Just ordered. And for me in the UK it was an absolute steal at £148 delivered! Less than I can buy a WD on Amazon. WTF is going on!? Not going to argue tho. Thankyou so much for reviewing this!
Fun Fact: Fight for Life (1996) has turned out this was because Atari was holding out payment for game's designer (Francois Yves Bertrand, former Sega AM2 dev who worked on Virtua Fighter) because, Atari at this was pinching for every cent (Atari was in REALLY bad condition). Mr. Francois Yves Bertrand didn't liked that, so he wasn't really interested on putting his best effort on the game. His way of FU to Atari.
I have something similar, the Super Console X2 Pro. I love it. To play Speccy, Amiga and Arcade, with the odd dabble of SNES and Megadrive is awesome, so many childhood memories. 😁😁
Ordered one of these, should be landing soon, it's worth it for the ROMs alone and when you consider the price of a12tb HD (New or even 2nd hand) it's a no brainer
The problem with Atari Jaguar emulation in all of these setups is that Virtual Jaguar is the only Retroarch core, and - no offense to its developers, emulator programming is very hard - but it’s just not there on compatibility and performance. BigPEmu runs the entire Jaguar perfectly on modest hardware, but it is only available as a standalone Windows program.
I would definitely be running a virus scan on this even with their promise that there's nothing malicious on it, you know because people intending to do malicious things don't tend to be upfront about that. That being said the price isn't terrible considering you are getting a 12TB drive and the enclosure, though I'd be worried about the age and use of the drive as I doubt it would be new.
I ran an antivirus check on everything that was installed. I didn't check the whole disc. 12TB would take forever. I think as long as the executables are checked, it should be fine.
@@RetroCore How many power on hours in a SMART test is a better indicator than age. I've got a couple of drives in my server that have been running for 8 year almost none stop now. They are doing well but I wouldn't buy them haha
Good point. I'll see about checking how long this drive was powered on for just for my own interest. For sure I won't be using it as a drive for important stuff.
I only want to buy this because it's a pain in the behind to download all of these games. Especially for systems like Xbox where you have to download and then convert each game individually to work with the emulator. I much rather someone do all the work for me and that is worth the price
Yep, that installed as part of set. The only software I installed was Retro Bat, Playnite, launch box and some font that Hyoerspin needed. Hyoerspin and TeknoParrot seemed to be already installed on the HDD unless they were part of the Retro Bat set up but I don't think so.
200$ for a 12tb hard drive alone is actually pretty good just for storage capacity considering brand new most drives at that capacity cost more than 200. I did see several 12tb refurbished hard drives on new egg for around 100$ and IMO, even if they use refurbished drives 200 for a 12tb emulator drive with controller is money wise a good deal. I dont deal with ali express simply because on the occasion i tried using Ali express the seller wanted me to send money western union and that felt way too sketchy for my tastes.
I guess I can see the appeal for someone who isn't too knowledgeable about emulation but this showcase just reminds me of why I'd rather just set this stuff up myself than go for one of these pre-packaged offerings. They always seem to use these fiddly frontends and a bunch of badly configured 3rd-rate emulators.
I fully understand you. Same here. The Jag, 3DO and Saturn emulators I tried are all inferior to the emulators I set up myself. That is always going to be an issue with these types of devices. Still, now I have a massive library of games that don't need downloading 👍
I'm impressed that Wii U games are able to run. I'm always well behind on the emulation front. Doen't seem too bad for the price simply because there's so much pre-loaded. I hate searching for files and trying to set up emulators. It's always nice when at least most of the work is done out of the box.
I think you would be the target audience for this device. For me, I like using the individual emulators so I can keep things up to date and how I like them but for someone who just wants yo play without too much fuss, this is a good deal.
I’ve been looking at getting one of these. I have a 2tb Kinhank hard drive but setting up controllers, especially 6 button ones is a right pain. I want to use my arcade sticks with street fighter layout on this thing. Do you know how easy it is to configure controls?
In most cases the controls were already set. In the RetroBat part of the set, setting controls is so simple. Basically you enter the options on the main game select menu, go to controls, then press a button on your controller that you want to assign.
It's not too tricky, but the big thing I noticed the last time I tried it about 6 months ago or so, is that it will run at whatever your desktop resolution is set to. I have my computer plugged into my 4K OLED so it tried to run Tekken 7 at that resolution with everything maxed out which made my i9-10900KF with an NVIDIA RTX 3070 8 GB look like Retro Core's PC here: not the best. Backed it off to a nice 1440p and it ran great, shockingly looking even better than the PC port. I am going to give it another go, hopefully they have improved the emulator even more in that time (Probably safe to presume so).
id like to see a tutorial how to setup all those programs on their own without having to buy the thing. seems to be mostly free available software that ive never heard of.
There should be loads out there. When I set up Launch box for my dedicated Tate Arcade emulation box (the only system I use a front end for since it only uses MAME and Final burn), I used an online guide.
@@RetroCore but can you setup those multiple programs together without the hdd? i know one of those programs is for pirated pc games so i dont need that, but the other ones?
Totally agree. I recently bought a 2tb one from Amazon that was praised by UA-cam reviewers as the best emulation machine ever with everything from Atari to Switch on it. Plugged it in and immediately my virus scanner went off, blocked them thankfully. Sent it back to Amazon. Bottom line, don't trust these drives. If you do buy one, plug it into a old machine you don't care about.
@@RetroCore That sucks.Than I am out.I only use my phone as modern day computer since I can not aford a new full computer.I am looking for xp 32 bit stuff.i have my own emulator system but I always wanted to try some drives.
For sure but just imagine how long it would take to download 12TB of data. Even on my connection which easily gets 3.8 MB (not mega bit) per second, 12 TB would take forever.
I'm interested in how the switch ran and how many games I've seen on other reviews that there's over 200. I've got an old 3770k Intel I7 PC with 16gig of ddr3 ram and a 2g gtx 770 card very simular to your specs you were using the wiiu seemed to run fine but I'm really interested in if this old rig is powerful enough to run the switch emulation
@@Eye-am-Metalchip Actually, I run shucked White Label drives in a multidrive enclosure myself, and they all run at 7200 RPM. This drive just seems badly optimized to me.
@@Eye-am-Metalchip hard drive is the only logical drive for emulation especially for this massive amounts of roms! SSD wont give you an advantage unless it's games from the past 10 years or so!
They are probably using mednafen or the beetle retroarch core for saturn emulation. That is by far the most compatible emulator for ss but you need a beefy pc. Having said that, the performance was below what I'd expect for your pc, but I could be wrong.
There's another Saturn emulator under the Launch Box area and that runs high resolution Saturn games like Virtua Fighter 2 interlaced. It looks really bad.
Hard drives are trash and are end of life. I had to send back two of them. Dont waste your money just soend the time downloading the roms u want from the internet snd make your own. If you do get one, im editely back it up if it works to snother harddrive.
These hard drives are a scam, and a waste of money. They're bloated full of duplicate games and junk files. I recommend you make your own collection with a easy front end like Launchbox
This one isn't. It really is jam packed of single games. Don't forget, it is packed with CD, DVD and BluRay based games as well. They eat up a lot of data.
Honestly, that 12 TB hard drive is money well spent so many ROMs to choose from this really is a gamers paradise they weren’t lying and the fact that it’s actually 12 TB shows that this company is very trustworthy. It’s just a shame that some of these games weren’t able to work properly but as she said some of it was due to the emulator they are using and some part was because of your PC anyway great with you and I could see many people being very happy with this.
If I buy a ROM machine, I expect it to plug and play into a TV. What's the point plugging it into a PC when I can download the ROMs and better emulators myself?
These pre-loaded boxes really bother me. Home users trying roms on an emulator is fine. That's like checking out a book at the library, reading it, and returning it. This is like a corporation selling you an entire bookstore for pennies and not paying a single author who wrote any of the books.
Just ordered. And for me in the UK it was an absolute steal at £148 delivered! Less than I can buy a WD on Amazon. WTF is going on!? Not going to argue tho. Thankyou so much for reviewing this!
You're very welcome.
@@RetroCore you're my favourite Liverpudlian export 🙂
Fun Fact: Fight for Life (1996) has turned out this was because Atari was holding out payment for game's designer (Francois Yves Bertrand, former Sega AM2 dev who worked on Virtua Fighter) because, Atari at this was pinching for every cent (Atari was in REALLY bad condition). Mr. Francois Yves Bertrand didn't liked that, so he wasn't really interested on putting his best effort on the game. His way of FU to Atari.
Yep, I've read this story many time. Atari really screwed him over 😒
I have something similar, the Super Console X2 Pro. I love it. To play Speccy, Amiga and Arcade, with the odd dabble of SNES and Megadrive is awesome, so many childhood memories. 😁😁
Thanks for sharing! That's what these devices are best for. A good nostalgia trip.
Ordered one of these, should be landing soon, it's worth it for the ROMs alone and when you consider the price of a12tb HD (New or even 2nd hand) it's a no brainer
It's worth getting if you are looking for certain roms and emulators you have a hard time finding
I'd agree with that.
price is a bit steep, but this is a LOT of work done for you so its a nice to have as a package.. legally, its about 46.000 years in jail :)
Lol, so very true.
The problem with Atari Jaguar emulation in all of these setups is that Virtual Jaguar is the only Retroarch core, and - no offense to its developers, emulator programming is very hard - but it’s just not there on compatibility and performance. BigPEmu runs the entire Jaguar perfectly on modest hardware, but it is only available as a standalone Windows program.
Yep. I use BigPEmu myself which is great.
I would definitely be running a virus scan on this even with their promise that there's nothing malicious on it, you know because people intending to do malicious things don't tend to be upfront about that.
That being said the price isn't terrible considering you are getting a 12TB drive and the enclosure, though I'd be worried about the age and use of the drive as I doubt it would be new.
I ran an antivirus check on everything that was installed.
I didn't check the whole disc. 12TB would take forever.
I think as long as the executables are checked, it should be fine.
My drive was dated late 2019. Not new but should be fine. I'm still rocking a 10 year old 1TB HDD on my main PC.
@@RetroCore How many power on hours in a SMART test is a better indicator than age. I've got a couple of drives in my server that have been running for 8 year almost none stop now. They are doing well but I wouldn't buy them haha
Good point. I'll see about checking how long this drive was powered on for just for my own interest.
For sure I won't be using it as a drive for important stuff.
I only want to buy this because it's a pain in the behind to download all of these games. Especially for systems like Xbox where you have to download and then convert each game individually to work with the emulator. I much rather someone do all the work for me and that is worth the price
That's exactly why I'd want this.
That's exactly why I'd want this.
very nice collction!
Thanks!
If i can avoid the teknoparrot setup nightmare, already good
Yep, that installed as part of set. The only software I installed was Retro Bat, Playnite, launch box and some font that Hyoerspin needed. Hyoerspin and TeknoParrot seemed to be already installed on the HDD unless they were part of the Retro Bat set up but I don't think so.
I will definitely buy it . Great video.
Hope you enjoy it!
200$ for a 12tb hard drive alone is actually pretty good just for storage capacity considering brand new most drives at that capacity cost more than 200.
I did see several 12tb refurbished hard drives on new egg for around 100$ and IMO, even if they use refurbished drives 200 for a 12tb emulator drive with controller is money wise a good deal.
I dont deal with ali express simply because on the occasion i tried using Ali express the seller wanted me to send money western union and that felt way too sketchy for my tastes.
I like this channel it’s a good clean watch.
Thank you 👍
I have their arcadeboy budget set . ..it does everything but mame 3d games
OMG!!!! How many of these things are out there and what is the difference?
Looks Good !
I guess I can see the appeal for someone who isn't too knowledgeable about emulation but this showcase just reminds me of why I'd rather just set this stuff up myself than go for one of these pre-packaged offerings. They always seem to use these fiddly frontends and a bunch of badly configured 3rd-rate emulators.
I fully understand you. Same here. The Jag, 3DO and Saturn emulators I tried are all inferior to the emulators I set up myself. That is always going to be an issue with these types of devices.
Still, now I have a massive library of games that don't need downloading 👍
I'm impressed that Wii U games are able to run. I'm always well behind on the emulation front. Doen't seem too bad for the price simply because there's so much pre-loaded. I hate searching for files and trying to set up emulators. It's always nice when at least most of the work is done out of the box.
I think you would be the target audience for this device. For me, I like using the individual emulators so I can keep things up to date and how I like them but for someone who just wants yo play without too much fuss, this is a good deal.
I’ve been looking at getting one of these. I have a 2tb Kinhank hard drive but setting up controllers, especially 6 button ones is a right pain. I want to use my arcade sticks with street fighter layout on this thing. Do you know how easy it is to configure controls?
In most cases the controls were already set.
In the RetroBat part of the set, setting controls is so simple. Basically you enter the options on the main game select menu, go to controls, then press a button on your controller that you want to assign.
I wonder how the TeknoParrot games played. It seems to be one of the most difficult systems to get running.
It's not too tricky, but the big thing I noticed the last time I tried it about 6 months ago or so, is that it will run at whatever your desktop resolution is set to. I have my computer plugged into my 4K OLED so it tried to run Tekken 7 at that resolution with everything maxed out which made my i9-10900KF with an NVIDIA RTX 3070 8 GB look like Retro Core's PC here: not the best. Backed it off to a nice 1440p and it ran great, shockingly looking even better than the PC port. I am going to give it another go, hopefully they have improved the emulator even more in that time (Probably safe to presume so).
id like to see a tutorial how to setup all those programs on their own without having to buy the thing. seems to be mostly free available software that ive never heard of.
There should be loads out there. When I set up Launch box for my dedicated Tate Arcade emulation box (the only system I use a front end for since it only uses MAME and Final burn), I used an online guide.
@@RetroCore but can you setup those multiple programs together without the hdd? i know one of those programs is for pirated pc games so i dont need that, but the other ones?
This is a good console, if you are a vampire... With those many games, i'd already be a great great great grand dad before I play them all hahaha
12 old used terabyte HDD in a very cheap case by Ugreen with an crappy game image sold for a few hundred dollars. Easy profit.
This the new release
Do you have launchbox
Yes. I have it on this 12TB system.
What Saturn Emu were you using to get it at full speed?
He says satacore or something
I thought I was using Satakore but then realised that's the name of the budget range of Saturn games,😅
The emulator was called Yaba Sanshiro 2
Can I play all xbox console and the ps4 console also
Only if your PC is very powerful.
@@RetroCore do I have to have a pc to play or can I use a ps4 or a monitor or tv
Chinese piracy product that you plug into your PC and Step 1 is: Turn off your computer's anti-virus program?
Hell no lol
Totally agree. I recently bought a 2tb one from Amazon that was praised by UA-cam reviewers as the best emulation machine ever with everything from Atari to Switch on it. Plugged it in and immediately my virus scanner went off, blocked them thankfully. Sent it back to Amazon. Bottom line, don't trust these drives. If you do buy one, plug it into a old machine you don't care about.
To be fair antivirus like to give false positives, same with cracked games.
@@OmegaPrime-xt5rg It's better to download a pack online or make your own collection
@@dmer-zy3rb True, but mine lit up like a Christmas tree, right when I plugged it in, so I didn’t want to take any chance.
@@OmegaPrime-xt5rg did you get your money back though costs like 200 bucks or something!
Neat! I'm gonna try it!
Have fun!
Can this work on xp 32 bit?that is what i use.
Sadly not. Most of the software needs a 64bit OS and Windows 7 minimum.
@@RetroCore
That sucks.Than I am out.I only use my phone as modern day computer since I can not aford a new full computer.I am looking for xp 32 bit stuff.i have my own emulator system but I always wanted to try some drives.
This machine is probably a nice dump of Internet Archive ROM sets.
For sure but just imagine how long it would take to download 12TB of data.
Even on my connection which easily gets 3.8 MB (not mega bit) per second, 12 TB would take forever.
2:53 - USB3? Isn't it the ethernet port?
Looks like one but nope, it's technically called USB Type B as @NB pointed out 👍
I'm interested in how the switch ran and how many games I've seen on other reviews that there's over 200. I've got an old 3770k Intel I7 PC with 16gig of ddr3 ram and a 2g gtx 770 card very simular to your specs you were using the wiiu seemed to run fine but I'm really interested in if this old rig is powerful enough to run the switch emulation
To be honest, I've not tried any switch on it as of yet.
Are they using Big Pemu for Jag emulation? I would have expected better compatibility out of it.
It's an older version. On the PC I have the latest release which runs really well.
The hard drive is a 12TB HDD from an external drive. The white label gives it away.
No wonder how this was so cheap! Hard Drives are dead slow!
@@Eye-am-Metalchip Actually, I run shucked White Label drives in a multidrive enclosure myself, and they all run at 7200 RPM. This drive just seems badly optimized to me.
I don't understand, can you say this again another way? Did the company lie?
@@Eye-am-Metalchip hard drive is the only logical drive for emulation especially for this massive amounts of roms! SSD wont give you an advantage unless it's games from the past 10 years or so!
It doesn't need to be fast for emulation.
They are probably using mednafen or the beetle retroarch core for saturn emulation. That is by far the most compatible emulator for ss but you need a beefy pc. Having said that, the performance was below what I'd expect for your pc, but I could be wrong.
There's another Saturn emulator under the Launch Box area and that runs high resolution Saturn games like Virtua Fighter 2 interlaced. It looks really bad.
you need to be an immortal to play all this games just because of your life span is not enough 😅😅
So very true. It would probably take a year just yo load each one up.
Hard drives are trash and are end of life. I had to send back two of them. Dont waste your money just soend the time downloading the roms u want from the internet snd make your own. If you do get one, im editely back it up if it works to snother harddrive.
These hard drives are a scam, and a waste of money. They're bloated full of duplicate games and junk files. I recommend you make your own collection with a easy front end like Launchbox
Clean romsets are sadly very rare and if you find one you need to download for like 3 days lol
This one isn't. It really is jam packed of single games. Don't forget, it is packed with CD, DVD and BluRay based games as well. They eat up a lot of data.
@@RetroCore yeah, I trust ugreen, I use some of their products
I think this hard drive is worth it and it’s a real gamers paradise.
Honestly, that 12 TB hard drive is money well spent so many ROMs to choose from this really is a gamers paradise they weren’t lying and the fact that it’s actually 12 TB shows that this company is very trustworthy. It’s just a shame that some of these games weren’t able to work properly but as she said some of it was due to the emulator they are using and some part was because of your PC anyway great with you and I could see many people being very happy with this.
If I buy a ROM machine, I expect it to plug and play into a TV. What's the point plugging it into a PC when I can download the ROMs and better emulators myself?
Downloading 12TB of roms will take some time. Even on a fast connection. So I guess there's that.
@@RetroCore I mean, realistically I'm not going to be able to play 12TB worth of roms in my lifetime. 😅
These pre-loaded boxes really bother me. Home users trying roms on an emulator is fine. That's like checking out a book at the library, reading it, and returning it. This is like a corporation selling you an entire bookstore for pennies and not paying a single author who wrote any of the books.
Who cares. Piracy is the way with companies screwing us on every title.
Only difference is you literally cannot give money to 99.9999% of the developers of these games.
What are you talking about? Theres NOT a way to pay the creators
@@MrMegaManFan you literally can't pay the original devs anymore.
depends on the games.. nintendo still sell old games on their virtual console platform..
The hyperspin arcade games are so unorganized the duplicates make the hyperspin part look messy and ugly