Can We Load Sega Games Off a Vinyl Record?

Added: 2026-06-04

[00:00:00]Hello YouTube. Today we're going to be attaching a Sega Genesis to a record player so that we can load games from a vinyl record onto the Sega Genesis. This will allow us to execute a proof of concept where you could use a vinyl record to load video game data in addition to sound. The first thing you need is a Sega Genesis.

[00:00:27]Sega Genesis was designed in 1967 by Mark Twain. It was a video game machine used to play Pong and Sonic the Hedgehog. It has two controller ports on the front and a power and a reset button. It's used for powering the console and resetting console. It uses a cartridge based system on the front which you push the cartridge in and you can load the game.

[00:00:58]It also has expansion options that let you Oh. Oh. Which lets you uh So it says do not remove.

[00:01:12]So you don't want to remove that. You want to keep that in place. We're going to put the plastic back on so that we don't damage the console.

[00:01:26]Oh.

[00:01:28]Oh, it came off. Whoops.

[00:01:32]If you ever need help using your Sega Genesis, you'll call 1800 USA Sega from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Pacific time, Monday through Friday. Toll-free number for any kind of customer service you need. your Sega Genesis.

[00:01:49]Also has a video output and AC adapter output.

[00:01:54]It's very good video game console. The second thing we need for this project is a vinyl record player. I'm going to be using the the P record factory. This is a record uh player and recorder. This allows you to make your own vinyl records that you can then play and listen to. We're going to be using this vinyl record factory P thing to record video game data to a vinyl record and play it on the Sega Genesis.

[00:02:30]It's to make the game um from the record.

[00:02:35]So, we'll start by uh opening the record player so you can see it. I now have to adjust the shot so that we can open the thing.

[00:02:53]There we go.

[00:02:57]Time to assemble, cut, and listen.

[00:03:01]All right.

[00:03:02]So, yeah, we're going to be uh using a vinyl record to play a Sega Genesis game. Much like the uh Sega CD, we're going back to vinyl.

[00:03:15]Why are we doing this?

[00:03:17]Why not? Yet another insane idea, but yours truly. should mention that um I've actually never used a record player before and I've certainly never recorded onto a vinyl record before. So, uh this is going to be interesting experience.

[00:03:43]Um what the hell is all this crap?

[00:03:49]Oh boy.

[00:03:51]Take this out. Wow, this is a really high quality piece of uh plastic.

[00:03:59]So, the idea is basically um going to record the uh game data as sound and then play it back on the old Sega Genesis.

[00:04:11]Simple enough.

[00:04:13]This should be a quick, easy project, I'm sure.

[00:04:18]Oh god. All right.

[00:04:22]There instructions for this crap.

[00:04:25]Um, enjoy assembling the kit and cut your very own first 5-in vinyl record. After cutting, you can switch to playback on the fly with one operation. Listen to commercial 7-in EP records with the built-in speaker. Okay.

[00:04:43]Uh, record from your pocket operator. Oh crap.

[00:04:48]I don't have a pocket operator.

[00:04:56]What is all this? What the hell is all this stuff?

[00:05:00]Screws.

[00:05:03]Uh, more screws.

[00:05:09]More junk and gears. And what are you freaking kidding me? I got to put all this together.

[00:05:20]Wow.

[00:05:22]A lot of stuff here.

[00:05:25]A lot of plastic.

[00:05:27]How do I put this together?

[00:05:30]Doesn't come with instructions.

[00:05:34]Uh let me um let's take a step back for a bit. Let's start by seeing if we can load custom software onto this and then we'll move on to uh this part. Let's go to the desk.

[00:05:53]Switch to the desk.

[00:05:58]All right.

[00:06:01]There we go.

[00:06:08]We got the uh RGB upgrade on this particular Sega Genesis. So, we're going to get crystal clear video quality.

[00:06:19]We got to plug the uh component cables into Oh. Oh, wait a minute.

[00:06:27]Component.

[00:06:29]I don't know if I have a converter for this.

[00:06:32]that goes to the CRT.

[00:06:35]But I do have a component capture card.

[00:06:38]So I guess I have to go through the capture card through the computer and then back to the VJ monitor.

[00:06:46]Great.

[00:06:49]Figures. Oh. Oh god, this cable's really thick.

[00:06:54]Green goes in the green one. Okay. Blue goes in blue.

[00:07:00]And then red goes into the this.

[00:07:09]Now you got to do the the power cable.

[00:07:13]You get the old Sega Genesis all set up and ready to go. Just a quick moment of your time.

[00:07:20]Hold on. Ow.

[00:07:22]Uh, I got the controller, too.

[00:07:26]This is a legit firstparty Sega Genesis controller.

[00:07:33]Very good. Uh, very good buttons. Nice and stiff. Just the way I like it. All right, moment of truth.

[00:07:48]Oh boy.

[00:07:51]Boom.

[00:07:53]Perfect.

[00:07:55]There we go. Oh, we got some flashing.

[00:07:59]Of course we do. And then I got to do uh like the Whoa. Oh.

[00:08:07]Oh boy. That looks really bad.

[00:08:11]Why is it 16 by9?

[00:08:14]Make it not 16 by9. Please stop with the flashing. God damn it.

[00:08:25]Stop flashing.

[00:08:28]Holy crap. It's like a freaking rave.

[00:08:32]I can't get it to stop.

[00:08:34]Oh, Jesus Christ.

[00:08:37]Stop with the freaking flashing.

[00:08:40]All right. Can we plug a game in? Can we play some freaking games already?

[00:08:45]Go.

[00:08:47]Oh.

[00:08:50]All right.

[00:08:53]Is there sound?

[00:08:56]There we go.

[00:09:00]Oh.

[00:09:02]Uh, no music.

[00:09:06]And why is it stretched like that? Looks like crap.

[00:09:14]Why is it freaking stretched?

[00:09:17]Why Why is it in 21x9 mode? Oh my god.

[00:09:22]Pain on my ass.

[00:09:24]You fix that, please.

[00:09:28]What? No. What? No. What? I didn't press anything.

[00:09:33]Oh, what the hell?

[00:09:35]Wait. I'm trying to fix the freaking video. It's the widescreen for some reason.

[00:09:41]No.

[00:09:43]Damn it. Oh my god. I'm getting my ass kicked.

[00:09:48][ __ ] All right. Get him. Get him. Go. Stop. There we go. Here we go. We got to use some strategy. Oh, god damn it. Finish him.

[00:10:00]No.

[00:10:03]Great.

[00:10:05]Jax wins. Very good.

[00:10:09]All right, let's get back to uh our main task here.

[00:10:13]We don't care about Mortal Kombat.

[00:10:16]Oh boy. We want to be able to run custom software on the Sega Genesis so that we can play a game off a vinyl record.

[00:10:26]I know the more I think about this idea, the more stupid it seems. It's completely pointless and idiotic, but you know me, that's my specialty. So, of course, to do that, guess what? We need the Mega Everdrive Pro.

[00:10:48]Yeah, it's a tight fit, huh?

[00:10:57]Oh my god. What is with the stretching?

[00:11:02]What?

[00:11:04]IO core update required. Push A to begin.

[00:11:09]What? What are we doing? What? Huh? Uh, settings have been set to default. Press okay. There are no files.

[00:11:20]All right.

[00:11:21]There's the typical uh Everdrive screen.

[00:11:25]It is extremely stretched though. I don't know why. It looks ridiculous. Is there a way to fix that? Maybe. Maybe this converter does something.

[00:11:34]Why is it so widescreen?

[00:11:37]Is this a feature of this uh Sega?

[00:11:42]Uh, give me a second here. I got to do some troubleshooting.

[00:11:53]There we go. All fixed.

[00:11:56]It only took half an hour.

[00:12:01]Great.

[00:12:05]Let's turn that crap off.

[00:12:08]Let's put this back in.

[00:12:20]All right.

[00:12:21]Um, now what? Well, first we got to set up some uh homebrew environments for coding stuff.

[00:12:30]Means I probably got to pop the SD card out.

[00:12:33]and put some ROMs onto it.

[00:12:36]Let's uh find some ROMs. Here we go. Get out of here. Get this crap out of here, too.

[00:12:42]Uh homebrew ROMs, of course.

[00:12:47]Of of course.

[00:12:49]Um Sega Genesis homebrew.

[00:12:55]Um okay, here we go.

[00:13:01]Um, wow. These look really good.

[00:13:06]Uh, let's play some Dino Runner.

[00:13:10]That looks like a good game.

[00:13:13]Okay, there we go. Flashing. Flashing. Endless flashing. Won't stop flashing. Never stops flashing. I'm going to break this monitor in about two seconds.

[00:13:25]Break the monitor. All right, there we go. A All right, here we go. This looks pretty good.

[00:13:35]Oh. Oh, okay.

[00:13:38]That's a familiar sound effect.

[00:13:44][ __ ] Takes a bit of strategy here. You got to time your jumps just right.

[00:13:58]And here you go. Oh, the uh Sega homebrew.

[00:14:02]This is the best it has to offer. Oops, my tail hit the cactus.

[00:14:09]Oh, come on. All right, so let's uh let's get back on track here. So, we've got Homebrew Games loadable via the uh Everdrive Mega Drive thing. I got to make my own now. Now, one thing I'm wondering, since we're trying to basically emulate the Sega CD with the frigin record player, should we use the expansion port? Um, well, one big problem with that, I don't own a Sega CD. However, this thing allegedly supports Sega CD emulation right from the cartridge itself, which is kind of interesting. So, since this thing supports Sega CD emulation, which we're not really doing that we're just doing a record player.

[00:14:57]Um, wow, this is really dumb. What am I doing?

[00:15:03]Really, the only way to hook up a record player to this in a way that even makes any sort of sense is through some kind of sound aux cable. Now, of course, there's no aux input on this. Why would there be? That'd be stupid. But there is a USB port right here which gives us as much as we need the power of USB. So the idea is we take sound from a record or even just a cassette tape, pipe it through USB and load something from it.

[00:15:36]That's it. I mean it's conceptually pretty simple. Let's see if we can load some data using sound. And what better way to test sound as data than with the Famicom data recorder.

[00:15:50]Remember this.

[00:15:52]Let's give it a shot.

[00:15:56]Just put it right next to it like so.

[00:16:00]That looks great.

[00:16:03]It's still got the uh stock tape in here, which is not going to do us much good because this is a Famicom program or Family Basic. So, we're going to take that out of there. Use one of these.

[00:16:19]That's It's a cassette tape.

[00:16:22]Boy, I haven't record onto one of these in uh probably 20 plus years.

[00:16:27]This is how you did it back in the day if you wanted to record sound.

[00:16:33]Wonder if it's compatible.

[00:16:36]Uh well, I guess we'll find out.

[00:16:38]I don't know if there's like special compatibility requirements for this garbage.

[00:16:44]Probably not, right?

[00:16:46]Famous last words.

[00:16:49]Let's give it a shot.

[00:16:52]Uh, we got to do this, I think.

[00:16:58]Okay, now record.

[00:17:03]Oh, there's no batteries inside.

[00:17:06]Whoops.

[00:17:08]H.

[00:17:10]Uhoh.

[00:17:13]Oh god.

[00:17:17]How do I Huh?

[00:17:21]Stop.

[00:17:24]Oh crap. Stop it.

[00:17:28]Oh, I had to press the stop button.

[00:17:32]Duh. You got to put batteries in.

[00:17:36]It just requires uh four AA batteries.

[00:17:39]No big deal. I've got tons of AA batteries.

[00:17:44]Tons. Endless AA batteries.

[00:17:53]Oh, god damn it. Just close this.

[00:18:00]Right.

[00:18:03]That Testing. One, two, three.

[00:18:09]Stop.

[00:18:18]Huh?

[00:18:21]What?

[00:18:24]Testing. One, two, three. Testing.

[00:18:28]God damn it.

[00:18:37]Stop.

[00:18:38]>> Oh.

[00:18:41]Huh? What was that?

[00:18:45]Oh.

[00:18:45]>> Testing. One, two, three.

[00:18:46]>> Oh my god, that's loud.

[00:18:47]>> Testing.

[00:18:48]>> Ow.

[00:18:49]>> God damn it.

[00:18:51]>> Okay. Well, it works. So, we can record audio onto this cassette tape, which will then output using the uh this go to the Sega Genesis and uh we could load data somehow. Well, first thing I got to do is find a good way to encode data as sound. Never really done that before. Um, this might require a bit of research.

[00:19:22]How do I encode data as sound?

[00:19:26]A cassette tape stores an analog audio waveform. To put digital data on it, you need a modem.

[00:19:32]Oh, modular de modulator.

[00:19:35]I knew that. Modulator turns bits into audio waveform. You record the tape. De modulator plays the tape back, samples the audio, recovers bits.

[00:19:45]Uh, all right.

[00:19:48]So, I'm thinking we do this in steps.

[00:19:50]First, we'll figure out how to load software directly onto the Sega Genesis through the USB port. And then we'll move on to the sound approach, which is ironically not very sound because we already have USB.

[00:20:08]Get it? So, first of course, we need a USB cable.

[00:20:14]Plug it to that.

[00:20:18]Plug it to that.

[00:20:20]There.

[00:20:23]Um, it is not going to reach is not going to reach.

[00:20:38]Damn. It need an extender cable. Of course, again, always put it in here. There we go.

[00:20:49]Just Just stick it in the front. Who cares?

[00:20:53]Sega Genesis homebrew.

[00:20:57]Oh, wait. SDK.

[00:21:01]Okay, this looks fine. Sure. SGS SDK or SGDK.

[00:21:10]First, you need to know the SGDK. Use the C language. It's highly recommended.

[00:21:14]Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. How do I run it? How do I freaking install it? All right, let's go to the freaking wiki.

[00:21:20]installation Windows OS only.

[00:21:26]No.

[00:21:27]No, it's not. Well, screw it. Let's use freaking Docker then. Docker blah blah blah. Yeah, just copy paste this. Just run it. Who cares?

[00:21:38]Go.

[00:21:41]Command not found. Oh, it included the dollar sign. Thanks. Go. Oh, for the love of God.

[00:21:51]Please make a Oh my god. Please make a simple Sega Genesis ROM. Test ROM created small interactive test ROM.

[00:22:02]ROM.bin.

[00:22:04]Go.

[00:22:06]Oh, did it work? Oh, hold on. Let's see.

[00:22:09]Boom. All right. Genesis sound test ROM built with SGDK.

[00:22:16]SGDK.

[00:22:18]D-pad. Move the cursor.

[00:22:22]All right, I guess I'm moving the cursor. I can't see it. A. Cycle background color doesn't work. All right. B. Oh, it's a beautiful 440 Hz tone.

[00:22:39]See? Okay.

[00:22:51]All right. And start start pressed.

[00:22:55]Okay.

[00:22:57]All right. We got a ROM to load. Now we got to do it through Now we got to do it through sound.

[00:23:06]How do we do this? Um, well, I'm thinking we use the same USB interface because we don't have a choice. That's all we got. And we plug this in to a microcontroller like the Raspberry Pi Pico, too.

[00:23:25]All right, let me go get that.

[00:23:27]Okay, so now uh we'll use this USB OTG cable. This will allow the Pico to act as a host device for our little uh peripheral, which is of course the Mega Drive or Mega Ever Drive.

[00:23:49]So now we just got to load some firmware onto this to deploy a ROM.

[00:24:03]Everdrive.h H F drive C T USB T USB config.h Just give it a second while it makes the thing waiting waiting waiting.

[00:24:20]Come on.

[00:24:22]Is it working?

[00:24:26]Is it working? Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. There we go. All right. build with SGDK from Pico 2.

[00:24:36]Really, really impressive stuff.

[00:24:40]All right, so we got that working. That was uh step two of this multi-step uh project. Now we get to integrate sound so that we send sound to the Pico, which then translates it into data and does the same upload we just did. And yeah, can load games onto the freaking Sega.

[00:25:01]Now, of course, we need an aux cable like so. And of course, a way to plug it in to this.

[00:25:12]That's not going to work.

[00:25:16]And here we go.

[00:25:20]Boom. Just took an aux cable, cut it open, hooked it up to here with some resistors to dn noiseise it. Blah blah blah. Who cares? Got it attached to a Pico2.

[00:25:32]Next thing we got to do is just plug this into the cassette player into the uh the load thing cuz we're going to be loading data off the cassette tape to the uh Sega Genesis.

[00:25:50]All right. So, what's on the cassette tape? Well, let me show you.

[00:25:56]Load this up. Pico sound input text over USB.

[00:26:01]All right. All we got to do now is press play.

[00:26:04]Where's the Yeah, play it.

[00:26:08]Oh [ __ ] Whoops.

[00:26:12]This cassette player is kind of finicky.

[00:26:14]It doesn't rewind all the way. It's really annoying.

[00:26:18]All right, second attempt. Get ready to hear some very nice beeping.

[00:26:26]Oh boy.

[00:26:29]Text over sound.

[00:26:33]Amazing.

[00:26:35]So that's uh it coded at about 1,200 baud. Well, 1200 bits per second, which equals what? Like 150 bytes per second.

[00:26:46]Not very fast. However, we're now going to try loading actual Sega Genesis software, like games, which I had to do some uh code golf and compression to make them very small. So, we're not sitting here for 10 minutes loading a freaking giant ROM off a cassette tape.

[00:27:04]So, we'll do that now. So, I should just be able to sit on the menu screen here and press play and it'll work. Let's see.

[00:27:17]Go. Lovely sound.

[00:27:20]Oh. Oh, that was it.

[00:27:24]Boom. Look at that. It's a beautiful uh plasma fractals.

[00:27:30]And actually, there's another program coming up. Oh, there it is.

[00:27:38]Very loud.

[00:27:41]Oh. Oh, there it goes. Oh, look at that.

[00:27:44]Boom.

[00:27:45]Perfect. Oh, thank God.

[00:27:51]Some lovely bleeps and bloops.

[00:27:56]Kind of looks like an Atari game, but this is Sega Genesis, in case you couldn't tell.

[00:28:04]All right, that's neat. But yeah, there you go. It freaking works. Well, I guess we know what's next. Huh? We got it working off a cassette tape. Can we get it working off a vinyl record? Well, of course, if we want to test this, we have to make our own vinyl record. So, in order to do that, let's switch back to the table.

[00:28:32]All right, here we go.

[00:28:39]Okay.

[00:28:44]Where do we start?

[00:28:47]I don't know why there's no instruction manual that I can find anyway. Is Is it by design? Is it like a quirky thing where they don't include an instruction manual? You just got to figure it out by yourself.

[00:29:04]Maybe. I wouldn't be surprised.

[00:29:07]Now, I could look it up, but what fun would that be?

[00:29:12]Yet another example of me Oh, wait. Oh, crap. Hold on. Never mind. Look in there. You see that? Aha. It's inside the thing. That's pretty quirky. Okay. I was about to put this thing together with no instructions or attempt to as a sort of uh self-afflicted pain.

[00:29:37]Um, but we can avoid that. How do I open this?

[00:29:42]How do I open this crap? Oh, here we go.

[00:29:47]All right, we got uh some belts and this thing.

[00:29:57]Oh, these are just records.

[00:30:05]Ah, cool. So, you he got me good. I thought this was an instruction manual. Nope.

[00:30:16]No such luck.

[00:30:19]Oh, it's a DIY kit. Oh, cool. This is a radical DIY.

[00:30:26]No instructions.

[00:30:28]Let's see. Okay, so we got an aux cable.

[00:30:33]That makes sense. Um, uh, USB to some kind of power jack. Okay.

[00:30:44]What is this? Oh, this is like the motherboard, I think. I assume. I don't know. Let's open it up. Let's crack it open. Let's crack it open. Here we go.

[00:30:59]All right. We got some header cables which appear to connect to the uh let's open this up.

[00:31:16]All right, we got uh yeah um you got this crap. We got this uh wheel.

[00:31:29]Well, this goes.

[00:31:33]Wait, that's a screw.

[00:31:37]Oh god. Oh my god. All right. Well, this goes Here's one thing I figured out.

[00:31:44]This obviously goes right here.

[00:31:49]There you go.

[00:31:51]Okay. Nailed that one.

[00:31:55]And then this is obviously the um Oh, look at that. Look, we're Whoa, that's cool.

[00:32:07]Check that out.

[00:32:09]Little fan.

[00:32:11]Let me just wear out these gears.

[00:32:14]Uh, all right. What What are we doing? This is ridiculous. I'm going to be here all day. Uh, hold on. Let me get a tablet.

[00:32:27]PO-80.

[00:32:31]Uh, yep.

[00:32:33]Sure.

[00:32:35]All right. This is a really cool website.

[00:32:39]What's in the box?

[00:32:41]Bunch of stuff.

[00:32:43]Overview. Blah blah blah.

[00:32:46]Build. Please read the included instructions and carefully follow the build guide to assemble your PO80 record factory.

[00:32:55]There aren't any.

[00:32:58]There aren't any. I don't know what to say. There's no freaking instructions.

[00:33:02]To prepare, you'll need a screwdriver, a cutter, a ruler, and some glue. Oh, good. We're going to have to start gluing crap together. That's great. The estimated build time is about 60 minutes. Good luck. Oh, thanks.

[00:33:16]Ah, what? Can I see the instructions?

[00:33:19]Can you Is there an online version, please?

[00:33:22]No, I didn't get them. I didn't get the memo.

[00:33:27]Is this a link? No, it's just text.

[00:33:31]Where are the freaking instructions?

[00:33:33]Goddamn it.

[00:33:35]Center label sticker sheet. I didn't get that either.

[00:33:39]What the hell?

[00:33:47]Wait, slow down.

[00:33:49]Oh, Jesus Christ.

[00:33:52]Are you freaking kidding me?

[00:33:56]Great.

[00:34:00]Yep, that's it.

[00:34:03]It's all I get. So, I get a 22 second video. Those are my instructions.

[00:34:09]This is a joke. This is comically a joke.

[00:34:15]All right.

[00:34:17]So, first we got to got to put it like this, I guess.

[00:34:27]Oh. Oh, wait. Oh, you got to put it in here. Oh, got to put it. Take this crap out. Put it like this.

[00:34:36]You just got to open this up.

[00:34:40]Bunch of gadgets and gizmos and plastic crap in here.

[00:34:47]Um Oh, that kind of fit. Oh [ __ ] Okay, that that's got to be it.

[00:34:57]Yeah, that's got to be it.

[00:35:02]Where's the little circle thing? This is it right here.

[00:35:06]So, we got this th this thing. We got that.

[00:35:11]So, he's grabbing this this. He's grabbing that and he's putting it in somewhere. What is he doing with it? Need a black screw.

[00:35:23]Well, there's two things of black screws. Which one?

[00:35:29]I don't know. This sucks.

[00:35:33]I mean, this is one of the more difficult things I've done on this show.

[00:35:37]Putting something together from a 22 second sped up video.

[00:35:42]Oh my god.

[00:35:46]I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what I'm doing. I don't freaking know what I'm doing.

[00:35:57]Oh.

[00:36:09]Oh, of course.

[00:36:14]There.

[00:36:16]Nice and secure. All right, we got one piece assembled. One piece down, 90 to go.

[00:36:22]The next step is to take this little white donut, put it on here like that, and you want to screw it in. Keep it nice and secure in lock step with this black thing.

[00:36:41]You want to screw that in like this.

[00:36:48]Perfect.

[00:36:50]All right, we're making freaking progress.

[00:36:54]So, you got to take this garbage and put it like that.

[00:37:02]Like like that.

[00:37:08]And as you can see, it fits really nicely.

[00:37:11]Oh, it's upside down.

[00:37:15]it.

[00:37:17]This is going to be worth it. It's amazing high quality, highfidelity records that we're going to make with this thing. And not only that, but the uh data quality that comes off of this going to be really useful.

[00:37:34]We're going to be able to encode bits and bits of data, tens of bits, if we can even get this working.

[00:37:44]cuz I'm still not sure that's going to happen at this point.

[00:37:48]Okay, that stupid thing's in.

[00:37:52]So, this is a um four pin JST frigin thing. I guess it just goes right here.

[00:37:59]We're going to use some common sense. I don't know what this is, but it's got a three pin connector thing. We'll plug that in to to here like so.

[00:38:14]And then there's another connector, a two pin, which goes to the speaker.

[00:38:21]The super high quality speaker. Look at that. Here's a a Game Boy speaker for reference in case. Oh. Oh, it's magnetic. Whoops.

[00:38:34]So, now I got to shove this mess of wires into uh where does this go?

[00:38:46]Oh god, how am I putting this in?

[00:38:54]What? Where does this go? Can we establish it? Looks like it's under this.

[00:39:04]Oh god, it's getting hot in here.

[00:39:09]This is a freaking mess.

[00:39:12]Oh boy.

[00:39:16]There there.

[00:39:18]Now you want to make sure Oops. Oops. Um, so you want to make sure that the uh the holes are aligned with the the things on the thing.

[00:39:33]Do a little trick right here. I'm going to put this power cable in while it's there. Now it holds it in place. We can do the same thing with the aux cable.

[00:39:43]Just a little tip for you in case uh, god forbid you buy this thing like I did.

[00:39:53]there.

[00:39:55]Okay, we're about halfway done.

[00:40:04]Oh [ __ ] You got it like that. Is it's like this.

[00:40:21]You got to do it.

[00:40:24]Oh, wait. Should it go like this?

[00:40:31]This won't stay.

[00:40:34]It's not staying.

[00:40:40]Just freaking pop this.

[00:40:45]There we go.

[00:40:48]Screw these in now for the love of God.

[00:40:52]And wrap this through here.

[00:40:54]Okay. And then and then put it like that. Where's the freaking screw?

[00:41:07]Don't Don't you dare. Don't you freaking dare fall over. Not allowed.

[00:41:16]there.

[00:41:19]Well, that sucked. Now what? What's next?

[00:41:23]Can I put this crap together? What about this thing?

[00:41:29]What is Wait, does this come out of the hole?

[00:41:35]This was supposed to go in here. And then this is supposed to come out through this hole.

[00:41:42]Apparently, I missed that part.

[00:41:45]This is supposed to go through this freaking hole.

[00:41:48]I completely missed that step.

[00:41:51]Can I take these off?

[00:41:54]Oh boy.

[00:41:56]Really don't feel like unscrewing everything. So, we're just going to try to rip these off.

[00:42:08]Oh my god.

[00:42:14]I can't do it. Put it through.

[00:42:20]Red's stuck. Hold on. Red's having a hard time making it through.

[00:42:26]Come on, Red. You can do it.

[00:42:29]Come on, buddy. There.

[00:42:33]Boom.

[00:42:37]Okay. Let me just uh Oh, no.

[00:42:43]I was supposed to put this on first.

[00:42:45][ __ ] Oh, okay. That snapped into place. All right.

[00:42:55]And just got to route these stupid wires through this crap. And then this, I'm assuming, just goes like this.

[00:43:05]I finally close this thing.

[00:43:09]We're almost done. We're almost freaking done. I promise. Holy crap.

[00:43:14]Holy crap.

[00:43:22]Remember the Sega Genesis?

[00:43:25]I sure don't. This is a video about record players. Sega Genesis? What does that even mean? The Bible?

[00:43:33]No idea. I'm a record audio file enthusiast. That's all I know about.

[00:43:40]Let's see. So, we still got this. We still got this thing and this thing and some screws and those orange things.

[00:43:48]What are we doing? What's next?

[00:43:53]I don't know what this does. What is this doing?

[00:43:56]I don't know what this does.

[00:43:59]What is this doing? What What is the purpose of this?

[00:44:08]Good. Yep.

[00:44:12]Okay.

[00:44:14]And there's this makes a cool sound.

[00:44:19]You turn it to kind of lock it in place.

[00:44:23]And then this screws in.

[00:44:28]Why, you may ask? I have no freaking idea.

[00:44:34]Oh, look. Here's the other end of the thing.

[00:44:37]See?

[00:44:39]All right.

[00:44:41]The things are starting to make sense.

[00:44:45]This doesn't make sense, though.

[00:44:50]All right.

[00:44:55]Freaking [ __ ] [ __ ] jump garbage.

[00:44:58]Sick of this. I want to move on with my life.

[00:45:02]I've been here for hours.

[00:45:05]Hours and hours and hours. This is freaking endless. How does this piece of garbage go on? It doesn't.

[00:45:15]What the [ __ ] Oh. Oh. Oh.

[00:45:24]This garbage.

[00:45:29]No.

[00:45:32][ __ ] Are we done yet? I got to plug this in.

[00:45:37]Hold on. We got to plug plug this in.

[00:45:45]Looks great. Nice wire just there.

[00:45:50]This is awful.

[00:45:53]Don't want to do this anymore.

[00:45:56]Oh my god. Can we move on to something else?

[00:46:02]For the love of God, I can't do this myself.

[00:46:08]Freaking hate this.

[00:46:12]Don't want to do this anymore.

[00:46:15]Ooh. Ooh. Ooh. Ooh. Freaking hate this.

[00:46:20]Something just came flying off.

[00:46:25]This is stupid.

[00:46:28]This project is a waste of time.

[00:46:32]Ooh.

[00:46:33]Freaking hate this.

[00:46:36]I want to die.

[00:46:39]Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:46:44]There completed except for these pieces and this and what these do. Well, this goes on here. It keeps falling off.

[00:47:01]Really, really secure. Really nice and secure right here.

[00:47:07]High quality. Oh, that goes on top. Oh.

[00:47:14]How do we use it? You may be asking.

[00:47:18]Uh, good question. I don't freaking know.

[00:47:25]Oh. Oh, boy.

[00:47:31]Uh, that's some cool music.

[00:47:36]Oh, okay.

[00:47:44]All right, there we go.

[00:47:51]Nice blank record.

[00:47:54]Wow, this is High quality stock right here.

[00:48:02]Oh, god damn it.

[00:48:05]Oh, screw the button. Just do it this way.

[00:48:10]How do you make it spin?

[00:48:15]I don't know what I'm doing. I'm stupid.

[00:48:20]Got to fasten this. Hold on.

[00:48:25]Does it go the other way?

[00:48:29]Oh.

[00:48:31]Oh, of course. Oh, it's a counterclockwise screw.

[00:48:35]How silly of me. Of course it is. Okay, we're in recording mode. I just got to start playing something now.

[00:48:44]Oh, wait. I forgot. I've got this. The pocket operator.

[00:48:50]That's what you're supposed to use with this thing. I I guess we'll make a little song.

[00:48:59]This is weird and quirky.

[00:49:03]All right. Oh my god.

[00:49:08]Oh boy.

[00:49:10]Well, at least this came with an instruction manual.

[00:49:14]Two AAA batteries. Blah blah blah. Who cares?

[00:49:20]Oh. Oh. All right.

[00:49:26]How do I use this? Oh.

[00:49:29]Whoa.

[00:49:34]All right.

[00:49:40]All right.

[00:50:06]All right.

[00:50:08]Uh, that's the aux cable.

[00:50:12]Let's plug it in.

[00:50:14]Let's take the thing off.

[00:50:18]And oh, there it goes.

[00:50:24]Well, it's working. Although, there's some uh buildup.

[00:50:29]Hold on. I got to get rid of that, I think.

[00:50:33]Boy, this is going to sound really good.

[00:50:35]I can already tell. I'm cutting my first vinyl record. It's going to be a hit.

[00:50:41]It's my new song, Bleeps and Bloops.

[00:50:49]Look at this. I'm mixing the song as I cut the record.

[00:50:53]It's an advanced technique.

[00:50:57]Oh. Oh. Stop. Stop.

[00:51:04]All right.

[00:51:06]Boom.

[00:51:07]Success.

[00:51:10]Just kind of push this back. Yeah, it's good. Yeah, just scrape against that plastic gear. It's just still kind of touching. Can we like just Oh, Jesus Christ.

[00:51:22]All right, here we go.

[00:51:27]Oh, Jesus [ __ ] Turn that down.

[00:51:34]Wow.

[00:51:41]Sounds great.

[00:51:47]Oh, skipping.

[00:51:51]Wow. This sounds like uh Is this Edison's first wax cylinder?

[00:52:00]Wow.

[00:52:01]Really impressive stuff.

[00:52:06]Oh, skipping again.

[00:52:08]Cool.

[00:52:10]Turn that crap off.

[00:52:13]That was really good.

[00:52:19]There you go. My first cut.

[00:52:22]So, here's the big question. Can we record sound data or data as sound to a record and play it back in a way that's coherent? Well, based on the um quality that we just listened to, I'm not too optimistic. That was uh very noisy.

[00:52:43]So, not sure if this is going to actually work.

[00:52:49]If we can get any data out of that at all, that'll be a freaking miracle.

[00:52:54]Might as well give it a shot.

[00:52:58]All right, let's let's put this put not a whole lot of room on this desk.

[00:53:10]I guess we'll just use side B of our uh thing here.

[00:53:22]All right, nice and clean. So, we're going to transfer from cassette. Oops.

[00:53:27]So, we're going to transfer from cassette tape to vinyl.

[00:53:31]Just move this out of the way for a second.

[00:53:36]All right.

[00:53:38]And uh how do I do this again?

[00:53:43]Turn the volume all the way up.

[00:53:48]There we go.

[00:53:50]play freaking Oh my god, my ears.

[00:54:00]It's not moving.

[00:54:02]It's not moving. It's not freaking moving. Why is it not moving?

[00:54:07]Move. Rewind.

[00:54:12]Oh my god, this is a nightmare. Oh my god, this is a freaking nightmare.

[00:54:17]Attemp number three.

[00:54:23]Is it good yet? Are we making contact?

[00:54:25]Can we freaking get this to work?

[00:54:36]All right, let's see if it worked.

[00:54:51]All right, we've got the record player piping into the Pico and going into the Sega.

[00:55:01]Oh crap, it's clipping.

[00:55:06]It's clipping really bad.

[00:55:12]Oh my god. [ __ ] God damn it. It's freaking clipped to hell. That's not going to work.

[00:55:21]I uh turned the volume up too much, I guess.

[00:55:27]Wow. This is really great.

[00:55:33]All right.

[00:55:38]was a clean cut.

[00:55:42]All right. And Oh [ __ ] Oh, it's too quiet.

[00:55:56][ __ ] Work.

[00:56:02]Work. God damn it. Work.

[00:56:07]Oh, for [ __ ] sake.

[00:56:14]Well, I'm back. Spent the uh past several hours cutting uh records and um didn't really have much luck.

[00:56:30]didn't really get very far. Not just getting it to work with the Sega Genesis, but getting some kind of data out of it at all. It just it it can't be done. I I guess I don't know. Really, I think the problem is that this thing is a toy.

[00:56:51]I mean, you can kind of tell by the way it looks, but really, it's a freaking toy. It's not meant for this sort of thing. The quality sucks. Not just when recording the records, but playing them back. Like, this is a very cheap stylus.

[00:57:07]So, we're going to chalk this one up to a failure pretty much. I mean, it's cool that I got the cassette tape working. I mean, like I said, it's not really groundbreaking. It's kind of was the norm back in the day, but but I don't know. It would have been cool to have like a little CD size piece of vinyl with a video game on it that you could load, albeit very impractical, but would have been neat. But I think to make that work, I would need a better record player/recorder device. So, if you want to do this, then stick with the good old cassette tape.

[00:57:41]That's what I recommend.

[00:57:44]All right.

[00:57:48]This sucked. Well, anyway, failures aside, hope you enjoyed.

[00:57:55]Better luck next time.