It's good to see the legends still making contributions to the scene even decades later. This sort of thing would've blown my mind as a Game Boy kid.

Another option to defeat the locking tab is something like a GameShark or Mega Memory Card.

Now all we need is someone to make a flash cart for the poor man...

Tape dump. dumping with audio. I love the retro vibe. Totally gave me flashbacks of booting commodore programs off a tape deck.🤔 I wonder if some of those retro computers have enough memory to store and read a rom and do a simple task such as display a single sprite without color data...

Pretty cool to see you come back and pull this off for the Game Boy as well. Never was in a situation where I absolutely had to use this (I'd probably settle with a Gameboy player and some custom software if need-be), but always a nice to have, especially if you find yourself in a situation where you might have to walk someone else through the process.

This is very cool. It's always nice to have a poor man's option. It seems simple enough for a less technical person too👍🏻✨️

Yesss!! KCS support! Thank you KZread algorithm for bringing me here

Actually pretty interesting since the audio output was never ment for transfering data but the link cable was indeed ment for that purpuse😁

1:30 There's probably a way to replace the power switch with one that doesn't have a locking tab so you won't ruin your vintage DMG, but that might be more work than most dumpers are interested in doing.

@TheRealPatete

14 күн бұрын

Indeed, there's always an alternative to mutilating old hardware

If decepticon turf you just happen to stumble than watch robot here comes rumble

Best way would be to just 3D print a power switch without the locking tab and use it to replace the original one. This way you can always turn the gameboy back to original.

That screen looks really good

@user-ij5sm2wk7y

15 күн бұрын

Yes, modern replacement screens breathe new life into the old DMG.

Sorcery! I’m impressed!!

The unexpected benefit of removing the locking tab on the original GB is that you can dump GBC-only games that way.

Underated video.

Awesome, reminds me of my trs-80😂

Can you make a tutorial how do dump from the NES? I have one nice multicard wich I want to dump. It is 150 in 1 with the beach scenes and not unchained melody, but summer wine.

I kinda want to try the audio line method. Have a Pocket for those needs and smaller games like Tetris and SML1.

Wild

I wonder if you could avoid the danger of cart swapping using a go-between cart with a switch on it so power can be cut/restored cleanly. Might not be that expensive to make?

As someone dabbling in GB development, this answered a long time question: is it technically possible to copy program data from ROM to WRAM then run the program strictly from WRAM, allowing you to remove the cart and have it continue to run fine? Apparently you can. Although as you said it doesn’t alleviate concerns regarding harm to carts being removed while energized, the cart doesn’t have power cleanly removed and added.

Gameboy Pocket also doesn’t have the locking tab

This indeed is a very smart approach 🙂 I'm still looking for an easy way to dump photos taken with the GB camera.Any solutions except a dumper?

@user-ij5sm2wk7y

15 күн бұрын

You can buy/make/find devices that emulate a GB printer to save those photos, or perhaps the MiSTer w/ SNAC in the GB core emulates the camera? Or a SuperNT & Super GameBoy through HDMI capture...

@No1BRC

14 күн бұрын

@@user-ij5sm2wk7y thanks for the suggestions😊 I just googled again and saw that there are some new DIy projects out. I tried one years ago (bennvennn) but it turned out that the ST link changed its design so my build wouldn’t work. 😬

So just to confirm, this won't work with a GBA due to the whole voltage-switching thing, right? Maybe with passthrough cart such as a GameShark to sit in the cart slot and keep the unit in GBC mode?

@user-ij5sm2wk7y

15 күн бұрын

I don't have a GBA here that I can test it with. You should assume GB(C) only.

I love the sheer amount of 洄 that shows up on the char representation of the cart dump data.

@user-ij5sm2wk7y

19 күн бұрын

Churn that data, as they say. It's odd that multiple hex zeroes would show up as that character. :/