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i doubt this is going to surprise you guys but i like playing retro games because to me

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they ain't retro

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anyway one of the best options for retro gaming these days is of course the

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nintendo switch but if you're not that into the limited library of older games

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and the exorbitant prices that nintendo charges for games that have been out for

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30 years then i guess all that's left for you to

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do is grab a pc load up an emulator and uh

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oh i guess somebody thought of that

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this is the creo code lira

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it's a diy that is if you diy side the

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side oh terrible to build it yourself or

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you can actually get it as a pre-built it's a raspberry pi based handheld

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console and my expectations for it

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actually just got a lot higher from initially opening the box

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okay i'm assuming this is the diy one ah yes

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do it yourself this is pretty cool so

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download and play your favorite video game surf on the internet watch movies

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uh do it yourself so it's an ARM cortex a53 1.2 gigahertz bass chip one gig of

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lp ddr2 RAM and an 800 by 480 resolution

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display uh that is some not uh hd resolution but

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given that it's only five inches it should still be okay wow this one is a

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lot less assembled than the other one oh boy

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i've got an sd card to microsd adapter we've got it

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that's cool raspberry pi compute module three plus just like that

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this looks pretty straightforward i have to confess i do not know what

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this micro sd to what looks like usb

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spacing on four contacts is it's exactly that

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oh all right so here's all the parts i guess first things first i'm going to

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take the protective bubble wrap off of the battery oh was i even supposed to

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take that off it looks like it's already attached okay then

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look ma i'm building my own game console aren't

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you proud oh wow so the general purpose io is all just

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mapped out to these contact points here i guess if you just have it assembled on

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a test bench maybe i mean that's pretty cool so you've got all that you know

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raspberry pi functionality here's a bunch of five volt and ground that you

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could theoretically just like wire stuff

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up to i don't know RGB your lira maybe we should do it oh i just powered it on

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well then i'm gonna turn it back off since we're back here that looks like a

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speaker here's the contact pads for our buttons so this is probably the d-pad

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and then this is our abx y over here and then back to the other side there's our

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micro sd card slot another button or

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several headphone jack nice

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and then this looks like the display ribbon cable receptacle it's powered off

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now right yeah good okay let's put in the compute module well first i go in at

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the wrong angle then i awkwardly pull back out and

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take another run at it basically like installing a sodium

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memory module and that's it that's the whole brain of this thing doesn't even

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need active cooling shoulder buttons cool there's one

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oh lordy did i lose one nope there it is stop hovering i'm gonna figure it out i

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hope there's the back probably the battery sticks to these

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adhesive doodads here before you do that can we

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just pause for a second for a little a little moment here so this right here

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is my first problem with this oh wait i'm putting this in backwards well

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there's another problem yeah but that's your problem right but if you kind of

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look here there's only four screw holes so if you look like um

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here's the back to a ti-83 right that's

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a calculator yeah you can see six screws

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clips in between them lots of ribbing for you know

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reinforcement yeah lots of stiffness i strongly think that the whole thing

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was designed by electrical engineers play screen here oh it must go in this

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way all right

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no no that's not it okay hold on hold on i can't i swear to

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you i can figure this out this has to go through

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yes there we go

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should i just suggest something uh reading the instructions no i don't want

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to do that i was going to suggest just disconnecting the battery until it's

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needed no no it's fine okay it's not it's not powered on should be fine

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there we go all right so that goes there that means our battery sits right about

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yeah wow that is a very small amount of 3m tape

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stuff's expensive well do you want to know the price difference

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between the diy and the not diy version

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uh sure why don't you hit me with that so originally it was thirty dollars okay

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but now it's zero at the same price i think i would just get the pre-assembled

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one because then at least i can play with it for a bit before i break it what's that attached to

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oh screws we need screws wait why would you screw that in

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uh that doesn't thread into anything um why

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are there four nuts please tell me you know the answers to these questions alex

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well i'm going to use one of the nuts for this i see what you mean about the

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whole design by electrical engineers thing this is not a great way of attaching a shoulder button now it's

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gonna come off for sure it doesn't even have like loctite for the washer like

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it's just gonna come loose wait i think i figured out why i have

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four small screws and two nuts or maybe you're supposed to put one in the middle

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okay yeah i think it goes one nut on one side and one nut on the other side

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because that gets the spacing right one cool thing about this finicky shoulder

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button installation experience is you can kind of tune

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how quickly the shoulder buttons rebound so you can tighten them up more if

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you're more into buttons that aren't responsive

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clear buttons or black buttons clear obviously it seems distinctly possible

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that i'm doing this wrong because the keys don't match

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and i definitely got it wrong

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that is not enough tape to attach a screen and with how misaligned they are

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i wish they had just gotten me to do it that's green now that's nice this goes

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on the outside right yep cool okay the fit and finish is not perfect

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does this thing only have a mono speaker oh i didn't notice that before that's

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kind of a bummer you know what ah

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there's a little nubbin thing hanging out of them i don't think that's

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supposed to be there well let's look at the other ones first oh are these for

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like leds or something where do these go i actually have no clue and now it goes

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in perfectly oh well if you were hoping that putting

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the screws in was gonna make it uh a little bit less

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flexy i can put your positive

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vibes to rest is the other one just as bad yep okay well i didn't do it wrong

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at least i've got that to help me feel better is

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it supposed to be booting up right now it takes a while oh okay cool oh wow

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there it is we got a command prompt you did do that there it's gone

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oh lordy this is this is

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that is suspiciously slow now the shoulder buttons on the outside i missed

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that oh man is this a chinese brand no

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that says design in london manufactured in london as well really

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yeah well i mean surely they're not making the lcd panel in london do you

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want to guess the price i'm going to say

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200 bucks a bit more uh 300 250 250 and that's us

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dollars yup ouch hey maybe it's amazing yes

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no probably not okay so there is a red light here is that red for power or red

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for you don't have enough power that's red for power okay let's see if it's a

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little happier if we plug it into power while we boot it it's a nice usb cable

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though got the little power indicator led in it did i manage to kill it i'd be

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pretty impressed if you did honestly there we go okay emulation station yay

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okay so what we just charged it for 10

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minutes it doesn't really you know die gracefully when it dies it just kind of

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i feel like that's kind of where we were there retropie

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don't go into those menus because this is you know a keyboard input

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and you can kind of end up in situations pretty easily where you don't have you

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know the buttons required all right so what should we do instead let's put some

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games on it yay so first of all you want that thingy

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uh-huh we need a little usb drive here this one right here will do just fine

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okay so you go and plug it into your computer and then you get a folder on it

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that's called retropie cool so here we have our wonderful usb drive

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ltdstore.com i like it very nice

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take it out wait so we don't actually put any games no

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okay now you take it and you put it in here uh-huh gorgeous wow how ergonomic

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yeah and now you just wait until it stops blinking okay which is pretty good

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for something like that but if you know you have

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a usb stick such as this one then you're just

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guessing yeah set a five minute timer or something and hope for the best while

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we're waiting have you tried downloading emulated games anytime recently uh no

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it's been a while but i know there was a big hullabaloo where basically all the

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emulation sites got shut down yeah it's a really bad time now we got a bunch of

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games but that's just because Jake has a whole collection on his server of course

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of all the games that he owns physical copies of

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it's still going it's still going wait what is it actually doing okay it

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seems to have stopped yeah so now we can take it out and we put it

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in here we can look at what it has been doing now oh it's creating like a

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directory structure yeah okay i mean that's not the stupidest

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thing i've ever heard i don't really get why you can't just take the sd card and

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put it in here i have some playstation i have some snes games um

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pi 3 can do psx hey yeah that's pretty cool just so i

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understand then now that we've copied the files to the usb drive we are now

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plugging it in here and it is copying files to the microsd card yes now i see

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why you said this is not the smartest way because you're right why wouldn't we

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just put the microsd card in the computer yep their directions say just

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do it this way well that's fine i'm going to plug it into power while it

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does this i don't want it to die how long does the battery last

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they say four hours given that the only instructions that you have are wait

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until it stops blinking it occasionally will stop blinking for like a solid

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second two seconds or so and you'll think oh

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i can pull it and then it just keeps on going of course now that i say that it's

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not going to do it but so now what we fire up play some games

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there's just one more step you got to go ahead and reboot the machine now we go

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into playstation crash bandicoot and ay

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look at it go oh hey look at that it works

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well might as well stick with mono since we uh only have one speaker i like how

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it's placed right below your thumb as well so when you grip it you're covering

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up the speaker that's pretty good get the apples get the apples gotta get the apples

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more apples why do we need apples oh oh no left or right

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oh we're going right so what do you think of the buttons i uh

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i would not say that the buttons are one of my primary complaints about this

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device not great stabilization or anything like

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that but i would say the d-pad is surprisingly not horrendous yeah the

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only ones that i really have complaints about are the shoulder buttons oh i haven't used those yet yeah they're

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pretty bad i got 69 apples now nice does it do uh

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n64 yes but obviously it would be a terrible experience yeah yeah okay but

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here's where it gets interesting it says you can play multiplayer games they hook

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it up to a tv HDMI in sure and now

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they're playing all together they've got ARM tattoos you know so they're credible

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based off that footage you'd think you know you just plug it into there yep

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yeah so these right here are like the 8-bit 2 controllers it says right on the

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back raspberry pi bluetooth 2.0 and above i feel like there's a punch line

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here yeah there's no bluetooth module oh

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so if you look here it's a real sneaky one but if you look

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they've got this big tether pants so so we'll go in there let's what am i

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going to find in here yeah

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okay we have a separate problem though this isn't actually outputting to HDMI

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yeah that's another problem you need to install a whole

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other thing of retropie on here for it to get

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onto the screen i got to swap my micro sd card when i want to run the desktop

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os yeah okay that also makes their claim that you can use this as like a desktop

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computer experience on the go a little misleading

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i mean yeah you can but you won't we have the raspberry pi

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thing set up here so you can do that you need to take that sd card out but you

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know it's fine okay

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that wasn't me that was gravity okay and i can fire it up now firing it

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up hey there we are yeah it's working

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welcome to raspberry pi most not working uh i think this mouse

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is not actually plugged into ah that would do it i don't know where the hub

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on the keyboard is please tell me it supports like a hot plug oh god oh lordy

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all right well let's reboot it is it is boot looping okay let's try

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just let's try just a mouse okay

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oh there we go click next

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uh um hello it's not plugged in all right so a

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lot of things that you do on your computer these days are web browser

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based which is why you can theoretically get away with a super low powered

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computer like this it doesn't have a wireless card it says

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on the kickstarter that there'll be a bluetooth and wireless

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dongle available for purchase later it's not available now i don't know if it

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ever will be but you know not all that useful

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neat there's nothing else really quite like it is there

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well uh see there's this plant right here that's

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been growing some weird fruit lately pocky

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cow that guy right there is 40 bucks but

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it's not great i mean you can tell just looking

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at like the buttons are even worse what is bard what is commander okay this is

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not comparable how is that not comparable look at it it's so cute i was

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gonna ask does it have an HDMI output but i guess it's not really relevant

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because that one doesn't really either oh but do you know what it does have

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what does it have it's a volume knob okay but this is lagging on snes games

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like you could make the argument that there's room for something a bit more premium and a bit more powerful it's

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pretty cute though i will say that much creo code lyra then worth it if

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hackability and cool factor is all you're after there's a decent base here

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and aside from the flex issues with the body i actually

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think the buttons are not bad but if all you're after is bang for the buck for

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spending a little bit of money to play some retro games something like this

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makes a ton more sense to me the Corsair one pro i200 gaming pc

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features a compact and sexy design and

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liquid cooling to minimize temperatures as well as fan noise it's got a core i9

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10940x processor GeForce rtx 2080 ti

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graphics four 16 gig sticks of ddr4 2666

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that's 64 gigs and a 2 terabyte m.2 NVMe

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SSD it also features Corsair's world-class 24 7 support either over the

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phone or online and a two-year warranty

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learn more at the links in the video description if you're into just checking out weird

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console stuff maybe have a look at our video on the virtual boy we got our

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hands on not one but two of them and tried virtual boy multiplayer pretty fun

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little video oh no oh no he's gonna get me no he's

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gonna get me oh wow he's gonna get me shoot

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i might actually die i died