Converting Super Famicom Games to English! Non Destructive!!

[@TBustah]

He narrates the process like Bob Ross. I keep expecting him to say “happy little solder glob” or something. XD

[@toadcoder691]

I mean if Bob Ross mad a dick joke every couple of minutes...

[@IndaNood]

@@toadcoder691It's like Bob Ross and Deadpool had a baby...a baby who makes a lot of soldering porn.

[@CuxxFPV]

"Happy little solder glob" sounds like Louis Rossmann :D

[@tails64dsntchannel8]

@@CuxxFPV you stole my comment

[@whosonedphone]

You beat me to it. The Bob Ross of Soldering. Best soldering video I have seen thus far. Love your voice and plugs thanks for sharing.

[@HostilePride]

Voultar, thank you SO much for this wealth of information. I recently imported a heap of my favorite games from japan planning to translate them to english (even bought multiples of some games because they were so cheap as display pieces). This by FAR is the most valuable resource to doing this. After decontaminating myself of the cesspit of certain forums it was a great relief to watch your video and hear your ASMR worthy voice to see such a clean solution. You are a great teacher.

[@MartinPaoloni]

Lol, same here! Games in Japan are so cheap it's unbelievable.

[@aribethtyr2620]

What do you mean by cleaning yourself from forums? It the community unwelcoming?

[@SCP-POOL]

Voultar, it's hilarious listening to your word choices: "just got to clean the tip", "sweet special sauce", "let me load my tip", "it's important I give you the best angles & positions", "now I'm going to wet my tip & just drag it along slowly"....🤣. In all seriousness I am a former Network Engineer, but I know nothing about electronics, soldering etc. I wish I did. I'd love to be able too do the things you do with PCBs & chips! But I absolutely love & thoroughly enjoy your videos! You, Sir are like Mozart with a soldering iron! Thank you very much for taking the time to create these videos in such detail & going in depth with the explanations as you go along!

[@jenniferlynn3579]

I want you to know that as good as this video was overall, it was specifically the out-of-left-field toilet-humor that compelled me to subscribe. Hearing you explain things in a relaxed, yet earnest voice and then bust out "It's gonna take a nice, hot dump..." made me instantly lose it.

[@derrickrobertson3812]

Lmfao 25:55 "It's as if the t1000 had relieved himself upon my soldering iron." What a wonderful selection of words... Dude your such a great teacher and what your doing for Retro and Repro Gaming is just amazing... You need more videos and you definitely earned a new subscriber here... Keep it up man...

[@SmokeMonster]

I really appreciate the fine work you're doing for repros. Keep up the great designs.

[@F0CKSTR0T]

Isn't the point of this that it's original hardware rather than a repro?

[@jjones503]

The way you assert your dominance over those cartridges ensured my sub.

[@cmann333]

Love the videos! Best part of the video is the "UNMOLESTED DUMP" 🤯

[@MajorMokoto]

I just realized why I love this channel so much, but have no intention of ever doing what he shows. Voultar is the Bob Ross of soldering.

[@Voultar]

Thank you for your support!

[@karisasani7006]

Hey I saw someone mention if this can be done with games that have the super fx chjp

I really like the idea of keeping the modification as less invasive as possible and you could not have achieved it any better. You are doing awesome work! Thank you for sharing it with us!

[@vorenge]

So awesome! "Make a Goddamn GUI"! Nice touch.

[@komidore64]

Appreciate all your hard work on keeping these games ticking. It's so nice to see folks coming up with non-destructive solutions. I'll give this a go with my Chrono Trigger SFC cart.

[@tails64dsntchannel8]

Oh yeah, 100% reversible repros. this is my kinda thing.

[@7EEVEE]

dope username

[@icemanxp300]

Right because you really want to get Troy Aikmen back!

[@youretheslow4237]

At @31:42 you mention about patching a Final Fantasy VI with a pretty good English translation. Would you mind sharing what specific translation patch it is? All the ones I've found for better English patches are for the US ROMS (Final Fantasy III); been looking for one that can patch with the Japanese original. Thanks again for the video!

[@Decidetto]

The soldering parts are so incredibly soothing. The way you talk over them and describe the techniques you apply and not to worry about bridges... it's like I'm watching Bob Ross and I love it.

[@maxinsano7376]

This is EXACTLY what I've been needing. Lord Voultar for Prez 2020!!

[@Byokugen]

It's always enjoyable to watch you solder and blabber. Keep up the awesome work!

[@ThinkBeforeYouSleepYT]

4:20 Wow, I'm bookmarking this shit. Do you know how much of a pain in the ass it is to change a battery and maintain the save data by hooking a second battery up?

[@kennylauderdale_en]

I feel like I learned something important today.

[@wolfang12alpha]

Shit, didn't expect to see you here.

[@sarno97]

I like your videos about classic anime

[@user-ko1qo7qw8r]

HUGE COMPLAINT .....you need to make more videos. I have finished all of them and clearly I need more. haha Seriously though...thanks for the great content!

[@bkebradley]

I'm glad someone like you is around making guides to play English patched games like this unlike everyone on the internet who just says "Use a flashcart" or "Just emulate it"

[@RedWolfy7]

You are a hero of time, a hero of legend.

[@exodous02]

Man, I admire your enthusiasm for fan translations. I would just buy the cart just so I wouldn't feel guilty to play them on an emulator or flash kart but you go the extra mile!

[@bear5016]

4:49 Youre welcome. I subbed for this. "Give it a nice tug" was a very close second.

[@JobeStroud]

Do I need titanium white to make some puffy little clouds too? You are so Bob Ross in this video it just made me smile all the way through it. lol

[@GDLenter]

Thanks much for the help. Also just started the same process because English games are so expensive but don't want to support pirates! Wouldn''t be getting anywhere without awesome people like helping making these tutorials. Really appreciate it.

[@BrandonGiesing]

4:50 "It's gonna take a nice hot dump" 🤔

[@PaperBanjo64]

Ha ha ha

[@trilexfix]

Honestly the best channel for gaming repair and mods I use methods he uses on his channel for repairs on my channel.

[@Link_240]

If anyone has issues getting the programmer started like I did because there's NO instructions, Put the x16 module in and flip the 3.3v dip switch to 5v. Then select Parallel NOR since they apparently changed the mode selection list.

[@_BELMONT_]

try 8x module and make sure installed drivers

[@b3nner]

I just ordered the device, and it came with 2 TSOP adapters, x16 and x8, I'm not sure which one to use. I will be making a 24megabit rom using 1x Super Stacker 16megabit combined with 1x 8 megabitz. Any help would be appreciated thanks!

[@Treychik]

'Non-destructive' Me: YAY! 😆 My soldering skills: NAY! 😱 Awesome video, wish I could solder like that :(

[@colossus27m]

Treychik practice, I spent hours practicing on trash boards, whenever I’m throwing anything out I take it apart and desolder everything then try to put it back on, over time you will get better

[@retr0_amp]

Appreciate the knowledge drop and subtle comedic stabs. Subscribed for more!

[@christianumk3plus777]

The cleanest job i've ever seen to translate a japanese game. Bravo 👏👏👏

[@venomslair137]

So there's a chance we can get a proper Phantasia or Star Ocean translated games...

[@TonyStarkCLC]

At 30:07, I loved when he snapped the battery in perfect horizontal alignment, because I would have done the same, even though I know the cartridge will be sealed afterwards and I won't be able to see it...

[@skins4thewin]

This is absolutely fantastic! I have been waiting for something like this for a long time. I am really looking forward to the NES solution as well!

[@enthusiasticgamer88]

Fascinating as this is 100% a method people will use once the EEPROMs start dying on a large scale for these cartridge based games to restore their original carts to working order. I love your humour and detailed instructions you give in your videos. Keep it up bud, you're clearly a gem for the retro gaming community.

[@donwald3436]

slickrasta What commercial cartridges have the game on EEPROMs?

[@enthusiasticgamer88]

Oh no I incorrectly named a chip... thanks for being that shitposting dick. You get the point of what I was saying still so idc.

[@koffieleut]

Voultar, does this mod also apply to the Super Mario RPG board? Because I've found some translation projects about those but they molest the board beyond repair.

[@rekuhs]

Would like to know this as well

[@The2xWhiskey]

Well done. Thank you for putting up a proper guide on making a repro and not being obtrusive in promoting your new products. Insert ‘hot dump’ below...

[@1rk3neditz]

Question, do you have the dumper available for download? I have been trying to dump my copy of Dragon Quest 1 but the software for the inl retro programmer is not cutting it for me. Every time I do it's a blank screen

[@petenamlook18]

So, about those 48 Mb games Tales of Phantasia and Star Ocean???

[@p2k7777]

a 32mbit and a 16mbit TSOPs I guess

[@cosmickatamari]

I love you Voultar, thanks for this. And I just bought the ROM dumper! I'm more excited than Bob after his first beer in the morning! :)

[@BAGINAZARD]

How did you determine what data came out of what chip? with if the information on the top chip was now placed in the bottom chip? or dose it not matter that what order the information was placed back on the chips as long as all the information is evenly split between the two chips.

[@HisameSymouri1995]

Like a mixture of Deadpool and bob ross....very ASMR and always nice to watch old tech get treated with such respect and care. Another great video!

[@donwald3436]

"Nondestructive" *clips chip leads*

[@Longlius]

Relatively. Considering that some repros carve up the PCB, this is pretty benign.

[@Bloodbound89]

@@Longlius but still .. not "Non Destructive!!"

[@aprince009]

OMG been waiting for this video ever since the tease you put out on twitter! Right on man.

[@naikrovek]

For the stacker, I would have thought you'd have a hole routed out in the stacker PCB then solder in the chip upside down on the bottom of the board, to keep it thin. If the PCB house is any good, you can use that hole for pin alignment as well. Maybe for V2? Thinner PCBs = easier to solder the stack together. Also, why not a 32mbit chip, instead of 2 16mbit chips?

[@mrbiffo6729]

I was wondering about the 32Mb chip too. Perhaps a pinout related issue?

[@naikrovek]

@@mrbiffo6729 I'm guessing the size of the chip could be an issue, but that's just a guess.

[@Blin240]

any idea when this is going to in stock again?

[@sinredzone]

This is genius. Very informative, well thought out and clear info

[@daveloomis]

What you are doing is fascinating and important, but I just can't get over how much I love your voice... >,

[@MoneGetsIt]

While watching you solder, blood moved in me. What does that mean?

[@thehinac01]

Voultar; Talking in his sleep. "We're going to go ahead and make some very very very happy trees, yes look at that amazing, okay let's make some very very very light fluffy clouds. Yes look how beautiful those are. Yes Just like that. Spank it, yes. Just like that. How about that. Now let's get a little bridging done, yes just like that. We'll just float that down there, with a clean tip. Yes just like that."

[@skins4thewin]

So what is the Checksum anyway and why does it need to be fixed? Does this always need to be done for every ROM you write to a chip?

[@mr-meek]

Excellent use of Rockman & Forte tunes for the BGM in the second segment... One of my favorite SNES OSTs of all tiiimmmeee

[@Prime0316]

Will this work with a copy of Far East of Eden Zero?

[@distroya_]

I so love your commentary on top of the skillful and educational content. I should have subscribed long ago. :-)

[@habibk.2423]

Such an awesome music selection and a great video! It might not seem fitting at first, but i would love to see a video of you about something soundtrack-related.

[@MrLurker906]

How many years of wizard school did it take to get this good, holy sh*t. This is ACE workmanship!

[@UkraineJames2000]

What a time to be alive

[@xLSDxUCSB]

LOL'd when the T-1000 relieved himself! By the way guys, whats the music at 28:59?

[@Lando00100]

Dude you're like the Bob Ross modding I love it lol. How does this man not have 100k.

[@CarnageDaddy]

Love the squeek sound of that iron on the pins. Reminds me of squeeky warm cheese curds.... Mmmmmmm lol

[@jcreazy]

What soldering station and flux and solder do you use? I've never seen anything flow so beautifully.

[@CPS2]

It'll be 'proper' solder. 60/40 alloy (which is no longer acceptable to ROHS) but is SO much better than the modern silver crap.

[@J0r]

Doing Gods work, thank you sir! "Its like the T1000 relived himself" Holy shit that is gold!!!! Woke my GF up cracking up!

[@miltiadiskoutsokeras9189]

Is that a PAL Snes shell with a SFC inside?

[@Nesseight]

If I recall correctly, you can dump n64 games and save files with a GameShark Pro. Unforunately the interface to do this requires a parallel port (printer port) which are defunct in favor of wifi and USB. You said there is no GUI way of doing this, and for a SNES I agree, but I think I inadvertently did this while messing around with the GameShark as a teenager and was surprised that it was even a feature, lol. I don't think they really advertised it. "This is just a cheat device, nothing to see, move along" My friends never liked how I could lock multiplayer doors in Goldeneye with a key sequence, or have what is effect a golden RCP-90.

[@MartinPaoloni]

Adding this to my wish list for sure! I got a bunch of SFC carts in Japan a few months ago and this solution is just perfect for me. Can something like this, but for N64, be done?

[@retractingblinds]

Voultar, this changes everything.

[@aarontruitt]

This is a phenomenal video, and you have phenomenal knowledge. Thank you for preserving our hobby, and thank you for posting great content!

[@WilhelmDriscoll]

Pretty interesting solution but I'd still not want to cut or bend the pins on the ROM chips.

[@sukhoifockewulf]

You don't have to if you watched the video...

[@tails64dsntchannel8]

it's definitely possible to do it 100% reversible and in a non destructive manner if you have the patience and tools for taking out the MaskROMs.

[@WilhelmDriscoll]

​@@sukhoifockewulfWatched the whole video. He does not discuss that in this video. He has a separate video on replacing the ROM chip with an EPROM in Famicom carts and that's a better solution for me.

[@WilhelmDriscoll]

@@tails64dsntchannel8 You'd need to add pinheaders on top of buying his board and that's a bit more expensive than buying EPROM chips and rewiring them.

[@tails64dsntchannel8]

@@WilhelmDriscoll i see where you are coming from, but personally i'd gladly take the price hit for doing a clean job, if you wanna be cheap you could just use leftover component legs to do it. then using modern-ish flash roms instead of 20 years old UV EPROMs is very convenient.

[@vodkanakas4107]

Hi. Looking at video your using tsop48 type a. The website for the device shows tsop x8 and tsop x16. So i was curious which one to order for this.

[@b3nner]

Did you ever figure this out?

[@LuisRadaAlean]

Man, I love your channel so much! Keep the excellent job!

[@traewatkins931]

to be fair this is still destructive if you cut the pin but better than the others.

[@karisasani7006]

You mean safer than the others

[@meatpops1cle]

Hey this is a very good video and I really appreciate your efforts to bring modding to the people. I respect and thank you for what you do. I’ll be buying these.

[@adonian]

I love how you say “solder” 😁 Edit 😱 that ROM dumper is ONLY $52?!?! 👍. I can solder a little but NOW there’s a reason to get better. Edit 2. Oh man embedded computers no longer exists 😢

[@Petey-cr5ql]

Excellent, I love it, I really like the finished article. Do you find the caps in these games are always good or is it worth replacing them as a precaution? I never hear of it in carts (do they use better quality caps?) but you often hear of recapping consoles. Ta

[@colossus27m]

Pete Grimes i usually test the caps with my multimeter but as a rule anything that old I will replace anyway, but make sure the caps are decent quality

[@warrioroflight3489]

This voultar is the best thing ever happened to our community

[@BlockABoots]

Just in time for the Ganbare Goemon 2 translation!!

[@AntonioRequena]

Could it be possible to make something like this for the Super FX chips?

[@SullySadface]

Cheaper than a desoldering station but he buys a copier and has a supercomputer that runs bsnes

[@SimianIndustries]

He could've just run a checksum against the ROM to verify it, bsnes is not required.

[@dragonwolf89]

well done man, i had no idea that you could even do this. got myself a new hobby now haha

[@apr2499]

This was amazing! You're like the Bob Ross of soldering!

[@ethics1010]

Thanks. BTW, the Flashcat utility verifies each block after writing, I don't think you need to manually verify the entire memory afterwards.

[@Voultar]

It does. But I believe in measuring twice and cutting once.

[@Skrychi]

The Bob Ross of creative electronic repair, with a slight hint of vulgarity. Love it!

[@whiskyguzzler982]

Soldering technique was the best part of this video. Thanks!

[@DreitTheDarkDragon]

27:10 Voultar: my left, your right me: how the hell do you hold that soldering iron? O.O

[@IronChefBoyardee]

Any chance you'll design a memory module to fit the mask ROM on SHVC-1CA6B-01 cartridges? :^)

[@fyredragon69]

You are the Bob Ross of electronics. Please keep making great videos!

[@RacerX-]

That is pretty cool. Thanks for showing that!

[@spiderscantfloat]

"It's gonna take a nice, hot dump." I laughed so hard I dumped...

[@RetroGG-74]

Just ordered stackers and programmer ....bring on the famicom baby!

[@Voultar]

It's all set and coming up next! Thanks for the support~!

[@stekulov3529]

The only good video on KZbin.

[@dingothps]

your soldering narration is amazing, i love it. bob ross of welding :D

[@me0262]

Very nice! I'm about to grab some SFC carts shortly, and this will definitely come in handy. DeagonQuest, how did you know which slice to put where on the board?

[@sidgallup]

Daamn this is amazing and a lot easier than replacing maskroms or building a repro from scratch by using one on those new PCBs, but for someone like me who only owns a few SFC games and want them translated is not cost effective :/ the dumper, then the programmer, then soldering the small flashrom chip is much complicated... if only someone would sell the prebuilt PCBs already flashed and soldered so i just have to solder the PCBs to the original maskrom it would be PERFECT.

[@Voultar]

I agree. This is more geared toward the tinkerer or electronics hobbyist who probably already has most of the required equipment.

[@briantaylor3031]

The package on the memory is smaller than any work I've done but I may have to give this a shot. It's just so. Clean and almost sexy?

[@Voultar]

You can do it!!!

[@sylvaingauthier908]

wow amazing job! Keep up the good work Voultar :D

[@sylvaingauthier908]

I've recently acquited an original crystal xbox that I want to restore. Figured at least 2 popped caps inside. Got somewhere you would recommend for cap kits?

[@anthonyaviles8665]

Could use a copy of you gui you made for the inl programmer

[@thomasthe1st]

Great Video. I was wondering, is there an easy way to know how big / how many chips I would need for certain games? If I plan to follow this i want to make a bulk order and do all of my SFC games.

[@Rappoltt]

That chip stacking idea is incredible! I'll definitely keep that in mind for future projects

[@tehrobotjesus]

Piggybacking memory chips is a classic technique. It's usually used to expand memory, but it works to replace it too!

[@Bloodbound89]

Non Destructive!! - Snips legs of chips..

[@bluephreakr]

Very nice. The only thing which annoyed me was no narration about the extra little chip on the S. Stacker but I am sure the aforementioned documentation at the end will resolve that. I am pleased to see there are alternatives which are being created to the mess of wires which make amateur mods look like Hollywood-inspired time bombs. Hopefully for the NES video you recall your previous content with wiring up an NES ROM and comparing it to the new method for showing how easy it is your NES hardware would be to use for translations and mods. The only one caveat is no ease of removal, but there's no reason to have a bunch of mods available on chips when those can just be IPS patched and ran in emulators so no big deal there _as long as one's image is their own._