Super Console X Cube, Built-in 65,000+ Games

This setup is a blessing. If you even think you might want this, buy it. I'm confirming that you do want this. Stop reading comments because it could be on it's way to your house already if you would just scroll up and purchase it.

It will NOT save game progress. You CANNOT change controller button settings. Many games are unplayable especially N64 and PS-1 lots of the other old games work ok.

For the price it is definitely worth it especially for the nes,snes, and genesis games which run perfectly. Of course it's not without it's flaws. Ps1 games often don't have music, some dreamcast games have bad digital breakup. Otherwise it is absolutely worth the money with tons of games to play. If you grew up playing the older systems it will give you the taste or nostalgia you are looking for.

[Update: As I write this update, the descriptions of the emulator have been changed to say that it includes "117000+" games." I'm pretty sure this number is most likely an error, as the price is the same as the price for the emulator *I* ordered ($94.99), and the GB size is also listed as being the same (256GB). I figure this is probably the same emulator I bought, which is much smaller. An emulator with "117000+" games would probably be much more expensive!][Another update: I made some additions to this review on Nov. 2, '23; I've placed those additions in curly brackets.][Yet another update, made in late '24: I thought that that addition from Apr. '24 would be the last time I lengthened this review, but after reading something today in another review elsewhere, I just HAD to make this update. I think that emulators, such as this one, technically do violate copyright laws, but I also think that since the games that appear on the emulators (or on most of them) are so old and no longer in production, no one (or almost no one), not even the companies that originally made and put out the games, really cares. So, you can be against these emulators if you want, but I don't think there's really much if any need to be! Also, sorry for the LONG length of this review! There will be NO more updates/additions, no matter what!]Gaming Nirvana here!!I grew up in the '80s and '90s playing video games, mostly on NES and SNES, but also on many other platforms, such as Game Boy, SMS, Genesis (my brother's Genesis, that is!), Saturn (how come it doesn't seem to be on any emulators? It's not on any as far as I know, anyway!), N64, and even Atari 2600, which was the first console I ever had --- and which first came out a few years before I was born! (I'd say that ultimately, Nintendo ended up getting most of my pre-adult gaming attention.) This emulator has most if not all of my old favorite games --- maybe even most of the games I ever played as a kid (excluding the Sega Saturn ones) --- and so, so, SOOOO many more that I'd never (and in most cases, still haven't) played!!However, while this emulator does have tons of games, it doesn't necessarily have as many as the descriptions of it claim; how many are on it kind of depends on how you look at it (see below).The included controllers seem to me to be pretty sturdy and of good overall quality. Other people may have had different experiences with these controllers, but in mine, they have, so far, worked almost perfectly --- connecting them can be quirky, but other than that, I don't really have any issues with them.As for the games: Along with the "complete," originally released versions that people are probably most familiar with, there are also many "Beta" or "proto" versions here, along with "revisions" and hacks. There are many games (and versions thereof) that didn't see the light of day when they were first made; some were never finished.There are lots of "multiples" of games (that is, different "original" releases [U.S., U.K., Japan, etc.] of the same games). {Also, many if not most of the arcade games appear multiple times in apparently the same versions/releases.} And of course, as with probably any emulator, you may find some games that just don't work, or that don't work correctly. But so far, from what I've experienced, there fortunately doesn't seem to be too many of those here.{After having owned the emulator for close to a year and a half, I HAVE come across a considerable number of games that don't work, or not correctly, but the number of games that DO work properly (or close enough to it) still seems to me to be MUCH greater than the number of ones that don't. Of course, since there are SO VERY many games on the emulator, and since not everyone is interested in all of the same systems, games, etc., probably not everyone is going to encounter ALL of the same non-functional or not-properly-functional games. I know from MY experience that some of the arcade games run but run slowly and/or have messed-up music/and or sound effects; while they are still playable, it may be annoying to try to play them, or some of them, at the slowed-down speeds. [An addition to this addition, made on Feb. 12, '24: The N64 games generally seem to not work well enough to be able to really play them, which is possibly the biggest flaw of this emulator. I've found like ONE N64 game on here that didn't seem to be at all messed up. Also, the PS games seem to have a tendency to be missing the music, but this isn't really a problem, at least not for me.]}There are many games that were not released in the U.S. or the U.K., and don't appear in English (or at least not entirely in English). For certain games, being in a foreign language may not matter too much (if really at all), but with other ones (such as ones that are largely or even entirely text-based and are mostly or entirely in Japanese), it could make them virtually impossible to play (correctly, anyway). Still, you should be able to find PLENTY of different games in English (or that are enough in English) to play --- and that you can play with regular controllers (again, see below)!One cool feature of this emulator is that it has a printed description and/or history for nearly every game (from what I've seen, anyway). Also from what I've seen, the majority of the descriptions/histories seem to be in English. {The English isn't always completely "proper," though!} (However, with "Beta," etc. versions, they tend to be the same as for the "originally released" ones; also, the ones for the different originally released versions tend to be the same, which means that the game titles in them, and sometimes other details, are incorrect for some versions. There are some descriptions/histories that just trail off for some reason.) The emulator doesn't have box art or screenshots or videos for every game (though it seems most games at least have screenshots), but who cares? Well, I guess some people do, but for me it's no problem.From what I've seen, the majority of the games are not full-screen, which for me isn't a major problem (or at least it hasn't been one yet), although on some games, parts of the on-screen "information" (like text, timers, numbers of lives, etc.) are at least partly out of the playing field so that you can't see them (or not entirely), and, for the games for some of the handheld systems (like the Game Boys), the playing field is kind of small.Something that's a little confusing is that the emulator itself says to press the 'A' button to enter a game list or a game, and to press 'B' to exit a game list, but actually, you have to press the opposite button from the one it says to press. (At least, this is how it works with the default controller settings.) I don't know if any of the other buttons and instructions are mixed up or not. {Some of them ARE!}Also, some games seem to require players to use a particular one of the controllers to play and/or exit the game (which is done by holding down Start and pressing Select twice). If the controller you're using isn't working (if it isn't making anything happen in the game and/or if you can't seem to exit the game), try the other one. (By the way, to "insert coins" into arcade games, press Select. You may have to press other buttons as well as, or instead of, Start to start some other games as well.){There are actually three lists, or "categories," under which the arcade games appear (Arcade, MAME, and Final Burn Neo); many if not most of the games appear in two or even all three of them in seemingly identical forms, and strangely, some of the games work properly in at least one of the categories they appear under, but DON'T work under the others. I found at least one particular game that had messed-up sound in one of the categories I played it under, but that seemed to work fine in the other category I played it under.}Something that takes (or that COULD take) the number of games on this emulator down even further for people (as it does for me) is that many games originally required a keyboard, and some required some other type of peripheral, and those games don't seem to be playable with "regular" controllers here. But fortunately, there are still loads of games that ARE! {Actually, you can bring up a "virtual keyboard" for at least some of the keyboard games, but it seems to me that it would be difficult to play them using it! [An addition to THIS addition, made in early Apr. '24: It seems that at least some of the computer games can be played with regular controllers if --- this is using the default emulator controller settings --- you bring up the virtual keyboard (usually if not always by pressing Select; pressing it again will "close" the virtual keyboard), move the cursor onto the 'L' "key," and "click" on it using the controller button marked 'A'; you may have click on this key more than once (like one time each on different logo, title, etc. screens that come up), and you may sometimes have to click on certain other keys (like 'Y' or 'N,' the 'F' keys, or direction keys; it seems to usually be pretty clear which key you have to click on) before a game will start.]}I'm probably not going to try to remove anything that's already here on this emulator, or to add anything that isn't, because the emulator is probably "complete" enough for me as it is. Even with all the stuff here that I'm not really interested in, there's already a LOT more games that I already like (which I have or haven't played on here yet), and that I've never played but that look and sound to me like they might be cool, than I'll be able to play any time soon --- heck, I probably won't get time to play all of them EVER!I would say that overall, this emulator is pretty awesome! WELL worth the price! Compared to $500+ for a "current" or "next-gen" game console, 95 bucks or so for THIS bad boy is almost a steal, in my opinion, even with its quirks and drawbacks! {The price had even dropped a little the last time I noticed it!} This is a great way to take a trip back to the "good old days" of video games, the days before the curse of codes and DLC was unleashed upon the gaming world!

This was great for the first few months. It occassioanlly had issues overheating, particularly on more recent consoles like Nintendo64. Now it sites on the emuelec slash screen and never progresses.At least I can probably pull the microSD card and recover the game ROMs

I have been having quite a bit of fun with this console. While there are a lot of repeats (different languages and versions) it still has all of my old favorites. I am currently exploring the Legend of Zelda series as well as Super Metroid and many others. overall the gameplay is great and runs smooth with no glitches. It is also very easy to navigate through the emulators and find the right game for my mood.

For people who aren’t experts at setting up emulation devices this has an expensive array of classic games. It’s important to know not all of them work and there are some duplicate games with different regions but that honestly still leaves thousands left so it’s negligible at best.

While most everything works on this, I cannot seem to get N64 to work even when I change emulators. That's fine, there's a dozen other systems that I grew up with and love that have my favorite games. Many games are in Japanese and many others have upwards of a dozen copies, so unless you read Japanese, I would say at least 10-15% of the games are unplayable (including N64.) There are a lot of old computer system games, game & watch, and so forth that I probably will never touch. I will say when I got the console x a couple years ago it had a Final Fantasy 7 NES game (hacked.) This cube seems to not have it, which is sad. I do not think that version of FF7 was completed, but it was fun on the Console X.