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Preserve Your Games with the Open Source Cartridge Reader (www.retronews.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The Open Source Cartridge Reader (OSCR) is a versatile tool designed to help preserve video game cartridges and save data. Developed by Sanni and the community, this device allows users to back up ROM files and save games from a wide range of vintage consoles.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Someone should buy this and then charge like $5 to backup someone's cartridge for them.

Too expensive for everyone to own

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah seriously.

Also are we not at a stage where most games have been dumped perfectly already?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This is for preserving one’s own library, which makes emulation fully legal instead of the wink wink “legal” that many gamers find themselves in.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Some people care about piracy laws?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Nintendo bootlickers salty about having to pay a subscription for Super Mario Bros.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago

Most of the cartridges this device can dump are so old that nobody will come after you for owning such dumps, whether they're from your cartridge or not. It'll also be hard to prove that the ROM isn't from your own cartridge if it's a clean ROM.