Can you play SEGA Genesis from AA batteries?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ค. 2021
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Imagine climbing a mountain for like 2 hours and then when you reach the top you see MattKC sitting there playing the sega genesis.
Someone's gotta put that as an easter egg in a game
@@PieMastyr imagine it being in lego island
I thought the same thing 🤣
*pulls out my own genesis controller* You got Sonic 2 on that everdrive, Matt?
I would either assume I was going delirious or that I just found a real life quest-giving NPC.
Sonic 1: SYSTEM HALT
Sonic 3D Blast: Congratulations your batteries have depleted
@@kitty.x3 i do
"Task failed successfully!"
It also was like illegal instructions and stuff like that
LOL!
@@ramyavijayagiri9202 yes
Next episode: Playing Desert Bus on the Desert Bus
I'm one step ahead...
Playing plague Inc in 2021...
For charity.
yes
Now that would be some awesome content
Playing GTA in a stolen car.
Hey Matt, this is pretty neat. If you are interested in glitching consoles by undervolting or starving them of power, I may be able to assist. Many (newer than sega genesis) consoles have voltage comparators on the power supply to shut down all power to the system in case a voltage anomaly, such as crossing below an undervoltage threshold. In the portablizing community, we have had to dealt with modifying and bypassing the onboard regulators used to power the voltage rails used to run the chips and other logic elements. So I may be able to help you get glitches out of consoles that otherwise wouldn't be possible through the main DC jack. I also have 5 variable benchtop power supplies in my lab so that may be of assistance too. Feel free to reach out. I'd be happy to help, or at the very least, point you in the right direction!
Matt is currently in the process of moving to another studio, so I don’t think he’s gonna respond any time soon :(
Strait up wrote an essay
He needs to Shank H E N E E D S T O
Ye
This would be really cool! Replying to help bump your comment up!
This is awesome! Such a unique way of experiencing glitchiness in games. Would love to see more w/ a variable power supply.
Wasn't expecting you here, glad you're a fan too.
Hello there
never knew AntVenom liked retro games
Woah - crazy to see Matt has garnered the attention of you. Great job, Matt and great job AntVenom for having good taste in TH-cam.
Didnt expect you here
Take that switch, being a portable home console isn’t so special anymore
its more like a homable handheld
No! Your making my ps4 loving-switch hating brother win!
Sega did it way earlier with the Nomad
@@KoroPSI tell your brother hes playing 8 year old games in shit quality
@@mackenziebullied4900 Games for 8 year olds, or games that are 8 years old?
There's something so ominous about seeing a computer slowly dying and getting more and more glitched and unstable, until it finally kicks the can. I'd love to see more of these.
I'd honestly love to see each defining console of its generation go through the same treatment; it sounds sadistic but I'm curious what potential fail-safes will be ran into!
the modern consoles will probably have a failsafe because most electronics now can detect when they have lowered power and halt all operations
@@Windo0ows If you used a custom power circuit for example, you'd be able to keep the CPU running normally while undervolting the GPU, for example. And then you'd be more likely to get interesting results. But I believe that's a little beyond Matt's skill level here.
Cod bo1 zombies on the 360 on the top of Mount Everest.
@@qwertykeyboard5901 your bad taste worries me more than your outlandish requests
Anything past 2000 or so wouldn't be very interesting
The hiking community : Pays big bucks to shed grams off their pack weight
Matt KC : Carries a fucking sega genesis, a laptop and camera gear to the top of a mountain
And Water! You can't forget the comically large bottle of Water!
@@CarbonPanther and clothes. I mean, some clothes are heavy
@@YoshiLikesFate And his balls of steel.
@@computer_dude dont forget the comically shaky cellphone
That must be a hell storm on your back and I thaught I had it bad carrying my laptop it's power supply a Nintendo switch it's power supply and clothes
Only real OGs remember when this was called Playing Sega Genesis at the highest point in Australia.
And he got rid of the on top of a mountain part on the name of the video lol.
I thought this seemed different...
The magic of making your video's title into a question to psychologically manipulate people into watching it. So honest!
When did Australia ever call it the Sega Genesis?
Software can only do so much about the genuine hardware issue of "no power"
I get it!
The phrase is "non-maskable interrupt"
6:37 The console turns to night mode automatically when the power run low
_"Genesis does,_
_What Nintendon't"_
Never gets old!
Nintendon't does what Sega couldn't do but they both are great gaming wise
i think it's really interesting how the music tracks start to desync while the power runs flat
If you ever do this again, I'd love to see the 5V voltage on the CPU measured while it's starting to die. And yes, getting a variable power supply sounds fun. Ideally, you'd use a real game cartridge instead of the FPGA one?
It actually looked more like the cartridge and VDP were losing power before the CPU - hence the error
8:00 It had nothing to do with “cooling down”, but with voltage recovery in the batteries. After the load is removed, a battery will recover some voltage.
I thought you were driving on the wrong side of the road, and then I remembered you're in British Texas, of course you do.
It's not about playing Genesis, it's about sending a message
You’re goddamn right
I take this as a challenge, i'm gonna set it as a goal in my life to play a ps3 at the highest point in Australia
Do it, but power it with potatoes.
@@Robinthefox88 Yes LOTS of potatos
@@StankyPotatoMan so many potatoes that nobody will be able to make french fries
I wonder if the results of the batteries dying would differ if you were to use different revisions of the Mega Drive hardware, i.e. different VA numbers and model numbers.
That would be interesting to see, especially with ones that have different chips in them. Obviously the Motorola 68k and the Zilog Z80 would be the same, but what about different RAM with different speeds?
@@theocampbell3865 Well certain revisions have Z80s and I think some also 68Ks from different sources.
@@bangerbangerbro Well then that would make it even more interesting!
@@theocampbell3865 Yes it would. I was just saying that the CPUs wouldn't necessarily be the same across all revs.
@@bangerbangerbro Right.
Matt, dude, go around the voltage regulator, feed it with 5 volts! your batteries will last way longer
The regulator just throws away a ton o f power as heat, 850mA * (9V - 5V) = 3.4W (roughly, my math might not be the best) just pissed away every hour
yeah the resistive regulator would just be wasting energy
What are you guys saying your speaking enchanting table
@@DeadbushCarrot yeah, nerd talk haha
@@DeadbushCarrot it's not an enchanting table it's the ancient art of shooting lightning at rocks
Idk man, it seems like he was avoiding internal changes (i.e soldering to bypast the regulator).
But yeah, bypassing the regulator would always yield more efficient power consumption, just not sure how much more though. I think, and this is speculation/hope, the regulator is switch mode and not linear/resistive... who am I kidding, 1980s-2000 tech never bothered with efficiency.
I have a feeling the music from the first half comes from Tetris CD-I.
5:30 "But I promise you off-camera, it was really nice to relax"
*shows footage of the laptop shifting around and almost falling*
If anyone's interested in how the audio on the nes reacts to low batteries I tried it and the volume just gets quieter as the voltage drops.
yeah, thats because the speakersjust quiet down wth the reduction of power
@@gamelaine the explanation is a bit more complex than that actually, basically all audio systems have to be analog at the speakers even nowadays but the tv I used to test this was a crt so the audio remains analog the entire time meaning that when the Nes’s internal amplification circuit receives less voltage and thus less current the audio signal coming out gets weaker and thus the tv has to use more power to amplify it to the same audio level. Funnily enough some digital tv’s don’t actually pick up some audio when you start to get into making your own audio things because they need a certain loudness to pick the signal up, but all independent analog audio signals are the same so you can pretty much adapt almost any audio connector to eachother without any fancy circuitry.
Next Episode: Playing Sega Genesis in Space!
Next Episode: Playing Sega Genesis in a Partial Accelerator!
@@EthanSeville Next Episode: Playing LEGO island on a island!
Next episode: Playing Sega Megadrive in parallel universe!
@@alexkubrat3868 Next episode:Playing doom on a bottle of toothpaste!
And the next one... Playing Sega Saturn in Saturn.
I would have already said yes you can because there is a Sega Genesis plug-and-play console that takes four AA batteries and it can be modified to accept regular cartridges
You are talking about the one made by Radica, right?
@@tugayturkylmaz2200 yes
@@WigWoo1 did you know.. not only did Ben Heck also run an OG Sega Genesis off a 9v battery... BUT... he also crafted a portable Genesis from that same radica device?
Also Sega made one that runs on 6 AA batteries. Or an AC adapter if you're smart. The Nomad.
Wow, those must be the hardware replicas that I've heard of! Except I've read that a company or a person miniaturized the actual Atari 2600 hardware onto a single chip a long time ago and it was used in plug and play versions of Atari. And that replica was essentially a tiny Atari 2600 so it had all the quirks and oddities from the original such as any bugs from the original
Every time when Matt, was saying mount Kosciuszko, I was was like...."that.....is not how you pronounce it".
Unfortunately that's the official pronunciation of the name of the mountain. I thought for a second that the highest of Australia moved somewhere else XD
@@OlegDorbitt Koziasko? When it should be something along the lines of "cost soosh co"?
yes it is, im australian and he said it right
@@dopaminedreams1122 cursed as the continent itself (no hate on the aussie nation)
@@dopaminedreams1122 in Poland i would beat him for pronouncing Kościuszko like that
Dude, I love glitches in video games, especially graphical ones. There's just an unexplainable cool factor in seeing something you were never supposed to see. The NES video was awesome to watch, I'd love to see more content like this with a variable power supply.
Death Stranding Directors' Cut looking great.
A lot of those glitches look to be related to loading data out of the cart's ROM. I suspect it would fail differently using a genuine cartridge, there's way more power-hungry electronics in those multi-game fake carts than in an original one.
here's how to crash sonic 1 without doing this weirdass shit: at the end of labyrinth zone roll down past the signpost and the camera will pan down, and this will crash the game
even easier: kick your cartridge
@@arekrekas213 _even_ easier: tilt your cartridge by 1%
even easier: pour water on the console
Even easier: crash the game.
even easier: wait until the heat death of the universe
Mum: you should go out and get some sunshine.
Kid: Say no more.
7:50 Taking ROM corruption to the Psychical world.
Next Eps whips out a EMP gun and fires it at the memory chips
At the beginning, I thought that was the direction he was taking this video. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_error#Cosmic_rays_creating_energetic_neutrons_and_protons
Next video: Playing SEGA Genesis at the highest point in the World.
7:01
vinesause in corruption stockpile 3. "sonic has passed! lets do a memorial"
The irony of having a capture card and OBS and still using a phone to record your screen.
You should definitely get a variable power supply and f--k around with consoles by undervoltaging them.
agreed!! would be a great video
yes; It reminds me of corruptions but in a different way entirely
i would like to see that
great idea
@@archangel_5103 People have made corruptors for real hardware by doing a very similar thing. Someone's even done it with a PS4, I think
honestly I'd love to see an entire series like this! its so interesting to see how the games break down as the batteries start dying
8:08 - Green Hell Zone
This was such a creative idea - thank you for the video and your hard work!
that's a lot of rocks
that's a lot of rocks
that's a lot of rocks
8:14
Christmas 1990:
your father works at Sega and he got you a game labeled project 9029, you go put it in your mega drive and load the game. About an hour later the screen gets a yellow tint to it, you think its special effects and keep playing. 30 minutes later the screen goes grey and then nothing, about 10 seconds later it reloads to the title screen with a message saying "we will have fun for AGES". Later that night while you are asleep you hear static from the TV in your room. The game has a new message, it says "I AM IN HERE WITH YOU". you roll your eyes and shut off the TV and hear a distorted version of the Sega sound, then you hear heavy breathing. The entity behind you says "do you want to play a game"
Finding your channel was the best thing that happened to me during quarantine. Keep up the wild stuff my man.
Wow! Thanks for following up from that aa battery vid, this was cool to watch!
I'd love to see the effects of having low power on every retro console... *cough, ps1, cough*
@@parkman29 actually I personally ran a psone off batteries, and it eventually would just reset itself
I would absolutely LOVE to see this done with a variable voltage power supply and see all the different types of glitches and odd effects on the games being played! If I see this video done someday I'll be beyond overjoyed!
This is so fascinating! I've definitely experienced one of those error codes in normal Sonic 1 gameplay before, but I can't recall what I might have been doing to cause it.
MattKC upload that tried to sneak past my sub alerts. Always love seeing your stuff.
7:52 DONT play Sonic The Hedgehog off of AA batteries at 3AM!! (HE KILLED MY WHOLE FAMILY??)
NTSC = Never The Same Color, assuming you are running an NTSC console
Its Australia so it might be a PAL console
Would be PAL if is a AUS unit
PAL = Probably Altered Color
@@fila1445
Isn't the console called Genesis is the US only and Megadrive for the rest of the world? If so, it is NTSC.
@@amogus7 Actually PAL used a Phase Altering Line, which fixed the colour problem NTSC had. The colour problems are related to the colour composition circuitry being under powered.
This was a great video! It was neat to see how power effected the console. I respect the fact you walked to the top of a mountain but I am not sure why. I bet you were exhausted when you got there. I couldn't imagine walking that long in one day (especially up a mountain).
Hell yeah, early for a MattKC video!
EDIT: I would love to see another video with a variable power supply, sounds like great fun! Good work!
The test is not proper until you remove the voltage regulator and use a proper ROM cartridge instead of one with FPGA inside.
Video is good enough, i bet 90% of the people just wanted to see the glitches and didn't really care about the implications
7:30 I honestly never knew until this video that some Genesis games had debuggers
Causing "analog" glitches in a digital system is somehow really trippy, this and your NES video are great! In everything digital you're used to thinking that things either work right, work consistently wrong or don't work at all, but like this, it's interesting to imagine what kind of irregularities could possibly happen when the system keeps trying on low power.
Cool video - I discovered you via the NES running on AA's video - And we may live in the same neck of the woods
This seems interesting, especially with a more controlled amount of power. Would love to see more.
3:27 a commicly large bottle of woa
the mix
You may not have noticed, but by 7:16, the 8-bit PSG chip starts to get out of sync with the FM chip, and by 8:08 it nearly breaks completely, sending half-random signals rather than what's supposed to be played. I find it strange how the DAC and FM seem to be working fine with the PSG being the first thing to go before the game ultimately crashes from essentially running out of voltage.
Really underselling the video with that thumbnail, awesome stuff!
6:15 Every company at June be like
Also, great and interesting video!
Ah, what's that background music around 3:40? Sounds so familiar!
still no reply, huh, I'm curious too.
sounds pleasant in my ears.
haha man, I was just going through some of your old videos wondering when you'd be able to upload again. good stuff!
This video (and your channel) needs more love from the youtube community. I really admire your sheer amount of dedication. Thanks.
I'm also somewhat interested in seeing how earlier consoles that use 3D graphics would be affected.
I'll give ya a spoiler alert:
I once ran a psone (the PlayStation Slim if you will) off batteries. When the batteries die the console just resets itself, and when you use only one 9v battery it displays a red screen
EDIT: using two 9v batteries in parallel (Duracell Ultras mind you) gave me like 30 minutes of gameplay, one 7.2v RC car battery gave me like 3.3 hours of game play, and of course two 7.2v RC car batteries in parallel doubled my game time.. all the same dualshock rumble IS NOT your friend, disable rumble when possible, having it on will also reduce run time
Awww, that's no fun. I wanted to see the fabric of the 3D graphics slowly unwind.
Maybe the N64 would work a little differently?
@@Definitely_a_Fox perhaps. Considering it uses several different voltage inputs whereas the PlayStation as a whole is I think 7.5v
Oh yeah I forgot to mention that the RC car battery is like 2000mAh and the psone power adapter is 7.5v @ 2a
Missed opportunity for a hotel mario joke or zelda faces of evil
Matt, your videos never cease to entertain. Great work man, can’t wait for the next one!!!
I'd love to see more videos like these. This was so interesting, and cool
Me: Wow what an interesting guy let me check out their channel
Me: *Looks at channel header* wow uploads every 2 weeks there's going to be so much content to binge
Me: *Looks at uploads* oh...
2:50 some Polish guy after reaching top of mouten decided to name it after Polish(and American but mainly Polish) hero so you have to struggle pronouncing it. PS i did not even now you can pronouc Kościuszko like that XD
PS PS. BTW He's story is preety deam Interesting, including fact that his monument was vandalised during BLM protests even trough he was clearly treating black people as equal and ordered in his testament to spend his assets to free and educated slaves.
PLEASE DO A VID WITH A VARIABLE POWER SUPPLY! I'd absolutely love to see that!!!!! I love this vid, the NES one, as well as all your others! Thanks again for the great content!
YES! I would Love to see that!
here the highest point in australia is like a small hill for the size of the country lmao
7:16 GFEEN HIUU ZONE
I love how the music also distorts, playing tracks a couple seconds behind
1.5V is only the nominal voltage for an AA battery. Its voltage can vary between around 1.1V and 1.6V, and will vary based on both current draw and charge level but a typical voltage will be around 1.2 to 1.3 volts for most of its life.
Edit: battery chemistry affects this too. An NiMH battery doesn't get as high when full but stays around 1.2V longer
8:26 No, this is the point, when Sonic climbs out of the TV to politely ask you, to stop torturing the console.
my favourite part was 0:00 - 10:19. didn't like 10:20 tho.
I didn't like 10:20 either
You can bypass the 7805 voltage regulator that converts all voltage above 5v in heat. So extra power is wasted via heat dissipation and reduce battery lifetime. The internal ICs are all TTL so thay need 5v to work. You can supply directly 5v from a USB power pack. Or if you still want to input higher voltage then 5V in the DC jack and still avoid extra power consumption you can replace the 7805 liniar regulator by a DC to DC converter (step down in this case).
I don’t recall exactly but USB provides 5.1V instead of 5.0V because most devices has a siliciu diode that has a 0.7 volts in drop which protects the device in case of wrong polarisation.
Shhh man your channel blew up so much. Well deserved! Been here since 500 subs lol
I actually went and tested Sega Genesis emulation on my own Laptop and got roughly 14 hours of battery in Sonic 3D blast. So yeah, you can just emulate for far longer lol. You can even switch to sonic.exe if you want the creepypasta vibes of the dying batteries like in the battery powered genesis.
I love these experiments btw. Gives a good perspective over how efficient that old hardware was. Really cool
Now play Nintendo Wii at the highest point in Australia
Dude, I love your videos I love tech and videos like these
An analog corruptor sounds like a very cool idea. Can't wait to see it, if you make the video!
6:29 Cosby at it again
I love the shot composition as always
Mount kosciuszko… MOUNT KOSCIUSZKO! If you don’t know „Tadeusz Kosciuszko” was a polish hero and i dunno why that’s the name of the mountain but i know that us poles have a huuge influence in aus, also fun fact : the Sydney opera house was designed by a pole
_video of a videogame console tied to a pole, struggling against its bonds, as if an offering to appease some great beast_
_cut to the massive crowd of people chanting_ "UN-DER-VOLT! UN-DER-VOLT!"
Very cool experiment! This is also great for circuit bending the megadrive without risqing to get electrify !
Love the use of the tetris cdi music 🔥
I believe the reason why the white started rainbowing first is because the genesis is known for producing composite signals that have issues differentiating between Luma and Chroma (the B&W signal and colour signal), as the battery’s reduced the voltage the Luma signal lost the power it needed to reach a high enough “level” to sit far enough above Chroma for the TV to be able to differentiate the two, so the white colours got rainbowy. And as the batteries got worse, the chroma signal got less distinct and move compressed into lower ranges of the signal, leading to more colour interference and eventually becoming yellow.
Great video, man. I especially love how you took the time to travel all the way to Rohan to film the intro. That's dedication.
Edit: Always finish the video before commenting. I'm so disappointed.
You can actually trigger an error on command in Sonic 1. In Labyrinth zone, as you cross the goal, roll and keep holding down and you'll crash the game. PLEASE do more of this!
Awesome content as always!
Thx for the birthday upload!
This may be one of the greatest videos ever made. (well for me…) It features two of my favorite things. The snowy mountains and SEGA
Never been to that place, although I can't get there as I'm a WHOLE STATE AWAY. But maybe someday...
Ok I'd like to see a Dreamcast get the same treatment, especially Sonic Adventure/Sonic Adventure 2
It's all about the journey, great video!
>Walks up mountain
>Plays sega genesis
>Refuses to elaborate
>Leaves