I totally agree. I'd gladly pay the price to not spend countless hours chasing all of this down.

emulators are great (most of the time), since sometimes i came across things like: Spyro 3 don't has any background music or games that just straight don't load in the emulator that i'm using... so, finding the right file is difficult, but the result is worth it.

How about the OG’s in their 50’s who started with Atari and threw all those systems away 😂

At 70yrs old,My last game was Mario on 64,,I'm not stupid but really just wnt a few games to pass my retirement ! ??any suggestions,thinking bout going all out withn the OC 3,,

Can I plug this hard drive into my Nvidia Shield and play with a Bluetooth controller???

The Chinese…A great bunch of lads!!!

Lol right? And this comment section is just full the same positivity you see everywhere on KZfaq now as well, all of these people saying oh this is so great nothing wrong with this at all, totally legal nothing wrong with youtube not striking these channels either for straight up advertising pirated material either. KZfaq really is a cesspool for criminal activities these days, you even have people running channels making videos of them running from cops actually getting paid from that. I guess youtube finally just realized that since at least 80% of their gaming content is just re-uploads of other people's work skirting around the "fair use" polices they may as well just condone any criminal activity.

Damn commies!

​@@user-vv7zo8py2fwhat do you think it is that he's saying? What is the thing it says?

What does it say?

You could just build your own. Something like a Megacade.

It's not really all that hard to do yourself. With programs like retroarch, retrobat, and emulationstation (which is what most of these devices use) it's all pre-configured. It's just a matter of dropping the game files in the proper folders. Full libraries of games can easily be found online to the point you can download them all in a single batch, or grouped alphabetically. Depending on your download speeds and how many different platforms you decide to set up, you can have something exactly the same as this set up within an hour.

​@@Kirkyeeheewithin the hour lmao Asking honestly, do you think there's actually any torrents available with a collection this big that actually runs at a reasonable speed with enough seeders? Because with the state of torrents these days I really doubt it

@@KingMinish Torrents, no. Direct links. Absolutely. It's just a matter of knowing where to look. **Cough*Theinternetarchive*cough**

​@@Kirkyeeheewhat are you talking about man 😭😭

​@@sbifits true 💀

You know how to do that ?

@@joshuadenson996 Sure, it's just a matter of putting ROM's and emulators into a front end software like Launch Box and then putting all of that onto an external drive of sorts. There are tons of how to videos out there for this kind of stuff

Takes to long. Just buy it. Time is money.

@@TheBigb1973 I respect that

@@joshuadenson996 hyper spin is easy to install, but finding most of the roms for certain emulation is harder if you don’t know where you’re looking. And the time it requires to download all the games

Are you able to play 2 player or vs game modes? If so then yes these things are very worth it and I would love to have one to set up like an arcade or simulator style.

@@justdoinit2378 I haven't tried, but it's just using launchbox to launch retroarch, mupen, yuzu, etc. etc. - so there's no real magic going on here. Should be able to support 2-player just as well as any emulator of choice.

How many games were in the more modern era like PS4 and switch also curious about PS3 Appreciate the reply 👍🏼

@@keepitshort4208 No real PS4, the 12 PS4 titles are just the PC versions of games available on both the PC and PS4, like GTAV, The Witcher 3, and RDR2. Emulation for the PS4 is very primitive at the moment, so this kinda makes sense. PS3 and Switch though are real ROMs, though, but the count isn't too high. 21 PS3 titles ('Afro Samurai.ps3' BLES00254 BLES01469 BLUS30230 'Castlevania - Lords of Shadow 2.ps3' Catherine.ps3 "Demon's Souls.ps3" 'Devil May Cry 4' "Dragon's Crown.ps3" 'God Of War 3' 'God Of War Collection' 'Lollipop Chainsaw.ps3' 'Mass Effect 2' 'Ratchet & Clank - Into the Nexus.ps3' 'Ratchet & Clank Trilogy.ps3' 'Rayman Origins.ps3' 'Ridge Racer 7.ps3' 'Soul Calibur IV.ps3' 'The Tomb Raider Trilogy' 'Wolf Among Us, The.ps3' '[Silent Hill Homecoming][BLUS30169][7.2]' ) and 18 Switch titles ('0217 - Flashback (Europe) (en,fr,de,it,es).xci' ARMS.nsp 'Borderlands Game of the Year Edition.nsp' Celeste.nsp 'Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy.nsp' 'Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled (XCI)' 'Do not feed the monkeys.xci' 'Enter the Gungeon.nsp' 'Hello Neighbor.nsp' 'Hollow Knight.nsp' 'Mega Man X Legacy Collection 2.xci' 'SONIC FORCES.nsp' 'Salt And Sanctuary.nsp' 'Splatoon 2 (US).nsp' 'Super Mario Odyssey.nsp' 'The Legend of Zelda Links Awakening.nsp' 'The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom.xci' 'The Legend of Zelda_ Breath of the Wild.xci'). Can't comment on how most of those play since I haven't really touched them, but the Switch ones at least should work pretty smoothly (I tried mario odyssey, it was fine), haven't touched the PS3. The list seems pretty well curated, there are dupes of the 8 and 16 bit systems, but it's not a bunch of garbage, just maybe multiple revs of the same game or something like that. It doesn't look like it has any entire ROM dumps. But it has nearly all the popular titles of the platforms, and that's what I was looking for. But if I knew it was this well curated I'd be open to buying a larger drive. But the 12TB wasn't around when I bought. Hope that helps.

These are always a risk to buy. There have been numerous counts of malware and rootkits being hidden on this sort of drive and devices like this.

Loli don't think the old 386 could handle any of the emulators haha 🤣

Better take the whole rig or you’d just be a fool with an useless HDD 😂

Back in 1985 you would have to use a Commodore 64 or an Apple II to try to handle the emulators. Unless you said you were from the future and brought back your all-powerful Intel Celeron.

@@peterstaklis3712 But why would you take intel celeron?!

Because even a celeron should be able to run most of the games and would be considered mighty in 1985. Plus it’s cheap.

The Amazon comments say it's difficult to set up/configure, one saying you need hacker-level IT skills. How difficult is it?

@@coyotemoon722 not difficult at all I got emulationststion setup on my raspberry pi 3b+ 😂 but this is hyper spin pretty easy to follow the instructions from the site; other then that almost games will be hard to find online

@@coyotemoon722it's easy af to set up. Pretty much plug and play with some basic computer knowledge.

@@coyotemoon722 hacker level IT skills lmao. An old person who has trouble figuring out the knobs on the washing machine wrote that.

sending 300 bucks straight into some Chinese communist assholes pocket for stolen software from your own country. Don’t trust our geopolitical enemies with a PC component that ties into your computer and network

Sadly this is not the reality.. I've setup rom machines for thousands of titles in the past and my son always just shrugged at it. Games look too good these days. The old games have no appeal to the youngins

​@@sotoninIsn't that the truth! It's just how things change tbh. I fear for them and reliving their childhood games though with all of their media being digital downloads.

​@@sotoninI get this from my kid too. But keep at it, sit and play with him. I did this with my kids and he even asks for certain games like NBA Jam and Twisted Metal from time to time. The real challenge is getting him away from these garbage streamers playing absolute trash on KZfaq that he spends hours watching. Not even good games, what would've been the equivalent of Flash games a few years ago. I guess they watch for the personalities. I also have a massive Plex library too. Getting him to watch stuff on there is like pulling teeth, but he'll gladly watch things with me, like old horror movies. We love those.

if you're going to pay for pirated games then i feel sorry for you because they're free the drive you will buy will have bug issues and alot of games won't play as normal as you would expect

​@xtensionxward3659 it's almost impossible or expensive as hell to even get most of these games and consoles, this isn't about pirating apart from maybe the new console generation. But even then who cares anymore, the industry will never change. I sure af don't want to pay £60 to play an old pokemon or hundred trying to get an old console in good working condition

@@SOL-UK its a good point of view

@@xtensionxward3659The internet is free too, but we still pay for it. Energy is infinite, but we still get charged for it. We have an abundance of water, but still pay for it.

Also Seagate EOXS isn't going to fail that easy it's designed for data centers with read/writes.

Yeah wtf was that lol

Great video aside from muckbang 🤢

I’m glad I’m not the only one who noticed that.

I do like that it preserves the games.

@@Mike-sp7zv Definitely great for that. I know if I go back in time and show this to my kid self, he would flip out. Just show him the games up to that point in time and hide the rest lol

Let us know what happens. Amazon reviews say it doesn't work

Following

@@eb3005 Yeah I noticed that before I ordered, I figured the only people who bothered to leave a review are probably the people that didn't understand that the drive has to be a D drive.

Please let us know when you get it and how it is. 😊

Looking forward to your update, very interested in purchasing but the reviews are making me doubt

Anyone can upload a list of all the games of CrisCool 96Gb? Seems a lot of work and a live museum to keep at home

@@Van-Helssen you can't download 98tb :))

​@@freecoursesukwell... not with that attitude. 😂

Chris cool mods is the most over priced shit ever

Wanna bet?

It's fulllll of Trojan viruses 😂 I threw one on a old PC and it immediately lit up viruses left and right 😂

​@@andy_dabztha_krypt_keepa255The drive from Amazon had viruses?

Of course the pc says there is lots of stuff because all the cracks etc for emulators the pc consider as threats! Even if you get them from trust sites because it's really how it's intent ..the pc doesn't recognize them so consider as virus etc.. but anyways anyone do whatever they want ..

Ps- even if you build your own and use the same emulators plus cracks etc when installing lots will prompt as threats for what I said ..

any ​@@user-vv7zo8py2f

How could you in the 90s, lol.

@jimbotron70 : I ran some databases for work, but otherwise it was the grunge era. I was busy with sex, drugs, and rocknroll. All the usual young guy shenanigans. I only played playstation during the 90's. I'm considering learning python to mess around with AI but I am entering the lazy stage of my life.😄

@@user-vv7zo8py2f You can use any controller recognized by your OS.

I didn’t mention any controllers…

@@user-vv7zo8py2f If your computer/laptop has a 2nd USB port .. then you'll be able to play games for 2 players...if you want to play 4 player games, you'll need a USB splitter. Most games can be saved... depending on the emulator they're installed from. 👍

​@@user-vv7zo8py2fcorrection: you can get to use a PlayStation 4 controller 🎮 as well.... BUT some of the buttons won't be functional so it will best to use a Xbox 360 controller.

Clean except for the fact buyers are finding keyloggers hidden in the drives.

So amazing to see a mega huge batch of titles like this!!! Talk about an epic win!

@udance4ever its possible to copy not just the rom files but also the frontend software to another drive and have it function and look just like this one does right? I am curious to buy this drive but want to be sure I can copy the entire experience with just select games over to an SD card to take on the go with me

@@jordandiaz5526 yup - totally possible. while it's a slow project, I'm working on a script that'll take a larger drive (eg. 6TB) and extract a target build (eg. 256GB) that is standalone & boots on its own. for now, just clone the boot partition (6GB) and manually copy everything but the roms directory in the SHARE partition. then you can pick & choose as you please! you'll have to do a bit of scraping to get all the images but its all automated once you figure out how it works (pretty amazing actually) good luck!

​@@udance4everThree questions, 1) One of the other comments indicated there were a bunch of viruses that came native on the drive. Have you experienced this? 2) Can you confirm that you are able to open the drive in Windows and see the file structure where you could copy a particular rom for a particular console out of the drive and place it in a different drive /computer. I am asking this because I would like to build a retro game system using Raspberry Pi but this SBC is limited in what game era it can run so I want to isolate the roms that it will have no problem running on a separate drive. 3) Are you planning to freely distribute your script mentioned in your post, or are you going to sell it? It sounds like it could be very useful

What’s the drive called?

@@Michael.RedKnight the amazon link is in the description.

anytime, it is wow!

That was my first thought as well. Turning off firewall, Antivirus and installing executables that come distributed on a Chinese product is nothing but reckless. If anyone buys this thing, either use it as a ROM dump you only copy from or run it on a segregated machine that is not in any way connected to your main network . Advising people to turn off any and all security features in a video is extremely dangerous on the creators part.

@@idontlikespmDidn't watch the whole video, did he actually do that? Yeah, that alone is reason to never listen to anything this guy says ever again. I personally would never connect something like this to my PC as I'm sure it's full of dodgy shit. and nobody I know with a modicum of computer knowledge would either. If you really think you're going to get 10,000 copyrighted pieces of software for a relative pittance, that somebody who would brazenly sell a drive full of copyrighted software wouldn't also harvest your personal information without blinking, I've got a bridge to sell you.

@@yellowblanka6058 exactly

true story!

the answer is yes to all (including the nightmare) ​@@user-vv7zo8py2f

Except you'd be paying almost $300 for a drive when, as you admit you probably are never even going to address 10% of these 10,000 games, and I'm sure there's at on of bloat in there like regional copies and every year version of Madden etc. - I just don't understand people who compulsively need to collect either digitally or physically a great quantity of games they'll never play. That and this drive includes contemporary titles that are still being sold.

@@yellowblanka6058 $300 wow so terrible

Works in windows. I want to say it’s 10.7TB on the drive but I might be off a little. It’s 10 something

There’s an option to hide collections you don’t want on the wheel.

Can you plug this hard drive up to your tv and play games on it?

@@boxdoge8466 I dunno. I haven’t gotten one right now.

do play switch games because you can run them on 4k 60 fps, not unethical

Oh yeah, I'm sure this thing is full of spyware, viruses, a company that would brazenly resell copyrighted material that is still being sold wouldn't blink at harvesting user information, in fact at least one of the user reviews references finding viruses on this thing. Anybody who willingly connects shit like this to their computer/network is dumb as shit.

If you done one yourself before it should be super easy for you

Or just people who actually buy games not broke ass bootleggers who hurt the industry

No we don't

No we don't like the guy said above🤣🤣🤣

I've curated a massive library for my kids and grandkids to appreciate. My kid now has grown up with all these free games and really doesn't understand the value of all of this, but I don't care, it's still a labor of love and we've made so many great memories playing all throughout gaming history. Maybe he'll appreciate it more when he's older, but for now it's fun to show him what this all came from.

My computer is hooked to a 65" 4k tv in my living room.

@@catswildlife4969 mines too and 1 in the bedroom.

@@americangaijin8743 Same I also have a 55" in my bathroom and a 70 inch 4k tv in each of my 5 guest bedrooms.

​@@dentyo5238 Same. I also have a 10" screen inside my toilet and a 6" that pops out of my toaster.

@@kayakexcursions5570 Nice man!! 😎

I was wondering the same thing.

Surprised there aren't more comments on the tremendous security concerns of just plugging in a random hardrive to your main rig that you presumably do things like online banking on These are the same people plugging in USB drives they find in the parking lot

​@@loquitogusanitojust plugging something wont do anything unless it had explosives or had a hardware killer, nowadays autorun doesnt exist. Unless you manually execute a trojan .exe, probably this one has

Lol

I clicked on the link and it’s basically the same thing he’s not telling the whole truth in the video you still need to reprogram it and do a lot of things it’s not plug and play

my pre-made arcade cabinet does that... but it "only" has 3000 games

The same question in my mind? How many players can play using this hard drive?

@@sward4king4 on 4 player games it works the same as a emulator you downloaded yourself just saves you time and confusion

I just read the reviews on Amazon and there's a lot of negative reviews some people are saying you have to have medium to expert level skills to know what you're doing hopefully everything goes right for ya( waiting on update) for myself also considering buying but I'm a noob 🎉

@@Tu.Mama.Perro. That is HS in general needs a lot of configuration and extra apps need to be setup to get it to work. The only thing this drive is good for is a repository you can pull from and that's if the seller has actually audited all the roms to make sure they are working and not corrupted.

jw5031 please count me in, I am curious

Very interested in buying this as well, please let us know when you get it and how the installation process and ease of access works. Appreciate the update.

Updates???

Yes in settings you can do that

There are some out there. Kriscoolmod.

it is

Yeah, the problem with his stuff is it's absurdly expensive. The 96TB ends up being like 5k or 8k or some shit. Very hard to justify.

I own it. It’s not. It’s definitely not plug and play. To me having access to all that’s on the drive was most important. Saved me a ton of time. I can make my own builds now.

@@turtlehead2ok cool thanks for the update. I ordered mine and haven’t gotten it yet. I will try to create my own build… I’m kind of intimidated but I’ll give it a go. @turtlehead what do you recommend for a front end? I do have lifetime big box, but I like the hyper spin look too.

Navigating a wheel is dead simple.

@@user-vv7zo8py2f I've been rather lazy with setting up the PC for my cabinet. There are a lot of dynamics I'd have to figure out besides just the controls. First and foremost is how I'd be able to power on the PC each time I turn on the cabinet. I don't want to burn out the PC by leaving it on full-time (not to mention the electric bill), so I'll have to dedicate a lot of time to get all my questions answered from various sources. I guess I can start with Reddit.

then put it on a computer not connected to the internet or pass

@@drewtalksYou'd need to go further than that & disable the network adapters & make sure it's not on the same workgroup, otherwise it could still affect other things on the local network.

They very much do all this chinese knock off bootleg trash is loaded with malware

Review on Amazon said they found a Keylogger on this one@@UnknownZ3bra

Not all of it has malware! You have to look.

Did you ever figure out the answer to your question?

@@Sartre_Existentialist no sorry but I would assume it can be paired down since it's using off the shelf emulators

Yeah the comments said it doesn't even load, makes me think they didn't change their drive letter

So is it legit or not? I wanna get one

I think it is but it's Amazon return it if it doesn't work

Anyone can leave a bad review lol

​@drewtalks You're a shill, and should be disgusted. How much are they paying you?

Lol buy the product and prove me wrong, Amazon has free returns

There’s no reviews that were bad on the product, lol I just looked are you upset you can’t afford this?

Batocera builds can be bought/downloaded on SD that include it

I am sure you can but jeez a lot of work

@@drewtalks LOL. I figured as much. Looks like I'll have to get used to Hyperspin or make my own - talk about a lot of work. 😁

I want a linux based one like emuelec, so it can be ran on arcades (windows can too but it is not as sturdy long term)

None of those games are on there, but a simple google search will get you what you're looking for. I have those games on a different collection from a Google search.

which is why retro emulation is important.. cos once the devs make their money and they are no longer for sale they dont care what happens their games.

Right. The idea is to get this that has 90 percent of the shit anyone could ever want and then just fill in the gaps on your own which would be insanely simple at that point

@@chiarosuburekeni9325 You're right that most of the people who buy this will probably never want anything else. I just think it's kind of ironic that they include the stuff that's easy to find and which can be obtained from multiple sources, while the more obscure stuff that people may not be able to find on their own, isn't included.

Part of the fun is seeing what they do put on their lists for PS1 or PS2 games and instantly being able to try some of the more obscure titles that you are too lazy to setup on your own collections. But I'm sure RTL Biathalon for the PS2 won't make their list but it makes mine.

you obviously didn't watch the video

@@matthewdaffern8368 I did, but I didn't know how to install a new drive in a computer so I was hoping I had missed something, and it was a bit more simple like a plug n play. Lol 😆🎉

​@@neonzeonalien1SATA drives are easy to install. One data cable, one power cable and you're good to go. Plenty of videos will show you how. Probably the easiest thing to install on a PC. You can even buy SATA to USB adapters if you don't want to open up the case. I use one for connecting archive drives to keep really important stuff offline and avoid wear and tear on the drives themselves. If I need something, I just plug them into USB like a giant flash drive and grab what I want.

@@KMFDM_Kid2000 Oh cool, that's awesome! Thank you so much! 👾😁💙🎉

This is sarcasm right? loool

With the rights to sail the seven seas, of course!

Why didn't Soulja boy just do this instead?!

I bought an 18TB drive for a seller on Etsy but it had no switch, PS4 or Xbox 360. It did have the entire Dreamcast, ps1, 2, Xbox, Psp, Wii, and the lower end collections. I have yet to go through everything on it but it has a lot. I might still get this for the 360 games and the forbidden fruit (switch). I’d advise if you decide to get it to backup the drive. It’s not a huge investment but I’d rather put it on a brand new drive. I’d also play around like Drew said and make your own collection. You have the games so you could put something together. There are a lot of cool front ends out there.