I guess if you build you bunker, you can allocate $5K USD for this drive and system combo. Might be cheap if currency no longer has value after the bombs fall.
I'm impressed with the fact somebody or somebodies had the time to set up and configure all these games, the various bios, scrape all these meta data etc.
We need a few of these emulators on a server rack casting VMs to multiple stations in a playable museum. Combine it all with hardware and media on display, and artist-made dioramas of scenes from major games in history and I can see this being an amazing place.
Actually looking to do this in my city and that's how I got to this video... Definitely going to need some help implementing lol. Already ordered the 96tb pack, once it arrives time to dive in and figure it out
If anyone has any input or where I should start to set this kind of thing up please let me know! Im very familiar with the VM part of it but the emulation of these games is another beast!
The pinball museum in vegas where there is a ton of tourism doesn't do the best and they are charging for people to play the games. You aren't going to be able to do this without some kind of cash flow that im guessing none of you have access to or have even the smallest inkling of how to get it.
@@netsider you can get like 6 hard drives, you need an external bay with 5 slots and put 1 drive inside the computer. they also sell plug and play computers, any options is expensive, the 95tb collection only disks is like $4500 and with a high end PC to run PS4 and PS5 games is like $8000
Ideal machine for the interstellar ship plus immortality serum. In 2010 I realised I had enough games on my hard drive to play a different one every day for the next 25 years. Didn’t even have “Full Sets” then and it was before I signed up to Steam and GOG, before I got an Android mobile, the consoles games I’ve bought in between, and not to mention BlueMaxima’s Flashpoint.
I don't know how he has time to do this but I guess when you are making boatloads of money for his PC's and arcade systems in his RGB home, he is able to afford to spend all of his time updating this project (illegally I am sure, too. Making his business selling games he doesn't own or he didn't make for a massive mark up makes him a bit of a thief and pos).
@@casedistortedIf they are abandonware then it's fine but if those are games that people are still selling yeah then it's scummy if he forces people to pay the money
This is an insane build. I've been attempting to build my own collection but instead of having it all in one device, I've been modding the original hardware to play the games from an HDD or SD Card (For example, installing a 2TB HDD into a PS2 loaded with every PS2 game, homebrewing the Wii and plugging in an external HDD with every Wii/GameCube game, modding the Dreamcast to play off of an SD card and loading it with the whole Dreamcast library, etc) - I have a CRT TV for the older consoles and then use my main TV for any consoles that are more recent.
Man! Such a great video you made here. You ran through everything at a perfect speed and you just have me drooling!!!! Haha. Wow. I love it and wish I had the cash and knowledge to put it all together! Great job with this vid though. I hit like and subscribe so easily. Thanks, man!
Nice, but it's too much for me. I would like a "cleaner" build, which still has many games from the 6th generation (PS2, GC, Xbox), and it's not too pricey/overloaded. Something like a 4TB build would be perfect. Can anyone recommend?
Just PS2 would make 4TB. Maybe if you put the best of the best on an 4TB HardDrive. Rather would see 10TB with newer Stuff than Arcades and really old Consoles which noone plays
Yes this guy makes a retro beast 4tb version or you can get other hard drives or game box emulators consoles this is great though 600 or so for the 96TB hard drive
best way to do it is to do it yourself. i made a 1tb build and i was running out of ideas of what to download by the end of it. no need to get games you'll never play.
Please can anybody confirm if the tri force version of virtua striker 4 works and how I can emulate it as iv tried for years to get this game to run Thanks
Spend half my life fitting it into my budget, the rest trying to find the time to play all these games. Growing up lower middle class has made me more of a DIY type. 96tb is kinda excessive...
No one would, but if you ever want to play one ☝️, it might be in this build. Awesome 👏, if I ever hit the lotto I might try this, emphasize on might 😅😅😅, like a really big maybe 🤔 😅.
Love the old retro games. I bought the box with 115 thousand games. It incredible. Thank you for sharing and I have subscribed to your channel. Have a great day my friend.
Someone really went overboard creating and maintaining this collection. At least now I have a ballpark figure what I need to aim for when upgrading my NAS from 8x4TB drives. I guess 8x20TB is the minimum
I'm using a Synology DS1817+ with 8x4TB SATA HDDs for about 7 years now. It is compatible with Windows, MacOS and Linux. It can take about any size HD you throw at it and got 4 RJ-45 1 GigE network ports that support link aggregation. I got 8 GB RAM installed, it can take a max of 16GB using DDR4 SO DIMM modules. If you really want to make use of link aggregation though, you'll need a switch that properly supports it. It also has a free PCIe 3.0 slot, which you can use either for an M.2 SSD interface card as cache or use a faster 2.5 GigE, 5 GigE or 10 GigE network card. If you are buying new, most larger enclosures come with M.2 SSD ports build in and 2.5 or 10 GigE ports. For the daily regular usage in my home, the GigE interfaces are totally enough. But if you are a creator shoveling video data to and from your workstation or just want to fill the NAS up quickly, faster network is a must! I'm also totally content with the 8GB RAM using Radarr, SickBeard Medusa, and other small home services. Over all I always used Synology (since my first DS408) because found the interface a bit more accessible than QNAP, but QNAP used to have the better hardware. But you could also just simple reuse some old PC hardware using UNRAID. But I'm no expert and didn't want to wreck my brain over it.
Kris is in Canada and works very hard on it every day for years. He has free updates and support whether you buy just the hard drives or one of his PCs. He claims it's the biggest collection in the world. I do see that the modern consoles' games lag though. I've been telling people about it for years. It's a no brainer if you've got the money.
From what I understand he only provides updates for his "high end" products. I bought a system from him a few years ago for about $500 USD I think and a couple weeks after I asked him about updates and was told that no he doesn't provide updates.
I’ve spent countless hours doing something like this only much more curated. Meaning I hand-picked titles from every platform from Atari 2600 to PS3/Switch & arcade and only got the ones worth playing - based on personal experience & metacritic. I also don’t bother emulating anything that’s available on PC. Still I have an 8TB SSD almost completely filled
This is like doomsday prepper catalogue straight up. I'm livin in a bunker and you know i'll play a psx1 rom hack while waiting for my protein ooze to extrude from the extuder.
Talk about having 'Choice Overload'. I'd spend all my time looking through cool menus and never getting around to playing anything. (Imagine having one streaming service that had every single movie & TV Show ever made. A blessing and a curse.)
It’d probably be much smaller and a lot more affordable if it left out just a handful of the more recent consoles, since their games would obviously be so much larger (like a single modern game could take up about as much space as an entire collection from earlier generations). So I think they should focus on making sure all the older collections (up to gen 7) are perfectly 100% complete and sell it like that (with the modern consoles as an optional extra for those who can afford it).
KrisKool has been selling these for years now, I bought one of his early generation ones which was just an 1st gen Xbox with a couple thousand games back around 2015. Honestly don't know how he's managed to get away with it for this long without the game publishers or console companies bringing the legal hammer down. But more power too him!
@alltidmagnus there is a 100tb ssd from nimbus. Its not new either. Been around for more than 4 years. They use hard drives because the 100tb ssd itself costs 40000 dollars. Although I'm sure, if advertised properly, some rich jackass would have had that one commissioned also.
This is the ultimate 'I've had enough of the internet, so I'm going to leave and pull the door shut behind me' energy XD The big I issue I can see for gaming on more recent systems/consoles is that you really need a way to hot swap certain games to an SSD to avoid monstrous load times.
I understand the pricing. I have been compiling roms since 2012 and its a very long process getting all the files named right. I mean i have probably spent months of my time just fixing file names and organizing them...
The collection is massive but there are a lot of duplicates as CPS is also added in Mame but there is also a separate section. I was not aware of that PS 4 and 5 were emulated.
I checked out the site. It is 10K for the 96TB. I would buy this if I ever hit the lotto. I don't think this is overpriced. If you really wanted to get EVERY game ever, this is worth the time you would save actually attempting this and doing the setup for all of them.
@@jons9239 ok I was wrong lol, the one drive is around 800 ish each and there are 6, I will say the base drive gives you almost everything most would want, the other drives are like ps2/Xbox/jukebox/game magazines etc , then a ps3 drive , a modern pc drive, a Xbox drive , a switch drive . So if you just want a typical emulation setup with everything that most people want (ps2 and below) one to two drives should work which is 800-1600 ish
Its a decent price when you take the amount of work and effort thats gone into it. The same people complaining about the cost are probably the same people who have no problem spending £50 on a console game.
I enjoy your channel, Drew. I've been here for years. But I hope no one actually spends money on this. I hope people get educated and realize the best builds are free.
@@Luxowell That is an entire 2 weeks pay for me. My last biggest purchase was this $1,200 phone that does everything that a $100 does but with a shiny coat. I feel dumb for it and regret it because i got suckered in the phone power of running many emulators and all the mobile games. Don't be me
He has no assets; all he is selling is a compilation of pirated games ALL found online. EVERYTHING on this drive is FREE online and easy to recreate. Anyone buying these are just stupid honestly.
The main thing that'd stop me from buying this (other than the price) is the fact that some of the collections are incomplete, but in the future they'll probably complete those collections, and the hard drives they'd sell then would include these complete collections. So then you'd feel like your hard drive is outdated and incomplete (even though it may only be missing a handful of games), and you'd feel like you need to buy the new version. So it'd be cool if they also sold 'upgrade' hard drives every year or so, that included only those games that weren't included in previous hard drives they sold.
@@ricbrook7059 We are using the word ideally differently. You are using it to mean perfect. I didn't mean that. There is no perfect anything. I meant ideally as in for best results. People get the best results from a 4-8 tb build. Hope that helps clear it up.
Yeah, that's what I'm in the process of doing with 5tb hdd. Like for all the older systems I just got some curated "best of sets" but for stuff like ps2, 360 and ps3 I'll just add individual games I like
@@ricbrook7059no but if you get a " greatest hits" of any console you'll probably have most the games you want. You can just add the ones that are missing.
96TB of games, videos, magazines, etc. Back in the 80s and 90s I can spend hours and days on a game because that is all we have. A while back got a pi 4 and some retro nes, snes, and arcade games and somehow I lost interest in playing each of the game pretty quick. Maybe too many options to choose from or whatever. Now with 1000x+ more options with this 96TB Beast, don't even know where to begin. Plus not cheap.
@@arcademania7544 This thing is OVER $3000... At that price, i would RATHER buy a decent PC built for gaming for a little more and download every game myself. Thanks, but no thanks. 👎
@@evanmccue736 You underestimate the amount of time it takes to curate this collection. This was probably 100+ hours of organizing everything. And honestly, I'm not even impressed because so many games did not even have gameplay footage.
@@JahJah440 Big whoop. It's still not worth $3200. The guy spent the initial time making a build and is now cloning drives on the cheap and selling them at a crazy markup. He's using anywhere from $500 to $1000 in hardware, depending on the date of purchase and supplier. It's not a good deal in the slightest, unless spending more money for something than you should doesn't bother you. This is a deal for casual gamers who just want an easy plug and play experience for an extremely overpriced entry fee.
Kudos to the people working and selling these products, you got some balls. For the emulator psychonauts this is something anybody can put themselves together, but for the normies this is life changing id imagine.
it would be a god send if he added the original startup sound and home menu of every console when you pressed the console menu of choice, it would defintely make it feel like you are having the original expirience, or you could just add a 2tb sd card to an original console. But when retro console go extinct for general accessability it would be the best alternative as well as a game manual icon to see the game manual of all games that had one, this would really bring the preservation and accessability to the video game database to another level
Massively impressed with this, I'm surprised the ps5, Xbox series S and Nintendo switch can be emulated considering that they are the current console going
so if I buy it I just plug it into my gaming PC and its ready to go? Really interested in the playstation emulation side of this and would gladly buy what I need to but I hate messing with settings and everything like you have to with PCSX2 and what not.
If i save up an get this, it is all i will ever need. I don't have time to play new games but i sure as heck would love to explore an play some these old games for short bits
Wow he had to be rich to pay for all those games. That be cool to bring up all the manual is a nice feature. I don't think all the games can be emulated however. I imagine the ssd at that space real-estate would be quite expensive. Maybe in the next 20 years 100 terabytes won't be a big deal.
I've been building something very similar to this myself. Been working on collecting and curating the games over the last couple years. 220 systems from arcade, consoles, handhelds and PC games. I'm building the updated computer to run them all now. My system only has 26TB though but I don't have comics, magazines and videos as part of it at this time. But I do have a dozen different types of controllers for different systems. This however is a whole 'nother level. In a couple more years maybe I'll be there.
@thetrueone8036 I've thought about it once I get it fully completed. There's still a lot to do now I've built the system. I've got to put all the games in it, scrape everything, adjust the settings for each system properly and organize the menus.
The emulator. Not all wii game will work unless you get the Dolphine bar and some Wii remotes. Most work with a regular xbox controller though because it's emulating a wii pro controller
@@squeak751 I'll have to look into that, a lot emu builds that I've done throughout the years always had that issue. I hate things that always require battery replacements and never have lithium pack adaptation
@@dangabi6550 Dolphin typically is the only stable emu (That I know of) I don't emu/rom new stuff (Switch) typically but I'll look for the emu that does switch. :)
@@fevernight123 Ohyea this one is a bit overkill for that. XD But there is also that 5TB version that could be chopped into parts. But yeah probably this will never happen
@@fevernight123 You don't need to make a one 96 tb file off it... you can easily turn it down to smaller torrents after systems make it smalle rin size
I say KUDOS to that guy. He has made more than all the gaming companies together fir the conservation and completion of all games. Getting all those games together is a lot of work!
Wow, for only $4,800? I wish they would have a system selector so you could take out what you don't want and then tell you how big it would be and how many 16TB drives it would take and charge accordingly.
Just say that some people are lucky..we're not. The price is out of our range. HDs will go out..and you need a backup..and this built is just too expensive for this purpose.
Bravo for whoever collected this, and the fact that it is even possible to find all these roms and scrapes... But I'm not paying $5k no way. Good video.
@@MugiMo510 $600 ain't bad for the drives and collection. I haven't explored what kind of torrents exist for this, I've seen some but I don't mess with emulation enough to download and try them... I personally don't need every system in the world. I have a 10 or 15 gig collection of my main systems and a condensed one with only popular roms.
The first time I saw 1 TB of hard drives was about 20 years ago. A RAID system about the size of a refrigerator with the top half cut off. It was used to store mp3s for a radio network. Epic waste of money.
@@sinner13halloweenfiend76 this is why these builds are useless! unless you have $6000 worth of hardware good luck running this build! to get this up and running 96TB of data that would mean you need to spend at least $10,000 to play this! this is simply a waste of money! i would take that $10,000 buy a car and go for a nice drive!
@@10percent4DaBigGuy Why would you need that, your comment is not making sense to me. I'm running something similar "CP78"., although only just over 12TB. The PC just needs to be specked enough to play the most demanding emulator. It's not like you are committing 96TB of data into memory?
Thank you for this video I instantly subscribed I really loved your content I loved how you broke everything up it made the time go by fast and this was just phenomenal thank you so much more power to you I will spread the word about your Channel but one thing I have to say is I was looking at $100 one just for fun maybe a $200 one for arcade stuff because I love emulation but I love to be multi-platform but this is not just excessive this is it so instead of getting a 6,000 arcade I can just hook this up to the television and go nuts running off of a portable handheld gaming device if not the laptop like how you have it set up even though it is a beast to walk around with hahaha I think you convince me and I just happened to land ass backwards into financial gain where this is a viable solution even though there's a four terabyte version so thank you for your extensive video I might be doing it
Forgot to mention this dude is charging $5,000 to sell you pirated games. $800 for 16TB? Get out of here... The drive is $300 new or cheaper. Not to mention the Seagate X16 have high failure rates. I would switch to WD Golds. I love how there is a stick over the breathing hole lol. Good job....
For the record, most of these larger builds haven’t been configured or authored properly. You’ll also spend more time browsing than actually playing. Just my opinion.
And it costs about $5,000. This video was on the front page of youtube whe nI wasn't logged in, YT loves to promote the weirdest things like SSSniperWolf videos, things that are dishonest. Also Jesus 18:30 KrisCoolMod really loves to brand everything, that would be obnoxious, I wouldn't use anything that said his name on it (I am pretty sure he's the guy who made this), also KrisCool sounds like a name I came up with for my name Chris when I was in 2nd grade. "I'm ChrisCool!" Also what a dingus 30:40 all that money to buy this and the guy KrisCool selling it can't be bothered to do something better than write the drive letters upside down in Sharpie marker.
If you were in solitary confinement for the rest of your life, and all you had was infinite rice, infinite water, and this thing to play every game ever, would you go insane?
Impressive work on this project. Looks like 👍 a good 😌 investment for a gamer like myself. Once you have it setup everything just works like it should from what I see.
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This that bunker build. Good to have when youre spending 20 years underground waiting for the surface to stabilize after the apocalypse.
I guess if you build you bunker, you can allocate $5K USD for this drive and system combo. Might be cheap if currency no longer has value after the bombs fall.
I'm impressed with the fact somebody or somebodies had the time to set up and configure all these games, the various bios, scrape all these meta data etc.
This Drive is piece of Art, ITS so much Work bruhh He surely took a whole year Just downloading stuff
On private trackers there are essentially system or arcade packs with all of the dumped games in existence online.
More impressed someone paid for it
@@Seriouslydave why ??
Definitely a community effort that has been going on for a while, most builds just make use of what's already there.
We need a few of these emulators on a server rack casting VMs to multiple stations in a playable museum. Combine it all with hardware and media on display, and artist-made dioramas of scenes from major games in history and I can see this being an amazing place.
Yes we do
Actually looking to do this in my city and that's how I got to this video... Definitely going to need some help implementing lol. Already ordered the 96tb pack, once it arrives time to dive in and figure it out
If anyone has any input or where I should start to set this kind of thing up please let me know! Im very familiar with the VM part of it but the emulation of these games is another beast!
The pinball museum in vegas where there is a ton of tourism doesn't do the best and they are charging for people to play the games. You aren't going to be able to do this without some kind of cash flow that im guessing none of you have access to or have even the smallest inkling of how to get it.
@@Nothing2Interestingthis sounds like a really fun project. Where are you located?
This game collection is so massive that even my imagination can't even handle
How are they supposed to ship this to you?
I couldn’t think of how to convey what I feel using language. You summed it up beautifully.
but what pc do u need for it to be powerful enough to run the ps4 ps5 even?
@@netsider you can get like 6 hard drives, you need an external bay with 5 slots and put 1 drive inside the computer. they also sell plug and play computers, any options is expensive, the 95tb collection only disks is like $4500 and with a high end PC to run PS4 and PS5 games is like $8000
nor can your virus scanner
Ideal machine for the interstellar ship plus immortality serum. In 2010 I realised I had enough games on my hard drive to play a different one every day for the next 25 years. Didn’t even have “Full Sets” then and it was before I signed up to Steam and GOG, before I got an Android mobile, the consoles games I’ve bought in between, and not to mention BlueMaxima’s Flashpoint.
No matter how much media on hand, you would get bored.
I checked the website and it looks like the creator will add new games via updates so that it will always have every game ever pretty much
$5,000 just so everyone is aware
@@brandonsmith1475 Jesus...
I don't know how he has time to do this but I guess when you are making boatloads of money for his PC's and arcade systems in his RGB home, he is able to afford to spend all of his time updating this project (illegally I am sure, too. Making his business selling games he doesn't own or he didn't make for a massive mark up makes him a bit of a thief and pos).
@@casedistorted This is for the 1% 😔
@@casedistortedIf they are abandonware then it's fine but if those are games that people are still selling yeah then it's scummy if he forces people to pay the money
this is the ultimate form of game preservation.
I could see this being useful in a museum.
Ew emulation in a museum. There are people that have every game that are museum worthy
Kind of goes against the whole point of what a museum is supposed to be
To call this an insane build would be putting it mildly.
This is an insane build. I've been attempting to build my own collection but instead of having it all in one device, I've been modding the original hardware to play the games from an HDD or SD Card (For example, installing a 2TB HDD into a PS2 loaded with every PS2 game, homebrewing the Wii and plugging in an external HDD with every Wii/GameCube game, modding the Dreamcast to play off of an SD card and loading it with the whole Dreamcast library, etc) - I have a CRT TV for the older consoles and then use my main TV for any consoles that are more recent.
Man! Such a great video you made here. You ran through everything at a perfect speed and you just have me drooling!!!! Haha. Wow. I love it and wish I had the cash and knowledge to put it all together! Great job with this vid though. I hit like and subscribe so easily. Thanks, man!
Nice, but it's too much for me. I would like a "cleaner" build, which still has many games from the 6th generation (PS2, GC, Xbox), and it's not too pricey/overloaded. Something like a 4TB build would be perfect.
Can anyone recommend?
Just PS2 would make 4TB.
Maybe if you put the best of the best on an 4TB HardDrive.
Rather would see 10TB with newer Stuff than Arcades and really old Consoles which noone plays
@@alexanderhoffmann9324 not all the PS2 library, but about 200-300 games would be just fine.
Yes this guy makes a retro beast 4tb version or you can get other hard drives or game box emulators consoles this is great though 600 or so for the 96TB hard drive
best way to do it is to do it yourself.
i made a 1tb build and i was running out of ideas of what to download by the end of it.
no need to get games you'll never play.
@@beardalaxy exactly what you think I do I emulate myself
this is crazy. would be nice to have a list of all the controlers needed to play all the games so you could prep pre-purchase
xbox 360 controller is the standard, you can use wii u or 8bitdo
@@drewtalks bro what kinda pc do u need for the ps4 ps5 and the xbox games to work? It would be insane
@@reggiepathak9684just a 360 controller is all you need I think
Please can anybody confirm if the tri force version of virtua striker 4 works and how I can emulate it as iv tried for years to get this game to run
Thanks
I'm confused regarding ps5 and series X, how is it emulating them
In 50 years from now, this is what a "999999999 in 1" chinese console will come with
😂😂😂 real
I don't think I could live long enough to play even most of these games.
Spend half my life fitting it into my budget, the rest trying to find the time to play all these games. Growing up lower middle class has made me more of a DIY type. 96tb is kinda excessive...
20 seconds of gameplay and you can play all of them.
But 80% is garbage anyway although average games have their own merits (like B movies)
Most of them are repeats or different regions way to many doubles.
No one would, but if you ever want to play one ☝️, it might be in this build. Awesome 👏, if I ever hit the lotto I might try this, emphasize on might 😅😅😅, like a really big maybe 🤔 😅.
Love the old retro games. I bought the box with 115 thousand games. It incredible. Thank you for sharing and I have subscribed to your channel. Have a great day my friend.
Someone really went overboard creating and maintaining this collection. At least now I have a ballpark figure what I need to aim for when upgrading my NAS from 8x4TB drives. I guess 8x20TB is the minimum
yea its impressive. almost as large and well organized as my phub collection
Hey I need some guidance for 96 or 144 TB storage solution to my Windows 10 Workstation. Which NAS do you suggest as compatible or any other solution?
I'm using a Synology DS1817+ with 8x4TB SATA HDDs for about 7 years now. It is compatible with Windows, MacOS and Linux. It can take about any size HD you throw at it and got 4 RJ-45 1 GigE network ports that support link aggregation. I got 8 GB RAM installed, it can take a max of 16GB using DDR4 SO DIMM modules. If you really want to make use of link aggregation though, you'll need a switch that properly supports it. It also has a free PCIe 3.0 slot, which you can use either for an M.2 SSD interface card as cache or use a faster 2.5 GigE, 5 GigE or 10 GigE network card.
If you are buying new, most larger enclosures come with M.2 SSD ports build in and 2.5 or 10 GigE ports. For the daily regular usage in my home, the GigE interfaces are totally enough. But if you are a creator shoveling video data to and from your workstation or just want to fill the NAS up quickly, faster network is a must!
I'm also totally content with the 8GB RAM using Radarr, SickBeard Medusa, and other small home services. Over all I always used Synology (since my first DS408) because found the interface a bit more accessible than QNAP, but QNAP used to have the better hardware. But you could also just simple reuse some old PC hardware using UNRAID. But I'm no expert and didn't want to wreck my brain over it.
Kris is in Canada and works very hard on it every day for years. He has free updates and support whether you buy just the hard drives or one of his PCs. He claims it's the biggest collection in the world. I do see that the modern consoles' games lag though. I've been telling people about it for years. It's a no brainer if you've got the money.
From what I understand he only provides updates for his "high end" products. I bought a system from him a few years ago for about $500 USD I think and a couple weeks after I asked him about updates and was told that no he doesn't provide updates.
yeah I went with a 48tb drive that will be more than enough lol
I’ve spent countless hours doing something like this only much more curated. Meaning I hand-picked titles from every platform from Atari 2600 to PS3/Switch & arcade and only got the ones worth playing - based on personal experience & metacritic. I also don’t bother emulating anything that’s available on PC. Still I have an 8TB SSD almost completely filled
Yeah, that's the way to go but it is time consuming & challenging as well, so worth it though.
thats the way to do it
You spent half the comment defining the word curated.
@@Haldolme ironic then that it seems like you still don’t know it
Where did you get them from?
The "beast" costs $3256.82
For those who were wondering. 😉
Thank you! Thumbs Up!👍
Has it gone up.
Select USD for 96TB it comes to $3499.27
@@striff hes got a 112TB now for $7k with the HHD hub station
Am I missing something? I see $651 for the 112TB. I don't see them offering the 96TB (as of 10/19/24).
This is like doomsday prepper catalogue straight up. I'm livin in a bunker and you know i'll play a psx1 rom hack while waiting for my protein ooze to extrude from the extuder.
This is so cool. Thanks to whoever made all this. Going to get one.
It may be illegal, but boy we need to store one inside a faraday cage in some doomsday bunker. You know, for humanity legacy 😅
Talk about having 'Choice Overload'. I'd spend all my time looking through cool menus and never getting around to playing anything. (Imagine having one streaming service that had every single movie & TV Show ever made. A blessing and a curse.)
It’d probably be much smaller and a lot more affordable if it left out just a handful of the more recent consoles, since their games would obviously be so much larger (like a single modern game could take up about as much space as an entire collection from earlier generations). So I think they should focus on making sure all the older collections (up to gen 7) are perfectly 100% complete and sell it like that (with the modern consoles as an optional extra for those who can afford it).
KrisKool has been selling these for years now, I bought one of his early generation ones which was just an 1st gen Xbox with a couple thousand games back around 2015. Honestly don't know how he's managed to get away with it for this long without the game publishers or console companies bringing the legal hammer down. But more power too him!
It is probably such a niche market with so little people purchasing them that it isn’t worth the legal process.
He has been selling 96TB hard drives?
@@BigDaddy-666 there is no such thing as a 96TB harddrive on this planet (Tellus), dude.
@@alltidmagnus You really lack the common sense to understand that they used to be smaller?
@alltidmagnus there is a 100tb ssd from nimbus. Its not new either. Been around for more than 4 years. They use hard drives because the 100tb ssd itself costs 40000 dollars. Although I'm sure, if advertised properly, some rich jackass would have had that one commissioned also.
This is the ultimate 'I've had enough of the internet, so I'm going to leave and pull the door shut behind me' energy XD
The big I issue I can see for gaming on more recent systems/consoles is that you really need a way to hot swap certain games to an SSD to avoid monstrous load times.
I understand the pricing. I have been compiling roms since 2012 and its a very long process getting all the files named right. I mean i have probably spent months of my time just fixing file names and organizing them...
Looks great, I would much rather have Launchbox/Bigbox but Hyperspin is OK if a bit complicated.
At the price you're paying.. I think they could make an exception
You can choose what launcher you want too use on the drives
The collection is massive but there are a lot of duplicates as CPS is also added in Mame but there is also a separate section. I was not aware of that PS 4 and 5 were emulated.
ps4 emulator is in it's infancy not really usable for most games and ps5 emulators don't exist.
I checked out the site. It is 10K for the 96TB.
I would buy this if I ever hit the lotto. I don't think this is overpriced. If you really wanted to get EVERY game ever, this is worth the time you would save actually attempting this and doing the setup for all of them.
The pc is that much the drives are 800 ish bucks
@@HollowBox I stand corrected, this is an amazing deal to never have to download games to emulate again.
@@jons9239 ok I was wrong lol, the one drive is around 800 ish each and there are 6, I will say the base drive gives you almost everything most would want, the other drives are like ps2/Xbox/jukebox/game magazines etc , then a ps3 drive , a modern pc drive, a Xbox drive , a switch drive . So if you just want a typical emulation setup with everything that most people want (ps2 and below) one to two drives should work which is 800-1600 ish
I’d prob do just drive 1 (d) and drive 3 (0 )
It’s only 600 or so for the 96 TB hard drive when you get a whole setup it’s 1-10K
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Its a decent price when you take the amount of work and effort thats gone into it. The same people complaining about the cost are probably the same people who have no problem spending £50 on a console game.
You sure you’re looking at the right website and the right prices?😂
Just ordered my 96TB setup, super excited.
let us know how it is
Yeah 3 months later and he/she is still playing it is my guess... They quit there job and is living the life
I enjoy your channel, Drew. I've been here for years. But I hope no one actually spends money on this. I hope people get educated and realize the best builds are free.
Can you please guide me through how to make a similar thing for free?
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If nuclear war occurs, I might consider investing in this beforehand to play while in the bunker.
I am 100 percent sure I could not afford to purchase this. It would be nice to have, but, it was nice to know this exists. Thanks for the upload.
Aggree. Like admiring a nice car 🏎
It's $799. Expensive for sure, but not nearly as expensive as I was expecting, considering the drives and enclosures.
@@Luxowell That is an entire 2 weeks pay for me. My last biggest purchase was this $1,200 phone that does everything that a $100 does but with a shiny coat. I feel dumb for it and regret it because i got suckered in the phone power of running many emulators and all the mobile games. Don't be me
@@miltonbuu If you can waste 1200 on a phone you can save 3600 to buy a full setup :/
When this guy dies, there will be a worldwide competition to see who inherits his assets.
He has no assets; all he is selling is a compilation of pirated games ALL found online.
EVERYTHING on this drive is FREE online and easy to recreate. Anyone buying these are just stupid honestly.
This is crazy, who the hell has 96tb of storage space??? very impressive collection though man. surely the worlds biggest
It's 5 hard drives.
@@christopherblaisdel Yeah still a lot of money for storage especially for the every day consumer.
@@SumR4ndom When you buy it you are shipped the hard drives with the content, as well as an option to purchase the 5 bay storage device.
The main thing that'd stop me from buying this (other than the price) is the fact that some of the collections are incomplete, but in the future they'll probably complete those collections, and the hard drives they'd sell then would include these complete collections. So then you'd feel like your hard drive is outdated and incomplete (even though it may only be missing a handful of games), and you'd feel like you need to buy the new version. So it'd be cool if they also sold 'upgrade' hard drives every year or so, that included only those games that weren't included in previous hard drives they sold.
Most collections are VERY close to being complete if not already done. You could easily keep up with them at that point.
It's cool to see for preservation sake, but a curated list of 4-8tb is so much better for people to use.
One person's ideal game collection isn't someone else's tho.
@@ricbrook7059 We are using the word ideally differently. You are using it to mean perfect. I didn't mean that. There is no perfect anything. I meant ideally as in for best results. People get the best results from a 4-8 tb build.
Hope that helps clear it up.
Yeah, that's what I'm in the process of doing with 5tb hdd. Like for all the older systems I just got some curated "best of sets" but for stuff like ps2, 360 and ps3 I'll just add individual games I like
@@ricbrook7059no but if you get a " greatest hits" of any console you'll probably have most the games you want. You can just add the ones that are missing.
I will buy it once it's on ssd because hdd on sata are pure nightmare, one problem, and you lost everything...
96TB of games, videos, magazines, etc. Back in the 80s and 90s I can spend hours and days on a game because that is all we have. A while back got a pi 4 and some retro nes, snes, and arcade games and somehow I lost interest in playing each of the game pretty quick. Maybe too many options to choose from or whatever.
Now with 1000x+ more options with this 96TB Beast, don't even know where to begin. Plus not cheap.
"Not cheap" is an understatement.
Just think about how much it would cost if you had to buy every hard and software to be able to play all these games and then this is a bargain.
@@arcademania7544 This thing is OVER $3000... At that price, i would RATHER buy a decent PC built for gaming for a little more and download every game myself. Thanks, but no thanks. 👎
@@evanmccue736 You underestimate the amount of time it takes to curate this collection. This was probably 100+ hours of organizing everything. And honestly, I'm not even impressed because so many games did not even have gameplay footage.
@@JahJah440 Big whoop. It's still not worth $3200. The guy spent the initial time making a build and is now cloning drives on the cheap and selling them at a crazy markup. He's using anywhere from $500 to $1000 in hardware, depending on the date of purchase and supplier. It's not a good deal in the slightest, unless spending more money for something than you should doesn't bother you. This is a deal for casual gamers who just want an easy plug and play experience for an extremely overpriced entry fee.
i keep coming back to this - it just has everything
Lol :)
This build would be perfect for the ultimate mame arcade cabinet
Kudos to the people working and selling these products, you got some balls. For the emulator psychonauts this is something anybody can put themselves together, but for the normies this is life changing id imagine.
Way too expensive for an average joe..
One thing is for sure the project is always growing.
Awesome 👍 good job as always 🎉
it would be a god send if he added the original startup sound and home menu of every console when you pressed the console menu of choice, it would defintely make it feel like you are having the original expirience, or you could just add a 2tb sd card to an original console. But when retro console go extinct for general accessability it would be the best alternative as well as a game manual icon to see the game manual of all games that had one, this would really bring the preservation and accessability to the video game database to another level
Not enough games on it.
lol
This is pretty amazing. Although, RetroSystem has a 60TB digital distribution for €159. Then spend about €900 for 60TB of EXOS or IronWolf drives.
ONLY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS!!! 😂
Drewtalks5 for 5% off that 😂
It’s 600 or so for the 96TB hard drive when you get a whole setup it’s 1-10k
@@mjdf122yes 10k for the top of the line comp.
@@mjdf122 look again you have to select the 96tb option from the hard drive section. It is 5000 dollars.
@@2PlayerVersus Don't be afraid to use the left over pocket change on the dresser !
WOW! This is is absolutely MINDBLOWING!!!
Massively impressed with this, I'm surprised the ps5, Xbox series S and Nintendo switch can be emulated considering that they are the current console going
Ps4/5, xbox one/s/x can't be emulated yet. Those are probably just the pc version of the games.
so if I buy it I just plug it into my gaming PC and its ready to go? Really interested in the playstation emulation side of this and would gladly buy what I need to but I hate messing with settings and everything like you have to with PCSX2 and what not.
Just noticed the Japanese Imports don't have literally any PC-Engine games. I'm honestly kind of shocked.
If i save up an get this, it is all i will ever need. I don't have time to play new games but i sure as heck would love to explore an play some these old games for short bits
Wow he had to be rich to pay for all those games. That be cool to bring up all the manual is a nice feature. I don't think all the games can be emulated however. I imagine the ssd at that space real-estate would be quite expensive. Maybe in the next 20 years 100 terabytes won't be a big deal.
Wish his website was easier to navigate. Can't find out where to purchase just the ps1 / 2 / 3 hard drives only. i can only buy 1 random 16gb drive.
I've been building something very similar to this myself. Been working on collecting and curating the games over the last couple years. 220 systems from arcade, consoles, handhelds and PC games. I'm building the updated computer to run them all now. My system only has 26TB though but I don't have comics, magazines and videos as part of it at this time. But I do have a dozen different types of controllers for different systems. This however is a whole 'nother level. In a couple more years maybe I'll be there.
Please make a video showcasing it. I would die to see your collection
@thetrueone8036 I've thought about it once I get it fully completed. There's still a lot to do now I've built the system. I've got to put all the games in it, scrape everything, adjust the settings for each system properly and organize the menus.
This must be where the 12tb hard drive was stolen from on Amazon. The set up the same
They are all like this, they use the same Front-End. And alot of these are just copy and pasting downloads already on the internet.
$3600. Am I seeing this right on the site? Does not include the bay holder. That's another 250.
I saw also GOG, the near arcade perfect Sharp X68000, and PC games on my wish list. Seems to have everything
This build is insane, how did you obtain all of this? How do you get the Wii and Wii U games to function without the Wii controllers?
The emulator. Not all wii game will work unless you get the Dolphine bar and some Wii remotes. Most work with a regular xbox controller though because it's emulating a wii pro controller
is simple you play whit xbox control or gamepad because use emulator for WII WII U Nintendo swich etc
@@squeak751 I'll have to look into that, a lot emu builds that I've done throughout the years always had that issue. I hate things that always require battery replacements and never have lithium pack adaptation
@@dangabi6550 Dolphin typically is the only stable emu (That I know of) I don't emu/rom new stuff (Switch) typically but I'll look for the emu that does switch. :)
@@vikingvisigoth4384 probably you can use your phone as controller also :)
Man im blown away. Is this the 96T youre playing?
yes
Probably the most comprehensive builds ever. But way over priced.
How come nobody just makes a hdd clone, and puts on a torrent or something....
@MrEp5 bruh it's like 90 something TB ain't nobody got that space
@@fevernight123 Ohyea this one is a bit overkill for that. XD But there is also that 5TB version that could be chopped into parts. But yeah probably this will never happen
@@fevernight123 You don't need to make a one 96 tb file off it... you can easily turn it down to smaller torrents after systems make it smalle rin size
you are kidding right? i was 140 uk pound for a 8tb hard drive!
I say KUDOS to that guy. He has made more than all the gaming companies together fir the conservation and completion of all games. Getting all those games together is a lot of work!
Wow, for only $4,800? I wish they would have a system selector so you could take out what you don't want and then tell you how big it would be and how many 16TB drives it would take and charge accordingly.
Just say that some people are lucky..we're not. The price is out of our range. HDs will go out..and you need a backup..and this built is just too expensive for this purpose.
Bravo for whoever collected this, and the fact that it is even possible to find all these roms and scrapes... But I'm not paying $5k no way. Good video.
Agreed its awesome but now way in hell 5k cool
Looks like the drives themselves are about $600 CAD
@@MugiMo510 $600 ain't bad for the drives and collection. I haven't explored what kind of torrents exist for this, I've seen some but I don't mess with emulation enough to download and try them... I personally don't need every system in the world. I have a 10 or 15 gig collection of my main systems and a condensed one with only popular roms.
The first time I saw 1 TB of hard drives was about 20 years ago. A RAID system about the size of a refrigerator with the top half cut off. It was used to store mp3s for a radio network. Epic waste of money.
They're also charging 1k for this and it's not worth it, just pirate
@@420......... I think they're charging $5,000 for this.. He is charging $5,000 for RGB PC's on his website, it is highway robbery.
@@casedistorted tf
I bet it also has those nostalgia inducing ps1 pizza hut demos with MGS, Tomb Raider, and Medieval.
that's insane too many games you're going to scroll through the games more than you play them
thankfully they added a favoriting system
At 1:50 when he us scrolling through consoles is that still hyperspin or did it switch up to something else?
Wish they had this for plug and play for the TV i would so get it.
It pretty much is "plug and play"
@dannyocean7090 yea my PC can't handle it it's old hahah
@@sinner13halloweenfiend76 this is why these builds are useless!
unless you have $6000 worth of hardware good luck running this build!
to get this up and running 96TB of data that would mean you need to spend at least $10,000 to play this!
this is simply a waste of money!
i would take that $10,000 buy a car and go for a nice drive!
@@10percent4DaBigGuy Why would you need that, your comment is not making sense to me. I'm running something similar "CP78"., although only just over 12TB.
The PC just needs to be specked enough to play the most demanding emulator. It's not like you are committing 96TB of data into memory?
i literally shocked and impressed this retro beast took all the cake masha allah
Thank you for this video I instantly subscribed I really loved your content I loved how you broke everything up it made the time go by fast and this was just phenomenal thank you so much more power to you I will spread the word about your Channel but one thing I have to say is I was looking at $100 one just for fun maybe a $200 one for arcade stuff because I love emulation but I love to be multi-platform but this is not just excessive this is it so instead of getting a 6,000 arcade I can just hook this up to the television and go nuts running off of a portable handheld gaming device if not the laptop like how you have it set up even though it is a beast to walk around with hahaha I think you convince me and I just happened to land ass backwards into financial gain where this is a viable solution even though there's a four terabyte version so thank you for your extensive video I might be doing it
$5k, hmm i wonder if FLESHLIGHT included, anyone paying that obviously gettin’ screwed😂,.. look nice and all but too much folks !
This is incredible!!!!
When you turn this machine on do you also have to turn on your AC (even in the winter)?
How you spend the time when you have this
Playing with the menu : 98%
Playing games (Always the sames) : 2%
Yep coinops all the way for me.
true story!!!!!
Where did you get the picture for the Dreamcast indies category? I’d like to use it for my wallpaper.
The hard drives would die before your could play it all. You’d just lose all the data so it’s not worth it.
Yep, if he gets the games except the unknown console generation ones like naoimi or apple II that would be a better valid on the hardrives
Jesus christ! This is amazing! My pc would be my gaming world! But wow that price tag for the 96tb 😮
Impressive but overwhelming, and I don't see how the rights holders won't sue the creator to high heaven at some point.
Yep. When Nintendo when wind of this...
If O got this collection, the FIRST thing I'd do is clone all of drives. i jave no idea howvlong it would take, but I would have to do that.
They put Nintendo Switch under handheld and not in console that automatically makes this a no buy.
Y
It's a handheld though with the ability to output to a TV. 🤔
I thought my collection was largest I knew about, I have 48 TB and this crushes my setup.
Holy shid...it's the Holy Grail!
a rip off holy grail, around $5,000
Forgot to mention this dude is charging $5,000 to sell you pirated games. $800 for 16TB? Get out of here... The drive is $300 new or cheaper. Not to mention the Seagate X16 have high failure rates. I would switch to WD Golds. I love how there is a stick over the breathing hole lol. Good job....
Where do I Buy it ?
Did they send you a review set or did you shell out over $4,000 for these drives?
It’s only 600 or so for the 96TB hard drive when you get a whole setup then it’s 1-10k
@@mjdf122I know you're tired of repeating this! 😂
For the record, most of these larger builds haven’t been configured or authored properly.
You’ll also spend more time browsing than actually playing.
Just my opinion.
And it costs about $5,000.
This video was on the front page of youtube whe nI wasn't logged in, YT loves to promote the weirdest things like SSSniperWolf videos, things that are dishonest.
Also Jesus 18:30 KrisCoolMod really loves to brand everything, that would be obnoxious, I wouldn't use anything that said his name on it (I am pretty sure he's the guy who made this), also KrisCool sounds like a name I came up with for my name Chris when I was in 2nd grade. "I'm ChrisCool!" Also what a dingus 30:40 all that money to buy this and the guy KrisCool selling it can't be bothered to do something better than write the drive letters upside down in Sharpie marker.
If you were in solitary confinement for the rest of your life, and all you had was infinite rice, infinite water, and this thing to play every game ever, would you go insane?
shit this must of taken him months to get this collection!!!
I think years.
this thing would be the most valuable object after humanity reaches the post-apocalypse saga
lol
Surprised Nintendo hasn't sued this company into the ground yet
I guess they don't give a damn. Yet they'll DMCA takedown a video if you don't add voiceover on gameplay of their franchises on actual hardware.
Impressive work on this project. Looks like 👍 a good 😌 investment for a gamer like myself. Once you have it setup everything just works like it should from what I see.
Ready for Nintendo to shoot this thing down
Awesome bro, love the video and the games