I Bought Bootleg Game Consoles from AliExpress

I found myself on AliExpress a while back, and ended up purchasing a handful of bootleg game consoles. Naturally, most of them are pretty bad. So let's see what I ended up with!

Chapters:
00:00 - I bought more stuff
00:31 - The FC Compact
07:33 - The GS4
12:12 - The Hyper Base FC
26:03 - The Fake Sega Genesis
30:31 - Outro

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[DevynCairns]

That Hyper Base FC is a really neat idea that definitely feels like a work of passion by someone. I'm really impressed by the laptop hard drive cartridge idea

[Tesinpan]

The FC compact and similars were sold in countries like Argentina. In the 90s we have a lot of bootlegs like that, and that product was to give some nostalgic to the people who bought it.

[KingNikolai]

one time my dad bought 2 crappy dropshipped bootleg consoles that barely worked because he fell for a facebook marketplace ad

[vanhoteen]

In Latin America, the NES was like a hidden treasure: expensive and hard to find. Nintendo didn't sell it here, so clones appeared: cheaper "pirate" consoles full of Spanish-language games.

Why didn't Nintendo bring it? Maybe they thought there wasn't enough money here. Wrong! The clones were a total success and millions of people enjoyed video games for the first time.

Were the clones bad? Some were, but others were great and even had their own games. In addition, thanks to them, a Latin American video game industry was born.

In short, NES clones were a creative response to Nintendo's absence in Latin America. They brought us joy, fun, and taught us that with ingenuity, anything is possible.

[MsMarco]

Honestly that Hyperbase seems like an insane deal.
$30 is worth it for the drives alone, considering i've seen similar emulation drives on amazon for twice the price.

[RyzesTechZone]

Trying to use that HyperBase FC as some kind of actual computer would be pretty interesting I think LMAO

[michaeledmundgutierrez]

I have a Hyperbase FC (got it for a similar price) a while ago and ironically it is something I still play with today lol.

[tgheretford]

As an aside, that 60Hz option on Sonic Adventure 2 is for European owners to output the game in PAL 60 on compatible televisions. Nowadays with the days of analogue television and CRT's behind us, everything runs in 60Hz or above in Europe (though television broadcasts still run at 50Hz).

[GTSVR]

Probably every Brazillian knows the PolyStation 😂

[kenhill]

The Hyperbase seems like a good deal if you just want retro games.

[toonfoxart]

ahhh, this is so nostalgic, I love so much those Famicom clones. I remember that (at least here in Chile) back in the day was needed to buy a separate power adapter because the one in the box overheated so much that just starts to melt itself and the console powers off

[MrJack-cqdc]

Common mistake with Retroarch based systems and performance. You can change cores and options in Retroarch, you have to try around a bit with what works best for the games but you can get a lot of games playable and more with some effort.

[TheAceWolfe]

Hyper Base FC: To quit a game with no confirmation, select+start. That's default in retroarch

[StreamCon.]

Those mario graphics from the FC Compact hurt me so bad...

[marxisttheoryandlore]

The ribbon cables on that GS4 evidently have heat insulating peanut butter on the ribbon cables inside it, very ahead of it's time

[Takoto]

Someone has probably pointed this out already, but if not; with the Sega Genesis bootleg, it's very odd that they've named it as a Sega Genesis on the box, considering here in the UK and EU/PAL region, it was known only as the Sega Mega Drive, and it definitely seems to be giving a PAL output. Just, really odd.

[munxcorp]

I like the part where the power adapter uses an American power connector when it requires European voltage. Very well thought out.

[tawagotoCage]

the FC compact is my main nes device, it works extremely well for its price, not to mention the cartridge slot

[asteroidrules]

The "Hyper Base FC" is a very interesting little mix of ideas. Its running EmuELEC which is a common operating system for handheld emulators, but the case design with the hard drive bay is very similar to the NESPi 4, a Raspberry Pi case that mimics the formfactor of the NES and uses a cartridge slot as a bay for 2.5" SATA SSDs. For $30 it's pretty decent, but for $100 it's absurd.

[AguevadoConCaraDeSonso]

That "GS4" reminded me of that "NANICA STATION 4" that I got back in 2018, but later got thrown away 3 years later