1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:02,180 So it's Friday night and you're, you're broing out. 2 00:00:02,180 --> 00:00:03,120 You got this great idea. 3 00:00:03,120 --> 00:00:04,360 You're like, yeah, you know what, man? 4 00:00:04,360 --> 00:00:06,120 We should play some retro games. 5 00:00:06,120 --> 00:00:06,960 All of them. 6 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:09,300 Because emulation isn't dying 7 00:00:09,300 --> 00:00:11,160 because of Nintendo lawsuits. 8 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:12,000 Oh. 9 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:14,840 Anyway, fortunately, you're a well-equipped retro gamer. 10 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:16,220 You got all kinds of controllers 11 00:00:16,220 --> 00:00:18,200 for all kinds of amazing retro consoles. 12 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:21,960 N64, SNES, original NES. 13 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:23,040 Yes. 14 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:23,880 Coleco. 15 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:24,720 Wow. 16 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:26,040 But there's only one problem. 17 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:29,840 Even though you've got your emulation PC all set up 18 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:31,220 and you got your retro arch. 19 00:00:31,220 --> 00:00:32,520 Oh, can he turn this? 20 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:33,360 Oh, wow. 21 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:34,200 This is terrible. 22 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:35,020 Everything is terrible. 23 00:00:35,020 --> 00:00:36,500 You're going to have to come around. 24 00:00:36,500 --> 00:00:38,180 You got your retro arch all set up 25 00:00:38,180 --> 00:00:40,000 with all your games and everything. 26 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:43,680 Then you're like, oh, how do I plug? 27 00:00:43,680 --> 00:00:49,360 How do I plug one of these into one of these? 28 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:53,080 If only there was a solution. 29 00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:55,140 Oh, there it is. 30 00:00:55,140 --> 00:00:56,380 And we're going to tell you about it 31 00:00:56,380 --> 00:00:58,540 after this word from our sponsor. 32 00:00:58,540 --> 00:00:59,780 Mack Weldon. 33 00:00:59,780 --> 00:01:01,940 Mack Weldon makes great underwear, t-shirts, 34 00:01:01,940 --> 00:01:03,000 socks, wallets, and more. 35 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:04,080 They believe in simple shopping. 36 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:06,180 And if you use code TECHTIPS, 37 00:01:06,180 --> 00:01:08,780 you will get 20% off your next purchase. 38 00:01:08,780 --> 00:01:18,840 So go check them out at the link below. 39 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:23,060 So this right here is the Bliss Box. 40 00:01:23,060 --> 00:01:25,600 In the box, you get the Bliss Box adapter, 41 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:29,920 which has got one USB-B, 42 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:32,020 so a USB-2-B at the back. 43 00:01:32,020 --> 00:01:36,820 Then it's got four HDMI connectors. 44 00:01:36,820 --> 00:01:39,780 Now, here's a funny thing that a lot of people don't know. 45 00:01:39,780 --> 00:01:41,660 There is a huge difference 46 00:01:41,660 --> 00:01:44,660 between physical connection standards 47 00:01:44,660 --> 00:01:47,500 and electrical connection standards. 48 00:01:47,500 --> 00:01:49,660 And while you might see an HDMI port, 49 00:01:49,660 --> 00:01:51,320 that's a totally normal HDMI port, 50 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:53,720 and go, okay, so that's for video, right? 51 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:55,960 You might not always be correct. 52 00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:58,480 And I have seen HDMI used for all kinds of things. 53 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:00,700 I've even seen it used for PCI Express. 54 00:02:00,700 --> 00:02:02,000 That was pretty weird. 55 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:05,480 In this case, all they needed was some kind of cheap, 56 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:07,780 standard connector that they could get 57 00:02:07,780 --> 00:02:08,860 that had enough pins for everything. 58 00:02:08,860 --> 00:02:11,800 For everything they could possibly want to connect to it. 59 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:13,960 And can you walk us through, what are all these? 60 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:15,580 Some of them are fairly recognizable. 61 00:02:15,580 --> 00:02:16,480 I don't know if they're all labeled. 62 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:17,320 That's SNES. 63 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:18,200 This is SNES. 64 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:20,120 This is NES. 65 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:21,800 This looks like GameCube. 66 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:23,040 There's the Coleco. 67 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:24,860 They ship you the Bliss Box, 68 00:02:24,860 --> 00:02:28,020 and then this entire bouquet. 69 00:02:28,020 --> 00:02:28,860 Oh, thank you. 70 00:02:28,860 --> 00:02:30,440 Oh, it's so cute. 71 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:33,600 Of adapters, so that you could have four controllers 72 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:36,980 for pretty much any retro console you would want. 73 00:02:36,980 --> 00:02:38,580 And you don't have to go with, 74 00:02:38,580 --> 00:02:41,340 even the slightly different experience 75 00:02:41,340 --> 00:02:43,280 that you might get with something like 76 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:44,820 an 8-bit Doh controller. 77 00:02:44,820 --> 00:02:46,020 Wait, is this from 8-bit Doh? 78 00:02:46,020 --> 00:02:47,660 Oh wow, no, this is from a SNES Mini. 79 00:02:47,660 --> 00:02:48,500 Yeah. 80 00:02:48,500 --> 00:02:49,340 Oh, so this is first party. 81 00:02:49,340 --> 00:02:50,160 Yeah. 82 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:51,000 All right then. 83 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:51,840 Does this have an adapter too? 84 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:52,680 No. 85 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:53,520 Oh. 86 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:54,360 That was a mistake. 87 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:55,200 We did not think of that. 88 00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:56,960 So in terms of setup, honestly, there's not a whole lot. 89 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:58,700 You gotta configure these dip switches 90 00:02:58,700 --> 00:03:00,520 to determine whether you want four-play mode 91 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:01,780 or single-play mode. 92 00:03:01,780 --> 00:03:03,700 And then it doesn't require external power. 93 00:03:03,700 --> 00:03:06,120 You just go ahead and pop that USB in the back. 94 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:08,580 It supports a hundred plus types of controllers. 95 00:03:08,580 --> 00:03:10,140 So everything we've got here, 96 00:03:10,140 --> 00:03:11,620 I mean, with the exception of maybe this, 97 00:03:11,620 --> 00:03:14,860 is pretty mainstream from a retro gaming perspective. 98 00:03:14,860 --> 00:03:16,900 And it even supports advanced functionality 99 00:03:16,900 --> 00:03:19,660 like pressure-sensitive buttons on PS2 controllers 100 00:03:19,660 --> 00:03:20,960 in games that support that. 101 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:23,700 And it has the ability to detect 102 00:03:23,700 --> 00:03:26,840 what kind of controller is in what type of port. 103 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:30,200 So your emulator, just with a restart at worst, 104 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:32,160 should be able to pick up exactly 105 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:33,400 what all the button bindings are 106 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:35,680 without any dinking around whatsoever. 107 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:37,200 The last major benefit of this, 108 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:38,300 aside from that it's just 109 00:03:38,300 --> 00:03:39,480 a single cable solution, 110 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:40,860 instead of having a bunch of dongles 111 00:03:40,860 --> 00:03:42,700 hanging out of the front of your case, 112 00:03:42,700 --> 00:03:45,640 is that it is extremely low latency. 113 00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:47,680 So the idea, and we went and obtained 114 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:51,000 this mammoth of a TV specifically 115 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:53,440 so that we could evaluate that for ourselves, 116 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:55,400 the idea is that you should have 117 00:03:55,400 --> 00:04:00,400 an as-good-as-original latency gaming experience. 118 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:02,520 But I'm not sure if I buy it yet. 119 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:04,260 Let's see. 120 00:04:04,260 --> 00:04:05,140 One thing we missed, 121 00:04:05,140 --> 00:04:07,140 apparently you need to reset the bliss box 122 00:04:07,140 --> 00:04:08,560 when you change the controllers around. 123 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:09,920 I think there was a button here. 124 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:14,300 So every one of them has a button right beside it. 125 00:04:14,300 --> 00:04:15,890 Not yet. 126 00:04:15,890 --> 00:04:17,710 Oh, I see what's going on. 127 00:04:17,710 --> 00:04:19,170 It's plugged into the keyboard. 128 00:04:20,070 --> 00:04:24,710 Oh, well, we don't have it plugged in at all. 129 00:04:24,710 --> 00:04:25,710 Dang it. 130 00:04:25,710 --> 00:04:27,130 When you're trying to reset it and stuff, 131 00:04:27,130 --> 00:04:29,650 it should say some kind of yellowy text 132 00:04:29,650 --> 00:04:31,410 at the bottom of the emulator. 133 00:04:31,410 --> 00:04:35,670 If that isn't showing up, maybe not plugged in. 134 00:04:35,670 --> 00:04:36,990 There we go. 135 00:04:36,990 --> 00:04:37,830 All right. Wait, what? 136 00:04:37,830 --> 00:04:39,030 Hold on. I'm just doing mine too. 137 00:04:39,030 --> 00:04:41,880 Is yours working? 138 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:43,660 It was working for like a second. 139 00:04:44,660 --> 00:04:48,410 And then I touched it. 140 00:04:48,410 --> 00:04:52,750 Okay. So we had some problems and we have re-equipped. 141 00:04:52,750 --> 00:04:53,590 I went home. 142 00:04:53,590 --> 00:04:56,790 I got my SNES controllers, like OG SNES controllers, 143 00:04:56,790 --> 00:04:59,710 and my PS2 DualShocks. 144 00:04:59,710 --> 00:05:02,230 Also, we figured out what was going on 145 00:05:02,230 --> 00:05:04,670 with Luke's PlayStation controller. 146 00:05:04,670 --> 00:05:06,190 It's Mad Catz. 147 00:05:06,190 --> 00:05:08,370 There's also like a fray on the cable. 148 00:05:08,370 --> 00:05:10,070 There's some detection issues there. 149 00:05:10,070 --> 00:05:11,310 The N64 controller is trying to work. 150 00:05:11,310 --> 00:05:11,370 Yeah. The N64 controller is trying to work. 151 00:05:11,370 --> 00:05:11,410 Yeah. The N64 controller is trying to work. 152 00:05:11,410 --> 00:05:13,650 Turns out that was a retroarch issue. 153 00:05:13,650 --> 00:05:15,670 And then finally, the Coleco, 154 00:05:15,670 --> 00:05:18,510 it looks like these are very simple devices. 155 00:05:18,510 --> 00:05:20,010 There's nothing to really detect, 156 00:05:20,010 --> 00:05:21,670 but there's a manual override. 157 00:05:21,670 --> 00:05:24,640 So we're just gonna try again. 158 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:26,880 Can we just play some SNES games? 159 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:29,180 Because like the whole thing 160 00:05:29,180 --> 00:05:30,780 is it's supposed to be really low latency. 161 00:05:30,780 --> 00:05:34,100 Like there's some part of the USB standard that it's using 162 00:05:34,100 --> 00:05:35,620 that mostly gets ignored. 163 00:05:35,620 --> 00:05:39,200 That's supposed to allow it to be interrupt driven. 164 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:41,700 It's so, theoretically, it's like the best thing 165 00:05:41,700 --> 00:05:42,540 ever. 166 00:05:42,540 --> 00:05:44,000 Okay. So can we just do Super Mario World? 167 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:44,840 Yes, absolutely. 168 00:05:44,840 --> 00:05:47,540 Okay. Because within a very short period of time, 169 00:05:47,540 --> 00:05:49,480 I should be able to tell in this game. 170 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:50,320 This is my jam. 171 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:51,820 You probably have more experience here than me, 172 00:05:51,820 --> 00:05:53,480 but I've also played this game a bunch. 173 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:54,560 Are you calling me old? 174 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:56,820 No, it's a classic. 175 00:05:56,820 --> 00:05:57,920 Classic, shut up. 176 00:05:57,920 --> 00:05:59,520 You just were, you know, 177 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:00,820 part of it when it first came out. 178 00:06:00,820 --> 00:06:02,150 That's all. 179 00:06:02,150 --> 00:06:04,750 This is feeling pretty good actually. 180 00:06:04,750 --> 00:06:06,250 I kind of zoned out just watching, 181 00:06:06,250 --> 00:06:08,150 but it looks like it's going well. 182 00:06:08,150 --> 00:06:11,480 Oops. 183 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:13,080 Oh, why did I do that? 184 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:15,040 Dang it. 185 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:15,880 Stupid. 186 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:17,340 No more super high points for you. 187 00:06:17,340 --> 00:06:21,100 Stupid. 188 00:06:21,100 --> 00:06:24,140 That's feeling good. 189 00:06:24,140 --> 00:06:29,630 Trying real hard right now. 190 00:06:29,630 --> 00:06:32,320 SNES Super Mario World. 191 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:33,160 I'm impressed. 192 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:34,000 Works good. 193 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:34,840 I'm impressed. 194 00:06:34,840 --> 00:06:35,740 Zero issues from my stance. 195 00:06:35,740 --> 00:06:36,580 All right. Okay. 196 00:06:36,580 --> 00:06:37,400 You pick the game this time. 197 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:38,240 You pick the game. 198 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:40,400 Pick a game where you know how to play it and I don't. 199 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:43,650 See, I'm not this old. 200 00:06:43,650 --> 00:06:44,490 We're going to do this one. 201 00:06:44,490 --> 00:06:45,710 You hyped me up on this. 202 00:06:45,710 --> 00:06:47,910 Okay. We can play another Linus game. 203 00:06:47,910 --> 00:06:49,490 I'm going to be cool. 204 00:06:49,490 --> 00:06:51,470 I'm going to be hairy. 205 00:06:51,470 --> 00:06:52,310 Okay. 206 00:06:52,310 --> 00:06:53,170 Flatland is like, 207 00:06:53,330 --> 00:06:54,860 I'm pretty into Flatland. 208 00:06:54,860 --> 00:06:57,300 You have to do Flatland. 209 00:06:57,300 --> 00:06:58,520 Which one even am I? 210 00:06:58,520 --> 00:06:59,480 I'm up here. 211 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:00,680 What the heck? 212 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:02,400 Okay. I don't remember any of the controls. 213 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:05,610 Okay. I don't even know what just happened there. 214 00:07:05,610 --> 00:07:08,990 I think having the AIs in here might've been a mistake. 215 00:07:08,990 --> 00:07:11,640 Okay. What the heck, dude? 216 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:12,780 Wait, was that, is that you? 217 00:07:12,780 --> 00:07:14,180 Yeah. There you go. 218 00:07:14,180 --> 00:07:16,420 Eat that bone, loser. 219 00:07:16,420 --> 00:07:17,500 That's right. 220 00:07:17,500 --> 00:07:18,860 Now you know what's up. 221 00:07:18,860 --> 00:07:22,520 Wait. Oh boy. 222 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:23,520 Oh, I just picked up a heart. 223 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:25,120 I think, I think I picked up a heart. 224 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:26,080 Oh. Someone threw a log at me. 225 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:29,150 Eat logs, loser. 226 00:07:29,150 --> 00:07:30,330 Oh crap. I just got bombed. 227 00:07:30,330 --> 00:07:32,040 I'm in danger. 228 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:32,880 Whoa. 229 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:34,540 Oh, oh, oh, oh. 230 00:07:34,540 --> 00:07:35,380 Watch out. 231 00:07:35,380 --> 00:07:38,680 Watch out. He's got the bomb. 232 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:39,520 No. 233 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:45,000 So anyway, this is- 234 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:45,840 We should probably move on, 235 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:46,680 but that's actually kind of fun. 236 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:47,720 This is a game that I used to play. 237 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:48,960 I miss games like that. 238 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:49,800 Yeah. 239 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:50,640 That are just like, 240 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:52,280 you can kind of figure it out kind of right away. 241 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:53,280 Stupid, dumb fun. 242 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:54,260 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 243 00:07:54,260 --> 00:07:55,100 Okay. That was cool. 244 00:07:55,100 --> 00:07:55,920 I liked that. 245 00:07:55,920 --> 00:07:57,160 Also, no problem with the controllers. 246 00:07:57,160 --> 00:07:58,540 Yep. Everything seemed to work fine. 247 00:07:58,540 --> 00:07:59,820 Yep. Feeling good. 248 00:07:59,820 --> 00:08:01,300 Yeah. GameCube controllers are apparently like, 249 00:08:01,300 --> 00:08:02,140 Yeah. 250 00:08:02,140 --> 00:08:02,960 A thing now? 251 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:09,910 Yeah. 252 00:08:09,910 --> 00:08:10,750 AudioCop. 253 00:08:10,750 --> 00:08:12,410 Yeah. Thank you. I heard it. 254 00:08:12,410 --> 00:08:13,250 Sorry. Which- 255 00:08:13,250 --> 00:08:14,790 I don't care. 256 00:08:16,370 --> 00:08:17,770 Yeah. Let's do Flower Cup. 257 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:20,940 Jeez. What a guy. 258 00:08:20,940 --> 00:08:22,620 I'm funny. To me. 259 00:08:26,630 --> 00:08:29,480 See ya. See ya. 260 00:08:29,480 --> 00:08:31,180 Whatever. I have the crappy analog stick, 261 00:08:31,180 --> 00:08:33,080 which actually is making more of a difference 262 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:34,880 than it was previously. 263 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:36,220 So I've been playing this game 264 00:08:36,220 --> 00:08:39,200 with the classic controller on the Wii. 265 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:40,040 And, um, 266 00:08:40,040 --> 00:08:42,000 I thought I sucked at this game, 267 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:43,600 but actually I don't. 268 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:47,030 That controller just is not actually very good. 269 00:08:47,030 --> 00:08:47,870 So wait. 270 00:08:47,870 --> 00:08:48,710 Because I'm perfectly good at this game now. 271 00:08:48,710 --> 00:08:50,890 The jank N64 controller you have right now 272 00:08:50,890 --> 00:08:52,050 is better than the classic one. 273 00:08:52,050 --> 00:08:53,330 Oh, so much better. 274 00:08:53,330 --> 00:08:55,910 I mean, part of it too, though, again, is muscle memory. 275 00:08:55,910 --> 00:08:57,670 Like there's no way I would have been able to overtake 276 00:08:57,670 --> 00:09:01,120 that truck on the classic controller. 277 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:02,860 There we go. Come on, baby. 278 00:09:02,860 --> 00:09:04,040 Show me that first place. 279 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:05,440 Yeah, you got it. 280 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:07,640 I'm like gonna hopefully get six. 281 00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:08,840 I got completely wrecked. 282 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:09,880 Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. 283 00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:10,700 Ah. 284 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:11,840 Oh. 285 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:12,660 Oh, that was hard to watch. 286 00:09:12,660 --> 00:09:14,960 I actually hated this controller. 287 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:15,800 Really? 288 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:16,640 I did not realize. 289 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:17,480 I didn't mind these controllers. 290 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:19,100 This fight, I just got tools. 291 00:09:19,100 --> 00:09:21,600 I just didn't like how asymmetrical they were. 292 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:25,540 Like it's a weird ergonomic situation here for me. 293 00:09:25,540 --> 00:09:26,920 Are you ready to play some burger time? 294 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:28,840 No, I want to watch you play first. 295 00:09:33,540 --> 00:09:34,750 Oh. 296 00:09:34,750 --> 00:09:36,150 I think I'm dead now though. 297 00:09:36,150 --> 00:09:36,990 Yeah, super dead. 298 00:09:36,990 --> 00:09:38,960 But I put one. 299 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:39,800 Okay. 300 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:40,880 So you have to step on something 301 00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:43,520 and make it fall. 302 00:09:43,520 --> 00:09:44,360 Go, go, go. 303 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:46,380 You're in. 304 00:09:46,380 --> 00:09:49,480 Okay. 305 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:53,900 This seems like the place where I have the most options. 306 00:09:53,900 --> 00:09:55,360 They're on you though. 307 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:56,200 I know. 308 00:09:56,200 --> 00:09:57,320 I just, I want them all behind me. 309 00:09:57,320 --> 00:10:02,010 Oh, that's a whole burger. 310 00:10:02,010 --> 00:10:04,400 Here he goes. 311 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:05,220 Okay. 312 00:10:05,220 --> 00:10:06,060 We get to see what this is. 313 00:10:06,060 --> 00:10:07,090 Yeah. 314 00:10:07,090 --> 00:10:07,930 It is. 315 00:10:07,930 --> 00:10:08,860 It's free life. 316 00:10:08,860 --> 00:10:11,640 That's awesome. 317 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:12,480 Yeah, that's right. 318 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:13,320 You all went that way. 319 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:14,160 Good trick. 320 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:16,320 Oh, no. 321 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:17,560 Very good run. 322 00:10:17,560 --> 00:10:18,400 Very good run. 323 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:19,240 Okay. 324 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:24,760 I think we can make it. 325 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:25,600 Okay. 326 00:10:25,980 --> 00:10:26,820 Yeah. 327 00:10:26,820 --> 00:10:27,640 They had you. 328 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:28,670 What? 329 00:10:28,670 --> 00:10:29,510 What? 330 00:10:29,510 --> 00:10:32,950 So I think really we can draw our conclusion, right? 331 00:10:32,950 --> 00:10:33,790 Yeah. 332 00:10:33,790 --> 00:10:36,810 If the objective of the foreplay from Bliss Box 333 00:10:36,810 --> 00:10:40,670 is low latency, multi-controller support, 334 00:10:40,670 --> 00:10:42,510 then I think they're a lot of the way there. 335 00:10:42,510 --> 00:10:44,370 There's still some software niggles 336 00:10:44,370 --> 00:10:46,970 that a lot of them are as much to do 337 00:10:46,970 --> 00:10:49,530 with third-party software as they are to do 338 00:10:49,530 --> 00:10:51,510 with Bliss Box's implementation. 339 00:10:51,510 --> 00:10:53,590 But it does mean that the user experience 340 00:10:53,590 --> 00:10:55,750 with what with the resetting controllers 341 00:10:55,750 --> 00:11:00,190 and restarting your software every time is not amazing. 342 00:11:00,190 --> 00:11:01,030 Yeah. 343 00:11:01,030 --> 00:11:02,650 And there's the cost issue. 344 00:11:02,650 --> 00:11:05,490 It is not cheap at 55 bucks for the box 345 00:11:05,490 --> 00:11:07,490 and then $7 each for the adapters. 346 00:11:07,490 --> 00:11:09,910 Especially when you compare it to something like this 347 00:11:09,910 --> 00:11:13,190 that costs anywhere from 15 to 25 bucks 348 00:11:13,190 --> 00:11:14,750 for a couple of controllers. 349 00:11:14,750 --> 00:11:18,710 I mean, seven times two is a lot of that cost, 350 00:11:18,710 --> 00:11:22,000 but the latency. 351 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:24,860 And the ability to have this sitting on your desk 352 00:11:24,860 --> 00:11:25,960 and hot swap controllers, 353 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:26,800 as much as you want. 354 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:28,440 Even though you still have to have a lot of dongles 355 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:29,920 sitting in a drawer somewhere. 356 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:30,740 That's true. 357 00:11:30,740 --> 00:11:33,300 So I think they're on a good path. 358 00:11:33,300 --> 00:11:35,160 The retro gaming experience, 359 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:37,840 aside from our choice of titles, 360 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:39,240 actually a lot of fun. 361 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:40,080 Yeah. 362 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:40,920 So... 363 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:42,620 I mean, BurgerTime was pretty mint. 364 00:11:42,620 --> 00:11:45,340 We're giving it a conditional thumbs up. 365 00:11:45,340 --> 00:11:46,180 Yeah. 366 00:11:46,180 --> 00:11:47,000 Conditional thumbs up. 367 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:49,200 Still some work to do on the software and the ease of use. 368 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:51,820 And luckily all the problems can be software 369 00:11:51,820 --> 00:11:53,180 or firmware updated. 370 00:11:53,180 --> 00:11:55,900 But controller support was actually pretty darn good, 371 00:11:55,900 --> 00:11:57,000 across the board for us. 372 00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:58,620 And we even got Dreamcast support, apparently, 373 00:11:58,620 --> 00:11:59,460 which is pretty cool. 374 00:11:59,460 --> 00:12:00,300 Yeah. 375 00:12:00,300 --> 00:12:01,200 Ting! 376 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:03,840 Ting is the mobile carrier that makes sense. 377 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:05,540 It's the mobile carrier that lets you call them 378 00:12:05,540 --> 00:12:07,280 and talk to an actual person, 379 00:12:07,280 --> 00:12:10,840 which, I mean, who could imagine that in this day and age? 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