The RetroUSB AVS - Review - Game Sack 

15:45 "If you watching this 6 years from now..." and Joe looked directly into the camera -- I am rattled.

A bit of a note on the Zapper. It does work with the RetroUSB AVS, but you must use an older CRT BVM or PVM with HD SDI support and find a zero lag HDMI to HD SDI converter. I've played many rounds of Duck Hunt with friends this way.

You cracked me up with Power Glove Segment, holding your 3D glasses with your glove hand, control your game with your bare arm. Thanks for the Laughter! 😂

live from Boulder, it's sackturday night

Game Sack is definitely one of the top channels on RU-vid. The shows are always stacked with high quality content and are always well written, well laid out and edited, and well executed. I'm always excited to see a new episode pop up in my feed. Thanks guys!

Great video, guys. I love my AVS. It has really brought my old collection to life and $185 is a bargain next to an HDMI mod or RGB + an upscaler.

best AVS review on youtube 👍

The AVS is finally back in stock. I sold mine on eBay a few years ago. I just bought a new one yesterday.

The palette "FCEUX" refers to the NES emulator by the same name. Just a heads up!

I bought an AVS about 5 months ago and I'm loving it. Great review guys!

Was just binge watching you guys last night. Now a new one! Love you guys.

The AVS, a flash cart and you're all set!

I own an AVS. I bought it for my newborn son so we can play my nes collection with ease when he gets older. great system.

I love the Double Dragon 2 background music.

When Joe introduces a system, he always does it in a Don LaFontaine-esque voice (with reverb). Love it.

I was actually looking into buying one of these earlier today, the timing on this video was perfect.

this was posted on my birthday, thanx for the gift guys!

This is why a stay up till 2 am. One of my favorite channels.

I am not a video game guy per se - I love old Nintendo and SNES games - but you guys have a very natural way about you that make these things fun to watch and listen to. I put on three or four while I'm working (I'm an illustrator) and the time flies by. So thanks!

Was literally watching game sack when I got the notification on my phone love my sack!

Totally worth the price tag. I had been on the fence until this video. Thanks guys!

I love the reviews of these types of consoles!

The first thing I do when I load up a game sack episode is "like" it. Don't even have to watch it first. I know it will be good and I don't want to forget.

You guys answered all of my questions about the AVS!

Love the show as always. I've had my AVS for a few days now and love it.

You guys really make me want to get one of these dudes! Knowing that flash carts work just fine is even better. Now I can play all my favorite backups without worrying about the condition of my originals!

I've been going back and forth on getting one for a while. Seems like a great solution if you want to play your carts in HD. This video probably got me one step closer to getting one

Great review guys, as always funny and well done. I am tempted to buy one of these, it would solve a lot of problems and finally i can enjoy all my NES games on my HD screen.

I always enjoy the sound effects Game Sack adds when inserting games into systems and turning them on, it's good immersion and the right kind of offbeat.

Game Sack episodes are always a pleasure. Take care.

5:39 - Hey Dave! You left another hair next to the power button!

I just ordered this product yesterday. I'll definitely give you guys a verdict real soon!

Your videos are awesome! I love your guys' castlevania music choice!

I like how you took the 72 in 1 cart to show how it is not the system but the cart that is often the problem.

I got mine for Christmas and I love it. So far it's lasted longer than both of my Retron 5s.

I was on the fence about this console but ya'll sold me on it, gonna order one soon!

I always enjoy your content, another great episode!

Love that Gradius 2 music in the second half of the video!

You guys are my favorite on all over RU-vid! I would love to see more series focused episodes like you used to do! You should do a Shining series episode

The FCEUX color adds that NTSC brown mis-color. That is awsome.

Damn I'm only watching this 5 years later. I better leave it another year for this to be worthwhile.

This is the video that convinced me to get one. Thanks guys!! :)

"Mag Max with Meg Gibson looks good!" hahahaha that line was fantastic.

It would be cool te see one of them with the SEGA Genesis or SEGA Z80 family of consoles all in one.

A friend of mine has the same 76 in 1 cartridge, just different looking. It's the same compilation of games but the cart is orange and has a different label in chinese. FCEUX is a PC NES emulator guys btw.

Entertaining and informative! You guys should do more hardware reviews in the future.

This was a great episode, and it's good it can run an Everdrive if I ever decide to get one; also loved all the arranged game music in this episode

great review! I love my AVS, one of the best consoles I have had the pleasure of owning :)

Was that the Boulder Game shop theme song at 1:53? Lol. Loved that tune in your Road Rash episode.

That stop-motion thing is pretty well done!

Awesome system and awesome video! Thanks, guys!

My Nes top loader died earlier this year. This review really helped me in making the decision to actually purchase a RetroUsb AVS and it finally arrived today (9/30). I've only played the original Double Dragon so far but I love it. Thanks Joe & Dave! If possible, please make Gaming On Halloween 4 this year!

I respect you unnecessarily inputting Game Genie codes in the system and the unit itself 🐢

Another great episode guys!!

Looks awesome. Also tempting to buy also

Great episode! I really love the "collector-humour".

Oh, 185 bucks? I confused this with that 500 dollar NES system.

I really enjoy the Double Dragon 2 song in the background!

13:30 Nice selection of OSTs you have there.

New gamesack episode? my sunday is saved!

This system is sick. Video looks amazinging, sound is also great. I'm glad I saw this video, can't wait to add one to my collection. Thank you guys for this review video, I would have never know about this bad boy. :)

Hey GameSack crew, I love you guys' fine work and dedication at showing those great games and equipment, and I really think you are doing a exceptional job not only on RU-vid, but in the whole Internet in what regards "gaming knowledge" if I can call it that. However, one of the few things that I miss on this channel is the lack of coverage of anything from the second generation of videogames (Atari 2600, Colecovision, Intellivision, etc.). I really miss those because even that most of its games were lackluster and the best ones on those systems didn't aged really that well, they still symbolize an important era on the market with the game genre experimentation and the try to fit a decent story with a fun gameplay regarding all the system limitations, developing in a great fashion the childhood of many that could grow on the late 70s/early 80s with a (somewhat) full videogame experience on the comfort of your home.

omg they showed the ultimate glove of power!!!! and dave looked sooo badass playing with it!!!

I bought my AVS in August and definitely like it. It doesn't add any noticeable lag to the HD setup which is important to me, and it should be to you too! One thing that you should be aware of is the extra fragile Mini USB power input. It isn't reinforced to the FPGA board and if any force, even a slight amount, is placed on the top of the USB plug it's quite possible for it to break right off. Brian at RetroUSB said new revisions of the AVS should be fixed, but those of us who bought it at launch are still waiting on a fix to keep this from breaking.

Great episode as per usual.

I got this last year and still had solid fun with it. It's the best alternative to some NES players who want to play their NES in beautiful HD but can't afford to mod update their NES.

So glad I got my AVS, this thing is excellent

One of these for SNES or GCN and I'd be all over it!

another great episode guys thank you both....I ordered Volume 1 of Game Sack from Amazon just wondering if vol 2 is coming out soon?...well anyway guys keep up the FANTASTIC work!!!

This episode was so goofy, I loved it.

Totally agree that having the option to remove slowdown would have been nice and also save state functions.

Love this channel

the taper of the side just fires my flower! If it was fully rectangular, then it might pass as an NES II or NES slim or Double Famicom if such existed.

Wow this is one of the best game sack episode lol!!!!

Joe, your RGB modded NES probably does also FCEUX. FCEUX is a popular emulator palette. Tim Worthington put it onto his board. If you like "unsaturated" better you can reprogram the FPGA on Tim's board. This sounds like a pain, but it actually quite user friendly, they made GUIs and stuff to help normal users.

I still need to get this system, after I get the Analogue Super Nt! Been hearing nothing but good things about the RetroUSB AVS!

Cool Game Genie trick. Way to stack. 👍👍

Mag Max with Meg Gibson XD I really thought Joe was gonna snap the flappy lid off for a second there...

I might get an AVS with an ever drive nes cart. This is so awesome

I thought about picking one of these up. I have an RGB NES but this thing would be cool for another room in the house or something.

I have two NES setups right now. 1. Is my original NES from 1985 on a Wega CRT, which somehow still works great.(The NES, not the CRT) 2. The AVS on a 55" Samsung HDTV + Everdrive N8 + 4 8bitdo wireless receivers and 4 NES30 pads. I still use individual carts on it as well, but for the sake of convenience I leave the N8 in it when I want to play a quick game of something.

I have the RetroUSB AVS. I really like it, and I would recommend it.

Hey Joe and Dave! Freaking awesome review! I don't really care for hardware like this usually, but that didn't keep me from watching your awesome new video!

The extra sprites option might cause graphics errors on some games. Some devs took advantage of the hardware limit in order to create certain effects, such as partially hiding a character sprite. There will also still be some flickering in some games, as devs would sometimes intentionally code their own "flicker" so that they have control over exactly how it behaved, rather than leaving the risk of undesired natural results.

I’m watching this video 5 years in the future!

I lose it every time something happens and Dave just shrugs and walks away. Either with a new toy or a copy of Snatcher. I always love the main feature of each episode but I can't help but love the end skits just as much, if not more. Damn you, Dave! lol

Man, those games look so awesome....

Haha love your Everdrive label 9:02.

"MagMax with Meg Gibson!" XD

Might have to look into this

This is one of those few episodes I actually wish I could get the music links for.

It's been two weeks already? Time is going by so fast! Well then I can't wait til the day you guys do an episode the Sega Genesis.

Best clone I've ever seen. Wonder if a future iteration could work in zapper support through a sensor bar and a custom gun. Wish it were more around $150 but still fairly cheap compared to other HD-NES options.

Nice! Love my SACK!

wooooooooooooooooooooooooooow, I've been sleeping on retroUSB, that guy is a BEAST, didn't know he was doing this

I absolutely love mine. It's played everything I've tossed at it, no issues. Doesn't seem to have the lag things like the retron 5 do either.

God damn your outros are amazing.

Another great video. I would like to see annotations with links to other videos for when you mention one. For example, at 6:57

FINALLY an episode with just NES games! I guess this will do until Joe decides it's time to make a system-dedicated episode for the NES/Famicom. Step up Dave! lol

I love the Blaster Master love!