"They dont give a shit!!!" Wicked you have summed up my feelings about these boxes for the last 2 years. When I first discovered these boxes back with the 5 model I was amazed.....so sad to see so little improvement.
I'm still using a Pandora's Box 6 in my Alphacade. It's fine for me since all I mostly care about it is old 2D arcade games. At some point I'll probably upgrade it but this doesn't look like it.
Hey, really enjoying watching your videos at the moment. I have a Pandora 4s+ in an arcade case and am thinking of getting the dx special. Do you think I could swap them over in the case to upgrade? Thanks
PS2 games can mostly run perfectly and some PS3 games too, but on a mid to high end miniPC. If a new Pandora Box were to perform similarly, it would cost between $500 to $900.
Good morning, can you tell me if the arcade games play well? like neo geo and mame, that is the only games i'm interested in, i'm 35 i remember the times where we had arcades in every cofee shop, my brother is 6 years older than me and he took me with him, but i could only watch him play, he used to tell me " come on grow up faster so you can play with me xD ". Wen i finally was 18 the arcades were gone, we want to buy this with the arcade sticks so we can finally play together. Thank you for the review :)
What I don't understand is why the manufacturers don'lt have a couple of people work on the software. I get that they want to use cheap chips, but configuring the software would be the cheapest way to improve performance. Do the manufacturers not even watch any of these channels? Cant they even make sure the tip 100 games are setup correctly? Why can't they just hire team pandory to fix this stuff?
Cause they don't care . Why improve software when you can change the number or name and make it sound likes something new and better while changing very little so less work more profit .
I think it's better to just go with the Mini PC. Yea you will have to spend more money but you are going have better satisfying experience with 60,000 retro games. Just save your money and buy a Mini PC.
To be honest, the Super Console X PC Extreme hardware can't compare with those MiniPCs using the Ryzen APUs so it's better to get the latter of you want to run more than a few PS2 games comfortably.
For some reason, folks behind the Pandora's Box(es), aspect ration does not even register on their radar. Almost as an afterthought. Why? Beats me. This is an retro console/mainboard after all!
one weird thing I cannot understand, is that they insisted to use a extremely old version of MAME 2003 (0.78) which by default, a lot of issues to emulate games such as aliens 3 guns or golden axe revenge of death adder etc. sound issues also caused by the terrible ancient emulators. It seems that the guys who makes decision of what to do within that company doesn't play retro games themselves. Anyway, let's see if they did any change in EX version
I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again with Super console x out there who in there right mind is going to want this? Yet another Pandora fail . Thanks for saving us some money Wicked 👍🏼
@Jeremy Mitchell from what I've seen this hardly plays anything and is filled with copies of the same game. If you want plug and play vs doing work this is probably one of the poorest examples of plug and play.
None of these emu machines ever seem all too great tbh. Decided to just make a bootable usb stick, stick it in my PC, boot from it, tadaa all the emu's I want and they have the full power of the PC available. Want to do some old skool games at a friends, usb in pocket, plug it in there, tadaaa. :') Do you also collect old consoles and computers (have yet to check out the rest of your channel)? Having a hard time finding broken ones to fix for a reasonable price in the Netherlands. Prices on Marktplaats are like "yeah no, junk that may or may not even be fixable by the best of us isn't worth 100s..." *subbed* Groetjes! (You are Dutch right? My Dutch accent detector says so ;) )
Can you just plug in a wire Xbox One controller and it will be recognized and work correctly? Or is an Xbox 360 controller better? Thank you again for the amazing clips and information.
If you connect a USB keyboard to these boxes can you set up the key mapping to the correct controls? I already have arcade controls wired to generate keyboard key presses for a PC. If that's not possible on the family editions I think I need to look at the rewiring it all for the jamma version.
@@joncollins7730 Definitely not. The DX Special is a re-release of the DX with a few more games. If you want Arcade Tekken 3 / KI, go hit up either the Odroid N2+ or a mini-pc. Not one Pandora box is capable of it.
Hey, are you thinking about reviewing the Pandora DX Vertical edition at some point (the cocktail version called as well). I wanted to get one but I am not technical and I have no idea how one could give it power (as it's not the family edition and I don't have an arcade cabinet). If you could review it in a future video, could you pls explain the part about using it at home without a cabinet pls?
The quality is so hit and miss on these devices and that is the kind of thing that puts me off from getting a Pandora's box most of all. With all the steps I think I would have to take in order to make one of these work well, I feel I would be better off re-purposing a last generation mobile phone which would be both more powerful and flexible in terms of what I could do with it.
The real solution is to get coinops on a cheap used computer. Coinops arcade retro 2 completely blows away these boxes. Problem is it requires some out of box setup but still pretty easy. I'd love to have an out of box solution, but these manufactures just dont seem to care.
It s possible now to play Dreamcast..stv..saturn..deathsmiles (from mame)..Terrordrome..? I will be happy with a stuff like that without glitch and original resolution.
Hi everyone, I got my Pandora's box DX special but came all in Chinese! I know how easy would be to go to settings and change the language but in chinese is very hard to do, looking screenshots online I located the Language setting but when I click on it, it only gives me two options which I assume are Chinese and English, I tried both by choosing and saving, box restarts and all shows in Chinese, I wonder if I'm doing something wrong or this box came defected. any help would be great :)
So, it is "special edition" only because is pink :))) I think you need to be payed by someone, you test a lot of pandora boxes and serve the problems/issues on a plate to them :))
Compare the connectors and interfaces of this with your pandora box, if they are the same you should be able to direct swap. Even if not, I'm sure you can get whatever necessary connections needed to get it working.
Welcome to the jungle.... we got fun and games.....we got everything you want, you can even play mame.....in the jungle ....welcome to jungle .... ....it gonna bring you down to your na na na na na knees knees....
Hey guys! I need your help. I have sent 3 emails from pandora box dx official site since my pandora box dx stop working. I am not getting any response. How do I get to repair my pandora box dx? I appreciate anyone’s help.
nope... we need mini pc for that. Just released video about that. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-E6DKXzOKhpo.html&ab_channel=WickedGamer%26Collector
I thought you were done with these reviews, and now you're back with something that doesn't come close to some of your previous reviews. I think you should move on if you can't show us something better.
