- Is that a bird,
a plane or is it a scam?
(upbeat retro music)
Wow, that was really close to hitting the camera.
Okay so, what do we have here?
The first thing I see is a used Kinect for $39.99
that definitely no one bothered to, like, wipe off.
The Kinect originally came out with the Xbox 360
and it really was the alternative
to something like the Wii motion control.
While, I personally like the Kinect,
it was, without a doubt, a massive failure.
But that's certainly not all.
So I see
a refurbished Xbox.
Pre-owned and refurbished consoles from GameStop
have been very hit or miss in the past.
I can't even put the game in it now.
- Oh. - Oh.
- Now this is certified pre-owned
which means that it's cleaned, tested and guaranteed.
The number one tell on whether or not it's scam or not,
fail,
fail, fail.
- [Jared] You have no idea
if that means it's good in there or not.
- Does that sound like it's well packed, Jared?
This is cleaned?
There's a just layer of dust
Can you see this?
Just a layer.
Again, I'm just going to refer you to,
cleaned.
- [Jared] Why would you do that?
Now I'm gonna get lung cancer.
- This is one thing I'm not gonna sniff.
- [Jared] Yeah.
(Austin coughs)
- Well, if the Xbox One S that's disgusting town
isn't enough for you,
we also have
a PlayStation 4.
And apparently a whole bunch of games for it.
- [Jared] All of that goes for the
low, low price of 300 buckaroos.
- So for the same price as the PS4 used to cost,
you now get 4 used games.
Wait, before we actually open it up,
let's do the test.
Ah. - Oh, that sounds better.
- No, I'm feeling better about his one.
Inside we have
actual packing and a blue controller
which, I will say, not clean
but compared to the other one is downright near mint.
Look at this packaging though.
Look, you've actually got foam.
You got cardboard.
How lovely is that?
Now that being said it is scuffed quite a lot.
Considering this is a matte finish,
someone has definitely, like, scrubbed this
with like a Brillo pad or something
or, like, a Magic Eraser
but, you know, it should be okay.
So, does our disgusting Xbox One S
and mildly okay PS4 work?
Only one way to find out.
Plug it in and...
Very good sign.
Fan spinning up.
Why did I think that was a good idea?
So at least we can confirm
that the Xbox seems to function
and I actually wanna get into a game and whatnot.
Let's plug the PS4 in and see if this one works.
Okay, definitely scared me for a second.
All right, so both consoles appear at first glance
to actually work.
Line cable...
Okay oh, a 480 wheel.
Is this the Thrustmaster? - Yes.
- Okay, I've seen this wheel before.
If you're trying to get into any kind of racing wheel,
this is the most popular one.
Ever since something like the Xbox 360 days.
This immediately looks a lot better,
it's an 8/10 scale replica.
I don't know why they just don't make it full size
but okay.
And you have real size pedal set, no clutch.
That being said though, Jared,
if I know this wheel correctly,
it's like what?
Couple hundred bucks?
- [Jared] It's a 130 bucks.
- $130 for a wheel and pedals, not bad.
Got a little of work to do with the--
- Ah, coming through, excuse me.
Just gotta bring the package in.
You got--
- I mean, that's a racing seat, right?
- Well, open it up.
- So I actually built one of these once
a couple years ago for Broke vs Pro
but this is the lite version.
- [Jared] So this was 300 bucks,
no premium. - So,
basically what we're looking at here
is about $400 for a wheel, pedals,
seat and full simulator set up.
And another $300 for the PS4 to actually run it on.
Racing ain't cheap.
(upbeat rock music)
So after an arduous journey,
our next level racing seat
and our Thrustmaster wheel and pedals have been assembled.
Now unlike a higher end wheel which needs like a power adapter
and everything,
this literally just needs
one cable to the pedals and
one USB,
which I'm gonna not step on.
Oh wait.
Okay, so controller connected but then...
Oh, do you really just need a controller as well?
Oh, I need the controller.
- [Jared] You got this, I believe in you.
- Okay, now do I have manual shifting?
I hope I do.
I don't have manual shifting, that's unfortunate.
But the wheel does work.
I will say no force feedback is a little weird
but if you're used to just playing on the controller,
it's a big step up.
I will also say why I will not give any props
to that Xbox.
The PS4 is functioning completely fine.
Having said, this is not a scam.
Well, hopefully none of those are fragile.
All right, we've got a Eliminator Mod Pack Adapter for PS4.
We have a DualShock 4 back button attachment.
I actually never tried that
and all the way down here,
we have a Strike Pack Mod Pack.
So these are all the same thing, Jared.
I'm not sure if you're familiar.
- [Jared] No, no, no.
They're all, you know, very different.
- Let's start with this
'cause this is actually something that came out,
actually toward the end of the PS4 life cycle.
I think this actually came out
after the PS5 had already been announced.
And if I remember right,
even this has like the buttons and the screen.
It's really cheap, right?
- [Jared] It's only 10 bucks.
- 10. - Brand new.
- That's what we call a bargain.
So it's just got the paddles,
it's got a little screen
and it plugs into the bottom of my controller.
And it immediately turns on.
Okay, good sign.
Oh yeah, so I can have...
So now I'm using my back buttons to swap weapons now.
So that is L1, R1.
Okay, this is not a scam.
This is actually legitimately useful to the game.
So I've got that
for 10 bucks compared to the what?
The strike pack?
So this looks
like it's almost the exact same thing except
it adds paddles with on the fly re-mapping.
This was designed for
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered
though it may be effective in future games.
Jitter requires certain game exploits.
These exploits may be patched rendering this mod
ineffective in the future.
(police sirens blaring)
Jared, is this a hacking tool?
Am I gonna get banned on Xbox Live with it?
I mean, PSN on this?
- [Jared] It can't be.
It specifically says it's mod free.
- It says a mod pack.
It literally is called a mod pack.
It is me, the Scam Buster.
English is my second language.
Scams are my business.
Super Mario Kart?
So I know that GameStop for a little while
sold retro games.
They don't do that anymore.
- [Jared] But that's not the product.
- Okay.
So this is the Hyperkin SupaBoy.
Now I remember seeing this and,
I think it was at E3 or CES,
a long time ago.
- [Jared] It's not a bad price at only a 100 bucks.
- You know, that price actually doesn't fill me
with confidence.
I bet for 100 dollars, this is gonna suck.
Oh, it's actually a little smaller than I thought.
Oh wow, that's thick.
- [Jared] Oh my God.
- So to be fair,
the size of a Super Nintendo cartridge means
it does kind of have to be pretty thick.
So you've got AV out,
so not HDMI but fair enough, I guess.
USB-C for charging,
you've got a PAL or an NTSC switch.
You also have headphone, volume and brightness
and it switches between 4:3 or 16:9.
And then underneath these rubber panels,
you actually have your controller slots.
Got a wrist strap.
Boy, if you're dropping this thing,
you gotta watch out.
You might, like, leave a dent in your hole.
- [Jared] What?
- A hole in your floor,
a dent in your floor.
I would say it's not comfortable.
Like, it looks cool but, like,
my hands are, like, digging into, like,
the wide part of the plastic
and it's so like back heavy.
When you're playing like a retro console like this
and especially when you're trying to play something
which is designed for CRT,
proper scaling, I think, is important.
4:3 looks better
but whatever the screen resolution of the screen is,
looks less than ideal I'd say.
Like, it looks very, like, kind of grainy.
That being said, the most important thing
is the responsiveness and the actual, like,
accuracy of the emulation.
At first glace, seems fine.
I'm not having any problems with, like, lag
and a lot of the low-end emulators for,
you know, Super Nintendo
and especially when you get to, like, PlayStation stuff,
can be very choppy and very laggy.
For me, I would rather not have
the cartridge slot on a handheld
because this is huge.
And if you want to use this with a TV,
you're stuck using the RCA
which is just not great, right.
If this had, like, something like an HDMI,
I think it would be really nice.
People dock it, play your games.
It's not a scam.
This is not scam.
This thing works.
It's not outrageously expensive
but I can't say that I'm a big fan of it.
Then it comes to the Nintendo Switch.
This is a console which I would say is pretty popular.
It's been very successful
and it's something that a lot of
legitimately great accessories are for.
Like this little Genki dock--
- [Jared] Oh.
- I wasn't even done talking Jared.
So what is this? - We could redo that.
- No, no, it's fine Jared.
It's too late. - No, I want to redo that.
- It's too late, it's too late.
We're already in the middle of it.
There are a lot of controllers for the Switch,
mostly because the pro controller
that the Switch you can buy with,
it's like 80 bucks or 70 bucks.
It is very expensive and it's just, kind of, okay.
So, that is one area where I think it makes
a lot of sense to actually buy
a third party pro controller for your Switch.
The only concern I have with this,
is that this seems like it's slightly, eh, it's okay.
I bet this is going to get a little, like,
gross looking after time.
You do have your, sort of, back paddles right here.
This seems totally reasonable for 28 bucks.
- [Jared] The only thing sus here is this next product.
- I caught it,
did you see that? - Wow.
- That's really impressive. - Thank you, appreciate it.
Better graphics, better pixels, better gameplay.
Game console graphics processor.
Now I know for a fact
that this is listed on GameStop's website
as a graphics card.
So, for context, this is what a graphics card
should look like.
It is a graphics card for a PC.
Now, the Switch does not have a graphics card,
it has a GPU which is built in to the Switch
but you can't give yourself more performance
by plugging a graphics card into your Switch
which is what this sounds like.
What this actually does,
is it is a 4K or full HD upscaler.
Unplug the Switch.
I'm going to plug it into the back
of my brand new graphics card.
So then I'm going to plug it back in
and then, theoretically, I can plug this into my TV
and it will give me power and it does.
So we got a little blue light right now.
So is the Switch working right now?
The Switch screen is on
which means that it's not connected right.
Let me plug and unplug and see if that helps.
- [Jared] It should have gone immediately.
- [Austin] It should immediately go.
Getting some scammy tingles.
And now, it's time for me to troubleshoot,
to really see if this is a scam.
A little more on this side, yeah thanks, Jared.
To find out,
is it a scam.
- [Joanna] It's not enough.
- It's not enough, Jared.
Could you put your back into it, please?
- [Joanna] Oh, Jared?
- It's okay give him five. - No sleeping on the job.
- Oh, was I supposed to read the
works only in this one direction part?
- [Joanna] Yeah, yeah.
Did you miss that?
You see that? - So you know what?
Here's the thing.
Reading comprehension is a scam, okay.
The less you read the better in life.
You know what?
To be fair, now that I look at it,
it does have a big source arrow on it.
This is with the upscale on
and this is with the upscale off.
Now obviously watching a YouTube video
it's gonna be a little hard to see
but what I can immediately say is that,
like, all of these little, like, pixelated little,
like literal, actual pixels that you can see around,
like, the computer for example,
are completely smoothed out.
A lot of pixel art style games
are probably better running in a standard mode
but you've got something like a 3D game,
like Breath of the Wild or Pokemon or something,
I can see this actually being pretty good.
And as much as this screams scam,
I do think they're marketing is way too aggressive.
This is not a graphics card.
This is not going to revolutionize your console
but for some games, it does make a difference.