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I bought a 2tb Kinhank 2T HDD from Aliexpress a batocera one and it didn't work. The drive only ended up being 5gb and no games wouldn't even boot into batocera. I got ripped off hopefully I can get a refund. I didn't know they were also sold on Amazon should have bought it there refunds much easier.
The drive I have is showing it's GPT protected partitioned. This is the second one I've tried after sending the first one back. Any thoughts on how to fix?
This was a really great deal for a 4tb build! I’ve been looking around in the US for these and people are easily charging $300-500 bucks for these drives. You are really paying about $50 bucks for 25k games and you could go a lifetime trying to play through them all.
I'm Team LaunchBox and suggest that anyonr who wants to go a PC retro build to give LB a change. It's become much easier to setup ROMs and artwork and the BigBox front end is much more streamlined as compared to HyperSpin. There still is a small learning curve in the setup process, but after that, it's smooth sailing. Another suggestion would be Batocera flashed onto an external drive, but configuring PS2 and Dreamcast emulators do require some extra steps
This. Hyperspin was hell to get setup and working, and the forums seem like they purposely try to explain things in the most complicated matter, if they actually help at all. LaunchBox is 100% times better.
Hyperspin is a NIGHTMARE to install. In fact I ended up getting another HDD and creating my own retro gaming harddrive using the roms and with better emulation. Almost everything was wrong, from the button mapping to the screen scaling, it was just horrible. Not to mention the amount of times it crashed Windows and I would have to reboot, absolutely hated Hyperspin.
Hyperspin can be amazing, but its also annoying as all hell lol. One reason I did this video the way I did was to explain without making it an hour long video that even a prebuilt hyperspin setup is not so easy to get going and can require more work than you would think. I will be porting this particular build to launch box as I have defaulted to using launchbox over the years myself. Id imagine people with no experience with Hyperspin may have a lot more difficult of a time with this build than I have. I mean I spent maybe an hour doing setup then reconfiguring things... which someone not having done it before would probably spend a lot longer doing so.
@@Madlittlepixel well stated! The way you described it in the video was just right, some things work great instantly, others are fiddly, other bits just a confusing nightmare. Maybe its worth persisting getting everything perfect but damn... that takes a lot of time, at least with the build I had.
@@RockRDA the romsets and rocketlauncher can be utilized on whatever other front end you want to use. If its worth its up to you i suppose. But sure take the roms and move them to something else.
@@godslayer1415 would you be able to take the roms from the hard drive and put them on a different hard drive to use with retro arch or better yet delete everything but the roms off the drive and put retro arch on it instead of hyper spin
One of the files says lol “Disable All Anti Virus, Firewalls on PC” then another one has a TeamViewer file which can be used to take over someone’s PC. I wouldn’t touch this with a ten foot pole and if I did it would be offline on a junk throwaway PC.
Disabling your anti virus and teamviewer files are not uncommon when installing Hyperspin…even from trusted sellers who run servers for software updates.
I built that image I believe back in 2014. I structured the arcade folder in a unnecessarily complex, and redundant format because I hosted an internal SVN repository that I used for updates. If you want to see who initially bought that drive shoot me an email because they user's data is encrypted in several places just in case someone started reselling it I could provide them with that information instead of them contacting me.
That is really interesting. I just today learned that Hyperspin is a thing (having previously used retropi) and I'm really eager to get something similar to the one in this video. Keeping in mind the comments here stating how hard Hyperspin apparently is to set up, is there a better build you would recommend?
I purchased a 8tb hyperspin from hyperspin and iT was sold as a plug n play and was more of nightmare then it was worth but I do know now why hyperspin turns the comments off on there CZcams videos
Setting up something like HyperSpin is a personal experience. Setting it all up and the whole project aspect of it is half the fun. The other half is playing the games obviously. 😊
Hyperspin does have a steep learning curve, but once you get your head around it, it’s actually not that bad and visually rewarding. I would be tempted to buy this hard drive just for the roms alone!
I would love to see what Crystal Disk info says about the condition of the hard drive they use. See if maybe the drive they send out to people are on their last legs or not.
Awesome! I am not a tuner and have been curious of setups like this. It's like how I really hate that I softmodded my Wii, loaded a bunch of backups, can click on them but none play. Man, I don't have time to figure out why!
@@FuZZbaLLbee It's not up to the buyer to know about the copyright. Just like when I buy a bluray I just assume they have the copyright, do you actually do any legal diligence on one? I doubt it. So not only do customs not care in the slightest about checking what's on hard drives, just the price of the hardware, in the extremely unlikely event they do find out it won't affect you outside of losing the drive. As for viruses, he clearly stated he checked it and it was clean in his case.
The thing that kills me with a hyperspin build are the amount of per-rom customizations you end up needing to make because global settings either create problems, or it just isn't possible. Also, these drives have too much junk data on them like video caps with audio, bezels, and just a bunch of flashy garbage.
Seems most everyone is moving to LaunchBox myself included. I tried a new HyperSpin last year and just couldn't do it. Removed it completely and said goodbye. I spent 7 years on HyperSpin. Had a good time. Community was great back in the day.
Big Thumbs Up!! I've been looking at these. I plan on buying the 12TB model. The extra cost is worth it for the content alone. I'll most likely change it to a LaunchBox (BigBox) setup.
looking forward for the hyperspin to bigbox conversion if you really did record the video. I already have an amazing BigBox set up, but I don't have the time to download 4TB worth of games.
This is cool for what it is. And really for the price, it's "almost" worth it. Honestly the thing that bothers me most about something like this is the time spent cleaning it up. There's too much on the wheel for me to process lol. Also here for the thumb-butt.
I use coinops next 2 because it's easier to add games. yeah sure it doesn't look as good, but that's actually better because it means to add a game all you need is the icon, roms and a jpg screenshot as a minimum. but you can add a vid if you make one or find one online and have gigs of free space available for unnecessary vids. It's a whole lot easier to update coinops next 2, whereas most of the other frontends require you to be a master with photoshop and since we are not that results in you not being able to add games. I prefer a simple frontend because remember, it's about the games, not a flashy frontend.
Is there a community that builds and tweaks and shares pc retro builds or images similar to the retro pie community? The build downloads would be massive but ehhh.
no.... its not worth it... you can seriously get roms for free if you just look around.... makes no sense paying a garbage company like this money just to get roms that they literally went on the internet and got for free and now turning around and trying to sell them..... please for god sakes dont buy this crap for just the roms... you are literally giving them free money for a product they stole....
Great deal. Can be hard to learn to make everything work but if you start from screath u need to learn it to, but you are not wasting time finding and download the 40000+ games and that is realy a great plus for me. Hope it is not like one of that cheap console emulators like i bought that had so many games for so many consoles, but like a 1/3 of them are in chinese :\
As much as I liked hyperspin back in the day I much prefer launchbox these days, it literally took me 50+ hours to get my hyperspin setup working properly, the one thing that is annoying as hell is if using Rocket launcher as well the updates sometimes break systems and you have to troubleshoot which is a pain in the ass. Great video as always MLP 👌
I used to use BigBox but now I prefer Batocera. I like Batocera so much better. Just drop the files into the roms folder and backing up saves is just moving one save folder (the main one) and you can put the saves on handhelds as well. So much better.
@@retroman-- Batocera is great for a quick easy solution for sure and you can pretty much plug and play anywhere, I just like the limitless potential of Big Box in terms of systems etc when I'm using with my Arcade Machine.
@@krathoon2338 it's a real pain if you don't know what you are doing, very time consuming as well, end result is nice but you have to be dedicated to it.
Still learning this stuff but I bought the Ali Cassette Hard Drive and that was OK to get running. I know very little about PC's but I did get it working and have been very happy with it.
Sure pretty much no software NEED these things. But you should be very certain you trust the software you are running before switching them off. Isolated network and a separate computer is recommended.
@@Sagnad8 Don't take that the wrong way. I was pointing out that none of those items need to be disabled to install Hyperspin or the emulators. Which begs the question of why they are asking you to do it. It's obviously not to intall Hyperspin or the emulators... I would just use this as a source for the ROMS and movie files, and download the emulators from the authors' sites.
Selling just a HyperSpin HDD and assuming a customer can set it up properly seems crazy to me. The instructions can be clear but what if the PC is not powerful enough or has preexisting conditions like viruses that prevent it from working?
@@navhuss958 Yes! But its all such a leap of faith on the sellers end that the buyer can successfully complete the setup of a drive. I've been making HyperSpin setups for almost 10 years. At this point i will only provide dedicated HyperSpin PCs with an internal HDD setup. No external setup. No using HyperSpin on a daily use PC. I even advise keeping it offline.
I have a mini PC with Batocera installed and with the aid of Batocera Nation have already set up a number of emulatiors and software, and still have more work left to do. With that said, this system while interesting, is unnecessary for me when I already have something else I've already set up over the past few months and counting. But I guess when I do need to upgrade some day, I will definitely look into something more potent, and hopefully more ergonomic if one should appear within a couple of years time.
im interested in this on your hyperspin wheel... i saw a PS4 section. are them real PS4 games? or just PC games that are same titles as PS4? had no idea that PS4 could be emulated....
Thank you very much MLP for the thoughts on this. Hyperspin seems great as long as you've got the know-how to maximize it. But imma stick with Launchbox Bigbox. Btw... that Teamviewer folder's freakin' scary.
yeah, the teamviewer thing was just the actual executable for the real program. nothing malicious or preconfigured or anything. I think it was a left over from another company that offers set up for premium customers or something. But yeah... they really should have stripped that out as people will question it. I spent more time scanning the drive for anything malicious than I did actually using it, setting it up and filming this video. I wanted to make 100% sure nothing weird was going on.
I was watching another gaming channel and they had a video called "my problem with emulation" it was basically an entire video lamenting the fact that there is a learning curve when it comes to emulating and how they want everything to just be plug and play. They were also talking about how having to set things up was a turn off to emulation. My thought was, then just pay someone more knowledgeable to set it all up. Minor inconvenience solved.
I noticed some hard drives similar to that have a connector that looks like the USB A connector. I guess they use an A to A cable. What I don't like about that is it would be easy for someone who doesn't know what they are doing to try to link two computers with that. USB doesn't work that way without a special cable and that straight cable can damage things if used to link PCs.
I bought an 8TB hyperspin drive from Ebay last year that didn't work at all. Almost $400. After set up and installation it would not launch anything, no GFI or anything after set up. The seller would not let me return it.
Looks pretty good! I use Maximus Arcade which is a dinosaur. Was a pain setting up with all my emulators back in 2013. But I always wanted Hyperspin. I might get this. It got good reviews on their site.
@Mor MacFey I understand that. But what exactly are the games? I found a website that says the difference between the 8tb and 10tb is the 10tb comes with a library of PS3 games. So is that standard with all of these hard drives?
I wouldnt recommend a Hyperspin HD unless you know what you are doing. It looks great but the problems soon start piling up. Look for Launchbox drive or my recommendation a Batocera drive which is truly Plug in and Play as its Linux so you boot from the drive and it really is one of the best ones out there
I'm sure that you used multiple antivirus/antimalware tools to completely scan the disk before using anthing. But if not, I would recommend it. I scan any new medium that I am attaching to my hardware. Won't help with rubberduckies, but will catch lots of malicious software.
Definitely seems like a decent deal. I'm wondering what's the newest games on the build. Is it loaded up with ps3 roms? Xbox? I have one of these builds from years ago and would rather buy another that has more updated games.
Dude I’ve tried to get the games for newer systems and man it’s a pain in the ass !! So i sure that’s what this probably makes easy and convenient, also does the What’s in the PS4 wheel?? Anything?
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Emulators on all platforms need tweaking so that's not exclusive to PC, tbh the frontend would take far more tweaking than individual emulators ever would.
Great video! Question, have you tried any of the teknoparrot and do you have any guns to go with it? I wanted that one because of the arcade gun games, but wanted to make sure the guns worked with this. I have the sinden light guns. Is it something like plug n play or do you have to calibrate it and get the buttons working with it? Also I see people talking launch box in the chat. I did install it but I haven't done anything with anything yet other than the teknoparrot (buying a new PC to put in my custom big buck hunter cab). Is sinden guns easy setup for launchbox? Thank you!
Can you share your SET UP GUIDE-FOR HYPERSPIN=> for 64 bit systems? I think its interesting and important for people who doesn't ve money to buy the hard drive? thanks in advance
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@PIZZA no
I'm from a time when we used torrents to download the games and emulators then had to "crack" the game in order to work.
I bought a 2tb Kinhank 2T HDD from Aliexpress a batocera one and it didn't work. The drive only ended up being 5gb and no games wouldn't even boot into batocera. I got ripped off hopefully I can get a refund. I didn't know they were also sold on Amazon should have bought it there refunds much easier.
The drive I have is showing it's GPT protected partitioned. This is the second one I've tried after sending the first one back. Any thoughts on how to fix?
Proud to say my son is the one who developed Hyperspin.
This was a really great deal for a 4tb build! I’ve been looking around in the US for these and people are easily charging $300-500 bucks for these drives. You are really paying about $50 bucks for 25k games and you could go a lifetime trying to play through them all.
Haha yeah buy one, make a few copies and sell those for a premium 😋
Just look out for the Nintendo ninjas 😂
Enjoy. My son is the one who wrote the Hyperspin app.
I would love a tutorial on porting hyperspin over to lunch box.
Same!
Same!
The is all new to me...
Sh! t $50 to not have to find, download, and unzip all those rooms sounds pretty decent.
The value in this for me is more that you are getting a good base rom/artwork collection that you can then configure how you would like it
I'm Team LaunchBox and suggest that anyonr who wants to go a PC retro build to give LB a change. It's become much easier to setup ROMs and artwork and the BigBox front end is much more streamlined as compared to HyperSpin. There still is a small learning curve in the setup process, but after that, it's smooth sailing. Another suggestion would be Batocera flashed onto an external drive, but configuring PS2 and Dreamcast emulators do require some extra steps
I tried batocera and found it pretty easy to use.
Another thing I forgot about batocera is that if you want to run Sega Saturn, Sega Dreamcast, PSP, PS2 and so on, you need a powerhouse of a computer.
This. Hyperspin was hell to get setup and working, and the forums seem like they purposely try to explain things in the most complicated matter, if they actually help at all. LaunchBox is 100% times better.
This is what Intelligent people do. LaunchBox is the best.
i freaking love launchbox there doing a super good job to make it so easy to use for everyone more shut try it out
"start from scratch" lol...I don't think I have enough time left in my life to find/collect all these roms!
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Hyperspin is a NIGHTMARE to install. In fact I ended up getting another HDD and creating my own retro gaming harddrive using the roms and with better emulation. Almost everything was wrong, from the button mapping to the screen scaling, it was just horrible. Not to mention the amount of times it crashed Windows and I would have to reboot, absolutely hated Hyperspin.
That's why Launchbox is so much better.
Hyperspin can be amazing, but its also annoying as all hell lol. One reason I did this video the way I did was to explain without making it an hour long video that even a prebuilt hyperspin setup is not so easy to get going and can require more work than you would think. I will be porting this particular build to launch box as I have defaulted to using launchbox over the years myself. Id imagine people with no experience with Hyperspin may have a lot more difficult of a time with this build than I have. I mean I spent maybe an hour doing setup then reconfiguring things... which someone not having done it before would probably spend a lot longer doing so.
@@Madlittlepixel well stated! The way you described it in the video was just right, some things work great instantly, others are fiddly, other bits just a confusing nightmare. Maybe its worth persisting getting everything perfect but damn... that takes a lot of time, at least with the build I had.
Would you say it’s worth it for the data alone? I’m sure you can move files over to an existing build.
@@RockRDA the romsets and rocketlauncher can be utilized on whatever other front end you want to use. If its worth its up to you i suppose. But sure take the roms and move them to something else.
Yep, you should do a series, of switching this build over to launchbox.
Sure loads would like to see that.
Take the ROMS from that HD. Move to Games directory within Launchbox.... Import.
@@godslayer1415 would you be able to take the roms from the hard drive and put them on a different hard drive to use with retro arch or better yet delete everything but the roms off the drive and put retro arch on it instead of hyper spin
One of the files says lol “Disable All Anti Virus, Firewalls on PC” then another one has a TeamViewer file which can be used to take over someone’s PC. I wouldn’t touch this with a ten foot pole and if I did it would be offline on a junk throwaway PC.
Disabling your anti virus and teamviewer files are not uncommon when installing Hyperspin…even from trusted sellers who run servers for software updates.
Right, I pirate all my ROMS from reputable sites.
I remember downloading the torrent version
It was a 4tb download . It tuck me ages to get it working and when it was I never used it 😂.
1. Plug in removable drive straight from china
2. Install included teamviewer executable
3. Disable antivirus and firewall
4. Profit
Yeah, agreed.
Being told to disable antivirus and install flagged software is a no go for me. Did you? What was your experience?
I built that image I believe back in 2014. I structured the arcade folder in a unnecessarily complex, and redundant format because I hosted an internal SVN repository that I used for updates. If you want to see who initially bought that drive shoot me an email because they user's data is encrypted in several places just in case someone started reselling it I could provide them with that information instead of them contacting me.
That is really interesting. I just today learned that Hyperspin is a thing (having previously used retropi) and I'm really eager to get something similar to the one in this video. Keeping in mind the comments here stating how hard Hyperspin apparently is to set up, is there a better build you would recommend?
I purchased a 8tb hyperspin from hyperspin and iT was sold as a plug n play and was more of nightmare then it was worth but I do know now why hyperspin turns the comments off on there CZcams videos
Setting up something like HyperSpin is a personal experience. Setting it all up and the whole project aspect of it is half the fun.
The other half is playing the games obviously. 😊
Hyperspin does have a steep learning curve, but once you get your head around it, it’s actually not that bad and visually rewarding.
I would be tempted to buy this hard drive just for the roms alone!
I have over 5000 roms for Raspberry Pi that does not require this level of danger.
Remember this is just a frontend for home build MAME arcade machines. Nothing says that you have to use Hyperspin.
I would love to see what Crystal Disk info says about the condition of the hard drive they use. See if maybe the drive they send out to people are on their last legs or not.
Great point!
it is an old hard drive. Date field is 2015
Awesome! I am not a tuner and have been curious of setups like this. It's like how I really hate that I softmodded my Wii, loaded a bunch of backups, can click on them but none play. Man, I don't have time to figure out why!
I’d be afraid that a hard drive from AliExpress could be loaded with spyware.
I'm really surprised that there was no mention of the possibility of viruses, ransomware, crypto miners or whatever else we see these days.
Not to mention the copyright issues you could get when this thing is checked by customs, and has your address on it.
@@FuZZbaLLbee It's not up to the buyer to know about the copyright.
Just like when I buy a bluray I just assume they have the copyright, do you actually do any legal diligence on one? I doubt it.
So not only do customs not care in the slightest about checking what's on hard drives, just the price of the hardware, in the extremely unlikely event they do find out it won't affect you outside of losing the drive.
As for viruses, he clearly stated he checked it and it was clean in his case.
Yeah. Spyware can be activated as soon as you plug in the HDD.
True. Before plugging a USB drive into Windows, I'll boot into Linux & give it a looksee.
The thing that kills me with a hyperspin build are the amount of per-rom customizations you end up needing to make because global settings either create problems, or it just isn't possible. Also, these drives have too much junk data on them like video caps with audio, bezels, and just a bunch of flashy garbage.
Yeah thats why I still use my 3B+ Pi...I have curated over the years the settings which are def not one size fits all
Someone cue in that gif of Grandpa Simpson walking in then walking out,lol that's my thoughts on this system/build lol.
it saves you hours of downloading games
Seems most everyone is moving to LaunchBox myself included. I tried a new HyperSpin last year and just couldn't do it. Removed it completely and said goodbye. I spent 7 years on HyperSpin. Had a good time. Community was great back in the day.
I wander if we ever see a build like this for xbox series .. like always thank you for sharing with us .
Big Thumbs Up!! I've been looking at these. I plan on buying the 12TB model.
The extra cost is worth it for the content alone. I'll most likely change it to a LaunchBox (BigBox) setup.
Cute - 12GB... I have close to a Petabyte of retro games on my array.
I have built a ton of hyperspin back in the day and never again..lol. I have a gold image but moved to launchbox thank god.
looking forward for the hyperspin to bigbox conversion if you really did record the video. I already have an amazing BigBox set up, but I don't have the time to download 4TB worth of games.
This is cool for what it is. And really for the price, it's "almost" worth it. Honestly the thing that bothers me most about something like this is the time spent cleaning it up. There's too much on the wheel for me to process lol. Also here for the thumb-butt.
Remember this is just a frontend for home build MAME arcade machines. Nothing says that you have to use Hyperspin.
everyone needs a gamer buddy to set things like this up, wat a hug and a square? everybody. plus they get a free copy
Can you just pull all the roms off this and run em on a RetroPie?
I use coinops next 2 because it's easier to add games. yeah sure it doesn't look as good, but that's actually better because it means to add a game all you need is the icon, roms and a jpg screenshot as a minimum. but you can add a vid if you make one or find one online and have gigs of free space available for unnecessary vids. It's a whole lot easier to update coinops next 2, whereas most of the other frontends require you to be a master with photoshop and since we are not that results in you not being able to add games. I prefer a simple frontend because remember, it's about the games, not a flashy frontend.
Is there a community that builds and tweaks and shares pc retro builds or images similar to the retro pie community? The build downloads would be massive but ehhh.
Dude you actually put the info for the equipment you use for your video creation, dude your amazing! 👍🏽
I would make sure a computer that you plug that hard disk into, is disconnected to the net.
You should of told people this, if they buy such a thing.
What if you had zero interest in actually installing the Hyperspin itself and just wanted to grab all the roms - is that a viable option?
I wonder if it's worth it just for the rom set. I'm not gonna spend hours to tweak it, rather just take off the roms and use launchbox
I was thinking the same thing about the roms
no.... its not worth it... you can seriously get roms for free if you just look around.... makes no sense paying a garbage company like this money just to get roms that they literally went on the internet and got for free and now turning around and trying to sell them..... please for god sakes dont buy this crap for just the roms... you are literally giving them free money for a product they stole....
@@dirtygerty577 It takes a lot of time to invest in getting all that. Some people don't have that.
@Rob Mikels Some folks barely got time for that.
4:39 K’ Dash In the background chillin! XD
Great deal. Can be hard to learn to make everything work but if you start from screath u need to learn it to, but you are not wasting time finding and download the 40000+ games and that is realy a great plus for me.
Hope it is not like one of that cheap console emulators like i bought that had so many games for so many consoles, but like a 1/3 of them are in chinese :\
That seems a hell of a convoluted way of playing some retro console games.
What's the game being played at 7:47?
Dope as always brah
As much as I liked hyperspin back in the day I much prefer launchbox these days, it literally took me 50+ hours to get my hyperspin setup working properly, the one thing that is annoying as hell is if using Rocket launcher as well the updates sometimes break systems and you have to troubleshoot which is a pain in the ass. Great video as always MLP 👌
I used to use BigBox but now I prefer Batocera. I like Batocera so much better. Just drop the files into the roms folder and backing up saves is just moving one save folder (the main one) and you can put the saves on handhelds as well. So much better.
@@retroman-- Batocera is great for a quick easy solution for sure and you can pretty much plug and play anywhere, I just like the limitless potential of Big Box in terms of systems etc when I'm using with my Arcade Machine.
Is it really that much of a pain? Is it just a really buggy program or something?
@@krathoon2338 it's a real pain if you don't know what you are doing, very time consuming as well, end result is nice but you have to be dedicated to it.
Trying to make any changes in Hyperspin is a nightmare.
Very entertaining and fun to watch. Thanks for posting this.
Still learning this stuff but I bought the Ali Cassette Hard Drive and that was OK to get running. I know very little about PC's but I did get it working and have been very happy with it.
very cool, congratulations to the channel 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Every Seagate drive that I have every owned or installed has died within 3 years.
Agreed. Western digital drives are much better.
Turn off UAC, Antivirus and Firewall…. Sign me up 😂
None of which are needed for Hyperspin or emulators...
Sure pretty much no software NEED these things. But you should be very certain you trust the software you are running before switching them off. Isolated network and a separate computer is recommended.
@@Sagnad8 Don't take that the wrong way. I was pointing out that none of those items need to be disabled to install Hyperspin or the emulators. Which begs the question of why they are asking you to do it. It's obviously not to intall Hyperspin or the emulators... I would just use this as a source for the ROMS and movie files, and download the emulators from the authors' sites.
@@glenndoiron9317 ah sorry, I see. It’s easy to blindly follow instructions and leave yourself exposed :)
@@glenndoiron9317 Yeah. That is what is suspicious about it.
Selling just a HyperSpin HDD and assuming a customer can set it up properly seems crazy to me.
The instructions can be clear but what if the PC is not powerful enough or has preexisting conditions like viruses that prevent it from working?
You would need to reinstall a fresh copy of the operating system and upgrade your hardware
@@navhuss958 Yes! But its all such a leap of faith on the sellers end that the buyer can successfully complete the setup of a drive.
I've been making HyperSpin setups for almost 10 years. At this point i will only provide dedicated HyperSpin PCs with an internal HDD setup.
No external setup. No using HyperSpin on a daily use PC. I even advise keeping it offline.
can you just pull all the roms and bios's off these drives to use say on a retroid pocket 2?
Did I see ps4 in the menu? 😂😂 that's definitely not happening 😂😂
yeah lol... dont think anything was even in that system wheel.
it's not PS4 at all, it's just PC games.
I would be scared to plug that into my pc.
You need Wocky Bobo the Clown to bless your circuits
Dude you need a dedicated PC on an arcade cabinet. Only way to go
I have a mini PC with Batocera installed and with the aid of Batocera Nation have already set up a number of emulatiors and software, and still have more work left to do. With that said, this system while interesting, is unnecessary for me when I already have something else I've already set up over the past few months and counting. But I guess when I do need to upgrade some day, I will definitely look into something more potent, and hopefully more ergonomic if one should appear within a couple of years time.
im interested in this on your hyperspin wheel... i saw a PS4 section. are them real PS4 games? or just PC games that are same titles as PS4? had no idea that PS4 could be emulated....
Thank you very much MLP for the thoughts on this. Hyperspin seems great as long as you've got the know-how to maximize it. But imma stick with Launchbox Bigbox. Btw... that Teamviewer folder's freakin' scary.
yeah, the teamviewer thing was just the actual executable for the real program. nothing malicious or preconfigured or anything. I think it was a left over from another company that offers set up for premium customers or something. But yeah... they really should have stripped that out as people will question it. I spent more time scanning the drive for anything malicious than I did actually using it, setting it up and filming this video. I wanted to make 100% sure nothing weird was going on.
@@Madlittlepixel What did you use to scan the drive with? Is there a fast virus scanner?
That build looks like it would take more time to get how I'd like it than it would to start from scratch. I use LaunchBox myself.
I was watching another gaming channel and they had a video called "my problem with emulation" it was basically an entire video lamenting the fact that there is a learning curve when it comes to emulating and how they want everything to just be plug and play. They were also talking about how having to set things up was a turn off to emulation. My thought was, then just pay someone more knowledgeable to set it all up. Minor inconvenience solved.
They also got Launchbox versions of these, but they have less games. Those are probably more plug and play.
I noticed some hard drives similar to that have a connector that looks like the USB A connector. I guess they use an A to A cable. What I don't like about that is it would be easy for someone who doesn't know what they are doing to try to link two computers with that. USB doesn't work that way without a special cable and that straight cable can damage things if used to link PCs.
Dump Hyperspin and replace with LaunchBox.
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it may be a questionable device but at least the enclosure it is contained in is decent quality. i have one of the ugreen enclosures and works well.
Even going through the learning curve of hyperspin I eventually dropped it for launchbox.
I bought an 8TB hyperspin drive from Ebay last year that didn't work at all. Almost $400. After set up and installation it would not launch anything, no GFI or anything after set up. The seller would not let me return it.
I'm getting the 12 terabyte " HyperSpin " the price is mid range compared to a mini PC build. And a super console X ."
Looks pretty good! I use Maximus Arcade which is a dinosaur. Was a pain setting up with all my emulators back in 2013. But I always wanted Hyperspin. I might get this. It got good reviews on their site.
I wish I could find a list with the details explaining the differences between the 4tb, 8tb and 10tb hard drives
@Mor MacFey I understand that. But what exactly are the games? I found a website that says the difference between the 8tb and 10tb is the 10tb comes with a library of PS3 games. So is that standard with all of these hard drives?
I wouldnt recommend a Hyperspin HD unless you know what you are doing. It looks great but the problems soon start piling up. Look for Launchbox drive or my recommendation a Batocera drive which is truly Plug in and Play as its Linux so you boot from the drive and it really is one of the best ones out there
Thanks M.L.P
I'm sure that you used multiple antivirus/antimalware tools to completely scan the disk before using anthing. But if not, I would recommend it. I scan any new medium that I am attaching to my hardware. Won't help with rubberduckies, but will catch lots of malicious software.
I can't get mine installed. Wheel keeps spinning and games won't load. Driving me crazy.
4tb sounds huge. How much space did the build take up?
Definitely seems like a decent deal. I'm wondering what's the newest games on the build. Is it loaded up with ps3 roms? Xbox? I have one of these builds from years ago and would rather buy another that has more updated games.
I question the integrity of that drive being it is 7 years old!
Sounds like a giant kludge clusterfuck.
Dude I’ve tried to get the games for newer systems and man it’s a pain in the ass !! So i sure that’s what this probably makes easy and convenient, also does the What’s in the PS4 wheel?? Anything?
do you no is there a easy way to import hyperspin builds to launchbox builds
Gotta have support for these drives
Rainbow Cotton. Quality Game. 8:43
Those are going for over 200 usd now.
Dang I didn't know MadLittlePixel used Profanity. I had to rewind 3 times because I couldn't believe my ears.
8:43 Does anyone know what Cotton game this is please? Looks really cool😀
Buy preloaded HDD from China. Disable antivirus and firewall. What could possibly go wrong...
Can't get my remote control to work on it I bought the same thing but can't play cause the remote control doesn't work please help
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For the person selling it not the buyer....
This would be great to harvest ps3 roms, since they are big size
I dont know about the bigger drives they sell, but this one doesnt have much in the way of PS3, a lot of PS2 though.
Not really. Internet is fast enough to download those games these days.
omg I was just watching the JonTron Soulja video hahaha
No worries if ur a PC gamer u should be accustom to tweaking emu's fo sho.
Emulators on all platforms need tweaking so that's not exclusive to PC, tbh the frontend would take far more tweaking than individual emulators ever would.
Great video! Question, have you tried any of the teknoparrot and do you have any guns to go with it? I wanted that one because of the arcade gun games, but wanted to make sure the guns worked with this. I have the sinden light guns. Is it something like plug n play or do you have to calibrate it and get the buttons working with it? Also I see people talking launch box in the chat. I did install it but I haven't done anything with anything yet other than the teknoparrot (buying a new PC to put in my custom big buck hunter cab). Is sinden guns easy setup for launchbox? Thank you!
Can you share your SET UP GUIDE-FOR HYPERSPIN=> for 64 bit systems?
I think its interesting and important for people who doesn't ve money to buy the hard drive? thanks in advance
Hello! What game is that at 8:55?
Coin ops on the pc is much easier, not as much content though.
I need something like this for my Nvidia Shield...
insisto la mejor forma de tener un Hyperspin perfecto, es configurandolo uno mismo!!!1
Is there a game list? I'm mostly interested as many roms as possible for newer consoles for my arcade cabinet build.
Yo I want this looks awesome
No lie the ps2 emulation has to be teaked
Damn i got a 12TB and it doesn't work at all.
Just out of interest as this will effect if I buy the 4tb or 12 tb drive. which sega arcade games are missing that u mentioned in the video