Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “🔴Android TV to Retro Gaming Console USB Stick !”.
Now one of the most common questions I get is: I have an Android TV device, maybe any video show Pro or maybe even just a cheap Android TV box and I want to get into Retro Gaming, but I just don’t know where to begin well. Imagine I told you you could get a single USB drive. You plug this into your Nvidia Shield, or your cheaper Android box and literally in a couple of seconds. You now have access to a fully pre-configured retro gaming system, where you can now play all of your favorite retro games access.
All of these retro consoles your Ataris, your Jaguars, your dream, cars, your game, boys, all of your favorite consoles all fully pre-configured and, as you can see, with these games pre-installed, so super easy to do takes less than a few minutes. So in this article today, let me show you this exact process on how you can get all of these retro systems. Retro games, fully working on all of your Android devices.
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Then please do subscribe, hit the like button, it’s a small click from you, but it makes a big difference to me. Thank you. It’S essentially what you have here is a pre-configured Micro SD card, which I’ve just put into a Micro SD to USB adapter and I’ll plug that directly into my Nvidia shield.
Now, as we can see, I can choose any game, choose any system and in a couple of seconds I am now walking the streets and taking out these bad guys, I mean with these classic games. They just had amazing playability. Yes, the graphics may not be the best compared to today’s standards, but that playability is just it’s just something else. Now we’ll show you exactly how I install this on my Nvidia Shield.
It literally took less than 10 minutes most of the time, we’re just waiting for the different applications to be installed and take that they did okay. So how did I install this? Well, if I press home, when I plugged in the USB stick or the micro SD card into the USB adapter I’ll plug that directly into my Nvidia shield, and there we can see under device preferences inside storage, there is a USB drive there. So I’ve got the 256 gig one. You can get the much cheaper one which is 128 gig, so plug the drive into my device.
I then opened up my favorite file manager, which, in my case I think I was using explore clicked on that. I went to the USB drive and what the company explosion of fun have done is they’ve made this process super easy. I mean you get PDF with the step-by-step instructions, but essentially you can see. I just installed this one application RS installed.
I installed that I then just see four buttons that I need to click the first one actually installs the Retro station. I click on that takes a few minutes. I install there once that’s finished. I then click on retro Arch. It then installs that takes a few minutes. I go into that.
I update the cores. I then install moop in then PP sspp, once all of that’s installed. I then open the application, and this is what I see we can see on my device. All of those things are already installed once that’s done guys. I can then just press home. I then find retro station Android.
I can click on that click on open takes a couple of seconds. It’S now obviously scanning the SD card, finding all of those games. All of those systems, all of those components and, of course accessing via an SD card, is never going to be fast as your internal storage or an SSD drive, but you can see guys it’s working, absolutely fine, so I’m now greeted with this menu.
Here I can see all of my favorite systems, for example. Here we can see on Commodore Amiga we have 1730 games. Then you have your CPS one, two and three Atari Jaguar game boy. We can see there’s over 1400 games Game Boy Advance. We can see there’s over a thousand games.
We have your Ms X’s. We have Neo Geo, I’m just whizzing through now. Just so you can see the different systems guys, but you can see N64. We have over 300 games and that really is the key thing that you know. I don’t want to go off and find you know emulators myself, I don’t want to go off and find ROMs myself, I’m looking for that convenience, I’m looking for that ease. I just want something: that’s more or less Plug and Play that can take advantage of my Hardware so on my Nvidia Shield, Pro or even some of these cheaper Android boxes, which actually have very good, you know CPU very good, Ram, very good storage.
They can easily emulate PSP and you know thereabouts. So if you have a device like that, you can also follow this process. So, let’s say, for example, I’m going to go to PlayStation and click on that we can see, there’s nearly 300 games and I cannot go through a list and you can see when I click on a game. I get to see some information about what the game is when it was released, we see the storyline, we can see the genre, we see the artwork, I mean really again that’s what you’re kind of like paying for, because you want this convenience that all of this Has been done for you, you just want to plug it in and relive those.
You know the great 80s and the 90s of you know gaming. So you can see lots of different games in here. We’Ve got some tennis games, some pool games. Let’S see, if I can recognize, I mean I did actually have a PS1 back in the day: uh okay got uh Bomberman real good old Crash Bandicoot. How will classic metal? So let’s try that one. So I click on that and in a couple of seconds, we’re now playing this classic game and who doesn’t like Metal Slug, and here we are guys so good old metal, slug running on my Nvidia Shield Pro and it’s working flawlessly now, of course, depending on your System what you plug the SD card into will determine what kind of games you can play, but I think really any Android box made in the last couple of years.
You know around about 30 40, even that’d be more than enough to emulate. Most of these a 10 16 bit systems, obviously the Nvidia Shield Pro I can do a lot more. I can even do upscaling. For example, when I’m playing PSP, I can actually upscale the graphics to eight times the native resolution or even higher. Okay, that’s looking great and once I’m finished, I can then back out of that. Let’S go back there. You go some other PSP games. You got a Thomas wave. You’Ve Got Game Gear.
You’Ve got Genesis, let’s try some Sega Saturn good old Daytona. I mean you can see guys like everything I’m clicking on every game, I’m trying every system. Everything is just working straight away.
I don’t have to faff about trying to configure things or you know, check these emulators or change settings or find games or copy things over or set things up. I’Ve just plugged in that single USB drive into my Nvidia Shield, but of course you can plug into any Android TV device or any Android device that you like, and you can see in a couple of seconds now. I can now play all of my favorite classic retro games with just really minimal fuss.
Yes, of course, if you want to, if you’re inclined that way, you can, you know install these emulators separately. You can configure them separately, you can go online, you can download ROMs. You can find things you can copy them.
You can move them over. You can do all that stuff if you want to, and if you have the time for that, then that’s great, but I think lots of people looking for that easier sort of Plug and Play solution where they can just plug in this SD card start enjoying all Of these classic games, I think lots of people will actually be interested in this okay. So let me now show you exactly where to get this from how much it costs and see if it’s something that you guys would be interested in. So here we can see. The item is called the Retro station Android and the Retro Gaming and the cheapest bundle is 41 Euros, which is about, I think, about 44 or something dollars so for under fifty dollars. You are getting this 128 gig SD card, which you can then, of course plug into an adapter plug into a USB adapter plug into Nvidia Shield, or your Android TV or one of those cheaper Chinese Android boxes get it in there.
You can then follow the installation process and you can see guys you get three installation licenses. You can also pay a bit extra and get two wireless gamepads. If you need it, and I do ship internationally guys in terms of requirements, it says that you need to have an Android phone tablet: Android box at least running Android 5. You have a micro, SD slot, or in my case you can just use a USB adapter and you get this three licenses, so you can put it onto three individual devices. So definitely guys. I think if you are looking for the easiest way to get into some retro gaming on your Android device, if you just want something that you can plug and play, I definitely think this is worthwhile checking out. So I will leave all of the links in the description. If you want to check it out.
Do leave me a comment below. Let me know if you think a pre-configured SD card like this is something of interest on your Android devices, or are you somebody that would rather go ahead? Do this process manually yourself so do leave me a comment below, let me know and I’ll hopefully, catch up with you guys real soon. Thanks .