there are literally hundreds of thousands of games for dozens of
consoles but if you want to play any of them you will not only need the console
they were made for you'll need a controller it's easy that can display it and the game itself and since retro game
prices have soared so high that GPU prices are jealous
emulation just makes sense no clutter no
wear and tear on your valuable cartridges and disks and no worries
about controller or video signal compatibility right well the fine folks
selling machines like this on AliExpress have heard the call to action loud and
clear and they put out more consoles than anybody knows what to do hyper base
FC this is a football club it's a joke
for my European friends the point is are these things any good can they play ROMs
in any way that's close to how they performed on original Hardware or they
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Pack I can't wait to get to the game station five but I have to because we're
starting with the me pad 80. this is the whole thing 89 inches 89 inches of what
oh no way
this is one of those things the whole console is the controller
that is quite possibly the worst
joystick I have ever felt ever it's like
an even bigger version of that awful slide around one from the DS family it
grinds wow a single AAA battery and with
only a little bit of gross residue inside the enclosure
wait wait is this a flashlight
um I'll take unnecessary feature creep for a hundred
s then we take our AV cable this is just mono audio and composite video and
immediately we're up just like that whoa
that latency though wow oh
okay this is the game for sure this is
truly awful scaling like look at Mario's
Sprite as he's moving around
terrible and then if I want to play a different
game reset oh wow that's it well I just realized
that shape is like a Sonic oh you're right it's Sonic the Hedgehog
shape which makes no sense at all at the
price of this thing I'm having a pretty hard time justifying it they go for
anywhere in the neighborhood of 20 to 30 bucks one other knock against it is it
has to be powered by battery but I also gotta say as a nine-year-old visiting
Grandma's house in the summer if he'd had one of these instead of nothing I
would have been pretty into it just like I'm into this next unboxing the game
station five does this actually include
two controllers oh it totally does
that looks very cheap we get only AV out
at least we get power in this time no
micro SD no HDMI which is really curious because it has
spots in the mold for it reset and power buttons in the front and then two USB
Twos for a joystick one and joystick two no clip mod
wow that's about as simple as it gets
we've got some kind of soc on some kind
of adapter board we've got some schmoo
on here presumably because they don't want you to know what chip this is yep
there is no MicroSD and no HDMI to be
enabled I have to assume that this is a generic chassis and there are a variety
of different boards that might end up inside it hey look it includes a little
stand that and the 200 total games are
already making me feel pretty good about this one
the hell is this manual oh it's Russian
right but for what this has a wireless controller
this has some kind of gun it has game cartridges
and we're wiring into a VHF box for some
reason what the hell are they talking about dibs flare one
oh there's no shoulder buttons but there
are labels molded into it in case you
forget which side is left and which side is right to prevent this
is a very similar looking interface but
based on that we can at least play Super Mario 3
um maybe it's a little more powerful what the hell is fruit gift
I have to know
are we competing I have the same information that you do
it's combat if combat isn't multiplayer
I don't know what will be wait what you have to you have to hit these guys while
they're down isn't that like against the Geneva Convention okay milk and nuts
what is happening right now oh what the oh I'm dead so here's
something fun uh this button goes to the side
that's the extent of my buttons thanks for playing
time to move on to the arcade box comes in a little carrying case
controllers that actually weigh something even if they still feel pretty
knockoff Wireless though this is feeling like some more Primo
bootleg right here oh though
we did a video recently about these
Android TV boxes which is presumably
what this is and they can be just chock
full of malware got a little 64 Gigabyte
micro SD card do not remove warranty void you're not
getting the warranty from arcade box you need two separate dongles for the
two separate controllers brilliant let's see how it goes this thing better
impress me much as my fellow Canadian would put it
dollars yeah it's Android TV okay can
confirm it's running mulak which is Linux distro that's specifically for
emulation whoa okay
45 PlayStation games
I doubt it oh
these are reversed Tanner tells me though that you can fix that in software
which actually makes perfect sense joysticks usable
I mean wow yeah emulation speed seems fine I'm
a little surprised I mean for the price I shouldn't be surprised but for how
light this thing is I am a little surprised one cool thing about this one is that
absolutely whoops
nothing would prevent you from just pulling out that micro SD card because
realistically what you care about your warranty on this thing and putting different games on it however I would
caution you against plugging this into your network the device is very rooted
including root file explorer shell emulator Etc which isn't necessarily a
bad thing because it gives you full control over the system it just means
that they also had full control over the
system at some point the instructions are well written though so as long as
you're happy with the game library and you don't mind the Fairly cheap I mean
controllers again for Grandma's house consider being pretty usable Tanner
insists that I try a couple of other games that he loaded onto a USB drive
that's kind of impressive actually you just throw games on a USB and it picks
it up yeah I I find it it's quite nice
unfortunately you do still have to follow the folder structure uh what are
you expecting to go wrong here so we're gonna see some of the textures
messing up we're gonna see things kind of fading in
and out I see some textures messing up but in
terms of my expectations for a machine like this it's pretty playable isn't it
it's pretty playable yeah I think they loaded it up with all of
the games that can reasonably run on this right that would explain why Crazy
Taxi is the only Dreamcast game on this thing also Dreamcast games are really
big and that's only a 64 gig micro SD
hey it's time to do the hyper base FC
Metro gaming console these controllers look Pro promising
buttons are a little stiff but joysticks feel not bad and they've got all the
buttons where I would expect them to be I don't think
that the style of the controllers could be any further from the box itself if
they tried oh oh that's pretty cool look
there's a SATA interface so you could just plonk a two and a half inch hard
drive or SSD in there and have basically all the freaking storage you could want
it gets better wait wait there's a cartridge hold on
there's a drive in the cartridge there's
a hard drive in the car Wait so hold on does it does it have any it currently
has zero games oh it's just adorable and shaped like a
nest cartridge oh I like it
there's not much we know about the hardware right out of the box it's a
quad core a53 processor we know it was set up with a Dell poweredge r740xd oh
these are just like ROM hacks yeah I think that's one
of the biggest selling features if one of these machines is ROM hacks hey this
is cool hey what's up
wait where'd you go behind you oh balls
oh balls I think I'm gonna stall I think I stalled
and I fly off into the sunset I'm
guessing this one is 200 bucks I'm seeing it on AliExpress right now for
61.27 USD 61 2 clear these are not
amazing controllers by any stretch of the imagination I wouldn't pilot a
submarine with them but for 65 bucks
also including the console with all the pirating done for me well certainly a
better value than that stupid overpriced one we looked at last time I think this
is the winner so far actually I take back what I said about the quality of
these controllers they feel pretty good in the hand but look at the size of this
dead zone just like the original console
no it's straight or friggin turn beats of
Rage what is Beats of Rage that is a Thomas wave I think beats of
rage is an open source version of Streets of Rage yeah but it
it's a console oh
well we're gonna have to play badass babes
good loading screen what is this press attack to break free
okay Yep this is gonna need to go unplug
replug how about the super console x-king did they rip off Intel's skull
branding yeah b-links done a couple
different things that that has that skull branding on it yeah this one
actually looks like kind of Premium it doesn't include a controller though
this one also uses MicroSD for storage though I guess technically nothing would
prevent you from plugging in a USB external drive whether it's a hard drive
or a USB thumb drive some key stats for this one it uses an s922x processor
which is significantly more powerful than the s905x that we saw before and
it's running Android nine
but that's only the nand this is still loading up emulek oh I guess yeah that's
true this thing's got to be rooted as
hell I like their interface though the art on
this particular one is really nice the art is really nice
really nice interface but one of the things we noticed is that
there are a lot of games missing from their N64 Library compared to the other
consoles that we've looked at so the only conclusion we can draw there is
that it probably doesn't handle them very well for some reason which is weird
because it uses an s922x processor
instead of an s905 which is quite a bit more powerful it could just be that it
this is a very incomplete game Library they've got most of the ones I would
care about though Ocarina of Time Star Fox 64. I mean is
it flashing up the top of the screen always there uh no that seems to be a
problem power of the hardware is reflected in the price this one goes for about 125
dollars without all the mulex stuff
pre-loaded on it you can see it's got b-link branding on it but we actually
got ours from kin Hank and they're the ones who are loading all the software
onto it so you're paying about 15 extra
for them to configure it for you load it
up with a bunch of games and then hopefully not put anything malicious on
it the nand runs Android version 9 and the only other really interesting thing
I think about the hardware here is that these USB ports are USB 3. so if you had
a high speed USB storage device you might get slightly better performance
out of it theoretically if you can get a
good Android install going that will be a pretty good TV box too bringing us to
our last the super console X pro comes
in oh my goodness two boxes
wow laser cut acrylic enclosure with a
kin Hank logo lasered into the side of
it okay 60 mil cooling fan
a USB hub does it come with four controllers
or controller but hey these are those same controllers again they are well we
are shorted two dongles I think I noticed kin Hank has come up a lot are
these guys a power player in the pirated Android game console space it seems like
they're just buying and then reselling Android boxes essentially but they're
they also carry a couple of x86 computers
that is a friggin loud fan
and it smells oh oh you
what the heck why does it smell
this looks pretty good for a virtual boy game though
oopsie daisies this is completely unusable
and it's not even super powerful this is using an s905x so it's not even the most
powerful console we've seen today now my question for you is is this really what
was in the picture on the site they have
two different versions of this I bet they do this is a super console X Pro
Plus the X pro looks almost like a super
famicom and from what I can tell isn't actively cooled which I never thought
would have been a bad thing but here we are it smells it's loud it's soldered
right into the DC jack and no way it is
that is the stupidest thing I've ever seen ever you want to see something
stupider it's all together with these plastic screws there are a couple
consoles we saw today that if you're comfortable with the piracy and uh
profiting off of others IP aspect of these products could recommend the one
with the slot loading cartridge in the top that one's pretty cool what's that
one called again hyperbase FC but the performance not that great yeah but the
price I mean yeah the 150 one was
definitely smoother but it cost twice as much and that one was 65 bucks it
includes two controllers and a 500 gig hard drive again it comes back to
Grandma's house come to Grandma if you just want something for the kids to do
that's cheap and cheerful there's far worse ways to spend your
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