[0:00] I’ve seen these around for the past seven or so years, they used to cost around sort of five
[0:04] dollars or so but this one’s quite a bit more expensive it’s around twenty dollars and it’s a
[0:08] 16-bit so I believe this has almost 160 sega games so it comes with a
[0:17] composite cable so in theory we can hook this up to our tv and a micro usb charging cable so
[0:26] here’s the actual machine let’s uh let’s turn it on and see how well it works
[0:32] so it does have 156 games so I remember this game I used to play this a lot um Golden Axe
[0:43] let’s uh have a quick look I think I put a lot of 10 p’s into this in the student union bar
[0:49] I think we got to the point where we could actually finish it on uh on just one credit
[0:55] so I used to play the dwarf
[0:56] so I know the the SEGA port is um surprisingly accurate compared to the uh arcade version so
[1:06] I think I’ve still got the magic touch or maybe not well anyway we’re not here to play this game
[1:15] let’s uh let’s take this apart and uh see what’s inside so we’ll uh turn that off there is a volume
[1:22] control here it’s actually surprisingly loud um so let’s uh turn it off and um see how to open this
[1:31] up so the battery compartment um let’s unscrew this so it does say on the box that there’s a
[1:42] rechargeable uh what does it say 600 milliamp hour rechargeable battery so let’s have a look
[1:52] screw doesn’t want to come out there we go that’s interesting what an interesting battery um
[1:58] a1 uh writing’s quite small so we’ll look rechargeable battery pack um it looks very
[2:07] much like the uh battery pack you used to get on phones so that’s kind of interesting I wonder if
[2:12] there’s a job lot of um phone batteries left over from when you could still replace um batteries and
[2:18] phones so that’s the battery removed you can also power it from um three double a batteries very
[2:24] handy let’s get these screws out now unfortunately looking at how this is constructed I think we’re
[2:31] going to have to either peel this sticker back or more likely we’re going to have to cut into it
[2:38] which is a bit of a shame um let me get my exacto knife and we’ll do that it’s a shame as it would
[2:46] have been nice to keep this all in one piece I’m sure we can get it back together again it just
[2:50] won’t be quite as neat so let’s cut into here that’s that side and do the same on the other side
[3:00] and hopefully this will just come apart
[3:14] let’s do a bit more chopping
[3:19] and there we go interesting so looking here you have the battery connector speaker and the switch
[3:34] all going to this um this main pcb and then the usb is just on this little um door to circuit
[3:42] board so let’s uh let’s take that let’s unscrew that and we will unscrew this one interesting
[3:49] let’s unscrew this one I have a horrible feeling that we’re going to find a blob chip under this
[3:56] which is a bit of a shame I was hoping for something that maybe we could do a bit of
[4:00] hacking with but I feel like that might be unlikely so I’m giving you a fantastic view
[4:08] of my hands here um so that lifts out quite easily along with the screen let’s uh let’s
[4:15] undo this so we can get this out as well very interesting all right then so does this come out
[4:22] now so there’s the screen and I think there’s another screw here let’s undo that as well
[4:35] so it makes that come out and then it looks like
[4:41] all the controls stay in there I think that’s not screws in there yeah a couple of screws
[4:50] I wonder if we can leave the control panel in there and have a look at what’s on the other side
[4:58] well that’s very interesting so what have you got here then there is a big ic on a little daughter
[5:07] board there there is a blob chip um the display is just on a ribbon cable now we can actually
[5:13] detach that so that’s quite nice here’s the volume control let’s remove the display
[5:21] okay that’s the display removed and put that somewhere safe um let’s get a close-up picture
[5:30] of this and then let’s see what’s on the board um should be quite interesting it’s a shame we don’t
[5:36] know what’s underneath this um epoxy blob but it is seems to be pretty much a single-sided board
[5:42] anything on this side is the crystal oscillator and a smoothing capacitor so there’s space for
[5:48] another one there if we need it so I’ll get a photo of this and we’ll see what chips there are
[5:54] I think the control there’s some screws here that are going to be a bit of a pain to reach
[6:00] and so how they how they managed to screw those in themselves actually it’s kind of interesting
[6:07] i’m going to try and reach in there to undo a screw um and this maybe there’s a different way
[6:12] of taking this out which I can’t fathom at the moment maybe this whole thing comes out
[6:19] possibility oh there we go the whole thing slides out so that’s interesting
[6:27] oh we’re gonna have to ruin the sticker here that’s a shame let’s uh snip that there
[6:39] it’s that side and that side okay so this panel actually slides out that’s how we get to the
[6:47] screws let’s just undo these screws and see what’s underneath as well so well that’s
[6:54] not that exciting um just a simple membrane keyboard type thing um
[7:02] it is nicely labeled though so that’s good x y z a b c and we’ve got a little joystick and the labels
[7:09] all here so potentially there’s a bit of potential reuse here it is nicely labeled here let’s get a
[7:15] photo and see if we can identify this big chip here and see what that is that’s probably the
[7:21] most interesting thing on the board um so let’s have a look at that uh I thought I’d power it up
[7:27] just to see make sure it does actually work and um interestingly we do have some ladies I just
[7:32] didn’t notice because my lights are so bright but these do actually slot in here and then this
[7:40] little arcade actually lights up let me turn down the lights so maybe you can see that so there we
[7:48] go it does light up and with the little lights so that’s a nice little touch isn’t it anyway let’s
[7:54] get a photo and try and identify some of these chips but before we look at the pcb’s it’s time
[8:01] for a quick plug for pcbway I’ve been using them for quite a long time now and they’re really great
[8:06] i’ve got some pcb’s with them right now so check out the link to pcbway in the description they’re
[8:11] really great to work with and I recommend them so unfortunately as expected pretty much all the
[8:16] functionality is under the sepoxy blob this large chip is actually just a flash chip what is quite
[8:22] interesting is the board is completely single-sided so they’ve used this adapter board to basically
[8:28] take the flash chip and expose its pins in the right way to go through to the epoxy blob so it’s
[8:34] pretty interesting but it’s not very hackable I wonder if they’ve used this daughterboard so
[8:38] they can easily solder on different flash chips that are pre-programmed with different games
[8:42] because there are a variety of different versions of this thing so let’s get it put back together
[8:48] and see if it still works hopefully the controls will still work which I suppose I could actually
[8:57] connect up everything and check that let’s do that it feels like a sensible thing to do rather
[9:04] than put it all back together and then realize it doesn’t work so let’s get the display back in place
[9:12] okay I think that’s the display in so that’s good uh got the battery in already let’s power it up
[9:20] hey that still works up and down works start
[9:29] resound where’s my sound oh there we go expand nice okay start okay yes yes yes
[9:42] oops I think our buttons still work joystick seems to be doing something yeah okay that’s good and
[9:55] reset works great let’s uh get it all back together
[9:59] so this should slide back in nicely
[10:19] so
[10:30] there we go it’s like we never touched it um I think it’s actually not too bad you can barely
[10:45] see the cut marks and it still works so not very hackable but pretty interesting nonetheless
[10:52] um I don’t know what the uh copyright rules are on the games on here but um there’s a lot of them
[10:59] um yeah interesting very interesting there’s a whole bunch of these in aliexpress so um yeah
[11:07] i’m actually uh pretty impressed with it seems to work quite well so thanks for watching
[11:14] See you in the next video!
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