Can you play SEGA Genesis from AA batteries?

in this video i was briefly the highest person in australia, which is saying something considering how many stoners i know

▶Features the following videos

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▶MUSIC USED
Kevin Macleod - Elf Meditation
falcon/pulse+tdr - spineless
Graff - rain eater
BRD RinjaniSoft Products Universal
Tetris CD-i - High Scores Table
CORE - mr spock's cryo-bed
Chris Zabriskie - Is That You or Are You You?

[pdlbackup]

Imagine climbing a mountain for like 2 hours and then when you reach the top you see MattKC sitting there playing the sega genesis.

[AlexanderTheBest]

Sonic 1: SYSTEM HALT
Sonic 3D Blast: Congratulations your batteries have depleted

[ShankMods]

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!

[jimmethstraphouse]

Next episode: Playing Desert Bus on the Desert Bus

[AntVenom]

This is awesome! Such a unique way of experiencing glitchiness in games. Would love to see more w/ a variable power supply.

[gavinthecrafter]

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.

[thesuperstratos]

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!

[LonelyDiggers]

Only real OGs remember when this was called Playing Sega Genesis at the highest point in Australia.

[michaeldaigle]

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

[commander_frog]

Take that switch, being a portable home console isn’t so special anymore

[surrodox]

6:37 The console turns to night mode automatically when the power run low

[realityveil]

Software can only do so much about the genuine hardware issue of "no power"

[Manawyrm]

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?

[joveaaron-real]

_"Genesis does, _


_What Nintendon't"_

[tookitogo]

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.

[expansionpack]

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.

[kackers]

i think it's really interesting how the music tracks start to desync while the power runs flat

[batashock]

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

[ChilliusVGM]

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.

[ContactDeadAhead]

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.