For further reading, check out this great FAQ on the e-Reader: gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ereader/915738-nintendo-e-reader/faqs/19490 It's a very comprehensive look at the e-Reader content release outside of Japan, plus some info on the planned-but-never-released Game & Watch games we didn't have time to get to in the video!
Hey man, I've been a huge fan of you and your channel for years now, I always have been a silent watcher of your content ever since early on during the Happy Video Game Nerd. Though there is something that I've been wondering for a while now, and I just would like some closure on. Do you ever see a "Starship Amazing" reunion? A new album, or some single. Ever since you guys announced that 20XX was going to be the band's final release for a while I've been waiting for any sign of a comeback. I still listen to Ya'll Stop Bloggin, Scoops, and Ruby Dagger practically daily and just kinda miss those good vibe sounds that you guys used to make. Anyways, I'll still always love ya!
I've watched a lot of your videos and I have to say, for someone called "Stop skeletons from fighting" not in a single video have you been shown breaking up a skeleton fight, just talking about video games. At this point I'm starting to believe you encourage skeleton on skeleton violence.
Oh man, I remember 12 year old me committing theft of that elusive EON Ticket from that Nintendo power issue from my local Blockbuster to THEN take it to my local Toys R Us where they had an e-reader gba on display which I THEN linked up to my gba SP (while trying not to get caught by the toys R Us employees) just to get Latios on my Sapphire version. This whole plan was quite an odyssey and it was pure ambrosia when I pulled it off. :)
The fact that there was never a Digimon Tamers game with e-Reader support considering swiping cards was the toy gimmick of that season is a damn shame and one of the largest missed opportunities in the little thing's history.
Do to the way it reads the codes it would still have to be broken up in to those size bits. Also after every section you have to press A before moving on to the next one so would require really steady hands to do with a long strip.
If Nintendo was able to patch out glitches in games with the e-reader, that means that you should be able to use it to do arbitrary code injection in at least some games including Ruby/Sapphire as long as you figure out how to make the code in the dot matrix format! This thing has huge hacking potential! Edit: I posted this before even finishing the video. I'm happy that he mentions it's hacking potential and the short-lived homebrew community!
Actually cooler than amiibo since they actually have games etc on them, it would be neat if there were NFC chips linked to memory cards that actually held stuff on them, you could just load onto any switch. Like SNES games, could lend them to friends etc :)
Super Mario Advanced 4 Super Mario Bros 3 E Deluxe *Insert Mario* _____________________ The Official game of the movie Starring Toasters Toasting Toast and Mario From Hotel Mario, and Don’t forget Luigi from the Super Mario Brothers Super Show (also on E reader) With new Funky Mode & Knuckles: Nintendo Labo Addition
The e-Reader itself felt like a secret. The only reason I even know about it is because of Super Mario Advance 4 and the very mention of it mystified me...
My parents actually got this for me when I was younger and I loved it. Plus when my local Game Crazy was going out of business, they had a bunch of the NES card packs for about $3. Plus my local Toys R Us had a promotional Air Hockey game card that I may have grabbed a few of.. you know like 15 or so. I still have all my cards and even thou I have no real reason to play it, it's still something I cherish and proudly display on my gaming shelf.
I collected the fuck out of the Animal Crossing cards. The e-reader, despite its short lived existence, I really did get a unique kind of excited opening each pack to scan.
Man I miss Game Crazy :( recently found a gamecube game at my local goodwill with the game crazy box art for the game and it sent me on a nostalgia trip haha
@@recoupxtra7270 Just Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life lol. Not worth too much ($30, probably less with the Game Crazy box art) but I love the game so it was a major score for me
Yes. And MUCH easier to explain. "Here are some toys to collect, plus sometimes you can bang them against your console to make special stuff happen in some games." That's a value proposition that *won't* keep a marketer up at night.
If they put extra memory into them (not sure how this might work, could link the nfc to flash memory maybe?) they could sell SNES games etc on cards that you could use on any switch while it was on, would be great for trading and stuff :)
2much cards Actually, I wonder how they did that. I mean, how do you even change data in ROM to patch the bug. Well, yeah, you can save code on the saved memory, but how do you do that with another GBA thru a link cable? Does this mean they intentionally left an ACE exploit there. I wouldn't think they would go full on signing the code with a digital signature thing, though RSA had already been invented back then.
@@__mk_km__ Pretty funny, huh? Although I doubt ACE poses much of a threat to a standalone product, that would be rather surprising if Nintendo left a backdoor in their own code... imagine the possibilities!
@@__mk_km__ I mean the bug was patched through the gamecube bonus disc that had jirachi and some sort of downloadable shiny zigzagoon thing in stores at one point. You probably could learn to do it from the disc or the card.
If you watch a any% glitched speedrun of the original Pokemon games they literally change values in memory using an exploit called item underflow, I'm not sure if or how those changes would be saved. Pokemon games have relatively large storages for save data so it could have been stored in there with some special load flags. Most likely though the ROM wasn't truly read only and they somehow altered the memory (RAM) values (like a gameshark) to access the main storage. ROM and RAM as we tend to think of them are misnomers, Any solid state memory is actually RAM (Random Access Memory) but if it's used for permanent or semi-permanent storage is often called ROM (Read Only Memory). As I typed that I also remembered eePROM (electronically erasable Read Only Memory) which is normally read only but can be changed when an electrical current is supplied to one of the leads. Most game cartridges used mass produced components so the data that makes it a certain game is written to a common chip. In older cartridges you'd sometimes see games with special chips added to them but that practice is mostly gone now (can't remember if it was this channel or not but there was one DS game that had a bluetooth adapter built in and that's the newest example I've read about).
Being European I barely knew of this when it was out in the US. I read about it in our local Club Nintendo mag, but all it got there was some short blurbs.
I remember hearing bits and pieces of it in Nintendo Official Magazine over here in the UK and seeing the codes on pokemon cards I had, but I don't remember seeing E-Readers advertised or talked about anywhere. The Eon Ticket was merely a rumor on the playground.
4:25 , 11:53 , 21:46 Why am I getting deja vu? So after watching this video, I spend about 40 minutes rummaging through storage and I found that not only I had this card back in the day, I also had the Kyogre and Groudon cards too and the Eon ticket alone goes for 70-100 bucks on ebay. So thank you for making this video, you helped me pay a bill!
There’s a reason you can’t save high scores: the emulator was made to run entirely in RAM without the eReader inserted, since it was written for Animal Crossing to download to your GBA without anything inserted into the cartridge slot. This is why you can remove the eReader entirely after starting an NES game and it will continue running fine. If it tried to save high-scores then it would have to maintain access to cartridge resources and would crash. You can actually abuse this to copy the same NES game from console to console and keep them until the batteries die (sleep *is* supported!). :) Though the eReader can save programs you scan into it, I’m pretty sure that none of those can read/write to storage on the eReader itself once executed. They can only access a resource library of fonts and sound effects and stuff built-in to the eReader’s ROM. That’s the reason you can’t actually put Doom on it. It’s not about fitting Doom onto cards, it’s about fitting Doom into RAM. When you load a saved eReader program it loads entirely into RAM. The reason native games look as rich as they do is because they can access resources from the eReader’s ROM, which contains a library of stuff like sound effects, fonts, shapes, etc. That’s also why they crash when you remove the eReader despite the saved code itself fitting entirely into RAM. Back to the NES games thing: Though it may seem that the games in the Classic NES Series GBA games were updated to properly save high scores, this is actually a dirty emulator hack that was really poorly implemented. It is basically a save state that auto-loads at boot and then resets your game. A save state is a total RAM dump that would normally save everything right down to your exact position in the game, even mid-jump, but auto-triggering an emulated Reset hides that. The original games very deliberately did not reinitialize all memory after a reset, usually so that they could temporarily preserve your high score that you were expected to lose when you powered off anyway, but that isn’t the only thing they fail to reinitialize. For example, if you beat Super Mario Bros the game gets harder. If you save your final score, it also saves that you beat the game. As a result, it stays stuck in hard mode and you’ll never see a Goomba again until you wipe your hi-score. After saving a hi-score and cycling power you can also use the continue trick (hold A and press Start) to pick up from the last world you played. I used this trick to jump straight to the minus world whenever I wanted. Of course, saving the hi-score could mess with that but it’s essentially broken anyway since you won’t want to save after beating the game. Also, notice that the updated emulator used with Classic NES Series GBA games no longer continue running when you remove the game pak. It needs access to storage on the cart for this function, so it crashes. There is a 2p function built into the emulator which will copy it in RAM to a second GBA but the second GBA will be extremely lagged so Nintendo downplayed this function, even going so far as to cover up parts of the boxes with little stickers where it is mentioned. I find it odd that you picked a Pokémon game to point it how unwieldy it is to require a second GBA. As you said, a huge part of that game is trading and battling between multiple handhelds, so it’s easier to find someone to arrange all that. It would have been much better to point out how cumbersome that would be for SMB3e. Yes, the GB Micro requires a link port adapter if you want to use those functions, but then you just say that it fits/works for the DS lite, which has no link port or adapter. It works just as well for the Micro without the link port adapter, and not every use of the eReader requires it (remember: original model didn’t even have that). It’s a little confusing to say that the eReader is “region-free” but the cards aren’t. In reality, it’s the GBA that’s region-free which allows a Japanese or North American-region eReader to work. The Japan or North American eReader is what enforces the region for whatever cards you swipe, so it’s definitely misleading to say that it’s “region-free” just because a region-less GBA will allow it to run.
Dude I've been recently looking for a video like this but I couldn't find anything good. That was less than a week ago and now I see this in my feed?! Yes!
Only knew of this for the pokemon eon ticket and some Mario stuff megaman battle network also used this but only in Japan I think gba and GameCube became my favorite consoles 😀👍 pre amiibos
Laughing at the comment about how you're amazed you held onto the cards as a kid. I was an adult when this thing came out, and my wife and I have no idea where our cards went. I imagine some day we'll move a couch and find them all.
Saw your panel at RWX, but I still had to watch this review again.. Great stuff, guys .. Funny thing, right after I saw your panel, I found someone selling an e-Reader on the show floor!
5:59 "A big problem is that scanning is actually a real pain, you have to slide a card at just the speed." Hey, at least you don't have to worry about being murdered by a shapeshifting parasite while sliding the cards.
You can also print your own dotcodes if your printer is high enough resolution and you use paper that doesn't cause your ink to bleed too much. You can find dumps of the dotcodes from various cards, or package any NES ROM (that doesn't need saves and uses a mapper that the eReader's NES emulator supports) into a series of dotcodes. I remember having success with it using a Lexmark inkjet that came for free with a computer. I think it was 600 DPI and worked best printing them on photo paper.
The difficulty of type of paper and printing the dots is a major pain in the ass. That and people aren't that interested in repro cards. The market or general interest for the e-reader is not worth a resellers time.
Nintendo. But I doubt, they would file a C&D for something unusable. The hardware isn't sold, so... Printing cards is easy with the right template, you would need good quality paper for those 1200 dpi prints though.
Fun fact: the was actually a casette recorder for the Famicom which was used to save data in certain games, including custom tracks in Excitebike, but it was never released outside Japan, hence why the save function does nothing in the NES version.
My favorite thing about the eReader is the music that plays on the main menu screen. When I had my college radio show, I actually used it as background music at one point because I really wanted to showcase it in some way.
I think you should make a Punching Weight video covering Sony's PocketStation. Kind of like Dreamcast's VMU. A unique handheld gaming memory card peripheral never released outside of Japan. Like a Tamagochi device allow you to play minigames downloaded from compatible PS1 games. You can unlock exclusive and powerful game-breaking items. International releases of compatible games removed this feature, but some games retained it like Final Fantasy VIII and it's not region locked.
"Since the use of emulators and roms in increasingly under threat; you're going to want to use a VPN to protect yourself and keep your data safe, wherever you go." VPNs do literally nothing to help keep the ROMs you download safe...
Having the e-reader keep high scores is actually a very big ask. Keep in mind, you’re swiping the code from the rom into memory with all those code swipes. The rom itself doesn’t know how to do anything it didn’t already do. You’re asking for a virtual battery to be programmed into the rom and then loaded onto the e-reader alongside the game files so it can write to a partition of the e-readers memory. That’s more programming to make each game, more cards for each game and a different hardware setup for the e-reader device... all go temporarily save high scores. Probably not worth it.
Just to clarify, NordVPN isn't going to protect you from litigation in the first place. Yes it will hide you, but let's be honest, intellectual property owners are not going to come after people who download their IPs. They will come after the distributors instead. If you are considering buying NordVPN for the sole reason of hiding yourself as you download roms and stuff, then don't. They aren't going to come for you. Don't worry about it. If you look at the recent news regarding this, Nintendo went after LoveROMS. They were seeking control of their domain names (to shut down the service), the sources of where they got their ROMs, and monetary compensation for statutory damages and trademark violations. They didn't ask for who downloaded their ROMs from them. They simply don't care about that. Now if all the distributors disappear, I might start to worry, but until that happens, don't worry about it. Save some money, don't buy NordVPN just to protect yourself from piracy stuff. The only industry that ever goes after the end user/downloads are the folks in the porn industry.
Really? That's interesting because I've had popup notifications from Comcast enumerating things I've downloaded and warning me that this is a ToS violation and illegal. And it sure wasn't porn.
I've heard plenty of stories of people being threatened by their ISP for downloading torrents and ROMs. Threats to throttle speed or disconnect your service etc. VPNs are good if that's an issue for you.
ISPs aren't the ones threatening, it's the production companies of movies and shows. When you torrent a movie or TV show, everyone can see the IP you are using to seed/leech. ISPs often join the torrenting just to get a list of all the IPs and then report them to ISPs. The ISPs don't care, they are just complying. Keep in mind, this only happens for movies and shows. Any other industry isn't really going to do anything.
Chewtag They did do something in Kid Icarus Uprising, and there was a Photos With Mario program downloadable from the eShop, but as far as I remember/know, that’s about it.
I walked past the e-Reader and its cards for years at Toys R Us. I'd tell myself "Hmm, not today." If I had known then just how weird and cool it was, I would've bought one. I do have one now that I picked up for about $8 at a convention, but I still haven't bought any cards for it. EDIT: Holy crap, I have the Eon Ticket e-Card! I thought that issue of Nintendo Power looked familiar!
Great video as always! I've always wondered about that thing and what it did. I live in Europe and my mom imported SMB3 for the GBA from the states as my 9th birthday present. And it had this weird option about something called "e-cards". I never figured out what it meant or what to do with it, but now, thanks to you, I finally know why. PS: it's almost Halloween, will we finally get that Silent Hill HD collection video? ;)
the weird way this thing slotted into the SP was actually a life-saver for me, my link cable was the model that didn't have rounded edges that would fit into the e-reader's cable port so I was able to use it in the regular port on the SP I don't remember using it very much though, I think it only got use playing DK Jr and activating my eon ticket, still got some of those berry cards sitting around somewhere
I am disappoint in you not knowing that the actual best video game titles of all time are Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne - Featuring Dante of the Devil May Cry Series and Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner - Raidou Kazunoha vs. The Soulless Army.
What's interesting is that Nintendo still sold new e-readers on their own store web site until sometime in 2013. I made sure to buy one in December 2012 to collect it.
7:24 The track saving feature on the original version DOES work, it's just that it requires an accessory that was never released outside of Japan. th-cam.com/video/__9VYaKMwQI/w-d-xo.html
I dunno Derek, the greatest game title to me is still Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[st]. And yes, the [st] is not only a reference to "Super turbo" since this is a re-release of Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late, but also makes it the "latest" version. YA GET IT!? CUZ...CUZ...WHAT IF YOU MAKE A NEW VERSION CALLED LATE[ST](VER.2) AND- *Head explodes*
Ah, yes, I remember standing outside my local EB Games at the mall with genuine excitement as they were opening to buy Donkey Kong for e-Reader the first day it was available. I was a SNES kid so the e-Reader was my first way to experience these NES games! Now, to go dig up that Eon Ticket that I never used...
This was a great video! Did you know holographic versions of the pokemon cards with e reader strips did not actually work on the e reader? If you got a holo version of the card you would also need a nonholo version to use on the e reader
I was so desperate to get one as a kid and when my friend finally did, we were so dissapointed that the Gamecube version didn't add charcaters to Smash Bros
I had this as a kid and the only reason I still have all the cards is because my dad broke off the dowels in a plastic cassette tape case to store them in :D
As a Brit, I never had the chance to get anything e-reader related and have always had a weird fascination with it and often try to find info on it. This is one of the best sources, in video or writing, I have come across on the e-reader; great work Derek and Grace. I’ve been a fan since the HVGN days and it’s great to see your content is better than ever.
For further reading, check out this great FAQ on the e-Reader: gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ereader/915738-nintendo-e-reader/faqs/19490
It's a very comprehensive look at the e-Reader content release outside of Japan, plus some info on the planned-but-never-released Game & Watch games we didn't have time to get to in the video!
Hey man, I've been a huge fan of you and your channel for years now, I always have been a silent watcher of your content ever since early on during the Happy Video Game Nerd. Though there is something that I've been wondering for a while now, and I just would like some closure on. Do you ever see a "Starship Amazing" reunion? A new album, or some single. Ever since you guys announced that 20XX was going to be the band's final release for a while I've been waiting for any sign of a comeback. I still listen to Ya'll Stop Bloggin, Scoops, and Ruby Dagger practically daily and just kinda miss those good vibe sounds that you guys used to make. Anyways, I'll still always love ya!
Did you just say "Good luck on getting that rom". Are you endorsing illegal rom downloads.
Canada still has toys-R-us
Whats the name of the intro music for this vid
Stop moving your arms and head all the time
I've watched a lot of your videos and I have to say, for someone called "Stop skeletons from fighting"
not in a single video have you been shown breaking up a skeleton fight, just talking about video games.
At this point I'm starting to believe you encourage skeleton on skeleton violence.
EXPOSE HIM!
Hex IM THE 100TH LIKER!! NO ONE CARES!!!
false advertising!
They do as they need to get people to practice for the
Skeleton war
He is encouraging you to do it. He’s done it off camera.
Oh man, I remember 12 year old me committing theft of that elusive EON Ticket from that Nintendo power issue from my local Blockbuster to THEN take it to my local Toys R Us where they had an e-reader gba on display which I THEN linked up to my gba SP (while trying not to get caught by the toys R Us employees) just to get Latios on my Sapphire version. This whole plan was quite an odyssey and it was pure ambrosia when I pulled it off. :)
Please tell me you still have that Sapphire. That would be super cool.
@@brockpiano I sold it for $50 CIB 6 years ago cause I'm a fucking idiot.
@@MITHYKA Bruh
@@brockpiano Unfortunately that was the online market price at the time :( I should have held on a few more years.
I just used an action replay.
Holy crap! I just checked my Nintendo Power 173 and the Eon card is still in there. I never removed it.
woah
Keeping it in there, I presume?
SCAN IT!
Sell it.
It’s amazing what people find!
I never had many e reader cards so it essentially became a giant Donkey Kong Jr. cartridge for me
I had a pile of cards, they were cheap games that kept me entertained
I have one with no cards, so mine only is a Donkey Kong Jr. cartridge. (It came loaded)
Same
Pre historic amiibo.
sort of
Wich i'm proud to have with the mario bros 3 cards!!
A scam back then, a scam now.
Why
The Mega Man Zero 3 e-Reader functionality is the best because it allows you to fill the Resistance Base with cats. Thank you, Zero Collection.
Captain L MMZ collection was my childhood alongside the Battle network series
So... "SMA4:SMB3eWiiUVC"?
You forgot to include the original console name. I think that's officially "SMA4:SMB3eWiiUGBAVC"
@@marsdeat You are absolutely right, it's insane!
Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 e+ Wii U Game Boy Advance Virtual Console Edition with All Extra Levels Included From the Start
&KNUCKLES
@@vanilla8956 &[Insert crappy Sonic oc here]
missed opportunity to call it "Mario Part-e". sigh...
Also, there has to be some joke for Paper Mario, right?
You think they'd do that? This is the company that didn't do "Splat2n
@@Magnero paper-e mario or paper mar-e-o
Lol probably would be confusing though
The fact that there was never a Digimon Tamers game with e-Reader support considering swiping cards was the toy gimmick of that season is a damn shame and one of the largest missed opportunities in the little thing's history.
No kidding :c
The digivice that was released had a card reader.
Instead of printing out lots of cards for doom why not a reeeeeeallly long piece of paper
Steal the painkillers haha yeah indeed.
Personally I tattooed it on my penis.
Don't think it works like that. It can probably only read little data at the time.
...how would you miss pooping in a toilet?
Do to the way it reads the codes it would still have to be broken up in to those size bits. Also after every section you have to press A before moving on to the next one so would require really steady hands to do with a long strip.
A Nintendo product was released in the U.S, not in Europe but WAS released in Australia?? What topsy-turvy alternate reality did this take place in??
No, Universal Gravitation.
Warioware Twisted?
australia isnt even a real place and they still got it before you guys
Everyone knows that Australia is a myth that Nintendo uses when they want to make another region feel bad that they didn't get something.
Pikmin 2 was released on the Wii in everywhere but America.
If Nintendo was able to patch out glitches in games with the e-reader, that means that you should be able to use it to do arbitrary code injection in at least some games including Ruby/Sapphire as long as you figure out how to make the code in the dot matrix format! This thing has huge hacking potential!
Edit: I posted this before even finishing the video. I'm happy that he mentions it's hacking potential and the short-lived homebrew community!
Has it happened yet?
The berry "patch" was kind of a hack. Iirc it started working again once the clock got to a certain point so it just set the clock to that point.
This accessory is unnecessary, weird, complicated to use, and pretty much completely useless, but, hell if I don't want one!
I have two of 'em lol, it's cool really
Actually cooler than amiibo since they actually have games etc on them, it would be neat if there were NFC chips linked to memory cards that actually held stuff on them, you could just load onto any switch. Like SNES games, could lend them to friends etc :)
don't ask me why but I had 2 at one point.
I thought it was a credit card reader....
EA should make that
SMA4: SMB3E: The official game of the movie starring Dante from the Devil May Cry Series: Dual Shock Edition
Would be better if you hadn’t abbreviated it I think
Including new Funky Mode!
Super Mario Advanced 4
Super Mario Bros 3 E Deluxe
*Insert Mario*
_____________________
The Official game of the movie
Starring Toasters Toasting Toast and Mario From Hotel Mario, and Don’t forget Luigi from the Super Mario Brothers Super Show (also on E reader)
With new Funky Mode & Knuckles: Nintendo Labo Addition
@@heroidiot 2:electric boogaloo
Final Chapter Prologue
"GoTtA cAtCh ThE cArDs!"
That clip was just....ugh....the heck did the person who wrote that line think Pokemon was, Extreme 52 Pick-Up?
HAM-TA-RO! When we work together, it's much better !
HAM-TA-RO! Little hamsters, big adventures!
Crymzon1980 but never easier.
I remeber watching that show when i was a little kid... damn that was such a good show I gotta rewatch it
My childhood!
The e-Reader itself felt like a secret. The only reason I even know about it is because of Super Mario Advance 4 and the very mention of it mystified me...
No way me too!
My parents actually got this for me when I was younger and I loved it. Plus when my local Game Crazy was going out of business, they had a bunch of the NES card packs for about $3. Plus my local Toys R Us had a promotional Air Hockey game card that I may have grabbed a few of.. you know like 15 or so. I still have all my cards and even thou I have no real reason to play it, it's still something I cherish and proudly display on my gaming shelf.
I collected the fuck out of the Animal Crossing cards. The e-reader, despite its short lived existence, I really did get a unique kind of excited opening each pack to scan.
Man I miss Game Crazy :( recently found a gamecube game at my local goodwill with the game crazy box art for the game and it sent me on a nostalgia trip haha
@@DarkVeilGaming lol which game was it gamecube stuff is expensive
@@recoupxtra7270 Just Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life lol. Not worth too much ($30, probably less with the Game Crazy box art) but I love the game so it was a major score for me
@@DarkVeilGaming thats dope! I never find gamecube stuff lol. Ive only ever found a copy of mario sunshine and it didnt play 😑
The best video game title of all time is still "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie; The Game, Featuring Ivan Ooze" lol
Lol the best name for a videogame? hands down is the prequel of rocket league: "Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars"
0:43 Nice jump cut.
I sort of feel like Amiibo are a smarter, if more limited, take on the concept.
Yes. And MUCH easier to explain. "Here are some toys to collect, plus sometimes you can bang them against your console to make special stuff happen in some games." That's a value proposition that *won't* keep a marketer up at night.
I think you are onto something here. The concept is quite similar indeed.
@@jasonblalock4429 That's how my parents explained sex to me
hence amiibo cards
If they put extra memory into them (not sure how this might work, could link the nfc to flash memory maybe?) they could sell SNES games etc on cards that you could use on any switch while it was on, would be great for trading and stuff :)
13:04 E-Reader romhacks when? (I wonder if it would be possible to patch in GameSharks.)
2much cards
Actually, I wonder how they did that. I mean, how do you even change data in ROM to patch the bug. Well, yeah, you can save code on the saved memory, but how do you do that with another GBA thru a link cable? Does this mean they intentionally left an ACE exploit there. I wouldn't think they would go full on signing the code with a digital signature thing, though RSA had already been invented back then.
@@__mk_km__ Pretty funny, huh? Although I doubt ACE poses much of a threat to a standalone product, that would be rather surprising if Nintendo left a backdoor in their own code... imagine the possibilities!
@@__mk_km__ I mean the bug was patched through the gamecube bonus disc that had jirachi and some sort of downloadable shiny zigzagoon thing in stores at one point. You probably could learn to do it from the disc or the card.
If you watch a any% glitched speedrun of the original Pokemon games they literally change values in memory using an exploit called item underflow, I'm not sure if or how those changes would be saved. Pokemon games have relatively large storages for save data so it could have been stored in there with some special load flags. Most likely though the ROM wasn't truly read only and they somehow altered the memory (RAM) values (like a gameshark) to access the main storage. ROM and RAM as we tend to think of them are misnomers, Any solid state memory is actually RAM (Random Access Memory) but if it's used for permanent or semi-permanent storage is often called ROM (Read Only Memory). As I typed that I also remembered eePROM (electronically erasable Read Only Memory) which is normally read only but can be changed when an electrical current is supplied to one of the leads. Most game cartridges used mass produced components so the data that makes it a certain game is written to a common chip. In older cartridges you'd sometimes see games with special chips added to them but that practice is mostly gone now (can't remember if it was this channel or not but there was one DS game that had a bluetooth adapter built in and that's the newest example I've read about).
Being European I barely knew of this when it was out in the US. I read about it in our local Club Nintendo mag, but all it got there was some short blurbs.
Literally the only way I knew the e-Reader was a thing was thanks to the Wario Ware Gamecube game that had an e-Reader-inspired game mode
I remember hearing bits and pieces of it in Nintendo Official Magazine over here in the UK and seeing the codes on pokemon cards I had, but I don't remember seeing E-Readers advertised or talked about anywhere. The Eon Ticket was merely a rumor on the playground.
what part of Europe are you guys from?
Real1Gaming yet so much closer to japan. Damn Middle East and their desire to destroy all that isn’t theirs....kinda like liberals.
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Why am I getting deja vu?
So after watching this video, I spend about 40 minutes rummaging through storage and I found that not only I had this card back in the day, I also had the Kyogre and Groudon cards too and the Eon ticket alone goes for 70-100 bucks on ebay.
So thank you for making this video, you helped me pay a bill!
You sold them? Man, you sure got a fortune for that.
There’s a reason you can’t save high scores: the emulator was made to run entirely in RAM without the eReader inserted, since it was written for Animal Crossing to download to your GBA without anything inserted into the cartridge slot. This is why you can remove the eReader entirely after starting an NES game and it will continue running fine. If it tried to save high-scores then it would have to maintain access to cartridge resources and would crash. You can actually abuse this to copy the same NES game from console to console and keep them until the batteries die (sleep *is* supported!). :)
Though the eReader can save programs you scan into it, I’m pretty sure that none of those can read/write to storage on the eReader itself once executed. They can only access a resource library of fonts and sound effects and stuff built-in to the eReader’s ROM. That’s the reason you can’t actually put Doom on it. It’s not about fitting Doom onto cards, it’s about fitting Doom into RAM. When you load a saved eReader program it loads entirely into RAM. The reason native games look as rich as they do is because they can access resources from the eReader’s ROM, which contains a library of stuff like sound effects, fonts, shapes, etc. That’s also why they crash when you remove the eReader despite the saved code itself fitting entirely into RAM.
Back to the NES games thing:
Though it may seem that the games in the Classic NES Series GBA games were updated to properly save high scores, this is actually a dirty emulator hack that was really poorly implemented. It is basically a save state that auto-loads at boot and then resets your game. A save state is a total RAM dump that would normally save everything right down to your exact position in the game, even mid-jump, but auto-triggering an emulated Reset hides that.
The original games very deliberately did not reinitialize all memory after a reset, usually so that they could temporarily preserve your high score that you were expected to lose when you powered off anyway, but that isn’t the only thing they fail to reinitialize. For example, if you beat Super Mario Bros the game gets harder. If you save your final score, it also saves that you beat the game. As a result, it stays stuck in hard mode and you’ll never see a Goomba again until you wipe your hi-score. After saving a hi-score and cycling power you can also use the continue trick (hold A and press Start) to pick up from the last world you played. I used this trick to jump straight to the minus world whenever I wanted. Of course, saving the hi-score could mess with that but it’s essentially broken anyway since you won’t want to save after beating the game.
Also, notice that the updated emulator used with Classic NES Series GBA games no longer continue running when you remove the game pak. It needs access to storage on the cart for this function, so it crashes. There is a 2p function built into the emulator which will copy it in RAM to a second GBA but the second GBA will be extremely lagged so Nintendo downplayed this function, even going so far as to cover up parts of the boxes with little stickers where it is mentioned.
I find it odd that you picked a Pokémon game to point it how unwieldy it is to require a second GBA. As you said, a huge part of that game is trading and battling between multiple handhelds, so it’s easier to find someone to arrange all that. It would have been much better to point out how cumbersome that would be for SMB3e.
Yes, the GB Micro requires a link port adapter if you want to use those functions, but then you just say that it fits/works for the DS lite, which has no link port or adapter. It works just as well for the Micro without the link port adapter, and not every use of the eReader requires it (remember: original model didn’t even have that).
It’s a little confusing to say that the eReader is “region-free” but the cards aren’t. In reality, it’s the GBA that’s region-free which allows a Japanese or North American-region eReader to work. The Japan or North American eReader is what enforces the region for whatever cards you swipe, so it’s definitely misleading to say that it’s “region-free” just because a region-less GBA will allow it to run.
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Using VPN for emulators, lmao. Taking advantage of that overblown situation.
Dude I've been recently looking for a video like this but I couldn't find anything good. That was less than a week ago and now I see this in my feed?! Yes!
Thanks for making me realize that I own a $100 issue of Nintendo Power!
Nintendo’s hardware experiments are so interesting and the ereader is one of the most fasinsting.
Great video like always
@Quinnman2k damn bro you schooled him
Modders get on to putting GBA doom onto the E-reader
I actually think that having hidden content in games is such a cool idea
Only knew of this for the pokemon eon ticket and some Mario stuff megaman battle network also used this but only in Japan I think gba and GameCube became my favorite consoles 😀👍 pre amiibos
It would've been cool if Capcom brought the Battle Network e-reader cards to the US back then.
Laughing at the comment about how you're amazed you held onto the cards as a kid. I was an adult when this thing came out, and my wife and I have no idea where our cards went. I imagine some day we'll move a couch and find them all.
Saw your panel at RWX, but I still had to watch this review again.. Great stuff, guys .. Funny thing, right after I saw your panel, I found someone selling an e-Reader on the show floor!
5:59 "A big problem is that scanning is actually a real pain, you have to slide a card at just the speed."
Hey, at least you don't have to worry about being murdered by a shapeshifting parasite while sliding the cards.
You can also print your own dotcodes if your printer is high enough resolution and you use paper that doesn't cause your ink to bleed too much. You can find dumps of the dotcodes from various cards, or package any NES ROM (that doesn't need saves and uses a mapper that the eReader's NES emulator supports) into a series of dotcodes. I remember having success with it using a Lexmark inkjet that came for free with a computer. I think it was 600 DPI and worked best printing them on photo paper.
what stops people from creating repro-cards?
DR0p_gkid64 Nintendo, I should think
but would they really care if people made them in a non for profit structure oh wait it's nintendo of course they would
The difficulty of type of paper and printing the dots is a major pain in the ass.
That and people aren't that interested in repro cards. The market or general interest for the e-reader is not worth a resellers time.
true but i am sure you could probably find a machine to do it for you at a buisness auction or get a hd scanner
Nintendo. But I doubt, they would file a C&D for something unusable. The hardware isn't sold, so...
Printing cards is easy with the right template, you would need good quality paper for those 1200 dpi prints though.
E-reader Homebrew is lit
Fun fact: the was actually a casette recorder for the Famicom which was used to save data in certain games, including custom tracks in Excitebike, but it was never released outside Japan, hence why the save function does nothing in the NES version.
My favorite thing about the eReader is the music that plays on the main menu screen. When I had my college radio show, I actually used it as background music at one point because I really wanted to showcase it in some way.
I think you should make a Punching Weight video covering Sony's PocketStation. Kind of like Dreamcast's VMU. A unique handheld gaming memory card peripheral never released outside of Japan. Like a Tamagochi device allow you to play minigames downloaded from compatible PS1 games. You can unlock exclusive and powerful game-breaking items. International releases of compatible games removed this feature, but some games retained it like Final Fantasy VIII and it's not region locked.
This is Pre internet "In-app purchasing"...pretty cool
"Since the use of emulators and roms in increasingly under threat; you're going to want to use a VPN to protect yourself and keep your data safe, wherever you go."
VPNs do literally nothing to help keep the ROMs you download safe...
Having the e-reader keep high scores is actually a very big ask. Keep in mind, you’re swiping the code from the rom into memory with all those code swipes. The rom itself doesn’t know how to do anything it didn’t already do. You’re asking for a virtual battery to be programmed into the rom and then loaded onto the e-reader alongside the game files so it can write to a partition of the e-readers memory. That’s more programming to make each game, more cards for each game and a different hardware setup for the e-reader device... all go temporarily save high scores.
Probably not worth it.
This video was comprehensive as hell ..
#feelingeducated
#iliketurtles
#thankyou
Having a whole NES game on 4 cards is amazing
The PCE HuCard says hi though
Just to clarify, NordVPN isn't going to protect you from litigation in the first place. Yes it will hide you, but let's be honest, intellectual property owners are not going to come after people who download their IPs. They will come after the distributors instead. If you are considering buying NordVPN for the sole reason of hiding yourself as you download roms and stuff, then don't. They aren't going to come for you. Don't worry about it. If you look at the recent news regarding this, Nintendo went after LoveROMS. They were seeking control of their domain names (to shut down the service), the sources of where they got their ROMs, and monetary compensation for statutory damages and trademark violations. They didn't ask for who downloaded their ROMs from them. They simply don't care about that. Now if all the distributors disappear, I might start to worry, but until that happens, don't worry about it. Save some money, don't buy NordVPN just to protect yourself from piracy stuff. The only industry that ever goes after the end user/downloads are the folks in the porn industry.
Really? That's interesting because I've had popup notifications from Comcast enumerating things I've downloaded and warning me that this is a ToS violation and illegal. And it sure wasn't porn.
Either way, it's a good way of giving my ISP the finger, which is a great thing in my opinion.
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I've heard plenty of stories of people being threatened by their ISP for downloading torrents and ROMs. Threats to throttle speed or disconnect your service etc. VPNs are good if that's an issue for you.
ISPs aren't the ones threatening, it's the production companies of movies and shows. When you torrent a movie or TV show, everyone can see the IP you are using to seed/leech. ISPs often join the torrenting just to get a list of all the IPs and then report them to ISPs. The ISPs don't care, they are just complying. Keep in mind, this only happens for movies and shows. Any other industry isn't really going to do anything.
That dolphin park music at 11:19 really brought me back.
Ah, hell yeah! Tomba music!
Since the E reader cards are not magnetic could you print the code strips onto a regular sheet of paper and make your own bootleg e-reader cards?
I'm super happy
This out right after I got my e-reader for TWO DOLLARS at a thrift store
Card this and card that. I'm I the only one who needs to see this video to make sense of the confusing number of card content?
Kinda wish I was there when the eReader was a thing. Missed out on them cool SMB3 levels.
Every Machop's workin' for the weekend! (Insert bass line)
Most of this just sounds like Horse Armor DLC.
Horse Armor DLC that you can play Ice Climber on.
I said most of it.
Lol
GoodmansGhost e-rEAder
I love the e-reader, mostly for animal crossing. This was a great video. I learned a bunch. Thanks
You would think Nintendo would learn their lesson after the e reader but they would go on to create the short lived 3ds AR cards.
Did those things even do anything outside AR games
Chewtag They did do something in Kid Icarus Uprising, and there was a Photos With Mario program downloadable from the eShop, but as far as I remember/know, that’s about it.
Forgot about those.
I walked past the e-Reader and its cards for years at Toys R Us. I'd tell myself "Hmm, not today." If I had known then just how weird and cool it was, I would've bought one. I do have one now that I picked up for about $8 at a convention, but I still haven't bought any cards for it.
EDIT: Holy crap, I have the Eon Ticket e-Card! I thought that issue of Nintendo Power looked familiar!
Great video as always! I've always wondered about that thing and what it did. I live in Europe and my mom imported SMB3 for the GBA from the states as my 9th birthday present. And it had this weird option about something called "e-cards". I never figured out what it meant or what to do with it, but now, thanks to you, I finally know why.
PS: it's almost Halloween, will we finally get that Silent Hill HD collection video? ;)
I’ll see that title and raise you “Street Fighter: The Movie-The Game.”
Don't worry Derek, fan's are hard at work coding Eternal Darkness on E-Reader cards
They could’ve done so much with Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire cards, like letting you unlock rare Pokémon and stuff like that using E-reader cards.
Is just like... a type of DLC...
Super Mario Brothers Advance 4: Super Mario Brothers 3 e Turbo HD Remix & Knuckles Featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry Franchise
What is the music title while the quick rundown near the end? o:
Hang Glider, from Pilotwings 64
the weird way this thing slotted into the SP was actually a life-saver for me, my link cable was the model that didn't have rounded edges that would fit into the e-reader's cable port so I was able to use it in the regular port on the SP
I don't remember using it very much though, I think it only got use playing DK Jr and activating my eon ticket, still got some of those berry cards sitting around somewhere
I am disappoint in you not knowing that the actual best video game titles of all time are Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne - Featuring Dante of the Devil May Cry Series and Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner - Raidou Kazunoha vs. The Soulless Army.
What's interesting is that Nintendo still sold new e-readers on their own store web site until sometime in 2013. I made sure to buy one in December 2012 to collect it.
Man Derek, i love the music choices for this video
what songs r they
7:24
The track saving feature on the original version DOES work, it's just that it requires an accessory that was never released outside of Japan.
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When there was the GameCube, the wave bird, the gameboy advance, the 1019 memory card and the network adapter. Great times.
I dunno Derek, the greatest game title to me is still Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[st]. And yes, the [st] is not only a reference to "Super turbo" since this is a re-release of Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late, but also makes it the "latest" version. YA GET IT!? CUZ...CUZ...WHAT IF YOU MAKE A NEW VERSION CALLED LATE[ST](VER.2) AND- *Head explodes*
I actually love Under Night, but my favorite game title by far is still Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam vs. Zeta Gundam
I prefer Melty Blood Actress Again Current Code: Hologram Summer Again, Tri Hermes Black Land.
Ah, yes, I remember standing outside my local EB Games at the mall with genuine excitement as they were opening to buy Donkey Kong for e-Reader the first day it was available. I was a SNES kid so the e-Reader was my first way to experience these NES games!
Now, to go dig up that Eon Ticket that I never used...
Colab with Nintendrew!!!
DDRhappiness17 yes
fascinating shit about SMA4:SMB3:e:SVU:CSI:NCIS:MIAMI
Is the music here from Tomba? Can't really tell at the moment. Been a LONG time since I've played.
There was a 2nd Pokemon pinball game? Darn D:
Punching Weight is my absolute favorite series on TH-cam. You and Norm just fucking crush it with these hyper informational videos.
Tomba! background music and an eReader video...... ahhhhh my childhood!
I remember liking this thing so much, I sent a letter to Nintendo professing my love for their innovation lol
The scanning cards at the correct speed is like among us admin card swipe
i love the nintendo e-reader
Lol in the gen 3 remakes you just get the eon ticket ingame in postgame.
Well i guess this explains why some of my pokémon cards have that “E” logo on it
22:05 It Domo omg Domo was my god when I was a kid good to know that Domo had a gba game
These are QR Code Readers before they went mainstream!
12:02 Hi! I'm from the future, toys r us still around. Lol
_Tottoku Hamtaro Ham-Ham Ham-Ha! Magic Princess_
...Why?
"Keep your data safe by adding another intermediary running analytics to your connection!"
17:03 "Señor K.K."
*laughs in spanish*
This video made me check inside my Pokemon Channel case after 15 years and discover I owned eReader cards I never realized I had!
This was a great video! Did you know holographic versions of the pokemon cards with e reader strips did not actually work on the e reader? If you got a holo version of the card you would also need a nonholo version to use on the e reader
I was so desperate to get one as a kid and when my friend finally did, we were so dissapointed that the Gamecube version didn't add charcaters to Smash Bros
anyone know what the music that plays at 20:18 is from / what the song is? sounds super familiar
Hang Glider, from Pilotwings 64
I had this as a kid and the only reason I still have all the cards is because my dad broke off the dowels in a plastic cassette tape case to store them in :D
As a Brit, I never had the chance to get anything e-reader related and have always had a weird fascination with it and often try to find info on it. This is one of the best sources, in video or writing, I have come across on the e-reader; great work Derek and Grace. I’ve been a fan since the HVGN days and it’s great to see your content is better than ever.
As a preteen retro game collector it was hard to convince my mom to spend money on this. It’s easier now
12:20 Charge your silver GBA, lol