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I tried 6 pirate game consoles from AliExpress
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AliExpress is so full of more pirate consoles than you can shake a peg-leg at, but what exactly are they? Are they repurposed Android TV Boxes, or emulation stations running on custom linux, or faithful adaptations of the original consoles with after-market chips? Are the controllers stiff, mush, or somewhere in the sweet zone?

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@LinusTechTips

9 months ago

Have you used any of these emulation boxes before? What have your experiences been? Let us know below! Buy a Data Frog MI Pad-80 on AliExpress: lmg.gg/SRJ1H Buy a Gamestation 5 on AliExpress: lmg.gg/iWXJ8 Buy an Arcade Box on AliExpress: lmg.gg/V7WNA Buy a Hyper Base FC Retro Game Console on AliExpress: lmg.gg/vtQhQ Buy a Beelink GT King WiFi6 Smart TV box on AliExpress: lmg.gg/Cia5Z Buy a Retro Super Console X Pro Plus on AliExpress: lmg.gg/KKJzO Purchases made through some store links may provide some compensation to Linus Media Group.

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@Gurgio

9 months ago

"I wouldn't pilot a submarine with them" is my new favourite phrase to describe the quality of a controller

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@billyeveryteen7328

9 months ago

At least those knockoff consoles come with actual games, even though they are pirated. When I was a kid, the "Gamestation" equivalent was called a "Polystation," and they always advertised themselves as having 200+ games, but what they often ended up having was 200 different versions of Tetris.

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@homestar92

9 months ago

A couple of those (specifically the ones that lack HDMI) aren't emulators - they're SoC implementations of actual NES hardware. Even the GameStation 5. The epoxy blob was covering the NOAC (Nintendo-on-a-chip) and the other component was a microcontroller for reading the USB ports and translating them to something that NES hardware can understand (a real NES uses a shift register to capture the controller state at a moment in time and then read it serially)

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@erikhendrickson59

9 months ago

4:16 I especially like how the manual is in Russian but the diagram is labeled in Spanish.

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@thexgamer8240

9 months ago

My parents almost bought one of these knockoffs for my birthday. Glad I told them that I didn’t need anything else.

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@Preston_Rowe

9 months ago

Linus, you should use the GS5 shell as a case for a tiny PC build. Would be a cool idea for a future video!

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@hunterchasens835

9 months ago

I think a lot of those "analog" controllers mapped to a D-pad which is why there was such a large dead zone.

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@Jock257z

9 months ago

to be honest the lantern is quite useful, imagine trying to connect it behind the tv, with the lights off

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@pelor92

9 months ago

FYi the schmoo at 3:54 is not used for obfuscation, but as an extreme form of cost cutting, as it is cheaper to glue the bare die to the pcb and wire bond out the IOs, as for commodity ICs packaging is more expensive than the die itself (this technique is heavily used in simple mass scale manufactured goods like calculators)

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@devils_468

9 months ago

10:22 damn Linus didn't have to do them like that

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@Plondysaurus

9 months ago

When I set my Pi library up, I read a lot about N64 being a sticking point for some emulation infrastructures because of the way they were coded rather than a performance issue. It takes separate effort to properly emulate them which a lot of these guys may just decide is not worth it when they can throw thousands of other types of games on there and hit the target number for the page headline.

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@upinarms79

9 months ago

15:50 "i you're comfortable with the piracy and profiting off of other's IP..." Considering Nintendo and Sony's willingness to price jab for retro games these days... yeah, I don't have much sympathy for them. They're the ones raking in all the money while the original developers only see pennies on the dollar from it, anyway.

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@AnCapGamer

9 months ago

10:23 HAHAHAHA!!! "i would not pilot a submarine with them" Well Played, Linus!!

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@Alex-oh5rt

9 months ago

10:20 loving the comparison of controllers to submarine piloting 😂

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@spideye.m8639

9 months ago

Bro got the GAY STATION 5 💀

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@NiFeGetsTubey

9 months ago

A note about only having two dongles for four controllers: KinHank states that you can use one dongle per two controllers. Though from what I understand, it's a bit tricky to set up. I've only needed just one controller.

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@yo.adrian

9 months ago

Wow, just what I needed, a flashlight built into a game console. I bet it'll sell like hotcakes with that feature alone.

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@letsgetto1millwithoutvids

9 months ago

10:23 😂😂 "I wouldn't pilot a submarine with them" that was savage they would still probably be better than what ocean gate was usi

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@solo-ion3633

8 months ago

I've always been curious what's actually in these boxes, but never been game to find out. Thanks LTT for sating my curiosity.

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