**Introducing the N97 Emulation System**

The n97 is an impressive emulation system that comes pre-installed with a variety of themes to give you an idea of what kind of performance you can expect. The device has a bunch of emulators installed, including Dolphin Emulator for GameCube and Wii emulation, as well as direct X11 back in. This allows for smooth emulation on lower-end systems, making it perfect for retro gaming enthusiasts.

**GameCube Emulation with Dolphin Emulator**

Let's take a look at the GameCube emulation capabilities of the n97 using the Dolphin Emulator. The system is capable of running popular titles like Sonic Adventure 2 in 720p, and even at higher resolutions like 1080p if needed. The performance is impressive, with minimal dips in frame rate, making it perfect for emulating demanding games like Rogue Squadron 2.

**Wii Emulation with Dolphin Emulator**

In addition to GameCube emulation, the n97 also comes equipped with Wii emulation capabilities using the same Dolphin Emulator. This allows for seamless play of popular titles like Tatsunoko Versus Capcom in 720p, even at lower resolutions if needed. The system is also capable of running more demanding games, including FZ GX, which runs at full speed.

**PSP Emulation with Dolphin Emulator**

The n97 also features PSP emulation capabilities using the Dolphin Emulator, allowing for seamless play of popular titles like Tekken 6 in 4X resolution direct X11. The system is capable of running even more demanding games, including mid-range titles, and can handle a wide range of PS2 games with ease.

**PS2 Emulation with Dolphin Emulator**

The n97 also comes equipped with PS2 emulation capabilities using the Dolphin Emulator, allowing for seamless play of popular titles like Soul Caliber 3 in 2X resolution. The system is capable of running even more demanding games, including mid-range titles, and can handle a wide range of PS2 games with ease.

**Performance Testing**

To test the performance of the n97 emulation system, I ran a series of tests using popular titles like Tekken 6 and God of War 2. The results were impressive, with minimal dips in frame rate even at higher resolutions. For example, God of War 2 required going down to 1.5X resolution, but even then the performance was smooth.

**The Power of the H4 SBC**

One of the standout features of the n97 is its use of a powerful single board computer (SBC) called the H4 x86. This device provides a wide range of emulation capabilities, including PS2 and PSP games, making it perfect for retro gaming enthusiasts.

**Conclusion**

The n97 emulation system is an impressive piece of hardware that comes pre-installed with a variety of emulators and a powerful single board computer. With its ability to run demanding titles like Sonic Adventure 2 and God of War 2 at high resolutions, the n97 is perfect for anyone looking to experience retro gaming on their Android device.

**Additional Information**

For those interested in purchasing an n97 emulator system, there are several links available in the description below. The device is also easy to assemble and comes with a simple design that makes it easy to use. If you're interested in seeing more videos of the n97 emulator system in action, be sure to check out the comments section below for updates.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at what I consider the coolest retro case for an x86 single board computer ever made now recently on the channel we took a look at the allnew ooid H4 this is actually a really nice little single board computer base price coming in at 99 bucks you can also get one with a more powerful CPU up to $1.99 but this little board does make a really great little emulation device whether you want to run Windows or Linux you could always install something like boser if you want too and in my original video I wasn't able to show off their brand new case because it actually wasn't announced yet and this is something that I've actually been wanting to see for quite some time in fact in the past I've actually built something very similar but it did cost me a lot more because I had to Source a lot of different parts but now ooid has a very similar case up on their website known as the cube and it's going for 25 bucks obviously it's GameCube inspired and this was specifically designed for the H4 but I'm going to pick up a couple more I'm going to modify these and there's not much modification needed to add a different Mini PC inside of this unit personally I think they've done a great job kind of recreating this it's built of ABS plastic and it does come with a PCB so we've got four USB ports up front in my opinion the whole setup is really awesome and coming in at 25 bucks it's really hard to beat something like this if you're looking to build a GameCube inspired Mini PC and even this front PCB with those four USB ports on it has a USB type-c input so you can put plug this into a different system but keep in mind it's also got a function and a power button that's going to work specifically for the H4 using that gpio cable that's included with the kit it's got enough room inside of the case for a 2.5 in drive and if you're going to be using the H4 that's more than enough for game cub and Wii emulation the H4 Ultra is actually a much more powerful little system with an n305 CPU but that's coming in at 199 and even then once you put everything together still a pretty inexpensive little setup with a really clean look I've got a couple extra little accessories that ooid sells that'll go right along with this case like a fan so we can keep this thing nice and cool I've also got their SATA adapter kit now keep in mind the H4 non plus model doesn't have SATA ports on the unit itself so this is going to be kind of irrelevant for that $99 model another thing that changes from the H4 to the H4 plus is the fact that the plus has two 2.5 GB ethernet ports but if you're looking to keep the cost way down I would definitely just go with The $99 H4 a lot of that stuff is unnecessary for an emulation setup so let's go ahead and get this thing together first up I'm going to tackle the front I/O for USB ports and again this does have that gpio connector plus it's got USB type-c n so if you were using this with a different system it would work you're just not going to get access to that function and power button up front we'll use three of these screws to secure it to the front plate Okay so we've got that Tak taken care of next thing we need to do is grabb the H4 and we've got two standoffs that need to go on the board itself in order for it to fit correctly in the case everything is included we'll just go ahead and attach both of these near the rear I/O and speaking of the rear IO the cube case does come with that rear I/O plate and as you can see one of the ethernet ports is blocked off again for the $99 version you're not going to need to knock this out I'm going to leave it there because I might downgrade later on if I can get my hands on one of the cheaper versions we'll just slide this right down into the bottom half of the shell and everything lines up quite nicely again the shell itself is made of ABS you could paint this to make it look original you could go with the different color scheme if you want to but right now they're only offering it in Black so yeah I mean if you did want that you know GameCube color scheme that's something you definitely have to do but now we'll just go ahead and get this secure with these four screws I'll grab that gpio cable plug one half into the board and they do have full instructions over on their website front I/O panel also needs to be plugged into the other end and I'm really glad that we have that power button you know externally it's not one that you have to screw in or anything like that everything works over gpio we're actually almost done here last thing I need to do is actually install the fan cuz I don't want this thing thermal throttling and even though it's a very low wattage chip we have here with that Intel n97 there's a chance in an enclosed case we would hit thermal throttle even with that large heat sink on it given the chip we're using so having a nice little fan here to just blow a little bit of air across the unit is going to work great we've got plenty of ventilation on each side of the shell itself so it's going to flow right through and the last thing we need to do is just put the top half of the shell on it's going to be secured with four screws from the bottom it also comes with some rubber feet so it won't slide around on the desk and once it's complete looks a little something like this I'm a huge fan of the look and do love the price here again in the past I have put a Mini PC in a GameCube I've got a video up on my channel lots of cutting lots of little knickknacks that we needed to buy but seeing that they have this case on their website for 25 bucks I think this is going to make those projects a lot easier for more people out there since I'm using the H4 plus around back here we've got dual 2.5 GB ethernet but I kept one blocked off with that I/O plate two USB 2.0 ports two USB 3.0 ports fulls size HDMI two display two full-size display ports optical audio and two 3.5 mm audio jacks and up front with this case installed we've got our power button a function button and four USB 2.0 ports for a lot of people out there who are strictly going to be using this for a little emulation setup I would recommend installing something like bota you could actually run it from a USB drive but I've already got Windows 11 installed on the uh m.2 SSD that I have 512 GB PCI E e 3.0 Drive I've also got 16 gigs of RAM and as you can see here we've got that quadcore Intel n97 not the most powerful chip in the world we've only got four cores and four threads but it will boost up to 3.6 GHz and when it comes to emulation on this machine we can do up to PS2 now I will admit that there are some PS2 games that you will have to drop that resolution down on but in Windows using DirectX 11 or even Vulcan with PC sx2 I've had a really good time and one of the main reasons I would recommend installing bosera is just for that really nice front end now of course in Windows you could go with emulation station but personally I like using launchbox and big box and I've already got it set up ready to go here initializing big box and whenever I'm using a Windows machine with emulation and I need a front end this is exactly what I go to but there are other front ends out there it's really up to you and there's more than just emulation that I'm going to be doing with this Mini PC that's why I op to use Windows instead of something like B sah so yeah this is big box and you could always install Linux something like bosera if you wanted to but you know I wanted to leave windows on the drive that I have in here plus I've already got launchbox set up on an external drive so I figured I'd go ahead and show it off here does work quite well on this little machine and of course we've got a GameCube shell for this Mini PC GameCube and Wii is going to be one of the main things a lot of people want to run on this but there's there's tons of other emulators that we can use here now I'll tell you this system doesn't have enough power to do a lot of the PS3 games or even PS4 but when it comes to the lower-end stuff under Wii we've got more than enough power with this n97 and as you can see I've got a lot of artwork bunch of games installed here there are a ton of different themes that we can use with big box you can download them directly from within the application so if I head here just scroll on down here to start themes demo and I've got a bunch installed here it's just to give us an idea of what kind of themes are here what they look like also the name we can let this run through in kind of an attract mode system but yeah I mean it's fully customizable here and since I've got windows installed I've also got some PC games that run pretty decently on this system a lot of lower end stuff but yeah cup head battle toads all that stuff is going to be good to go on this n97 but of course a lot of people really want to do some emulation on this system so let's go ahead and check out some GameCube and uh I'll just find a game here actually let's go with that one that we just had Sonic Adventure 2 on the GameCube and with big box here we've got these really nice launch animations and there's also pause screens built in but the first game we have is Sonic Adventure 2 we're using the Dolphin Emulator direct X11 back in 720p and to tell you the truth I haven't gone up to 1080 with this I'm pretty sure a lot of these games would run just fine at 1080 I just figured it looked good enough at 720p but just seeing the kind of performance we're getting here yeah most of this stuff could definitely go to 1080 and I do have After Burner up in the top left hand corner just to kind of give you an idea temps and everything this never went over 60° C and it even handles harder to emulate GameCube games like Rogue Squadron 2 still at 720 here direct X11 back in and with Gamecube and Wii emulation using the Dolphin Emulator if you want to use the Bulan back in you're going to see very similar performance some games May perform better some may perform worse but yeah for dx11 here since we're on Windows this has always worked out really well and Rogue Squadron 2 has always been a harder game to emulate on Lower in chip sets moving up to some Wii with the same emulator here 720p tatsunoko versus Capcom and right there you'll see it dip down just a bit those are shaders caching with this now if I went back and did that same move it wouldn't dip on me that's just something it does here with that dx11 back in so far with Gamecube and Wii using dolphin on the H4 I've had a really good time with it even FZ GX runs at full speed checking out some PSP we're at 4X resolution direct X11 backend Tekken 6 uh not a super hard game to emulate I consider this a midrange game when it comes down to it the H4 x86 single board computer does have a wide range of emulation covered up to PS2 I have not tested Xbox but the only reason I really haven't is because I know it does require a much more powerful GPU but there's still thousands and thousands of games that are going to run at full speed on this system and if you wanted to tackle the hardest to emulate PSP games even at 4X not a problem with that direct X11 back in or again just like GameCube and Wii you could swap over to Bulan if it really matters to you and finally we've got some PS2 emulation so this is about the extent of what we can do here on this n97 chip Soul Caliber 3 two X resolution volt them back in and keep in mind some easier to emulate PS2 games can go up to four and 5x this is just one of those mid-range games I also tested God of War 2 and with that one I did have to go down to 1.5x resolution but something like Callum a crate rally 3.0 can run at 2x resolution on this system without a hitch using that Vulcan back in by the way this is one of my all-time favorite rally games and this little H4 really does truck through emulation personally I think o Droid knocked it out of the park with this case and they're no stranger to these retro cases they did an N64 case a while ago for the xu4 Arm based single board computer had a little LCD screen on it and I'm kind of glad they didn't add that to this to keep that price down very simple easy to assemble I think it looks good and of course it was specifically designed for the ooid H4 and it works amazingly with this x86 SBC but we've got enough room in here to add something with a bit more power so if you're interested in seeing a video like that let me know in the comments below if you're interested in picking one of these up I'll leave some links in the description but that's it for this one and like always thanks for watchingwhat's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at what I consider the coolest retro case for an x86 single board computer ever made now recently on the channel we took a look at the allnew ooid H4 this is actually a really nice little single board computer base price coming in at 99 bucks you can also get one with a more powerful CPU up to $1.99 but this little board does make a really great little emulation device whether you want to run Windows or Linux you could always install something like boser if you want too and in my original video I wasn't able to show off their brand new case because it actually wasn't announced yet and this is something that I've actually been wanting to see for quite some time in fact in the past I've actually built something very similar but it did cost me a lot more because I had to Source a lot of different parts but now ooid has a very similar case up on their website known as the cube and it's going for 25 bucks obviously it's GameCube inspired and this was specifically designed for the H4 but I'm going to pick up a couple more I'm going to modify these and there's not much modification needed to add a different Mini PC inside of this unit personally I think they've done a great job kind of recreating this it's built of ABS plastic and it does come with a PCB so we've got four USB ports up front in my opinion the whole setup is really awesome and coming in at 25 bucks it's really hard to beat something like this if you're looking to build a GameCube inspired Mini PC and even this front PCB with those four USB ports on it has a USB type-c input so you can put plug this into a different system but keep in mind it's also got a function and a power button that's going to work specifically for the H4 using that gpio cable that's included with the kit it's got enough room inside of the case for a 2.5 in drive and if you're going to be using the H4 that's more than enough for game cub and Wii emulation the H4 Ultra is actually a much more powerful little system with an n305 CPU but that's coming in at 199 and even then once you put everything together still a pretty inexpensive little setup with a really clean look I've got a couple extra little accessories that ooid sells that'll go right along with this case like a fan so we can keep this thing nice and cool I've also got their SATA adapter kit now keep in mind the H4 non plus model doesn't have SATA ports on the unit itself so this is going to be kind of irrelevant for that $99 model another thing that changes from the H4 to the H4 plus is the fact that the plus has two 2.5 GB ethernet ports but if you're looking to keep the cost way down I would definitely just go with The $99 H4 a lot of that stuff is unnecessary for an emulation setup so let's go ahead and get this thing together first up I'm going to tackle the front I/O for USB ports and again this does have that gpio connector plus it's got USB type-c n so if you were using this with a different system it would work you're just not going to get access to that function and power button up front we'll use three of these screws to secure it to the front plate Okay so we've got that Tak taken care of next thing we need to do is grabb the H4 and we've got two standoffs that need to go on the board itself in order for it to fit correctly in the case everything is included we'll just go ahead and attach both of these near the rear I/O and speaking of the rear IO the cube case does come with that rear I/O plate and as you can see one of the ethernet ports is blocked off again for the $99 version you're not going to need to knock this out I'm going to leave it there because I might downgrade later on if I can get my hands on one of the cheaper versions we'll just slide this right down into the bottom half of the shell and everything lines up quite nicely again the shell itself is made of ABS you could paint this to make it look original you could go with the different color scheme if you want to but right now they're only offering it in Black so yeah I mean if you did want that you know GameCube color scheme that's something you definitely have to do but now we'll just go ahead and get this secure with these four screws I'll grab that gpio cable plug one half into the board and they do have full instructions over on their website front I/O panel also needs to be plugged into the other end and I'm really glad that we have that power button you know externally it's not one that you have to screw in or anything like that everything works over gpio we're actually almost done here last thing I need to do is actually install the fan cuz I don't want this thing thermal throttling and even though it's a very low wattage chip we have here with that Intel n97 there's a chance in an enclosed case we would hit thermal throttle even with that large heat sink on it given the chip we're using so having a nice little fan here to just blow a little bit of air across the unit is going to work great we've got plenty of ventilation on each side of the shell itself so it's going to flow right through and the last thing we need to do is just put the top half of the shell on it's going to be secured with four screws from the bottom it also comes with some rubber feet so it won't slide around on the desk and once it's complete looks a little something like this I'm a huge fan of the look and do love the price here again in the past I have put a Mini PC in a GameCube I've got a video up on my channel lots of cutting lots of little knickknacks that we needed to buy but seeing that they have this case on their website for 25 bucks I think this is going to make those projects a lot easier for more people out there since I'm using the H4 plus around back here we've got dual 2.5 GB ethernet but I kept one blocked off with that I/O plate two USB 2.0 ports two USB 3.0 ports fulls size HDMI two display two full-size display ports optical audio and two 3.5 mm audio jacks and up front with this case installed we've got our power button a function button and four USB 2.0 ports for a lot of people out there who are strictly going to be using this for a little emulation setup I would recommend installing something like bota you could actually run it from a USB drive but I've already got Windows 11 installed on the uh m.2 SSD that I have 512 GB PCI E e 3.0 Drive I've also got 16 gigs of RAM and as you can see here we've got that quadcore Intel n97 not the most powerful chip in the world we've only got four cores and four threads but it will boost up to 3.6 GHz and when it comes to emulation on this machine we can do up to PS2 now I will admit that there are some PS2 games that you will have to drop that resolution down on but in Windows using DirectX 11 or even Vulcan with PC sx2 I've had a really good time and one of the main reasons I would recommend installing bosera is just for that really nice front end now of course in Windows you could go with emulation station but personally I like using launchbox and big box and I've already got it set up ready to go here initializing big box and whenever I'm using a Windows machine with emulation and I need a front end this is exactly what I go to but there are other front ends out there it's really up to you and there's more than just emulation that I'm going to be doing with this Mini PC that's why I op to use Windows instead of something like B sah so yeah this is big box and you could always install Linux something like bosera if you wanted to but you know I wanted to leave windows on the drive that I have in here plus I've already got launchbox set up on an external drive so I figured I'd go ahead and show it off here does work quite well on this little machine and of course we've got a GameCube shell for this Mini PC GameCube and Wii is going to be one of the main things a lot of people want to run on this but there's there's tons of other emulators that we can use here now I'll tell you this system doesn't have enough power to do a lot of the PS3 games or even PS4 but when it comes to the lower-end stuff under Wii we've got more than enough power with this n97 and as you can see I've got a lot of artwork bunch of games installed here there are a ton of different themes that we can use with big box you can download them directly from within the application so if I head here just scroll on down here to start themes demo and I've got a bunch installed here it's just to give us an idea of what kind of themes are here what they look like also the name we can let this run through in kind of an attract mode system but yeah I mean it's fully customizable here and since I've got windows installed I've also got some PC games that run pretty decently on this system a lot of lower end stuff but yeah cup head battle toads all that stuff is going to be good to go on this n97 but of course a lot of people really want to do some emulation on this system so let's go ahead and check out some GameCube and uh I'll just find a game here actually let's go with that one that we just had Sonic Adventure 2 on the GameCube and with big box here we've got these really nice launch animations and there's also pause screens built in but the first game we have is Sonic Adventure 2 we're using the Dolphin Emulator direct X11 back in 720p and to tell you the truth I haven't gone up to 1080 with this I'm pretty sure a lot of these games would run just fine at 1080 I just figured it looked good enough at 720p but just seeing the kind of performance we're getting here yeah most of this stuff could definitely go to 1080 and I do have After Burner up in the top left hand corner just to kind of give you an idea temps and everything this never went over 60° C and it even handles harder to emulate GameCube games like Rogue Squadron 2 still at 720 here direct X11 back in and with Gamecube and Wii emulation using the Dolphin Emulator if you want to use the Bulan back in you're going to see very similar performance some games May perform better some may perform worse but yeah for dx11 here since we're on Windows this has always worked out really well and Rogue Squadron 2 has always been a harder game to emulate on Lower in chip sets moving up to some Wii with the same emulator here 720p tatsunoko versus Capcom and right there you'll see it dip down just a bit those are shaders caching with this now if I went back and did that same move it wouldn't dip on me that's just something it does here with that dx11 back in so far with Gamecube and Wii using dolphin on the H4 I've had a really good time with it even FZ GX runs at full speed checking out some PSP we're at 4X resolution direct X11 backend Tekken 6 uh not a super hard game to emulate I consider this a midrange game when it comes down to it the H4 x86 single board computer does have a wide range of emulation covered up to PS2 I have not tested Xbox but the only reason I really haven't is because I know it does require a much more powerful GPU but there's still thousands and thousands of games that are going to run at full speed on this system and if you wanted to tackle the hardest to emulate PSP games even at 4X not a problem with that direct X11 back in or again just like GameCube and Wii you could swap over to Bulan if it really matters to you and finally we've got some PS2 emulation so this is about the extent of what we can do here on this n97 chip Soul Caliber 3 two X resolution volt them back in and keep in mind some easier to emulate PS2 games can go up to four and 5x this is just one of those mid-range games I also tested God of War 2 and with that one I did have to go down to 1.5x resolution but something like Callum a crate rally 3.0 can run at 2x resolution on this system without a hitch using that Vulcan back in by the way this is one of my all-time favorite rally games and this little H4 really does truck through emulation personally I think o Droid knocked it out of the park with this case and they're no stranger to these retro cases they did an N64 case a while ago for the xu4 Arm based single board computer had a little LCD screen on it and I'm kind of glad they didn't add that to this to keep that price down very simple easy to assemble I think it looks good and of course it was specifically designed for the ooid H4 and it works amazingly with this x86 SBC but we've got enough room in here to add something with a bit more power so if you're interested in seeing a video like that let me know in the comments below if you're interested in picking one of these up I'll leave some links in the description but that's it for this one and like always thanks for watching\n"