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HomeLicensesLicenses - Open Source Cartridge Reader

Licenses - Open Source Cartridge Reader

June 10, 2022 • 松浦哲夫

Software Licenses : GPL v3

Hardware Licenses : Open Source Hardware Created by modifying "Open Source Cartridge Reader" (sanni Github (Licensed under CC BY 4.0))

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Perfect USB-C Arduino Mega *Only with Cartridge Reader V3-ALTER build service
RamblingShenanigans
Awesome Product

The build quality is super high on this ROM dumper and I'm very happy with my purchase. I think the walnut board on it looks great and I've been real happy being able to back up my games.

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GG Adapter
Harry
Very well built high quality Game Gear adapter for the Open Source Card Reader

Very well built high quality Game Gear adapter for the Open Source Card Reader. Includes the RetroSix Game Gear cartridge connector.

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FDSKEY with 1GB Micro SD card
Harry
FDSKEY is a cool device

FDSKEY is a cool device. It plugged right in and let me easily switch between disk based titles. Only issue is that i have graphic glitching issues, which is somewhat of a known issue and require some soldering to fix: https://consolemods.org/wiki/NES:Famicom_Disk_System_Glitching_Sprites_Fix

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Open Source Cartridge Reader V3-ALTER Build service
H.
Save The Hero Builders and the Open Source Card Reader - Amazing!

The OSCR project is amazing! I've been using the OSCR for a couple years to back up my collection of cartridges for many different systems. Save The Hero Builders provides an excellent service to purchase a prebuilt kit, as well as all the various adapters to achieve compatibility as you need. STHB provides amazing customer service and I can't recommend them enough. The STHB V3-Alter Cartridge Reader is top quality. Thank you STHB!

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READING SNES SA1 CARTRIDGE & Save N64 Eeprom+RTC
Anonymous
満足です

見た目も良く、使いやすくてとても満足です。

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FC Adapter
Anonymous
Very Excellent

Arrived quickly and packaged very well as always. Build quality is amazing and works perfectly.

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Open Source Cartridge Reader V3-ALTER Build service
Anonymous
Fantastic product!

This kit is amazing! Works great right out of the box with intuitive instructions on the case itself. The quality is superb and well-built!

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Open Source Cartridge Reader V3-ALTER Build service
Scott F.
Did exactly what I needed it to do.

The cartridge reader worked great immediately after opening the box. I was able to rescue some very old saves on several cartridges. Backing up various cartridges work well too for SNES, Genesis, SMS, GG, and GBA.

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FC Adapter
yukio
しっかりカートリッジを掃除しても読み込まないことが多い。レトロフリークでは読み込むので、製品の問題だ

しっかりカートリッジを掃除しても読み込まないことが多い。レトロフリークでは読み込むので、製品の問題だと思う。

この度はご迷惑をおかけして申し側ございません。読み込みにシビアな点があるのは否めません。
あまりにも読み込まないようでしたら機械のトラブルも考えられます(1/2や1/3の確率でだめになる等)。
まずPCとつなぎ一度アッドデートをし、SDカードの中のデータも新しくしてそれでも変わらないようでしたら送料着払でお送りください。こちらで調査致します。
よろしくお願いいたします。
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How to flash the Arduino
https://github.com/sanni/cartreader/wiki/How-to-flash-the-Arduino
Preparing the SD Card
https://github.com/sanni/cartreader/wiki/Preparing-the-SD-Card
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NES Adapter
Ryoku7
Works Great! But a little thin / Setup Difficult.

So, I bought this adaptor to backup my NES saves and it worked surprisingly well! Only complaints I would have is the adaptor is not as easy to use as the other built-in options. From what I can tell there is no auto-detection for NES carts. You have to go to the NES cartridge forum and find the setting for the specific game you want to backup BEFORE hitting anything on the S.T.H builder. After punching in all the correct cart information it works great, but you have to be very specific beforehand. I put some labels on the back of my carts after backing up just for future use. Also the file structure doesn't remember the name of your NES game with this method so I'd advise doing your backup and then plugging it into your PC to change the names of the newly created files before you move on.

Also, it is pretty thin and flimsy feeling so to make it sturdier you can saw an unused SNES cart down and put this board into the empty shell. It is designed to drop in perfectly and even matches the keying so you can't insert it backwards. After about an hour of sanding, applying some hot glue and cleaning up my custom Cart it looked like this. Even added the Ukraine sticker to complete the look i wanted. It's much sturdier now and looks great. Hopefully this gives the next buyer some good ideas for their own build.

Thank you again SaveTheHero! You are preserving my whole collection and a history of my childhood game saves going back over thirty years.

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Hello Ryoku san, Thank you so much for the wonderful review!

NES has an automatic title detection feature. Could you please refer to this and give it a try?
Also, please make sure to clean the cartridge contacts before dumping.
Please update the device and replace the contents of the SD card as well.

Dumping NES Games
https://github.com/sanni/cartreader/wiki/Dumping-NES-Games
https://github.com/sanni/cartreader/wiki/Adding-auto-mapper-to-a-game

How to flash the Arduino
https://github.com/sanni/cartreader/wiki/How-to-flash-the-Arduino
Preparing the SD Card
https://github.com/sanni/cartreader/wiki/Preparing-the-SD-Card
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