100,000 Retro Games For Under $100 & Plug & Play? Retrobat 2TB Hard Drive Review..

[@Madlittlepixel]

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[@dunc726]

hey buddy how do i save games on this? i cant work it out,i know start and select is to exit

[@DroidLocks6971]

* PrePare YourSelf For A Buggie Glitchy Experience * NOT ALWAYS BUT STILL QUITE OFTEN FOR DOING NO MORE THAN CHOSING A GAME OR EXITING OUT OF A GAME I Plugged This Into My Brand New Beelink Ser5 Max And Clicked On The RETROBAT ICON . It Loads Everything Fast And Is Ready To Play . This Hard Drive Has Tons Of BloatWare And Duplicate Games . Thank Goodness The Tons Of Duplicates And Bloatware Can Be Easily Deleted . On Average Most Games Have 2 Copies Of Each Game . Alot Of Games Have 20 To 30 Copies Of The Same Game . The Drive Says It Has Over 103.000 Games . I'm Deleted Duplicate Roms And Bloatware Down To 97.293 Roms And I'm Still Not Done Deleting The Duplicates Yet . For The Atari 2600 There Are A Ton Of PAC MAN ROMS BUT WHAT THEY DONT TELL YOU IS THAT MANY OF THE PAC-MAN ROMS ARE ARE ACTUALLY HACKS OF THE ORIGINAL PAC-MAN GAME ON 2600 .

[@RedCGaming]

Man almost had a sale until the same games in the playlist kills it. Thanks for the video!

[@ActionMenWorldPeacekeepers]

Don't let that discourage you it's awesome man

[@anthonyleone2744]

I used all builds, RetroPie,lakka, batocera etc.lakka by far is the easiest and very lightweight system a person can use.easy to use also if you know way around RetroArch.

[@DroidLocks6971]

* PrePare YourSelf For A Buggie Glitchy Experience * NOT ALWAYS BUT STILL QUITE OFTEN FOR DOING NO MORE THAN CHOSING A GAME OR EXITING OUT OF A GAME I Plugged This Into My Brand New Beelink Ser5 Max And Clicked On The RETROBAT ICON . It Loads Everything Fast And Is Ready To Play . This Hard Drive Has Tons Of BloatWare And Duplicate Games . Thank Goodness The Tons Of Duplicates And Bloatware Can Be Easily Deleted . On Average Most Games Have 2 Copies Of Each Game . Alot Of Games Have 20 To 30 Copies Of The Same Game . The Drive Says It Has Over 103.000 Games . I'm Deleted Duplicate Roms And Bloatware Down To 97.293 Roms And I'm Still Not Done Deleting The Duplicates Yet . For The Atari 2600 There Are A Ton Of PAC MAN ROMS BUT WHAT THEY DONT TELL YOU IS THAT MANY OF THE PAC-MAN ROMS ARE ARE ACTUALLY HACKS OF THE ORIGINAL PAC-MAN GAME ON 2600 .

[@retroman--]

I wish these HDD would have No-Intro Rom sets....then I could easily recommend them. I personally hate seeing many duplicates in other languages.

[@thatonedudenamedvalentine7836]

What exactly is a no intro rom? Please explain that to me lol I never quite understood the concept of one.

[@westonscampbell]

No-Intro doesn't automatically ensure no duplicates though. You'd still need the ROM Sets trimmed to make a 1G1R version.

[@mumfnah]

@@thatonedudenamedvalentine7836 The team who curates the No-Intro set just have the actual original game rom dumped, so their set doesn't include all the tampered/modified version of games, where you see language hacks, or other hacks applied. Some roms you'll get and they have intros showing you what a said team have changed in that version. The No-Intro sets omit these games and only have the true original game dump

[@retroman--]

@@thatonedudenamedvalentine7836 I'm not sure all the ins and outs but for us the user, it means we get a working rom, and a rom that follows a naming convention that when you go search for images/videos on a scraper you will get the images and videos. These are the two most important things for me with No-intro rom sets. I love Batocera and its great to use their numerous scrapers and with the correct rom names you will get the artwork and videos you want.

[@stevenjeffers3576]

The multiples just implies this was rushed together no passion just to make a quick buck.

[@davidschnare9945]

I bought a 2tb drive and copied the 256gb card from the super console x to it and run it all through retroarch on my laptop. It actually runs a hell of alot better than the super console itself.

[@acejon2162]

Indeed, many people just get this HDD purely for the game files and just use them elsewhere, this in itself already worth the money.

[@andrewstutz4240]

The time saved on this thing is still worth it, you get a 2tb drive with a front end and a ton of games more people aren’t trying to spend the time to even collect all of this.

[@Guitario666]

Thanks for taking one for the team. Internet archive has complete no intro sets for anyone interested

[@VAZ-2108-Longplay]

I'm about to get the 12 tb version not because the hyperspin, but because there is a lot of stuff already downloaded. It would take an eternity for me to get stuff from CD era from internet, deleting extras and filling the gaps I believe will much be easier. Also the price of a clean 12 tb drive is not much lower than the game loaded one.

[@themadatheist1976]

Link?

[@VAZ-2108-Longplay]

@@themadatheist1976 I don't know if I can post the link here, but just type in Aliexpress 12 TB hyperspin. Many options will appear, you will find easily (skip the way cheaper ones they are actually 4 tb or less). The next response I'll put out the link, if you do not see that, it is because it got deleted.

[@unassailable6138]

@@VAZ-2108-Longplay hyperspin, boa sorte fazendo os setups e intalacao

[@VAZ-2108-Longplay]

@@unassailable6138 na verdade comprei faz tempo, deu super certo. São só 3 .exe e o resto tudo funciona. Vem com bios e tudo mais. Recomendo bastante, até pq é mais barato que um HD de 12 TB vazio.

[@igromad]

@@VAZ-2108-Longplay e os duplicados, deixou lá ou limpou?

[@RETROBAT]

Hello! Retrobat is completely FREE, don't pay for that...

[@lakojake4215]

I'm working on my own plug-n-play ROM HDD. It uses RetroArch and only has 10k games on it, so far. Everything up to and including PS2. Just over 500GB. I'm just making it for me and my friends.

[@davidschnare9945]

I did the same as a Covid lockdown hobby for some friends and their kids. Old android boxes were what I used.

[@stevenjeffers3576]

Most foreign emulation system developers only just dump roms into the file system and test a few games and just leave as is. With the arcade rom sets its just a dump of roms and with arcade roms there are so many version updates in all arcade systems which leads to the large amount of the same game.

[@The_40_year_old-gamer]

MAME is great. This system is okay but, I will say the retropie builds for Retro Pie 4 is definitely better. 😄

[@acejon2162]

Many of the more recent systems cannot be emulated on the Pi4, best is a high end miniPC that can emulate up to Switch/PS3.

[@jarretluter7849]

Where can they be found

[@andrewstutz4240]

@@jarretluter7849 everywhere just find a mini pc with iris xe graphics or a decent amd chip

[@-someone-.]

A bootleg version, of a Chinese game, made in the Himalayas, by teenage hackers, for multiple regions....lmfao yeah! 100k games! 🤣 Great review 👊

[@hemisphere903]

You need, a few, more, commas in there 👆🏽

[@Aerodeth]

To hell with the game. I'd pay money to read the story behind the game's development!

[@parrishharris3008]

I'm so happy i brought me a super console x King and i have no regrets at ALL 😍.

[@King_Midas]

I bought one, too.

[@deew7837]

Any good ps2 and psp games on the console?

[@King_Midas]

@@deew7837 PSP, yes. PS2, no.

[@gallaxian]

I would be too worried about malware to plug something like this into my computer. Maybe if I had an old PC lying around.

[@sugarskulllyfe5890]

yea an old pc thats not connected to the itnernet

[@DroidLocks6971]

I Plugged it n2 my new BEELINK SER5 MAX And Works Truly Plug N Play . . . My older PC Struggled and some systems Games wouldn't even play but beelink ser5 max plays everything on this drive even the ps3 titles * PrePare YourSelf For A Buggie Glitchy Experience * NOT ALWAYS BUT STILL QUITE OFTEN FOR DOING NO MORE THAN CHOSING A GAME OR EXITING OUT OF A GAME I Plugged This Into My Brand New Beelink Ser5 Max And Clicked On The RETROBAT ICON . It Loads Everything Fast And Is Ready To Play . This Hard Drive Has Tons Of BloatWare And Duplicate Games . Thank Goodness The Tons Of Duplicates And Bloatware Can Be Easily Deleted . On Average Most Games Have 2 Copies Of Each Game . Alot Of Games Have 20 To 30 Copies Of The Same Game . The Drive Says It Has Over 103.000 Games . I'm Deleted Duplicate Roms And Bloatware Down To 97.293 Roms And I'm Still Not Done Deleting The Duplicates Yet . For The Atari 2600 There Are A Ton Of PAC MAN ROMS BUT WHAT THEY DONT TELL YOU IS THAT MANY OF THE PAC-MAN ROMS ARE ARE ACTUALLY HACKS OF THE ORIGINAL PAC-MAN GAME ON 2600 . .

[@DroidLocks6971]

​@@sugarskulllyfe5890 I Plugged it n2 my new BEELINK SER5 MAX And Works Truly Plug N Play . . . My older PC Struggled and some systems and Games wouldn't even play but beelink ser5 max plays everything on this drive even the ps3 titles . It's a buggie glitchy experience quite often but I'm keeping it . Why Not Even 1 Reviewer Has Gone Into The Glitches And Bugs Of This Drive Really Makes Me Wonder About Them . * PrePare YourSelf For A Buggie Glitchy Experience * NOT ALWAYS BUT STILL QUITE OFTEN FOR DOING NO MORE THAN CHOSING A GAME OR EXITING OUT OF A GAME I Plugged This Into My Brand New Beelink Ser5 Max And Clicked On The RETROBAT ICON . It Loads Everything Fast And Is Ready To Play . This Hard Drive Has Tons Of BloatWare And Duplicate Games . Thank Goodness The Tons Of Duplicates And Bloatware Can Be Easily Deleted . On Average Most Games Have 2 Copies Of Each Game . Alot Of Games Have 20 To 30 Copies Of The Same Game . The Drive Says It Has Over 103.000 Games . I'm Deleted Duplicate Roms And Bloatware Down To 97.293 Roms And I'm Still Not Done Deleting The Duplicates Yet . For The Atari 2600 There Are A Ton Of PAC MAN ROMS BUT WHAT THEY DONT TELL YOU IS THAT MANY OF THE PAC-MAN ROMS ARE ARE ACTUALLY HACKS OF THE ORIGINAL PAC-MAN GAME ON 2600 .

[@gregghernandez2714]

You would think that a person who put the time and effort into building a ROM set would rather have a lean set up with no issues with less than half of the ROMS in this set up. Just word of mouth as to how wel! It worked would easily well for the asking price from the seller. Quality not quantity.

[@RedDev1l757]

Nice for people that don't know how to do this stuff. For me personally I like to know what version of a game I'm playing and which revision. prebuilt stuff triggers my OCD.

[@WildkatPhoto]

Really appreciate the review. I just want a good set of arcade and a few consoles and it seems like the only way is to take a build like this and invest the time to strip out the crap. So frustrating.

[@glennshoemake4200]

You can use the free version of Launchbox to clean up the mame romset.

[@L0L247]

Just plug in a hard drive which may or may not have a virus on my PC and run the executable. Sounds awesome to me.

[@Puckanm]

seems pretty neat for 100 bucks. Id still rather do a Pi4 with SD card but just plugging this thing into a laptop/pc is neat

[@acejon2162]

Technically you can use the game files on this HDD on your Pi if you so chooses it, though the higher end games likely will not run on the Pi since they're meant to be run on a PC.

[@MAGA_Patriot2024]

You wouldn't be able to get a true 100k game drive on only 2tb unless you had most of them stored in an alternate universe somewhere...you're looking at several times that size, sometimes as high as 40tb.

[@Necronomous]

Depends on what system you play on and how big it's library are. Atleast Retrostations 2tb harddrive have 55k true games with zero bootleg crapgames. The 4tb got 77k. So no need for 40tb to get 100k true games. Perhaps up to 8-10tb with some more of XBOX, PS1 and PS2 games, because when it comes to these systems, it ain't full library with these consoles. Only topsellar games and such are added to the library. If you wanna have full library of PS3 and XBOX 360 games I don't think 40tb is enough acctually, just for those 2 consoles.

[@jeffreysabec6177]

Love the channel been viewing for about 3 years but for $100 its great what do you expect

[@rottie6900]

Thanks for the info on this!

[@sinner13halloweenfiend76]

@madlittlepixle what is a good plug n play for TV that has everything from like arcade to ps3 360 ?

[@billy-waynejeffcoat4828]

What your looking for is a pc within the past decade. If your wanting ps3 then your going to be like at least a 3rd generation i5 or better. With at least a gt 1030 graphics card

[@tedstahl3794]

Appreciate your insight as always, good sir. Peace.

[@DJJuxtapose]

I randomly put this on .50 speed and it sounds like if I'd been at the pub with Pixel for 6 hours

[@themadatheist1976]

I might buy one for the ROMs sets, bought a DVD set of cartage and arcade ROMs nearly 2 decades ago from a ROM-burner. Had the same thing, multiple games from different regions and revisions, with hacks and fan translations. How well is the hardware, HDD and case, is it cheap and looks like it'll crap out? I seen 4TB drives with 80k-100k games for about 30-60usd more from other vendors.

[@smgofdvld]

It's really what you pay for imo nothing beats reddit section everything is curated well enough. Another thing with 3ds is emulation is not the best since it's just android boxes at the end of the day.

[@thedurkgaming1376]

I’m just getting into roms now. Where on Reddit should I be looking?

[@getfreaky9728]

Thanks for the video. Very nice. Which is the best solution for Amiga and C64. The performance is not the problem, but to find a good plug and play solution is hard to find.

[@ricky865]

So what would you recommend more a Retrobat build or a Batocera build?

[@mtshark7]

Nice review Ron!

[@EllahRah]

For marketing purposes, they cant say theres 87,861 games in one. It has to be rounded to a marketable number like 100,000. And bro for what you paid for that, I think its an amazing deal. There are Americam and European emulation stations on the market that run better than that, but are 5x the price

[@TrueBlueMajikDewd]

1:55 Anybody know how to get Rumble Fish to look like that with the border without buying one of these?

[@mumfnah]

That's just a bezel. Many setups on Pi, or Launchbox etc use them. Look up 'the bezel project' maybe, that's a good source. But you can of course create your own and use with many emulators

[@mark5150ty]

Was it actually two terabytes or were they inflating the size of the disc?? I ask this because a hard drive enclosure and a 2tb disc is worth $100 easily.

[@acejon2162]

The feedback for seller in provided link seems mostly positive so it should be a proper 2TB HDD, though could be refurbished and not brand new.

[@TheKayliedGamerChannel-YouTube]

Those mountaintop game hackers just can't seem catch a break... 😂✌️

[@justinnorris6958]

And I also have the AIM track light gun I need to know if it works with this this system or whatever you want to call it hard drive

[@fabriziob8522]

Can you play light gun games with a wiimote?

[@TheTapode]

Are you able to pull the rom's off of the HDD and use what ever front-end you want or are they locked down on here?

[@acejon2162]

As some comments here have pointed out, you can copy out the game files.

[@grantschubach5163]

Emulation is the way to go

[@PabstOban]

I'd rather have 25,000 games that are 100% working and tested thoroughly... even if it's Just the "hits"... than 100,000 titles where 75% of them "happen to work". The problem with these mega builds is... you you were to be honest... if you had 16h a day to play retro games for the rest of your life, you probably wouldn't even get through 5,000 of that originally proposed 25,000 that are 100% working. Me... I'd build a system that had hand picked games from each console I would actually play... That might be less than 2,000 games... and it would be all I'd ever need.

[@internziko]

I 100% agree. Why don't the people selling these just take the time to make a 10k/20k fully tested and working "hits" set up? I'd be willing to pay more then $100 foe something like that.

[@markcampbell2364]

What theme is that i have retrobat and that theme looks nice

[@ronm6585]

Thanks M.L.P

[@brandonscott3423]

I’m looking for a good GameCube emulator since unfortunately Nintendo hasn’t put GameCube on switch online yet that’s my dream

[@themadatheist1976]

Use Dolphin.

[@xxraverxxonxtacy]

I needed a good 😂 Ron, another Soulja Contraband find 🤣

[@YoshiIsCool1]

GREAT

[@Noizy_Katz]

Thank you always bro but I’m almost done with building a 32’ arcade cabinet with light up usb joysticks is there anything I can get besides the mini computer that I can plug my joysticks in like retropie with games already on it like up to the ps4…if not I have a notebook laptop that’s pretty old but it runs

[@acejon2162]

I'm pretty sure most of the duplicates are official and not hacked, like official US ROM, official EU ROM, official Asia ROM, official JPN ROM, even official South America ROM etc. They include all versions because they ship to all countries in the world, where surprise, surprise, some do prefer languages other than English. Or they could also be lazy and just dump all versions into the HDD :-) With over 100K games including variations running on hundreds of consoles, arcade hardware, handhelds, computers etc I really don't expect it to be 100% plug and play. Whoever bought it need to do some basic housekeepings like delete/remove language variations of the same game, remove obscure systems and their games that are of no interest to them. These 2 actions alone will cut out much of the complications. Then check on the latest emulation software release and update them accordingly. The fact that with all the complications, all the supported systems and their core variations, all the games, this HDD is still able to run many games and systems without issue, without the need to setup controller, emulator variations etc means that the baseline plug and play had already been achieved.

[@1luarluar1]

yes, but is it true that you plug the device and play? Forget the games don't work immediately, is it true that you have just to plug the device in the usb and you are ready to play? Thank you!

[@rkpoole49]

I like the idea of this, plug and play for my not so tech savy family members. But does anyone have a recommendation of a HDD that has roms on it that is actually worth buying?

[@internziko]

Right? Lol

[@shaolindreams]

Dunno if there's well made collection, you could check out the 12TB hyperspin maybe thats it arranged better... But saying all this ... these rom dump collection arent at all total rubbish... there are tons of good stuff but there is rubbish also.

[@CHICKENmcNUGGIESMydude]

For ds im pretty sure u just have to make a back up folder

[@froststarlite5571]

Could you please tell me the program that comes with the hard drive that's supposed to fix your DirectX I used to have it but I need to know the program name please

[@DroidLocks6971]

This Drive Some Games Have 20 to 30 plus roms of the EXACT SAME GAME .

[@jeffreymensah8228]

Can I plug this directly into my TV?

[@Scdread]

Can this plug and play work on the PlayStation classic ?

[@Madlittlepixel]

Nope, but roms can be used from this to run on the PS Classic.. thats an entire process in its own which is fairly simple and covered quite a bit in videos on my channel.

[@Scdread]

@@Madlittlepixel nice to know 👌🏾

[@rachelsokolsky1668]

Do these work on android devices... Would they work on the new cube 3rd gen as that would make a great retro console

[@Darkmetamorphosis1]

Did you try swapping emulator for 3ds?

[@DroidLocks6971]

My beelink ser5 max plays everything so far but my laptop wont play everything on this drive . PS2 God Of War Plays And Even Saves As If Im Playing On An ActuAL PS2 But N64 Doesnt Save In The Same Way

[@steamdeckknights8978]

Link? May pick this up

[@davidmateus9320]

Good question;)

[@Madlittlepixel]

Link is in the pinned comment

[@MAGA_Patriot2024]

I wouldn't if I were you. There are tons of duplicates.

[@steamdeckknights8978]

I have one if these off aliexpress as long as you get it for the roms it's not bad and the one I have makes you boot into Linux from the bios I need something more like this

[@MAGA_Patriot2024]

@@steamdeckknights8978 oh, so yours is for a pi or anbernic probably, right?

[@passionmusic3161]

for pc or tv?

[@acejon2162]

This HDD connects to your PC to run the emulators.

[@FredBloggs919]

Retrobat? Retrobait more like!

[@denodan]

How do you get wired controllers working with this

[@acejon2162]

It's a HDD with game files and a frontend UI, you can pretty much configure any standard USB and wireless controllers through the software. The link to product also had options to purchase with dual controllers.

[@datingsas]

2tb repeats the same games 10 or more times to hit 100k

[@acejon2162]

I doubt they did any clean ups, so the same game for same hardware, for example arcade version of SF2, could have like 20 copies with different languages/regions/revisions etc.

[@BillNey732]

I kinda wanna get one can you find the best one out yhere

[@theshannonandmaryshow]

can i plug this right into a monitor

[@theshannonandmaryshow]

i dont have a computer

[@Madlittlepixel]

Nope, requires a windows computer as stated in the video.

[@michaeladams9807]

👍👍

[@Kilroy_5150]

When it says 100k, look for 30k with LOTS of dupes.

[@MrBeretta92FS]

So is there a hdd collection like this out there that would be recommended? I'm in it for the roms and easy setup. I'll fill in and add to it if I like.

[@PatLund]

So they are selling roms they don't own? Sounds incredibly illegal...

[@acejon2162]

Lol, I believe they're selling the HDD. The games happen to be just in the HDD they sold, as an added bonus.

[@bofo2323ify]

I like it

[@Darkmetamorphosis1]

I'm so pissed I fell for this crap

[@Rukman-un4up]

my is name games

[@justinnorris6958]

Can u plug in to tv in just play

[@acejon2162]

This is just a HDD with PC software and game files, i.e. you need to connect it to a PC to run the software.

[@pakkhan2184]

It will work on Xbox series s ? I just order it. The company message me it works on Xbox , anyone please let me know.

[@DroidLocks6971]

Some MAME GAMES ARE JUST STILL IMAGES repeated and innumerable number of times

[@tenminutetokyo2643]

DOOD!

[@DJb-ill219]

Bullshit....I couldn't get the damn thing to play on anything

[@billyrapp7884]

Are you seriously making your quotas with these repetitive plug and Play retro game Garbage reviews? We all know that these gimmicks are crap. Move on dude

[@yotaiji012]

First! Deez nuts!!!

[@vladtheimpailer7979]

Can we get a fix video?