Context: I am on a personal agenda to backup all my games myself. In this search I landed on the Open Source Cartridge Reader (OSCR) it was expensive so I held off until a few months ago when I could finally afford it.
When I got it, I also bought every adapter I needed including the Virtual Boy one, which comes as a Kit. I didn’t think it looked bad, which is why I ordered it. But I held off on making since I started getting cold feet.
Today however I got the courage to try and… it was awful. 60 teeny tiny pins needed to be aligned and individually soldered. It was setup so a skilled micro solder could doing the job in an hour or so… it took me 4 hours and scouring the floor finding pins which fell. Let alone unclogging holes which were accidentally soldered.
However after testing my patience and redoing the last step 3-5 times. It works!!!!!!!!
Now I can play Jack Bros without a VB, and Viper on 3DS is amazing.
Shoutout to Save The Hero Builders. I got everything from them and they were extremely helpful with a noob like me.
I was gonna say... most likely all those carts are already dumped and archived at ROM sites, right?
But if this is one ethical person who wants to do things completely legally, I can see the point.
Yeah personally I don't get it, but its cool. It just takes too much time for me.
Same with me and my vhs tapes. It takes so long to arcvhive them and a thousand other people already did it and put them all on the archive. All I do want upload are some home taped shows that may have rare ads that people wanna see.