HDMI Games Sticks

[rash_decision]

Hi all, can anyone recommend one of these HDMI games sticks that are going around now? I’m not an avid gamer so would welcome some recommendations. I thought it would be a good way to pass some of the winter nights, reliving some of my memories of the late 80’s/early 90’s arcade games.

[Steven_RW]

Hi - I didn't buy a hdmi stick as such. I bought an SD card that goes in my steamdeck with all the emulation of all the different systems with all the retro games. You can also buy a little hand held device or a small games console that connects to your tv and it has all the same games on it. Personally I used this guy on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NBElectronixx/

Zero fuss and the product did exactly what he said it would and arrived when he said it would.

You could contact him for advice on whatever solution would best suit you. The HDMI stick things may not really have enough processing power for proper emulation so you may need some sort of hardware and NBElectronixx would keep you right.

I replayed Mickey Castle of Illusion from the mega drive and finally beat it using this emulation. After all these years :-)

Cheers and hope that helps.

RW

[lizardbrain]

I couldn't get over how bad all my beloved games were when i tried this

[jimmyjimjim]

lizardbrain said:

I couldn't get over how bad all my beloved games were when i tried this

I couldn't get over how bad the graphical powerhouse PS1 was.

[Lucas Ayde]

jimmyjimjim said:

I couldn't get over how bad the graphical powerhouse PS1 was.

It looked pretty good on a typical CRT of the day and for the time, it was revolutionary. Easily ahead of even top-end PCs of the era and it made polygonal, texture mapped 3D games the standard. Probably the last time a console was clearly better than contemporary gaming PCs.

Of course, doesn't hold up very well on a modern large flatpanel TV or monitor- but still looks OK on a handheld or small screen. It's a real shame that Sony don't support back-compat on PS4 and PS5 for it. The PS3 plays PS1 games just fine.

[dapprman]

Check reviews as many are like the one I got through the Amazon Vine Program (so fortunately cost me nothing) which are just MAME with a poor front end and the 1000+ games are just a long (and slow to proceed through) list of the same game multiple times with no properly working search function and half the games not working. Still got a pair of controllers which work with my PC

This is the one I got and would recommend avoiding
This was my review for that one