Why Waste Money?! FREE Retro Emulation Setup For 2023!

[@Madlittlepixel]

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[@RetroBerner]

I'm not seeing this specific build on arcadepunks, is it not out yet or under a different name?

[@richmondcomputercompanyinc8054]

Do you have any computer , PC or other emulators for the game Time Killers thanks you?

[@nathanharwood8982]

What the f is it called and where's the link , I don't want a cherry pie off you , I've got a gaming PC engine and a ps75 , I'm from the future by the Way and you don't seel many pies

[@olajuwonshanklin2588]

Clicking mini pc link ad doesn’t load. Am I doing something wrong?

[@Madlittlepixel]

@@olajuwonshanklin2588 looks like they changed the link, thanks for the headsup. The specific one used in this video is linked here: amzn.to/3CtfOns they have a $80 off coupon, and more for the version with more ram.

[@LaserBeamKing7]

Why does the title say anything about wasting money, or free? When neither one is actuate

[@TrentDan]

Perhaps he means avoid the scalper or DK-Oldies refurbished services.

[@trevorphilips2090]

Pretty much everyone owns a PC or laptop that can run games at least up to PS1, so in a sense thousands of games are available for anyone to play.

[@yourikhi]

This is for people who already have a PC .or mini PC..they don't need to buy batocera drives...when they can get that for free

[@nikol6310]

That looks like a really cool build. I used to hoard a lot of games but I noticed the more you have them, the less you play them and you're always pretty much just browsing menus and tinkering with it.

[@hdlts2]

This looks like just what I’ve been looking for. I’ve been dabbling in emulation for the last year and I always seem to hit some roadblock that prevents me from using it day to day. I think what I’ve been missing is a really nice front end experience like this. Really interested to see more videos on the topic!

[@foolingothersfoolingothers]

retroarch is the best software with mame software

[@bluesea2023]

If you have 25$, the KINHANK 500g gives you UP Wii,PS3,360 and 60+ other games, almost 90k games

[@ralex3697]

The internet has a plethora of information I suggest the Reddit community

[@xKipura]

​@@foolingothersfoolingothersnot for ps2 Emulation

[@manuginobilisbaldspot424]

Gotta say, I'm really impressed at the ease of use of this setup! You don't HAVE to use NZBGet, but if you're a novice, it helps because it basically ensures all of the pieces have been properly downloaded and it also unpacks the entire thing together. I was actually missing one of the over 230 pieces (#11) and it fixed that at the end and then like I said, unpacks the entire thing. For those of you unfamiliar, just make sure you run your runtime bat and directx exe files as an administrator and it should do all the work to ensure your frontend looks like the one in the video. Best part is for someone like me, the folders are simple enough to recognize making rom/file transfers simple from other emulators. Good stuff.

[@danielesparza2480]

Is it normal to have such a long download time for the file?

[@gloe9362]

Should I use a VPN to get this? You think my Internet provider will flag it?

[@marcperreault8440]

I will be one of the first to say I have no problem with the 110,000 games options. I bought an Ali Express KinHank machine for $80 canadian. Yes, there are many doubles and many roms that don't work, but I simply couldn't care less. I don't really have to do anything but turn it on and play. It truly is my comfort zone.

[@TerryDalton-t8p]

Can you provide a link? Interested in seeing what it's about

[@marcperreault8440]

@@TerryDalton-t8p Link is below. Like he said, yes, there are a lot of duplicate, but for this price you really can't go wrong.

[@M_CFV]

The guy in the video says that this is superior to that in every way, and it is. Both are plug and play so I don't see how your option is better when it comes to that

[@marcperreault8440]

@@M_CFV Fantastic. I love what I have. Thanks for your comment though.

[@Rugalb2k]

​@@M_CFVThe option in this video is 500$ plus another 100$ for the external drive. So there's a huge difference in price.

[@JediBuddhist]

We've been buildin cabs as kids in the community projects for almost 20times round the sun now. Your chan's always a goto. Glad ur getting back to more Coinops class buildz. OneLove 💚 💫

[@maestr0damus356]

I kinda like these "best of the best" type builds. No unnecessary, crazy amount of duplicates. Just the games you know and love plus the option to add more if you want. Very clean UI too. Definitely gonna look into this. Thanks for sharing!

[@cinqo7]

This video is INCOMPLETE. I mean, where did the OP downloaded all the emulators, roms and interface??

[@nemesis656]

No video on youtube is going to tell you where to get roms dude... think about it

[@ralphg2771]

Extremely easy to find. Search batocera

[@Bez2112]

Good to seeing you go back to the builds. I started watching you when you were covering the builds for the Playstation clasic.

[@Cyko..]

CoinOps does some great work. I got one of their arcade builds that has a good handful of GameCube and Sega Genesis games as well as about 800+ arcade games. Like you said, a best of sorts collection. The arcade cabinets look professionally designed and even the fantasy cabinets are incredible looking. Feels like you're at the real arcade back in the day.

[@brio481]

I have a question. Is it illegal to download it via torrent is there something you have to do or is it fine to just download it?

[@Cyko..]

@@brio481 Your internet provider can give you those answers.

[@yoerick377]

where did you buy the arcade build?

[@digitizer3627]

Thanks for yet another awesome video❤. Much respect to u man. I bought a few rom dumps plug n play devices to get my fix. Then I decided to create my own batocera library and faced problems with some of the systems that needed special tweeking or files like MSX and Amiga. So that was kind of a bust. One option is to buy a Superconsole X and delete the roms and add your own roms. The only downside for that is you would miss out on the option to discover games you never heard of. Every now and again I would dive into a system to see what the fuss was all about.. Food for thought.

[@marekprochazka1284]

Thanks so much for this! I've been building my own collection for the past year with Retro Arch and Launchbox and I had no idea you could download a complete setup like this. 🤦‍♂

[@peteabs1074]

But we’re from how do I download it I can’t find it any we’re I’m am new to all this

[@marekprochazka1284]

@@peteabs1074 It's in the description, copy the name into Google and you'll find it

[@marekprochazka1284]

@@peteabs1074 CoinOPS LEGENDS 2 Bit Wars

[@GRiNDWiZARD187]

@@marekprochazka1284 did that and nothing. its asking for a password when I try to extract it . did all this other stuff their website said to do NZB thingy & I can't figure this whole thing out. I wanna pull my hair out

[@marekprochazka1284]

@@GRiNDWiZARD187 I'm still downloading mine so I'll let you know as soon as I figure it out

[@BordersoftheJosh]

Great video. My perspective as someone who loves retro games, but knows nothing about downloading roms and building is that I prefer the preloaded stuff. I've been loving my RG35xx for a cheap price. Buying a mini pc adds up to a lot of money fast, but it does look like a great option that I can hopefully explore down the road.

[@lalas3590]

My old PC build had an FX-8350 CPU (for those who don't know, it was crap even when it was in production). Yet I could still emulate up anything up to Wii (excluding the N64) at 1440p/60 fps. I believe most people probably have a capable emulation device somewhere in their homes: -3DS/DSi. -PSP. -PSvita. -Wii. -an abandoned smartphone. -an old PC. They won't run Saturn emulators, but for most retro console emulation they are good enough.

[@evshrug]

The idea is that I would just use my main, regular, do all desktop computer. You can stream to that with certain apps to a portable, if you really want more power than portables can do right now, anyway.

[@Clip5299]

​@La Las can u teach me I want to do this for the kids well me too 😊

[@cbond007]

I want to do it too, but I don't have all the roms. It seems a lot of videos assume that people already have the roms.

[@Bootyhunter1971]

​@@cbond007And the Nintendo Roms are getting hard to find. They cracked down on most of the classic sites where they used to be.

[@mattkennedy146]

"This setup is completely free! First you just need this $600 mini computer lying around..."

[@Pilot646]

That's why I'm here

[@naptime43x]

how much was the controller, what about the hard drive? a lot of cost for something free

[@dannygonemad1]

@@naptime43xhow about stop complaining and get ur money up bro. You gonna emulate a game out of thin air?

[@tylergriffsmith]

@@dannygonemad1fr.

[@dmer-zy3rb]

you can emulate everything up to ps1 for a below 100$ computer.

[@GoofBallGB]

"this retro emulation setup was FREE" running it on a 600 dollar Mini PC

[@infantrymusic6371]

I thought the same thing lol, free $600 setup!

[@StoicSpeaks]

You’re just a bum and complainer, it’sFREE because you just download the software, put it on your laptop and play it on the tv or whatever

[@markallison8108]

Run it on your own PC no need to purchase anything.

[@TheMrRatzz]

Massively free with a $600 computer. Reminds me of the "hand made" / "DIY" stuff that require a million $$$ of machine equipment.

[@ThaCyNiQ]

​@@markallison8108what If you don't have a pc?

[@HeavyInstinct]

This is the path I chose for myself so I don't disagree with you here. However, the fact that you can't share a link or even tell people where to download this build from is reason enough why this isn't the right choice for some people. Some of the places you can download these builds from (one popular one I can think of in particular) are so sketchy that if you're not careful and/or don't know what you're doing you can end up with a virus on your computer very easily. This wasn't a problem for me but I know a heck of a lot of people who would be better off ordering the "package from China" to save themselves a lot of grief.

[@RockyBergen]

Amen! I joined your channel back in the early days when you were still showcasing Pi builds and the like. I think most of these titles should be free and easily accessible. If the ultimate owners of many of the IPs want people to still know and care about them than this is free advertising for the next thing they do. And IP owners should be on the hook to actually create NEW content rather than hold legacy content hostage forever because no pay options make sense for these old games. I did creative work back in the 90s (yes I am old like you) and while it would be wonderful to still be receiving a paycheck from stuff I did outta high school, ultimately the world generally rewards the thing you've done most recently. Please keep fighting the good fight! I'll keep playing games for free!

[@Therealdjwiz]

Thank you for this information! I’m totally a noob to downloading and am not knowledgeable on creating my own builds etc… but this is encouraging me to try. Thank you so much!

[@alextirrellRI]

The idea of paying for bootleg games has always bothered me. Glad you're sharing an easy DIY solution that is better than most of the stuff on the market!

[@DannyRayMilligan66]

It's not really the games that they're charging for, it's the time spent, setting everything up, testing for glitches, optimizing it for simplicity. Instead of you having to pick the emulator for each rom that best suits it, they've done the work for you, tested it so you get fewer "dead" games, etc. For example, most wii games won't run unless the Nintendo nunchuk is plugged in. That doesn't work with computers, and there's no 3rd party solutions, so most wii games are unplayable through emulators. That's the kind of stuff they fix for you, as I understand it. But many are just money grabs, there's no doubt about it. They do a rom dump into the system, scrape them, and put it up for sale. If a rom isn't working, you either figure out how to troubleshoot it, yourself, or don't play it.

[@silverbullet_retro]

I'm new into the emulation side of things. I had a new never opened playstation classic and decided to do it. I have had so much fun with it and still l learning. Thanks to your channel for opening my eyes to the other side of gaming 😎

[@michaelsalas2718]

I like that you said you dont recommend any of the pre built plug and play systems. Never settle for insufficient equipment always be picky and get it how you want it. Quality is king.

[@DigiPen92]

Petition: Have Madlittlepixel mix the six SNK drinks into one and taste test all six into one and more game related drink taste tests as well.

[@joeyabuki5959]

Sign me up! 🥤🍹😅

[@HenryJPB]

Yeap! Me too i want to see that.

[@patrickgrudzinsky5217]

Me too

[@johnaraya3761]

I'm down lol

[@hectormontalvo5565]

Yuck! That mix will taste like 💩!😝

[@jn1211]

one of the biggest reasons I never sold my xbox series S was because of how much of a retro gaming powerhouse it is even though I haven't set it up as such yet lol. hopefully microsoft doesn't completely murder that

[@megamix5403]

It might be a good idea to set it up asap as to not run the risk.

[@brio481]

Update: they murdered it

[@alfonsomoreno8472]

Super happy to see you do one of this put together videos !!! I have been following you for a while and you sir am sure you made a lot of ppl happy with all the educational computer workaround !!!! Thank you 🙏 ❤

[@GeensGaming]

Thanks man this looks great btw! Also your voice sounds the same as John C Reilly which is awesome haha

[@ataribowlingcgc4465]

I'm glad you posted this and like these types of videos. I really like curated optimized collections over the 300k game list garbage that usually dominates emulation.

[@philmarsh5593]

What could be easier than DLing a build onto a drive and just running it? Brilliant. More looks at builds would be a cool idea.

[@yellowblanka6058]

If you try to run that on an old core 2 duo or first generation i5 or something I imagine you will run into issues with more demanding games, so you still need a fairly decent PC.

[@kattz753]

I've been playing with MAME since it came out and have probably stuck it (and other emulators) on just about everything that ever came into my house. I'm also really into single board computers. I look at these handhelds and just kind of shake my head. They're so underpowered. There are other options. A lot of us have high end big screen phones sitting in a drawer. There's a controller called DSP-D3. Just search for that. It slides open, your phone fits inside, and boom! You have a large touch-screen handheld that you have to spend at least a couple hundred to get the same specs. It looks like a Switch too. This isn't the best controller but it works and costs under $20. You can always upgrade later if you get it working and like it. Lots of KZbin tutorials out there. I did buy the Datafrog SF2000 because it's so cheap. I paid $34 Canadian, so much less in US$. It is worth it for the price

[@brave7033]

Thanks Katts I'm definitely going to give it a look 😉it sounds interesting 👍🏽

[@fyuckya505]

Love Carnevil the rail shooter nothing is cooler

[@celsoruiz4339]

Thanks for the information. Sometimes people don't know their own potential to build stuff. Great video!!!!!!

[@jamesbevan4479]

1:00 to anyone who feel they can't be bothered or think it's too hard, I knew nothing 3 years ago. I picked up a pandora stick but was ultimately dissatisfied with its performance, so I decided to make my low powered laptop an emulation machine. It runs everything from NES and Megadrive up to ps1 and N64 really well (Gamecube and ps2 not so much). A bit of youtube and Google research, getting familiar with stuff like retroarch and Duckstation, trying (and failing sometimes) different settings etc. You don't know unless you try it out. and now my setup is tailored to my taste, better than any Ali express Chinese console.

[@hammersticks7138]

Checking this out tonight, thank you for sharing. I love that ui. I have been enjoying dolphin and showing kids what I grew up playing. And emulating these games and adjusting things to 1080 breathes a whole new life into them.

[@joshuaf5617]

Thank you for this video, I was going to buy a kinhank rom dump, but after watching this video I went on my computer and downloaded a coinops build build. I could not believe how easy it was. I'm not completely new to emulation but still, a noob could do this. Thank you Mad little pixel!!!

[@creepofreek4853]

You are totally right. I bought one of these boxes, and half of the games don’t work. And it’s a mess to find games that do work. But it’s still worth it in my opinion. I have subscribed to your channel, and look forward to more of your videos in the future. Have a great day my friend.

[@josefelfinito6925]

I play all of them on my jailbroken ps4. Glad I kept it. These retro games are fun and brings back my child hood memories. 😊

[@DannyRayMilligan66]

I've been messing with emulation since back in '98, after I bought my first computer, from walmart. $850, HP Pavilion, "screaming" 300 mhz AMD K2 processor, 64 gb ram, "spacious" 6.4 gb hard-drive, and my wife was VERY displeased with the money I'd spent for this new "toy". My goal was to find as many entertaining things that it could do, as possible, so she'd get enjoyment out of it too, and get off my back, lol! We lived out in the country, had dial-up internet. My onboard modem was 56K, but my actual access speed was 2K.... painful, but it was new to me, and I didn't know any better. I quickly found NES, Sega & SNES emulators, and managed to get them running. Downloading roms, 1 at a time, was tedious, and finding rom sites before they got shut down was an exercise, in and of itself. She liked having music on the computer, and when I discovered that I could get MOVIES on it, that interested her too. Games didn't do as much for her... she liked puzzle games, but she didn't bother playing much. Of course, that 6.4 gb drive didn't cut the mustard for every long, at all. Within 6 months I'd bought 2 20 gb drives to add on, using up all 4 available channels of my IDE. Then I discovered Iomega tape drives, which allowed me to add 2 gb tapes of VERY SLOW storage. Fast forward 25 years to now, the tech is totally evolved. 12 TB of storage, 6 core HT AMD ryzen with 32 gb ram. Sufficient for just about anything, running 12 threads at 3.2 ghz. I experimented with different things. Bought the super console x with 256 gb sd, lots of duplicates, gameplay was spotty on anything above 16 bit SNES or Sega. Tried a Raspberry Pi 400 with batocera, about the same results. Once you got to n64 level games, results were hit and miss, and forget about ANYTHING past PSX. Ended up giving both game systems away to friends who wouldn't care about game cube or dreamcast, they just wanted to play the SNES games they grew up with. Tried Launchbox, it's a failure. Paid $88 for lifetime access to a hyperspin 12 tb drive, was thinking about buying the hard drive, already set up, but $500 is a LOT of money for a drive, and all the scripts you have to run to get it to even run the first time is intimidating. I've had the best luck with Batocera, so far, but finding a drive that is already set up and configured has been impossible. My system should be able to run anything up to ps3 and xbox 360, but getting the batocera I installed on it CONFIGURED properly is soooooo much work. This doesn't even include all the scraping, lol! Any suggestions would be welcome...

[@GraphicsByStorm]

An HP EliteDesk 800 G3 with an i5-6600, cheap AMD RX 550, a cheap M.2 NvME drive, mini DP to Hdmi adapter and a simple wireless keyboard and mouse combo costs around $190 compared to that Mini PC. That Emu Build is okay, but Batocera does all of the same things also for free.

[@kendiacono2708]

Thankyou Madlittlepixel.! Finally a reviewer and gamer that is willing to stand up and speak the truth.! Save your money and build your own system.! Get help on improving game experience.! There is alot of advice out there even for noobs on how to tweak the cores to make the game look and run almost perfectly as we all remember.! PS Still enjoying your build today ❤❤❤❤.!

[@JDTheBiggaFigga]

Back to Basics ! Love the DYI setup tutorials !

[@boogz3602]

As a person who just within this year has gotten into emulation, the first time around was very rough. I picked up a steam deck and was trying to get everything to run on my own. Needless to say it was alot of cursing and wanting to give up. Finding roms was a little bit of a challenge at first cause we all know you can't just click download on everything right? I mean who wants a virus or what not. Videos on KZbin are in abundance when it comes to certain things but not all. I eneded up buying one of those plug and plays with the most roms I could find and using it as a build for myself. Spent alot of time going thru games and deleting stuff I didn't want but in the end I have a pretty sweet build now. The biggest issue I think people have is thinking every game will run and not realizing most of it has to do with how much power u have. What kind of device are you using is key. Appreciate all the work you put in bro. The newbies like me need it! Lol

[@dejuan9306]

Xbox series s?

[@boogz3602]

No just the ally and deck and my PC

[@Midnight_priest]

Thanks for this, so many video just talks about the spec of these mini PC and thank you for showing the UI aspects of things

[@Madlittlepixel]

I figure there are plenty of channels that will do benchmarking and talk specs etc... me Ill just show what we can do with these things. Id rather see games playing that decipher a bunch of charts and numbers lol, but that stuff can be interesting too for the right person.

[@vicman3122]

Sega Saturn and Nintendo 64 are retro consoles incredible difficult to emulate until this day, I think this emulation setup is good for almost all retro consoles except those two.

[@marcellachine5718]

Atari Jaguar is on that list too.

[@cartmansdad2385]

Beetle saturn, mupen64 plus and bigpemu for atari jaguar are all pretty good

[@cartmansdad2385]

@Enrique only problem I've had with mupen64 plus was with beetle adventure racing, everything else I've tried has been fine, even upscaled. Beetle saturn I've never had any compatibility issues but I can't upscale and bigpemu I haven't had set up for long and I've only tried a couple of games but I hear its got 100% compatibility. What are you trying to run them on?

[@vicman3122]

@@cartmansdad2385 With Saturn games, there are a lot of issues with some textures, I use Yaba Sanshiro 2, for Nintendo 64, I prefer using a flash card to play on original hardware and waiting for native PC ports that some people are developing or play on original Virtual console on Wii because I can notice a lot of issues with muppen 64

[@thetechn1que518]

Beetle Saturn is a really good emulator but it needs a fairly beefy machine. My 2015 MacBook can’t run it at full speed. Yaba Sanshiro runs way better but has too many graphics glitches and emulation issues to be acceptable for me. I think SSF is the best option on a lower end machine but I think it’s windows only and its documentation was machine translated from Japanese.

[@bryanjenkins6112]

I downloaded Coinops Next 2 base build and did my own thing to it. That’s the fun of it, building your own. It was pretty easy, learned everything off of KZbin.

[@brio481]

Hey man I just need some help. Did you use torrent for it? I’m just nervous that it’ll get me in trouble or is it fine to do? How did you go about downloading it if you don’t mind me asking?

[@ogami1972]

I built both my "cabinets" from scratch. I can't imagine why anyone would do it any differently. I bought two surplus office desktops for about $50 each. I put about $100 in between them, installing max memory, low level gpu's and ssd's on each. I built two arcade sticks out of old dining room chair seats and DIY parts off amazon (I also bought a Faucetwo, but that's a different story). I downloaded all the games I was looking for, and used Batocera to host my rooms. I wrote scripts to filter my romsets until I had exactly what I wanted. Then I went through each and every game and made sure it had intuitive key mapping. So I have a retro arcade system with about 7500 of the very best games, each one promising an amazing time. I also have a full "Sound Voltex" (USC) system right next to it. I love what I built, and can't imagine just buying a hard drive.

[@Seansquatch7]

Man, that set up is beautiful. And you had me locked in at 3rd Strike.

[@KitSchwerdtfeger]

I really like the theme used in this build, going to see if i can find a similar one for my Retropie setup.

[@paulcjanssen]

I downloaded and installed this amazing build on my Acer Predator Helios 300 and every game on every system runs amazing! I've tried some of the Wii, WiiU, GameCube, and 3DS games on various other emulators, but none of the emulators really played them as smoothly and perfectly as this build does. I absolutely recommend this build!

[@MohammedMansor32]

Where I can download this build?

[@SeeDaRipper...]

DO YOU HAVE A LINK TO THE BUILD MATE?? OR EVEN A NAME? (SORRY STUCK CAPS LOCK)

[@vereor6304]

Thank you so much for this! I am one of those people that gets sucked into getting those so called plug and play devices, but they do always seem to have more problems than not. If I would have known this existed, I would have saved my money lol.

[@bitelaserkhalif]

And personally, I deemed those devices a rip off, because of bad performance (should be able to run a ps1 game... But it doesn't)

[@SqualeMaaanGaming]

If You u already have a great runing pc with power . To play ps2 xbox 360 and up a plug and play recommended is a 12tb10,000 game tile or 5tb 60,000 game tile. If u don't have a pc Buy the mini pc first.

[@sixarms]

This was a great information video. I look forward to future videos like this. But, I did enjoy your soda drinking. Looking forward to some food tasting videos.

[@lukashenrique4295]

I personally bought a retro videogame called Gamestick because it was so cheap. It runs games up to Dreamcast and PSP, so I am actually very limited with this thing since it excludes PS2, 3DS, Wii, WiiU, even the Gamecube, but for retro gaming, the price we pay for that outrivals the limitations in my opinion. In one way we got this mini-PC, for around $550 dollars, and the gamestick I bought was only $30. It comes with 2 bluetooth (sort of) controllers, a HDMI extensor, and a huge amount of games with your favorites probably already preinstalled.

[@shawnschneff5505]

Thank you! I have been looking into a cheaper way specifically to run N64 titles with some ease but max original quality and this really helped compared to the short comings of plug and play devices.

[@Psmgamer]

Looks amazing, will definitely check this out.

[@randylawrence6077]

Although it is a bit pricey, but I believe a solid choice is Analogue Pocket with dock, micro SD & wired &/or PS4 controllers is the way to go for non optical drive retro gaming. I believe CD-ROM support will be there in the future. Sure you still have to aquire the roms & bios, but that is a small price to pay for quality.

[@chrisnelson2948]

CoinOps builds are great simple to use, plug and play systems. If they weren’t curated builds they would be my build of choice.

[@squito9474]

Could always use core type r that has full 1g1r sets

[@raistlinmajere5741]

As a JRPG fan, what's missing would probably drive me nuts (i.e. no PSP FFs). For that matter I'd miss PSX Diablo, even with this being on PC (I can fix that dreadful DevilutionX button swap bug in Steam, but I prefer the advanced control scheme, which they haven't even tried to implement yet). Still, good enough to throw on a thumb drive and carry around in your pocket. The GUI is nice as well. I think a lot of people are looking at those cheap boxes because their PC is too old to run things like this, and they can't afford a new one. I would recommend those people get a Pi 4. There's no shortage of pre-made builds. If you're too lazy to run Etcher or can't get decent Internet service, there's even pre-loaded cards on Amazon. At least most of the ROMs will function, even if the Pi 4 will struggle with newer systems a bit. That mini PC is expensive, though. If you have $600 to spend, I'd recommend getting a pre-built MiSTer. For any system it has a core for, you won't find anything more accurate. But maybe you're more interested in enhanced performance (i.e. NFS3 upscaled to 1440p and running at a solid 60 FPS), or newer systems MiSTer has no core for like PS2, Dreamcast, and Gamecube. In that case, get a Series S (and spend the other $300 on a large HDD, because DVD ISOs eat up space like it is going out of style). I don't know if there are any extract-and-go packs for MiSTer and Series S. However, where there's a seat, you can usually find an ass.

[@kratosgow5010]

I bought the Lenovo Y700 just for emulation. It's perfect for consoles up to PS2 and GameCube.

[@hspank]

thank you. of course community collections with reputable names are where people should be directed to. people who do builds since decades without ever distributing them commercially. please continue to promote the honest collectors, this is one of the greatest hobbies in game culture, preserving cultural heritage and stuff.

[@tecpaocelotl]

Sadly, doing yourself is the best way to go. Every week, just work on one emulation (and roms) on my steamdeck. I play the games I have. It's fun. Repeat to next emulation.

[@Tails_the_Gamer]

I really like the theme used in this build, going to see if i can find a similar one for my Retropie setup.

[@DamienRoweArts]

Ive been emulating gamea for years now. I still have all my old consoles but an emulator is handy ,this is a nice video to get people into older games .

[@nickangelo116]

I had seen emulation for the first time on my friend's Sony Vaio in 2004. He played Yoshi's Island. I forgot about it after that for many years. I started using emulation for myself on my first Android device in 2012. I had Super GNES app. When it was first launched, it linked you to where you can download ROMs. That feature ceased to exist not long after and you had to search for ROMs manually. That was my first learning experience with emulation. It wasnt until 2016 that I lost everything in life financially that I began to learn more about emulation. I couldn't even afford weed anymore, so my mental clarity SKYROCKETED. I learned to take my old PC's and pack them with emulation. I learned all kinds of new techniques and new sites to download from. I spread the word around on social media and word of mouth, so that some of my friends were doing it to. I like to think that I single-handedly started the local emulation trend in my area, but that's probably not true. There are a million guys like me.

[@tlaf4367]

Excellent video!!! And completely honest from the start. This man is a RETRO LEGEND!!!😊😊😊

[@frankom8245]

Coinops is fantastic and so many options available they keep adding to it. Also core type r is worth getting. Retro magic

[@Fluoride_Jones]

+Frank M If a person had a mini PC like the one featured in this video, would they even need the external hard drive to download the Coinops build, or could they just download it directly to the PC? Any advice would be very helpful!

[@clintbeacock7978]

@@Fluoride_Jones Straight to PC hard drive is fine. Portable drives are nice if you want to move it between machines, but not at all needed.

[@Zenon00007]

Look forward to more builds..👍

[@brave7033]

Hey Bro! 1st of all thx for the content you're doing a great and really helping us here 👍🏽 But i've to mention that this mini PC comes with a price regarding to the specs (Core I7 32 GB of RAM!) But i get the point i've an old laptop and I'm gonna see how far i can take it 😉 Hey it can't hurt 😁

[@zap7026]

Half the specs of the mini IT 11 would double up my system. In this life I'll never manage to get one, but at least I've memories of getting my first Atari2700 in '77 at the age of 7.^^ (...and every console that followed ;-)) edit: your shop is awesome!

[@marcellachine5718]

Funny, you must have had a special Atari.

[@mathewfoley1531]

This is real good took my all night to down load then hours to unzip but awesome

[@Tony-l9j]

I agree with everything you said. I put my retro gaming collection on my pc with retroarch and launchbox for free. I currently have 10k games

[@jackskelington8796]

$600 for a mini pc... he'll no

[@Madlittlepixel]

No need to pay $600 for a mini pc. Just I had it and decided to use it as a demonstration here. Use what you already got type of thing.

[@johncahill1985]

That’s what I said I’d rather buy the Retroid pocket 3+

[@mobileplayers5008]

Yeah n without good graphics card

[@dman1848]

Grab a refurbed mini office pc. They dirt cheap and speccd well for emulation

[@jenserikolsen3515]

By the number of games on each system it seems like it's a greatest hits (in lack of better terms) from each system

[@gnawtsatyr8865]

Very cool info. I'm very much out of the loop with having a computer and the specs that are necessary for certain performance goals but this vid will definitely be bookmarked because I really wanna fix a kinhank that I feel like I got tricked by Amazon (and Google) into buying

[@SirAzur3]

This setup looks like runs really great, it sure blows those cheap TV boxes out of the water. Also, I have found that mini PCs also work way better for running android than those cheap android boxes do. Mini PCs also continue to get better over time whereas TV boxes are all still using the same slow chips.

[@lukashenrique4295]

they're better but thinking about the price, I don't think it's worth it. $500 dollars for a mini-PC whereas a simple TV Box costs around 30 to 50. for people who are trying to emulate retro games, PS1-era and below these things are perfect! they can run up to PSP as well as a bonus.

[@atodamadre3197]

I like how this dudes answer to people who say "I don't have time" or "I don't know how" is "just do it yourself"

[@Madlittlepixel]

Wow your lack of comprehension is commendable. Not everyday someone outs themselves to be a complete dumass this well.

[@trekkiejunk]

For computer dummies like me, you skipped a whole lot of set-up. You plugged in the mini PC and then suddenly had your "coin-ops build" on a hard drive. Well, how did you get that? Where did you get it from? Are there different versions? Why did you choose that particular one?

[@ericmethot9524]

Really great video! I am trying it right now! So far so good! Would be nice if you could show us how to add games and images in this built.

[@thecouchpotato88]

Great video. Very helpful. Subscribed.

[@mBaron29]

Hey is there any easy setup guide for retroarch with a good place to find rooms?

[@DimstTalon]

An interesting point. I feel like it would be more compelling if the example was not provided on a 500 dollar mini pc..... VERY few people have something that powerful just laying around collecting dust.

[@shaunixtech5486]

I love doing it myself. I find the issues with these is full of games from online or others is 95% ill never play. And any systems I never had I don't have a nostalgic tie to I know I won't use them. Nothing better then doing it yourself and having just the systems you want, just the games you want. From ps1 back to nes I enjoy the experience on the psp or ps vita for more horse power. Old snes games are great for portable console.

[@mikemackey874]

Great video man

[@tongoso]

Thanks for sharing, what monitor is the one at the beginning? looks beautiful!

[@TheKayliedGamerChannel-YouTube]

RetroArch on my old 2015 laptop suits me fine for most retro emu - screw Amazon 😂

[@DonaldWyman]

I agree with you, I would rather load up some kind of DIY solution than buy those little prebuilt things and have to go and fix everything I don't like about them. With these builds that others put all that work into normally they will have all the duplicates taken out, they will have what actually works on that device instead of a bunch of junk that don't play. Also, I am of the opinion I would rather have just the games I would actually play over having every game in a particular system. Not to mention, this is a great use for re-using old office pcs that can be bought for cheap...like for instance my wife's office has tiny little pcs about the same size as the one in this video that would be perfect for something like this when they replace them, then with it being pc based over being android TV box based it will be able to emulate newer consoles as well as play some older steam titles maybe even some newer Indy stuff.

[@ImTheZero]

Awsome video, i just got an ad for the sticks with 50k games. I really love the idea, but dont won't to buy an extra device nor nead such amount of trash games. I use my pc as console anyway so i was looking for a diy, and im glad to see that its only best of games

[@Gaming-Enthusiast]

Looks pretty cool 👌 thanks

[@VOAN]

I own a $70 Chinese handheld that could play Atari 2600, Atari Lynx, NES, Super NES, Sega Master System, Sega Genesis, Sega 32X, Sega CD, Sega Game Gear, Turbo Grafx-16, Turbo CD, Super Grafx, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Arcade, NeoGeo, NeoGeo Pocket Color, MS-DOS, and Wonder Swan Color games. That's 20 supported system with over 20,000 games.

[@IndieArcadeWave]

I like this, I've been looking for a good emulator. Everyting I come across is broken, games don't work. Did you use any converters to run controllers?

[@SnowAngelfish]

Just for reference: Intel i7 11390H Passmark Cpu mark score - 9965 Iris Xe passmark G3d mark score - 2683 So on Passmark this does barely make the high end cpu list and also barely the high end gpu list. Nice Looks like a nice little box.for this build.

[@markgoldspink5109]

You should check out Core Type R build - the system is as vast as you want it to be and it looks great. Big fan.

[@karosso1975]

Thanks for the awesome video! This looks so much better than the premade boxes!! Is there a link or legit site where to download from?

[@shapes9495]

For me its always those moments of being extremely poor that i really appreciate that cheap harware is so powerfully now at days im so happy because even in low spots i can so totally afford something that could emulate ps2 thats amazing

[@baldybald100]

Never emulated anything before… would a newer Mac laptop run some of these? I saw the retro stuff I missed out on and got so excited to potentially do this (or should I just go for a mini pc like used in video)?

[@bobdawkins7473]

You know what's even better than this thing? :) Asus Rog Ally I got mine, added a 1TB SD for retro games and have same disk space for anything that needs some speed. Anything from the beginning of games industry up to PS4 runs on the Ally Rog fine.

[@tittentei7331]

Thank you!

[@MrAxelStone]

256GB build...WOW! I remember back when a 10GB build felt YYUUUGE lol.

[@danhle1032]

Probably more games in the 10GB build Cuz of how many wiiu and Ps 3 games there are in the biggerbuild

[@chrisbeach4684]

Thank you for going this direction with your channel. I have decided that I want to do my own build, but I am trying to figure out what chipset is the best for my needs I am between an i5 or more likely an i7.

[@organiceffect]

great guide man

[@mrshanejd]

Pretty sweet setup. I have a raspberry pi running retropi and I can’t run ps2 or game cube it will do most n64 but I had to tweak the settings a lot. Raspberry pi is a cheaper setup with thousands of how to KZbin videos. I was clueless but I did it KZbin has the how to video. Made a cabinet too.

[@there615]

Very cool video! I want to set up some games on the Nvidia Shield. What, in your opinion, is the best package for such a device?

[@olliehardy5264]

Did you get round to doing this?