It's part of the nature of a world with billions of people each living their own unique life, and the internet which can show you information about almost anything instantly. There are 80 yr olds watching youtube and feeling nostalgic about all kinds of old junk from the era of their childhood.
They had a game boy knock off a few years ago that had 400 games with a ton of NES bootleg roms. They updated it the next year with 200 games and I think all the best games taken out
I've opened up one of these a couple days ago. It's all held in with 4 screws and some plastic clips. 2 on the left, you pull it apart at an angle, then 2 more holding the main board on the right inside. The screen is held in place by nothing but pressure from some foam, no adhesives on the screen. It does have the typical epoxy blob cpu, with an EEPROM memory chip that has a whopping 8MB of storage. Being an EEPROM it's not rewritable via normal means. However i wonder if the video output can be modded somehow, as it has a proper ribbon cable input. The little NES on the cable is just empty. Just some hot glue to hold the cable. As for the roms, as mentioned they are poor original games or full reskins. I've tried playing through all the games and found at least reskinned Excitebike, Xevious, Dig Dug 2, Seicross, Bomberman, Minesweeper, DK Jr., DK 3, 1942, Spy Hunter, and Centipede from what I could recognize. Surely more reskinned games exist as some of them definitely felt higher quality than normal in gameplay, besides the poor graphics. Some of the original roms are old, as a couple like "Police Dog Lasy" and "Rescue Kucks" have been covered by youtubers like a decade ago. I think specifically JonTron/ProJared.
Talk about being through! After watching this I was thinking about picking up one just for the screen and to see if theres anyway to hack/mod it. Thanks!
Man, I have every classic gaming / arcade system / pinball and all their games, all movies, tv series, books, comic books, music, videos, pics that I could ever hope to humanly watch, just on 6 little 20TB external drives, and still lots of room to spare. Also have backups of these if they ever get trashed lol.
Is it for sure a copy or clone? Its been too long and I'm not familiar enough with the game to know if it's just "inspired" by it, or an actual illegal rom. It seems most games on here are legal, not stolen. It would seem kinda odd (but certainly not impossible) to just have the one or maybe a couple illegal roms when all the rest are legal.
@@gravitywaves2796 it's definitely the nes version of lode runner. looks like they just edited the title screen to hide the name and all the copyright stuff.
As someone into the bootleg games scene, I love these things. Aside from the fun novelty, this is basically a modern incarnation of those "consoles in controllers" you mentioned. I also recognized "Turtle" as "Conte Enegy" almost immediately. It's a bootlegged version of Lode Runner. To my knowledge, everything else is programmed from scratch, mainly by Nice Code.
No one cares if there was illegal roms on these things because the homebrew games on these things suck so I'd rather them put real SNES & SNES games on it it'd be no different than buying a multi game cart
I'd rather they don't include any games. Not even because of the legality. I'd rather have a personalized library than the entire rom dump without rhyme or reason.
@@Maj-zx4xd If you're suggesting to hack the PS Portal with a raspberry pi that's an awesome idea but no one's done that before & I don't know how so Play Station releasing a new handheld is a much better option
@Maj-zx4xd I made a RetroPie setup. It surprised me what all it could do. I primarily played NES and SNES games on it but played all kinds of stuff. Even did Playstation games. Yes I'd played Doom as well. I still prefer my old school NES though. There is just something about playing on old original hardware. I even keep an old CRT around just to play my NES on.
They go as far as make the controller like a real NES but don't include any genuine titles - no fun. This is a grandma grab for a grandkid for Christmas :D
5:19 you're not "supposed to" but you're allowed to. Personally, I'm thrilled to have the option, but if you want to put yours somewhere else, that's perfectly allowed too.
It's more the thought of that dangling around on the side of a backpack sounded ridiculous lol. There wasn't anything that could attach the controller to the TV so those would just be hanging out too
@@loustandards2827 It's an EEPROM. Electrically Eraseable Programmable Read Only Memory. Most likely the circuitry to erase/write the chip isn't built into the thing. You'd need a clip to fit onto the chip or there might be some pads on the PCB for pogo pins for the factory programmer. Figure out what's needed to program it then buy or build it.
Turtle is Load Runner with a different menu. I believe the garden game is actually a galaga rom hack but with altered enemy behavior in addition to new graphics. The rest are homebrews that show up on a lot of these NoC consoles.
All of the games you tried here besides turtles are ones I've seen on other plug and plays before or similar devices. They seem to be homebrew or bootleg NES roms made specifically to be put on these kinds of devices. I bet you there's a few more Nes reskins, maybe a version of Circus Charlie, that one's pretty popular on these things.
5 Below; your missing the degree symbol where the o is at, meaning cool prices. I had to ask one of the managers about this. It basically insinuates cooler prices.
This would only be worth it if someone modded it and put actual NES games on it. Perhaps even some games from other systems as well. Heck, go all out and install internet, and a tv tuner.
On the instruction booklet it says Vivitar. That is/used to be a camera/electronics manufacturer that I remember from the 80s. I would say no wonder the little display is nice, but I can't remember if they did TVs.
From what I found with a quick search, it looks to be more cameras than anything else. Even, old camcorders...but I vaguely remember Vivitar TV's, too...must be a Mandela Effect....
I had a Vivitar digital camera in the mid 2000s. Kind of a "kid's first digital camera" kind of deal. I think it ran on AAAs and was about a megapixel.
I saw the hilariousness that is MAGIC JONY! Seriously, these roms seem to match that crappy handheld that Walgreen's has, that's packaged to look much better than it is, with screenshots that don't match the actual games...which I think costs like 25 bucks!
The Sega Atgames are on ebay for under 30 bucks and have 40 games on them , at least half of them are good... idk if they're compatible but thers a cartridge with 196 games and over 150 are excellent
Nintendo's lawyers are on their way to Five Below. I also saw on the website that this year they have what looks like a translucent Gameboy Color, and a knockoff Amazon Fire Tablet.
I mean, that controller is so close to a regular NES controller, and that little fake console is so close to an NES, that I could see Nintendo suing and winning easily against Five Below, and either causing them to shut down forever (How are you going to keep things $5 with the Tariffs?), or Nintendo is going to end up owning Five Below, and will turn them all into Nintendo stores.
Take it apart I would like to see the innereds, also it would be cool if just the display circuits are in the display and the game circuits are in that mini consol thing but I'll bet there is nothing in the mini consol its all in the display! It would be cool if you can mod the thing to plug in other things to use the display as a tiny monitor!
So does aliexpress.. for less. Edit: I see you know haha also many u.s. stores are doing this. Go to your local cvs or walgreens etc. But the little nes did make this worth it.
The problem I have with stuff like this is that for systems like the nes most of the great games aside from super Mario bros and before were housed on mapper chips inside the cartridges. These games were technically too large for the system and would send themselves over in chunks called banks. It’s nearly impossible to replicate this perfectly 100% for every title through software.
At my five below I found something real similar to this but it was a game boy. I have a bootleg NES and I am sort of happy with it I would say it was worth 20 bucks. My first and only experience with bootleg devices is positive only sort of. But I’m not wanting to buy more bootlegs
By the way besides being bootlegs I’m starting to get the impression that I don’t particularly like the original Nintendo. I don’t know I think video games may have got good with the super Nintendo
It depends on the game for me really, Mega Man 2, Mario, Metroid, Duck Hunt, Castlevania (1&3) and Tetris are my favorites for NES. Alot of games are kinda rough around the edges but those are pretty nice 🙂
The music is from Mighty Final Fight. And I love the fact they used it for the BGM. It’s also a Capcom IP, so you weren’t far off when you said it sounded like Mega Man.
In 15 years, someone will stumble on this video and say "OMG my childhood!! This was the best game system ever!!"
True, just you wait (I'll be 62 then)!
I can not, that just broke my heart.
It's part of the nature of a world with billions of people each living their own unique life, and the internet which can show you information about almost anything instantly. There are 80 yr olds watching youtube and feeling nostalgic about all kinds of old junk from the era of their childhood.
No.
@ChristopherSobieniak no.
Screw legal. This thing would (only) be awesome if it had 200 NES roms.
That'd be too good of a deal lol
They had a game boy knock off a few years ago that had 400 games with a ton of NES bootleg roms. They updated it the next year with 200 games and I think all the best games taken out
piracy is for losers.
@@the-NightStar Should you have to pay a subscription to a car you have paid off?
@@dysfunctioned Actually you do have to do that. It's called property tax.
Honestly my 10 year old son would go nuts for this thing. He's obsessed with those little miniatures arcades.
It'd make a great stocking stuffer for him
Please don't hurt your son this way.
run doom on it
wolfinstein?
Yes!!!
Ok, a calculator to make sense, but nes
None of these was nes games youngster
@@WSNight-You don’t get it. It’s actually been done before
I've opened up one of these a couple days ago. It's all held in with 4 screws and some plastic clips. 2 on the left, you pull it apart at an angle, then 2 more holding the main board on the right inside. The screen is held in place by nothing but pressure from some foam, no adhesives on the screen. It does have the typical epoxy blob cpu, with an EEPROM memory chip that has a whopping 8MB of storage. Being an EEPROM it's not rewritable via normal means. However i wonder if the video output can be modded somehow, as it has a proper ribbon cable input. The little NES on the cable is just empty. Just some hot glue to hold the cable. As for the roms, as mentioned they are poor original games or full reskins. I've tried playing through all the games and found at least reskinned Excitebike, Xevious, Dig Dug 2, Seicross, Bomberman, Minesweeper, DK Jr., DK 3, 1942, Spy Hunter, and Centipede from what I could recognize. Surely more reskinned games exist as some of them definitely felt higher quality than normal in gameplay, besides the poor graphics. Some of the original roms are old, as a couple like "Police Dog Lasy" and "Rescue Kucks" have been covered by youtubers like a decade ago. I think specifically JonTron/ProJared.
Great to know, thanks for the insight 😃
I love reading and learning more cool retro/tech stuff from experienced people like you...thanks brother
Vargskelethor Joel played a bunch of them on bootleg NES carts and consoles.
@@MacUser2-il2cx i love Joel, still somewhat follow him to this day. Started maybeeee 8 or so years ago.
Talk about being through! After watching this I was thinking about picking up one just for the screen and to see if theres anyway to hack/mod it. Thanks!
Every time I drove by this store I assumed it was an ice cream shop because of the name lol. Learn something new everyday.
The profile picture goes great with this comment 😄😂
i thought it was like winter coats and jackets and hats and skiing equipment and stuff
_"The perfect gift for anyone who grew up playing NES."_
Ah yes. I look forward to squinting at the 2" screen to play Hit Mouse.
😅😂
😂😂😂😂
the fact all this now runs on something a little bigger than a quarter, my god im old
you REALLY should not be impressed by this.
Man, I have every classic gaming / arcade system / pinball and all their games, all movies, tv series, books, comic books, music, videos, pics that I could ever hope to humanly watch, just on 6 little 20TB external drives, and still lots of room to spare. Also have backups of these if they ever get trashed lol.
@@JinzoCrash MIRC or torrents?
I am old! Lol. This makes me feel older!😊
The turtles game was lode runner by Hudson soft
New that looked familiar, thanks for the heads up 😉
Or was it Broderbund?
@@GladeSwope Both. Hudson Soft developed the Famicom/NES port and Broderbund was the US publisher.
Is it for sure a copy or clone? Its been too long and I'm not familiar enough with the game to know if it's just "inspired" by it, or an actual illegal rom. It seems most games on here are legal, not stolen. It would seem kinda odd (but certainly not impossible) to just have the one or maybe a couple illegal roms when all the rest are legal.
@@gravitywaves2796 it's definitely the nes version of lode runner. looks like they just edited the title screen to hide the name and all the copyright stuff.
As someone into the bootleg games scene, I love these things. Aside from the fun novelty, this is basically a modern incarnation of those "consoles in controllers" you mentioned.
I also recognized "Turtle" as "Conte Enegy" almost immediately. It's a bootlegged version of Lode Runner. To my knowledge, everything else is programmed from scratch, mainly by Nice Code.
Thanks for the info :) Not going to lie, I kind of miss those controllers lol.
What's with the weirdly aggressive comments on this video? Some of you need to chill.
Yeah these comments are strange. It makes me wonder if the algorithm dumped a bunch of viewers in here where this isn't really their thing.
No one cares if there was illegal roms on these things because the homebrew games on these things suck so I'd rather them put real SNES & SNES games on it it'd be no different than buying a multi game cart
I'd rather they don't include any games. Not even because of the legality. I'd rather have a personalized library than the entire rom dump without rhyme or reason.
Just run a raspberry pi and use the screen then
@@Maj-zx4xd If you're suggesting to hack the PS Portal with a raspberry pi that's an awesome idea but no one's done that before & I don't know how so Play Station releasing a new handheld is a much better option
@Maj-zx4xd I made a RetroPie setup. It surprised me what all it could do. I primarily played NES and SNES games on it but played all kinds of stuff. Even did Playstation games. Yes I'd played Doom as well. I still prefer my old school NES though. There is just something about playing on old original hardware. I even keep an old CRT around just to play my NES on.
Yeah snes and snes
The very first game you played Turtles was Load Runner NES version.
Even the music is the same.
You know the packaging is made better than the product
NES for a Smurf... I think its pretty cool for what it is.
Five below needs to change their name
Its the 99 CENT STORE oNLY all over again
"Five & Up"
Certainly feels like something you stick in a doll house and have it be like the figures are playing this.
Yeah? Like, a diorama prop. Cool idea!
They go as far as make the controller like a real NES but don't include any genuine titles - no fun. This is a grandma grab for a grandkid for Christmas :D
It is.
"Turtles" looks and sounds like Lode Runner.
Honestly without any good roms it's not worth the $10.
It's a neat novelty item lol
@MCDNetwork True the screen/TV alone is a curiosity.
totally going to get one and use it for my raspberry pi
@SgtCreepyGaming that's a great idea if you have the know how to get it working! I personally don't but I'm guessing it's fairly simple.
Now I want to see the internals of this strange thing.
That could be interesting...
Epoxy blob famiclone
Epoxy blob unfortunately.
Definitely a black blob
Five & Below has had a bootleg handheld for years now. It's called Classic Arcade. It has nes roms
It’s nice for a diorama.
True
Wow I'm definitely gonna start shopping at five below
5:19 you're not "supposed to" but you're allowed to.
Personally, I'm thrilled to have the option, but if you want to put yours somewhere else, that's perfectly allowed too.
It's more the thought of that dangling around on the side of a backpack sounded ridiculous lol. There wasn't anything that could attach the controller to the TV so those would just be hanging out too
Buying this for my bfs monster high dolls it's so cute lmao
"Turtles" is actually the game Lode Runner.
Who’s this for? Ants 🐜?
Oh it’s a novelty thing
😂 yes & Jacob why am I following you again? I can't remember 🤔 I just saw I've followed you. What do you post or did in the past?
You can probably make a pipboy with the screen if you have access to a 3D printer
That's a great idea
Might need a magnifying glass in order to see the screen, but it looks neat.
I wonder if you can load roms to it through the usb port.
From what I can tell it's just for power
Another commenter did a full tear down and says it's a non-rewritable EEPROM, unfortunately. Yer stuck with what they give ya here.
@loustandards2827 that's disappointing
@@loustandards2827 It's an EEPROM. Electrically Eraseable Programmable Read Only Memory. Most likely the circuitry to erase/write the chip isn't built into the thing. You'd need a clip to fit onto the chip or there might be some pads on the PCB for pogo pins for the factory programmer. Figure out what's needed to program it then buy or build it.
As a gamer of 30 yrs, i gotta say, you sound like a Cop😂😂 2:34
Turtle is Load Runner with a different menu.
I believe the garden game is actually a galaga rom hack but with altered enemy behavior in addition to new graphics.
The rest are homebrews that show up on a lot of these NoC consoles.
Oh man I ponder if that SNES had a lotta of good old games like Super Mario Brothers, for $10 lol.
Turtles seems to be Lode Runner.
Yup, this version is known as "Conte Enegy".
All of the games you tried here besides turtles are ones I've seen on other plug and plays before or similar devices. They seem to be homebrew or bootleg NES roms made specifically to be put on these kinds of devices. I bet you there's a few more Nes reskins, maybe a version of Circus Charlie, that one's pretty popular on these things.
Wow, I didn’t know the five below selled the NES and also that is a little CRT TV with the retro games
Neither did I untill a few days ago 😅
A lot of these are also found on a plug and play system called the Cool Baby (an NES Classic clone) that "have 600" games.
Definitely look at the handheld one they have at Five Below. It's $10 like the one in the video.
Will have to see if the ones near me have them 😁
its amazing they still make s hit like this nowadays
I couldn’t imagine as a 47 year old, squinting at this screen to play games on. Not everything retro needs to come back.
Should be 5 dollars not 10 lol
Agreed
5 Below; your missing the degree symbol where the o is at, meaning cool prices. I had to ask one of the managers about this. It basically insinuates cooler prices.
Hit Mouse gave me major REREZ memories.
This would only be worth it if someone modded it and put actual NES games on it. Perhaps even some games from other systems as well. Heck, go all out and install internet, and a tv tuner.
This is actually really cool for $10.
The Mini CRT display is what really sold it for me lol
You should see if you can install a NES Emulator and roms on that thing.
It’s a product made by Vivitar
Five above
So true 😂
The music in the menu is from Mighty Final Fight.
Soulja Boy consoles in 2024...
"Play the classics" Oh yes, Mirror Devil Word, what a classic.
10:29 this is a pirate original , there is a variant with boats
Main menu music is from Mighty Final Fight for the Gameboy Advance
On the instruction booklet it says Vivitar. That is/used to be a camera/electronics manufacturer that I remember from the 80s. I would say no wonder the little display is nice, but I can't remember if they did TVs.
They're basically a phantom brand nowadays.
Vivitar...that sounds SO familiar! I think you called it. I think they DID make TV's....I'm gonna Google it.
From what I found with a quick search, it looks to be more cameras than anything else. Even, old camcorders...but I vaguely remember Vivitar TV's, too...must be a Mandela Effect....
I had a Vivitar digital camera in the mid 2000s. Kind of a "kid's first digital camera" kind of deal. I think it ran on AAAs and was about a megapixel.
Cool looking system the games seem to be running 20% to 25% slower than they should be running weird
They felt fine when playing but perhaps they're PAL roms
@@MCDNetwork To my knowledge, it's Dendy hardware.
I saw the hilariousness that is MAGIC JONY!
Seriously, these roms seem to match that crappy handheld that Walgreen's has, that's packaged to look much better than it is, with screenshots that don't match the actual games...which I think costs like 25 bucks!
The Sega Atgames are on ebay for under 30 bucks and have 40 games on them , at least half of them are good... idk if they're compatible but thers a cartridge with 196 games and over 150 are excellent
I never shop at Five Below because the products there are generic, mostly the electronic items.
I think the bumper cars' game is a reference to Tiny Toon Adventures 2, on the NES.😊
Love all of that game except the bumper cars
Dude, it's $10! It's ridiculous what it can do!
I wouldn't buy it myself, but I've spent $10 on single games that I would spend less time on!
Nintendo's lawyers are on their way to Five Below. I also saw on the website that this year they have what looks like a translucent Gameboy Color, and a knockoff Amazon Fire Tablet.
I mean, that controller is so close to a regular NES controller, and that little fake console is so close to an NES, that I could see Nintendo suing and winning easily against Five Below, and either causing them to shut down forever (How are you going to keep things $5 with the Tariffs?), or Nintendo is going to end up owning Five Below, and will turn them all into Nintendo stores.
At the very least if we ignore that it has bootleg roms on it, it at least looks cute. Would look great on a display
For sure
200 UNIQUE = horrible homebrew
I always thought this was a Winter clothes store...
Nope, they mainly sell a lot of stuff you'd find on like AliExpress/Temu, they also have a large candy/import food section
Oh that game thing is so cute in size good review try out
Five Below is a good store
They used to sell games there, I got a sealed copy of borderlands the pre sequel new in like 2019
i saw F22 on that thing its a well done reskin of another nes that eludes at the moment F22 alone is worth the price
Take it apart I would like to see the innereds, also it would be cool if just the display circuits are in the display and the game circuits are in that mini consol thing but I'll bet there is nothing in the mini consol its all in the display! It would be cool if you can mod the thing to plug in other things to use the display as a tiny monitor!
Even though the game selection looks terrible but I want this because of its a mini nes clone hooked up to a mini TV.
That's what made me buy it 😂
I still have a small 500 in 1 nes console
Oh finally a successor for the Atari 2600 one from 2021
0:02 it's a plastic bag with text "five below"
Kaboom was the shit
I’ll stick to my real NES!
lol i just got the version that was placed in a fake gameboy for $1 Famiclones have been a major thing from china for literal decades.
Man you got ripped for 10 bucks
New subscriber here. There's a Five Below near my job, so I think I'll pick one up. Awesome review!
Welcome! Glad you enjoyed the video.
that item looks like a nightmare.. thanks for the heads up dude..
No problem
Oh! I have a bit of a dark and dad memory associated with the logo of Five Below...
As well as with the logo of 7Up.
Oh...?
@MCDNetwork I'll just say this: if you're using social media or any kind of forum and people are randomly posting both logos, report them.
I will stick with my NES classic edition
We call it "5 and Up"
Agreed
Of course it wouldn't be a Chinese console without the mighty final fight music
I wonder if the lanyard holes are for being able to strap it down to something so it doesn't fall down from the surface you are playing on
Possible
Car headrest
Great idea
GET MIRE THEN ONE.. ITS GOOD STOCKING STUFFERS
@6:38 'Rescue Cuck' 🤣🤣🤣
So does aliexpress.. for less. Edit: I see you know haha also many u.s. stores are doing this. Go to your local cvs or walgreens etc. But the little nes did make this worth it.
Very interesting !
Imagine if you could hook up something to play in this tiny TV
Price would skyrocket lol
That would be awesome if you could
Dream Gear did this with their My Arcade Brand at least they have some decent Roms on theirs.
If this was released back in the 80's, I would have busted a nut. But then it would have fetched around three hundos.
Probably lol
target sells a game system that plays all the orignal and super nintendo games
Do they still sell those? I'm assuming you're talking about the mini consoles
I also go to 5 below there's also a game boy
Hopefully this store comes to Central Oregon
If this had actual NES games on it and a two-player controller it would probably sell like hotcakes!
That would've been awesome
Then Nintendo would obliterate Five Below
I wonder if this thing can be hacked 🤔
The problem I have with stuff like this is that for systems like the nes most of the great games aside from super Mario bros and before were housed on mapper chips inside the cartridges. These games were technically too large for the system and would send themselves over in chunks called banks. It’s nearly impossible to replicate this perfectly 100% for every title through software.
Totally awesome video man 😎!
Thank you
@ You’re welcome man 😃!
I need one for my kid
At my five below I found something real similar to this but it was a game boy.
I have a bootleg NES and I am sort of happy with it I would say it was worth 20 bucks. My first and only experience with bootleg devices is positive only sort of. But I’m not wanting to buy more bootlegs
By the way besides being bootlegs I’m starting to get the impression that I don’t particularly like the original Nintendo. I don’t know I think video games may have got good with the super Nintendo
It depends on the game for me really, Mega Man 2, Mario, Metroid, Duck Hunt, Castlevania (1&3) and Tetris are my favorites for NES. Alot of games are kinda rough around the edges but those are pretty nice 🙂
there has to be a way to hack it and put NES roms on it. I don't know if you tried hooking up the USB-C to pc to see if it reads like a flash drive.
Unfortunately it doesn't, just an optional power source
The music is from Mighty Final Fight. And I love the fact they used it for the BGM. It’s also a Capcom IP, so you weren’t far off when you said it sounded like Mega Man.
Yes that's what it was, I completely forgot about mighty final fight lol. I hardly played Mega Man 5 but sounded similar to one of the stages