I remember spending 2 days downloading 1 rom on dialup....

With every emulation device I always find myself spending more time curating than playing the actual games. Deleting games I don't want and adding games that are missing. Editing cover art, etc... very time consuming.

PS3 is also a retro system now. It's 15 years old. Just like 1988's Genesis was already retro in 2003.

I LOVE how you actually show how to customize some settings.

Including just 1 rom per system is a positive. It means you don't have to worry about finding/ setting up a bios, configuring the emulator, etc. Basically, all you have to do is find your own rom and drop it into the roms folder.

The free storage problem is just batocera. It's boot file is technically a seperate partition but its only like 1.5gb. I had to do some tedious extending of a spacing partition to then be able to extend the boot one. Even then, just download the update files and drop them in. Much faster than the OS function

Wow. You're just so damned thorough. What an incredible video/review. Instant SUBSCRIBE.

Bactocera is amazing I’ve turned so many old pcs into amazing gaming systems

My mate got the 512GB version (around $60) for his Steam Deck. He ignored all the rubbish and put the good stuff directly on his Deck and runs it through Emudeck.

I usually like the system padding as it gives you a known space where you can add more games. But that's pretty redundant when the drive is completely full

I spent a week getting all the games I wanted from SNES to PS2 and with 250gb I got all the games I wanted.

the GPD mini looks awesome but starting at around $1000 AUD is insane

I paid a little more than that for a Batocera SD Card for my Steam Deck - with a nicely curated lineup. I was happy with the purchase as I do not have the inclination to do all that work myself and do not have great home internet living in a cabin in the mountains (have 4G based internet). It was a pain in the butt to make my SD Card for my MODE modified Dreamcast, so the drive I bought was well worth it for me.

Imagine going 20-30 years back with steam deck and showing it to your friends, and when they ask "what games you have there" you just answer "every-freaking-single one of them"

I would be concerned about malware, trojan and viruses on these things. Did you do any security checks?

Great video! Does this work on Retroid or Anbernic products?

I don't want to play 43,000 games. That's why I've taken the time to curate the games for each system that I'll actually play. No need to scroll through thousands of crappy games, terrible room hacks and duplicates

Aside from the fact that I wouldn't trust some random flash drive from countries where copyright is more of a suggestion than a law without wiping it first (thus rendering it pointless) this is just not something I would need. But I guess there is a place for something like that, it is crazy how much technology there is in the world and there are certainly places where connectivity and tech literacy is low enough for this to be a good option. That aside, I do like the fact that you acknowledge the existence of these things, many people talking about retrogaming like to pretend stuff like this doesn't exist and everyone is just playing their legal roms. And while people do probably have to say that for legal reasons, this is still something that should be shown and discussed.

I get the reason these exist (some people just don't want to deal with finding their own ROMs and putting them on a front end). But I do think it's worth it for most people to just find some tutorial videos and put together their own ROM sets and even a front end if they want... most of the thousands of games on these micro SD cards people sell are games 99% of people will never play... better off learning how to do it yourself.

Who wouldn't mind stuffing a USB stick, from who knows where, into their own computer?

I am sorry for the off topic, but what kind of screen are you using? Looking for some decent panel.

If you're gonna pirate, at least don't pay people for it...

Nice vid! Would it work with the XU10 hand held?

Ah, the modern rendition of 99999 in 1 cartridges.

hey Taki, is Batocera on deck better then just trying to run Emu-Deck? i've had a few issues with Emu-Deck but it does run no issue. i know we lose some OS features but are there any other issues we'd run into running batocera on deck? does it run better? is it better performance? is there any sort of FPS increases in say PS3?

People love these themes... I've never set one up, but can you not create subfolders? Like on my Everdrives, I'll create folders based on the games' titles. A-D, E-H, I-L, etc. Makes it easier to find things. Is that an option in Emulation Station or whatever this is?

id like to see a video on how to make a usb drive like this, im sure i could figure it oput but i have a steam deck and LOVE retro games, and having a guide to do this would make life a LOT easier

When you get more excited; over that 1 ROM or a few, than over the thousands you've either seen or heard of before This is why Storage Space is my #1 concern on a Device - to have the room for all the ROMs you care to load up, then curating them; pruning the ones you don't want, leaving the onesyou do want, making x amount of assorted folders, getting everything labeled & organized... It's a labor of love, but it feels awesome knowing you have your hoard of ROMs, all nice & neatly arranged, everything where you can find it, then play it I've been spending more time just picking a game I remember, going into the Title Screen - then letting the Music play... pure nostalgic bliss. I can still hear Batman NES, or Battletoads, etc

The handhelds you show off are so cool! I wish I was rich enough to own a PC handheld. 😅

Ok that's cool and all. But where did you get the Gundam skin/shell/case for the steam deck?

1 game for gamecube is a crime

I'd like to see something like this on an SD card that is fully scraped and filled with artwork, and made to perfectly support the steam deck, so UI scaling really nicely, and settings completely optimized to run as maximum as possible on the Steam Deck. Also would like to see a 512GB card and more PS2 era games available.

What's the last mini laptop style computer you were demoing? That thing looks amazing.

One thing to note is that the Batocera team will NOT support pre-made distributed images/drives as resale of these is not allowed in their policy.

This is AWESOME! We need those as form of game preservation!

OMG TAKI I LOVE YOU! that sega game you played "Double clutch" i been looking for the name of that game for AGEs i played it when i was a kid but never knew its name.... and now ill have it, thank you

The batocera devs hate these things, the sellers take no responsibility for what they are doing.

Everyone... Please make sure you remove or disable your internal drive before booting these flash drives on your computer. A malicious virus or program can access your misconfigured internal drive and maybe steal your files and photos. Same thing if you have other USB devices or backup drives plugged in during your gameplay. Even if you don't connect to the internet, a virus can compromise your internal drive and when you go back to your windows, boom!

And ive had the same rom collection since i was 8, growing the list as i got older. Now i mostly download roms of found unreleased titles.

cannot wait for my gpd mini :D

Taki, what monitor is that

One system puzzled me when I saw it, Sufami Turbo had 13 games released in total, in your list it shows 1964 games, so I wonder what actually IS there. Did they scrape Super Famicom as Sufami Turbo perhaps or is there also a seperate Super Famicom platform section?

This is like paying $40, to take the risks you'd take for free if you pick up a USB stick off the sidewalk. This video is missing what you did to make sure it was safe before you put it in any device you cared about.

I wouldn't mind one of these all pre-set up with just Arcade games like some of the Pi builds you can find.

What would be the best collection to buy then please? This one seems to have lackluster selection of Ps1 etc. Thanks!

I don't wanna think recent hits to the ROM preservation community means we'll have to buy these to get our ROMs. Hopefully there's a W on the horizon for us

you can change the color palete by pressing L and R shoulder buttons while in the game :)

Thanks to batocera and steam deck a million more people are getting involved in emulating. And this is what I’m waiting for. I just don’t have the time to go through it all and I’m hoping that eventually there will lots of fully loaded batocera SD cards to just plug into my deck and enjoy.

it's insane to me how people spend a premium just to get abandonedware on a storage device.

Would love to hear your opinion on Coin-Ops

great breakdown! upgrading from batocera 35 to 37 is a royal pain in the butt.

Marketing plug and play then having to boot up BIOS to get it to work is mental.

Maybe a dumb question, but could you just move the files from a product like this onto a new (bigger) drive? Would you still be able to boot the same? If that were the case you could update as needed and add new or missing roms to the library

My biggest fear for something like this would be embedded malware like all the android tv boxes have. Did you do any testing to ensure that wasn't present here?

many nregative reviews on that amazon listing. Also the listing was taken down

Do you think it would be worth getting and adding your own stuff? Or is it better to just set up your own drive?

The benefit is they've loaded every bios on these, all a new usee do is have to load the roms they want in and it's playable without work arounds. The best thing to do is delete thw bloat on the system and load on what you want.

Do you happen to have a video on how to make a USB like this?

What charger are you using on the steam deck ?

Wow, I'm into retro handhelds and didn't even know these existed.

Where'd you get that switch keychain? It's so cute! I need one lol

Instead of deleting games, could you copy everything into a bigger sdcard and then upgrade to have more space?

Hey could you share which portable monitor were you using on the beginning of the video? If there's a review video you can also add here. Thanks

hey @TakiUdon , could you tell me why Batocera will not work on my nVidia Shield?

I'm kinda impressed by how polished this looks. I half expected it to be a straight up scam.

Wonder if you can clone it to a bigger usb drive?

May i ask what the device in the left corner is at the start of the video?

Are there good ROM sets and bad ROM sets? How’s the input lag? My experience with microSD game systems is that the card gets SUPER HOT and I had one fail after a month of playing it because it overheated the card.

I love my RetroFE build!!!! I slopped mine onto a 2TB external seagate drive bruh

regarding the storage issue, cant you just clone the USB to a 256GB usb drive and boot from it and do the update like that ?

That Gundam Skin is awesome

Does it have to run through BIOS or can you use Windows?

Do you have a link to the Steamdeck skin in the video?

Can confirm this works on an older Chromebook as well. Acer Spin 11 inch. No lagging or hiccups.

What screen is that? Its beautiful

What version of Batocera is best to use after a dual-core AMD processor and an old ATI AMD graphics card?

Can you extract the ROMS to use them with other emulators?

Could you copy the image to a larger drive to expand sets without bothering the settings?

These just scream malware.

So many great games, I hate feeling like I’ve ripped someone off but if I cant buy it I’m getting it one way or the other..

Is there a better version of this product? (By "better" I mean with a better game library, etc.) Also, when buying something like this, wouldn't malware, etc. be a concern?

Can you copy the 128gb usb key to a bigger one, so to have more space available?

Can you copy the sd card to another one? Or to a computer and jus run it all off a folder on a HDD??

Thanks to batocera and steam deck, a million more people are getting involved in emulating. And this is what I’m waiting for. I just don’t have the time to go through it all and I’m hoping that eventually there will lots of fully loaded batocera SD cards to just plug into my deck and enjoy.

Cool, I ended up spending days working on downloads Etc realizing that I couldn't use them in the format I downloaded them in

what is the monitor you are using?

dude when we will se am indepth review of the ayaneo kun?

Some people actually enjoy the process of curating a collection

Taki how I back up or clone micro sd cart I just purchased?

Did you uh...did you security check that thing before sticking it in a computer?

Yay tiny switch keychain 😁

What's wrong with the drive? You couldn't download the ps3 catalog but there was only one game? The USB says 126gb? Is that true or like how many of the card does It actually take?

when i booted mine up, all i got was a black screen. if ya hit CTRL+ALT+F3 it displays log of commands performed, like a console screen but i cant understand any of it. took it to a friends pc and same thing. it just boots into a black screen...it never loads batocera is just fails to complete the load. any ideas how to fix this?

I have no PC knowledge but would love to get a light gun set up SINDEN or GUN4IR but it don't understand most videos on the subject many people say you can set up a mini PC to do this but I don't understand what I would need to buy and what to do with it if I did try to, do you have any helpful videos or info for a rank novice?

can we just move the roms from the drive and just run this through retro-arch on a modded switch lite?

Howd ya plug into the steam deck?

Just wanted to warn some people that one of the other listings by this company has reviews showing that one of their other drives flagged a trojan.

Ok so I'm gonna get straight to the point in currently using batocera V38 and loving it but for some reason windows games at least those that work I can't seem to get a fps counter going and also temps ,when I turn on DXVK hud and DXvk feature on I get a black screen , using a HP office PC as batocera console Specs Cpu-I5 -4570 GPU - Intel HD 4600 graphics (onboard graphics) Ram-8gb DDR3 1600mhz Storage - 500gb HDD Plz any advice would help

Question: Would it be possible to transfer the data on that drive to a spare 512gb thumb drive in order to have more space for larger games?

Ive lost this darn thing three times!!!! Ive now attached a lanyard to it!