The Raspberry Pi 8-Bit Emulator: A Review of Its Capabilities and Limitations

I have to say that I'm not exactly thrilled with the buttons on this device. They're not one of my primary complaints, but they are definitely a letdown. The d-pad is surprisingly decent, though - it's not great, but it's passable. The only other issue I have with the controller is the shoulder buttons. They're just really bad. I haven't used them yet, so I can't say for sure how they'll hold up in practice.

But what really gets my attention is the claim that this device supports multiplayer games. They show footage of people playing together on a TV using an HDMI connection. It's impressive to see, and it makes me wonder if this thing is actually capable of handling more complex gameplay than I initially thought. And then there's the hardware spec: Raspberry Pi Bluetooth 2.0 and above, and a separate SD card slot for installing RetroPie.

Of course, there's also a catch - or rather, a series of catches. First of all, there's no built-in Bluetooth module, which means you'll need to plug in an external dongle just to get wireless connectivity working. And then there's the issue with HDMI output: it doesn't actually work right out of the box, and you'll need to install some extra software to make it work. But hey, at least there's a separate SD card slot, right? That means you can use this thing as a mini-desktop computer if you want.

The big question is whether or not all these issues are worth it for the price. I mean, this thing costs $69, which isn't exactly cheap. And sure, it does have some cool features - like that volume knob on the side, which I think is actually kind of nice. But at the end of the day, it's still just a Raspberry Pi with some extra buttons and a few other modifications thrown in.

One thing that's worth noting is how well this device plays 8-bit games. It's not perfect - the image quality can be a little rough, and the sound isn't always the best. But hey, it gets the job done. And if you're just looking for something to play some retro games on the go, then this thing might actually be worth considering.

Of course, there are other options out there that might be more appealing. Take the Corsair One Pro i200 gaming PC, for example. That thing is a beast - it's got a Core i9 processor, an RTX 2080 Ti graphics card, and 64 gigs of RAM. It's not exactly cheap, but if you're looking for a serious gaming PC that can handle even the most demanding games, then this might be worth considering.

But back to the Raspberry Pi - what does it have to offer? Well, one thing it has is flexibility. Since most modern web browsers are based on JavaScript and other technologies, there's no need for a powerful computer like this to run your favorite websites. That means you can theoretically get away with using this thing as your primary computing device.

But let's be real - that's not exactly the case. There are plenty of features that this device is missing, from Bluetooth support to HDMI output. And don't even get me started on the keyboard and mouse situation - it seems like there's no real hot-swapping solution here, which makes it pretty frustrating if you want to use a different input device.

Overall, I'd say that the Raspberry Pi 8-Bit Emulator is a decent option for anyone looking for a retro gaming console. But if you're going to be using this thing seriously, you need to be aware of its limitations - and be prepared to do some extra work to get it working properly.

As I was testing the device, I couldn't help but notice how cute it looked on my desk. It's got a bit of a weird shape to it, which makes me think of a tiny toy robot or something. But hey, that's not necessarily a bad thing - sometimes those quirky little gadgets can be kind of charming.

Of course, there was one issue with the device that really threw me for a loop: the mouse wasn't plugged in, and I couldn't figure out where the hub on the keyboard was located. It took me a few minutes to realize that it didn't actually have any built-in Bluetooth support - which meant that I needed to buy an external dongle just to get wireless connectivity working.

I have to say, though - when I did finally manage to get the mouse working, it was kind of nice. The interface was pretty simple, and it worked well for navigating menus and whatnot. But of course, there's always room for improvement, right?

As I continued testing the device, I started to notice some other quirks and limitations that might be worth mentioning. For example, there's no HDMI output - which means you'll need to install some extra software in order to get video working properly. And then there's the issue with Bluetooth support: since there is no built-in module, you'll need to buy an external dongle just to get wireless connectivity working.

One thing that did surprise me was how well this device played 8-bit games. It's not perfect - the image quality can be a little rough, and the sound isn't always the best. But hey, it gets the job done. And if you're just looking for something to play some retro games on the go, then this thing might actually be worth considering.

But overall, I'd say that the Raspberry Pi 8-Bit Emulator is a decent option for anyone looking for a retro gaming console. Just be aware of its limitations - and be prepared to do some extra work to get it working properly. And if you're going to buy this thing, make sure you've got a few dollars to spare - $69 is not cheap, after all!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: eni doubt this is going to surprise you guys but i like playing retro games because to me they ain't retro anyway one of the best options for retro gaming these days is of course the nintendo switch but if you're not that into the limited library of older games and the exorbitant prices that nintendo charges for games that have been out for 30 years then i guess all that's left for you to do is grab a pc load up an emulator and uh oh i guess somebody thought of that this is the creo code lira it's a diy that is if you diy side the side oh terrible to build it yourself or you can actually get it as a pre-built it's a raspberry pi based handheld console and my expectations for it actually just got a lot higher from initially opening the box that looks slick private internet access has fast multi-gigabit vpn tunnel gateways worldwide so if you're looking for a vpn you can learn more about pia at the link below okay i'm assuming this is the diy one ah yes do it yourself this is pretty cool so download and play your favorite video game surf on the internet watch movies uh do it yourself so it's an arm cortex a53 1.2 gigahertz bass chip one gig of lp ddr2 ram and an 800 by 480 resolution display uh that is some not uh hd resolution but given that it's only five inches it should still be okay wow this one is a lot less assembled than the other one oh boy i've got an sd card to microsd adapter we've got it that's cool raspberry pi compute module three plus just like that this looks pretty straightforward i have to confess i do not know what this micro sd to what looks like usb spacing on four contacts is it's exactly that oh all right so here's all the parts i guess first things first i'm going to take the protective bubble wrap off of the battery oh was i even supposed to take that off it looks like it's already attached okay then look ma i'm building my own game console aren't you proud oh wow so the general purpose io is all just mapped out to these contact points here i guess if you just have it assembled on a test bench maybe i mean that's pretty cool so you've got all that you know raspberry pi functionality here's a bunch of five volt and ground that you could theoretically just like wire stuff up to i don't know rgb your lira maybe we should do it oh i just powered it on well then i'm gonna turn it back off since we're back here that looks like a speaker here's the contact pads for our buttons so this is probably the d-pad and then this is our abx y over here and then back to the other side there's our micro sd card slot another button or several headphone jack nice and then this looks like the display ribbon cable receptacle it's powered off now right yeah good okay let's put in the compute module well first i go in at the wrong angle then i awkwardly pull back out and take another run at it basically like installing a sodium memory module and that's it that's the whole brain of this thing doesn't even need active cooling shoulder buttons cool there's one oh lordy did i lose one nope there it is stop hovering i'm gonna figure it out i hope there's the back probably the battery sticks to these adhesive doodads here before you do that can we just pause for a second for a little a little moment here so this right here is my first problem with this oh wait i'm putting this in backwards well there's another problem yeah but that's your problem right but if you kind of look here there's only four screw holes so if you look like um here's the back to a ti-83 right that's a calculator yeah you can see six screws clips in between them lots of ribbing for you know reinforcement yeah lots of stiffness i strongly think that the whole thing was designed by electrical engineers play screen here oh it must go in this way all right no no that's not it okay hold on hold on i can't i swear to you i can figure this out this has to go through yes there we go should i just suggest something uh reading the instructions no i don't want to do that i was going to suggest just disconnecting the battery until it's needed no no it's fine okay it's not it's not powered on should be fine there we go all right so that goes there that means our battery sits right about yeah wow that is a very small amount of 3m tape stuff's expensive well do you want to know the price difference between the diy and the not diy version uh sure why don't you hit me with that so originally it was thirty dollars okay but now it's zero at the same price i think i would just get the pre-assembled one because then at least i can play with it for a bit before i break it what's that attached to oh screws we need screws wait why would you screw that in uh that doesn't thread into anything um why are there four nuts please tell me you know the answers to these questions alex well i'm going to use one of the nuts for this i see what you mean about the whole design by electrical engineers thing this is not a great way of attaching a shoulder button now it's gonna come off for sure it doesn't even have like loctite for the washer like it's just gonna come loose wait i think i figured out why i have four small screws and two nuts or maybe you're supposed to put one in the middle okay yeah i think it goes one nut on one side and one nut on the other side because that gets the spacing right one cool thing about this finicky shoulder button installation experience is you can kind of tune how quickly the shoulder buttons rebound so you can tighten them up more if you're more into buttons that aren't responsive clear buttons or black buttons clear obviously it seems distinctly possible that i'm doing this wrong because the keys don't match and i definitely got it wrong that is not enough tape to attach a screen and with how misaligned they are i wish they had just gotten me to do it that's green now that's nice this goes on the outside right yep cool okay the fit and finish is not perfect does this thing only have a mono speaker oh i didn't notice that before that's kind of a bummer you know what ah there's a little nubbin thing hanging out of them i don't think that's supposed to be there well let's look at the other ones first oh are these for like leds or something where do these go i actually have no clue and now it goes in perfectly oh well if you were hoping that putting the screws in was gonna make it uh a little bit less flexy i can put your positive vibes to rest is the other one just as bad yep okay well i didn't do it wrong at least i've got that to help me feel better is it supposed to be booting up right now it takes a while oh okay cool oh wow there it is we got a command prompt you did do that there it's gone oh lordy this is this is that is suspiciously slow now the shoulder buttons on the outside i missed that oh man is this a chinese brand no that says design in london manufactured in london as well really yeah well i mean surely they're not making the lcd panel in london do you want to guess the price i'm going to say 200 bucks a bit more uh 300 250 250 and that's us dollars yup ouch hey maybe it's amazing yes no probably not okay so there is a red light here is that red for power or red for you don't have enough power that's red for power okay let's see if it's a little happier if we plug it into power while we boot it it's a nice usb cable though got the little power indicator led in it did i manage to kill it i'd be pretty impressed if you did honestly there we go okay emulation station yay okay so what we just charged it for 10 minutes it doesn't really you know die gracefully when it dies it just kind of i feel like that's kind of where we were there retropie don't go into those menus because this is you know a keyboard input and you can kind of end up in situations pretty easily where you don't have you know the buttons required all right so what should we do instead let's put some games on it yay so first of all you want that thingy uh-huh we need a little usb drive here this one right here will do just fine okay so you go and plug it into your computer and then you get a folder on it that's called retropie cool so here we have our wonderful usb drive ltdstore.com i like it very nice take it out wait so we don't actually put any games no okay now you take it and you put it in here uh-huh gorgeous wow how ergonomic yeah and now you just wait until it stops blinking okay which is pretty good for something like that but if you know you have a usb stick such as this one then you're just guessing yeah set a five minute timer or something and hope for the best while we're waiting have you tried downloading emulated games anytime recently uh no it's been a while but i know there was a big hullabaloo where basically all the emulation sites got shut down yeah it's a really bad time now we got a bunch of games but that's just because jake has a whole collection on his server of course of all the games that he owns physical copies of it's still going it's still going wait what is it actually doing okay it seems to have stopped yeah so now we can take it out and we put it in here we can look at what it has been doing now oh it's creating like a directory structure yeah okay i mean that's not the stupidest thing i've ever heard i don't really get why you can't just take the sd card and put it in here i have some playstation i have some snes games um pi 3 can do psx hey yeah that's pretty cool just so i understand then now that we've copied the files to the usb drive we are now plugging it in here and it is copying files to the microsd card yes now i see why you said this is not the smartest way because you're right why wouldn't we just put the microsd card in the computer yep their directions say just do it this way well that's fine i'm going to plug it into power while it does this i don't want it to die how long does the battery last they say four hours given that the only instructions that you have are wait until it stops blinking it occasionally will stop blinking for like a solid second two seconds or so and you'll think oh i can pull it and then it just keeps on going of course now that i say that it's not going to do it but so now what we fire up play some games there's just one more step you got to go ahead and reboot the machine now we go into playstation crash bandicoot and ay look at it go oh hey look at that it works well might as well stick with mono since we uh only have one speaker i like how it's placed right below your thumb as well so when you grip it you're covering up the speaker that's pretty good get the apples get the apples gotta get the apples more apples why do we need apples oh oh no left or right oh we're going right so what do you think of the buttons i uh i would not say that the buttons are one of my primary complaints about this device not great stabilization or anything like that but i would say the d-pad is surprisingly not horrendous yeah the only ones that i really have complaints about are the shoulder buttons oh i haven't used those yet yeah they're pretty bad i got 69 apples now nice does it do uh n64 yes but obviously it would be a terrible experience yeah yeah okay but here's where it gets interesting it says you can play multiplayer games they hook it up to a tv hdmi in sure and now they're playing all together they've got arm tattoos you know so they're credible based off that footage you'd think you know you just plug it into there yep yeah so these right here are like the 8-bit 2 controllers it says right on the back raspberry pi bluetooth 2.0 and above i feel like there's a punch line here yeah there's no bluetooth module oh so if you look here it's a real sneaky one but if you look they've got this big tether pants so so we'll go in there let's what am i going to find in here yeah okay we have a separate problem though this isn't actually outputting to hdmi yeah that's another problem you need to install a whole other thing of retropie on here for it to get onto the screen i got to swap my micro sd card when i want to run the desktop os yeah okay that also makes their claim that you can use this as like a desktop computer experience on the go a little misleading i mean yeah you can but you won't we have the raspberry pi thing set up here so you can do that you need to take that sd card out but you know it's fine okay that wasn't me that was gravity okay and i can fire it up now firing it up hey there we are yeah it's working welcome to raspberry pi most not working uh i think this mouse is not actually plugged into ah that would do it i don't know where the hub on the keyboard is please tell me it supports like a hot plug oh god oh lordy all right well let's reboot it is it is boot looping okay let's try just let's try just a mouse okay oh there we go click next uh um hello it's not plugged in all right so a lot of things that you do on your computer these days are web browser based which is why you can theoretically get away with a super low powered computer like this it doesn't have a wireless card it says on the kickstarter that there'll be a bluetooth and wireless dongle available for purchase later it's not available now i don't know if it ever will be but you know not all that useful neat there's nothing else really quite like it is there well uh see there's this plant right here that's been growing some weird fruit lately pocky cow that guy right there is 40 bucks but it's not great i mean you can tell just looking at like the buttons are even worse what is bard what is commander okay this is not comparable how is that not comparable look at it it's so cute i was gonna ask does it have an hdmi output but i guess it's not really relevant because that one doesn't really either oh but do you know what it does have what does it have it's a volume knob okay but this is lagging on snes games like you could make the argument that there's room for something a bit more premium and a bit more powerful it's pretty cute though i will say that much creo code lyra then worth it if hackability and cool factor is all you're after there's a decent base here and aside from the flex issues with the body i actually think the buttons are not bad but if all you're after is bang for the buck for spending a little bit of money to play some retro games something like this makes a ton more sense to me the corsair one pro i200 gaming pc features a compact and sexy design and liquid cooling to minimize temperatures as well as fan noise it's got a core i9 10940x processor geforce rtx 2080 ti graphics four 16 gig sticks of ddr4 2666 that's 64 gigs and a 2 terabyte m.2 nvme ssd it also features corsair's world-class 24 7 support either over the phone or online and a two-year warranty learn more at the links in the video description if you're into just checking out weird console stuff maybe have a look at our video on the virtual boy we got our hands on not one but two of them and tried virtual boy multiplayer pretty fun little video oh no oh no he's gonna get me no he's gonna get me oh wow he's gonna get me shoot i might actually die i diedi doubt this is going to surprise you guys but i like playing retro games because to me they ain't retro anyway one of the best options for retro gaming these days is of course the nintendo switch but if you're not that into the limited library of older games and the exorbitant prices that nintendo charges for games that have been out for 30 years then i guess all that's left for you to do is grab a pc load up an emulator and uh oh i guess somebody thought of that this is the creo code lira it's a diy that is if you diy side the side oh terrible to build it yourself or you can actually get it as a pre-built it's a raspberry pi based handheld console and my expectations for it actually just got a lot higher from initially opening the box that looks slick private internet access has fast multi-gigabit vpn tunnel gateways worldwide so if you're looking for a vpn you can learn more about pia at the link below okay i'm assuming this is the diy one ah yes do it yourself this is pretty cool so download and play your favorite video game surf on the internet watch movies uh do it yourself so it's an arm cortex a53 1.2 gigahertz bass chip one gig of lp ddr2 ram and an 800 by 480 resolution display uh that is some not uh hd resolution but given that it's only five inches it should still be okay wow this one is a lot less assembled than the other one oh boy i've got an sd card to microsd adapter we've got it that's cool raspberry pi compute module three plus just like that this looks pretty straightforward i have to confess i do not know what this micro sd to what looks like usb spacing on four contacts is it's exactly that oh all right so here's all the parts i guess first things first i'm going to take the protective bubble wrap off of the battery oh was i even supposed to take that off it looks like it's already attached okay then look ma i'm building my own game console aren't you proud oh wow so the general purpose io is all just mapped out to these contact points here i guess if you just have it assembled on a test bench maybe i mean that's pretty cool so you've got all that you know raspberry pi functionality here's a bunch of five volt and ground that you could theoretically just like wire stuff up to i don't know rgb your lira maybe we should do it oh i just powered it on well then i'm gonna turn it back off since we're back here that looks like a speaker here's the contact pads for our buttons so this is probably the d-pad and then this is our abx y over here and then back to the other side there's our micro sd card slot another button or several headphone jack nice and then this looks like the display ribbon cable receptacle it's powered off now right yeah good okay let's put in the compute module well first i go in at the wrong angle then i awkwardly pull back out and take another run at it basically like installing a sodium memory module and that's it that's the whole brain of this thing doesn't even need active cooling shoulder buttons cool there's one oh lordy did i lose one nope there it is stop hovering i'm gonna figure it out i hope there's the back probably the battery sticks to these adhesive doodads here before you do that can we just pause for a second for a little a little moment here so this right here is my first problem with this oh wait i'm putting this in backwards well there's another problem yeah but that's your problem right but if you kind of look here there's only four screw holes so if you look like um here's the back to a ti-83 right that's a calculator yeah you can see six screws clips in between them lots of ribbing for you know reinforcement yeah lots of stiffness i strongly think that the whole thing was designed by electrical engineers play screen here oh it must go in this way all right no no that's not it okay hold on hold on i can't i swear to you i can figure this out this has to go through yes there we go should i just suggest something uh reading the instructions no i don't want to do that i was going to suggest just disconnecting the battery until it's needed no no it's fine okay it's not it's not powered on should be fine there we go all right so that goes there that means our battery sits right about yeah wow that is a very small amount of 3m tape stuff's expensive well do you want to know the price difference between the diy and the not diy version uh sure why don't you hit me with that so originally it was thirty dollars okay but now it's zero at the same price i think i would just get the pre-assembled one because then at least i can play with it for a bit before i break it what's that attached to oh screws we need screws wait why would you screw that in uh that doesn't thread into anything um why are there four nuts please tell me you know the answers to these questions alex well i'm going to use one of the nuts for this i see what you mean about the whole design by electrical engineers thing this is not a great way of attaching a shoulder button now it's gonna come off for sure it doesn't even have like loctite for the washer like it's just gonna come loose wait i think i figured out why i have four small screws and two nuts or maybe you're supposed to put one in the middle okay yeah i think it goes one nut on one side and one nut on the other side because that gets the spacing right one cool thing about this finicky shoulder button installation experience is you can kind of tune how quickly the shoulder buttons rebound so you can tighten them up more if you're more into buttons that aren't responsive clear buttons or black buttons clear obviously it seems distinctly possible that i'm doing this wrong because the keys don't match and i definitely got it wrong that is not enough tape to attach a screen and with how misaligned they are i wish they had just gotten me to do it that's green now that's nice this goes on the outside right yep cool okay the fit and finish is not perfect does this thing only have a mono speaker oh i didn't notice that before that's kind of a bummer you know what ah there's a little nubbin thing hanging out of them i don't think that's supposed to be there well let's look at the other ones first oh are these for like leds or something where do these go i actually have no clue and now it goes in perfectly oh well if you were hoping that putting the screws in was gonna make it uh a little bit less flexy i can put your positive vibes to rest is the other one just as bad yep okay well i didn't do it wrong at least i've got that to help me feel better is it supposed to be booting up right now it takes a while oh okay cool oh wow there it is we got a command prompt you did do that there it's gone oh lordy this is this is that is suspiciously slow now the shoulder buttons on the outside i missed that oh man is this a chinese brand no that says design in london manufactured in london as well really yeah well i mean surely they're not making the lcd panel in london do you want to guess the price i'm going to say 200 bucks a bit more uh 300 250 250 and that's us dollars yup ouch hey maybe it's amazing yes no probably not okay so there is a red light here is that red for power or red for you don't have enough power that's red for power okay let's see if it's a little happier if we plug it into power while we boot it it's a nice usb cable though got the little power indicator led in it did i manage to kill it i'd be pretty impressed if you did honestly there we go okay emulation station yay okay so what we just charged it for 10 minutes it doesn't really you know die gracefully when it dies it just kind of i feel like that's kind of where we were there retropie don't go into those menus because this is you know a keyboard input and you can kind of end up in situations pretty easily where you don't have you know the buttons required all right so what should we do instead let's put some games on it yay so first of all you want that thingy uh-huh we need a little usb drive here this one right here will do just fine okay so you go and plug it into your computer and then you get a folder on it that's called retropie cool so here we have our wonderful usb drive ltdstore.com i like it very nice take it out wait so we don't actually put any games no okay now you take it and you put it in here uh-huh gorgeous wow how ergonomic yeah and now you just wait until it stops blinking okay which is pretty good for something like that but if you know you have a usb stick such as this one then you're just guessing yeah set a five minute timer or something and hope for the best while we're waiting have you tried downloading emulated games anytime recently uh no it's been a while but i know there was a big hullabaloo where basically all the emulation sites got shut down yeah it's a really bad time now we got a bunch of games but that's just because jake has a whole collection on his server of course of all the games that he owns physical copies of it's still going it's still going wait what is it actually doing okay it seems to have stopped yeah so now we can take it out and we put it in here we can look at what it has been doing now oh it's creating like a directory structure yeah okay i mean that's not the stupidest thing i've ever heard i don't really get why you can't just take the sd card and put it in here i have some playstation i have some snes games um pi 3 can do psx hey yeah that's pretty cool just so i understand then now that we've copied the files to the usb drive we are now plugging it in here and it is copying files to the microsd card yes now i see why you said this is not the smartest way because you're right why wouldn't we just put the microsd card in the computer yep their directions say just do it this way well that's fine i'm going to plug it into power while it does this i don't want it to die how long does the battery last they say four hours given that the only instructions that you have are wait until it stops blinking it occasionally will stop blinking for like a solid second two seconds or so and you'll think oh i can pull it and then it just keeps on going of course now that i say that it's not going to do it but so now what we fire up play some games there's just one more step you got to go ahead and reboot the machine now we go into playstation crash bandicoot and ay look at it go oh hey look at that it works well might as well stick with mono since we uh only have one speaker i like how it's placed right below your thumb as well so when you grip it you're covering up the speaker that's pretty good get the apples get the apples gotta get the apples more apples why do we need apples oh oh no left or right oh we're going right so what do you think of the buttons i uh i would not say that the buttons are one of my primary complaints about this device not great stabilization or anything like that but i would say the d-pad is surprisingly not horrendous yeah the only ones that i really have complaints about are the shoulder buttons oh i haven't used those yet yeah they're pretty bad i got 69 apples now nice does it do uh n64 yes but obviously it would be a terrible experience yeah yeah okay but here's where it gets interesting it says you can play multiplayer games they hook it up to a tv hdmi in sure and now they're playing all together they've got arm tattoos you know so they're credible based off that footage you'd think you know you just plug it into there yep yeah so these right here are like the 8-bit 2 controllers it says right on the back raspberry pi bluetooth 2.0 and above i feel like there's a punch line here yeah there's no bluetooth module oh so if you look here it's a real sneaky one but if you look they've got this big tether pants so so we'll go in there let's what am i going to find in here yeah okay we have a separate problem though this isn't actually outputting to hdmi yeah that's another problem you need to install a whole other thing of retropie on here for it to get onto the screen i got to swap my micro sd card when i want to run the desktop os yeah okay that also makes their claim that you can use this as like a desktop computer experience on the go a little misleading i mean yeah you can but you won't we have the raspberry pi thing set up here so you can do that you need to take that sd card out but you know it's fine okay that wasn't me that was gravity okay and i can fire it up now firing it up hey there we are yeah it's working welcome to raspberry pi most not working uh i think this mouse is not actually plugged into ah that would do it i don't know where the hub on the keyboard is please tell me it supports like a hot plug oh god oh lordy all right well let's reboot it is it is boot looping okay let's try just let's try just a mouse okay oh there we go click next uh um hello it's not plugged in all right so a lot of things that you do on your computer these days are web browser based which is why you can theoretically get away with a super low powered computer like this it doesn't have a wireless card it says on the kickstarter that there'll be a bluetooth and wireless dongle available for purchase later it's not available now i don't know if it ever will be but you know not all that useful neat there's nothing else really quite like it is there well uh see there's this plant right here that's been growing some weird fruit lately pocky cow that guy right there is 40 bucks but it's not great i mean you can tell just looking at like the buttons are even worse what is bard what is commander okay this is not comparable how is that not comparable look at it it's so cute i was gonna ask does it have an hdmi output but i guess it's not really relevant because that one doesn't really either oh but do you know what it does have what does it have it's a volume knob okay but this is lagging on snes games like you could make the argument that there's room for something a bit more premium and a bit more powerful it's pretty cute though i will say that much creo code lyra then worth it if hackability and cool factor is all you're after there's a decent base here and aside from the flex issues with the body i actually think the buttons are not bad but if all you're after is bang for the buck for spending a little bit of money to play some retro games something like this makes a ton more sense to me the corsair one pro i200 gaming pc features a compact and sexy design and liquid cooling to minimize temperatures as well as fan noise it's got a core i9 10940x processor geforce rtx 2080 ti graphics four 16 gig sticks of ddr4 2666 that's 64 gigs and a 2 terabyte m.2 nvme ssd it also features corsair's world-class 24 7 support either over the phone or online and a two-year warranty learn more at the links in the video description if you're into just checking out weird console stuff maybe have a look at our video on the virtual boy we got our hands on not one but two of them and tried virtual boy multiplayer pretty fun little video oh no oh no he's gonna get me no he's gonna get me oh wow he's gonna get me shoot i might actually die i died\n"