500G HDD External Hard Drive Disk for Laptop/PC/Windows/Mac OS with 117000+Games

I don’t want to raise the price of this product by writing such a favorable review, but this son of a gun works! I have a late 2014 Mac with an c-arcade and this works like a champ. I’m very happy with my purchase

I just built this computer: RTX 4080 super, Ryzen 7800x3d, 32g DDR5, ROG Strix B650E-F Mb, and this is the only software that doesnt work. I boot into the Bios and set the Batocera drive a the boot drive and save. Once it boots up it comes to a splash screen for about 30 seconds and then goes blank. Ive tried it on and older gaming laptop and a pc I built 6 years ago and it works fine but nothing on my new system.

Okay, some things to start off with. This is plug and play but it's not as simple as that. And the directions that come with the hard drive are utterly useless. I almost returned this item because to get it to even start was a very frustrating experience, but after playing around with it and researching on the internet, I figured it out. First, this is a Linux product, so to start it up on a Windows 11 OS, you must first boot into the bios screen, disable secure boot then place the game HD in the first boot position, over the OS. This is just the beginning. Now you have to connect your Bluetooth controller. My controllers would not connect, no matter what. This drove me so mad, I was about to pack up the HD and send it right back to Amazon. I figured out that you must first connect the HD to your wireless network, which you can find in the settings, then update it, which is also in settings. After rebooting, all of my controllers connected easily. I took a star off because of these initial difficulties and the useless directions that are packaged with the product, but I kept the remaining four because once you get past these initial difficulties, the system and the games work flawlessly and the price is excellent for all the content included as well as the presentation,

A couple of games didn’t work but overall, awesome device. Turned my old Mac into a retro gaming system with this.

The drive in the enclosure was quite old. It shipped with some bad sectors, and after about three uses wouldn't mount the /SHARE partition. I tried to fsck from linux, but realized that the SHARE was formatted NTFS. Putting it into a Windows machine let me fix/repair that partition. I wasn't necessarily expecting a new drive, but this one seems heavily used. No clicking or bad sounds, but not exactly reliable.

I would immediately try to backup the drive using acronis or robocopy and I got some errors. (see image) the only option it is offering is return or replace but it appears to be a decent collection and mostly playable for the kids so I will just keep it I guess. Wish they had other options like to get the corrupted files emailed or something more convenient or less inconvenient than returning it

Absolutely fantastic idea. Every game more than you can imagine. Easy to navigate and find games loads fast and you don't have to be a computer nerd to operate. I'm using on a old laptop and it works fine. I locked my self out of a different emulator before messing around with controller buttons and specs... Luckily this one has safe guard to assure you don't screw up....

The games that provide are not that good. You basically have to go through a whole hack process to get access to it.