Why Waste Money?! FREE Retro Emulation Setup For 2023!

You know what's even better than this thing? :)
Asus Rog Ally
I got mine, added a 1TB SD for retro games and have same disk space for anything that needs some speed.
Anything from the beginning of games industry up to PS4 runs on the Ally Rog fine.

yo pixel, how can i get this going from scratch? thanks for the recommendations, I just scored a lil tiny titan aka pc myself and I'm looking to dive into videogame history for research, documentation and preservation purposes but don't know how to build this out, LMK! shouts!

For computer dummies like me, you skipped a whole lot of set-up. You plugged in the mini PC and then suddenly had your "coin-ops build" on a hard drive. Well, how did you get that? Where did you get it from? Are there different versions? Why did you choose that particular one?

But this mini PC consoles are very expensive compared to other things. Can you provide me a coinops for directly install on a 3,5 Inch harddrive?

Awesome build, I think they only missed Citra for whatever reason, the old not running on vulkan has been solved, so hopefully it will be included later.

Are vpns needed for old n64 rom? ive owned all of em at one point but ive had my isp shut me down before o.o .....

I built both my "cabinets" from scratch. I can't imagine why anyone would do it any differently. I bought two surplus office desktops for about $50 each. I put about $100 in between them, installing max memory, low level gpu's and ssd's on each. I built two arcade sticks out of old dining room chair seats and DIY parts off amazon (I also bought a Faucetwo, but that's a different story). I downloaded all the games I was looking for, and used Batocera to host my rooms. I wrote scripts to filter my romsets until I had exactly what I wanted. Then I went through each and every game and made sure it had intuitive key mapping. So I have a retro arcade system with about 7500 of the very best games, each one promising an amazing time. I also have a full "Sound Voltex" (USC) system right next to it. I love what I built, and can't imagine just buying a hard drive.

What front end do they use?

Most of us have laptops and PCs. We just need a harddrive and that's it.

How to download

Zee X Spectrum? No.

Where do you download CoinOPS LEGENDS 2 Bit Wars from? Is it legal?

I want the original Arcade Battlezone.

What are some recommended controllers that'll cover all these systems?

Looking for one that has Mario and sonic Olympic games, the backyard sports games, and Mario party games.

Very glad i came across this video .. Appreciate !

Link to the build, please? I don’t see it in the description

"This setup is completely free! First you just need this $600 mini computer lying around..."

yeah, “free”, good one

Totally new to gaming. Can anyone tell me: do I need a mini-PC, a harddrive , monitor and controller and thats it? Then download to the hard drive Coin ops for Pc? Need some guidance, please.

Is there such thing as wasting your money.
You spent it, Someone received it, tax man takes a bite, tax man spends it on whatever, company gives some to employees, employee pay bills........

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Wow! I have that same exact hard drive.

Its not free if you bought a mini pc that costs $600+

Where so we download the prebuilds?

Where is link to build download?

downloaded it.. dont work black screen only some do work but screen is al the way to the right

very very wonderful such nice tutorial

What PC can you use to run ps3 well?

I thought this was a tutorial on making a build, but it's all demo of some games. What happened to how to do it and download link?

those who use emulation are crooks and all pc gamers are cheaters

Just an incredibly dumb premise. "This is free if you've already spent money on it in the past."

For me its always those moments of being extremely poor that i really appreciate that cheap harware is so powerfully now at days im so happy because even in low spots i can so totally afford something that could emulate ps2 thats amazing

What program app is that you are using?

You save my money, thanks for this info. i was looking to buy one but after watching your video, it's change my mind directly, have download this CoinOps Legends 2 and is amazing good with almost my favorite games on it , thanks dude....

This one sucks

I'm all for this over some cheap number off of amazon or wish. There's some real fun to be had with buying an old laptop with a busted top screen and just wiping the drives and installing Recalbox and stuff like that as well. Doing the set up is perhaps not super simple but definitely not harder than that you can google your way through it. I get it though, this is for people who want everything set up and ready to go but you can really do a lot with old hardware and if you have a crummy laptop from 14 years ago it can definitely play up to and usually including N64 games and if you're buying what is essentially a broken outdated laptop you can usually get them for peanuts.

I made a project like that just a month or two ago and the laptop I used cost me 10 dollars and without much tweaking of any sort I could fit the entire NES, SNES, N64, GB, GBC and GBA library on there (and more) and even add some playstation games on top. Recalbox which is the Linux front end I chose for it recognizes the usual controllers people tend to use and the lap top had bluetooth so I can play with dualshock 4 wirelessly. It runs from a USB stick which is pretty neat but I had a very small SSD that I cloned the stick over to and it boots much faster. In total I think I paid 14 bucks for the whole thing and I knew nothing about Linux, emulation or hardware coming into it. It was a lot of fun :)

Anyways, what I'm trying to say is that you don't even need an expensive mini-PC to make an emulation machine if you aren't lusting after the most recent generations of games.

It's too bad nintendo and the like don't just allow roms to be sold, they'd still make money and allow us to legally play.

Does this come with built in game cheats like game genie and stuff?

Thx for sharing with us 👍
I have two quick questions :
- What is the diff between coinops legends 4 and legends 2 bitwars?
- How can we add Neogeo on those builds?
Thank you for your help

Awsome video, i just got an ad for the sticks with 50k games. I really love the idea, but dont won't to buy an extra device nor nead such amount of trash games. I use my pc as console anyway so i was looking for a diy, and im glad to see that its only best of games

Where's the links for this builds? Arcade Punks full of viruses..

You should check out Core Type R build - the system is as vast as you want it to be and it looks great. Big fan.

That's an "x-arcade" stick, the best you can find for MAME, quite hard to program but once done you're fine. Though I've switched to an original arcade cabinet from 1991. Only that brings back the "magic" from the early days.

"Free", is an human construct that does not exist in reality.
This is an undeniable fact of Physics that only an uneducated fool would attempt to argue against.

those this work with a Mac or can use my samsung tv where do you connect it at any one ???