Regarding the issue that some have brought up regarding viruses found on the drive. I scanned it and I found 'questionable' key generators and game cracks in the PC games section of the drive. I think they're just downloading torrents of cracked games, which often are flagged by virus software. Often these are false flags. But sometimes they are not. I don't care enough to test each and every one properly, because like I say in the video I don't support pirating PC games. I always delete them off these sorts of products to make more space for retro games, so if you get this you can just delete the PC games off the drive and it's perfectly clean without them. As always if you want to run cracked PC games then you'll have to do it at your own risk.
I came here to ask this actually lol. Mine came in after DHL hard fumbled it for 3 weeks and the amazon reviews kind of made me worry a little. I'll do some scans and hopefully it's only as you said.
Hi TechDweeb.. how can I play with the second controller in 2 player games.... because when I try to use the second controller no way to connect and play in 2 player.if you can give me a advice how can I fix this problem thank you
@@foreverfree12345 I haven't had that problem...I plugged in an Xbox and a Switch controller and it seemed to auto map both controllers...What games are you trying to play?
I was born in 1985 and as a little kid I wouldn’t have even been able to imagine something like this. Here we are 38 years later, and I literally can have my whole life in gaming on a 3.5in drive. Forget flying cars, this is the future I wanted!
I don't know man.. those flying cars are still tantalizing lol. I'm a younger gamer but still old school enough to experienced the Nintendo in all its glory. I agree with you, it's insane how far we've come.
comments saying that anyone can create by himself this collection and the emulators... is like saying that anyone can build his house by laying bricks. xD
I remember spending an entire summer putting one of these together and it only had a couple terabytes. Although, there are easier ways to do this, now days.
So happy you got this drive. I recently got this thing for the very reasons you listed. I work allot and just don't have the time to download all these rom's. I would love for someone to do a deep dive on this thing. For example how to properly and most effectively transfer these games to a RP3+ or RP2s. Also I have watched your channel and retro game core for over a year now and have been learning the retro game handheld scene very slowly but for some odd reason I still cant get my games to save. If you could do a small intro on how to do a save state very slowly that would be awesome. I just don't understand what I'm missing.
Awesome! For the saves, you mean in this drive or on your handhelds? If it's on this drive you'll need to open up the retoarch settings (l3 + r3) while the game is open, and then go to the main settings>input>hotkeys, and in there you can set whatever hotkey you want for save (I choose 'select' as the hotkey enable, and r1 as save, and l1 as load). Stop by my discord and ask for help if you need a hand :)
Wow. I've watched the other videos you made on these hard drive ROMsets, but even at $300 this is the first one that's really tempted me to go and buy one. Because of my data cap, it'd take me around 9-10 months to download all this stuff. I'd say getting everything in January (in a 12 TB Seagate drive) is worth the asking price.
You'd probably play more if the games taking the year to download your own collection, loll. Plus there's new English transitions for games every month it feels like.
Antique gamer here, just jumped head first into this hobby and damn, you just made my life so much easier. As you said, just the library alone to use on my Odin 2 Pro is worth the price of admission. Cheers and thanks!!!🎉🎉🎉
I can understand the hate towards these devices. Basically you can build one yourself for cheaper but it is very convenient and great for video game history nerds.
I bought a similar drive which came with Launchbox but it didn't come with quite as many of the higher-end titles. It was extremely easy to add/delete/off-load titles though and I still use this drive as a depot today. I honestly don't know why anyone would complain about the price unless they already had all these collections saved; If so, just don't buy it. I noticed you have a lot of mushrooms growing in your mom's basement. I'm no expert, but have you considered letting in some sunlight and using a dehumidifier? Then again, those mushrooms are kind of cute.
I think people just realize that this CAN be made by one's self, and that it would be relatively simple, so they complain without actually thinking through what would really be involved. I just get that kind of complaint often so I wanted to address it in the actual video rather than explain it in every comment 😅 The mushrooms are my friends. They show me truth.
I bought this a few days ago, and actually found this channel looking for a review of this exact product, likely while u were working on this video. Mines still zooming in from china now, thanks for reassuring my buyers remorse 😂
I got mine in the mail today the same day you release this video. I was so stoked! however so far I have had nothing but trouble with it. I've been stuck and can't close the game and the first game I tried Killer Instinct didn't work for me. I have to admit I'm not computer literate so it's probably me .I will try and reinstall later.
I just want to let people know you can play all these games at a higher framerate with no mods using Lossless Scaling from Steam. It let's you play games like Mario 64 at 60 fps. It's frame gen on any graphics card. Your welcome
@@TechDweeb oh i was embellishing a bit but sounds like a 100 hours of sorting and downloading. I already order one i always fear the internet might turn off one day lol.
Seems like a great option. Not sure of the legality but i'm interested ahahaha. Hopefully I could copy over just a couple systems onto a smaller drive too, maybe keep a big "master" drive on my gaming pc
I'm glad to see your channel getting more traction as you do really good reviews. The reservation that some people have about these drives is if any kind of spyware is hidden on it so it would be nice if someone could do a deep dive into the files and see if there's anything like that.
Im wondering that myself.. I ordered the drive already but some review said there was like 30 viruses and i want to know if its true or just false positives..
That is why i got it gonna go through and post everything it before they get a dmca lol. Looks like the craziest collection ever . hopefully they get a lot out all over the world.then generations later people will still be playing these all over the world.
@@X862go that's why I'm getting mine too. To have so many generations of games in my collection is a dream come true. Plus, it'll be great to have them all cataloged.
Just ordered my own one of these. I have a pretty big collection of games (about 1.5TB) but for £140 including shipping you can't really beat 12tb. As I'm addicted to retro handhelds too this is going to be my main collection drive to pull games from. Thanks for the video as I had no idea these things existed!
Here's my stance on the piracy thing ua-cam.com/video/yQaTJ_Vjws8/v-deo.html TLDW; Don't pirate games you can legally buy, but roms of games you can't buy are fair game.
They are set to play with controller (you can see in Mario Galaxy I was using the right stick as my wiimote pointer). You CAN use the official controller and USB sensor bar though if you have them.
@@TechDweeb Thanks so much for the reply, I appreciate it! I did download a front end with emulators and roms similar to this but much, much smaller. It has WII so I was curious about how to play it. Many thanks!
Nice! I feel as you do, I'd get rid of current Gen games, you can delete the roms you don't want right? Anyways love your channel keep up the unique videos
Thanks buddy! Yup, you can delete stuff you don't want. Unfortunately if you add your own stuff it won't be automatically scraped with the videos and stuff. There's a process to rebuild the frontend if you need to but it's a pain.
Thanks for this vid. Next pay, this will be my new toy for sure. I have a pc setup for retro gaming and this will be so much better than the lowly 120gb ssd I have in it loaded with a few mame games. I'll have to replace the Radeon 5850 that's in it for the RTX 2060 I have sitting spare in a box though so that I can play some of the later games. Plus the discount will more than cover the shipping here to Australia so that's awesome.
@@TechDweeb Several years ago, when we first started collecting ROMs as backups to our physical games, some were not good and didn’t play as crisply as the original game. I don’t know what was wrong with them from a technical standpoint. Probably most new’er ROMs are fine but I wanted to ask.
On Aliexpress I see several people complaining about quite a bit of games not launching. Including tecnoparrot not working at all. Technoparrot can be fixed by some update though it says). Could it be that the actual products sometimes are in worse condition than the review samples out there? Not pointing fingers, just wondering@@TechDweeb
@@warpathh you need a good enough pc or laptop. At least a decent rtx gpu and Ryzen intel cpu combo. That can run all the older stuff Nintendo cemu and maybe some ps3 and Xbox 360 games. I have i7 12700h 3060 and run Nintendo games on yuzu just fine. And cemu and xenia with red dead redemption. That runs 30 to 60fps depends on the area. Oh yeah btw that is a laptop. I can even workaround playing ps4 console on laptop with a capture card. Its pretty neat. I don't need to carry a monitor for the ps4. My co worker jokingly sad I have a whole playground in my room 😂.
Nice. The dubious PS4/5 stuff would be wasted on me as I don't do that sort of gaming anymore. I used to be a bit hardcore and bought import consoles as soon as they were released. That was up to PS2/ Dreamcast time - I hardly touched my PS3, and played mostly Left 4 dead /2 on the Xbox360. What I would want the most from this is a proper working Mame library, my attempts at that in Batocera weren't that successful.
As a person who has no time to download every single game due to work commitments, yeah I am all in for this harddrive solely for the complete sets of games for GameCube, DS, 3DS & other retro systems. I shall keep this one as a master drive & copy games that I will eventually play into smaller SSDs.
That's exactly how I'm planning on using it. This is my new master collection. I needed a giant drive for emulation backup anyways so this is like a short cut :P. Although I plan on deleting the PC games and adding more PS3 stuff.
The value is ok, an external HDD of this type is around 200. 12tb or so of data takes a long while to put together. The actual files can be found online via torrents and file sharing websites, but will take you forever to download, especially if you do not have the space for it to begin with. I have to imagine however that the HDD itself is used, which makes their profits margin quite high on these. So unless this is not something you want to deal with yourself, grab a brand new external HDD for less than 200, and start downloading straight into it. You should be done in a month or so, lol.
Something you said instantly caught my attention: "Pinball Emulation." If you do not mind me asking, is that Pinball FX or is that virtual pinball? If it has a whole section for virtual pinball that's already setup and has some tables in it, I'm sold on this. If it's virtual pinball, could you let me know how many tables are on it and what some highlights are? I would appreciate it so much! 😊
Pinball Arcade (71 tables), Pinball FX3 (93 tables), AND Future Pinball (emulation of real tables, 461 tables!). I should mention that Future Pinball requires a little extra step to get working (set the exe to run as administrator).
@@TechDweeb Yes! Future Pinball! I am sold. Holy cow, this thing is amazing. I remember paying $100 as a kid to get my Wii molded to get NES, SNES, and GB games. I'm definitely willing to drop a little more to essentially game everything for the rest of my life, haha! I'm sick of configuring everything myself; the point you made about the price is excellent. Even though I love to tinker, getting my PC to do that would be nearly impossible. Thank you for another great video and for your reply!
I know exactly what you mean. Mainstream marketplaces like Amazon tend to crack down more on any emulation gear with any games included with it, in the UK and EU. Often you will see the product come up for a few days and then it'll either have the "No longer available" tag on the product or it's taken off the marketplace and listings altogether. Ebay and AliExpress tend to be better, but there's also a hell of a lot of fake stuff and rip off merchants on them.
And I have one more question, does the hard drive what I have seen comes with a power plug and just wondering is that necessary or does it come in different plugs?
@@TechDweeb ah, must be over, or maybe it’s for targeted audiences. I don’t see it, but I do get a $30 one on your alternative link that includes the controller. With the $30 off that one, it came down to cheaper than the one without a controller, so I went with that. Thanks for this video, I can’t wait to try this thing out!
Just subscribed after seeing this video. I love this idea - but am wondering the same thing some other on here have asked/stated. The Amazon reviews state there are viruses/trojans on here. Can TechDweeb confirm this? Also, if I buy one of the referenced mini PCs, will it come with a version of Windows already on it? I'm also wondering if I can use this in an arcade cabinet controlling everything with arcade joysticks, buttons, trackballs, etc. Any input, TechDweeb? Thank you!!
I found 'questionable' key generators and game cracks in the PC games section of the drive. I think they're just downloading torrents of cracked games, which often are flagged by virus software. Often these are false flags. But sometimes they are not. I don't care enough to test each and every one properly, because like I say in the video I don't support pirating PC games. I delete them off these sorts of products to make more space for retro games, so if you get this you can just delete the PC games off the drive and it's perfectly clean without them. If you want to run cracked PC games then you'll have to do it at your own risk. You can DEFINITELY use this in an arcade cab with joysticks/buttons, etc. Depending on what driver your controller uses it may be plug & play, or you may need to set up a keymapper or rebind the controls in the emulators. I used a similar drive on a PC I have connected to my arcade cab and it worked immediately with the aliexpress usb buttons/joystick I used.
G14 MSI gaming laptop Or Lenovo Legion Slim 7 or Legion 5 Pro with RTX-4060. Any of these will work perfect if you have the budget. Around $1000. (Best performance) Otherwise, RTX A2000 as your video card and build a slim gaming PC around $5-600. (Better performance) OR if your budget is under $500, check out Toasty Bros channel. They always build cheap but doable office desktop gaming PCs with GTX1650 or RX6400 GPU for around $2-300. (Goodish performance)
I've been running emulators for years, especially on my phone since that's where I run them the most. But over the last year I've been highly considering getting a mini PC and setting up something for emulators for my bedroom TV. I honestly and highly considering his. Yes, as the commenters always say, I can do this. I enjoy setting them up. But just the fact that I can use it as a storage for games in and of itself is amazing. What I was looking at doing it going to take hours and hours just downloading games for the PS3, Xbox, and 360. I've got a good collection of PS2 games, but I was even gonna get more for that. So while I would probably still get more, this is already a huge time saver. And it's something I can set to the side so that if anything should happen to the mini PC I set up, I have the games ready to go. Not to mention, as you said, it's gonna only cost a little more than buying the parts and setting up a back up system myself. The cost of the parts alone is expensive, so might as well just spend the extra bit and have things already downloaded.
I have one of these and absolutely love it!! The only down side I found is the Switch games. No matter what I do or try I cannot get the controls to work for any Switch games. Any ideas what I might be doing wrong here?? Thanks and great video.
Hey TD, I recently purchased this hard drive. My controller seems not to work. I can put in a coin and start it, but after that it doesn’t work. Do you know where I go to configure the controller. And how do you do that? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Hello TechDweeb, started watching you of janurary last year, your videos helped me so much. I bought the nucbox m5, you think if I bought this emulation drive I could at least run Ps3? Might not get the best performance but was wondering since the nuckbox comes in wednesday.
Here's a video of a Mini PC with the same processor as the M5, and I show emulation in this video, which should be similar on the M5: ua-cam.com/video/dNgYst0PumM/v-deo.html PS3 is playable, but you won't get perfect performance in every game.
Hi Techdweeb! Thanks for this, quick question, what mini PC would handle everything this emulator has to offer? I am referring to the higher-end games on the emulator as I want to set this up to played from my sofa.
a beelink ser 7, or a minis forum um780 xtx (the minis forum is the best right now)...with the minis forum you will be able to play even most of the AAA title in fullHD MEDIUM/LOW quality.
I assume that the people who made this just used commonly available "ROM" files, rather than go to the trouble of ripping all the games themselves. This leads me to two questions; 1. Do they have the more obscure PS1 games? In my experience, four of the most difficult to find are; Macross Digital Mission VF-X (Japanese) Macross VF-X 2 (Japanese) Paris Marseille Racing (French) Paris Marseille Racing II (French) 2. There are a bunch of "bad" PSP ISO dumps floating around. Some are only minor technical errors, but some are more serious. The cracking groups put out a series of fix packs for all the incorrect dumps. The Renascene website notes which dumps are considered bad, along with the CRC values for both the bad and good (patched) ISO files. Did they make sure to include the patched ISO files? For example, the USA version of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories by Start2 is bad. It has a CRC of F5B9DF28, while the fixed version is F705A610.
I build these drives from scratch, I built my own recently on a 5TB Seagate drive and I have all my dumped PS3 games and others, i have ripped PS4 discs compiled into fake package files but can't play them cause there's no emulator that can run the entire PS4 library yet cause it's in development, the PS4 section on that drive is ported games from the PS4 to PC so it's actually cracked PC games on that drive that don't require Steam or Rockstar Launcher to run,the other stuff is all dumped from consoles, you won't get in trouble for owning anything like this tho, the price your paying is for the drive itself and the amount of work they have put into the drive cause it takes hours of work piecing these together, it took over a month for mine cause I had to get artwork and stuff, and then the modules that are compiled in .ahk and then the emulator versions and configure settings, and then adjust file paths and then add the games on there, but yeah it's a very long process but i do it cause that way i can help everybody else with whatever issues they have with theirs cause i know the whole entire system of it
There is now a new KinHank 12TB harddrive ... do you also test this ? ... Could you please test the "XBox original" game "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and tell me if Buffy always walks around in "defense mode" ... usually she should freely run around (like in the preview video). If it's not the case for you it must be my china-360clone joypad.
Hi can you tell me can you customize the main menu so that everything is separated into categories like Consoles, Arcade, Favorites like other front ends or are you stuck with the OG UI it comes with? Also if so how?
I have a retobat front end with a 4tb drive took me forever to build. This will save me a damn life time. Was there a light gun set up? Just wondering im sure i can make my sinden work.
Agreed. Huge time saver with these things! I'm not sure about the light gun. There is a light gun playlist, with tons of lightgun games, and I'm sure it'd be easy to get working with the Sinden, but I haven't tried yet.
This might be a dumb question. I know you stated that you need a windows PC to use the front end. but if I just moved the rom files over to a Mac or steam deck and used the correct emulator it would work correct? Or will Mac/linux not even recognize the drive because of some formatting thing I don’t full understand? Side note: Are there any hard drive emulation devices that are set up stock to work on Mac or Linux? I don’t have a windows pc at present.
Yup you're right. If you have your emulators set up on a different device you can just use this thing as a rom library and add the games to your other devices. You should have no problem getting this drive to be read by other systems as far as I know. Google tells me you can 'read but not write' to a windows-formatted drive. Sorry I don't have a mac so I can't test it for ya but AFIK you should be fine.
Damn pc games work on hyperspin attraction , damn im gonna download this and make me a massive emulation/older pc games machine 😁thank you so much techDweeb 😮oh wanted to ask is it possible to get a tutorial of how hyperspin works
if i hadnt already bought a steam deck and gotten every game up to ps3 that i thought looked fun i would totally go for this... at this point id only be buying it for the xbox and xbox 360 stuff but i dont really care about those at all
Dear Sir Excellent Review and Excellent Video.❤❤❤ Dear Sir please please give Strong Recommendations about Mini PC, which is Most suitable for this 12TB plays Smoothly, because after watching your video, I am interested to buy it New One & also want to purchase a New PC for this newly 12TB Hyperspin Kinhank Hard Drive????
Thank you tech dweeb great video! I'm going to buy this with my next check. Wondering, will these roms work if I copy them to either my Android retroid 2s or my Linux PowKiddy RGB30? Via microSD?
Hey buddy! Yeah definitely, you can easily copy the roms of this thing onto any device. I did exactly this yesterday, I have a new handheld to set up, so I can just grab the rom libraries off this to add to the new thing. Very nice to have so many games (including all the high end stuff) and not have to be constantly downloading new stuff when you want to test it on your devices.
Yeah, 2tb SSDs arent TOO expensive, unless you want the 2.5in size (Playstation uses the 2.5s so they went up all stupid)but you're gonna want more than 1tb , i believe .
If the site would let you customize your drive by what you want specifically and not throwing into too much nonsense you know you don't want that'd be way better ...BUT
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Regarding the issue that some have brought up regarding viruses found on the drive. I scanned it and I found 'questionable' key generators and game cracks in the PC games section of the drive. I think they're just downloading torrents of cracked games, which often are flagged by virus software. Often these are false flags. But sometimes they are not. I don't care enough to test each and every one properly, because like I say in the video I don't support pirating PC games. I always delete them off these sorts of products to make more space for retro games, so if you get this you can just delete the PC games off the drive and it's perfectly clean without them. As always if you want to run cracked PC games then you'll have to do it at your own risk.
I came here to ask this actually lol. Mine came in after DHL hard fumbled it for 3 weeks and the amazon reviews kind of made me worry a little. I'll do some scans and hopefully it's only as you said.
How many Ps2, Ps3, Ps4, Nintendo switch, Xbox games does it have? I might buy it
Hi TechDweeb.. how can I play with the second controller in 2 player games.... because when I try to use the second controller no way to connect and play in 2 player.if you can give me a advice how can I fix this problem thank you
@@foreverfree12345 I haven't had that problem...I plugged in an Xbox and a Switch controller and it seemed to auto map both controllers...What games are you trying to play?
@@tacticalshortpants4238 mame games
I was born in 1985 and as a little kid I wouldn’t have even been able to imagine something like this. Here we are 38 years later, and I literally can have my whole life in gaming on a 3.5in drive. Forget flying cars, this is the future I wanted!
Haha totally. Although retro games in a flying car would be next level 🤔
I don't know man.. those flying cars are still tantalizing lol.
I'm a younger gamer but still old school enough to experienced the Nintendo in all its glory.
I agree with you, it's insane how far we've come.
You are 2 years older than me, we experienced the golden age of video games, now it's all about DLCs
@TechDweeb what is a good option for a pc to play the higher requirement games? 360? Ps3? I have a Beelink SER mini pc
@@rickjames9039 What you said! :D
Whoa. Now that's pretty awesome. Looks like I know what I'm buying for my birthday next week. Thanks Tech Dweeb
comments saying that anyone can create by himself this collection and the emulators... is like saying that anyone can build his house by laying bricks. xD
They underestimate the amount of time it would take to make one this extensive.
I remember spending an entire summer putting one of these together and it only had a couple terabytes. Although, there are easier ways to do this, now days.
So happy you got this drive. I recently got this thing for the very reasons you listed. I work allot and just don't have the time to download all these rom's. I would love for someone to do a deep dive on this thing. For example how to properly and most effectively transfer these games to a RP3+ or RP2s. Also I have watched your channel and retro game core for over a year now and have been learning the retro game handheld scene very slowly but for some odd reason I still cant get my games to save. If you could do a small intro on how to do a save state very slowly that would be awesome. I just don't understand what I'm missing.
Awesome!
For the saves, you mean in this drive or on your handhelds? If it's on this drive you'll need to open up the retoarch settings (l3 + r3) while the game is open, and then go to the main settings>input>hotkeys, and in there you can set whatever hotkey you want for save (I choose 'select' as the hotkey enable, and r1 as save, and l1 as load). Stop by my discord and ask for help if you need a hand :)
Wow. I've watched the other videos you made on these hard drive ROMsets, but even at $300 this is the first one that's really tempted me to go and buy one. Because of my data cap, it'd take me around 9-10 months to download all this stuff. I'd say getting everything in January (in a 12 TB Seagate drive) is worth the asking price.
This is the best one I've ever seen. I'm happy to bring it to people's attention.
You'd probably play more if the games taking the year to download your own collection, loll. Plus there's new English transitions for games every month it feels like.
Antique gamer here, just jumped head first into this hobby and damn, you just made my life so much easier. As you said, just the library alone to use on my Odin 2 Pro is worth the price of admission. Cheers and thanks!!!🎉🎉🎉
I can understand the hate towards these devices. Basically you can build one yourself for cheaper but it is very convenient and great for video game history nerds.
This is EXACTLY what I've been looking for! Thank you so much for this awesome video!
Glad it was helpful!
I finally ordered mine yesterday and dude, I am HYPED! I grew up playing so many of these wonderful games.
thank you for listing all the game names and the system on the top of the screen. you are a legend!
Very glad that you've reviewed this. It's an awesome device!
I bought a similar drive which came with Launchbox but it didn't come with quite as many of the higher-end titles. It was extremely easy to add/delete/off-load titles though and I still use this drive as a depot today. I honestly don't know why anyone would complain about the price unless they already had all these collections saved; If so, just don't buy it.
I noticed you have a lot of mushrooms growing in your mom's basement. I'm no expert, but have you considered letting in some sunlight and using a dehumidifier? Then again, those mushrooms are kind of cute.
I think people just realize that this CAN be made by one's self, and that it would be relatively simple, so they complain without actually thinking through what would really be involved. I just get that kind of complaint often so I wanted to address it in the actual video rather than explain it in every comment 😅
The mushrooms are my friends. They show me truth.
I have been collecting emus for a while but I like the convenience of this one. Definitely a buy. Thanks for the info
This blows my mind. Has to be the best value for money rom set I’ve seen. This is going on my wish list
Definitely buying this for thr future i want to watch the snow at my window while im playing vector man in my pc all night in a warm fire 🔥 thanks man
Haha Vectorman, awesome choice!
I bought this a few days ago, and actually found this channel looking for a review of this exact product, likely while u were working on this video. Mines still zooming in from china now, thanks for reassuring my buyers remorse 😂
Haha I do that all the time. You're good here, you'll love it. :D
@TechDweeb yea I probably will, BTW u have the most attractive review of this product on the platform rn 🤣
I got mine in the mail today the same day you release this video. I was so stoked! however so far I have had nothing but trouble with it. I've been stuck and can't close the game and the first game I tried Killer Instinct didn't work for me. I have to admit I'm not computer literate so it's probably me .I will try and reinstall later.
How's the drive working out for you now? :(
better I'm getting used to it@@stephenedwards9341
It's currently sold out on Amazon...everyone must have watched your video!
Try this link: amzn.to/4aVao4J
I just want to let people know you can play all these games at a higher framerate with no mods using Lossless Scaling from Steam. It let's you play games like Mario 64 at 60 fps. It's frame gen on any graphics card. Your welcome
Someone needs to try this and move the whole drive in one of the newer windows handhelds. Would love to see that video for sure!
Soo, every single game from 1980s to 2020 im sold 💯. This is a crazy good deal. The time to compile all this is 100s of hours.
Agreed.
Oh I should mention it's not every game up to 2020. Once you reach the PS2 era it doesn't have complete rom sets. Just 'best of' sets.
@@TechDweeb oh i was embellishing a bit but sounds like a 100 hours of sorting and downloading. I already order one i always fear the internet might turn off one day lol.
Just bought one with a 15 bucks off ....im sold. Love emulation. And it is a library of gaming history. Best value in gaming.
Enjoy!
Seems like a great option. Not sure of the legality but i'm interested ahahaha. Hopefully I could copy over just a couple systems onto a smaller drive too, maybe keep a big "master" drive on my gaming pc
That's how I intend to use it. This'll be my master rom collection. And I can use this to add games to all my devices in the future.
I'm glad to see your channel getting more traction as you do really good reviews. The reservation that some people have about these drives is if any kind of spyware is hidden on it so it would be nice if someone could do a deep dive into the files and see if there's anything like that.
Im wondering that myself.. I ordered the drive already but some review said there was like 30 viruses and i want to know if its true or just false positives..
@@sergioelizondo4486 I know tecknoparrot emulator does cause a lot of false positives because it has happened to me
$300 USD for a brilliantly curated collection is totally worth it. I kind of want to get this just to have as an archive.
That's my favourite part about it. Just as a good archive with well done rom sets.
That is why i got it gonna go through and post everything it before they get a dmca lol. Looks like the craziest collection ever . hopefully they get a lot out all over the world.then generations later people will still be playing these all over the world.
@@X862go that's why I'm getting mine too. To have so many generations of games in my collection is a dream come true. Plus, it'll be great to have them all cataloged.
Yeah, I tried to make my own but don't have the time to finished. Having all setup for me to just plug and play is a win.
Just ordered my own one of these. I have a pretty big collection of games (about 1.5TB) but for £140 including shipping you can't really beat 12tb. As I'm addicted to retro handhelds too this is going to be my main collection drive to pull games from. Thanks for the video as I had no idea these things existed!
I bought a 20tb but could expand if the games i want are not on the drive i hope brute force is on the xbox emulator tho underrated
Paying for pirated content has always been iffy to me but it’s nice that this will preserve games tbh
Here's my stance on the piracy thing ua-cam.com/video/yQaTJ_Vjws8/v-deo.html
TLDW; Don't pirate games you can legally buy, but roms of games you can't buy are fair game.
@@TechDweeb I feel the same way! I think acquiring the games is fine but buying stuff with preloaded roms you can otherwise get for free? Idk
I think it's pretty great! Question: How does one play Wii games on these? You will obviously need some sort of sensor bar for the controllers, no?
They are set to play with controller (you can see in Mario Galaxy I was using the right stick as my wiimote pointer). You CAN use the official controller and USB sensor bar though if you have them.
@@TechDweeb Thanks so much for the reply, I appreciate it! I did download a front end with emulators and roms similar to this but much, much smaller. It has WII so I was curious about how to play it. Many thanks!
Will this work on a TV
Choosing what to play in this must be a nightmare😂
Haha you're not wrong!
thnx for video ! I was looking for exactly this ! :D
Great review, does it have teknoparrot and good selection of light gun games
Yup! 85 Teknoparrot games and 312 Light gun games. And the Teknoparrot works fine, I just tested it for ya :)
Great thank you@@TechDweeb
@@TechDweeb Sweet! Do the Light Gun games have their own 'category,' or do you have to search all over the drive to find them all? lol
Are you f*cking kidding me?? This is actually undervalued with 300$. By far!
Any difference in drives? Amazon says 40k games and Kinhank says 100k?
in toTal are 102000, you gonna get 40000 3D games, and other 60000 2D games!!!!!
Kriscoolmod has a 112tb drive setup
7 16tb drives that cover everything
Even has a discord too.
Yup! I gave that a shoutout at the end of the vid :)
Nice! I feel as you do, I'd get rid of current Gen games, you can delete the roms you don't want right? Anyways love your channel keep up the unique videos
Thanks buddy!
Yup, you can delete stuff you don't want. Unfortunately if you add your own stuff it won't be automatically scraped with the videos and stuff. There's a process to rebuild the frontend if you need to but it's a pain.
@@TechDweeb Can you elaborate on the process?
Hell no lol the whole point of these for me is the new stuff. Dont care about the old stuff thats super plentiful
Thanks for this vid. Next pay, this will be my new toy for sure. I have a pc setup for retro gaming and this will be so much better than the lowly 120gb ssd I have in it loaded with a few mame games. I'll have to replace the Radeon 5850 that's in it for the RTX 2060 I have sitting spare in a box though so that I can play some of the later games. Plus the discount will more than cover the shipping here to Australia so that's awesome.
Nice! The 2060 should be able to handle all this stuff no prob. Enjoy your toy :D
@@TechDweeb I shall indeed.
Amazing. I hope someone loads these files up to one place.
OMG that would be a month-long download for me 😅
Are there good ROMs and bad ones? Just curious because I’ve had a few that play different (old ones vs newer ones).
Not sure what you mean. All the rom files are good here. I tried a ton and didn't find any that were problematic.
@@TechDweeb Several years ago, when we first started collecting ROMs as backups to our physical games, some were not good and didn’t play as crisply as the original game. I don’t know what was wrong with them from a technical standpoint. Probably most new’er ROMs are fine but I wanted to ask.
@warpathh it was an issue with the emulation itself. Some games are just tougher to get running properly.
On Aliexpress I see several people complaining about quite a bit of games not launching. Including tecnoparrot not working at all. Technoparrot can be fixed by some update though it says). Could it be that the actual products sometimes are in worse condition than the review samples out there? Not pointing fingers, just wondering@@TechDweeb
@@warpathh you need a good enough pc or laptop. At least a decent rtx gpu and Ryzen intel cpu combo. That can run all the older stuff Nintendo cemu and maybe some ps3 and Xbox 360 games. I have i7 12700h 3060 and run Nintendo games on yuzu just fine. And cemu and xenia with red dead redemption. That runs 30 to 60fps depends on the area. Oh yeah btw that is a laptop. I can even workaround playing ps4 console on laptop with a capture card. Its pretty neat. I don't need to carry a monitor for the ps4. My co worker jokingly sad I have a whole playground in my room 😂.
I hope it is legal in Germany to get this device 😢❤
ILOVE YOU’RE MOUSE AND KEYBOARD!!!, WHERE DID YOU GET THEM!!!!????
Nice. The dubious PS4/5 stuff would be wasted on me as I don't do that sort of gaming anymore. I used to be a bit hardcore and bought import consoles as soon as they were released. That was up to PS2/ Dreamcast time - I hardly touched my PS3, and played mostly Left 4 dead /2 on the Xbox360. What I would want the most from this is a proper working Mame library, my attempts at that in Batocera weren't that successful.
As a person who has no time to download every single game due to work commitments, yeah I am all in for this harddrive solely for the complete sets of games for GameCube, DS, 3DS & other retro systems. I shall keep this one as a master drive & copy games that I will eventually play into smaller SSDs.
That's exactly how I'm planning on using it. This is my new master collection. I needed a giant drive for emulation backup anyways so this is like a short cut :P. Although I plan on deleting the PC games and adding more PS3 stuff.
@TechDweeb do you make a backup of this drive? If so, how?
Thank you for reviewing this
I just purchased from Amazon.
Thank u for the video. Gonna buy one right now. 🎉
Enjoy!
The value is ok, an external HDD of this type is around 200. 12tb or so of data takes a long while to put together. The actual files can be found online via torrents and file sharing websites, but will take you forever to download, especially if you do not have the space for it to begin with.
I have to imagine however that the HDD itself is used, which makes their profits margin quite high on these. So unless this is not something you want to deal with yourself, grab a brand new external HDD for less than 200, and start downloading straight into it. You should be done in a month or so, lol.
Not bad , keep it up 👍
Something you said instantly caught my attention: "Pinball Emulation." If you do not mind me asking, is that Pinball FX or is that virtual pinball? If it has a whole section for virtual pinball that's already setup and has some tables in it, I'm sold on this. If it's virtual pinball, could you let me know how many tables are on it and what some highlights are? I would appreciate it so much! 😊
Pinball Arcade (71 tables), Pinball FX3 (93 tables), AND Future Pinball (emulation of real tables, 461 tables!). I should mention that Future Pinball requires a little extra step to get working (set the exe to run as administrator).
@@TechDweeb Yes! Future Pinball! I am sold. Holy cow, this thing is amazing. I remember paying $100 as a kid to get my Wii molded to get NES, SNES, and GB games. I'm definitely willing to drop a little more to essentially game everything for the rest of my life, haha! I'm sick of configuring everything myself; the point you made about the price is excellent. Even though I love to tinker, getting my PC to do that would be nearly impossible. Thank you for another great video and for your reply!
This look cool, but it’s hard to get it in the UK I think
Maybe you can get it directly through the manufacturer website? www.kinhank-retrogame.com/products/hyperspin-attraction-system-12tb-hdd
I know exactly what you mean. Mainstream marketplaces like Amazon tend to crack down more on any emulation gear with any games included with it, in the UK and EU. Often you will see the product come up for a few days and then it'll either have the "No longer available" tag on the product or it's taken off the marketplace and listings altogether. Ebay and AliExpress tend to be better, but there's also a hell of a lot of fake stuff and rip off merchants on them.
Thanks for your help
And I have one more question, does the hard drive what I have seen comes with a power plug and just wondering is that necessary or does it come in different plugs?
By the way, there is an HD ST drive that is 12 TB on eBay going for $80 or less if you want to back this up.
03:40 I don't remember Hulk Ultimate Destruction being this way 😅 but I think the mistake adds a kind of wabi-sabi
Doh!
Thanks! This is just what the Doctor ordered!
Thank YOU for the tip!
You sir have good taste in root beer 🍺😂
This is awesome my nephew would also love this beside me
How do we get the $20 off you mentioned? Is it a coupon code I’m not seeing? Thanks!
It's right there on the page. "Apply $20 coupon". Click that box, and then when you go through the checkout it'll be $20 cheaper.
@@TechDweeb ah, must be over, or maybe it’s for targeted audiences. I don’t see it, but I do get a $30 one on your alternative link that includes the controller. With the $30 off that one, it came down to cheaper than the one without a controller, so I went with that. Thanks for this video, I can’t wait to try this thing out!
serious question: do you wear one of those swimmer nose plug things for your videos? lol
good vidya ty :P
i am so tempted to buy this...
Looks amazing is there any system you recommend to play from a TV playing retro games on a 60' TV would be awesome
Thanks man I got one myself it’s worth it for sure.
This is so awesome and I would really want one.
Great job and great video editing 😮🎉
Just subscribed after seeing this video. I love this idea - but am wondering the same thing some other on here have asked/stated. The Amazon reviews state there are viruses/trojans on here. Can TechDweeb confirm this? Also, if I buy one of the referenced mini PCs, will it come with a version of Windows already on it? I'm also wondering if I can use this in an arcade cabinet controlling everything with arcade joysticks, buttons, trackballs, etc. Any input, TechDweeb? Thank you!!
I found 'questionable' key generators and game cracks in the PC games section of the drive. I think they're just downloading torrents of cracked games, which often are flagged by virus software. Often these are false flags. But sometimes they are not. I don't care enough to test each and every one properly, because like I say in the video I don't support pirating PC games. I delete them off these sorts of products to make more space for retro games, so if you get this you can just delete the PC games off the drive and it's perfectly clean without them. If you want to run cracked PC games then you'll have to do it at your own risk.
You can DEFINITELY use this in an arcade cab with joysticks/buttons, etc. Depending on what driver your controller uses it may be plug & play, or you may need to set up a keymapper or rebind the controls in the emulators. I used a similar drive on a PC I have connected to my arcade cab and it worked immediately with the aliexpress usb buttons/joystick I used.
@@TechDweeb Excellent. Thank you, I appreciate it! This looks very cool.
Hey what sort of pc/graphics would I need for the higher end stuff?
G14 MSI gaming laptop
Or Lenovo Legion Slim 7 or Legion 5 Pro with RTX-4060. Any of these will work perfect if you have the budget. Around $1000. (Best performance) Otherwise, RTX A2000 as your video card and build a slim gaming PC around $5-600. (Better performance) OR if your budget is under $500, check out Toasty Bros channel. They always build cheap but doable office desktop gaming PCs with GTX1650 or RX6400 GPU for around $2-300. (Goodish performance)
That is about 11.8Tb of games you will never play
Like most games in the world
@@kennypowers1945 . Yeah but I don't have most games. You are paying this and you will probably never play 99% of the games on it
@LuisPerez-5 but still it would be worth even if you only play just 1% of the games
@@ardianha5346 not really
I've been running emulators for years, especially on my phone since that's where I run them the most. But over the last year I've been highly considering getting a mini PC and setting up something for emulators for my bedroom TV.
I honestly and highly considering his. Yes, as the commenters always say, I can do this. I enjoy setting them up. But just the fact that I can use it as a storage for games in and of itself is amazing. What I was looking at doing it going to take hours and hours just downloading games for the PS3, Xbox, and 360. I've got a good collection of PS2 games, but I was even gonna get more for that. So while I would probably still get more, this is already a huge time saver. And it's something I can set to the side so that if anything should happen to the mini PC I set up, I have the games ready to go.
Not to mention, as you said, it's gonna only cost a little more than buying the parts and setting up a back up system myself. The cost of the parts alone is expensive, so might as well just spend the extra bit and have things already downloaded.
Im waiting for something to have the first 3 Resident Evil games
I have one of these and absolutely love it!! The only down side I found is the Switch games. No matter what I do or try I cannot get the controls to work for any Switch games. Any ideas what I might be doing wrong here?? Thanks and great video.
Just bought it! Thanks bro!!
Thanks for this video. Im gonna go get this. Which mini pc do you run this on?
I'm soo frustrated that i can't get this in Sweden by any meens other than travel to another country 😢
Hey TD, I recently purchased this hard drive. My controller seems not to work. I can put in a coin and start it, but after that it doesn’t work. Do you know where I go to configure the controller. And how do you do that? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Hello TechDweeb, started watching you of janurary last year, your videos helped me so much. I bought the nucbox m5, you think if I bought this emulation drive I could at least run Ps3? Might not get the best performance but was wondering since the nuckbox comes in wednesday.
Here's a video of a Mini PC with the same processor as the M5, and I show emulation in this video, which should be similar on the M5: ua-cam.com/video/dNgYst0PumM/v-deo.html
PS3 is playable, but you won't get perfect performance in every game.
Hi Techdweeb! Thanks for this, quick question, what mini PC would handle everything this emulator has to offer? I am referring to the higher-end games on the emulator as I want to set this up to played from my sofa.
a beelink ser 7, or a minis forum um780 xtx (the minis forum is the best right now)...with the minis forum you will be able to play even most of the AAA title in fullHD MEDIUM/LOW quality.
The frontend is PC, you could still point your Android emulator to the rom folders.
I assume that the people who made this just used commonly available "ROM" files, rather than go to the trouble of ripping all the games themselves. This leads me to two questions;
1. Do they have the more obscure PS1 games? In my experience, four of the most difficult to find are;
Macross Digital Mission VF-X
(Japanese)
Macross VF-X 2 (Japanese)
Paris Marseille Racing (French)
Paris Marseille Racing II (French)
2. There are a bunch of "bad" PSP ISO dumps floating around. Some are only minor technical errors, but some are more serious. The cracking groups put out a series of fix packs for all the incorrect dumps. The Renascene website notes which dumps are considered bad, along with the CRC values for both the bad and good (patched) ISO files. Did they make sure to include the patched ISO files? For example, the USA version of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories by Start2 is bad. It has a CRC of F5B9DF28, while the fixed version is F705A610.
I build these drives from scratch, I built my own recently on a 5TB Seagate drive and I have all my dumped PS3 games and others, i have ripped PS4 discs compiled into fake package files but can't play them cause there's no emulator that can run the entire PS4 library yet cause it's in development, the PS4 section on that drive is ported games from the PS4 to PC so it's actually cracked PC games on that drive that don't require Steam or Rockstar Launcher to run,the other stuff is all dumped from consoles, you won't get in trouble for owning anything like this tho, the price your paying is for the drive itself and the amount of work they have put into the drive cause it takes hours of work piecing these together, it took over a month for mine cause I had to get artwork and stuff, and then the modules that are compiled in .ahk and then the emulator versions and configure settings, and then adjust file paths and then add the games on there, but yeah it's a very long process but i do it cause that way i can help everybody else with whatever issues they have with theirs cause i know the whole entire system of it
There is now a new KinHank 12TB harddrive ... do you also test this ?
... Could you please test the "XBox original" game "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and tell me if Buffy always walks around in "defense mode" ... usually she should freely run around (like in the preview video). If it's not the case for you it must be my china-360clone joypad.
Hi can you tell me can you customize the main menu so that everything is separated into categories like Consoles, Arcade, Favorites like other front ends or are you stuck with the OG UI it comes with? Also if so how?
it already comes separate. press left and right untillyou get to the wheel that shows every console. should be the default wheel.
Can it plug into tv as well or just PC? It looks really cool 😎
I have a retobat front end with a 4tb drive took me forever to build. This will save me a damn life time. Was there a light gun set up? Just wondering im sure i can make my sinden work.
Agreed. Huge time saver with these things! I'm not sure about the light gun. There is a light gun playlist, with tons of lightgun games, and I'm sure it'd be easy to get working with the Sinden, but I haven't tried yet.
@@TechDweeb hey I had one more question for you I just thought about, does it have the Vita in those collections?
This might be a dumb question. I know you stated that you need a windows PC to use the front end. but if I just moved the rom files over to a Mac or steam deck and used the correct emulator it would work correct? Or will Mac/linux not even recognize the drive because of some formatting thing I don’t full understand?
Side note: Are there any hard drive emulation devices that are set up stock to work on Mac or Linux? I don’t have a windows pc at present.
Yup you're right. If you have your emulators set up on a different device you can just use this thing as a rom library and add the games to your other devices. You should have no problem getting this drive to be read by other systems as far as I know. Google tells me you can 'read but not write' to a windows-formatted drive. Sorry I don't have a mac so I can't test it for ya but AFIK you should be fine.
@@TechDweeb thanks for the response! A rom library was exactly what I planned to use it for! Have a good week.
There are some batocera hard drive builds on Amazon.
quick question.. Can you connect with this to other players like you could do with doom and others?
How do the light gun games work out. Do any of them work perfectly with light guns. And also does it have very many light gun games that you can play?
They're some videos out there for the light gun games. They're doable
Why does your channel not have a 100 subscribers, I aspire to be a nerd lol
Nintendo has made emulators impossible, for normies like me. Thank you for highlighting this. It’s on its way to my house!!
Damn pc games work on hyperspin attraction , damn im gonna download this and make me a massive emulation/older pc games machine 😁thank you so much techDweeb 😮oh wanted to ask is it possible to get a tutorial of how hyperspin works
if i hadnt already bought a steam deck and gotten every game up to ps3 that i thought looked fun i would totally go for this... at this point id only be buying it for the xbox and xbox 360 stuff but i dont really care about those at all
Will this work in combo on the steam deck? Or is this more of a legion rog pc setup
Dear TechDweeb, will you do a root beer taste test/review? I'd love to see you try bulldog root beer.
I LOVE fancy rootbeers!
Dear Sir Excellent Review and Excellent Video.❤❤❤ Dear Sir please please give Strong Recommendations about Mini PC, which is Most suitable for this 12TB plays Smoothly, because after watching your video, I am interested to buy it New One & also want to purchase a New PC for this newly 12TB Hyperspin Kinhank Hard Drive????
Can it be plugged directly into a TV or only computers.
This one is only computers. You'd want something like this if you didn't have a PC ua-cam.com/video/TV771bTYoi8/v-deo.html
Thank you tech dweeb great video! I'm going to buy this with my next check. Wondering, will these roms work if I copy them to either my Android retroid 2s or my Linux PowKiddy RGB30? Via microSD?
Hey buddy! Yeah definitely, you can easily copy the roms of this thing onto any device. I did exactly this yesterday, I have a new handheld to set up, so I can just grab the rom libraries off this to add to the new thing. Very nice to have so many games (including all the high end stuff) and not have to be constantly downloading new stuff when you want to test it on your devices.
I think a 1Tb SSD version would make the most sense for me. The mechanical 12 tb might just die after too much use
Yeah, 2tb SSDs arent TOO expensive, unless you want the 2.5in size (Playstation uses the 2.5s so they went up all stupid)but you're gonna want more than 1tb , i believe .
Like it only takes 150 GB for everything before ps1, but THEN the playst, nintendo64, Dreamcast, Saturn, everything gets storage-demanding after that
If the site would let you customize your drive by what you want specifically and not throwing into too much nonsense you know you don't want that'd be way better ...BUT
How many switch games are on this drive?
Is this the biggest games emulator hard drive out at the moment 12 tb 🤔
This is cool! Huh? I need a computer? Awww fiddlesticks.
Will this work if I plug it directly to my TV as a tv box? Or it only works with a PC?
Trying to play and the games tells me to press A to play but the game wont load :(
i have a question on xbox is there a game called dead or alive volleyball and nba street vol 2 also is ther nfl2k football games on this thank you
Yes
Are there fan translated games with this emulation drive?
From your options of Mini PC’s, which would you suggest to purchase in order to play the higher end games without issue?