I'll give it a star for actually powering up. I was reluctant to buy and should have trusted my gut. I only relented when it dropped to 33.00 with free shipping. Unfortunately, even at this price, I cannot recommend. Love the look of the unit and the style. The menu system is good but the emulation is atrocious. I remember downloading my first emulator in 1997 and I was able to run NES games better on my 166mhz Compaq. If any one of the games I bought it for was presentable it would have been worth the price of admission. Gun.Smoke for the NES has completely garbled music and sound effects. The lag is very apparent and you can't react fast enough to projectiles because of the delay rendering unplayable. The arcade games fair a little better but there is still noticeable lag in Ghouls and Ghosts. There was even a point where the game momentarily freezes in action. Forgotten Worlds was playable but the sound is a little off with a slight lag in controller response. You can use the controllers on your PC and there are 2 of them but I can't use that to justify the price because they are very mushy and although have the very comfortable Sega Saturn/Genesis form factor they are cheaply made. The save states work and there is 3 save slots so If I could have found one game that I actually recognized that played well I would have recommended it for the economy price but alas there were none.