"Who cares! It's my channel" This is why watching your videos is such a joy.

@VeronicaExplains

4 ай бұрын

This comment makes my day. Thank you!

@dalek82

4 ай бұрын

I freaking love her channel!!!!

@jeremiahrex

4 ай бұрын

I was coming to say the same thing!

@andreroy55

4 ай бұрын

That's when I hit thumbs-up. I wanted to hit it again a couple of times later in the video, but ... :/

@dwp6x9e42

3 ай бұрын

Do we have permission to use that clip?

I’m one of the builders of this OSCR and I just wanted to say thank you so much for the kind words and visibility for this project! We’re so glad you’re enjoying it! You did such an excellent job of covering what an OSCR is in this video; I’ll definitely be sharing it whenever somebody wants to know more about what I’m working on. 😊

@VeronicaExplains

4 ай бұрын

Thank you for the work you do! It's a great project and it's very appreciated!

@johndrippergaming

4 ай бұрын

does it support dumping pirated multi-carts?

@XVa-uj8m

4 ай бұрын

Will a Jaguar cart set be coming too?

@cmcm711

3 ай бұрын

@@johndrippergaming Yes, but it's not as straightforward as choosing them out of the menu, and they won't be auto-recognized. There are some aspiring developers in the project Discord channel that can assist with reading the contents of multi-carts.

@cmcm711

3 ай бұрын

@@XVa-uj8m Sadly there are too many pins on a Jaguar cartridge for the current HW5 Arduino to support it. With newer revisions of the OSCR in development that are moving away from the Arduino Mega 2560, there may one day be a Jaguar cartridge adapter.

I LOVE the idea of ROM files and saving save files. This is NECESSARY for game archiving and gaming history.

I have horrible news: I think the N64 is probably “vintage computing” now. So… this is more channel appropriate than we may want to believe.

@Bakamoichigei

4 ай бұрын

Not only that, but the PS3 is _technically_ 'retro'... And that deals me psychic damage. Personally I think we need to reevaluate the criteria for such things... In early gaming _every_ generation represented a quantum leap over the previous, so delineating 'retro' by generations or simply just the passage of time made sense... However, if we look at the past two decades, nothing after the PS2 has made such an advance. This is why I insist that until something drastic occurs, the PS2 is the last "retro" console, and everything after that is still contemporary, with only incremental improvements in the quality of the experience.

I'd love to watch any honest person argue about how this could be illegal. Romerriffic episode! Always the best!

the "little brother ruining it for you" moment was priceless, made me laugh. yeah I lived that.

Content variety is good. I enjoy expanding my horizons. Great video Veronica!

"Imagine if Microsoft shipped you a entire extra processor just to run Excel" reminds me that while you can now use Python (alongside VBA) in Excel, that code _has to execute_ on Azure. 🤦‍♂️ Anyway, happy V-Day! V stands for Veronica in my book!

@VeronicaExplains

4 ай бұрын

Happy V-Day to you and yours as well! :)

Great video. I haven’t seen any videos on ripping cartridges in my feed - not saying they don’t exist. An interesting product with great tips! 👍🏻

@VeronicaExplains

4 ай бұрын

Thanks! I figured it was something different.

...clicked on the video to see a cool rom dumper...gets that AND a stellar history of the cartridge... awesome vid!

Perfectly timed as I was about to explore solutions for this. Thank you very much for the video.

And I now have a new thing on my wishlist. Thanks, Veronica!

The amount of info on each of your videos is mindblowing! You can tell how much work goes into your scripts

Perfect timing, I just ordered one of these the other day and this will be great information for when I get started with my collection.

I ripped my Pokémon games so I could remove the battery for replacement. Love the idea that now I can do my whole library

5:27 For such a bright, sunny personality, you are the queen of dirty looks . Love this vid. Thanks for all you do. I tell all my friends: "Linux is awesome, and so is Veronica!"

Nice one, Veronica! I saw my OSCR video peeking through one of your screen grabs... it's a neat and very useful device! Re hidden files, I think the advice to hide them is just to help navigate the folder structure without all the extra file clutter when you're reading the card... at least that's why I hid all of my files. Re building one from scratch - there's a lot of soldering in the OSCR with all of those cartridge slots, but it's totally doable for less experienced folks, and it's great practice! And if you want some help improving your soldering skills, you should come out MGC 2024 next month and attend the gameBadge workshop - we focus on teaching soldering skills and you'll walk away with a cool pico-based handheld game system to boot 😁

@VeronicaExplains

3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for the comment! The workshop sounds like a lot of fun- I'll look into it as I figure out travel plans. BTW, thank you for your videos on MiSTer- you've been a big help as I've learned more about the ecosystem.

@whatskenmaking

3 ай бұрын

@@VeronicaExplains Thanks! ❤The MiSTer ecosystem can be a bit challenging to navigate for sure - I'm glad my videos have helped!

i find your videos very relaxing during my times of high anxiety!

I’ve been looking for a recent video on this for a couple weeks now and had to double take when I saw it pop up on my feed under your channel… THANK YOU!!!

Very comprehensive video V. I love the level of detail. Thanks for all your hard work.

i just found out about your channel recently, and the calm and composure you and your videos have is brilliant, and may i add in today's era of flashy and loud content, you are a bloody gem. cheers! [i use arch btw]

:) GO Veronica! LOVED IT and AMAZED at your CPM Cart ! ! Never knew it existed, and YES I am THAT OLD to have used it on 8 inch Floppy back in the day:) HAD to share with youngest Daughter as she goes to Retro Game shops whenever she finds one :) I am with you on SMT Soldering is beyond my capabilities... ALL the BEST, Happy New Year and Cheers from Upper Left Coast! :)

@VeronicaExplains

4 ай бұрын

Thank you! Yeah, that CPM cartridge is something else. I want to do a proper video on it but I'm looking for more original media in order to show it off.

Daam. Many would proly kill for this kit in 90s.

Really interesting Veronisode I enjoyed this. I've never owned a cartridge based console. My C64-C is the first machine I've owned that takes one. I have a KF device for that for the games

The KZread algorithm recommended you…and I’m glad it did! Great video! You have a new subscriber.

Love the channel and the ROM vid is a nice light hearted change from the usual uploads!!!! As a Brit who cut his teeth on COBOL, pascal, 6502 and 68000 assembly I get a ruddy great nostalgic smile watching your legacy videos. Go go Veronica 😉😁🙏🏻👍🏻

Great video (as always, amiright?)! Love your sense of humor. Thanks so much for the breakdown, I know a decent amount of this stuff and I definitely learned some things thanks to you. I've been digging into handheld emulation a lot lately and it was nice to see another aspect of classic game preservation and enjoyment. Now I go to share your video with a few friends that will enjoy it.

@VeronicaExplains

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching and sharing! Have fun with the handheld stuff, there's lots of great options there!

Just discovered you channel right now. What a good find. And what a great idea this OSCR! :D

I have a sizeable Game Boy game collection and have been wanting to copy saves and backup my games. This open source project looks fantastic and an ideal way to do it, thanks for the video!

Thank you for doing your own subtitles. It's really help for people like me who read along! This reminds me of the time my younger sibling overwrote my FF3/6 save file when we were kids. I was quite displeased!

I'm one of your 0-17 fans :)

@VeronicaExplains

4 ай бұрын

Youths! I hope you enjoy it!

I don't think I will ever do this but the tech behind it is just so cool to see. I love the idea of just plunking some hardware down that has direct access to the address and data bus. Like the wild west of computers.

2:09 in the early 80s, specially among home computers, rom cartridges were called Solid State Software

@VeronicaExplains

4 ай бұрын

Not at all confusing today! :P

Perfect valentine day.

babe wake up, new veronica explains video just dropped !!

All that great hardware you have there... Oh my! You made me remember my commodore 64 and amiga days... 😁you rock!!😎

I loved this video! I saw your disclaimer about this being your channel and you cover whatever subject you want. I agree with you but let me say that for me, your channel is a tech channel and sooner or later you'll cover whatever tech subject in na pleasant vídeo like you did this time. I wish you the best of luck.

OMG, core memory unlocked! I, too, left the NES running for DAYS so as not to lose my progress in Super Mario Bros 3. It was devastating when the dog ran by excited about something, got tangled in the controller cords and ripped the console out of the entertainment center. The NES Satellite was a godsend, for that reason!

I never played tape games. It's still wild to me that you could use cassette tapes to store a game. I only ever used them for audio.

@fake12396

4 ай бұрын

Same concept as modems really, putting data into an audio signal, except using magnetic tape instead of a phone line

@artoniinisto9022

4 ай бұрын

I never actually used them, but between 1985-1988, in Finland, a radio program called sth like 'Silicone' sent computer code on the airwaves for listeners to record on their tape decks. You then put the tape into your early computer cassette drive to use it. Listeners made their own programs also. No wonder as this started in 1982 as a different project for citizens' edutainment benefit, we got Nokia phones and text messaging going first here - there was already a user base for tech stuff. Early PC mags always listed code to make your own programs, create drivers or tinker with stuff. Commodore 64 cost as much as a TV back then, and my first 486 machine the same amount as my first car, Datsun 100 A.

@pferreira1983

3 ай бұрын

Only problem is it took a while to load the games these were very commonplace.

Another Awesome Video Thx Veronica

》Its concept is something similar to that one employed with expansion cards connected to ISA/EISA/VLB/PCI slots throughout data bus, the same modular architecture we still see nowadays but, as you've said, it used be much more appropriate for actual implementation during that technological transition from the 70s to the 80s.

This is such an excellent find. I must have one.

If I didn’t already have solutions for all the consoles I own, this is something I would consider picking up.

Love that MiSTer menu in the intro of your video ;-)

If I were someone into homebrew on any of those systems I could see that device being incredibly useful. Save game backup would also be fairly useful, but I'm guessing the SNES & N64 games I have in storage lost their data years ago and my NES ones would surely have if I still had them. Still though I really enjoyed learning more about this project and hope it has continued support for the future!

It looks really cool.

Thanks Veronica.

Fun fact: I built one of these a few years ago and while dumping my copy of Golden Nugget 64 the checksum didn't match. After talking to Sanni we discovered that the original dump was bad and had been for a long time.

Thank you for this awesome video

Oooh, if you ever dive into homebrewing, I'd be very interested in following every step of that!

Incredible! ❤

Great video

Great video! My husband and I love your enthusiasm (and snark) it always makes us smile! --- Are there any solutions for old ColecoVision users?

@VeronicaExplains

4 ай бұрын

First off, thank you! I'm glad you both are enjoying the videos! Second, regarding ColecoVision: I think there are, actually! I'm trying to learn more and might do a follow-up at some point, but there are lots of community-contributed adapters out there for other game consoles, and I think I saw ColecoVision in there.

Great video! The OSCR _is_ an utterly indispensable tool for anyone into the physical side of retro games! I built my own v3 OSCR, and it's fantastic. 😃👌 The ability to rewrite flash cartridges is super cool. I've used my OSCR to write games to Nintendo's own rewritable Super Famicom flash cartridges. (Fan translations, romhacks, etc. All patched to ROMs dumped from my own carts using OSCR!) And I've used my OSCR for preservation; a Satellaview 8M Memory Pak or Nintendo Power SF Memory Cassette doesn't come into my possession without a complete backup. And I back up the SRAM of any games I acquire so I can examine the previous owners' progress later. (Sadly I'm like 0 for 4 finding Mario Paint cartridges with any art still saved on them! 😢) btw, emulator SRAM compatibility is usually a header issue. I've yet to try loading an OSCR dumped SRAM in an emu, but I know that save data dumped with a magicom such as a Super Wild Card or Super UFO Pro 8 needs to have the header stripped out before an emulator will recognize it. 😉👍 EDIT: Oh yeah, something about the older v3 OSCR; it can also read pretty much anything through the SNES slot, given the appropriate adapter...since it's all just arbitrary GPIO...same as the newer versions. 😃 (Personally, I rather like the more compact formfactor though!) Also, I've been running my OSCR almost exclusively off a decade-old powerbank for the half a year since I built it with no issues. It's super handy!

@Ancyker

4 ай бұрын

Hey, I know you! :P

@Bakamoichigei

4 ай бұрын

@@Ancyker 😜

Love the video, bit of a retro gamer myself :)

you're a very good presenter and speaker.

On start up, the chip (TPS2113) that handles the power switching could go through any state, even when 3.3V is selected because its enable pin is permanently on. The chip takes a little time to fully turn on and a little more time to actually decide what the output should be - we're only talking several milliseconds. The author of the project can resolve this problem by enabling the chip a little time after it's turned on; it'll be faster than turning the device and then plugging in a cartridge. The output of the chip is 0V when the chip is not enabled. A common method to do this is with a capacitor and a Schmitt trigger.

@Ancyker

4 ай бұрын

The MCU controlling the chip is also powered by it, so delaying turn on isn't all that helpful. Your proposed solution isn't wrong, but the time difference would be measured in nanoseconds if not microseconds. The latency for the toggling of 3.3V comes from the time it takes the MCU to boot and set the pin state. HW7 resolves the issue entirely by not powering the cartridge slots and processor with the same power rail. Instead, the slots get their own rail which can be toggled on and off and adjusted as needed by the firmware. It also monitors this rail to make sure the voltage is within bounds so it can cut the power to the slots if it isn't.

@Shocker99

3 ай бұрын

@@AncykerTwo methods to solve the same problem, which is pretty much the same thing. Mine is hardware defined, yours is software.

@Ancyker

3 ай бұрын

@@Shocker99 I think you misunderstood what I was saying. Your proposed solution was not a hardware solution because it was not a solution at all. It was not the TPS2113 causing the issue, it was the microcontroller. Your proposed hardware solution would not have fixed this because the MCU is powered by the TPS2113, so your solution would have made the problem worse by delaying the MCU booting and changing the pin state even later. Also, this problem was actually recently solved via a firmware update that moved the pin state update to even earlier in the code.

Excellent stuff! Been waiting for a tool like like this. Absolutely god-sent for game collectors and obviously for the future archiving purposes. Been saying it for years now, will say it now: Backup, rip and store EVERYTHING digital you love and consider important, or even just cool. One day, it will be gone. What comes to the "legality", at least in EU you have 100% the right to do a backup of any media product you've legally bought. This was ruled already back in the VHS and C-cassette days!

This is a great video. I had my eye on the OSCR for sometime but haven't been able to swing the cost yet. And I've been an avid gamer since the Atari days (I grew up on pong consoles and Atari 2600). Im sure the batteries in my cart games like Zelda and Mario RPG are probably dead lol since I've had them for about 30 years. But I've taken good care of my carts though and I'm sure they will still work. I may need to get on this and get this device before it no longer becomes available.

You should really do a video with Tech Tangents. You both have a very similar personality and I think you would work well together. 👍

Not affiliated with the project in any way, but the hiding the txt files on the sd card is most likely to, well, hide them. de-clutter the sd card contents so it's easier to find the file you dumped between all those files.

Amazing!

As a little brother, I make no apologies. Thanks for another great video!

I like this video and your enthusiasm! Thanks! I found this channel after you posted something on the OSCR Discord today. The only thing I would have liked to see you mention in some way was how to update the firmware on the OSCR, this is basically my only 'quirk'/con with the OSCR. Would have been nice if the new firmware could just be copied onto the SD card and be loaded from the OSCR menu. But I can't have it all and thus far I'm quite happy with my OSCR. One question I have is how you knew that for N64 cartridges it might be better to turn it on in 3.3V mode before inserting the cartridge to avoid the possibility of the 5V spike. I didn't find this in Sanni's userguide or I might just be reading past it. I'm looking forward to more of your video's, like how you mentioned that you would do a video about fixing your NES. That one is looking quite bad, so I'm curious what you will be doing to it.

@Ancyker

3 ай бұрын

> Would have been nice if the new firmware could just be copied onto the SD card and be loaded from the OSCR menu. The ATmega line does not support this. It has to be programmed by another device. The only way to implement this with the current architecture (the ATmega/Arduino Mega) would be to have another device boot first and look at the SD card for an update, and if found update the main device before booting it. I am currently working on an updater to make updating easier, but it will still require a computer. > how you knew that for N64 cartridges it might be better to turn it on in 3.3V mode before inserting the cartridge to avoid the possibility of the 5V spike The wiki page on Automatic Voltage Select.

"I legally own these games" - ahhhh those were the days

@VeronicaExplains

4 ай бұрын

It's so hard to even want to "buy" a game today!

@acubley

4 ай бұрын

That's why I love GoG. Doesn't help with AAA, but it's nice to use on older systems. 👍

Good morning my Teacher Veronica...🤩

les gooo. also if anyone is put off by the price of prebuilts, there are clones for cheaper. and at this point you can sometimes find them used if someone only intended t5o dump a massive collection. like for me rn im buying games ocassionally and then adding them to my library

This is good for companies that are re-releasing /porting old school consoles games to the next gen gaming console and they do not a back up of their roms.

Heck yeah!

That is so cool! Although it seems a hint excessive to me to have a separate device with its own display, controls and memory card slot, instead an accessory gadget that just has the cartridge slots and a controller, that connects to your PC via USB or whatever and then just have Linux drivers/tools for operating the thing.

@EddieSlabb

4 ай бұрын

Sometimes you need a toaster, sometimes you need an oven. You can do a lot more with an oven, including making toast, but sometimes a specialized tool is the most efficient.

I really want one of these but $200-300 is a bit much for me right now Will definitely keep my eye out for different versions of this especially if there's one that can write to reproduction cartridges

@VeronicaExplains

4 ай бұрын

This one can write to a lot of repros! At least from what I can see. It is a bit steep preassembled but I've enjoyed it.

@xexat

4 ай бұрын

@@VeronicaExplains guess this will be my next purchase after I build a new pc

@Ancyker

4 ай бұрын

Kits are about $100 if you want to DIY it. The soldering is pretty easy if you get the SMT components preassembled, which adds about $10-20 to the cost depending on if you want RTC or not (most people do not need RTC). It does take a few hours to do it all though. Also, assembled prices will be dropping soonish as well, likely to around $130-150.

I just learned about this project and I really want one but I lost all of my nes/snes games after I moved out my parents house. I'm glad it exists however.

That N64 port on the side for testing controllers is a great idea, and I'd love to see someone make a controller / cartridge tester -- plug in your controller or cartridge and know if everything is working great. Would save time for someone like me who buys and sells consoles and games and don't fancy dragging out a console and plugging it in every time.

@cmcm711

3 ай бұрын

This device can do all of those things (at least for N64)! It has a controller tester mode, but also, after dumping the ROM of a game for any supported system, it will run a checksum to confirm if the dumped data matches a known-good value in a database on the SD card. If it matches, the cartridge should be fully functional. If it doesn't, then either the cartridge pins are dirty (99% of the time there is a mismatch, this is the case), or the cartridge has a problem.

@SolidIncMedia

3 ай бұрын

@@cmcm711 yep, but I'm referring to a more generalised thing for multiple consoles. Something modular, where you buy the base and whatever controller or cartridge adaptors you need to suit your requirements, then you can plonk it on your desk and just test cartridges and controllers as you're working. If I knew more about the hardware side of things, I'd attempt it myself, but I'm a programmer by trade.

Looks awesome for N64 Cartridges, I have a Retro Freak and it can dump and emulate all your cartridges(NES, Famicom, SNES, Super Famicom, Game Boy, Color, Advance, Mega Drive, Genesis, PC Engine, TG16, PC Engine Supergrafix). However it only works up to 16 bit cartridges so N64 would be impossible. I will check out this device for my N64 games

Veronica, You Da Bomb! 🧸

Ripping is probably not the term I would use, but rather dumping. Ripping feels like optical media source. 😊

21:51 YES! ZOOP!

Oh no, I care more about how they work, than actually fiddling with them. Also the studio is coming along nicely.

I need one of these

_Shakes fist in air_ "Curse you little brotherrrr!" ✊️

Loving the subject material Veronica. Gaming from my youth! I'm guessing there's an equivalent device for 'backing up' the older 8-bit games, like Atari, Colecovision, Intel vision, etc....? I enjoyed meeting you at VCFMW, & I'll be sure to bring more floppy disks for your Sony Mavica, at this year's show. :)

Thanks!

@VeronicaExplains

4 ай бұрын

Thank you! Very appreciated!

I also use retroarch on my linux mint debian, with crt shaders with curvature, they look awesome... i also have a partition with batocera linux

VerROMica explains?

Keep circulating the carts!

Long time no see on my KZread feed. Thanks for that video ^^ (Sidenote: I saw the OG FF7 game, did you know you could swap the disks in-game and it would mostly (IIRC) work? Only the CG videos seem to differ mostly on the disks, so you'll get the wrong CG video playbacks, and that's it)

ANOTHER LIKE, ANOTHER SUBSCRIBER, LINUX USER FROM TIJUANA MEXICO, CHEERS!

This is really cool. Cant wait to start dumping my carts!

Love your vids

Awesome

The preservation of digital media as a bid for keeping history is _exactly_ what some companies hate. Modern-day games development from _many_ companies could be compared with fast fashion - sweatshop-style labour producing low-quality garbage at a rapid pace. Remember to avoid companies who kill their babies for falling short of their expectations, and for those companies which _use_ to not do this, but are today; remember what they took from you.

Ah yes. Who remembers the Save feature in SONIC 1?

@VeronicaExplains

4 ай бұрын

Did you watch the video? I talk about that.

@Gameboy_1992

4 ай бұрын

@@VeronicaExplains i was making fun of the thumbnail Sorry for that btw :(

I actually have something like this for the Mega Drive. A useful took although I don't use it as much as I should.

Can the OSCR project be used to build a standalone emulation system or be used in conjunction with the Mister FPGA? It'd be cool to build a device using 1:1 scale 3D printed replacement shells for game consoles with the modern experiences like save states and Retro Achievements.

@Ancyker

3 ай бұрын

Soon™

5:20 As little brother, I can confirm this was true back then

thats cool

R.I.P. and shout-out to Gerald Anderson Lawson

i backed up my punch cards

I like this channel! 👾 ❤️‍🔥

Great hardware for preservation. However, the disclaimer made me want to comment on who owns what. Unfortunately, even back then at the cartridge games, we didn't own the games. we owned basically a license to use the media on its designated console. Even if you did dump your own games that you bought with your money, you still wouldn't be allowed to play the resulting roms in anything but its designated console. Just reading the first pages of my Sega Game Gear games' manuals, one can see that they give you the license to play the game only on the Sega Game Gear console in its intended way. Just to clear that "i bought it, so i can do it" thing. They did cover even this back then with a blanket statement about the cartridge's use.