Meet the Beelink SER5, the Mini PC that can emulate anything from NES to PS3, Xbox 360, Wii U, and Nintendo Switch, all for a cheap price! Affiliate Link: amzn.to/43c6pMQ Cameo: cameo.com/rgt_85 Twitter: / rgt_85 Facebook: / rgt85
Honestly PS3 still looks great. I dont mind whippin out that ol baby to play Twisted Metal PS3 or lost gems like Hardcorps Uprising. I furshure want the lost PSN games like Earthworm Jim HD.
Still hard to believe tech has gotten this far, I guess I'll try it. The biggest problem I have is I don't know how to transfer the roms to the handheld. I have no idea where people learn this shizz.
@@Jonhurts If the game is no longer sold by the publisher or available on any modern consoles or PC game service (Steam, etc.), then how is it theft? The only people profiting are resellers. The original developers and publishers already got paid. It's absolutely preservation. Retro game media won't work forever.
I’ve been emulating for years- starting with pokemon on my first cheap android smartphone. As the years have gone on, I’ve learned to appreciate the original hardware more. Something about cartridges and controllers really tie it together
Man I've spent so many years with different systems, if I had to buy it all back again it would cost me a small fortune. Good to know people still like the original software but in some cases it is not viable 😂😂 imagine having to buy the ps1 PS2 and 3 it's games the Xbox 360 the N64 and a PSP , those were the consoles I have the most nostalgia but would never have the money to buy it all lol
I'm obsessed with running roms and backups on original hardware. Modded ps2, xbox 360 ect with large hdd. Modded ps1, n64, snes with multicarts or micro sd readers. Modded handhelds. I have an odin for handhelds i dont have yet and a mini pc for consoles i dont have yet. This obsession started with an arcade one up that i stuck a pc in and over engineered and now my room looks like a gaming harware museum.I just buy physical copies when I see them in the wild or at trade shows. I can't justify spending tens of thousands of dollars on physical copies of old games ill never play but somthing feels right about original hardware in your hands.
I remember running SNES on a 633 MHz Celeron and GeForce 2, Chrono Trigger was my first game I really loved. I wished it could handle the N64 emulators but they weren't very well developed and ran horribly on that system.
Do you know if there are people who will do it for me if I pay them? I paid a kid for a modded 360 that had an old college game I loved to play but I’m not good with computers. I was told I can play my old sports game in 4K now with a series X. I’d love to pay someone to do the heavy lifting so I can plug n play if possible!
Dude, I just got to say I appreciate that you've become a huge retro head like me. I listen to spawn wave all the time I watch your videos. I appreciate your work and I'm super stoked that you fallen in the emulation hole the same as me. I currently have emulators all over my house. I'm running them on my steam deck. I did not know about this many PC. This is a major hookup. I appreciate it. I will hit the affiliate link. Keep up the work man. I'm loving it. I notice you also have the sinden light gun there? How are the light gun games on that thing and how difficult are they to set up?
Have had this unit for about nine months, has worked flawlessly. Best thing I noticed was how well the Wii controllers setup on the unit. Excellent investment.👍😁👍 Play On
@AnythingGozePodcast No you download emulators to play roms or disk images. Once you get above ps1 it starts to require more and more power to emulate later systems.
I have been following your channel for a while, and then I saw this video, and I was like, "Ah, that's my computer!" I use this as a workstation, and it performs very well for the form factor and price. I have also managed to run some fairly intensive Steam games on it too, but haven't tried emulators. Something to try next, I guess! The other thing I love about this mini PC is that it's easy to velcro under my standing desk adapter so it's completely out of sight but still easily accessible for cables etc.
That was my question. I am thinking about getting this for my son for his b-day, he'll be 16. What is the O.S. that comes with it? And can he also use it for school? If you use it as a work station, then I guess he would be able to access school projects and meetings, or whatever with no problem.
@@dabearsden3655 Mine came with Windows 11, I was a bit put off at first as my other machines are all Windows 10 but 11 isn't bad and with a few extra apps I can get back my favourite Windows 10 features that were missing. It's definitely good enough for work/school too.
Been using these for point of sale systems. Ones we purchased came with an Intel m2 ssd and crucial ram. Circuit board looked good too. Only 2 issues: 1. windows will fry your cmos thanks to a “system repair” bug where it gets stuck in some endless loop of whatever until it starts cooking (windows problem, not computer). 2. employees love covering the fan and vents with bullshit.
Try using Windows 10 LTSC... its a stripped down version of windows meant to be used for point of sales systems, kioks, medical equipment, electronic signs, so on.
I have been looking for something that can run PS2 and this might be what I'm looking for. Good to know that it can also run GameCube, original Xbox, PS3 , and XBOX 360.
If you follow the link in the description you will see that this is the SER5 Max variant, which has the TDP "maxed" out at 54 watts. The SER5 Pro is the model with it's TDP locked at 35 watts.
I really hope that they have the games that I grew up on that. I’ve been wanting to play again for years like DEF jam, fight for New York, NBA street, volume two midnight club, three dub edition, and blitz the league.
Is there any chance you could do a video where you rank different mini-PCs for "out of the box" performance at different price points? This one is around $350, and I was curious about ones at the $250 and $150 areas as well. This was a great video though, and I appreciated it. I'm mainly just trying to emulate PS2 with standard resolution, and I'm not as tech knowledgeable as I'd like.
@billyp9288 easier said than done. I'm an owner of the SERIES X, and for exactly 3 weeks (yeah, you read it right) I've been trying to emulate on my Xbox without success YET!!!!!! The problem is that all the videos online or on RU-vid explain the steps in ways experienced emulators can grasp easily while people below the novice level still be confused (like myself)... then to top it off I downloaded every software they tell me to and still no success. Then they don't show you how to get the bios because it's illegal, but there's ways around that and no one helps with that. There's the reddit megathread but it too doesn't help because a novice only sees a series of numbers and letters and zips etc etc. Can't tell if it's the bios or the roms or a mix. Then if you get it from the megsthread in the zip format (which all is on megathread) it's not enough... you then have to extract them but the right click gives no option to do so. These mini computers (if they actually work and is safe) are the better routes to take if you're a novice level or below because tho some videos help a lil, they'll never help in the way one actually needs.
I got me a pc from a black friday sale from 2020 still holds up Extremely well, along that i have a nintendo switch, a ps3 (With ps1 backwards compatibility) and a wii i bought to act as my gamecube, also bought a steam deck i rarely touch and forget i have, i almost regret buying the steam deck since i hardly use it.
There are already a TON of people that have made those videos, UrCasualGamer and Mr. Sujano have really good videos on any emulator you want to install, very clear instructions from both of them.
Absolutely love the small form factor. Thanks for sharing your setup for this tiny little device (EDIT): misspelled form just FYI only edit to this comment
Ha! Crazy timing. I bought this exact rig three weeks ago. I run Linux Mint on it and emulate everything up to the Wii U. It was mainly a rig for experimenting and learning Linux. It's done very well. Cold boots to XFCE in like three seconds. The Vega 8 GPU is it's real weakness but it still emulates everything up to Wii U just fine. The Switch is really hard to set up the emulator for without hacking my real switch so I can't say how that is.
I agree with everything you said bro i think emulation is the way to go not just to save space in your house or apartment but all so being able to raise the resolution on some of this old Games to make them look way better is a plus in my book
Love the form factor. Would love to see a video with a pure emulation os on it and see how user friendly it is to navigate and configure settings on the fly. Please make one!
I bought one of these on sale from Amazon per your recommendation. I've been running everything up to PS3, Switch, and XBox360. I threw a 4 Tb drive into it to store roms, upgraded the RAM, and use 8 Bit Do controllers. It's awesome. The only issue I've run into has to do with emulator compatibility, has nothing to do with the box itself, it's a beast. I've played a ton of games I never got a chance to play including translated games that never got released outside of Japan.
looks really good for $329. Tthe cpu has a lot of cores for daily things so thats a good plus. The apu in this is basically the same that you'd find in a 5700g those can reach upwards of 2400mhz on the igpu not sure if these are unlocked to push that high, but well you have the current best apu on the desktop, since AMD won't give us the 680m/780m
Yeah. I went ahead and bought it. I can hook it up to the tv in the bedroom. What is great about it you can use the Windows emulators that are usually the most current and least buggy.
The biggest advantage for the 5700g is the higher TDP and the ability to build a small rig with better cooling. You will get better performance, but mobile chips are catching up to desktop APUs
I did the same thing about 2 years ago. I sold my ps2, Wii, Dreamcast ,NES , SNES, Genesis and O.G Xbox games made a pretty penny.. I got a modded Xbox, nodded ps2 and also a mini PC with a 4TB pre config with all I need... And still had about 12k left from my collection.. only games I kept was my PS3 collection with over 400 games.
Probably a year ago i modded my old wii for my son to have some cool n64 and gamecube games. I was impressed that the games took up so little space 50 games and the mod and fit on a thumb drive. What size hdd are u using with that and what size are the newer like ps and xbox games?
I used to be a hardware snob, and still am a bit, but I have really started to appreciate PS2 and other emulation. I almost prefer it to the actual hardware most of the time, now!
Just received mine and I immediately swapped out the Batocera HDD from my other miniPC (GMK intel i8279U miniPC), powered it up and works like a charm, don't even need to change anything or do any setting adjustments in Batocera. My GMK intel i8279U miniPC when running PS2 Shadow of the Colossus will sound like a jet engine with frame drops too, whereas this SER5 miniPC there is barely any audible fan noise and framerate is smooth so I'm pretty happy. Interestingly, both miniPCs are using a 65W PSU (19V, 3.5A).
There's a updated version with 7000 series chip and RDNA2 graphics. Yes it more $ but i would guess those games that hickuped would be a lot better. I'm considering picking it up to make a cabinet with.
Pretty impressed with the pc. I'm actually considering getting one. My question is, what emulators did you use for the each console system and where did you find them along with the roms. I've been playing roms from original ninetindo and prior for years. Tried ps1 with lots of issues and lagging.
Based on everything you said here, it's a little better speced than the SteamDeck. I use that as my primary emulation device, and it's connected to the TV with an external Xbox one controller for it. Neat...
I get what you are saying about it handling the High End systems so no need to test older systems. However, many systems have trouble running PSP (God of War) and some Dreamcast and N64 games (Goldeneye). We know it isnt a hardware issues. If it was just hardware then most modern smartphones could run those systems. So, it comes down to how the emulators, games and hardware work together.
If it's not a hardware issue like you said then it doesn't matter the results from this miniPC or even a miniPC with Ryzen 7940H. The solution is to wait for updates from said emulators and see if they get better, regardless of what PC you run it from. If, however, the game performance is bottlenecked by the PC HW then a Ryzen 7940H PC will definitely run better than another lower spec PC.
I bought this exact PC at the link you gave and well, this machine is a gold mine. I added a 1TB HD to it and a gaming mouse and keyboard from Reddragon and its amazing
Really considering getting this. Thanks for exposing me to these. PS3 would be the limit of what I'd want to emulate so this seems pretty much perfect. Would no doubt run most of my Steam games decent enough as well.
@@arcueid3352 If that's the experience you are looking for....Playable. -Meh Maybe when a new more efficient emulator comes out, but right now PS3 Emulation is very taxing to any system let alone one without a Discrete GPU. Games that Push the PS3 to the limit will not run well in this system.
It's very good for PS3 (RPCS3) but far from perfect. It works perfectly for fighting games, Shmups, Platformers games and some lighter racing games. I use the Beelink Ser5 inside an arcade machine so pretty much all these type of games work perfectly at PS3 native resolution. I can even upscale most 3D fighting games to 1080p. For FPS, not so much but that's more a compatibility issue with the emulator.
@tumelomorore7894 No, you have to find one that's called a Batocera Build for one's that have collections already on them. Usually it's best to make your own collection, it's simple
This thing is nearly £700 in the UK. Would have got one at the US price as I need to update my very old PC and just want a mini that does a decent job of emulation.
Just get a X96Max + Android Box, 256gb sd card - Burn Emuelec or Retroarch or Retrobat onto it. Finding roms and bios ain't that hard. Plays well up to DC and PSP.
@@britishwordplay4335 I don’t want something that is just an emulator box. I have a RPi4 for that and my old PC plays up to DC without any issues. Even my Surface Pro does. I would like something that can be used as a PC too and can handle up Wii U.
I mean that is indeed amazing at the price point but I'm more blown away that phones can do the same thing (albeit at a higher price point) . That's huge
@@otakukj the switch is a tegra x1... That's like 4 generations old hardware. Current phones are way more than 10 times more powerfully than a tablet from 2015... Cellphones can't do ray tracing yet. The hardware isn't included
I'm looking at making my own retro gaming mini PC. What GPU would you recommend as the minimum for running original XBox and PS3 games? I don't wanna buy something that costs a couple hundred and it not be able to run the games.
The reason Xenia is choppy on your mini PC is because it requires a more powerful graphics chip, wheras most other emulators is all about the CPU. Mini PC's are great but they are terribly lopsided in terms of CPU/GPU ratio.
@@nicotoscani1707 just buy xbox series s on sale between 200-250 and it is much powerful emulation machine than this mini pc, with solid gpu, put it in dev mode.
Is this a good option for something who knows nothing about emulation? I just want to play n64 games. I was using something called openemu on my iMac but the button mapping is horrible
I’ve been really wanting to get an emulation of PS3 generation and older games because of how expensive some of the games are getting like Simpsons hit-and-run is being sold for $60-90$ for just the disk
people with expensive original hardware or FPGAs get all elitist looking down on emulation these days, but the truth is emulation is amazing and is expanding gaming to way more people than ever before, and the technical state of emulation has never been better with big developer communities really engineering remarkable projects
Just like this video shows, some games have glitches and issues, thats how its always been that way with emulation and always will be. Some old N64 and Sega Saturn games still cant be emulated perfectly. So if you have tons of patience and are ok with some games you might want to play "just not working" then emulation is feasible. But if you want the pure original experience, nothing beats original hardware and software. Now if you just want a selection of games from different systems and know the ones you want work well, then emulation is a great solution.
i have the 32gb ram version of this mini pc and i use it as my main pc/gaming pc it plays everything even the new titles amd apu's are beast basiclly eliminates low-end gpu's i went back and beat exodus too
I think if he was willing to do a video where his viewers can request he try specific games that would be helpful. I'm worried with the random games he chose if everything from that console runs this well.
@STAKESisHIGH84 Oh I would definitely do some more research before buying one. There may also be some issues that didn't occur with the games that he's played so far. And I agree that if he were to do a live stream or something of him playing requested games, that would be nice. But from everything that I've seen of RGT, he's always come off as a good dude, and I do generally trust his judgment.
The reason why he said, "Poke Ken Tournament" is because that's how it's pronounced in Japanese. In Japanese a double consenant is separated when pronounced. Tekken would be pronounced, "Tek-ken" in Japanese, for instance.
I converted an arcade 1up coctail table with retro pi, will this be compatible with my set up? I habe yhe screen split in half. Can you put this in cocktail mode?Thanks in advance.
How’s it going love the videos but quick question I bought a mini pc a Ryzen 5 5600U and a 5 tb emulator hard drive I’ve run the emulators but they all seem to be slow and lag very much even Nintendo rims and is there something I’m doing wiring or can do to fix the problem? Any help please thank you.
I don't understand something. Does the mini pc come with the emulators and games already installed and ready to go, or do you still need to download and install everything?
It's crazy that we're now emulating PS3. I remember when people used to mod their PS3's to play retro games and now PS3 is considered "retro" in some circles. Ah well, time for my metamucil and nap now.
After a small delay, just got mine! I was able to get a certain new nintendo game that starts with Z.... Performance is a bit spotty at times, but damn thats cool!
It's nice to see our nintendo you tuber branching out to other console games. I gotta say that's a sweet mini pc emulation system. Great option for a dedicated system.
Just a note that this product apparently only ships with a 65W PSU and the TDP is locked at 35W. Other miniPC brands using the Ryzen 7 5800H APU can boost the TDP to 45W and they ship with a 90W/100W PSU. Other than that, I think this one is still decent for the price, just don't expect max performance out of the APU.
As mentioned this is very decent for the price, i.e. value for money. If money is no objection and you want the best miniPC out there check out the latest Ryzen 7000 series or 6900HX models.
RGT, I'm genuinely curious to know how it runs 3DS games via the Citra emulator? I don't do a lot of gaming on my PC, but my Surface Laptop can run everthing up to Gamecube, PS2, PSP, DS and even Wii just fine, but it struggles with 3DS. I know 3DS emulation is finicky to begin with, but I'm wondering if it's something that you've tried or not and if so, how did it go? Any response is appreciated! Thank you!
I am glad to see you've come around to emulation. You've come a long way. You've let go of material attachments. You've transformed. I appreciate the recommendation. I was looking for a good mini PC and you sold me. I will certainly purchase this one. It's $420 right now. They better give you a cut.
Been looking into a mini pc as my next actual PC...but the brands on Amazon I've never heard of at such a low price concern me. An Intel one is about the price of a lower end desktop
What make/model would be the next best option for emulating up to Wii/PS2/GC? I'm looking to spend a little less as I don't need to emulate as high as PS3/360. Thanks!
Love this video. Turn my Ps4 into a Emulator machine. But I need something more compact. An this seems like the right way to go. One question I have though. Is there anyway to get one of these preloaded with the Emulators on it already?? It's mad work. I just wanna plug an play lol. Thanks in advance
I have this exact mini pc. I use it mainly for fusion 360, 3d scanning with 360 Kinect skannect, Arduino ide. It works really good for those things. I haven't used emulators on it, i thought about it, but i feel that ita more useful for other things.
I was considering buying one. Once you showed that it plays nes games I was SOLD! But seriously I find it hilarious when emulation videos show the old stuff working. That’s something we can all assume works at this point. Right?
These are cool. Been running RPis up to now. Might upgrade my main emulation device to this. How good is the graphics processor? This might even outperform my 13 year old PC now. 😅
Mini pc are not the best for emulation in terms of value for your money. I get it wont take much space, but a tower can easily be tucked away under the table. I will rather get a basic office tower for $100 or so with 16gb ram, ssd, throw in gtx 1060 or 1070 and you'll be able to emulate everything just fine.
I have a tower still sitting in it's box because there is no room in my room. My room has enough room for a bed and dresser and that's it. All my hardware is mobile
At this price point honestly just get an Xbox Series S and use that for emulation alongside having a small form factor, and the ability to play recent titles. Better performer too overall. That's of course as long as you don't plan on using it for any PC related stuff. (In my opinion)
What does setting it up look like? Does it emulate Dreamcast? And can you hook it up to a laptop and use the laptop as the screen or would I need a actual TV/monitor
This is a Windows PC so it behaves like a laptop or desktop PC. You connect it to a monitor or TV just like you connect your laptop PC to a monitor. And yes, the Ryzen 5800H CPU is powerful enough to emulate Dreamcast, Gamecube and PS2 games.
