For When You Need To Backup Those Saves

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨v1605@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨retrogaming@lemmy.world⁩

https://i.imgur.com/lN9v5Xj.jpg

The Open Source Cartridge Reader is a great diy project for dumping your own roms and saves. If you order a kit with the surface mount components already installed, it’s also a great beginner soldering project.

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j4k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Awesome project. Please crosspost this to !3dprinting@lemmy.world

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- v1605@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Thanks and done
  
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UnrealRealityX@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The closest thing I ever used that backed up actual hardware was a Playstation 1 card reader. At the time I was backing up game saves and porting them to the ps2 for emulation or something i forget exactly.

It was wild to do something like that on your computer back then. A Sony memory card in your PC? Bonkers.

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- brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Once I extracted my Fire Emblem 7 GBA cartridge’s save to keep stuff I had unlocked and play it elsewhere.
  
  It was easy, I didn’t need any special hardware beside a DS and a flash cart, and a bit of homebrew software.
  
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YuzuDrink@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I built one of these a couple weekends back and have been blissfully extracting ROMs from my cartridge collection since then. I love it so much, and it's a really solid design!

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nandeEbisu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Cloud saved banjo kazooie runs. The future is now.

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Epsilonean@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Nice! I got my Save the Hero Builders OSCR and it’s fantastic. Backed up my whole cartridge collection

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- v1605@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yeah they make pretty solid prebuilts, this was a diy kit.
  
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P03@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Love my retrode 2 but this one looks awesome.

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- v1605@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  The retrode was a good device when you could buy it. What I like about this one is that you can dump all the popular cart systems without needing adapters, while being able to build additional adapters for less common systems.
  
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topinambour_rex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Awesome project.

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91x@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I thought the saves were in my memorypak though?

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- radostin04@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Most N64 games don’t actually use the controller pak, instead using their own battery saves
  
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  - 91x@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Hmmm, I still have my N64, all my old games, etc and could test. Do you know if there is a way for me to check the memorypak to see what games actually saved to it?
    
    Now that you mention it, I recall either OoT or MM saving to the cart directly.
    
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  - sebinspace@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    IIRC none of the games that require the expanded RAM module (DK64, OOT, Majora) actually utilize its RAM under normal conditions. For instance, DK64 only used it as a means to stave off a memory leak.
    
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