Sonicon Preloaded RetroPie Batocera Emulator MicroSD Card w/FC/SFC/Sega/GB/Atari/Arcade/Mame/Genesis, Plug&Play (128GB, For Raspberry Pi 3/3b+)

Growing up in the 80's I absolutely LOVED arcade games... all the full-sized arcade classics, plus Atari consoles, ColecoVision, IntelliVision, etc. My family didn't have much money, so we only had an Atari 2600 and a small handful of cartridges. My $5.00 a week allowance didn't go too far at the local arcade. So I always dreamt of one day having an arcade cabinet or two of my own, like Ricky Schroder on the TV series Silver Spoons (other 80's kids will understand this reference).Fast forward a few decades and I've made a casual hobby out of building custom full-sized arcade cabinets for myself, friends and occasional clients using old Windows PCs as the main engine. My biggest brag is being summoned to build a full-sized arcade cab, themed for a major airline's headquarters' break room in exchange for a row of Boeing 737 passenger seats to display in my man cave.Surplus Windows PCs are reliable and easy to find to slap into an arcade cab to play multiple games and platforms. So that's what I've been comfortable with. But they're bulky, inefficient, and laborious as far as getting everything where anyone can walk up and navigate to their favorite platform/game using only joysticks and buttons without getting lost or messing up the settings. In my experience, they (desktops or laptops) run hot during emulation, so the CPU fan seems to always be running full blast, and I get nervous leaving them on for hours/days at a time in a game room-type setup.When the Raspberry Pi showed up on the scene as an alternative I was excited to try it out... a quiet, energy efficient little computer that could run all the games I remember... the size of a pack of smokes... for less than $50... what's not to love?I bought a RPi 3 B+ and a few preconfigured cards on auction sites and tried them out. I would tweak the settings after researching and watching videos online. But somehow I would always end up corrupting the SD card image to the point it would be useless (I'm no engineer or programmer, so perhaps my fault). I got frustrated and threw the RPi the closet and kept making cabs using old Windows PCs and working around all their downfalls.Today I'm down to just one full-sized cabinet at my home that I refuse to get rid of. It has an old laptop hidden inside that runs Windows XP. It works okay but it's clunky to get up and running. It only has the MAME arcade games, I can't play any of the early consoles I used to drool over but could never afford. The CPU fan screams after just a few minutes of play.So I decided to revisit the RPi option one last time. I dragged my RPi3 B+ out of the closet and ordered this card thinking I'd run into the same issues but was so excited when I found out otherwise.Everything's been setup perfectly on this card... it just works. If you've ever played Galaga, for example, on a big HD monitor/TV unfiltered you'll know what I'm talking about... the sharp lines and obvious pixilation look foreign and unauthentic. With this card, the games all look like they would on an old CRT monitor from the 80's. No settings to change. There's subtle blurring and enhancements that make every game look perfect to the period. Brilliant!Finally, I had an issue with some sound settings in certain games where I needed help. I contacted the tech support using the info in the included user manual. They got back to me the same day and patiently walked me through how to resolve the issue to resolution. So nice to see that customer service is not out of style!For me, this purchase was well worth it. Plug & Play compatibility with the RPi3 B+ (CPU and GPU don't even get warm after hours of use). Exceptional interface right out of the box. Overlays that surround the game screens are clean and fun to look at. No headaches. Easy to navigate for anyone who wants to explore the library of games, no worry of messing up the settings. No brainer for me. I love this product. Thanks!

Simple plug and play. Definitely a quality product

I couldn't be happier, I wish I bought the larger capacity! It works right out the box with all the features. Mine is hooked to a tankstick and set to "xbox" mode with no issues. Box art, videos, and everything works unlike my DIY project I started with. Highly recommend, I will be upgrading with next pi version!

It is easy to use with a Raspberry PI. You cannot backup or clone the SD, it's unreadable by Windows PC. Also, you cannot use the normal update options in BATOCERA, it says there is not space available.

I looked for a lot of these ROMS for a long time, Some of the ones I found worked and some didn't. I was looking for some specific games and had a difficult time. I bought this one taking a chance and it seems the ones that I was looking for work fine. This will be the base of a new arcade cabinet, I wanted the MAME and older systems that are on here. There are a lot of games on here and I am not sure if they all work and I may never know by the sheer volume. I am happy with it.

This is a preloaded card full of files you can download for free. But it doesn't cost much more than a blank card, and saves hours and hours of setup and download of the files needed. Definitely worth the money.

The games on it are great. I love being able to plug it into my custom arcade and just play games !

Not sure what happened, but it worked twice, and the third time it just stayed stuck on the boot screen with a bunch of words. Not sure if it's the quality of the card or not. I tried to contact the seller via the link on QR code they included, and they never responded.

Lasted three days, then refused to boot!

Truly amazing and easy to set up

Tried it in my 4Gb Pi 4 and it just refused to boot. Will return for refund.Have had 2 different 128Gb cards and both fail to boot. I also ordered a 64Gb card which booted just fine.

great

Does not work at all with raspberry pi. The pi doesn’t boot up with the sd card installed