Emulation on a Mini PC - GEEKOM Mini Air12
Testing the GEEKOM Mini Air12 on several emulators, PC games and more. This video is sponsored by GEEKOM, who sent me this mini PC for review with only a request to show an unboxing of it. Everything is my opinion on my own tests. I focused my tests on games that are usually featured on my channel, such as the Bond ones, other N64 titles, and a few extra that I had to use to make sure I got proper benchmarks.
The Mini Air12 is not a product made for gaming, but I'm doing exactly that. It works just fine for retro emulation, old games and surprised me on a few more modern titles. It also showed great results as a local server, normal web browsing, and watching 4K video files and streams. Very low power consumption and almost no noise at all!
While not shown in the video, emulators for consoles before the Wii work as expected. PS1, Dreamcast, PSP, and of course 2D consoles all run very well on this mini PC.
Music by Yannick Zennhäusern: • The Janus Files - An Espionage Score by Ya... (Analyzing Intel, Dam Infiltration)
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This is not the first time I feature something that is sent to me for review, but it is the first time I'm doing this "officially" with a company. I'm happy with the treatment I got with GEEKOM, and their initial contact was flawless, proving they informed themselves on what I do on my channel beforehand. I really appreciated this which pushed me into giving it a go. Usually I get sponsorship requests of products that would not make sense to show on my channel, or ask for things that do not fit my style at all. Not the case here.
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Games tested in the video:
GoldenEye 007 & Custom Levels
The World Is Not Enough
F-Zero X
Smash Remix 1.5
007 Nightfire
007 Everything Or Nothing
GoldenEye Wii
Smash Bros. Melee
F-Zero GX
TimeSplitters
Armored Core: Nexus
Metal Gear Solid 2
GoldenEye XBLA
Perfect Dark PC Port
GoldenEye: Source
Turok 1, 2 and 3 remasters
Resident Evil 4
Halo MCC
Crysis
Tekken 8 (Steam streaming)
DOOM Eternal (Steam streaming)
DOOM
Half-Life 1
Half-Life 2
Tested but not shown in the video:
Zelda Ocarina of Time (no issues)
Fortnite (30fps, "playable", can drop heavily)
The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion (60fps, playable)
Friends vs Friends (playable)
Call of Duty: Black Ops III (10-15fps, unplayable)
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:44 - Unboxing
1:19 - Specs
1:32 - N64 Emulation
4:25 - GameCube / Wii Emulation
7:05 - PS2 Emulation
8:18 - Xbox 360 Emulation
9:02 - PC Gaming
14:10 - Steam Streaming
15:05 - Retro PC Setup
16:35 - Conclusion
17:32 - Where to purchase
18:12 - Closing