just switch to my iPhone or whatever device I want and pick up where I saved. That would be awesome. Congrats on an amazing platform Webrcade.
I am LOVING WebRcade! What a polished experience for $0! Thank you developers! I know that this is Apple’s problem, and not anyone else’s, but I wish that WebRcade could be made to run on AppleTV 4k! I am stumped for how to get my retro game collection to run on the thing, and I know that it would be an emulation beast! The newest models do not feature any decent data I/O and afaik there aren’t any sideloading options, yet.
This is really awesome! They just need to implement some QooL things like cloud saves, save states, cheats and some filters like scanlines. EDIT: They really REALLY should add touch controls to it! The lack of touch controls is a deal breaker as it only becomes useful when you remembered to carry your controller with you.
Even as an Android user, this is really interesting. I'm suprised by the features available from the start. I wonder how far they can take the emulation. The one feature I'm hoping they add is support for cloud storage beyond Dropbox like Google Drive. Not sure if adding the game by using the URL from another cloud storage platform will work.
Google Drive is possible, but not embedded like DropBox and requires a bit of tweaking of the URL. You have to use a service like this, and then make sure that the folders are set to "anyone can view": sites.google.com/site/gdocs2direct/
This video just breathed new life into where and how I can play retro games. I tested it on my old Dell Lattitude E series laptop Windows 7 in Firefox and they ran perfectly. I can't get some of the old drivers to work on the thing, yet this allowed me to play what somehow i couldn't. Getting a little cheap computer usb stick, into a tv, and just run the games through browser. No need to download hundreds of roms onto it. Hell I wonder (I hope someone can test this) if this will work on a smart tv no issue. Should be able to especially with a blutooth controller connected. Who got a dusty old Ouya to test this on? lmao
Wow, this truly fantastic video :) I mean, this is something new, interesting :) I would say that webrcade is nice, if you ie. switch computers a lot - i mean, you're on the laptop, you're on the desktop, you're on the phone - you can still play your SNES, Genesis etc. games, from the same rom library, without uploading / configuring anything. One feature would be great though :) : - save game on computer A, resume / load game on computer B - this would be a truly cloud :) And yea, google drive integration would be nice too (but i guess, it would require some oauth / token authentication)
It looks neat, I might give it a try. I've been playing around with a raspberry pi zero 2 w and I'm curious if this would work. I guess it depends on how heavy the load is on resources and compatibility with the browsers offered on the Pi. If they add a lot of features to this, it could become the best way to have access to your game library. I also could imagine the possibility of a retro handheld device that is designed to access this site. Maybe you could keep a minimum amount of roms on your device and access the rest through this service when you have an internet connection. It definitely makes emulation on a phone more appealing because you could build a large library without having to store it on your phone's storage.
Great walkthrough! Even if some of this things are new to me I’m sure I will figure it out following this 😀 (have waited 12 years to run emus on iOS 😂)
Great implementation, great guide! I hope everyone's browsers are secure, to put a slight downer on things. I can see URLs being shared around and the potential for malware and whatnot.
Thank you for this setup guide! And dude this is just amazing. Browser based applications are the best and will only increase in the near future, hopefully. Stoked!
It is Christmas in January!!! I am on the fence to get a retro console but in the meantime I can start playing via web on my iPhone and iPad. Bests regards from a Venezuelan follower!
hey russ I am a big fan . just a heads up. I think some people see showcase in the title (@2:40) and are assumeing it's a paid ad. Becuase some big tech channels like Linus Tech Tips use the word showcase for their paid or sponsored videos. That's could be the reason some people might have misunderstood if money exchanged hands at all. I am sure no money has exchanged hands here . Thank you for all these Awesome Videos.
Good point, thank you for the feedback. There was definitely no money involved in this project. I guess I used the word “showcase” in place of the word demonstration, but now I see how that could be taken a different way. Thanks!
Great video and walkthrough, I managed to get a feed going in no time, getting the images ready took longer but not a big deal. Im now playing my rom library on my xbox, pretty crazy.
Did you have any hiccups or anything on installing it on your Xbox I'm assuming you're using an Xbox one? I can't wait to try this out as I was just looking into buying a device solely for playing gb & gba games so I'm stocked!
@@darksting77 Wow so cool I can't wait to get this going for : TMNT Turtles in Time, Double dragon,Strider,Metroid,Blastermaster,Altered Beast,Golden Axe just to name a few lol Thanx alot 4 your reply you're the 1st person I've talked with who got it up & running!
@@RetroGameCorps I hope they figure out a polite way of keeping the lights on. I am not against reasonable payment. Maybe the should incorporate a donation page or something.
Hey Russ! When/if they implement cloud saves, could you test this from a browser on, say, a Retroid Pocket 2+ and other handhelds that might have a browser? I know it sounds weird to use something like this on an actual emulation device, and I'm not talking about using it for everything on the system, but the idea of stopping on Xbox and picking up on a dedicated handheld is interesting. I'm thinking a hurdle might be text size and interface layout, but if it worked.. Also, PS Vita browser might be a great solution for folks that don't want to mod their firmware. I think we're just scratching the surface of what it potentially means to be able to do all this from a browser. So yeah, maybe a future video idea would be testing this in uncommon browsers and doing a little roundup of the various experiences.
Thanks for the Video. I shall try it tonight on my xbox series S although i have set up retro arch on it already and some other stand alone emulators same as you did a good few videos back
Oh god. If Nintendo allowed easy access to the Switch WebBrowser, this would kill the need of getting the NSO Sub FOR the classic games. Or just using it at all since soon this will allow you to cross progress with other plats.
Looks great! I just started out trying betacera yesterday as my intro into retro gaming from my childhood. My guess is a handheld I can have with me is my preferred solution rather than playing on my phone. Problem is that I was a n64 to Xbox kid in my youth and I don't know if there is a handheld capable of Xbox emulation....
I was liking what I saw but I honestly wasn't really going anywhere with it until you mentioned Doom. I didn't need another thing on my todo list so now I'm not so happy with you. Thanks for the efforts here.
Thanks for the great video! Very excited to see where this project goes. The only major downside for me so far is that GBA uses VBA-M, which sadly does not work well or at all with modern Pokemon rom hacks. Any idea if the developer plans to add MGBA support in the future?
Whoops! Looks like I missed this section in the docs: “The alias gba also currently maps to this application. In the future, the gba alias may be mapped to another Nintendo Game Boy Advance application (different emulator implementation) if it is determined to be a more appropriate default.” Promising!
Really cool, nice vid. Can you maybe share your game library, or make a showcase video about the games that you have? I want to add games to my library but don't realy now what should I add, so I'd like some examples
sounds really cool, would be nice if there was something like users so you can store your feed in a user and not worry to remember urls or upload files on every new device. i'm gonna check it out and follow it
Wow this is such a cool option! Awesome content as always, Russ! Do you happen to know if I could get this running on a Chromecast w/ Google TV? This would be a much easier way to play games on my other TV lol.
@@RetroGameCorpsCan't seem to get it to work well on the Chromecast unfortunately. It played too jittery with an installed browser and trying to cast my phone screen to it was wayyy too laggy. Still, I'm excited to have this option for my phone and my tablet. Edit: Also tried it from the PS4 browser and it wouldn't even load up a game. Waah. It would be cool if they could add support for Playstation in the future.
@@RetroGameCorps I agree! Thanks for taking the time to set it up and showcase. I been putting the feed together and been playing retro games on my Ipad :D got one of those minis for christmas which has been awesome to play these games on! Been playing Aladdin all afternoon
@@ruxcooking I didn't watched the whole video but this is the first impression when you read the title. I suppose they are offering just open source emulator and you should provide your own games, so this is immune to lawsuit like opensource Mario64.
@@ruxcooking no, its not the same. One is a emulator software to play the games in your own emulation system. This is a cloud WEB service. And we all know how is Nintendo with webs...
They are currently stored in the IndexDB of the browser, so they are not transferrable yet. But hopefully someday we'll see cloud saves and save states, so we can just jump into our game progress across different platforms!
@@RetroGameCorps Seriously... You are awesome. You have made me a retro game device addict. Haha 🤣. Love your videos my friend. Thanks for the info about saves. Cloud saves would make this service a home run for many people.
Just bought two RGB 10 Max's , and now my Xbox is about to be lit. Son. It's about to be so epic. Does multi player work at all? It would be so cool if we could play street fighter together in different rooms, on different devices. Not sure if that is a thing already. I have a busy day ahead of me 😅
If you run a game on an emulator once, then you can put your phone on flight mode and continue to use it. Seems it caches the emulator and ROM. Good little hack if you’re travelling and don’t have cell/wifi
Forgive my noobness here but I have a couple of questions. 1) Does this use your phones/pc's specs like your video about setting up a USB Stick as a emulation station? Or does the browser do all of the heavy lifting? 2) Have you noticed any significant input lag? I am a huge fan of side scrollers and have had issues with dying in Mario games due to running off cliffs because it didn't jump. (That was several years ago though, using a networked HDD.) 3) If you use drop box, can the games save in the roms folder located in drop box so you have pseudo cloud saves? If that makes any sense. Or are the games saved on the domains end? I think this could be a fantastic method of play for me. I do just about all of my digital entertainment at my desk. I watch movies or youtube videos on my 2nd monitor. Being able to play on my other monitor or on my landscaped ipad using my xbox controller sounds amazing!
Hey everybody, this is Russ from Retro Game Corps. I didn't think I needed to say this, but I got a few questions about it. There was zero money exchanged in the creation of this video. The developers reached out to ask for help with testing and promotion, and I immediately saw how great the platform was, and decided to make a dedicated video on it. WebRcade is 100% free, it's a hobby project that the developers decided to share with the world. There's no catch! If I was ever paid for a video I would most definitely say so, although I don't have plans for that at all. The whole point of this channel is to share my love of retro gaming with others, and webRcade is a perfect example of that.
Edit to add a couple quick tips:
- if using an iPhone, make sure it's not on silent mode (that little switch on the side), and tap the screen once when the game starts so that you can get sound
- on Xbox, press L2 + L3 to bring up the webRcade menu
Bravo. Keep being 100% you.
raspberry pi OS now with mutter compositing how does it perform with this?
@@realdragonrude I'm not sure, I don't have a Pi set up to test.
Anyone who names a pet after a different animal all together (dog named Moose and eventually one named bear) is generally beyond reproach. Keep up the good work.
Awesome, man. You are a true badass, is amazing to see this kind of cooperation in the retro game community.
I actually just set this up on my 4k fire stick via the Amazon silk browser and a 8bitdo pro controller and it works surprisingly well! Thanks for introducing me to this!
Great to hear!
Developer: "Do you want to make a video about this service?"
Russ: "Yeah, man. I wanna do it."
This video came at the exactly right time. I was losing my mind over getting retroarch to work on my chrome OS device. This saves the day!!! Thanx a lot!
Install the Linux version or checkout the web version. What is the issue you are having?
Retroarch is literally the easiest frontend to setup and use.
Your mistake was buying an Apple device.
This is amazing and very clever in how it works. The first thing it brings to my mind is whether or not I could edit the json to use urls that are local to my devices storage (iOS). If that were done and webrcade added a service worker js to their app so that it ran offline that would enable full offline play which is handy when flying.
This is simply awesome! As soon as they add cloud saves, savestates and the support for PSX games I'll probably move my complete collection into my private cloud and to WebRcade. Never setting up an emulator on any device again! The retro gaming future seems to shine very bright! :)
Cloud saving is now added in the staging (test) environment. See the discord server for more information.
New theme is growing on me. Props to everything you do to help the retro community.
this is actually really cool, i've been meaning to emulate on my ipad but there is (or rather was) no easy way of doing that. will definitely try that out! cheers!
It’s really nice on iPad thanks to the taller aspect ratio on those devices!
@@RetroGameCorps followed your guide and now i'm playing aria of sorrow on my ipad! super neat!
Yeah those emulator workarounds on ios are limited compared to just doing this
This is a great option for us IOS users. Look forward to trying this on my iPad. It will be cool to watch this develop and see if they are able to emulate higher end systems.
iPad is a great fit for this, because its 4:3-ish aspect ratio makes the games look GREAT.
Yeah no need for all those limited workarounds for running emulators on ios devices.
This is probably one of the cooler things I've seen in a long time esp for anyone that hasn't invested into a dedicated retro device yet.
If they do end up adding cloud saves, I can see this becoming my new main way to play some of these.
Agreed, I would love to start a game on my Xbox and then finish it on my iPhone/iPad.
Completely agree, having the ability to direct saves to my NAS or my Dropbox would be amazing.
It's probably the biggest pro point.
YES. This is already a very cool thing, but cloud saves would be the best thing they could add. I'd want that even more than more powerful systems. Honestly, keeping it 16-bit and below would make it more portable from system to system. Not sure every single thing with a browser has the power to play N64, but if we're talking 16-bit and below, the whole "you can run it on a potato" cliche works out very well. Add cloud saves to that, and suddenly this actually has something over other solutions.
Cloud saving is now added in the staging (test) environment. See the discord server for more information.
Man, you are the best. Thank you for your content. I really appreciate it.
Great video, this is incredible news for retrogamers.
By the way, talking about emulation, did you make a video on setting up RetroArch, selecting best cores and such?
The amount of options, especially on cores available, truly makes it overwhelming.
It’s tough because the best settings vary by device. So I try to integrate them into general device videos because a single RetroArch video is kinda impossible to make ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@RetroGameCorps I have a S20 FE Snapdragon, it's almost the same as your LG V60, with SD 865 and 8GB RAM. I believe most people would use something on the lines of SD 7XX and above to this day.
Of course, it could be a video just pointing out what cores you like as reference for the main 8 to 32 bit consoles.
But I understand you saying it's a complex task to make a dedicated video to RetroArch.
@@mardukas13 I love retroarch but it kinda be like that sometimes. I hear Lemuroid does a pretty good job at being a lot more straight forward.
Iii
Cross platform cloud saves via a web browser would be incredible
Cool. I have SNES, NES, and GBA all set up in webRcade. Thanks for the useful tutorial!
Awesome!
I added Sega Genesis as well. The artwork is easy to add-in. I think this bodes well for retro game preservation.
The intro music isn't bad, it's just a lot less bright and positive sounding, a little more dark and ominous now. Content still top notch sir
Thanks Chicken for picking out all these games for Russ! :)
This is kind of crazy to me, If they add an easy to play 'Multiplayer' function to play with some friends it will be a GOD Sent
Insane concept to play retro games with your friends
This is great stuff!
Your channel is such a great platform for promoting hidden gems of retro gaming solutions.
This is great, to the extent that I'm willing to pay maybe a one time fee to access a premium tier with extra features.
This is absolutely amazing one of the best videos I’ve seen and keeps getting better amazing!
Awesome vid and a great idea much easier than Xbox dev mode and other awkward streaming services. Forgot to mention though that in the UK you are limited to just 2gb of storage on Dropbox unless you pay for more.
Set up a feed and it works great. I wasn’t able to get any scraping of pictures or info on my roms at all, not sure how to ‘try again’ or what the requirements are for the rom names. But I love it anyway, so happy to play on my iPhone or my Xbox Series S. Now if they could just have cloud saves/states it would be PERFECT . So a dad like me could be working on an SNES RPG on the tv, and when my wife or kids need the tv I can just switch to my iPhone or whatever device I want and pick up where I saved. That would be awesome. Congrats on an amazing platform Webrcade.
Damn this is genius and has huge potential to blow up especially if they add more consoles that’s pretty crazy I love it
I am LOVING WebRcade! What a polished experience for $0! Thank you developers!
I know that this is Apple’s problem, and not anyone else’s, but I wish that WebRcade could be made to run on AppleTV 4k! I am stumped for how to get my retro game collection to run on the thing, and I know that it would be an emulation beast! The newest models do not feature any decent data I/O and afaik there aren’t any sideloading options, yet.
Should have Google Drive support.
Ya
Yea
I mean, Dropbox is good, but not as good as Google Drive.
Really
This is really awesome! They just need to implement some QooL things like cloud saves, save states, cheats and some filters like scanlines.
EDIT: They really REALLY should add touch controls to it!
The lack of touch controls is a deal breaker as it only becomes useful when you remembered to carry your controller with you.
I have been loving the new into music for this year so far
I've seen some browser based stuff before, but this looks a little further along, neat!
Even as an Android user, this is really interesting. I'm suprised by the features available from the start. I wonder how far they can take the emulation.
The one feature I'm hoping they add is support for cloud storage beyond Dropbox like Google Drive. Not sure if adding the game by using the URL from another cloud storage platform will work.
Google drive has a habbit of removing roms . One drive might work better.
@@tanmaypanadi1414 Google Drive is fine, unless you are sharing.
Google Drive is possible, but not embedded like DropBox and requires a bit of tweaking of the URL. You have to use a service like this, and then make sure that the folders are set to "anyone can view": sites.google.com/site/gdocs2direct/
Yeah Dropbox has a hard file size limit which is about 500megs so doesn't allow larger roms/isos such as PlayStation 1 or newer
Intriguing, been thinking about emulator collection on browser, and this is truly a solution, great video as usual Russ...
Dude thank you so much for this. I followed it step by step and it works brilliantly! So much easier to play on phone now! Thanks!!!
I absolutely love the state of retro gaming in 2022 and it is only getting more interesting moving forward!
Thank you for the wonderful Christmas present! This is amazing!
This video just breathed new life into where and how I can play retro games.
I tested it on my old Dell Lattitude E series laptop Windows 7 in Firefox and they ran perfectly. I can't get some of the old drivers to work on the thing, yet this allowed me to play what somehow i couldn't.
Getting a little cheap computer usb stick, into a tv, and just run the games through browser. No need to download hundreds of roms onto it.
Hell I wonder (I hope someone can test this) if this will work on a smart tv no issue. Should be able to especially with a blutooth controller connected.
Who got a dusty old Ouya to test this on? lmao
I have no interest in trying to jailbreak my iPad Pro...so this would be perfect!
These games look so good on an iPad thanks to the taller aspect ratio!
Very interesting concept! Thanks again Russ for another great video!
It's great to see developers reaching out to you, def helps your channel grow 👍
Glad you enjoyed it! Yeah it was exciting to be part of the testing/feedback crew with this one.
Wow, this truly fantastic video :) I mean, this is something new, interesting :)
I would say that webrcade is nice, if you ie. switch computers a lot - i mean, you're on the laptop, you're on the desktop, you're on the phone - you can still play your SNES, Genesis etc. games, from the same rom library, without uploading / configuring anything.
One feature would be great though :) :
- save game on computer A, resume / load game on computer B - this would be a truly cloud :)
And yea, google drive integration would be nice too (but i guess, it would require some oauth / token authentication)
This super exciting I'm stoked to get home and link my 1tb hard drive to my route to host it from a personal web server!!
It looks neat, I might give it a try. I've been playing around with a raspberry pi zero 2 w and I'm curious if this would work. I guess it depends on how heavy the load is on resources and compatibility with the browsers offered on the Pi. If they add a lot of features to this, it could become the best way to have access to your game library.
I also could imagine the possibility of a retro handheld device that is designed to access this site. Maybe you could keep a minimum amount of roms on your device and access the rest through this service when you have an internet connection. It definitely makes emulation on a phone more appealing because you could build a large library without having to store it on your phone's storage.
This is actually pretty cool.
i hope u continue making vid about new stuff to come to webrcade ! me and my friends are hooked
Great walkthrough! Even if some of this things are new to me I’m sure I will figure it out following this 😀 (have waited 12 years to run emus on iOS 😂)
Hope you enjoy it!
Great implementation, great guide! I hope everyone's browsers are secure, to put a slight downer on things. I can see URLs being shared around and the potential for malware and whatnot.
Thank you for this setup guide! And dude this is just amazing. Browser based applications are the best and will only increase in the near future, hopefully. Stoked!
Great video, where do you get the games from to add to Dropbox?
It is Christmas in January!!! I am on the fence to get a retro console but in the meantime I can start playing via web on my iPhone and iPad. Bests regards from a Venezuelan follower!
Have to say I'm super impressed with what the site is doing.
Wow, this is really neat. Looking forward to seeing how this develops :)
hey russ I am a big fan .
just a heads up. I think some people see showcase in the title (@2:40) and are assumeing it's a paid ad. Becuase some big tech channels like Linus Tech Tips use the word showcase for their paid or sponsored videos.
That's could be the reason some people might have misunderstood if money exchanged hands at all.
I am sure no money has exchanged hands here .
Thank you for all these Awesome Videos.
Good point, thank you for the feedback. There was definitely no money involved in this project. I guess I used the word “showcase” in place of the word demonstration, but now I see how that could be taken a different way. Thanks!
Great video, Russ! I am assuming you need constant internet access for this to work? No offline play?
If this had retroachievements built-in, id give it a try 100%
That be awesome
I think it's certainly possible, but for this initial release I think the intention was to minimize the amount of things you'd have to log into.
Retroachievements and savestates would make this a dream!
Thank you. Got this on my series s set up in just minutes.
Great vid, this looks amazing, kudos to the developer!
this rocks, it will be great for my ipad when I’m traveling,
This is a promising alternative to dev mode which I've been mourning.
yup works with the native Edge browser, no need for dev mode anymore :-)
Microsoft did walk back and say they are not disabling Dev Mode, so it’s still an option. But this is a great alternative for classic gaming!
@@RetroGameCorps that's true but I preferred it when dev mode was perminantly activated, no questions asked.
This video was so clear and easy to follow. Thanks!
This is great, its just like when I would go on the net back in the days to play browser flash games. Miniclip anyone?
Thanks to you! I can use this when I don't feel like launching emulators! Cheers!
Great video and walkthrough, I managed to get a feed going in no time, getting the images ready took longer but not a big deal. Im now playing my rom library on my xbox, pretty crazy.
Did you have any hiccups or anything on installing it on your Xbox I'm assuming you're using an Xbox one? I can't wait to try this out as I was just looking into buying a device solely for playing gb & gba games so I'm stocked!
@@rodmondh actually not an xbox one, a series X, i spent playing sonic 2, donkey kong country, super mario 3 last night , it was great.
@@darksting77 Wow so cool I can't wait to get this going for : TMNT Turtles in Time, Double dragon,Strider,Metroid,Blastermaster,Altered Beast,Golden Axe just to name a few lol Thanx alot 4 your reply you're the 1st person I've talked with who got it up & running!
@@rodmondh Yeah its not too hard to get it going, took me longer to find images for the feed than actually loading the games lol
I was gonna ask about Xbox but I controlled my impulses and waited to watch the video. 😃
Your patience paid off!
It seems really cool. The only thing I’m not sure about are they making money?
There’s no money involved in this project at all.
It's open source and has no ads
@@RetroGameCorps I hope they figure out a polite way of keeping the lights on. I am not against reasonable payment. Maybe the should incorporate a donation page or something.
@@HANHITSI yeah I’m more concerned with the longevity of the project. It’s really awesome.
Super smart starting with 8-16 bit gaming
This makes me want to get that backbone controller for my iphone now. Not having to rely on altstore refreshing sounds really good.
what an awesome concept
Holy bananas! If they integrate N64 for this, I’m definitely cancelling my Nintendo Online subscription for my Switch… Great video as always!
Hey Russ! When/if they implement cloud saves, could you test this from a browser on, say, a Retroid Pocket 2+ and other handhelds that might have a browser? I know it sounds weird to use something like this on an actual emulation device, and I'm not talking about using it for everything on the system, but the idea of stopping on Xbox and picking up on a dedicated handheld is interesting. I'm thinking a hurdle might be text size and interface layout, but if it worked.. Also, PS Vita browser might be a great solution for folks that don't want to mod their firmware. I think we're just scratching the surface of what it potentially means to be able to do all this from a browser. So yeah, maybe a future video idea would be testing this in uncommon browsers and doing a little roundup of the various experiences.
Thanks for the Video. I shall try it tonight on my xbox series S although i have set up retro arch on it already and some other stand alone emulators same as you did a good few videos back
Very cool, I have to try it out on my Xbox. Thank you for showing 💚
This is fantastic! You hit it out of the park with this one Russ.
As always Russ the retro gaming messiah.. :)
Oh god. If Nintendo allowed easy access to the Switch WebBrowser, this would kill the need of getting the NSO Sub FOR the classic games. Or just using it at all since soon this will allow you to cross progress with other plats.
This looks sick! I'm probably still gonna use botacera because I only emulate on pc but I haven't seen something this unique in a while.
Looks great! I just started out trying betacera yesterday as my intro into retro gaming from my childhood. My guess is a handheld I can have with me is my preferred solution rather than playing on my phone. Problem is that I was a n64 to Xbox kid in my youth and I don't know if there is a handheld capable of Xbox emulation....
I was liking what I saw but I honestly wasn't really going anywhere with it until you mentioned Doom. I didn't need another thing on my todo list so now I'm not so happy with you. Thanks for the efforts here.
Haha, that's fair, sorry for the extra work :)
Hi!
Does the web any part where you can map the buttons of the controller?
Awesome web and video!! Thanks in advance!
You sir! Real MVP
Neat. I've played old games on a browser before but joystick support wasn't there nor was it as slick as this. I'll definitely have to try this out.
Thanks for the great video! Very excited to see where this project goes. The only major downside for me so far is that GBA uses VBA-M, which sadly does not work well or at all with modern Pokemon rom hacks. Any idea if the developer plans to add MGBA support in the future?
Whoops! Looks like I missed this section in the docs:
“The alias gba also currently maps to this application. In the future, the gba alias may be mapped to another Nintendo Game Boy Advance application (different emulator implementation) if it is determined to be a more appropriate default.”
Promising!
You should make game recommendations who people who want to play some classic games that they may have not played before
Really cool, nice vid. Can you maybe share your game library, or make a showcase video about the games that you have? I want to add games to my library but don't realy now what should I add, so I'd like some examples
sounds really cool, would be nice if there was something like users so you can store your feed in a user and not worry to remember urls or upload files on every new device.
i'm gonna check it out and follow it
Wow this is such a cool option! Awesome content as always, Russ! Do you happen to know if I could get this running on a Chromecast w/ Google TV? This would be a much easier way to play games on my other TV lol.
I haven’t tried it but my first guess is that it should work fine. Please let me know how it goes!
Use a chrome browser then cast it to the tv?
@@RetroGameCorpsCan't seem to get it to work well on the Chromecast unfortunately. It played too jittery with an installed browser and trying to cast my phone screen to it was wayyy too laggy. Still, I'm excited to have this option for my phone and my tablet.
Edit: Also tried it from the PS4 browser and it wouldn't even load up a game. Waah. It would be cool if they could add support for Playstation in the future.
Long time watcher, and great content! On the Xbox, does the browser save game data?
Ok this is really cool holy hell
Is it Dropbox only?
No, you can point it to any server, that is accessible over the internet where you host your ROMS.
Doing this on Ipad is incredibly nice! Love this :D
Yeah I didn't show much footage with iPad but it's actually one of the best ways to use this!
@@RetroGameCorps I agree! Thanks for taking the time to set it up and showcase. I been putting the feed together and been playing retro games on my Ipad :D got one of those minis for christmas which has been awesome to play these games on! Been playing Aladdin all afternoon
@@piplup10203854 stop giving me a reason to get a mini :D
Let's see how long it can last without being reported by Nintendo
What's to report? They don't supply you with any games. It'd be like reporting retroarch.
@@ruxcooking I didn't watched the whole video but this is the first impression when you read the title.
I suppose they are offering just open source emulator and you should provide your own games, so this is immune to lawsuit like opensource Mario64.
@@ruxcooking no, its not the same. One is a emulator software to play the games in your own emulation system. This is a cloud WEB service. And we all know how is Nintendo with webs...
@@aor244 they don't host games. You do. That's why it's comparable.
Insanely cool
Great walkthrough Russ!!! Thank you. Where are game save files stored?
They are currently stored in the IndexDB of the browser, so they are not transferrable yet. But hopefully someday we'll see cloud saves and save states, so we can just jump into our game progress across different platforms!
@@RetroGameCorps Seriously... You are awesome. You have made me a retro game device addict. Haha 🤣. Love your videos my friend. Thanks for the info about saves. Cloud saves would make this service a home run for many people.
This is awesome. I'm going to try in a PS4 for curiosity
Really really cool. Quick question what is the phone controller you are using? Would you recommend?
It's the Backbone One, and I love it. I have a link in the video description!
Great guide as always!
Great Video Im going to be doing that today 👊🏽
Wow, such a brilliant app!
Just bought two RGB 10 Max's , and now my Xbox is about to be lit. Son. It's about to be so epic. Does multi player work at all? It would be so cool if we could play street fighter together in different rooms, on different devices. Not sure if that is a thing already.
I have a busy day ahead of me 😅
I don’t think multiplayer is supported, but they would be cool!
Like this video nice another option to play retro games anywhere
The future of cloud gaming
If you run a game on an emulator once, then you can put your phone on flight mode and continue to use it.
Seems it caches the emulator and ROM. Good little hack if you’re travelling and don’t have cell/wifi
Nice tip, thanks Simon!
Forgive my noobness here but I have a couple of questions.
1) Does this use your phones/pc's specs like your video about setting up a USB Stick as a emulation station? Or does the browser do all of the heavy lifting?
2) Have you noticed any significant input lag? I am a huge fan of side scrollers and have had issues with dying in Mario games due to running off cliffs because it didn't jump. (That was several years ago though, using a networked HDD.)
3) If you use drop box, can the games save in the roms folder located in drop box so you have pseudo cloud saves? If that makes any sense. Or are the games saved on the domains end?
I think this could be a fantastic method of play for me. I do just about all of my digital entertainment at my desk. I watch movies or youtube videos on my 2nd monitor. Being able to play on my other monitor or on my landscaped ipad using my xbox controller sounds amazing!