I see ads for them on TikTok and they exude scam vibes. I’m aware that putting a fully loaded emulator on a usb connectable device is possible, but there’s no way all of them are legit. Have any of you bought one? Does it work well? If so, which one?
Most of them are usually some bootable Linux distro/emulator/frontend suite, such as Batocera or Lakka. Unfortunately I can’t speak for which ones are good or shit. There’s also the possibility of the cheaper ones having some kind of malware payload on them; definitely don’t plug one in to a desktop/notebook that you care about.
If you’re tech savvy and already have the game ROMs, you could actually build a Batocera USB stick yourself and load the ROMs to it. There are lots of tutorials on YouTube etc.
The cheaper ones will probably be a shitty NES-on-a-chip, and half the games will be ROM hacks of other games.
The really cheap ones will just be really shitty emulators. Look them up before buying and don’t trust on-site reviews
I dunno about game sticks, but a lot of the retro emulator handhelds are pretty nice. I have a powkiddy v90 which is a few years old and about as cheap as they get and it’s good at emulating everything up through GBA.
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I got my gf a Gameboy type thing that has like 30,000 games on it with emulators from old arcade games, NES and every console by all the brands up to n64/play station 1 and she loves it. It has 2 sticks, a dpad, 4 face buttons and 4 paddle buttons. Cost like $40 on Amazon
