I'm so glad everyone is enjoying the project! If you're interested in making/buying your own version of these, I'm definitely going to make them available in some form! If you don't want to miss news on that then make sure you're on my new mailing list at abe.today/pages/subscribe (it's also linked in my bio under "Mailing List"). Please also comment if you're interested in a kit, a complete drive, just the files, etc. I'm really not sure what's possible but I'd like to do whatever lets the most people enjoy these :) Thanks for watching
sell a man a kit, he nostalgia's for a day, give a man stls, schematics, code snippets and board numbers, he nostalgias for a generation I would buy a kit, but i would be sad without the files required to send out for fabricating more of the cards and parts that might break
If you put the PCB design on PCBWay shared projects, you get 10% commission on each order. Or you could sell the files on your store. I imagine selling a complete product would be a challenge. I wonder if it would be popular enough to be a kickstarter?
I am very looking forward to a potential kit/schematics. I think that it would be interesting to combine the loader with a floppy emu like a Gotek to give my Amiga 500 a working cartridge slot in lieu of its original internal floppy or even an external floppy drive.
I would love the files, at least! Once I have a game completed, I'd really like to sell physical cartridges (and corresponding drives) at a convention. I was already planning to figure that out, but this format might be perfect! Or at least I can learn a lot if it doesn't quite meet my needs.
I'm surprised how bespoke he went with everything. I probably would have snagged a 32 pin connector for a Gameboy, wired it to the SD reader, then made PCBs that fit in Gameboy cartridge shells. Other than securely mounting the 32 pin connector in the reader, all the difficult engineering problems would be solved.
I really wish after DVDs and Blu Rays, we'd moved to SD Cards or something like this as the new form of physical media instead of everything going to streaming. This is just so much more fun and we should all value owning and supporting our media directly.
I really like this project, maybe the demand for something like it doesn't exist on a commercial scale but honestly I feel like maybe it does. I see a trend lately of people trying to live their digital lives more intentionally and cartridges like this sound like it would fit that growing niche well.
Have you seen how many hand helds that are designed to play emulated retro games exist? There's a huge marked for nostalgia tech. Hell Nintendo sold a Game&Watch console with 1 game for like 50$ and it sold like crazy.
You're the reason I took up PCB designing. I was always intimidated by multi-layered pcbs and I didn't want to take the time to learn it. Keep up the fun projects.
YES! I'm not alone! I found a stash of mini disks and just holding them was so nice. They rattle a little when you shake them, there are satisfying snaps when you bring them out of their protective cases, and we haven't even started to talk about actually putting them in the player yet. Man... I miss the tactile feels. Physical copies of Switch games are a handy size and you could probably fit 50 switch cartridges on the same area as a snes cartridge but the feeling of popping them in the switch is non existent... the only way to feel remotely alive when handling a switch game is to lick it
minidiscs are the superlative audio storage format: easily recordable, like a cassette with better seek times, endlessly rewritable, (lossy) digital so the recording won't degrade nearly as quickly, and so brilliantly tactile, especially with a clamshell player (although the MZ-1 has its charm)
In a perfect world they would make SD, MicroSD and MacroSD, with MacroSD being about the size and shape of a credit card, perfect for albums, movies, and games.
Just get a cheap one and you will probable get hooked and get something nice after you start creating things like me lmao I'm pretty broke so all I have a an ender 3 v2 but I got it to the point my prints come out perfect every time. One day I'll get a bamboo and be able to set and forget my prints but for now I'm happy.
This is actually so cool to see! I would love to have a home-media setup where all my movies/TV shows are on cartridges, it's a lot like a DVD collection but without the fragile CDs. I really hope this idea gets expanded upon because I feel like there's an untapped market here!
Looks incredible dude! The story telling in this video was great, all the little issues that made all the previous iterations not quite work and seeing it all come together in the end was cathartic.
I can't express how much I enjoyed this video. As someone who also loves to feel like a failure and give up for a few months halfway through my projects, I loved the transparency there; but also, I remember in your obsolete game console video your talking about how you weren't really happy with the feel and look of the 3D printed plastic - I appreciated that then as an example of a time where something doesn't turn out *quite* like you envisioned, but you recognize that "done" is better than "perfect" - but I like that even more now that it seems like here, you've overcome that as well and found a way to finish your 3D printed projects in a way that you love. Absolutely awesome and genuinely inspiring, cheers.
Hell yeah man. It's always awesome to hear when creators document their difficulties with a project that keeps kicking them in the nuts. Validating and inspiring man, I love seeing how this project evolved. Congrats on the 100k!
If we could just keep flash storage costs down, then maybe we could achieve that. I'm actually kinda surprised Nintendo was able to pull that off with how volatile that market is. Probably because they never needed more than a few tens of Gigs on each chip. I wonder how things will go with Switch 2. If they still have cartridges then we might see costs go way up for certain games. That's the main reason why they moved to discs in the first place. Way cheaper and less volatile to just produce discs.
They seem to be designed to be used exactly once. Put into a device to upgrade its storage and never touched again until the host device dies or you upgrade the storage again.
I'm only 1m41s into this video and this is sort of something I thought about a number of years back for my Grandmother. See she used to use VHS tapes to record the TV but when the TV went digital, she lost the ability to do that. I thought about a DVR but she was vision impaired and she'd have never been able to have used some kind of menu system. So I thought about trying to recreate something she was familiar with: A VHS recorder. I'd have a machine that she'd put a 'tape' in (some kind of SD card housing) and she'd select the channel - over here in the UK she was used to 5 channels although we have hundreds. So a nice 1-5 button selection for the channel that a DTV board would 'tune' to and then a nice record, play/pause and stop button. She'd load a 'tape' choose the channel to record and then press the record button. When the TV programme was done, she'd eject the 'tape' and put it to one side and then get another 'tape' to record something else. Sadly I didn't have the expertise to do something like that and she's since passed away, but it was something I thought the older generation of people might be into. Oh well!
There's genuine advantages to it. Especially if you want to go back to physical media so you can actually own your stuff and then you realize that optical discs are still the most recent form of physical media and they suck ass LOL
I feel like a commercial version of this needs to be made using NAND flash technology similar to an SSD. I feel like that would be necessary for a modern game to run off of a cartridge like this.
Would love to back up old family videos on these cartridges. Eagerly awaiting the chance of the PCB and 3D printing files being released if they ever are
I'm not gonna lie when you uploaded that video of your gamework I became absolutley OBSESSED with the idea of sd card based carts. I was really sad for a while because I thought it was just gonna be a one and done. I am so so so glad you carried it farther. I've been losing sleep over the idea of having all my media one one universal style of storage and loading media. This is the kind of project that just solves something that i think is universal... which is the desire to own the media you love but not wanting to have 35 different devices to play them all... and also not wanting to just store them all on a computer. I'm glad you've been just as obsessed about this project as your first video made me and I can't wait to see if you have any plans for it in the future! Keep up the good work! Your videos are amazing!
I've been wanting to do something like this for a while. I had an idea for a wall-mounted arcade cabinet with an RFID reader that reads what game I'd like to play and immediately launches it. This makes it so each cartridge just has to have an RFID chip inside instead of any sort of custom PCB, making it a bit cheaper to create the cartridges. The cartridge can slot into the machine and emulate contact pads touching.
Check out Mister FPGA with TapTo. It does exactly what you're explaining here. Mister FPGA runs several arcade/computer/console "cores", and TapTo is an NFC reader that launches the game you want by using NFC cards.
This is exactly how the Yoto player works. It’s a music player for kids. The music is stored on an internal drive. You pick an album by inserting its card. Works super well and consistently.
yeah, i had a similar thought but using an old floppy drive and using a qr code label that you place on old floppies that no longer work... that way you get to use the old format in the way you're used to, just instead of the magnetic encoding that's likely bad by now, it's just got a little camera that reads the qr code that is a file name and it loads that off an sd card.
This is one of the most incredible independent projects that I ever seen. Honestly, the result is so stunning and professional! You inspired me a lot! Thanks for the amazing content!
Yes YES. I've also been toying with making some sort of cartridge for SD cards, not for games but for movies. It's so inspiring to see someone else having gone ahead with a similar project and come out with an amazing piece
This would be an awesome idea for a home theater. I'm old enough to remember the tactile feel of clicking and clacking when opening a VHS, MD (mini disc), cassette tapes, and cartridges for games. Plus it would also be a nice collection on the shelf.
This is the definition of a passion project. That one thing you just can't let go and you gotta finish. Looks awesome! Only thing I'd love to see if a version with a more enclosed top so you could stack a couple of them together (think Apple II Disk Drives).
I rarely comment on TH-cam but I want to say thank you for making these videos I appreciate how you showed what the process really looks like to do something creative. I know that very technical videos have a much smaller audience but if you ever want to make longer videos showing more of the process of modeling, designing, and programming I will absolutely watch them.
I love this. Kudos on continuing iterating until you reached gold! I love the red version, but both are gorgeous and totally look like something out of the late eighties/early nineties. Now I want to make a gameboy style retro handheld that takes these cartridges ;D
I LOVE this idea, I've been keeping my individual project's files on micro SD card to organize them and this would be so cool to be able to keep my files in a nice organized way! I would love to see when this projects files are available and be able to implement them as soon as possible!
Your vids and shorts are some of my favourite ways to find random bits about different hardware. Awesome all around. Glad you're happy with your channel growth, you deserve it!
Absolutely agree it's impossible to choose between the beige and the red. This project is really inspirational. Thank you for having the courage to share your setbacks!
YES! I have been wanting to make my own version of the Game Boy for the longest time using modern day components while keeping that old school feel, and this is perfect for that! While I haven't made progress past the planning stage at the moment, I have high hops for the future!
I’m a fan. It’s just a choice preference between physical media and digital media. If I make something or buy something, I’d rather have a physical copy then just the code to go online.
It's so funny, I've had effectively this exact idea for over a year now and then youtube recommends me this video! Really cool stuff, I like the red one best personally
I saw a video years ago in which a bloke made a 3d printed mini NES. He used an nfc reader and nfc chips imbedded in 3d printed carts, telling the console what to boot. I've always loved physical media and hoped that someone would miniaturize more things like this. I would literally pay a bucket load for mini N64 with loadable mini carts! *fingers crossed* Keep up the great content!
I just got a 3D printer recently and I think I have almost all the parts to try something like this myself. I guess I gotta try it now. Thanks for making such sharply edited and entertaining videos!
This is fantastic! I've been lamenting the loss of removable high-capacity storage for a while now, wishing I had something like a Zip drive that used 250GB carts.
I'd love to see something like this hit the market. I think having one in the shape of your favorite 8 or 16 bit console with sd adapters in the shape of whatever cartridge would be so freaking cool. Plus USB passthrough on the front where the controller ports are. I'd collect them all!!!
I love this; DIY cartridges have been on my brain lately for a few projects. A couple other option besides glued-on labels, is printing with a dye-sublimation printer, and then 3-d printing the card cover onto the DS paper. The hot plastic is plenty to sublimate the ink, literally dying the first layer directly. A similar thing can be done with laser printers and overhead projector transparency paper. There's videos on TH-cam showing the details. For my own design I think I'd want to completely enclose the PCB, like old gameboy carts.
Thank you for not giving up. Sometimes I get in my own funk where feel like my work doesn't matter, but it absolutely does. No matter how small in the grand scheme of things it may seem. By the way, the red one is my personal favorite. ❤
Woah! Great work! Imagine having this port on a Steam Deck and just a bunch of cartridges with some games that you usually play but take a lot of space in the console that could be used to play newer ones.
The two colours look great. The red could have some nostalgic aspect, too. I've seen a Challenger 3-in-1 floppy drive made by Opus. It's mostly beige but the logo on the front is a surprisingly vivid red.
I've been working on a similar project but for music (being minidisc style), this is really awesome! The SD NAND is a neat approach, wish there was more of them available lol.
i wish something like this was commercial. i idea of having a reader connected up to a android tv and a shelf of these cartridges with movies, shows and rom files on them for plug and play sounds amazing
Shout out to the Micro Mages card! Edit: what a super unique and satisfying project to discover this channel on. Congrats on making it all work in the end!
beautiful. one day instead of relying USB sticks, old school lovers could have these as their interchangeable storage cards. Takes up more space, but are less likely to be lost or swallowed by pets. This reminded me of Megaman Battle Network and the battle chips (somewhat bulkier than SD cards) being inserted in a device just to use a custom attack
I hate how easy to loose and fragile micro SD cards are and I've always longed for a PS2 memory card style device. Super happy to see someone actually build something like that!
I'm in love with this project since I saw it years ago, tried myself to design some cartridge as well. Found basing it around the SD size made it a bit more robust and if it got damaged you could swap the micro sd out to a different SD converter.
This is absolutely delightful! I love this idea so much! Kinda sad the drive that ejected with a servo didn't really work out but still, I think what you made here is really cool. :)
I'm so glad everyone is enjoying the project! If you're interested in making/buying your own version of these, I'm definitely going to make them available in some form!
If you don't want to miss news on that then make sure you're on my new mailing list at abe.today/pages/subscribe (it's also linked in my bio under "Mailing List"). Please also comment if you're interested in a kit, a complete drive, just the files, etc. I'm really not sure what's possible but I'd like to do whatever lets the most people enjoy these :)
Thanks for watching
sell a man a kit, he nostalgia's for a day,
give a man stls, schematics, code snippets and board numbers, he nostalgias for a generation
I would buy a kit, but i would be sad without the files required to send out for fabricating more of the cards and parts that might break
If you put the PCB design on PCBWay shared projects, you get 10% commission on each order.
Or you could sell the files on your store.
I imagine selling a complete product would be a challenge.
I wonder if it would be popular enough to be a kickstarter?
I would like the files to make and modify myself
I am very looking forward to a potential kit/schematics. I think that it would be interesting to combine the loader with a floppy emu like a Gotek to give my Amiga 500 a working cartridge slot in lieu of its original internal floppy or even an external floppy drive.
I would love the files, at least! Once I have a game completed, I'd really like to sell physical cartridges (and corresponding drives) at a convention. I was already planning to figure that out, but this format might be perfect! Or at least I can learn a lot if it doesn't quite meet my needs.
Abe achieved something never seen before; actually finishing a project you started 2 years earlier.
Wait... you mean people actually finish projects? I just shove the unfinished part in a corner and forget about it
@@xeonon Wait, you still have corners you can shove projects into?
@@oasntetI eated your corners, sorry
@@max-abobeawere they tasty?
@@zaicol850 well.. they tasted
Micro SD cards are cool, but nothing beats the meaty snap of a cartridge. Cool seeing a project stuck in project hell finally see the light of day!
This project brings me joy 🥲
Bigger cartridges are also harder to lose since they’re, you know, *bigger* .
I'm surprised how bespoke he went with everything. I probably would have snagged a 32 pin connector for a Gameboy, wired it to the SD reader, then made PCBs that fit in Gameboy cartridge shells. Other than securely mounting the 32 pin connector in the reader, all the difficult engineering problems would be solved.
I like the Nintendo Sds
I love having 1TB of data on such a small thing.
Love how your kitties keep trying to take the components.
they're just trying to help!
I really wish after DVDs and Blu Rays, we'd moved to SD Cards or something like this as the new form of physical media instead of everything going to streaming. This is just so much more fun and we should all value owning and supporting our media directly.
Roms ... Read only
We did? What else would u be using except flash storage anymore?
They tried this in Japan. Google "MQS Format" :)
@@xAlexZifkowhen did you buy a sd card with movie on it?
microSD cards are also not human-sized, in that they're too small to handle properly.
especially with my meaty fingers!
I really liked full sized SD cards or Flash cards for this reason
@@PrettyFlyForATyGuy Yep the full size SD cards are a pretty good size.
I always thought CompactFlash was the optimum flash card format, in terms of dimensions.
@@jnharton if you drop a micro sd, you are f u c k e d .
Bro is gonna make his whole console
I hope he does no one else did that on youtube except for one other person but they didnt make the literal switch card reader
@@ethanxillasaurus2572someone needs to make a retro switch.. id guy it
@@user-ly1ko6be9t fr
hopefully not like a certain rapper that did their own """"""console""""""
I really like this project, maybe the demand for something like it doesn't exist on a commercial scale but honestly I feel like maybe it does. I see a trend lately of people trying to live their digital lives more intentionally and cartridges like this sound like it would fit that growing niche well.
That's a really weird way of saying that people refuse to be a part of an all digital future.
@@tatecheddaras a terminally online loser, i refuse to be part of it either
long live cassette futurism
The compact disc is extremely fragile medium. Games and movies will start coming in cartridge format again
Have you seen how many hand helds that are designed to play emulated retro games exist?
There's a huge marked for nostalgia tech. Hell Nintendo sold a Game&Watch console with 1 game for like 50$ and it sold like crazy.
@@tatecheddaryou already are.
Glad your cat was there to help you every step of the journey, this project would not have been possible without him
Jokes aside this is such a cool project. It's quite depressing to see physical media slowly dying so this is a breath of fresh air
You're the reason I took up PCB designing. I was always intimidated by multi-layered pcbs and I didn't want to take the time to learn it. Keep up the fun projects.
it is scary but just keep working on slightly trickier projects, you'll get there!
YES! I'm not alone! I found a stash of mini disks and just holding them was so nice. They rattle a little when you shake them, there are satisfying snaps when you bring them out of their protective cases, and we haven't even started to talk about actually putting them in the player yet. Man... I miss the tactile feels. Physical copies of Switch games are a handy size and you could probably fit 50 switch cartridges on the same area as a snes cartridge but the feeling of popping them in the switch is non existent... the only way to feel remotely alive when handling a switch game is to lick it
minidiscs are the superlative audio storage format: easily recordable, like a cassette with better seek times, endlessly rewritable, (lossy) digital so the recording won't degrade nearly as quickly, and so brilliantly tactile, especially with a clamshell player (although the MZ-1 has its charm)
With the old DS cartridges, we could launch those things at eachother to get that feeling of life lol.
Abe is here! We are blessed this day!
thanks for all the love
In a perfect world they would make SD, MicroSD and MacroSD, with MacroSD being about the size and shape of a credit card, perfect for albums, movies, and games.
I like this idea. I want to flip through a stack of movies on hu cards.
normal SSDs are about the size of a credit card
@@daveSoupy Thicker though.
@@daveSoupy later SSDs usually have a SATA nvme drive in it.
you're truly the nostalgia youtuber.
For 10 years now ive been resisiting getting a 3d printer and this makes me want one so badly... What a fantastically cool project. Love it.
Just get a cheap one and you will probable get hooked and get something nice after you start creating things like me lmao I'm pretty broke so all I have a an ender 3 v2 but I got it to the point my prints come out perfect every time. One day I'll get a bamboo and be able to set and forget my prints but for now I'm happy.
Thank you so much!!
This is actually so cool to see! I would love to have a home-media setup where all my movies/TV shows are on cartridges, it's a lot like a DVD collection but without the fragile CDs.
I really hope this idea gets expanded upon because I feel like there's an untapped market here!
Literal magic. This is WONDERFUL!!
Cartridges are great, but cats sneakily reaching out for wires? Priceless.
I love your work. I really want to make my own custom console and computer for my kids to play games and learn about how they work. You inspire me!
Thank you! You can definitely do it!
Looks incredible dude! The story telling in this video was great, all the little issues that made all the previous iterations not quite work and seeing it all come together in the end was cathartic.
Thank you!! I’m glad you enjoyed!
1:22 That magic was smooth as hell.
I can't express how much I enjoyed this video. As someone who also loves to feel like a failure and give up for a few months halfway through my projects, I loved the transparency there; but also, I remember in your obsolete game console video your talking about how you weren't really happy with the feel and look of the 3D printed plastic - I appreciated that then as an example of a time where something doesn't turn out *quite* like you envisioned, but you recognize that "done" is better than "perfect" - but I like that even more now that it seems like here, you've overcome that as well and found a way to finish your 3D printed projects in a way that you love. Absolutely awesome and genuinely inspiring, cheers.
Hell yeah man.
It's always awesome to hear when creators document their difficulties with a project that keeps kicking them in the nuts.
Validating and inspiring man, I love seeing how this project evolved. Congrats on the 100k!
Thank you so much I'm glad you enjoyed and thanks for watching!
This project is reminding me of the cartridge format for the PC Engine/TG-16, the HuCard/TurboChip.
Honestly I want physical games to go back to carts like Nintendo still does. It's just better then using a disc.
Especially when "disk" is not an actual disk
If we could just keep flash storage costs down, then maybe we could achieve that. I'm actually kinda surprised Nintendo was able to pull that off with how volatile that market is. Probably because they never needed more than a few tens of Gigs on each chip. I wonder how things will go with Switch 2. If they still have cartridges then we might see costs go way up for certain games. That's the main reason why they moved to discs in the first place. Way cheaper and less volatile to just produce discs.
They seem to be designed to be used exactly once. Put into a device to upgrade its storage and never touched again until the host device dies or you upgrade the storage again.
I want it to go to full sized SD cards
I'm only 1m41s into this video and this is sort of something I thought about a number of years back for my Grandmother. See she used to use VHS tapes to record the TV but when the TV went digital, she lost the ability to do that. I thought about a DVR but she was vision impaired and she'd have never been able to have used some kind of menu system. So I thought about trying to recreate something she was familiar with: A VHS recorder. I'd have a machine that she'd put a 'tape' in (some kind of SD card housing) and she'd select the channel - over here in the UK she was used to 5 channels although we have hundreds. So a nice 1-5 button selection for the channel that a DTV board would 'tune' to and then a nice record, play/pause and stop button. She'd load a 'tape' choose the channel to record and then press the record button. When the TV programme was done, she'd eject the 'tape' and put it to one side and then get another 'tape' to record something else. Sadly I didn't have the expertise to do something like that and she's since passed away, but it was something I thought the older generation of people might be into. Oh well!
This is an awesome project! I love the idea of physical cartridges in the modern age. Plus a great place to show off cool game/music art!
yes! glad you get it!
There's genuine advantages to it. Especially if you want to go back to physical media so you can actually own your stuff and then you realize that optical discs are still the most recent form of physical media and they suck ass LOL
I feel like a commercial version of this needs to be made using NAND flash technology similar to an SSD. I feel like that would be necessary for a modern game to run off of a cartridge like this.
Nintendo Switch uses cartridges and it's modern.
@@papasivir4241 Also a physical shelf can be a way easier experience than a digital one once your game collection gets above a certain size...
Yea Abe one of my favourite reinventor. I love the mint comment and no issues.
The legend returns! That final result looks * chefs kiss * so good
Thanks Cheddar! Appreciate the continued support
Would love to back up old family videos on these cartridges. Eagerly awaiting the chance of the PCB and 3D printing files being released if they ever are
and these types of videos/projects are why I subbed.
I really want to make a MiSTer case with this type of "cartridge" slot.
Not gonna lie, the entire vibe of this thing is so rad I would love to buy some of these. They look so infinitely satisfying to use.
They both look great, this was an awesome project! Great job!!
thanks so much man!
I love how many gadgets you build. Looks like I've found a fun new channel!
thats what i thought too
glad to see you back you make great content man very engaging and interesting to watch! hope you continue making cool projects and sharing them here
thanks! I definitely will!
I'm not gonna lie when you uploaded that video of your gamework I became absolutley OBSESSED with the idea of sd card based carts. I was really sad for a while because I thought it was just gonna be a one and done. I am so so so glad you carried it farther. I've been losing sleep over the idea of having all my media one one universal style of storage and loading media. This is the kind of project that just solves something that i think is universal... which is the desire to own the media you love but not wanting to have 35 different devices to play them all... and also not wanting to just store them all on a computer. I'm glad you've been just as obsessed about this project as your first video made me and I can't wait to see if you have any plans for it in the future!
Keep up the good work! Your videos are amazing!
I've been wanting to do something like this for a while. I had an idea for a wall-mounted arcade cabinet with an RFID reader that reads what game I'd like to play and immediately launches it. This makes it so each cartridge just has to have an RFID chip inside instead of any sort of custom PCB, making it a bit cheaper to create the cartridges. The cartridge can slot into the machine and emulate contact pads touching.
Check out Mister FPGA with TapTo. It does exactly what you're explaining here. Mister FPGA runs several arcade/computer/console "cores", and TapTo is an NFC reader that launches the game you want by using NFC cards.
Sounds like a good idea
This is exactly how the Yoto player works. It’s a music player for kids. The music is stored on an internal drive. You pick an album by inserting its card. Works super well and consistently.
@@johnmickey5017oh awesome! I’m going to have to check that thing out!
yeah, i had a similar thought but using an old floppy drive and using a qr code label that you place on old floppies that no longer work... that way you get to use the old format in the way you're used to, just instead of the magnetic encoding that's likely bad by now, it's just got a little camera that reads the qr code that is a file name and it loads that off an sd card.
See, I need this now. If I hadn't watched this video, I would have never known I needed it. But I did and I do.
howd you do the jpeggification effect at 0:30?
This is one of the most incredible independent projects that I ever seen. Honestly, the result is so stunning and professional! You inspired me a lot! Thanks for the amazing content!
Yes YES. I've also been toying with making some sort of cartridge for SD cards, not for games but for movies. It's so inspiring to see someone else having gone ahead with a similar project and come out with an amazing piece
This would be an awesome idea for a home theater. I'm old enough to remember the tactile feel of clicking and clacking when opening a VHS, MD (mini disc), cassette tapes, and cartridges for games. Plus it would also be a nice collection on the shelf.
This was a real joy to watch! What a fun ride through your last 2 years of projects!
Lol I love how your cat keeps attacking your stuff.
08:18
12:41
12:56
This is the definition of a passion project. That one thing you just can't let go and you gotta finish. Looks awesome! Only thing I'd love to see if a version with a more enclosed top so you could stack a couple of them together (think Apple II Disk Drives).
If these things were sold... I would literally buy it! I love it! Amazing work.
The end product is genuinely really neat. With some autoplay settings or a script it could be really magical, especially for a HTPC
I rarely comment on TH-cam but I want to say thank you for making these videos
I appreciate how you showed what the process really looks like to do something creative.
I know that very technical videos have a much smaller audience but if you ever want to make longer videos showing more of the process of modeling, designing, and programming I will absolutely watch them.
I love this. Kudos on continuing iterating until you reached gold! I love the red version, but both are gorgeous and totally look like something out of the late eighties/early nineties. Now I want to make a gameboy style retro handheld that takes these cartridges ;D
I love seeing this success story, great work Abe!!
I LOVE this idea, I've been keeping my individual project's files on micro SD card to organize them and this would be so cool to be able to keep my files in a nice organized way! I would love to see when this projects files are available and be able to implement them as soon as possible!
Waited so long for an update but was worth it.
Glad it was worth it!
I’m glad this vid hit my feed, the build was awesome to watch come together
Thank you!! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Your vids and shorts are some of my favourite ways to find random bits about different hardware. Awesome all around. Glad you're happy with your channel growth, you deserve it!
Thanks so much I’m glad you find them interesting!
Man I remember when you had only 12k subs, Congrats on 100k! You really deserved it
Time flies!!
let's gooo, missed these projects
I love the look of that red drive. The whole project has a great 80's/90's cyberpunk anime vibe.
Absolutely agree it's impossible to choose between the beige and the red. This project is really inspirational. Thank you for having the courage to share your setbacks!
Thanks so much I’m glad you feel inspired!!
YES! I have been wanting to make my own version of the Game Boy for the longest time using modern day components while keeping that old school feel, and this is perfect for that! While I haven't made progress past the planning stage at the moment, I have high hops for the future!
Cant express enough how much I want this myself! So freekin cool, love it!!!
Honestly keep going! Your ideas and execution are inspiring to say the least.
I’m a fan. It’s just a choice preference between physical media and digital media. If I make something or buy something, I’d rather have a physical copy then just the code to go online.
It's so funny, I've had effectively this exact idea for over a year now and then youtube recommends me this video! Really cool stuff, I like the red one best personally
I've literally been thinking about doing this for years. Good to know someone is pushing through!
Both the cartridge and the reader designs turned out gorgeous. Was a joy to watch your video about the project.
Thank you so much I’m glad you like them!
It's fascinating to see the long history of the project. Glad yiy kept iterating on it
I saw a video years ago in which a bloke made a 3d printed mini NES. He used an nfc reader and nfc chips imbedded in 3d printed carts, telling the console what to boot. I've always loved physical media and hoped that someone would miniaturize more things like this. I would literally pay a bucket load for mini N64 with loadable mini carts! *fingers crossed* Keep up the great content!
i love these so much omg.
I think that releasing both the files and a DIY kit would be awesome
I just got a 3D printer recently and I think I have almost all the parts to try something like this myself. I guess I gotta try it now. Thanks for making such sharply edited and entertaining videos!
This concept built into a Pi case would be an amazing idea. I would buy it for sure.
As someone who loves the old style physical media, this project really caught my eye. The end result is absolutely wonderful!
This project speaks to me on a spiritual level. LOVE how it turned out!
I’m glad you enjoyed it so much!!
This is fantastic! I've been lamenting the loss of removable high-capacity storage for a while now, wishing I had something like a Zip drive that used 250GB carts.
I love seeing someone recreate the wheel.
Happy to see the sort of end result of the little cartridges! I love the creative ideas you come up with for stuff like this!
I liked the old-fashion color, like a 80’s or 90’s style. It was astonishing, man.
I'd love to see something like this hit the market. I think having one in the shape of your favorite 8 or 16 bit console with sd adapters in the shape of whatever cartridge would be so freaking cool. Plus USB passthrough on the front where the controller ports are. I'd collect them all!!!
I love this; DIY cartridges have been on my brain lately for a few projects. A couple other option besides glued-on labels, is printing with a dye-sublimation printer, and then 3-d printing the card cover onto the DS paper. The hot plastic is plenty to sublimate the ink, literally dying the first layer directly. A similar thing can be done with laser printers and overhead projector transparency paper. There's videos on TH-cam showing the details.
For my own design I think I'd want to completely enclose the PCB, like old gameboy carts.
This is an interesting technique I’ve never heard of! Thanks for the tip
Thank you for not giving up. Sometimes I get in my own funk where feel like my work doesn't matter, but it absolutely does. No matter how small in the grand scheme of things it may seem.
By the way, the red one is my personal favorite. ❤
What an awesome project!!
Love it.
Thank you so much for watching!
Woah! Great work! Imagine having this port on a Steam Deck and just a bunch of cartridges with some games that you usually play but take a lot of space in the console that could be used to play newer ones.
The two colours look great. The red could have some nostalgic aspect, too. I've seen a Challenger 3-in-1 floppy drive made by Opus. It's mostly beige but the logo on the front is a surprisingly vivid red.
I've been working on a similar project but for music (being minidisc style), this is really awesome! The SD NAND is a neat approach, wish there was more of them available lol.
The beige one is absolutely gorgeous. Love how you put this project together.
Somehow this Video gave me a comfy nostalgic feeling while actually learning something
such a charming project, it looks insanely polished for a 3d print
i wish something like this was commercial. i idea of having a reader connected up to a android tv and a shelf of these cartridges with movies, shows and rom files on them for plug and play sounds amazing
Shout out to the Micro Mages card!
Edit: what a super unique and satisfying project to discover this channel on. Congrats on making it all work in the end!
Thank you so much!!! And yes great game!
I'm glad you took a break for yourself, and I'm really glad you came back to share your experiences :)
In the end everything seems to have turned out great! Thanks for keeping with this project and posting these videos for us :D
w00, love seeing Steamworld anywhere. What a great project! I love the vibe you've got going with the cartridges from beginning to end
This is so RAD! Ever since I saw your Floppy8 demo I've been thinking about making my own. Thanks for sharing your process!
Maybe a big tip, SLA/resin printers are really fast for thin objects because they do the entire layer at once
beautiful. one day instead of relying USB sticks, old school lovers could have these as their interchangeable storage cards. Takes up more space, but are less likely to be lost or swallowed by pets.
This reminded me of Megaman Battle Network and the battle chips (somewhat bulkier than SD cards) being inserted in a device just to use a custom attack
Reminds me of mini discs. I loved them for the short time they were around.
Great video, i learned a lot.
Mini discs are one of my favorites! Glad you enjoyed!
I hate how easy to loose and fragile micro SD cards are and I've always longed for a PS2 memory card style device. Super happy to see someone actually build something like that!
I'm in love with this project since I saw it years ago, tried myself to design some cartridge as well. Found basing it around the SD size made it a bit more robust and if it got damaged you could swap the micro sd out to a different SD converter.
Converting my entire collection of movies and games to these ASAP
Congrats on the play button and finishing a project! You've inspired me to make things and I look forward to what you do in the future.
This is absolutely delightful! I love this idea so much! Kinda sad the drive that ejected with a servo didn't really work out but still, I think what you made here is really cool. :)