Sword of Convallaria is available for FREE to download from the 31st of July. I had a ton of fun trying this one out. Use this like if you want to try it for yourself! tap.io/1GD3bpn #swordofconvallaria #tacticalrpg #trpg #rpg
This game looks really nice, it reminds me of a mix of Final Fantasy Tactics with a bit of another game I can't quite put my finger on. Any chance someone might be able to point me in the direction of the cheapest PC I can get to run the stuff on this game drive? I don't need 4K or 1080p perfection if that's going to make a difference in price. Thanks for making this video 😅👍
@TechDweeb - So I have a serious question, did you do a deep dive check on your PC after running the drive. Because when I purchased it and opened it on a VM; I noticed even just plugging it in it tried to make changes to Windows due to rootkit and trojans on the drive itself. It gets worse, yes, if you run any of those cracked PC games but in reality the number of keyloggers on it are scary in and of itself. Yes several of the warnings are for the cracks to break DRM like you said but there is much more malicious stuff on here than just that. There are even hidden files that are PW protected that can't be scanned. Just worried that you might have done some serious damage to your gaming PC if you ran it raw.
I could get this and never buy another gaming console for the rest of my life and be happy I think. I’m old enough now that I just want to play retro games most of the time anyway. What a time to be alive!
I totally agree with you about the modern systems and modern games. Emulation is not about piracy, it is about nostalgia, memories, good times and preserving and protecting the past.
@@Balalaika74 I used to "download " games illegality before and realized that if there is no money going to the artist to make them (note I did not say sell them) systems would die. A good example of this is the Dreamcast, a system that was literally hackable on day one. They could have kept the system alive a bit longer by selling licensing to produce games. Give a system or a game a chance to run it's live cycle so it can become a classic. Let indie dev's get a chance to make some cash off their hard work. As far as buying games isn't owning them, this is the nature of the digital market place, just buy physical copies when you can. The only exception I see to this is "vaporware" that can no be reproduced or is out of production or the hardware is not accesble.
@@mrcannonfodder23 Even if you buy physical copies most of the time you have to download some stuff or run them via Steam. I see your point but i simply will not go along with this. If i buy a game i want to own it.
@@tomkruk2585 Unless you want to play switch exclusive most of the stuff can be had on PC usually at a cheaper price than the switch. I would say 98% of indie and AAA games on the switch can be found on the PC.
Dovah...so that translated means it's acceptable to have Pirated games when top CZcamsrs like Techdweeb showcase HDD's full of them...that seems just wrong...I don't need approval to steal Nintendo and Sega ROMs... I've been at it for a decade...took me years to build my library of Romsets...now you can just buy a drive...even Amazon has sold Kinhanks...probably still does...that's like buying drugs from the Police station
So I found out that the reason the 3ds didn't have scrapped data on the front is is because... they are all in zip files. Apparently, in the previous version of the drive, when everything was under Hyperspin, the front end was able to access the files from inside the zip folder including the scrapped data. When they moved it over to retrobat they kept them inside the zip files and retrobat can't read the zip files, so they don't load or show their scrapped data. I went into the folder and unzipped everything (Took a while) but afterwards all of my 3ds games worked just fine lol.
RetroBat will unzip the archive for you and prompt if you would like to leave the extracted file. So if you want you can leave the games zipped, and then it will just unzip as you need to. I also chose Lime3DS as the Emulator to use in Retrobat for 3DS files. Citra version on the Kinhank is very outdated and I couldn't get it to update, also it's deprecated.
@@mattparker9726 air gapped is just short form for not on the network and not connected to the internet. No personal information as it I don't think it's wise to be logged into gmail on that computer. He literally says it has loads of viruses on it.
I've spent the last couple weeks of my spare time assembling, curating, cleaning, organizing, scraping, and all the other tasks necessary to build a ROM library. It's a LOT of work and time consuming. To get it all done for you, and done well: that's worth a LOT. Tech Dweeb is absolutely right. This is a great value, especially with his discount code for $40 off! Thanks Tech Dweeb!
Yay, that's the 12tb version I ordered to go with my minisforum hx99g! Hadn't made the trip from China yet..no matter how hard I stare at the tracking order. A watched pot never boils I guess 😄
Amazing video, thanks for making it. I think it's an amazing value and would love to get it, but sadly, 300 bucks is just too much, life is too damn expensive these days. Will make an effort to save for it, though :)
Being a pirate/preservationist means having a whole setup dedicated to holding and seeding all forms of media. Almost 19 years old and I'm seeding 20.8T of media and counting.
@@Reddison Tis be facts....I made my own library using Retrobat front end.....love it, 512gbs of gaming goodness and it took me a while to set up too to make sure the games work, no missing BIOS either, idk how I managed to do that, finding the correct BIOS set was difficult to be sure....scraped the games and all....boy it took a while but it was sooooo worth it.....and Retrobat is the best because I dont have to boot in to an OS just to play games, it's a simple program double click and play....
I started out with the last hyperspin system and there was so many problems that I decided to make my own drive bought a La cia rugged five terabyte hard drive and now I have the perfect emulation setup for me. Now I still have my other 12 terabyte that I have wrong sets that I could put on my new one. But I didn't do it so there is an air of the accomplishment of setting your own up but I understand too when your first getting into it man it can be really stressful in the beginning.
I have a question. At 13:04 you mention another video where you show the process of adding roms to frontends, but I am not seeing a link. What is the video called?
Dang, I got the older version, and even bought another drive and enclosure to clone it to just in case, and I wish I had gotten this version with RetroBat. Dweeb, per your previous video on the subject, I set up a couple of Samsung SSDs and a GMKtec PC with RetroBat, and I love it!
@@TechDweeb You got that right! Seems like a five or ten minute window to enjoy a new handheld before the next version comes out. RG40XXH PLUS in 3...2...1...
@@TechDweebI’m in the same boat. Any easy way to add retro bat? I’m finding hyperspin really is a bit much. Also, anyone else having to e issue of the system not recognizing your controller? Because my laptop recognizes my Xbox controller perfectly. But the drive does not.
So I have a question. I've had mine for half a month now and I've been mainly using Retrobat for my console games and haven't really felt the need to use Big Box for anything. Is there a any systems that seem to work more fluidly for Launch Box than in Retrobat? Or was it just set up for personal preference?
Yup! A 4 player cabinet is just 4 usb inputs that need to be accounted for. It's likely not an issue with the retroarch systems, but for other stuff you may need to map the controls. Easy to do, shouldn't take long.
I did buy this from your earlier video. I'm not much of a video game player, though. It's just nice to walk down memory lane once in a while and I do think it's worth the money. The pirated stuff doesn't bother me, but I also wouldn't play them anyway. It was the retro collection I wanted.
Picked up one of these to have copies of all the stuff I grew up with. I too could do without the switch and PC stuff. Wish I knew you reviewed the updated version, I would’ve used your promo code.
Ordered mine a little over 1 month ago, seems I got lucky I got this updated version then. When I got it I was confused when the boot and menu stuff did not look like the previous video. Got mine for $185 and came with a Western Digital HDD.
This looks super cool. I haven't purchased anything like this yet. Thinking about getting the powkiddy TV stick to see if I like something on the cheaper end first
My first dedicated retro system was the Anbernic RG353V it's a great little system Playstation, PSP, N64, and all the 8 and 16 bit stuff, convenient to have it all in my pocket add anything whatever I want as well. I'm now building a mini PC with everything upto PS3, Xbox360 and some Wii/WiiU games more Gamecube for Nintendo basically this but catered to my preferences eventually I'll try to get complete US collections of PS, PS2, XBOX, Xbox360 and Gamecube thats my top systems for now, I want to complete collections of NES, SNES, Gameboy, Genesis, 32X, CD, N64, gamegear, and some others.
I'm glad that you at least commented on the system that shouldn't be on here because it's still a currently sold system. But for the same reason PS3 and Xbox 360 shouldn't Ruby on here either because those games are playable on the current systems as well. You can play tons of PS3 games through PlayStation now there are also lots of PS2 and PS1 and PSP games available on the PS4/5 so people have a very easy way of playing these games legally. Same for tons of Xbox 360 through backwards compatibility The only time I think emulation is okay is on systems that are not manufactured anymore to play games that cannot be played through any other means
What I like about Launch Box above ES/RetroBat is the ability to add custom consoles. I can add Famicom by typing the name I want to use for the console, point it to a separate ROMs folder with Famicom games and tell it to scrape from there. AFAIK, you cannot do that in ES/RetroBat. Famicom and Super Famicom go into the NES/SNES folders respectively. Launchbox can get tricky when trying to keep size down of scrapped artwork. Makes no sense to have gigobytes of art work for a collection only a few hundred megobytes in size.
Hey TechDweeb, I've got this hard drive and been using it a fair bit. Just some advice to anyone who get this and has any issues. The "Wii U" emulator has a lot of crashing when playing the roms, there's a missing file needed to be added to the emulator itself to get them working correctly. It's a semi easy fix but definitely worth pointing out if someone's buying this for Wii U. Second big issue I've had with the device is the arcade side (tekno parrot and hyperspin). Loading the games is extremely hit or miss... Best fix I found is to open the emulators separately from the harddrive it's self. Like load the individual emulator and select the games rather than going through the front end itself. Other than these problems I've had a lot of fun with the system. If anyone has any questions I'd be happy to try and help. Thanks for the content TechDweeb 😊
I have a question. Have you encountered the drive not recognizing a controller? I’ve tried multiple, Xbox series x, Xbox one, ps5, all are recognized by my computer and play just fine in steam, nada for the drive. It only recognizes input from the keyboard.
@voiceboxdrummer I use an xbox series x controller (wired to my gaming laptop with usb 3). That seems to pick up pretty easily on the emulators I've used. The Wii U emulator had a few issues originally, so I went into the emulator itself and changed the input. Some odd games just don't work on any input either (mostly the arcade stuff tbh) Have you tried any other controllers?
@voiceboxdrummer hmmmm... odd it's not picking it up then... You could try loading the emulators up separately from the front end on the drive. You can then configure your controller from the native emulators and see if that corrects the issue
@@weebmatic yeah bro, mine took the whole two weeks , 14 days. Dont be worried just gotta have a little patience. I will say, when you do have it you need to adjust a lot of the controllers but not all of them. And i recommend using retrobat to start most of ur games.
@@nassbeajj1094 okay cool! I just got a notification saying it’s shipping soon so fingers crossed it doesn’t take 2 weeks. And cool! Thanks for the heads up. I’m super excited to play these games😭🙏
If you are worried about viruses, you can boot this HDD on a Linux (live CD or regular Linux installation) and use some services to verify if there any. It’s not difficult and made you more in peace before you put this in your main PC
They're false positives. After following Kinhank's virus exclusion guide to exclude the drive's drive letter, you're good to go. Got this drive last week (July 2024 21-27), and had an auto-virus scan on the 29th. Nothing wrong. I've taken extensive virus protection measures before. It's perfectly fine to use if you know what you're doing. Even if you don't, the drive comes with help text files a-plenty.
Serious question to anyone who deleted the playnight folder, did it affect the performance of the hard drive in any way? Did it just remove the playnight option on the front end screen and did everything else runs fine? I'm looking to delete it but i just want to make sure nothing else will be affected. I'm the noob demographic this is target for so any help would be great.
Excellent video ! Problem is --way too many of questionable quality !! Why are you saying --compooper !!! You are funny !!! You do have the best opinions !!! Love your funny words -- like - sneaky peeky !!!
You can, but it takes a bit of work. Install retrobat on it, then move the rom files over to the retrobat rom directories. And then a lot of scraping :P. Not worth it if you don't like tinkering, but a fun weekend project if you do.
@@TechDweebI’m relatively experienced in retro emulation, but can I update the emulation software without breaking one of these drives? I see that warning everywhere online, but I haven’t seen anyone say that I will work ok afterward?
@Techdweeb I would love to see a video on updating emulators on a preloaded drive if you’re willing to make it. Heck, you might have already made a video about it. You’re such an ambitious young man!
@@Theeccentricautistic That would make a good video. One of my biggest things is scraping art that's already there. I think it has something to do with altering the metadata to accept it. Also there are files that are placed elswhere on the drive that has links to it that can't be easily just transfered to a roms section ive done it before for ps2 roms because I ran out of space on a drive and linked it to another drive. Some emulation setups are linked to a Particular letter drive which complicates things, Something Like Mugen Really Confuses Me
Retrobat is my favorite frontend too TechDweeb😁 It just doesn't get enough respect imo. I put together my own 5TB Retrobat build (which I recommend everyone do if you can) and I have this 12TB drive too but I feel the way you do, they should just leave those pirated pc titles off, it's just not fair to the developers.👍
I've been wrestling with either purchasing this or the retro pocket 4 pro. I ended up doing the rp4 pro. My hard drives are starting to pile up to be honest
Ok but why cant they spruce up the enclosures a little bit? Make it look like a VHS tape. Put it in a Seagate enclosure with RGB. SOMETHING to make it look even half way pretty on my desk or living rom tv stand.
Thanks. Just ordered this with your $40 off code on their website. This is my first time getting something like this, and I definitely want to delete the PC games. I would love to use this for an arcade setup once I figure out how. Something that caught my eye was the Polycade Sente but man, that is insanely expensive...
Hey, I think batocera connects to the modern light gun hardware - just throwing it out there because I didn't see any other reply yet. There are other vids from other makers that verify this, so dig around to make sure if you like but if nothing else the dolphin bar can be hacked like crazy too so no reason you can't enjoy them! Happy gamin brah!
Hey Tech Dweeb! I have a full blown arcade cabinet that's dedicated for emulation but it has a monitor for the marquee as well. And it has order style light guns like amtraks but I have send in and gun for IR as well that I've never hooked up if I wanted to use this drive to take advantage of the active marquee and let's say the sending light guns do you think it would be a hard thing to configure with a drive like this?
It would be no more different here than if you set the system up yourself. Yeah you'll have to configure it, but it'd be done the same way you did previously.
New sub here, I will buy this drive and please remember not everyone around the world has money to buy games, check out how much we can buy in Venezuela with 3 dollars as minium wage every month, sorry man but the world is harsh for many many people and games are luxury around here
I too enjoy setting this stuff up and every once in awhile I erase it and do it all again but this is still highly inviting to me. I might just pick this up (using your link and code, of course).
Turns out i drunkenly purchased either this or the previous version a month ago. Relieved about the malware being on the cracked stuff and will stick to the retro sections when i finally get to plug it into my mini pc!
Pity it doesn't work on Linux...but then again I have all the roms I'll ever use so this would be nothing if not a nice thing to have, not a necessary one. I agree 100% about the Playnite garbage, just delete it and enjoy the rest of it. Please keep on reviewing these drives, they are a great idea and they keep on getting better all the time! Great video as always Mr. Dweeb!
I really been seeing alot of videos but please answer me these questions 1. Does dlc come included with ps3 and xbox games? 2. Ive seen games that are missing from there can i add my own roms and boot it up? Please answer me
11:03 I'm confused. How do they obtain 10tb+ of ROM? Pretty sure most are not sold anymore. As far as I'm aware, the only way to obtain ROMs is to buy a very expensive physical ROM, already owned tons, or pirate it. Why only refer to the pc games as being pirated? Also isn't it bad/illegal to make multiple copy of legally/illegally obtained ROMs and then selling it? It's piracy but worse.
@@TechDweeb I agree that emulation isn't piracy 100%, but I don't think this is about emulation, it's about how they obtain and distributing ROMs and how you only say the pc games were the bad part in this drive, legally speaking. It's usually legal or permissible if the game is no longer copyrighted. So if the developer or owner is gone, distribution without permission is illegal if the copyright still exists. In your recent video, games from Disney and Nintendo were showcased, which I believe are still copyrighted. Therefore, them selling not just recent PC games but ROMs could be considered distributing pirated content. If you're pirating the game and use it for personal purpose, you do you. But pirating a game without knowing if it's copyrighted and then selling it, I feel it's just asking for trouble. Correct me if I'm wrong, this is my sleepy brain yapping at midnight. The point is I'm just worried you might unknowingly promote something "not legal".
@@amsuherdi1111I believe the idea is that they’re selling the “hard drive” and the “service of setting up the front end”. Not the roms. For example, if you go to anbernics website and get the file to reflash the ‘stock OS’, it’s a 60gb file.
Hi, what budget mini pc would you recommend to buy to play everything on this? I would only use the mini pc to play the games on tv. Thanks in advance for the reply.
Something like this would be what I'd choose: amzn.to/4ceAK0X If you were okay with playing MOST stuff on here (but maybe the hardest PS3 and Xbox 360 games would not perform 100%) then this would be the choice: amzn.to/3A7uyuo
Some buyers found 30 viruses, Trojans, rootkits plus various other Issues. Had to wipe the entire pc hard drive. Many viruses are not false positives !!!! Just read the warnings from buyers !!!!
I have a 4tb Retrobeast that makes good use of the 4tb space but it is a pain to setup when you change to an other pc. If i didn't have the the retrobeast i would have bought this.
I have a 1060 mini with 6gb video ram and 16 gb ram and gen 1 ryzen 7…will I be able to play the high end games and systems? If so this is very tempting!
Hard to say. You may struggle with the harder to run PS3 and Xbox 360, but you might be fine. You're right on the edge for the high end stuff, but you'll be fine with everything from gamecube and earlier.
I just about creamed my pants when I saw this. I have super console x from years ago and I still play It all the time. If I knew how to use a computer or owned one I would definitely buy this. It looks worth learning about computers to have all the higher end stuff but it took me 6 months to learn the super console x so it'll be years before I can know how to use something like this. I really enjoyed seeing this product and it's like the coolest thing I've ever seen. Thanks for the video
I am getting this one. I don't have anything to run it but getting a PC will be a possibility for seemingly ever but I worry a drive like this won't always be available.... I'm at least gonna keep Elden Ring 😅👍
Awesome video! I’m new to emulating and am interested in this, few questions though. (1st) If there isn’t a game that’s on the list can it be added manually? And (2nd) when deleting the playnite pirated games, does it interfere with anything? I went to the website and they said not to delete anything so I’m wondering how it’s working for you since you did.
Hey Mr.Dweeb I love your videos, I’m looking for a pocketable handheld with some decent performance. Should I get a rg405m, rg cube, or do you think I should just wait for a new device? Thanks!
I have a second mini itx gaming pc with a 3050 that i have plugged into my TV that would be perfect to go alow with this, i also have an odin 2 mini that can play most of these consoles and i have a 2tb sd card to fit all the ones i'd want to have on the go! I wish i had 260$ to get this asap!!!
Hey TechDweeb, I plan on getting one of these this month. I really want it for the ROM collections which appear to be getting harder to find. I think you should contact Kinhank and ask them to send you one of these drives so you can do the following: Show everyone in a comprehensive tutorial that you can remove the Playnite stuff, and it will completely remove the viruses that most people are concerned about. I plan on using this on a dedicated PC that will not be hooked up to my network. After your tutorial you could give the drive away in a giveaway contest, like Retro game guy does. BTW loved your guest appearance on his show. I wasn't the only one either. There were people in his recent chat session who were really sad they missed it. Anyway, great review, and yes I will be removing Playnite.
@@peterstaklis3712 I see, but I believe that most people are freaked out, because they are picked up as viruses by anti virus software. I hope that makes sense.
I'm interested in your views on piracy. So long as it's retro, it's fair game (no pun intended)? Some of those old games are still for sale on current console stores, so where exactly do you draw the line?
This is tempting ... Does it have slow downs with it being an HDD and not an SSD ? Also, being european, i would like some story driven games to be available in my native language instead of english.
I mean, the older us geeks get, the more we value our time. Do I want to spend around $50 on top of the hardware cost to save dozens of hours in doing this myself? Or do I want to spend those hours playing games?
I’ve been planning for a while now to buy a mini PC for my living room to play everything. I saw you had a link for a mini pc but would you say that with the Beelink SER6 Mini PC W11 Pro, AMD Ryzen 9 I should be able to play everything from this hard drive smoothly? Also am I able to use any Bluetooth controllers?
Sword of Convallaria is available for FREE to download from the 31st of July. I had a ton of fun trying this one out.
Use this like if you want to try it for yourself! tap.io/1GD3bpn
#swordofconvallaria #tacticalrpg #trpg #rpg
This game looks really nice, it reminds me of a mix of Final Fantasy Tactics with a bit of another game I can't quite put my finger on.
Any chance someone might be able to point me in the direction of the cheapest PC I can get to run the stuff on this game drive?
I don't need 4K or 1080p perfection if that's going to make a difference in price.
Thanks for making this video
😅👍
I use this 12tb as cold storage of my roms
Damn this is a gacha game with a mobile game energy system. Disappointing
@TechDweeb - So I have a serious question, did you do a deep dive check on your PC after running the drive. Because when I purchased it and opened it on a VM; I noticed even just plugging it in it tried to make changes to Windows due to rootkit and trojans on the drive itself. It gets worse, yes, if you run any of those cracked PC games but in reality the number of keyloggers on it are scary in and of itself. Yes several of the warnings are for the cracks to break DRM like you said but there is much more malicious stuff on here than just that. There are even hidden files that are PW protected that can't be scanned. Just worried that you might have done some serious damage to your gaming PC if you ran it raw.
Damn, you were getting me really excited for Sword of Convallaria until you said "free to play".
Then I checked and yup, its a gacha game. No thanks!
I could get this and never buy another gaming console for the rest of my life and be happy I think. I’m old enough now that I just want to play retro games most of the time anyway. What a time to be alive!
What's so annoying about the PC junk being on there is that that space could have been used for a more complete ps2/3 romset.
Also this is currently £150 on aliexpress.....a 12TB HDD over here is £130 so £20 for all those roms and setup to be preconfigured is absolutely worth
Yup, it should at least have had everything from the 6th gen so every X-Box and PS2 game.
Exactly!
Agreed, the ps3 games are pretty large.
@@TechDweeb I've always wanted to play Crimson Skies High Road to revenge on X-Box, the first CS game was awesome.
What a deal. This is so much easier than downloading a car.
I would totally download a car.
3d print files
@@delresearch5416 how the what? the files are in the computer.
@@TechDweebbut would you take a dump in a policeman's helmet?
@@oldtools6089 "oh *IN* the computer!"
- Tosses computer on the floor and it smashes apart.
"Hey, where are the files?"
That mom joke caught me off guard 😂😭
I totally agree with you about the modern systems and modern games. Emulation is not about piracy, it is about nostalgia, memories, good times and preserving and protecting the past.
If buying games isn't owning them then piracy isn't stealing.
I have no problems with people ripping off these companies.
@@Balalaika74 I used to "download " games illegality before and realized that if there is no money going to the artist to make them (note I did not say sell them) systems would die. A good example of this is the Dreamcast, a system that was literally hackable on day one. They could have kept the system alive a bit longer by selling licensing to produce games. Give a system or a game a chance to run it's live cycle so it can become a classic. Let indie dev's get a chance to make some cash off their hard work.
As far as buying games isn't owning them, this is the nature of the digital market place, just buy physical copies when you can.
The only exception I see to this is "vaporware" that can no be reproduced or is out of production or the hardware is not accesble.
@@mrcannonfodder23 Even if you buy physical copies most of the time you have to download some stuff or run them via Steam.
I see your point but i simply will not go along with this. If i buy a game i want to own it.
i agree except I want to play Switch games on a PC instead of the uncomfortable, unergonomic console.
@@tomkruk2585 Unless you want to play switch exclusive most of the stuff can be had on PC usually at a cheaper price than the switch. I would say 98% of indie and AAA games on the switch can be found on the PC.
I love watching videos that help to validate my already delivered purchase decisions.
😂😂😂
Curious,does it have Sly Cooper 1 2 and 3 on either PS2, Orr collection on PS3 by chance?
I love those games lol
Dovah...so that translated means it's acceptable to have Pirated games when top CZcamsrs like Techdweeb showcase HDD's full of them...that seems just wrong...I don't need approval to steal Nintendo and Sega ROMs... I've been at it for a decade...took me years to build my library of Romsets...now you can just buy a drive...even Amazon has sold Kinhanks...probably still does...that's like buying drugs from the Police station
Keep crying nobody cares I just got mines yesterday and it's amazing 😂😂@@markianclark9645
You know what you can fill that 1TB space with? GOG installers.
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Nice idea 💡
So I found out that the reason the 3ds didn't have scrapped data on the front is is because... they are all in zip files. Apparently, in the previous version of the drive, when everything was under Hyperspin, the front end was able to access the files from inside the zip folder including the scrapped data. When they moved it over to retrobat they kept them inside the zip files and retrobat can't read the zip files, so they don't load or show their scrapped data. I went into the folder and unzipped everything (Took a while) but afterwards all of my 3ds games worked just fine lol.
RetroBat will unzip the archive for you and prompt if you would like to leave the extracted file. So if you want you can leave the games zipped, and then it will just unzip as you need to. I also chose Lime3DS as the Emulator to use in Retrobat for 3DS files. Citra version on the Kinhank is very outdated and I couldn't get it to update, also it's deprecated.
@@ryanbrancel Nice! I'm glad there is an easier workaround that what I did lol.
Is there anybody who has done a CZcams vid about this?
Only way I would ever use this would be an an air gapped machine with no personal information on it.
devices are legit , i own 4 of therm
In fairness, they would at least work like that. Novel to have a system that doesn't need the internet.
Crimeny! Paranoid much?
Qucked for 20 years, never had personal information leak issues or viruses. Just be careful. Save $$$$$
@@mattparker9726 air gapped is just short form for not on the network and not connected to the internet. No personal information as it I don't think it's wise to be logged into gmail on that computer. He literally says it has loads of viruses on it.
I've spent the last couple weeks of my spare time assembling, curating, cleaning, organizing, scraping, and all the other tasks necessary to build a ROM library. It's a LOT of work and time consuming. To get it all done for you, and done well: that's worth a LOT. Tech Dweeb is absolutely right. This is a great value, especially with his discount code for $40 off! Thanks Tech Dweeb!
Can I have your rom library ❤
@@BuffAndStuff21 LOL, I gave up and just ordered one of these 12TB drives! I'm done working. Time to play these games!
@@Tom2112Tom anything helps bro !
Had mine for a month or so, awesome drive. Totally worth the money
Yay, that's the 12tb version I ordered to go with my minisforum hx99g! Hadn't made the trip from China yet..no matter how hard I stare at the tracking order. A watched pot never boils I guess 😄
Literally lol’d at the pictures of my mom on your hdd, but in all seriousness my dad is pissed and is coming after you if you don’t delete those
This would give me Choice Paralysis for sure...dang probably i will never leave my PC again ever !
"With few there is attainment, with much there is confusion" - Lao Tzu
This is amazing and the outro is the cherry on top 🤣
Amazing video, thanks for making it. I think it's an amazing value and would love to get it, but sadly, 300 bucks is just too much, life is too damn expensive these days. Will make an effort to save for it, though :)
Being a pirate/preservationist means having a whole setup dedicated to holding and seeding all forms of media. Almost 19 years old and I'm seeding 20.8T of media and counting.
(KNOCK KNOCK!!)
uh-oh 🤣
@@MrViral20 well i don't think the government cares much about abandoned ware games and almost lost media being free on the internet.
@@Reddison
Tis be facts....I made my own library using Retrobat front end.....love it, 512gbs of gaming goodness and it took me a while to set up too to make sure the games work, no missing BIOS either, idk how I managed to do that, finding the correct BIOS set was difficult to be sure....scraped the games and all....boy it took a while but it was sooooo worth it.....and Retrobat is the best because I dont have to boot in to an OS just to play games, it's a simple program double click and play....
@@Reddison But Nintendo does.
Keep sailing the 7 seas matey.
Just got it yesterday and I’m loving it so far!
I started out with the last hyperspin system and there was so many problems that I decided to make my own drive bought a La cia rugged five terabyte hard drive and now I have the perfect emulation setup for me. Now I still have my other 12 terabyte that I have wrong sets that I could put on my new one. But I didn't do it so there is an air of the accomplishment of setting your own up but I understand too when your first getting into it man it can be really stressful in the beginning.
This thing is spam packed with tons of games. Such a huge rom library.
I have a question. At 13:04 you mention another video where you show the process of adding roms to frontends, but I am not seeing a link. What is the video called?
Here ya go! czcams.com/video/MvW_rNK3LLM/video.html
@@TechDweeb Thank you very much!
I agree TechDweeb, ArtBook is the BEST EmulationStation theme.
Worth noting Launchbox and hyperdrive need windows so you'll need a to use Emulation Station or another front end if you're penguin/fruit based
Great review! I have one of these, the one before the new release, and it’s awesome! I ran a scan on the drive, no malware or viruses, it works great!
Any idea on how extensive the jp region systems are? I wanna pick it up if SNES, GBA, DS, PS1 and PSP would be near complete in JP.
I've been making my own using Emulation Station Desktop Edition, would be nice to get one of these drives for the roms but I doubt I'd play them all.
Dang, I got the older version, and even bought another drive and enclosure to clone it to just in case, and I wish I had gotten this version with RetroBat. Dweeb, per your previous video on the subject, I set up a couple of Samsung SSDs and a GMKtec PC with RetroBat, and I love it!
Yeah that's the thing about emulation toys. There's always a new thing around the corner! :P
@@TechDweeb You got that right! Seems like a five or ten minute window to enjoy a new handheld before the next version comes out. RG40XXH PLUS in 3...2...1...
@@TechDweebI’m in the same boat. Any easy way to add retro bat? I’m finding hyperspin really is a bit much.
Also, anyone else having to e issue of the system not recognizing your controller? Because my laptop recognizes my Xbox controller perfectly. But the drive does not.
did you check the settings menu?
@@joemopar2716 Mine is from about 6 months ago or so...I'm assuming it's the older version.
It became really hard not to drop a like after you said you put 1 TB of images of my mom
Your Mom looks lovely in those pictures!
I would NEVER use this on any system connected to the internet young lad. Great review TD.
Is just a drive, delete the folder indicated and you're safe.
You can always simply use another OS.
@@qchtohere8636 An alternate OS is exactly what I do.
Just run your antivirus it's that simple mines was clean
So I have a question. I've had mine for half a month now and I've been mainly using Retrobat for my console games and haven't really felt the need to use Big Box for anything. Is there a any systems that seem to work more fluidly for Launch Box than in Retrobat? Or was it just set up for personal preference?
You sold me on it, would've liked more like 200 but with your code it came out to 260 which is a decent value proposition. Thanks!!
Can I use this with my 4-player cab? How to map the controls? I have an Arcade from Xtreme Gaming Cabinets.
Yup! A 4 player cabinet is just 4 usb inputs that need to be accounted for. It's likely not an issue with the retroarch systems, but for other stuff you may need to map the controls. Easy to do, shouldn't take long.
I did buy this from your earlier video. I'm not much of a video game player, though. It's just nice to walk down memory lane once in a while and I do think it's worth the money. The pirated stuff doesn't bother me, but I also wouldn't play them anyway. It was the retro collection I wanted.
Picked up one of these to have copies of all the stuff I grew up with. I too could do without the switch and PC stuff. Wish I knew you reviewed the updated version, I would’ve used your promo code.
Ordered mine a little over 1 month ago, seems I got lucky I got this updated version then. When I got it I was confused when the boot and menu stuff did not look like the previous video. Got mine for $185 and came with a Western Digital HDD.
Is the Games library any different than the original version?
Just for those that don’t know what a COMPUGER is.
“COMPUGER” is a mix of a BigMac + DDR1 RAM and buggers are used as sauce.
I love this, I wish I could afford it to plug it in my compooper
This looks super cool. I haven't purchased anything like this yet. Thinking about getting the powkiddy TV stick to see if I like something on the cheaper end first
My first dedicated retro system was the Anbernic RG353V it's a great little system Playstation, PSP, N64, and all the 8 and 16 bit stuff, convenient to have it all in my pocket add anything whatever I want as well. I'm now building a mini PC with everything upto PS3, Xbox360 and some Wii/WiiU games more Gamecube for Nintendo basically this but catered to my preferences eventually I'll try to get complete US collections of PS, PS2, XBOX, Xbox360 and Gamecube thats my top systems for now, I want to complete collections of NES, SNES, Gameboy, Genesis, 32X, CD, N64, gamegear, and some others.
I'm glad that you at least commented on the system that shouldn't be on here because it's still a currently sold system.
But for the same reason PS3 and Xbox 360 shouldn't Ruby on here either because those games are playable on the current systems as well. You can play tons of PS3 games through PlayStation now there are also lots of PS2 and PS1 and PSP games available on the PS4/5 so people have a very easy way of playing these games legally. Same for tons of Xbox 360 through backwards compatibility The only time I think emulation is okay is on systems that are not manufactured anymore to play games that cannot be played through any other means
yeah, but when your consoles start getting the RLOD or YLOD then you are just stuck with a bunch of beverage coasters.
@@joemopar2716lol! Remember the Xbox 360 “just put in the freezer bro”
I don't have a pc, can you recommend something like this but plug and play to tv?
This is what I'd suggest: czcams.com/video/TV771bTYoi8/video.html
What I like about Launch Box above ES/RetroBat is the ability to add custom consoles. I can add Famicom by typing the name I want to use for the console, point it to a separate ROMs folder with Famicom games and tell it to scrape from there. AFAIK, you cannot do that in ES/RetroBat. Famicom and Super Famicom go into the NES/SNES folders respectively. Launchbox can get tricky when trying to keep size down of scrapped artwork. Makes no sense to have gigobytes of art work for a collection only a few hundred megobytes in size.
Hey TechDweeb,
I've got this hard drive and been using it a fair bit.
Just some advice to anyone who get this and has any issues.
The "Wii U" emulator has a lot of crashing when playing the roms, there's a missing file needed to be added to the emulator itself to get them working correctly. It's a semi easy fix but definitely worth pointing out if someone's buying this for Wii U.
Second big issue I've had with the device is the arcade side (tekno parrot and hyperspin). Loading the games is extremely hit or miss...
Best fix I found is to open the emulators separately from the harddrive it's self.
Like load the individual emulator and select the games rather than going through the front end itself.
Other than these problems I've had a lot of fun with the system. If anyone has any questions I'd be happy to try and help.
Thanks for the content TechDweeb 😊
Solid tips 👍
I have a question. Have you encountered the drive not recognizing a controller? I’ve tried multiple, Xbox series x, Xbox one, ps5, all are recognized by my computer and play just fine in steam, nada for the drive. It only recognizes input from the keyboard.
@voiceboxdrummer I use an xbox series x controller (wired to my gaming laptop with usb 3).
That seems to pick up pretty easily on the emulators I've used.
The Wii U emulator had a few issues originally, so I went into the emulator itself and changed the input.
Some odd games just don't work on any input either (mostly the arcade stuff tbh)
Have you tried any other controllers?
@@ravencorb1354 I have. Both wired and wireless.
@voiceboxdrummer hmmmm... odd it's not picking it up then...
You could try loading the emulators up separately from the front end on the drive. You can then configure your controller from the native emulators and see if that corrects the issue
Never thought I would watch a CZcams video and then walk away -$324 out of my bank account.
just purchased this would you mind helping me with a couple questions ?
Did yours ship out yet? It’s been 5 days so far nothing for me
@@weebmatic yeah bro, mine took the whole two weeks , 14 days. Dont be worried just gotta have a little patience. I will say, when you do have it you need to adjust a lot of the controllers but not all of them. And i recommend using retrobat to start most of ur games.
@@nassbeajj1094 okay cool! I just got a notification saying it’s shipping soon so fingers crossed it doesn’t take 2 weeks. And cool! Thanks for the heads up. I’m super excited to play these games😭🙏
@@nassbeajj1094 cool thanks bro! And quick question did your dhl shipping get stuck
Too? It’s been on the same thing for 9 days
I just got mine Monday. Two weeks.
I ordered this today! I can’t wait!
Sword of Convallaria is _very_ pretty!
If you are worried about viruses, you can boot this HDD on a Linux (live CD or regular Linux installation) and use some services to verify if there any.
It’s not difficult and made you more in peace before you put this in your main PC
They're false positives. After following Kinhank's virus exclusion guide to exclude the drive's drive letter, you're good to go.
Got this drive last week (July 2024 21-27), and had an auto-virus scan on the 29th. Nothing wrong.
I've taken extensive virus protection measures before. It's perfectly fine to use if you know what you're doing.
Even if you don't, the drive comes with help text files a-plenty.
@@DovahZeuxhow’s this thing been treating you a month later? Played it a lot?
Is there a guide anywhere that shows you how to flash the last year 12 TB drive to run this new front end?
I watched that end bit several times, poor Wall-e but it was hilarious lol
Serious question to anyone who deleted the playnight folder, did it affect the performance of the hard drive in any way? Did it just remove the playnight option on the front end screen and did everything else runs fine? I'm looking to delete it but i just want to make sure nothing else will be affected. I'm the noob demographic this is target for so any help would be great.
Nope, no improved performance, but it didn't affect anything negatively. I ended up adding on a bunch more Xbox 360 and DOS roms to fill the space.
Finally got mine! Anyone know how to make it stop blacking out your second monitor when you launch the core . Exe?
Excellent video ! Problem is --way too many of questionable quality !! Why are you saying --compooper !!! You are funny !!! You do have the best opinions !!! Love your funny words -- like - sneaky peeky !!!
Hey @TechDweeb, love your content. Have you run any scans on this drive?
I'd love to know your process for checking them when you get them.
Yup. 11:29. Found several warnings, but they were all on the cracked PC games.
My question is, what you with so many emulation drives. Do you keep them all or give them away?
I've given several away. Several of them I've converted into video storage for my projects. The best ones I keep and customize and use.
@@TechDweeb when’s the next giveaway. I been looking buy one
I wish there was an EASY Way to Convert the Old 12tb Hyperspin One to an All Retrobat one. I don't need the PC or Techno Parrot stuff
You can, but it takes a bit of work. Install retrobat on it, then move the rom files over to the retrobat rom directories. And then a lot of scraping :P. Not worth it if you don't like tinkering, but a fun weekend project if you do.
@@TechDweebI’m relatively experienced in retro emulation, but can I update the emulation software without breaking one of these drives? I see that warning everywhere online, but I haven’t seen anyone say that I will work ok afterward?
@Techdweeb I would love to see a video on updating emulators on a preloaded drive if you’re willing to make it. Heck, you might have already made a video about it. You’re such an ambitious young man!
@@Theeccentricautistic That would make a good video. One of my biggest things is scraping art that's already there. I think it has something to do with altering the metadata to accept it. Also there are files that are placed elswhere on the drive that has links to it that can't be easily just transfered to a roms section ive done it before for ps2 roms because I ran out of space on a drive and linked it to another drive. Some emulation setups are linked to a Particular letter drive which complicates things, Something Like Mugen Really Confuses Me
Retrobat is my favorite frontend too TechDweeb😁 It just doesn't get enough respect imo. I put together my own 5TB Retrobat build (which I recommend everyone do if you can) and I have this 12TB drive too but I feel the way you do, they should just leave those pirated pc titles off, it's just not fair to the developers.👍
I've been wrestling with either purchasing this or the retro pocket 4 pro. I ended up doing the rp4 pro. My hard drives are starting to pile up to be honest
Ok but why cant they spruce up the enclosures a little bit? Make it look like a VHS tape. Put it in a Seagate enclosure with RGB. SOMETHING to make it look even half way pretty on my desk or living rom tv stand.
YES! I 100% agree with you there.
Thanks. Just ordered this with your $40 off code on their website. This is my first time getting something like this, and I definitely want to delete the PC games. I would love to use this for an arcade setup once I figure out how. Something that caught my eye was the Polycade Sente but man, that is insanely expensive...
Hi,
Can the retro shooter lightgun be used with this harddrive?
Thanks for the reply.
Hey, I think batocera connects to the modern light gun hardware - just throwing it out there because I didn't see any other reply yet. There are other vids from other makers that verify this, so dig around to make sure if you like but if nothing else the dolphin bar can be hacked like crazy too so no reason you can't enjoy them! Happy gamin brah!
@@nightsquats Ok. Thanks.
Hey Tech Dweeb! I have a full blown arcade cabinet that's dedicated for emulation but it has a monitor for the marquee as well. And it has order style light guns like amtraks but I have send in and gun for IR as well that I've never hooked up if I wanted to use this drive to take advantage of the active marquee and let's say the sending light guns do you think it would be a hard thing to configure with a drive like this?
It would be no more different here than if you set the system up yourself. Yeah you'll have to configure it, but it'd be done the same way you did previously.
@@TechDweeb Thanks TD! I appreciate you taking the time to respond. Love your channel!
New sub here, I will buy this drive and please remember not everyone around the world has money to buy games, check out how much we can buy in Venezuela with 3 dollars as minium wage every month, sorry man but the world is harsh for many many people and games are luxury around here
I too enjoy setting this stuff up and every once in awhile I erase it and do it all again but this is still highly inviting to me. I might just pick this up (using your link and code, of course).
Turns out i drunkenly purchased either this or the previous version a month ago. Relieved about the malware being on the cracked stuff and will stick to the retro sections when i finally get to plug it into my mini pc!
These 5 in 1 newer versions are also selling on AliExpress for around $185. Is there a reason they are not linked to? Am I missing something?
Amazon is more expensive they take out percentage so they have to higher the price to make up the difference
Pity it doesn't work on Linux...but then again I have all the roms I'll ever use so this would be nothing if not a nice thing to have, not a necessary one. I agree 100% about the Playnite garbage, just delete it and enjoy the rest of it. Please keep on reviewing these drives, they are a great idea and they keep on getting better all the time! Great video as always Mr. Dweeb!
Any of these preconfigured drives that would work with a Mac?
I really been seeing alot of videos but please answer me these questions
1. Does dlc come included with ps3 and xbox games?
2. Ive seen games that are missing from there can i add my own roms and boot it up?
Please answer me
1. Nope.
2. Yup.
11:03 I'm confused. How do they obtain 10tb+ of ROM? Pretty sure most are not sold anymore. As far as I'm aware, the only way to obtain ROMs is to buy a very expensive physical ROM, already owned tons, or pirate it. Why only refer to the pc games as being pirated? Also isn't it bad/illegal to make multiple copy of legally/illegally obtained ROMs and then selling it? It's piracy but worse.
Agreed!!!
They're SELLING piracy... How Amazon ships these drives is beyond me.
My thoughts on the subject: czcams.com/video/yQaTJ_Vjws8/video.html
@@TechDweeb I agree that emulation isn't piracy 100%, but I don't think this is about emulation, it's about how they obtain and distributing ROMs and how you only say the pc games were the bad part in this drive, legally speaking.
It's usually legal or permissible if the game is no longer copyrighted. So if the developer or owner is gone, distribution without permission is illegal if the copyright still exists. In your recent video, games from Disney and Nintendo were showcased, which I believe are still copyrighted. Therefore, them selling not just recent PC games but ROMs could be considered distributing pirated content.
If you're pirating the game and use it for personal purpose, you do you. But pirating a game without knowing if it's copyrighted and then selling it, I feel it's just asking for trouble.
Correct me if I'm wrong, this is my sleepy brain yapping at midnight.
The point is I'm just worried you might unknowingly promote something "not legal".
@@amsuherdi1111I believe the idea is that they’re selling the “hard drive” and the “service of setting up the front end”. Not the roms.
For example, if you go to anbernics website and get the file to reflash the ‘stock OS’, it’s a 60gb file.
Then you haven't seen anything and should try retrobeast 96TB drives setup 😂
Hi, what budget mini pc would you recommend to buy to play everything on this? I would only use the mini pc to play the games on tv. Thanks in advance for the reply.
Something like this would be what I'd choose: amzn.to/4ceAK0X
If you were okay with playing MOST stuff on here (but maybe the hardest PS3 and Xbox 360 games would not perform 100%) then this would be the choice: amzn.to/3A7uyuo
@@TechDweeb Thanks.
Question. What date did you get your first nintendo? Store? City? Just you know....curious
I like the look of launch box but i really like playnite. That's what i use for my emulation frontend
This is a good hardrive I have it this has all consoles and games 5 in 1 operating systems about $200-300 got this a while back
What about the 112tb beast mode retro system
Some buyers found 30 viruses, Trojans, rootkits plus various other Issues. Had to wipe the entire pc hard drive. Many viruses are not false positives !!!! Just read the warnings from buyers !!!!
@TechDweeb, does this drive have NHL 2003 from EA Sports on the PS2 and Gamecube? Thanks!
I have a 4tb Retrobeast that makes good use of the 4tb space but it is a pain to setup when you change to an other pc. If i didn't have the the retrobeast i would have bought this.
Yeah I'm with ya there. Wish the RB was more plug-n-play.
@@TechDweeb I do also have the cassette thing called batocera that i keep as it has japanese games, especially the saturn jap games that appeal to me.
Love the way you say compooper
If you know where to look there are a ton of already free PC games that they could have just put on there. Those ones won't give you virus warnings.
I have a 1060 mini with 6gb video ram and 16 gb ram and gen 1 ryzen 7…will I be able to play the high end games and systems? If so this is very tempting!
Hard to say. You may struggle with the harder to run PS3 and Xbox 360, but you might be fine. You're right on the edge for the high end stuff, but you'll be fine with everything from gamecube and earlier.
I just about creamed my pants when I saw this. I have super console x from years ago and I still play It all the time. If I knew how to use a computer or owned one I would definitely buy this. It looks worth learning about computers to have all the higher end stuff but it took me 6 months to learn the super console x so it'll be years before I can know how to use something like this. I really enjoyed seeing this product and it's like the coolest thing I've ever seen. Thanks for the video
I am getting this one. I don't have anything to run it but getting a PC will be a possibility for seemingly ever but I worry a drive like this won't always be available.... I'm at least gonna keep Elden Ring 😅👍
Awesome video! I’m new to emulating and am interested in this, few questions though. (1st) If there isn’t a game that’s on the list can it be added manually? And (2nd) when deleting the playnite pirated games, does it interfere with anything? I went to the website and they said not to delete anything so I’m wondering how it’s working for you since you did.
Hey Mr.Dweeb I love your videos, I’m looking for a pocketable handheld with some decent performance. Should I get a rg405m, rg cube, or do you think I should just wait for a new device? Thanks!
I have a second mini itx gaming pc with a 3050 that i have plugged into my TV that would be perfect to go alow with this, i also have an odin 2 mini that can play most of these consoles and i have a 2tb sd card to fit all the ones i'd want to have on the go! I wish i had 260$ to get this asap!!!
Do you think the original ROG Ally would have enough power to run the higher end systems on this drive?
Yup!
Roms are going to become scarce. This is the answer.
Ahh yes the great rom shortage of 2026.
Thanks to your video I bought this great hard drive but I received the previous version with errors and customer service doesn't respond to me :'(
Wonder what Initial D games come with it...
Hey TechDweeb, I plan on getting one of these this month. I really want it for the ROM collections which appear to be getting harder to find. I think you should contact Kinhank and ask them to send you one of these drives so you can do the following: Show everyone in a comprehensive tutorial that you can remove the Playnite stuff, and it will completely remove the viruses that most people are concerned about. I plan on using this on a dedicated PC that will not be hooked up to my network. After your tutorial you could give the drive away in a giveaway contest, like Retro game guy does. BTW loved your guest appearance on his show. I wasn't the only one either. There were people in his recent chat session who were really sad they missed it. Anyway, great review, and yes I will be removing Playnite.
The pc files aren’t viruses they are false positive cracks.
@@peterstaklis3712 I see, but I believe that most people are freaked out, because they are picked up as viruses by anti virus software. I hope that makes sense.
How long does it take to get one off amazon?
I'm interested in your views on piracy. So long as it's retro, it's fair game (no pun intended)? Some of those old games are still for sale on current console stores, so where exactly do you draw the line?
This is tempting ...
Does it have slow downs with it being an HDD and not an SSD ?
Also, being european, i would like some story driven games to be available in my native language instead of english.
I mean, the older us geeks get, the more we value our time. Do I want to spend around $50 on top of the hardware cost to save dozens of hours in doing this myself? Or do I want to spend those hours playing games?
I think you answered your question, it's worth it to save hundreds of hours.
I’ve been planning for a while now to buy a mini PC for my living room to play everything. I saw you had a link for a mini pc but would you say that with the Beelink SER6 Mini PC W11 Pro, AMD Ryzen 9 I should be able to play everything from this hard drive smoothly? Also am I able to use any Bluetooth controllers?
You mentioned the gmtec k8, Would a K6 be good enough to run ps3 and Xbox 360 stuff?
Yup! The performance on the k6 will be almost the same as the k8.