How to Play REAL, Physical Cartridge Games on your PC!

[@lastnam3219]

This is like chadtronic's more peaceful brother.

[@Nintendrew]

Hahaha... Love Daddy Chad! :P

[@drobnoxius9483]

Hey drew like your vids

[@mariokid342]

Sooo true oooo can cartridge tilt it plssssssssssss reply

[@kyndull]

No u

[@frootloopmaster3993]

Oh yeah

[@showalk]

"a secure location on your PC" Drew: TO THE DESKTOP IT GOES!

[@NathanielBandy]

Is there any lag or latency issues? If not, I'm DEFINITELY picking this up!

[@keko1130]

Nope.

[@WaveSmash]

Nathaniel Bandy no? Why would there be? You just extract the rom.

[@ericbazinga]

Any controller lag would be the emulator's fault

[@RS-xy1sf]

Hey NB I just got back from watching one of your vids lol

[@akayysworld]

WaveSmash if you extract the room what's the point of the cartridge anymore?

[@tsukiche5939]

It can also be used as a savefile manager. So if you want to reset your Pokemon game, for exemple, but still wish to keep your old playthrough you can just copy it over your computer. This way you'll have multiple save files for even for game that originaly don't have.

[@spitt0110]

*authentic as emulation is. but then again, i'm more of a flash cart on real hardware kind of guy. very cool demo!!

[@metacross2826]

There are high accuracy NES and SNES emulators that need a better PC to run but are just as good or better than the original console. Those consoles are quite old so pretty much any emulator will run them with no noticeable differences (mostly audio differences or the occasional glitch in obscure games). Bsnes, for example, is highly accurate and can run mode-7 games in HD, meaning that in F-Zero the road isn’t pixelated, it can also use a widescreen hack that enhances the experience in many games with minor graphical glitches in the area outside the original 4:3 aspect ratio. Nintendo 64 still isn’t super accurate but there are a lot of games that are miles better than in the original console, like Goldeneye with the mouse hack and Diddy Kong Racing in 16:9 aspect ratio in 4K with almost cero graphical glitches in the newest build of Project 64, can’t ever go back to playing it on the original console. A lot of time thinking emulation can never replace the original is just a mental bias, lots of games and consoles benefit from emulation like NeoGeoCD games on the Polymega with waaayyy faster load times or NES games that greatly benefit from using a superior and modern controller. My NES is quite old so I’m considering buying this to preserve and replay my games on my PC with my Xbox One controller or my Wii Classic Pro Controller, I can customise my own experience!

[@metacross2826]

Not to mention the ability to play the games on a modern display, adding mods or fixes to games or using an Android emulator to play your games on the go, truth is, the original consoles are outdated in many ways and will probably stop working in the future. tl;dr The future is now, old man

[@Kdekalcio]

@@metacross2826 emulators can also fix blurry textures if there are by adding shaders/filters

[@thelonelylion]

Damn this thing seems AWESOME. Never thought such a neat device would be manifactured, but here it is and I WANT IT. XD

[@ProdCharles]

Awesome guide dude! Might be something to consider to finally break away from my CRT screen

[@Palendrome]

Haha, I'll actually be using this, with my PC connected TO a CRT

[@augustogoldner4267]

Straightforward explanation, good audio and video quality, dammit you channel is good man

[@axelfoley20]

Emulation is completely legal. Only time it becomes a problem is when you have roms that are copyright without having proper license. But emulation is legal.

[@nerdyneedsalife8315]

Yeah that's why Bleem! is legal. You have to use the PS1 disc in order to play it.

Which is why the solution proposed here is 100% legal.

[@ziberteck]

Distributing (without license) and downloading roms is non-debatable piracy.

[@TetraBitGaming]

did not know

[@Nintendrew]

nice meme bro

[@TetraBitGaming]

Can't tell if rhyme intentional 🤔

[@Term271]

TetraBitGaming me neither

[@StarWarsNerdyGuy]

If only it was still in stock... it needs to be in this day and age where safe rom sites don't exist anymore

[@ipodcake1]

I can't believe I haven't found this channel earlier, keep up the good work!

[@SerfaBoy]

Came back here to say once more: Holy shit, dude! You wanted 2,000 Subs by April and now you're at 16,000 in May. You're fucking killing it! Good work mate.

[@ilikemyrealname]

Awesome video and very cool tech. I subbed. Thanks for sharing.

[@EnglishLaw]

Ditto

[@starkmouth]

you're so fine, you're so fine you blow my mind

[@JaycRam]

This guy's goal was to reach 2,000 subs by April; has nearly doubled that in less than two weeks. Anyway, cool vid. Straight to the point, with no fluff.

[@arkadiagates7099]

Does this device backup game saves or only dump the game data?

[@wu-weisigma3300]

I also want to know Edit: apparently yes

[@nickporter9264]

Hey Drew, what do you use for NES games? I notice that Retrode does not offer an adapter for NES at present.

[@kingnacho69]

really enjoying the channel, just subscribed about 2 weeks ago... great content, cool kid

[@Nintendrew]

Thanks so much!

[@Tihi92]

Nintendrew Honestly, well done! I also recently discovered your channel and I'm really impressed with your work. Lots of interesting topics, very informative and straightfarward. Keep it up! :)

[@RS-xy1sf]

Same but I subbed about 3 days ago

[@SmileySenpai]

Honeslty for 60 Dollars this device is way more than worth it. Im considering to buy one after watching this. I never knew this existed until now. :)

[@TheG5ALIve]

me either

[@ahuman2791]

This thing actually looks pretty sick. I’ll be sure to pick this little guy up if I ever get a chance to.

[@Nathan1618]

Wow, play in PC a game with a catedrige adapter, superb, i could never imagined it!

[@beefyappa]

“Trying to reach 2,000 subs” and look at you now Drew!

[@christianholt408]

I love this guys videos they are short and to the point making them much more appealing to me than other channels of this nature.

[@goingindieEN]

$60 isn't a bad price for the thing, but i'll prob wait for it to be cheaper.

[@millieman76]

Going Indie Not gonna happen lol

[@the1whoknowz9]

Going Indie I

[@overlordalfredo]

Going Indie The Retrode is around for about 5 years now. I had to pick up mine in late 2014 for 200€ as production ended at thst point and it was no longer produced. *As of 2016 production has started again and you can get the system + adaptors for the regular price again.* It will not get any cheaper that that! Trust me rather the opposite...

[@eekturk4258]

It is very expensive for turks 340 tl here (you can buy 2 used gameboy advances for this price here)

[@MisterRorschach90]

And now they don’t make them anymore

[@dirbyozz]

Its so weird to think that i've been watching this guy since 1k

[@SerfaBoy]

"Trying to reach 2000 subs by April"...has 6,000+ subs in April. I think you fucking smashed it mate. Excellent work, keep it up - seems like you've found the right niche market!

[@Alexzw92]

Nice video, short and sweet. Good work!

[@ben10do59]

Great video :) Good to see a honest video game you tuber compared to most of the click bait on here. Keep up the great content :)

[@robertbocanegra6820]

Awesome vid and congrats on 3,000+ subs!

[@Nintendrew]

Thanks so much!

[@shootingstar7101]

...Now this makes me curious. Imagine cramming a small form-factor PC into an N64's shell, and making it so that when powered on, the only thing that actually boots up is Project64, and it instantly loads whatever game is inserted, essentially making it an N64 with way more powerful hardware and HD screen resolution.

[@Nintendrew]

Hah... very cool idea! I'd love to see a project like that. :)

[@shootingstar7101]

Oh, thanks! I can't build it though, no experience at all. The only setback I could think of for someone else though, is trying to load HD textures if Project64 is the only thing that boots up. If that could happen though... I'm placing bets on a "Nintendo 64 NEO" with 4k screen resolution and HD textures. It'd be kinda easy to run too, N64 is generally _very_ easy to emulate right now, from what I recall, so getting it running at 4k would be no hassle; I can play all games in 1080p + 8x anti-aliasing and HD textures, no slowdowns.

[@MultiHeLiOs]

actually n64 emulation is the hardest compared to other platforms, people prefer to use dolphin's virtual console to emulate n64 games.

[@shootingstar7101]

I was thinking more on the performance-wise side of things. Every game I throw at Project64 runs at full speed.

[@TDRR_Gamez]

Actually, if you got the balls this is quite simple, just download any simple open Linux distribution, get your CPU, GPU, RAM and all that stuff ready, and then install it all into a hard drive, check this out: askubuntu.com/questions/48321/how-do-i-start-applications-automatically-on-login And then wire the retrode to an internal USB port. This is a relative piece of cake to do, seriously.

[@captainboon2978]

Is there a similar device that would allow you to do the same thing but for game discs?

[@DaBoy2187]

such a good video, short, to the point, information, just such a powerful quality video that helps people without taking to much time

[@newsboirecords514]

I wondered to myself, "How does one even get ROM data from a physical game cart?" This video literally answered my question, but I was truly hoping to find out how it was "originally done," back in the day. I wonder how it was done before the simplicity of plug n play USB devices, and back when "90s Internet" didn't contain such robust info without serious keyword work. (maybe it was the same type of device, but connected on an older parallel/serial port or some other I/O shit that doesn't exist anymore?)

[@Sauraen]

Might have to pick one of these up at some point. I thought of this idea years ago, but I never spent time developing it. Oh well, glad someone made it!

[@Chicomite]

i knew it was gonna be the Retrode, i was secretly hoping you invented some awesome console/PC hybrid, but that's just too cool and impractical to think of. Yet I did! Subbed for the honest personality without layers of saturated happiness but still a happy looking dude

[@kyerusweb]

Amazing I didn't know this way to play your real cartridges on your pc

[@toadeu]

Can we make a copy of the game save? (in case the backup battery runs out)

[@lordklek4769]

great video drew! i really like this channel. I'm about to go watch all your vids man!

[@willjohngibbs]

that's awsome . I've been wanting this for a long time

[@MisterRorschach90]

I wish I could find one now, I can never find a site selling them. That polymega device with the couple of cartridge modules they have so far is almost 500 dollars! You could literally build a system with the same specs and mod one of these into it and save money. You can build a 3200g system with an optical drive and one of these in a 3D printed case and essentially have a system that does the same thing with 3-4x the power. I really want to build one.

[@catchdaweasel]

I've been watching your channel for a good long while, and literally just realized I've never subscribed. but that has changed now.

[@NtQueryInformationProcess]

And this is content I want to watch! Subscribed :)

[@aWicketWolf]

good shit dude!! I'm happy to be one of your first thousand subscribers :)

[@faceduro6719]

Fantastic idea man I got to get me this it's very essential on the go with my Laptop

[@DerpWolfGaming]

That shirt thing on top of your shirt it looks so cool

[@Signevad]

Nice video(s) dude. Keep em coming!

[@DARK-SKY1337]

For the people that gave this guy 270 thumbs down y'all are wack. Y'all just don't want to see anyone progress. You just give anyone thumbs down due to because you can and if you don't like it then don't.

[@minimalchill]

Hey, MY name is Drew! And...AND *I* love Nintendo too!! Lol As an upstart KZbinr myself (still filming) I found this video super inspiring, cool, and helpful to the community. Great work dude! Consider me SUBBED! Looking forward to more videos bro.

[@Nintendrew]

Nice! Thanks for the positive feedback. :)

[@lunasam9]

These are great instructions! I am interested in the Retrode

[@semarugaijin9451]

Sounds awesome, Thanks for this.

[@THE-CRT]

They should make a disc drive version of this for GameCube Wii and WiiU, Gamecube and Wii shouldn’t be to hard considering they run the same software via a Wi, WiiU however would be harder

[@Sin_Alder]

Technically GCN and Wii games should be possible to run in any dvd drive, it's just that they both spun the discs in reverse (which many drives are physically capable of, but not programmed to do), so someone would need to make special drivers for it. There are even a few drives on the market that are already capable of reading those discs, but they're so slow at spinning discs backwards that it's impractical to actually use. That said, if a drive were released with ou-of-the-box support for GCN, Wii, GD-rom (Dreamcast), and UMD (PSP) discs, I'd buy it in an instant.

[@froschkoenig666]

you have some very quality content, my friend! subbed!

[@AmyraCarter]

If the cartridge has a save game on it, can that also be read? Or would it be like starting a whole new game...

[@jjjoshiii6659]

Amy Carter yes it would read that

[@sacripudding4586]

"2000 subs by april". OH BOY YOU MIGHT MAKE IT ONE DAY

[@RetroGameThrowdown1]

Why was I not subbed to this channel earlier??

[@NostalgicShadow]

It would be great to backup your saved files

[@ron4538]

can your save data be stored on your gameboy carts or you cant

[@mbxhdmusic3043]

just subbed cos I thought this was COOL AS HECK! would never have known how to do his thx!!! now I can play my snes cart (SM all stars) on my pc with save states!

[@hikaru9624]

Finally a way for me to play and preserve my pal games! Don't get me wrong, ntsc games are fine but I live in the UK and my n64 games mean a lot to me despite the lower hrz they're at.

[@gameoverwehaveeverypixelco1258]

I love this idea so much, could make like a multi emulator arcade machine to play real carts.

[@chipperP]

Loving the magazine rack!!!

[@sswitchup]

Excellent content. I shall now sub my dude!

[@717Veedubb]

Seems like cool dude, decent production values, decent collection of stuff, Low sub count? WTF *Subbed*

[@Sharkbyte1000]

can you use this to back up gamesharks and codelists?

[@rickjames9477]

That is so f'in cool. thanks man! subscribed

[@GuillermoCaetano]

Damn, so simple. Will be perfect for turning my old pc in to a emulation box. Its cabinet will be made out of legos, going for a retro vibe

[@overlordalfredo]

0:50 GBA cartridges are *not supported!* There are limitations due to the adapors available. *so not supported are: GameBoy Advance, Nintendo DS, 3DS, PS Vita, NES, FamiCom, GameGear, Lynx, Wonderswan, NeoGeo Pocket (and more obscure Plattforms like N-Gage)*

[@overlordalfredo]

NintendoGamer955001 “Dude“ Calm down... First of all you are wrong as the adaptor does *not* Support GBA Games! I own the same device and the exact same adaptors he mentiones and that for about 3 years now. And that is the reason why I stated the above list. There are several cartridges that are not supportet by any of the adaptors for this device. And therefore I listed the most common ones to inform people who might want to know if a specific format is supported or not. Nintendrew is not very accurate here in his video so I found it necessary to provide the update.

[@dennisthebrony2022]

Will this work on older PCs from the 90s with serial ports instead of USBs? For Example: Will this work with a 90s Windows 95 machine?

[@dennisthebrony2022]

@Charles Kahn I'm just wondering about playing a 90s game on a 90s PC, to get that nostalgic feeling.

[@JS2HJG]

Thanks man I've been looking for something like this for a very long time so thank you for showing me that

[@hoogooo122]

Where did you get it from? The website is out of stock and they stopped production.

[@JS2HJG]

You can find these products elsewhere as well or you can contact the company on the website and see if they can make more products you can do that

[@Abou47Pandas]

Grats on the 2500 subs bro.

[@Nintendrew]

Thanks so much! :) Happy to see the channel growing so quickly!

[@317Chris]

Retrodes are no longer in production. Dang it. Really wanted one.

[@zarostheemptylord5893]

I wish companies would start making these in a 5 1/2 inch bay for computers so you can install them where you would a disk drive....my dream pc is one with nes/snes/sega/n64 slots on the front of my pc, could mod the case to add one of those gameboy cartridge readers...feel like wasting a 5 1/2 bay on something that small wouldn't be worth it...maybe add nds cartridge in a modified sd card reader slot using an r4...basically I want to make a retron console that can still play pc games...the disc drive would play all the disk games all the way from saturn up to ps3 and 360..tho those emulators still need some love

[@RareSun]

I would defintley love to use this for Emulatours and PC Ports (Also why in the world would you recomend Nestopia instead of FCEUX?)

[@MrMartellSincere]

I got the retrode 2 many years ago and it's worth it!😄😄😄

[@bluefungi]

Glad I found this video. Thank you.

[@sharptoothtrex4486]

Great one, lad. That is something I can go for along with their Game Genies and Gamesharks. The greatest idea without going to a flea market finding old game consoles. However, finding game cartridges at flea markets is a great idea.

[@doomtroop15]

i'm wondering where one may get a retrode because the homepage in the vid disc no longer provides the product you mentioned cause ya know i think it would be nice to get that and the nes or snes plugins

[@Auddy07]

I have a question. I have the Retrode with the N64 plug in now and I am trying to get my save files (.eep) to work in Project 64 (or any emulator) but it doesn't seem to like my .eep files from my cartridge. Have you successfully copied your saves from a cartridge and played the saves in an emulator and if so, how?? Thanks!

[@Cpt_crabhammer]

Just found your channel. Pretty cool videos so far! Gave ya a subscribe.

[@johnparungao6844]

Great vid. cool piece of tech. might consider getting one of these.

[@too2buff]

Great Video, do the N64 Bluetooth controllers work as good versus the retrolink usb ones?

[@Jfunkey]

This is fantastic! Thank you for sharing!

[@Pumaman86]

A question Drew (or anyone reading this), have you ever had a capacitor fail or fall off on a cart you own? The capacitor on my Star Fox snes cart fell off awhile back, and while the game still works, I don't want to risk ruining the cart or system by playing it. The retrode seems like a great idea for backing up games with hardware issues (including faulty capacitors), which is why I'm looking to get one. Of course, replacing the capacitor would be the best option, but I haven't found any source online (yet) that shows how to do it. Really like your style of videos (very informative!)! Keep up the great work!

[@Nintendrew]

No, I haven't - that sucks! :( Sorry you have to deal with that. Maybe someone else in the comments might have an idea? Thanks for the kind words, as well! Cheers!

[@mohamedhussain532]

You need to hit up Bob from RetroRGB. That dude knows a lot about that sort of stuff. You can also hit up n64 forums on Reddit and the like. Good luck.

[@GatesMcoyGaming]

Awesome videos glad i stumbled cross them!

[@MarchOfMonarchs]

Cool video thank you for this. It is early August2020 hopefully you make more cool vids

[@JLJO4]

Very interesting way to preserve your carts after dumping the ROMs. I just subscribed to your channel. Great content!

[@Nintendrew]

Thanks so much!! :)

[@TwistedNation01]

Are you able to back up save data and paste it into a different game cartridge?

[@HaunterOfKanto]

Cool! I didn't know that existed. Makes playing my games so much easier! Thanks!

[@keko1130]

Not really, you could just download the rom

[@SenseiPong]

Despite there being better systems of work arounds for playing older games, that thing is TIGHT! I may have to get one myself. btw--keep up the good work. Nice vid. Just subbed and liked.

[@foufoufun]

Does the thing save your game saves on the cartridge? or after you've got the rom, it works like any downloaded rom? If it works just like using any emulator on the computer, it seems like a pretty expensive solution compared to simply buying a used console or even a Retron 5 or similar device.

[@jarethrodriguez4713]

QUESTION FOR THE HANDHELD GAMES HOW DO YOU HOOK UP THE CONSOLE?

[@AntonioEligius]

Am I missing something? You have an NES cart on your thumbnail, but it doesn't look like it supports NES games...

[@connerdebow]

I have some turbo grafx games and I was looking for a cheaper alternative for playing them. Dose this support those too?

[@osbermusic2024]

En donde puedo comprar ese adaptador de cartucho

[@nicklarge2884]

you got my sub! love your channel!

[@drinksalot614]

Really liked this video and subbed. I have a question to, will the channel focus mainly on retro gaming?

[@ElOndeeadoM1]

Nice vid champ. I've been watching some of your content, very interesting, specially that top 5 rare n64 games. Keep up the good work. I was about to rage about this video, at first glance I thought it was some kind of click bait title video but it turned out to be all truth. Nice little gadget. As I said before keep up the good work, i hope your channel blows up and gets more recognition. You've got my sub as far as I am concerned.

[@Nintendrew]

Thank you for the kind words!! :)

[@AguFungus]

But what about backing up save data?

[@arechikitsune]

do you know if there is an adapter for playing ds gba and 3ds games? could there also be a disk reader version for cd based games like saturn, psone, ps2 etc?

[@pixeltiger3924]

Okay first off can I save? And if so can I also input cheat codes and save after that so that I get stuff I'm not able to get without cheats?