Transform Any PC: Batocera USB Thumbdrive for Retro Gaming Paradise

so it's a Time the package from China time and this is going to be an interesting one so why so let's find out hey hey welcome back to the channel it's awesome that you're tuning in in today's video we're going to take a close look at this USB fles drive comes even with a nice cord but this is not your typical USB drive this is the hyperbase mini one 128 gigb three the row and what you're getting is just an converted USB flash drive with some btoa in other words you can plug this thing into your computer boot it up and just play thousands of rro games so where this thing sounds like magic it is absolutely not Linux based or B is absolutely beautiful piece of software that we can use on many different devices but also in this video we're going to test out what you're getting with this but also what kind of device you can use and what kind of performance you're getting because where this thing is just actually an let's say storage device yeah when you're going to be plugging this thing in side of let say PC you can just boot it up into special software it's absolutely amazing but you can just use it in any kind of let's say PC take consideration we do have limitations when it comes to like the software if you have like an let's say x64 or like other kind of like a really old one there are some different version out there so if you're going to have like a different let's say mini let's say pay laying around with an N 100 in it or something else this highly possible this going to be plugged in and works out of the box but let's plug it in and let's do chat about B but so where there are all kinds of PCS laptops and different kind of mini Solutions out there gimk Tech [ __ ] you name it you can all use it inside of these machines but the thing need to take consideration is that when it comes let's say to the specifications there we having a certain result but let's grab ourselves a mini computer and let's just plug in the USB thumb drive so what is kind of what's kind of a downside is that this is in 3.0 yeah and if you're going to be putting it in an Old Port yep that's not going to be working or it's going to be working it's going to be very slow let's plug it in man this thing holy crap damn that is tight and after the device has been configured it will boot up into the butterer software and that's actually how it works it's just that easy so when the machine has been booted up through the thumb drive you have like an access to so many different kind of emul ERS and it's absolutely nuts depending what kind of Mini PC you're using this actually says how much you can play if you're having an old dual core on a quad core all like Mini PC like in j1800 sometimes you would be surprised how much you can play from the 8 bit 16 bit era all the way up to the PlayStation one but if you want to have like a PlayStation 2 emulation PlayStation Portable Wii GameCube and want to have like in 60 full FPS there we're having the just the need for an more powerful Mini PC think about the new generation Intel or AMD so that's actually the one of the ways you can play and it's absolutely crazy N64 is one of those systems that will run basically like way better than the most like say kind of game boxes we reviewed but the overall performance that's depending what kind of Mini PC you're going to be sticking this us th Drive in so let's take a close look at one of those newer generation called the N 100 Mini PC this is absolutely a great balance between the price and the overall emulation performance with this tiny compact device you can just bring this thing with you everywhere it's super easy and you just plug in the USB dungle turning it on and you just have a lot of cool things you can play having even the option for dual HDMI not you're going actually needing it but we have also the windows capabilities with this device that we do have a lot of interesting things that we can do with all right so let's do a quick overview of the chipset with CPU Z so in here we're having the Intel n100 the Elder lake and a Max TDP of 6 Watts the package is the socket 1744 and yeah when you're looking at the overall specification is not going to be like super exciting because this thing isn't really made for gaming but we're still going to be trying to do so the boss specification is in PC Express 3.0 memory 12 GB ddr5 that's that is a lot yeah yeah they are claiming to have a lot of different slots but I can tell you that this is not correct I don't know what's going on over here but it says have like four slots but yeah no I really didn't te down in here but there's no way there are so many slots in this thing doesn't matter overhaul like say the Intel huge HZ Graphics is also not like say Powerhouse when it comes to the GPU but it doesn't matter it's just actually what we're getting where this n100 chipset is not power enough to run everything on 4K we can still play a lot of different games if you're going to combine this when a USB plug and play depending of if you're going to be Windows emulation B shower we do have some minor differences there but mainly when it comes to the overall performance it's absolutely amazing and especially with the price you're paying for it so when it comes to PlayStation Portable in Gold of War getting the 60 FPS we have set it to four times resolution maybe we can tweak it to five times depending what kind of game you're actually going to be playing but so far it's going to be an overall good experience so that's absolutely [Music] great another thing you can also do is getting yourself a portable device like an old e-w laptop I had a couple of them laying around some of them were still working for example this Dell had not working keyboard or some defects on it but what you can actually do is plug in the USB Thrive and you can just play a lot of games and you will be surprised in overall what you can play with in the dev like this you can do a lot of great things with this Dell laptop it's in dual core got a 4 gigs of RAM there is no hard drive installed up we can slap on high drive and SSD in it it got built in speakers but in the end if you're looking at specs I was thinking hey why not installing B and let's play some retro games on the go because now we're having a device that basically have the display we have a controller that we're using external and we're having some speakers so in this video I am going to use myself the Chinese controller I've got for the super console X but he also can use like an Xbox 360 controller there are a lot of the great controls he can use with so let's plug in this bad boy and let's see what we're going to get all right so I'm using this for the first time or this controller on this image so what we need to do is configure it so if everything goes like it should be you're going to get this configure input the reason why because you need to set it all up what you're going to get is basically this setup list it says what kind of button you need to configure now we're going to have the d-pad for example up down left right start select now I choose axy we the analog stick let's check the shoulder buttons the buttons here and of course set the hotkey if you want to go back to the menu I'm pressing back for this press a it will take some time but when you're done you can control is configured with every single emulator the device you see over here it's not an IPS very high definition full HD 4K display this is just a really old school retro way and maybe even we can disable the bezels if we want to not going to do that in a video just going to leave as is but for an old school 15in display non IPS doesn't look that bad so when it comes to a really old piece of technology I'm going to tell you it will surprise you in many ways because this device is capable of running a lot of stuff that I even didn't even realize what I do like about this is that we have the option to bring this thing with you you even have the indication of the battery the right top corner I did review a lot of these devices especially when it comes to Pondora box byy based but this is just a super easy way you grab yourself an old laptop maybe you have one laying around you're going to do an modification of the software or better said you're going to slap on a new hard drive and you're ready to go and you have so much stuff you can add to it the old stuff like a bit 6 bit I will show you it would just F okay guys so first little bit of beef cake and Wolfies and this is how I feel in the morning just kick him in the balls kick him in the face kick him in the balls K him in the face kick him in the balls beef cake power up beef [Music] cake I hate these guys you know go go away okay guys so first up let's try some PlayStation I'm just going to skip all the old stuff because it R just fine get into the bubble gra gra oh dude shut up but the thing is with PlayStation one okay it runs on a lot of cheap Android devices nowadays but it is a great [Applause] addition and I don't know if you can hear it on the video but the sound of this D attitude L is very good of course there is no bit but when you cranking it up to let's say 100% it's going to get a little bit too [Music] pitchy t to my good friend okay guys the next upop PlayStation Portable so a lot of these Pandoras boxes and all a lot of cheap stuff doesn't work at all with PlayStation Portable so let's play without frame skip original settings I can already hear Minor A minor dip round one fight [Applause] so far so good round two fight of course like when you're looking at the Tekken six game this is not the most demanding game out there sadly I couldn't get gold of War to work because that will be like the ultimate test but so far so good next up let's try an different game different system this is really demanding game so I'm curious how this will work out I'm getting my as kit here the first I'm putting up the the game I have lot ofit of problems due of FPS dips by when playing through the game should be working just fine it's still running 100% perfect speed but it is better playable than most let's say cheap Android boxes so where the first example was an old laptop you can get yourself a new generation and they are getting cheaper and cheaper with a powerful i7 as can be six seven or eight or maybe 10 generation in combination with an RTX card and in combination of these two oh boy you can play even more than with an Old Dell laptop of course so when it comes to like PlayStation 2 we can run it even on higher resolution without any problem the CPU is more powerful enough in combination with the GPU we're going to get some amazing performance so that's absolutely cool when it comes to this particular piece of hardware next up some PlayStation Portable 10 times resolution so absolutely like maximum up skill with no tweaks whatsoever we can just play some God of War without any hiccup or any problems so that's pretty damn awesome my opinion and you know when God of War runs well everything will run for just [Music] fine [Music] [Music] a so when it comes to the PlayStation 3 part so what I've noticed with mini PCS lately that we do have a very fast boot up sequence so here you can see that when it's starting up the emulator and the game it's almost instantly that it loads up oh yeah now this fans are going to be spinning absolutely crazy the game has been kept to 30 FPS but also lower devices we can run PlayStation 3 we can go maybe a little bit more nuts with this but the overall performance will be similar to Let's previous device if you checked [Music] out [Music] come here but in the end when you're going to play some old school PlayStation 3 games this is going to be absolutely cool we're going to have an amazing overall performance but if you don't want to get into the portable but you want to see what's actually possible with you stuff I even made like in top five and different like review separate to say older mini PCS I bought the weird ones from AliExpress but also old Lenovo HP fuu Sim you name it most of it will come with an older I3 or I5 but the overall ulation performance for the man you're mostly paying for these things is absolutely great and in a comment I ever read that some people even like uses an very cool clunky old Dale Mini PC so you know you can go creative and plugging in an USB stick with some bter take consideration if you're using the right main board configuration with the right image that is actually on the USB stick you have like so many different ways to play from all the way like hundreds of Euros you can maybe buy like something of a 50 EUR Mini PC plug in USB stick and you're going to have like a blast to the past with thousands of games that can be emulated on an old piece of hardware for example I've b79 Euro Dell it did has some issues compatibility issue with some emulators it can be fixed maybe in future let's say upgrade of B Ser itself so that's something you need to take consideration that you need to update them or the image itself through the internet but when you're getting is an absolutely overall great performance for example can actually play on M Tekken that cannot be played on let's say the super cons is for around 50 I also bought a new version called Tex ho or something like that and this particular Chinese version we're selling old i5s comes in a very new brand new case I'm guessing there are like using old CPUs and brand new main boards but the overall performance was quite disappointing when you're looking at like say the old stuff that you're getting I think about an old HP or andell so I paid I think was like 15200 for this yeah the over performance was quite nice but not for the money you're just paying for this all right so next up I want to try some other tekking game but this time it's going to be the Tekken Tag this is another video game that is quite very difficult to emulate on some cheaper mini PCS but I just wanted to push to the Limit and show you what you can do with an old school i3 Intel all right so next up N64 A system that has so much problems when it comes especially the am alic or the cheaper Android boxes most of the game will Ru on Native resolution to get the best performance out of it and again like it's depending on how powerful your system is you can already hear it you can already see it so basically with an fzo GX a very demanding game on the GameCube you're going to get a lot of stalling and absolutely not a fun game play Let's play a little bit show you may we will get a decent FPS here but the world will be part but it's going to be stuttering like crazy that exactly what I mean but when it comes to the mini PCS and used Market oh boy it's absolutely endless there were so many different configurations from I3 I5 different Generations Intel AMD maybe this so crazy and of course the newers are going to be more cheaper in the future because are keeping new releases of chipsets so manyi PCS will become cheaper especially when it comes to the used market and if they become e-ways do of the windows upgrades cannot be like implemented on the older PCS or they're just too slow we can use them for bota and buy them for really cheap but I also let's didn't chitchat regarding let's say the three different ways if you're getting into the new stuff there are all gmtk Tech but more like a coincidence but what you're getting with this are three different routes you can choose where already aled about the n100 but you also have the AMD ryzen 5000 but for example you also have like the 7,000 so one of the many ways if you're going to buy a new Mini PC how much money you're going to be spending on it is absolutely up to you also what do you actually want to play if you just want to play everything in 1080P you don't need to have the most powerful device out there so there actually like very cool different mini PCS where the JK Tech are slightly cheaper than let's say in belink or in chewy some brands are just more expensive do the overall build quality but also upgrade possibilities and upgrade possibilities we don't really need this because you were slapping in the USB drive and that's it and we're just going to boot up into btoa and just enjoy and not even using Windows in some cases when it comes to the best of the best yeah this is one of those let's say expensive products you can pick up this is the 7,000 AMD ryzen and this thing oh boy it's absolutely Beast and the loading time for example with the Play 3 is so much faster than all the previous models and and yeah this is one of those ways if you just want to spend some good money thinking hey I just want to go when I say all out but you want to have like an let's say fast solution this 7,000 is absolutely great so let's do a quick chitchat about it and what you actually can do with it let's do a quick CPU Z time a little bit of a rck NY time with the AMD ryzen 9 7,940 HS code name Phoenix with a Max TTP of 45 wats the package is the socket fp7 so also combined with the radon 78 M Graphics so next up the mainboard is J gay Tech as you can see over here the bus specs PC engine Express 4.0 memory in total 32 GB and they are divided over two slots so we having dual Channel when it comes to the memory okay AMD Ryon 7 ADM already mentioned before and this is one of those like say absolutely amazing onboard chips and I'm a big fan of at the moment so because when you're looking into the gaming we can do a lot of cool stuff with that so when it comes to the temperature I've been pushing the CPU to his limit we're hitting the 90.6 Celsius now it's idle don't do anything at the point but also when it comes to the CPU GPU combination it's quite nice it's quite okay but let's see what we can actually do when it comes to gaming and some emulation final round fight so one of the huge advantages we're having with these more powerful AMD risen chips that loading for the Playstation 3 emulator is going to be so significantly faster than with let's say MD ryzen 5 I know it makes sense but the loading times are so much faster that it doesn't really bother me anymore get him fight noish oh again spit the other way hey okay so I want to focus on B and the reason why because there are some kits out there that you can get I mean you can buy this very nice case where you can maybe store your Mini PC but inside the case it's completely like a kit so this contains an hard drive also called the P key pad that isn't one of those different kind of versions you can basically buy but also includes the controllers oh I must say that I have been let's say bitching on these controllers forever because they are okay quality but absolutely not the overall quality of an original PlayStation 2 controller so take that in consideration this is an okay quality but I have seen way better ones out there but this is more on the skit you can just slap on a Mini PC configure it and you're ready to go but take consideration where these things claim there like unplug andplay solution you always need to do tinkering with them do over let say the power of the mini PCS and not to forget also some of the things are completely like not configured at all so you need to have some knowledge about basira another solution what they're selling is one with or without a controller I think one of those companies is canang it's the same situation where they having two terab hard drive I think they were even cheaper smaller ones but 2 terab is basically The Sweet Spot when it comes to the storage capacity yeah and if you're getting into let's say the PlayStation 3 and stuff like that and you have a more powerful device then you're going to be having issue because then we need Absolut more than 2 terab they're selling it without controller or with a controller they are the Bop controllers I'm pronouncing the name correctly they are similar like a PlayStation 4ish controller very nice quality and this kit is in my opinion still one of the favorite ones but let's say you want to create yourself an own B Shera emulation Beast we can just do this by simply adding the B Shera on an USB thick and just plug it into a device another way is going to be with the micro SD card some of the devices do have even the option to add ourself a micr SD card so that's very convenient also we have an nvme or just an SSD that can Implement in your device and this is more of the question what will it support and this is one of the things you need to take consideration what you're actually buying and one of the easy ways is just if you're having an option for a 2.5 inch Drive slot you can just put in an extra ssds now making this video they are quite expensive you're going to get into the two terabytes but of course solid state is super fast for loading and it is very reliable next up and they are using a lot of these spatter disc old school 2 tbytes they are dirty cheap to get and of course take consideration and 2.5 in drive is always like more expensive if you're going to be beyond the 2 terab and actually this is one of those many ways that you can install bota and just actually implementing internal or external with your Mini PC but okay so most of the guys were basically making these drives yeah you can also do it yourself and what you can do is get yourself an enclosure and putting the pl disc in here if you don't have an internal let's say storage capacity but then again take consideration also get yourself an USB 3.0 for the best and the fastest speeds out there also with a PL disc you have the fastest speed disc of course it will let's say has differences in the price but also in the performance when you're getting a slower one okay but how are we going to get the software you can just download this for free b.org here we can find the software that we're going to need for installing and get ourself like this Mini PC to run all kinds of of retro games so what you need to do is go into the download page and you can already see over here that we have all kinds of let's say Hardware that are supported with B so this is not like some simple program that is only possible to use on a Mini PC there are all kinds of different hand tiles and devices or just general devices that can get the but sh running but the thing that we're going to need we're not going to scroll through the whole list in here we're finding the desktop laptop and other devices that is one of the ways you can go to but another thing you can do is depending of what kind of software we're needing is that we're having underneath we're having all kinds of different versions even to the ANM and the low power devices and here we're having old PCS you can even run Butera on that too if you're going to be needing to flesh this on a certain kind of storage device the program that I most of the time use is Bina etcher is a very nice to use free download you can just download it for free and getting yourself your Basera in installed and flashed on no I don't want to have you cookies reject all and then of course use this on your Windows device or even on Mac OS from this point you can just launch the file they've downloaded the image file and just burn it to your storage device depending of the model you're having but in the end it's going to be the same kind of BIOS functionality so if you're being in the Bios most of them by pressing the F9 or the Dell button but before booting up Windows here we need to go to to the security so the secure boot needs to be shut off and the reason why otherwise it's not possible to boot into B another thing that you need to check out is the boot so here you can already see boot option one has been set to Windows boot manager what you need to do is set this actually to the kinh or the B one you have made what you can also do if you don't want to use Windows you can disable this so we actually only going to get ourself the kenank boot so here we're going into save going to save changes and exit and when you've done this it will automatically boot into B this is absolutely crazy if you think about it this is just an USB th drive that you're plugging into a PC boot it up and you can just play thousands of games R mentioned before depending on what kind of Mini PC or PC or laptop you're using you can just plug this thing in boot it up and if you have enough power you can play all the way up to PlayStation 3 thank you all for watching consider subscribing let me know in the comments what do you think of this and will be great to see you in the next video

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Length: 28min 0sec (1680 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 15 2024