LOL...love how the thumbnail made it look like it was the size of the OG Xbox

I love the interface and themes. No lag on the dashboard.

I think these are nice. I couldn't find a raspberry pi for a decent price, and these come out of the box ready with controllers and are affordable. Thanks for these reviews!

It was George Bernard Shaw, not Benjamin Franklin, who said "We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."

Looks great as a "one-way ticket" straight to nostalgialand.

At this point in 2023, what is the absolute BEST and easiest plug n play system with the most games? Max games, max hard drive, max performance, no faults/errors/games that don’t work - what system would that be?

words can't express how much I miss playing Virtual On with my Saturn

I'd be half tempted to get one of these all in one boxes just for the novelty of it and the games library. Something easy my younger kid can play on also.

Reviewers need to immediately call out the BS on these consoles. You are not getting 100K games. Yes, ETA mentions it, but like so many others, he glosses over it and still adds it to their headlines anyway for clickbait. It's padded with clones, broken roms, and other nonsense. By the time you get to the "higher end" consoles, so many of them have issues that it's not even worth buying.

Too many s905 boxes. I feel at this point in time s922x should be the minimum for a dedicated emulation box to sell.

So refreshing to see someone giving these little boxes a fair review and not just crapping all over them. Granted, they do struggle with some of the more modern games and there are tons of duplicates and a few games here & there that just refuse to run but for the amount of games that do run well and the ease of being ready to go right out of the box I think they're pretty neat little systems. This one actually looks like one of the better ones, I may end up picking this one up myself. Thanks for the honest, fair review. 👍 Looks like I'll be waiting to snag this one, currently out of stock.

This is a great buy and love having it. I wanted to add that a LOT of the games in there have multiple versions. There are US, Euro, Chinese, Japanese versions of the same game. Some, like Street Fighter and King of Fighters, have many versions. The the real number of individual games is therefore far less than advertised since the 100,000 number includes all the different versions. Its not a big deal because it’s still a huge amount of games to try.

Part of me feels like it's almost worth getting just because they packed thousands of games on it that you could transfer off to something powerful enough to play them all rather than going on hunts to find the collections and taking several days to download. Considering the lack of power that might actually be what they think is the main selling point.

I bought myself a pre configured hard drive with tons of games and launch box all set up was definitely worth it in the time it would of took me to set all that up. Not that I can't it's just I work a lot so it saves me a lot of free time. I think for 99 bucks this thing is a pretty good deal but if you wanna play 6th gen titles and some ps3 as well as 360 emulation a pre configured hard drive is the way to go if you have a decent pc. It's just nice to have all those games ready to go on a dedicated drive and not have to go to rom sites and bounce around trying to find the right download button.

I love the nostalgia of older games.

So, I bought a Sumosys emulator system a few years ago and has 11k+ games on it. Definitely one of my favorite purchases of all-time, but I hate how poorly made the controllers are, they ALL break (B button ends up sticking) and I have already gone through half a dozen or more of them. This system you reviewed definitely has more recent generation consoles/games on it then the one I have and looks pretty good. Not sure how much it costs and whether the controllers are issue like on the system I have, but I really appreciate you posting this review!!! Thank you!!

You know what's even better than this? Literally any used smartphone from the past 5 years.

I always want to see skies of Arcadia on dreamcast

I like the idea of a console like this that just works out of the box without me downloading ROMs/etc...but the speed issues. Is there something like this that has more power? OBviously, I'd expect to spend more, but that would be ok.

These boxes work pretty well but you really don't know unless you get one and play games to the end

Some day first thing as a father im gonna buy this kind of system for my kids and let them embrace and enjoy the old school games.

A fellow "Street Supremacy" enjoyer! I believe the biggest reason it didn't do well is the name. It's part of Genki's "Shutokou Battle" series in Japan. At the time most of the series had been published in the West by Crave under the fairly well known "Tokyo Xtreme Racer" branding. For some reason Konami ended up with the global rights to the PSP entry from Genki; but not the rights to the "TXR" brand, as that belonged to Crave. So, Konami had to use a new, and unknown, brand name for it. I think if Crave had gotten it and called it something like "Tokyo Xtreme Racer Portable" it'd sold considerably better.

Lets see... it's $100, or $130 for the upgraded model, that boasts, 82k games, or 100k games if you pay the extra $30, pre-loaded. Yet I can't find a list of games anywhere, and I can't help but be skeptical because of the vast number of "rights" issues involved in a package like this. We all know Roms are technically illegal if you don't own the game in question. Your link to the machine works, but ironically, there is not one single review on Amazon. Not one. Not even a fake one saying how great this thing is. You keep saying in the video we might want to upgrade the controllers... upgrade to what exactly? Maybe you said, but I admit I skimmed your video. It's 10 mins long and includes a bunch of information I was able to find by skimming the purchase page. The information I want to know: What games?.... you don't have on your channel. This whole thing stinks of a setup where they sell you a bunch of cheap hardware thrown together, and sell it to you until they get a cease and desist, and then offer you zero warranty or product support and then change the name and sell it again on a different page.

With the power of AMD's APU's its alot easier to do better retro boxes and now you see the limitations of the older hardware

for what it is its pretty nice for the price I would love to see one of these with higher end hardware that can do higher end emulation like 3DS and up I know that where handheld pc gaming systems like the steam deck, aya neo and oneXplayer shine

For $130 I got a refurbished Dell Optiplex (looked new inside and out) with a 6th gen I5 and 256gb ssd. Even without the RX6400 I added, it will still blow this box OUT OF THE WATER! But yeah, I understand this is for folks who don't want the hassle with setting up their own build. 😌

ETA ….. if there’s is ever an emulation encyclopedia u need to be in it ! Pretty sure your videos made me do the switch from hyper spin to launch box … my life got easier, now we got emu boxes he’ll yeah.

This doesn't seem bad at all for people who just want to get up and running right away. 100,000+ games is a bit overkill, especially when multiple games are simply either in different languages or versions. But I guess saying you have 100,000+ games makes people want to buy it more. Personally, I curate my own collection. I've got about 22,000 retro games on my Steam Deck, no duplicates (unless you count MAME Pac-Man and Atari 2600 Pac-Man as a duplicate then yeah I got some duplicates....), and full collections of many systems. Easier to navigate and pick something nostalgic.

Perfect camping toy with a portable battery pack for the machine and a portable projector this thing could be a lot of fun.

Is it just the ROMs on the SD card, or the full OS? Be fun to see what booting that SD card on a Beelink SER machine would be like.

I would pick up something like this with a more powerful CPU/GPU combo, I would like to emulate up to Ps2/GC and higher end arcade.

If this could play and emulate some of the PlayStation games that aren't available on modern consoles, I'd totally give it a try. The original Resident Evil 2 is playable on my PS3, but it just ported, not emulated. A version of the game that is all smoothed out would be phenomenal.

Part of me likes this and the other part of me knows people are going to flood streams with content they don’t even own.

Looks like a decent all in one easy start point. Do you have access to the file if you want to get in and make changes or remove redundant games or something?

Thanks for the video. Been thinking about getting one of these. Been sitting in my wish list

Looking at these system performance. We are kind of Lucky to have raspberry pi 4 on our side. I am yet to come across a single board computer that is compatible with so many things and inspite of costing 1/4 the amount of these systems. It still manages to beat them hands down.

It would be nice to see some N64 footage on this. :)

While I don't support these machines. If you disable decorations, it should bring everything to full speed.

Great video ETA! I'll like to see general Android and Android game performance on this console.

So nintendo takes down fangames and rom sites, but they somehow havn't sued this thing out of existance yet, despite it literally selling their roms.

It *was* available on Amazon. And then ETA posted about it.

Honestly for the price its a pretty decent deal, especially considering it can run android apps for tv and stuff.

Looks pretty good. Can you tell me, does it have the Die Hard Arcade game? I believe it was a sega cd game

Great channel and overview. I've been looking for something like this for the longest, is there a list of games that it offers? I really wanna play Snatcher on the Sega/Mega and Policenauts on the Saturn. Keep up the good work, I am definitely a fan of the channel

Josh, if the parcel turns up, can you leave it in the shed and I'll pick it up on Tuesday after picking up the dog. Cheers mate.

This is awesome bro. Added to my cart. Thanks for this great review 🙏

It's amazing that amazon has no problem selling pirated stuff

is there a game list?

Does it have classic Arcade games like Mortal Combat (1-3), Killer Instinct, NBA Jam, etc.? And can you create a favorite's list, as you go through the games, saving your favorite titles to an easier accessible list of the games you want to play all the time? Thanks for your review!!

Great for hooking up to a small screen in your car... I need something to do at break time 💪 love your vids, keep it up

a notoriously hard game to run even on original hardware was Legend of Dragoon how does that hold up on a board like this????

I see a lot of these kind of products but which one out of all of them is the best one to get? in terms of performance and number of games already installed

If I get this console will I need to connect it to my Ethernet or can I use the WiFi I have at my through my fire tv?

I'm a UK based computer game fan definitely from the 80s and 90s. I grew up with Atari, commodore Vic 20 64 and Amiga. As the years went by I finished up with PS1. I'm a super x console owner who can't download any more games. Could this be a good purchase?

If you play with these controllers alot they will only last about 6 months, then they stop working and the directional pads on them don't work very well, but the movement sticks on them work pretty well

Id get it if I knew how the 3do games played on it.....I know 3do can be tricky on emulating, similar to the Sega Saturn.

he must have a room full of these boxes and pc's

I'd be more interested in the arcade only games and the NAOMI powered games and CPS3

This is a great machine for retro games and it plays every game as soon as you hook it up to your tv and turn the power on. My only complaint is the input lag on the button prompts. It takes a good half a second to respond to after you press any button.

Lmk if it will run the 3DO Road rash perfectly that is the best version ever made of that game ✊🏆🎮

I feel the super console x chili pc box is the 2022 best plug in play box of the year it emulates all consoles and games from the 1970s to now with the exception of ps4 ps5 Xbox one and Xbox x/s I know we can do it ourselves or get the pc box or mini pc or king for cheaper but it won’t emulate as well as the chili pc box

there is a Super Console X3 on Amazon when i searched for this device

Does it have either Power stone2 (Dreamcast) or conker’s bad fur day (N64) and how do they run?

I love my switch to much love all the new graphic stuff now days never had amazing graphics when I was growing up but good for people that like old graphics

Just ordered mine ! In Amazon can't wait to try it tomorrow!

What theme is that? Can i use that with batocera?

What box that’s out there can run things full speed? As in what’s the best option? Wanting one for nostalgia sake, but several I’ve looked at seem sub par. Are the Pandora’s box joystick ones any good?

FYI for the future if you want to pick a PS1 game thats hard to emulate especially a fighting game you should pick Tobal #1 or its sequel Tobal 2 or Psychic Force. Ive found those are trickier than Bloody Roar 2.

never knew that this existed until I saw this video.

The Super Console X King is still the king....

Remember action 52 that had 52 games on the NES and megadrive? Well this is action 107388.

Hi was wondering if it’s possible to take all the content on that box and put it on a pc so you would not have your find all those games is that possible

I have a PI 3 I built up with RetroPi, and it took so many hours, getting complete roms etc. I used ETA videos throughtout to get me through though thankfully! So this looks like it would be a great plug and play. I have a question do any OpenBor games come preloaded with this system? I could never get them to work on my build.

It's like an IKEA video game console, just put it in and play any emulation. While you can play most emulations on your computer too, for free, using Windows, Apple or Linux. On the Retron 5 I noticed you can play 5 different console games but I could see and hear the difference between the original games I grew up with. If you're serious about this, go get an old CRT-screen and every console and game cd/cartridge original. They will last longer too ànd they will allow you to put in a zapper or other light-gun. I have a GameBoy, GameGear, NES, SNES, SMS, SMD, SS and SDC, all original with scart cable or even antenna ànd an original arcade cabinet form 1991, also with CRT-screen. Only the micro-switces needed to be renewed. It was a big investment but so worth it.

Not too bad of a price for those that can't and don't want to just set one up them selves.

Lied about turning the music off in PS1 games. People know they dont have music to save space on the ROMS.

Posted 8 mins ago. On Amazon :currently unavailable. Guess that was a waste of an upload then.

I actually owned a Sega Saturn.. It was 450$ in the 90s. So those who think the modern day consoles they are totally worth it looking at the graphics...

1000s of games, sure. But most are not worth your time. If you don't have have access to the gems and your favorites from back in the day, these kind of boxes could be a quick and easy way. Also good for people with limited internet, especially if you can access the roms from the system.

Don’t be fooled by the “100,000” games. Almost all of them are multiples of the same games (American/European/Japanese/Beta). When they make it easier to upgrade your storage I’ll upgrade from Super Console X King.

Jolly informative video👍 Thank you Prime.

Weird thing going on is they use and S905L chip inside only it shows S905X2 chip in the menu everywhere. 😳 In the and this is one of the many game boxes out there.... My favorite is that S905x3 with the next case & fan.

Do you have a personal recommendation for buying one of these retro gaming emulator systems? Would really appreciate your opinion on one. Thank you!

Nice but I wound sill go to Office Depot or Best Buy get one of their chrome boxes replace chrome OS with some form of Linux like my fav ubuntu and make that the MAME Box. Cost for time to make one DVD-R.

What controller can I buy to replace the PS2 style controller it comes with? Any suggestions?

I don't mind if it's an add . I'll decided after his honest review .

For anyone interested there’s a current $20 coupon for these boxes on Amazon Dropping it down to $79.99 USD

Know a few people would love a device like this. They like pick up and play.

Yea I just got the superbox X3 114,000 games but I think it's the same chip. I was disappointed in the Gameplay but I need to mess with the option more.. Thanks for the video.

I vastly prefer the X button on the bottom, not the left, when I use a controller. Bugs me to no end that moving the x button is how they keep gamers loyal to their brand. Having to look down at the controller everytime the key prompt comes up has always slowed down my game play on Xbox controllers

Looks cool. But if you have for example a xbox box series S or X you can take a few hours in retroarch and do something similar. Has the xbox is a ver powerful system to run emulators, with an external HDD its Just perfect

I remember buyying console X thinking it was the neatest thing ever. But then I built my own raspberry pi 4 computer. And...really? I can't go back. The performance was just so much better for the price point.

I preferred kimhank's 500gb disk and powering up from the laptop haha.

Thats pretty cool, is it worth 100, you bet ya. I have an image on pi that is the same thing basically, but you got to know how to set it up, not that hard but maybe too much for alot of people. Its pretty cool

Fell like this would be worth just for the Sega, SNES, and all those old consoles games maybe gameboy games too if there are any I did see when you were flipping through a bit that megaman nt warrior was on there.

This whole video is just an ad! Wake up!

Nintendo: What do you think you’re doing?! Sony: Umm… Microsoft: Huh? Sega: Wow.

I’m really looking for something easy to play old PS1 rpgs like Xenogears, parasite Eve, and legend of dragoon. Are these on this system and are they playable?

Great review! Thanks

You make it sound so easy