I made the ultimate home arcade emulation drive and so can you!

hello and welcome my name is jason baker and i love retro gaming in this video i want to show you what i've been doing for the last year i have built what i think is the ultimate emulation drive that's right imagine being able to upgrade your arcade cabinet running on a windows pc running on your laptop with wireless controllers and you can get the ultimate gaming experience and so with that i also want to announce my new channel that i'm creating called integrum retro shall we play a game now the goal of this new channel is to show you how i did all of this so first let me show you what's on this drive and how you can make it yourself and then you'll see a series of videos in which i'm going to cover all the details on how you can build one of these i can't tell you how to build the furniture but i can tell you how to configure assemble and configure your own drive that you can use on any windows pc let's go ahead and start here with the arcade category the most popular category 3500 arcade games now obviously there are thousands because of the different versions what you're looking at here are custom artwork so you can see the custom artwork makes it feel like it's in the arcade as well as custom shaders so these are reflective shaders you'll actually be able to look on the sides on occasion you can see the reflections of the screen and the shaders are important because they give that natural look and feel of a crt they also reduce the screen size which can be very important when playing these games on very large screen tvs anywhere from 35 to 50 inches and above because the emulators just blow them up and they look terrible and it's pretty low quality now what you're seeing here is the bezel project artwork when they just pretty much have artwork on the left and right it doesn't kind of look like you're in a custom arcade situation and this is available pretty much for every single arcade game but i where i could find it i obviously found the the custom artwork that you can see here the other important thing is is the inputs the trackballs so i'm actually every trackball game will work with all analog devices so whether it be a trackball or a spinner in this case with arkanoid it uses spinners custom artwork but it gives you an out of the box experience that works a lot of people don't want to manually configure their games one by one especially dual joystick games such as smash tv here with smash tv i've made it so player one and player two joysticks will always work or if you connect the wireless can most wireless bluetooth will have dual analog those are already pre-configured for player one and player two so if you want the player experience just simply switch over to the the wireless joysticks otherwise if it's just you by yourself you can use the handheld joysticks again custom artwork really does bring a lot to the look and feel but it's all about the functionality does it work when you get your hands on it so looking at console games 23 000 games here now these are all unique that's why there's actually almost as many arcade games but they count different provisions of it so you can't go wrong here say with the atari 2600 notice the different kinds of of custom artwork this is the standard console one so if there is an artwork you're going to get that that custom atari look otherwise i i fall back to the the bezel project at a minimum so you can have a lot of fun kind of switching through and seeing what artwork is available notice i've also moved to flat screen crt so this is a flat screen version for the 32-bit consoles remember like in the late 90s when they switched from the curved ones to flat screen so nintendo entertainment system with its own custom artwork again every single platform has its own custom artwork there's about 160 platforms at a minimum that i'm uh i probably have to run the inventory to find out but some amazingly awful contra play a clico vision you can play a lot of these games just with the standard buttons you do have to experiment because as you can see from the joysticks they were kind of a numerical keypad heavy every version of our asteroids you could imagine along with custom artwork and the reflective bezels i think really kind of show off here when you're looking at another arcade style there are different arcade emulators maim covers most of them this is the sega naomi which i really love this version where you feel like you're kind of squished between a couple cabinets it's really good for especially the smaller or sorry they're really large screen tvs when you kind of need to reduce that real estate but you you want that good quality picture quality of the game or the television set that you might have been using at home unfortunately lcds just do such a poor job of scaling up a lot of these games natively or some people just really don't mind me i i like it to feel as real as possible here we have the intellivision which was always limited because you have to put that little slip in over the numbers but you can still figure it out and play these games and uh you know sega genesis fantastic for the wireless games again one thing i don't know if i highlighted was the fact you can play with the arcade joysticks and the wireless controls at the same time and this is on about 95 of the games some games you simply have to switch back and forth between one or the other the playstation here again showing the playstation custom bezel work now when we get into the playstation 2 we can't really do the bezels because the emulator uses a it uses a different version or a video driver that doesn't accommodate these shaders so that's one of the sacrifices but when you get into those 3d games like with the ps2 you can upscale them i'm not able to do that in in some of these because i'm running on a lower end graphics card which doesn't really do too good of a job at upscaling but if you do have a higher end graphics card you can really improve the visual quality but for now at least you know with the different shaders you can cycle through i've got an 80 crt a 90s flat screen and what i like to call the instagram which really just pops the colors make everything look as beautiful as possible even though it may not be authentic so the sega cd especially with the cd games i really optimized the file types so they load as quick as possible on top of load times which can be really slow with cds you can also fast forward utilizing the fast forward feature of recharge and when you get to the 64-bit 3d games those are really cool because they have some amazing ability to upscale but they take a lot of cpu either a higher end cpu and or gpu so a lot of things are actually done with the cpu so even a high ends graphic card may not upscale as much as actually having a better newer generation cpu and with that though you can kind of eliminate the need for shaders because you can upscale it to native you know hd or 4k um in some cases especially with the emulators like dolphin that runs a gamecube here or the nintendo 64. uh also has some pretty good upscaling capabilities but to get around it when you're on lower end systems or just basic systems utilizing that shaders does give you that true nostalgia now handhelds obviously those never ran on individual machines but they were handheld so what we've done here for the for the shaders is you can see that we've replicated the real looking image if you were to play game boy normally it's all in black and white so with the shaders though not only get that that green led look but you can also create an environment where it looks like you're playing on the actual game boy so what i've done for the different shaders for the handhelds is i've created different sizes so you can get to the original game boy size all the way to a full screen or and notice here with the sony it's going to be a widescreen version this can be blown up to full screen and in fact sometimes this you know since the playstation or the psp played ps1 games sometimes it's even better on the psp let's not forget the true of the game and watch series and a number of the other handheld you could pick up at garage sales maybe for a couple bucks you could get one game on a little device that really was animating kind of poorly but that's what we had back in the day and when we ran out of quarters what do we do we'll go play on the computer at home where we might have some games that we actually saved up to buy for it's over 24 000 computer games and try to recreate the same experience where you're in that 80s home and you can actually cycle through different kinds of monitors so professional crts and sometimes crts with reflections notice here you'll see kind of the grayed out screen because sometimes the crt filters weren't weren't as good so it gives you whatever you want to recreate with that nostalgia now these are pc games so this in this case these are dos games they they work all out of the box they start up immediately there's no install sometimes you do get a choice of different audio drivers but recommend you you certainly play with a mouse and keyboard here also included are windows 3x games so definitely need a mouse and keyboard to play those some are joystick compatible but you probably just play these on your pc the amiga has its own look and feel a different kind of 80s nostalgia and also included are some of the more popular first-person shooter games that actually have their own emulators so retroarch can play doom wolfenstein 3d and quake again but i had to throw in kind of that 80s nostalgia feel i first started playing doom in my computer class in high school and i networked together four of our computers and we would just simply play all day one of my favorite categories that i spent a good number of months on was the comic books so we're scrolling through just the list of of categories of comics but then of course there are different versions different versions of marvel universe different series of x-men spider-man spider-woman so on and so forth so a lot of different subcategories even under this but you can see it's quite extensive over 16 000 comics um and configured big box to utilize their new wall view because simply scrolling through a list would just be so tedious especially when you have some series that have up to 600 comics so being able to scroll through an entire wall of comics exported all of the cover art for every single comic book as well now of course the quality is different um depending on how old the comic was and what the original scan was for but you do have the ability to zoom in and actually it will improve the readability quality so it really looks good even on a big television set now also included not just marvel but idw if you remember like say gia joe converted from from marvel to idw and of course the artwork improved over the years then finally um you don't always want a device that you interact with you want to have it provide some background entertainment so i've included a pretty extensive video a jukebox of selections here so as an example just giving some 80s uh videos or 764 in this i'm actually going to be adding to every single one of the categories i found a number of other additional music videos to expand upon this i'll be making a um another genre so i'm going to be adding 60s music videos believe it or not they had those as well as a country version and a classic rock which is kind of hard to say that some of the music i grew up with is classic rock but a category just for that as well but for now it includes 70s 80s 90s 2000 we've got a kind of a party jam list as well as a big hairband and pop rock list and christmas music also found a halloween one which we'll be including and i'll show you how to make your own you know add your own music videos to this as well so finally there's also retro magazines but kind of like the comic books something you have to explore but for now let's go into some further detail and show you a little bit more on how this drive works steam [Applause] [Music] all right yes we shall so first you're gonna see when a lot of people make drives all they do is they kind of just show you this artwork but a lot of this artwork doesn't really affect the gameplay it's beautiful to look at and i love you know trying to gather as much as i can but first let's start with the organization you have a number of different ways to organize your all of your different games and different items that you have on the box so what i've done here is i've organized this first into arcade games which is going to be everything possible that was in the arcade games but also comic books 16 000 comic books because a lot of arcade games you know were inspired by comic books a lot of today's movies and comic books computers a lot of us were also computer gamers growing up i've got a huge collection there 24 000 games uh consoles so the handheld consoles when we moved out of the arcade or augmented our time between home and the arcade we used the consoles 23 000 games there handhelds 8 800 games into the various handhelds that we kind of call nostalgic and you know what why not throw in a jukebox you've got this big beautiful machine and this machine is just running a pc so it doesn't matter if it's running on an arcade cabinet or you take the pc out or on a laptop and plug it into your home tv maybe you just want to kind of have something playing in the background so i decided to include a really fun jukebox also we have a category just for light gun games so i have many games not all of them because there are there are some that just are a pain to configure but um quite a few light gun games working for both the sendin aim track and the gun for ir simultaneously so you can run either one of those as well as retro games i'll be adding some of the dragon magazines for some of the rpg fans but of course you know pretty much anything you see here is already included there and then of steam games you know for games that are still more modern you may have some horsepower left over to play that and you can download and configure all your steam games and that's pretty much it that's going to be the main category that we choose plus a favorite section so anytime you you select any item whether it be magazine comic book a game and you mark it as a favorite it's going to appear here in the favorites category so you can kind of go here all i have is arkanoid right now but we'll change that during the video so first let's go ahead and jump into what you probably want to see most and that's arcade games now the different categories here i tried again try to keep this as minimal as possible first of all if you don't care about the physical underlying system and many of us didn't really know who made what um just go to all arcade games and everything in all the categories will be right here just like a wheel i choose to do it by text because in this case there are thousands of them it's just easier to kind of go through this way because you can still scroll through and look at all the different kind of artwork that you might want to see but let's take a look at one how about teenage mutant ninja turtles so the first thing is when it comes to arcades they're the problem i always had is is the default emulators blow up this tiny arcade screen to the full size and it looks terrible you know on camera it looks good because i mean the camera's a good six feet away from the screen i'm probably two and a half two feet away from the screen because of the cabinet so i really wanted to focus on that realism and so i went and found a lot of custom artwork so the custom artwork serves two purposes one it looks like you're in an arcade i mean look at that you got pac-man was that junior donkey kong over there um you you've got that a dirty glass one uh dirty glass on top of this where people were messing with it and here we are we've got teenage mutant ninja turtles but it's also the right size it's a beautiful size to work with so i can go ahead and insert some coins for player one and two and there we go now the other thing is you can have a lot of fun with this first finding the right type of marquee artwork and also maybe changing the look and feel of how the machine looks because you're not just stuck with this see what i've also done is i've tried to find every piece of our work possible so we've got our two characters here so what i mean by that is i've created hot keys that allow you to switch so this is what it normally looks like all blown up and stretched some people prefer that which is why i've made it so you can actually switch back and forth but you can also have fun discovering what kind of artwork there is so this is bezel project artwork so it's a different group who have developed this artwork it's a little bit bigger but it still looks good because it's using what's called a reflective shader so a realistic shader you can see the reflections here it also keeps the proportions really nice as well it's getting out of hand here all right so from the look and feel and the functionality that's kind of fun right but even better is well i'm playing on an arcade rk joysticks what if i want to play with bluetooth well about i would say 95 of all the games on the system can be played back and forth or simultaneously with bluetooth controllers this is why this drive is portable it's you don't reconfigure your system or anything you can plug this in you can play this and let's go ahead and just hurry up here i can play with wireless joysticks i'm not sure which character this is i think this would be my player one there we go so you know no no all it is is configuring everything in the right way and i think this is what the most important focus was so let's go player two there we go all right here all right now the other thing to focus on when it comes to making your own drive is do all the games work and joystick stuff is actually the easiest what about things like trackball games how about arkanoid let's go down here to the a's find arkanoid so what i've also done is especially with all the arcade games most of the arcade games uh in maim this is pretty easy to do in maine and i'll make some videos on this um let's do where's the original arkanoid [Music] i guess this will do is i've made it so essentially what a trackball is in a spinner they're just mouse devices so any analog device and you can actually map it so all analog devices will control this which makes it super easy so this way when you're going to play arkanoid or in this case arcanade returns [Music] and here if i'm impatient i also have the ability to fast forward which i don't need to it looks like in this case all right so here i have my character now i'm i'm controlling this using the spinner but it's an analog device which means i can also control it with the trackball which means i can also control it with the bluetooth controller but the bluetooth controller is way too sensitive i think i would you i'd have to drill down the settings if i wanted to do that for this right because it was more configured for these kind of analog devices which give you a lot more flexibility and that was a horrible game wasn't it so let's take another look at maybe a some other analog games like centipede right the the cool thing is you don't need to go in and configure each individual game which is just always such a pain right getting all the uh all the games installed and being able to launch them is one thing but what everybody wants to do is they want to play the games e is before h right there it is their centipede now centipede also has a lot of different custom artwork and again this is kind of the fun things you do on the side but you know the real practicality is do the games work and yes you can you can actually make 98 of the games work with all of these devices simultaneously which is a lot of fun really okay so i can see that it's dragging here to the left and that instantly tells me that the player one looks like it was uh it was off a little bit yeah here so let me actually here i'll just show you so yes i can play here with the with the wireless let me turn it off because it seems like i'm drifting a little because of that input so i'll just go ahead and turn off this wireless and then you'll see here it's re-found the devices and i can use the mouse buttons to play or even the player one buttons right so i think that's one of the important experiences is to make sure that your inputs work and then what if we again want to change that look and feel i'm about to die whoa hey why did the third one come along they just keep coming i thought i'm only supposed to get some and we can again change the look and feel to the original here kind of switch through see what else there is sometimes the the visuals are very easy to see like what's changed and then sometimes they're very subtle like it might just be the um it might just be the t-molding so notice here that the t-molding is no longer green it's black so but it's a lot of fun right okay so what else can we show you how about um how about dual joystick games right those are ones that hardly ever work out of the box uh so we can go ahead and do that now one of my favorite duels there there were actually two dual joystick games one was karate champ i played that a lot at 7-eleven after school all the time but i think the most popular one that is probably the most gratifying is of course smash tv now this actually takes some some manual tweaking but once you do it once you can make it universal so i've actually made this so if i plug in this drive into any other computer it will actually work i'm missing the m's aren't they j k l m oh wow it's the only one that has an sm huh interesting all right so let's do some smash tv now remember smash t if you've never seen smash tv you control the movement of the character with the left joystick and you fire with the right joystick so it lets you kind of move backwards while also firing forward or a different direction and again custom custom artwork here i've probably got about 450 of these custom ones it's really kind of fun you know just scouring and getting all these configured um but i i kind of went kind of crazy with it because with a lot of main games there were different versions if you didn't see that actually said this is smash tv version eight um you can play all the versions i think it actually only goes from four to eight but i've actually configured the custom artwork to work with every version as well so here i can fast forward there we go so here i am i am you'll notice here moving with the left and i can control here with the right but again you might ask yourself well what about the the wireless joysticks you know how do we deal with that it's not like i can use player one or sorry player three and four here because you know it's you uh you'd have to manually configure this for uh for two player on the physical joysticks but i've also made it so you can use the wireless so let's go ahead and start two players we'll have to watch out for our buddy over here so again and then let's go ahead and here's our player two he can take over okay so it looks like we have to leave this room [Music] there we go all right so again using just the wireless joystick [Music] and what i did especially on a lot of these games is i went into the computer settings to make sure that blood and violence is turned on all of them because you know we live in the day and age when this is quite gratifying so if these games had that i went purposely especially like mortal kombat trying to turn on all the other goriest settings that you can find as well so again let's cycle through some of the different shaders that are available that was the original with the main output it looks like here's the bezel project so again it a little bit bigger but you still kind of get the scan lines and look and feel so you know whatever your liking is another thing that's really neat about big boxes it makes you or and launchbox is you can go over here to additional apps and versions and notice here all the different versions you can play some games were quite different between different versions so one of the games for example i used to play is called ball it was a football game with robots and it was actually quite different from the different revisions different plays different characters and so this can be a lot of fun to explore the the history of the game as well so again i can fast forward through here so i got a fast forward button to kind of make it boot up a little faster because you know who really wants to wait and it's already configured for free play we'll fast forward again get my guy out there there we go now i may not notice what's different here on this revision but you know maybe just because i haven't played smash tv enough to kind of watch its history like i did say some of the other games but there you go right so you've got trackball you've got spinners you've got dual joystick right all pre-configured ready to go and i'll be making some videos and stuff on on how that's done okay all right so that's arcade we could go through thousands of arcade games uh quite a bit of fun there obviously the other things here is with big box it can also download a lot of other fun materials so for example if there was a manual the manual might be the repair manual or it just might be the manual on how to play the game so again here you can kind of scroll through and you know read up whatever you want about the game a lot of fun things here you can view all the different artwork and images that might be available so here we've got kind of some box artwork sometimes they'll actually have the arcade the actual arcade cabinet so you'll see that custom artwork that we were playing on that's what the real arcade cabinet looked like right so so depending on where you want to kind of fulfill that nostalgia you can not only play it but you can go through and enjoy many different kind of versions of the game history and artwork and videos so some other categories that are appropriate to segregate obviously american laser games is one this is not the right video for that um a thomas wave some really great international fighting games daphne was definitely known for a lot of it's it was a laserdisc game so you're always kind of making a selection do i go right now do i attack right now et cetera probably dragon's lair was the most popular one for that some light gun games but now these are going to be specific to the leica games just under the arcade because you know there were a lot good games for nintendo and whatnot different now some of these are segregated because they're actually different emulators so sega model 2 was its own beast for example one of my favorites to play especially with my granddaughter was fighting vipers now this doesn't have custom artwork because it uses an emulator that's not going to support that and also you can't swap back and forth between the controller see now it's one or the other so now notice it's it's recognizing the bluetooth controllers because they're turned on so that's not necessarily um inconvenient right there we go so there's player one and then player two he gets to whack you with a skateboard but now if what i do if i turn off these controllers now we play it and and i wanted to kind of go into some of the categories see the experience can't be created exactly the same there are some nuances but now what i can do notice i can play with the joysticks all right so okay and then over here so there are a lot of tricks a lot of learning on on how to figure all this out again i'll make some videos on this but i'd be very curious from you what do you want to see first there's there's quite a bit to kind of give a more seamless experience interacting with the games so now for for techno parrot there's two different categories here because the way you configure the techno parrot emulator is there's only one type of input so if you want multiple like bluetooth like some of the others i've been showing you i had to create two categories so it's not too bad you know once you have it done i've actually created a central script where you input all your devices then it goes out and configures all the emulators for you so here we can play two games you know one or the same game with you know both the the standard input and then with the wireless now this can your experience can actually vary sometimes depending on the game because you know say for driving games you know when you're moving the joystick to the left or to the right you're actually turning the steering wheel the entire direction left or right so you don't get that smooth transition and control that you would say with an analog bluetooth [Music] i always love these um these japanese-based top-down shooters because they're just so visually intense all the powers and power-ups and stuff that you can get i mean look at this just pretty incredible right so there's not too much difference here so here we are have the joystick and then it's just as easy to kind of uh swap over looks like techno pair reported an error there whoops and then it's just as easy to kind of go in here and then find the same game and play that with bluetooth so now i've got my bluetooth wireless controller and i think this is one of the really important things i tried to focus on was the the central capability being able to configure all of your stuff pretty much in one place and then it gets populated elsewhere that's kind of one of the keys i think to this drive okay that's funny and offsetting of the the marquee i have to figure out why that's the case hit start to skip everything and here we go right now it's uh with the bluetooth so different you know there are different things you have to be mindful of when it comes to configuring different emulators now pretty much anything you do with retroarch retroarch can do about 98 of all the games you'll play and i'll show you what some of the other exceptions are here going forward all right so let's get out of arcade right you can see arcade we can have a fabulous experience here for quite a long time and i guess we'll have to look in my techno pair keeps barfing on that error there let's just uh let's jump into comics why not right so what i've done this took a long time is i created artwork for every single one of the individual comics and most of these i actually had in my collections believe it or not so quite a few scrolling through here in fact you know what it's funny marvel universe was almost actually one of my most favorite comics i remember because there was that one series here uh where as you can see they all kind of blend together the covers blended together and if you you put them all out they made this really beautiful mural i should say now what's interesting though is you notice the view has changed this is called wall view and i've configured all the comic book collections to appear like a wall so this way you can easily see the cover artwork versus you know scrolling through the names which may not may not mean as much so once you click on this and click play it's going to load up a an interactive viewer and you can read your comic books and there's a lot of different configs like being able to zoom in and zoom out so i've mapped it all to the various buttons and whatnot notice here so here i can zoom in if i want to it's probably a bit much i can reset it there we go so and of course i can just scroll through and and you'll notice that these are actual scans of the book so sometimes they're a little blurry right and you you do kind of need to zoom in a little bit and it will it actually uses image processing to try to improve the the font quality all right but i mean this is great especially what if you have the comics and you but you've got them sealed in the ccg uh plastic container i don't know if you want to call it a sleeve what do they call those but um you don't want to touch it you don't want to open it so this is a great way to kind of still enjoy some of the comics now obviously these are the the older ones but there's a lot of new stuff and you know what one of my favorites i think was the the idw series because idw did some really nice artwork for the gigo series so if we go to gi joe remember gi joe actually used to be marvel and then idw picked it up so i believe that like if you go here to gi joe cobra version 3 here you're going to see some incredible artwork because when it comes to retro it's not just about gaming and there's a lot of experiences that work really well under big box and the visuals that you get here right so some better artwork here and again the same capability kind of being able to zoom in and there you go you'll see how the quality got a lot nicer there etc okay so those are comic books six books and uh i don't have a whole lot of dc i'm gonna try to add dc next this takes a long time to actually go in with the photoshop extracting the logo from comics because surprisingly this is not a lot of artwork that's available out there so it's very difficult to kind of you know i'm not the best at it and having to try to extract these directly from images of comic books but i tell you it's a pretty darn good collection i'm very happy with that next i'm going to jump right into handhelds a handheld is a unique category um let's take a look at uh not game boy hacked sorry wrong category let's go to the original nintendo game boy now what i love about the handhelds is the shaders you see the output of the game normally is black and white but that's not how the game boy was the game boy had that kind of greenish tint led i remember we used to play it um we used to play head to head because you could actually tether them together and play against other people one of these that we used to play was tetris now notice this look at this this looks like the real original game boy the same kind of pixelation and there is tetris so the same experience you had as a kid but now it's being done on a big screen tv the other thing is with the shaders here i don't change the shaders i only change the size so this is what it default looks like this is what you know normal drives that you might get or something are configured as so i took the time to make sure that they all look as original as possible this is the smallest you can get and you can just simply blow it up from here so up to a 7x improvement all the way until you don't even see the borders themselves right so this really makes the retro gaming experience extremely fun because now you really kind of want to explore uh what's available oh by the way forgot to tell you can you do this with bluetooth absolutely all of the handhelds you can do simultaneously with bluetooth as well and notice this is actually still turned on [Music] wait for that to start and i'm playing with bluetooth right so this is what makes the stripe so flexible because again it doesn't need to be connected to an arcade cabinet but it is compatible with almost every arcade cabinet on the market as a result of the way i've configured this all right now let's look at some of the other handhelds just because they're beautiful right so that was the nintendo game boy um of course there's the game boy advance i wonder if they of course did they have tetris for that i never had a game boy advance would that look good what was that all right here's a fighting game right now again the problem with these small consoles or the the small handhelds is they look awful being blown up on a full screen this is why you need to focus on the shader so here is a default shader that i've created or i didn't create i configured right this is what it normally looks like without any shaders it's blurry it's fuzzy it's out of focus it would be real annoying to play this for a long period of time otherwise here you go there's the game boy advance of whatever size that you want so you may even have a 35 inch screen in my case i've got a 55 and you can play that again with both controllers and bluetooth now the other thing is you can play handhelds that maybe you never even had before so let's go we got obviously the gameboy the psp psp is a fun one in fact some of the psp games actually look better or sorry the the psp games look better than playstation emulation itself because there are a lot of the same kind of games i have no idea how to play aces of four let me touch that wow activate oh here we go we can get some old atari games on here too uh what do i want to do is there no there was no tetris on this one pick something all right how about this battle brawlers okay so this is more about to kind of show you the different shaders that are available on the psp so as you would expect though it was a handheld so it's going to be in that handheld look and feel this time let me just go ahead and just play with the bluetooth controller because it can i'm not sure if i can i don't think i configure the bluetooth controllers to change the shaders [Music] that's a long name [Music] all right now see that's kind of blurry right um it's it's being blown up it's kind of blurry so let's go ahead and adjust the shader so that way our experience is going to be a little bit better no idea what this game is [Music] now loading okay finally we get into the game oh okay this looks like a pokemon brawl game okay all right so in this case again i can switch the shader this is what it normally looks like whoops i paused it as well okay so all blown up not nearly as good so what i can do is shrink it down to its original size and the picture quality is amazing this looks fantastic all right one more handheld i think is worth showing because i'd suggest you kind of uh watch some of the other upcoming videos we can explore all of them and again categories for all handhelds if you don't know which you you there's 8 000 games if you don't know which handheld the game you want to play is on i've created a list for all of that the neo geo pocket color right so because now of course you can play right a little miniature metal slug on there it's cool the graphics are certainly different than the metal slug that you would see in the arcade but that's that's the whole point is to kind of see some and get a different experience so same thing as before [Music] i can play with both the wireless controllers and the joysticks and you know what honestly on a 55 inch screen this still looks a little i mean it has all the recreations of the same pixelation of the original device but i think i would like it smaller maybe about that i think i like that because take a look at what it normally looks like being outputted by the emulator not this that maybe that looks good on the camera this is is awful right but this is about the right size this is the way i always wanted my arcade experience to be when it came to you know having such an expensive machine that's all and now i can take this though and i can play this anywhere right anywhere that if i have a windows laptop i can plug in the external drive that i have for this and i can play these games okay so that's handheld what should we do next after handhelds well why don't we do consoles okay now of course here with consoles there were a lot of consoles and again every single one of these consoles every single one has custom bezel artwork all right let's take a look at the atari 2600 this is one of my favorites and of course you can't demo the atari without showing one of the most popular games of all and it was not pac-man pac-man did not do too well on the atari 2600 and that was pitfall probably the number one game on the atari well next to adventure and some of the originals right but you know if you take a look at the whole history i think pitfall really took off once it came out because all the consoles every single one of the consoles run on retroarch they give you that means i now have the ability to do this on both the arcade sticks and the wireless controllers now what i've done here when it comes to consoles because you have um different bezel artwork is i've tried to create different versions this is what it's being output from the emulator it's super blurry you can hardly read the activision you can see doubles of the latter there but if you switch it again now we'll get the default atari outline which looks just gorgeous right the reflective bezels here and it does have scan lines okay it just it does if you don't want them obviously just switch the bezel artwork now what's changed here is it's the same bezel artwork but it's a different filter notice this is flat screen so by default what i've done is i've made it so the console will start with the type of television set that was popular during that era so there weren't flat screens usually for the ataris that's why it has that more of that crt curved look but this was a flat screen look and this is what i call the instagram filter so it is a crt but i've really made the colors pop and make it look as good as beautiful so if you're more for authenticity or you just want the best visual looking experience right you can get that just simply cycle through the different interfaces all right now there could be a lot to show in consoles so let me just briefly show you maybe one game from each one of them or not or all the major ones so atari jaguar or is it jaguar jaguar here's defender and so taking the time to implement the 60 000 plus custom shaders and configuration files is really what takes the longest defender 2000 on the jaguar wow and let's go ahead and cycle through the shaders here you'll notice there's an audio glitch as because these shaders actually take a lot of cpu [Music] this is the defender was always a tricky game [Music] how do i pick them up don't shoot them i guess all right [Music] don't shoot the hostage just because they did it in the movie speed doesn't mean you should do it in your video games all right also the uh the weird ones the astrocade um all configured colecovision really doesn't do well on one of these machines because colecovision used a lot of the different numbers it is functional though all right so there's a lot of different abstract systems you know the emerson arcadia the fairchild channel f and and i took the time to try to make sure that all of these actually work so like the gce vectrix you may never even heard of it like why would i want to play that well you know because it's it's kind of cool looking um it's it's old it's something maybe you never played and perhaps you might find something enjoyable about it so i even took the time to work on these systems not only making shaders but the artwork overlays because i was looking in this system particularly you actually got a sheet with the game you put over the the television or the monitor so that way it generated these types of graphics but then the the overlay would kind of help you steer through what you were doing so an early game of i think zork was like this one right oh he doesn't look good all right and the other advantage again is you can play with the uh wireless controllers as well all right and they had no mercy on taking your life out okay so what about some of the other popular consoles so there are obviously the strange and different um the neo geocd a lot like the standard arcade games okay so let's go ahead and take a look at the nintendo 64. and why not do a mario brothers right i mean who you wouldn't uh here's a mario kart 64. okay now this one again works with both the physical and wireless controllers custom shaders as well so if there's a bezel project artwork you'll notice that i'll just configure this with a bezel project but of course i can switch it to the generic and this is what the nintendo 64 generic one looks like with the um different shaders now i believe that nintendo 64 was more for flat screen so let's go ahead and switch it to a flat screen like there we go kind of like our sony trinitron [Music] mario gravy [Music] select your player let's go [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] oh here we go here's the gas [Music] and i'm way behind so let's go and switch over here to the to the wireless and now we're going to start catching up [Music] [Applause] take out the princess and away we go all right [Music] so that's the nintendo 64. [Music] okay so let's take a look at the nintendo entertainment system kind of sticking with the mario bros theme and again the other benefit you can play with both wireless and the physical controllers now one of the things to take advantage of with really any of the any of the emulators that run in retroarch which include all the main games is the fact that you have access to the menu to actually save the current state of the game so let's just go ahead and do something here where i use the power button okay so but what i can now do is go back into the menu and i can load the previous state before i used it so now you can kind of save where you're at in any game whatsoever which is obviously kind of handy right [Music] now let's look at the nintendo gamecube okay let's go ahead and take a look at a 3d game here on nintendo gamecube now again with the consoles there's going to be multiple choices for different types of shaders and a lot of these old consoles sometimes just took too long so i'm just going to turn on the fast forward and now we're ready to start the game let's just play ball see what we get here [Music] sports baseball back with a vengeance this year folks and i am so happy to bring it to you while it's loading we'll fast forward and it's just about time for baseball so let's go out to arizona where john miller and joe morgan are set to call the game john [Applause] so you'll notice here that this is not i can play with analog but i can't choose where in the box i want to throw this [Applause] [Music] now if you want to change the shaders you can do that this is what the default output looks like i don't think it's as good you get that audio hiccup when you're switching shaders all right let's go and take a look at some others [Music] now the the wii u uses its own um a different kind of emulation engine but one of the benefits though of it is the fact that you can really upscale this so this is really good for the large screen tvs so if we take a look at say mario kart here this visually is going to be much superior to than any of the other arcade games we don't need those scanline base shaders because this can upscale so nicely the difference is you're going to see this compiling of shaders ahead of time because in order to generate a lot of these beautiful designs [Music] it has to it has to create those shaders dynamically on the fly all right [Music] now with this you can't swap back and forth between the bluetooth and the physical controllers but you can use them as separate players so what you'll see is sometimes there's a pause in the in the video because it has to compile these new shaders so it's trying to generate all these high intensity graphics on the fly but you only have to suffer through that one time those one little glitches all right other than that though again you could decide to start with wireless or not i've configured this for these particular joysticks and there we go so i'm off and running look behind me all right then go over here to luigi because he's like way behind there we go all right so that's the wii u a lot of the games are beautiful graphics on the wii u now we have the pc engine sega 32 sega cd another thing that i've done for a lot of the cd-based games is i've compressed and converted all of these to the most optimum file format so that way they load the fastest possible the other advantage is not only from the fast loading process is i can also use the fast forward function to make it even faster to start because if you remember back in the day cd games just they took a long time [Music] all right so now that we've initiated the startup turn the volume down here go and hit start and now i can fast forward now i think i'll probably reconfigure it so the fast forward doesn't play the audio it's all glitchy because it's going twice as fast [Music] you can still interact with the game even though you have it on fast forward so so if you want to you know just simply acknowledge all the different items that they want from you to get started okay so now with this off now other things here it's a cd game this is what it normally looks like it's horrible on a 55 inch screen tv which is why you definitely want to use this with shaders so here's a um an 80 crt shader followed by a 90s flat screen so whatever you like whatever you think is the best not sure how to interface with this game [Music] alrighty hey girl all right so sega cd and of course you can't really forget about the sega genesis playstation super nintendo super graphics and xbox of course quite a few to show you here now finally let's go ahead and just show you the last two here we've got computer um there are some specific computer games that have their own emulators like doom um so here we have the amiga now when it comes to the personal computers you have a different kind of bezel artwork goal for these um the goal here is to make it feel like you're at a computer at home so here's a game i've never seen badlands pete came out in 1990 it looks like so here the shaders are going to be focused on that at home experience so i've tried to find that custom artwork that makes you feel like you're on the computer at home now you're still going to keep the same template but you'll notice here when i change the shaders here's what it normally looks like without shaders and also here's what it looks like with some of the different varieties so notice that the backgrounds have changed it's got the old 80s wood paneling etc now some of these games do work fine with joysticks but the they are computers so you do need to interact with them uh with a keyboard on on some occasions so case in point i've also included a whole set of ms-dos games and windows so why don't we jump to that so let's go ahead and take a look at the ms-dos category okay so let's take a look here's a classic game phantasmagora i remember that was kind of a supposed to be a horror game there in the in the mid 90s now because this is a computer game you're going to want to interact with your keyboard so i have my keyboard handy some games do work with the joystick but there it was dos right so it was designed to have a keyboard and mouse all right so what i do is i turn on what's called game focus so there's an assign button on your keyboard uh to turn that on so what that means is all the inputs from the keyboard go directly to the emulated game not to the emulator itself so now i can press any key to continue and choose exactly how i'd like to experience the game now it does use i believe phantasmagor being kind of a cd-rom-ish game i believe it does use the mouse so i can use my touchpad mouse or this now it does give you that kind of 80s look there are different choices i should say there are different shaders for this as well and because this is retroarch i can do all the same settings as before if the game doesn't have the ability to save itself i can actually use retroarch by turning game focus off going into retro arch and i can save the state oh this core doesn't support it okay [Music] so because this is a dos game i'm going to go ahead and use my mouse cursor and i can now interact with this [Music] and we'll do chapter one okay so with pc games again i can change the shaders this is what it looks like normally pretty bad you kind of ha it's really no fun playing these on a big screen tv unless you do have the shaders so here's the 80s bedroom look [Music] some of these are very subtle changes some of them are pretty significant so now we're playing on a hr high professional sony trinitron and this includes kind of the original glare you can actually see kind of a glare of a tv or of a of a window in the background so i made it you know if you if you want that to me it's a little distracting but it actually is more to the honest experience not only do we have um ms-dos games but also included scum vm these are going to be all the cd-rom games 339 of those ms-dos has 7156 and there's also microsoft windows so microsoft windows games 1100 of those fun windows games that we grow up with and of course apple ii atari 800 you'll see the various commodore 128s amiga amiga cd tv the vic-20 the european the dragon 3264 and the japanese msx 2 and 2 plus right so you can definitely get your filler computer games as well when you're just not maybe feeling up to it now just to wrap things up let's go ahead and take a look at the jukebox now i'm going to probably have to mute some of the audio but for jukebox i have pop rock we've got a party jam mixed these are kind of mixes and then there are genre-based so 70s 80s 90s 2000s and even some christmas music christmas has the fewest otherwise most of the other categories have anywhere from six to a thousand different music videos [Music] and here you go so you get a you'll get a kind of a thematic theme christmas is going to have this you can go and just randomize it otherwise if you just let it all play out it's going to it'll just cycle through different ones it doesn't do them in order it's always random so there you go and so if you have christmas and let me just show you one other category um let's just do save party jams right now in the lower right hand corner it'll show you exactly how much music or how many different videos are available and this is a lot of fun especially when you don't want a game you just want to have something in the background so here there's a 1076 different videos in this particular mix so you're gonna get all the fun music videos okay all right so pretty straightforward here and last but not least we have the magazines now they're configured much like the arcades are but you'll notice here we've got retro gamer collection sega saturn vision softline and the other one i still need to add dragon magazine i think that would be really fun i just added mad magazine so i didn't extract the title so i've got all issues of mad magazine looks like i need to change the way it's laid out here but here you go if you want to kind of relive mad comics number 002 some of these are going to be expensive and hard to find but otherwise you can enjoy comic books magazines retro console games as well as music videos computers and handhelds okay well that is just a preview of what i've done to to put the drive together the next set of videos is going to show you somebody stepped on my dog here the next set of videos is to show you how did i make all of this so this way you can make this yourself you can make this work with multiple controllers configure each individual various emulators and overcome the many challenges it takes to try to build something like this yourself until next time go ahead and comment below what you'd like to see next [Music] you

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