Retro Gaming on the Amazon Fire TV Stick (2024 Guide)

This was my original way of playing retro games on my TV. I got the original Fire TV Stick back in 2014 and was able to side load Retroarch on it via ADB command line tool. I later upgraded to a newer model of the Fire TV and added a USB hub via an OTG cable so I could connect an external USB drive and wired controllers. I still have that setup with my Fire TV Cube which is still useful for playing older games.

@Retro Game Corps Here's a tip: after sideloading DraStic, when browsing the directory for your ROM folder, use the mouse pointer to change it from "Grid mode" to "List mode" [through the 'list' icon to the right] to avoid having to use the mouse pointer blindly in order select your ROM folder using the fire TV remote instead... You're welcome 😉

Appreciate you linking everything through your site. Nice one

TY for this video--love having a firestick on every TV in the house with some retro games on it, so appreciate getting the heads up on a lot of this stuff!

I did this with my Fire TV stick years ago, and it works pretty well. I have a TV now and did the same thing. It's nice if you have a bluetooth keyboard and mouse for navigation too. It plays pretty well on lower end games. I usually just sideload apks on mine, but using the downloader app works well, also.

Great video! Keep this type of content coming. Sending thanks from across the pond 🤘

Thanks for this! Just found out an old 64gb Kingston USB2 card and put a USB adapter and 2 SN30 controllers on my wishlist for payday. Looking forward to suprising the wife with 2 player retro gaming sessions on the living room TV!!

Thanks for the demo and info, have a great day

I got this to work on my Inisgnia Fire TV as well. Awesome! Thank you!

My boy doing some fun intros. BAM, liked and shared the video.

Great video for beginners. I had come off the streets after losing my job, house and everything in storage back in 2017 and had to reclaim all that my family and I lost. After I reclaimed my furniture and was focusing on entertainment. I got a fire stick and got one of those OTG cables and a powered USB hub so I could plug in additional devices that needed more power. I replaced it with a PC and no longer own a fire stick but this should still work, in theory. I used a different setup, I got a 256gb SATA SSD + SATA-USB adapter by uGreen. It didn't require an external power source but if it needed it, I got that extra umph from the powered hub.

I did this a couple years ago. It's super easy and works great! It's also a great way to let my kids play older games. I highly recommend.

Amazon blocked any other launchers besides their own a couple of years ago, so unfortunately, no other launcher can be used. You have perfect timing. I just brought my Firestick out this afternoon. It was glitchy and losing connection to my flash drive, which is 3.0. I switched to.a USB 2 and it's fine now. Thanks!

Thanks for this video, it gave me motivation to try emulation again with my nokia 8000 android tv box. After some formatting of a 16Gb version of the same usb stick you were using things actually started working, all I was ever interested in on this device was genesis and snes games I had as a young teen and the nokia (also a quad core)runs them great using an 8bitdo snes style controller.

I have one! And did the retro emu guide you made originally! Buuuut I didn’t know it did N64! Gonna have to check this out!

Cool tip customizing the output size! I did this for the gba port of celeste classic to zoom in using custom interger scaled output size and it looks FANTASTIC, with some black bars only on the left n right of the screen on my rg351p (3:2) and my rp2s (4:3)

Man you are fantastic! I was already trying to do this to add space on my firestick for my dvr app and I kept getting crashes and random reboots. I had no idea until I watch this video that the problem was with the power hungry usb sticks! In for a new 128GB stick using your link. Thanks for this and all your content!

Nice! I have one at home but I only use it for streaming. ❤ love your vids

BAM! Another great video by Game Corps. Bam!!!

You are the reason I got otg cable for my fire stick, thank you🎉