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

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

Next episode: Playing Desert Bus on the Desert Bus

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!

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

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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.

_"Genesis does,_ _What Nintendon't"_

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

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.

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.

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.

I have a feeling the music from the first half comes from Tetris CD-I.

It's not about playing Genesis, it's about sending a message

Death Stranding Directors' Cut looking great.

If anyone's interested in how the audio on the nes reacts to low batteries I tried it and the volume just gets quieter as the voltage drops.

Matt, dude, go around the voltage regulator, feed it with 5 volts! your batteries will last way longer The regulator just throws away a ton o f power as heat, 850mA * (9V - 5V) = 3.4W (roughly, my math might not be the best) just pissed away every hour

Next Episode: Playing Sega Genesis in Space!

Every time when Matt, was saying mount Kosciuszko, I was was like...."that.....is not how you pronounce it".

5:30 "But I promise you off-camera, it was really nice to relax" *shows footage of the laptop shifting around and almost falling*

Next video: Playing SEGA Genesis at the highest point in the World.

honestly I'd love to see an entire series like this! its so interesting to see how the games break down as the batteries start dying

I would have already said yes you can because there is a Sega Genesis plug-and-play console that takes four AA batteries and it can be modified to accept regular cartridges

Mum: you should go out and get some sunshine. Kid: Say no more.

here's how to crash sonic 1 without doing this weirdass shit: at the end of labyrinth zone roll down past the signpost and the camera will pan down, and this will crash the game

A lot of those glitches look to be related to loading data out of the cart's ROM. I suspect it would fail differently using a genuine cartridge, there's way more power-hungry electronics in those multi-game fake carts than in an original one.

This was such a creative idea - thank you for the video and your hard work!

Finding your channel was the best thing that happened to me during quarantine. Keep up the wild stuff my man.

7:50 Taking ROM corruption to the Psychical world. Next Eps whips out a EMP gun and fires it at the memory chips

7:01 vinesause in corruption stockpile 3. "sonic has passed! lets do a memorial"

Wow! Thanks for following up from that aa battery vid, this was cool to watch!

This is so fascinating! I've definitely experienced one of those error codes in normal Sonic 1 gameplay before, but I can't recall what I might have been doing to cause it.

The irony of having a capture card and OBS and still using a phone to record your screen.

I would absolutely LOVE to see this done with a variable voltage power supply and see all the different types of glitches and odd effects on the games being played! If I see this video done someday I'll be beyond overjoyed!

MattKC upload that tried to sneak past my sub alerts. Always love seeing your stuff.

Matt, your videos never cease to entertain. Great work man, can’t wait for the next one!!!

This seems interesting, especially with a more controlled amount of power. Would love to see more.

8:08 - Green Hell Zone

Really underselling the video with that thumbnail, awesome stuff!

This was a great video! It was neat to see how power effected the console. I respect the fact you walked to the top of a mountain but I am not sure why. I bet you were exhausted when you got there. I couldn't imagine walking that long in one day (especially up a mountain).

6:15 Every company at June be like Also, great and interesting video!

I'd love to see the effects of having low power on every retro console... *cough, ps1, cough*

I'd love to see more videos like these. This was so interesting, and cool

Dude, I love your videos I love tech and videos like these

7:30 I honestly never knew until this video that some Genesis games had debuggers

You should definitely get a variable power supply and f--k around with consoles by undervoltaging them.

haha man, I was just going through some of your old videos wondering when you'd be able to upload again. good stuff!

This video (and your channel) needs more love from the youtube community. I really admire your sheer amount of dedication. Thanks.

that's a lot of rocks

The test is not proper until you remove the voltage regulator and use a proper ROM cartridge instead of one with FPGA inside.

Cool video - I discovered you via the NES running on AA's video - And we may live in the same neck of the woods

Shhh man your channel blew up so much. Well deserved! Been here since 500 subs lol

8:14 Christmas 1990: your father works at Sega and he got you a game labeled project 9029, you go put it in your mega drive and load the game. About an hour later the screen gets a yellow tint to it, you think its special effects and keep playing. 30 minutes later the screen goes grey and then nothing, about 10 seconds later it reloads to the title screen with a message saying "we will have fun for AGES". Later that night while you are asleep you hear static from the TV in your room. The game has a new message, it says "I AM IN HERE WITH YOU". you roll your eyes and shut off the TV and hear a distorted version of the Sega sound, then you hear heavy breathing. The entity behind you says "do you want to play a game"

NTSC = Never The Same Color, assuming you are running an NTSC console

PLEASE DO A VID WITH A VARIABLE POWER SUPPLY! I'd absolutely love to see that!!!!! I love this vid, the NES one, as well as all your others! Thanks again for the great content!

Very cool experiment! This is also great for circuit bending the megadrive without risqing to get electrify !

3:27 a commicly large bottle of woa

7:52 DONT play Sonic The Hedgehog off of AA batteries at 3AM!! (HE KILLED MY WHOLE FAMILY??)

Causing "analog" glitches in a digital system is somehow really trippy, this and your NES video are great! In everything digital you're used to thinking that things either work right, work consistently wrong or don't work at all, but like this, it's interesting to imagine what kind of irregularities could possibly happen when the system keeps trying on low power.

Thx for the birthday upload!

2:50 some Polish guy after reaching top of mouten decided to name it after Polish(and American but mainly Polish) hero so you have to struggle pronouncing it. PS i did not even now you can pronouc Kościuszko like that XD PS PS. BTW He's story is preety deam Interesting, including fact that his monument was vandalised during BLM protests even trough he was clearly treating black people as equal and ordered in his testament to spend his assets to free and educated slaves.

Missed opportunity for a hotel mario joke or zelda faces of evil

I love the shot composition as always

YES! I would Love to see that!

Ah, what's that background music around 3:40? Sounds so familiar!

I'm also somewhat interested in seeing how earlier consoles that use 3D graphics would be affected.

An analog corruptor sounds like a very cool idea. Can't wait to see it, if you make the video!

Love the use of the tetris cdi music 🔥

7:16 GFEEN HIUU ZONE

here the highest point in australia is like a small hill for the size of the country lmao

You deserve my sub just for making me laugh in the first line of this videos description! lol

It's all about the journey, great video!

Me: Wow what an interesting guy let me check out their channel Me: *Looks at channel header* wow uploads every 2 weeks there's going to be so much content to binge Me: *Looks at uploads* oh...

I actually went and tested Sega Genesis emulation on my own Laptop and got roughly 14 hours of battery in Sonic 3D blast. So yeah, you can just emulate for far longer lol. You can even switch to sonic.exe if you want the creepypasta vibes of the dying batteries like in the battery powered genesis. I love these experiments btw. Gives a good perspective over how efficient that old hardware was. Really cool

This is amazing and also such a clever idea

Great video, man. I especially love how you took the time to travel all the way to Rohan to film the intro. That's dedication. Edit: Always finish the video before commenting. I'm so disappointed.

my favourite part was 0:00 - 10:19. didn't like 10:20 tho.

6:29 Cosby at it again

Awesome content as always!

We need more of this

8:26 No, this is the point, when Sonic climbs out of the TV to politely ask you, to stop torturing the console.

Now play Nintendo Wii at the highest point in Australia

I love how the music also distorts, playing tracks a couple seconds behind

This may be one of the greatest videos ever made. (well for me…) It features two of my favorite things. The snowy mountains and SEGA

Fading to black after the mountain session is a FANTASTIC midroll ad. Actually feels like a proper TV ad. Well done!

Finding a genesis with a glitched out black and white screen abandoned atop a mountain would be some next-level creepypasta.

that description though, priceless:)

@MattKC - Nice ! less Volts also mean that the linear voltage regulator heats less , I did this 20+ years ago to the Sega Master System 2 , also desinged for strange 10 Volt , but 9 V & 7.5 Volts were fine , just with the sound a bit low , finally at 4.5 V no start at all , using a classic lenear heavy wall adapter integrated linear voltage regulator for 12V ) with voltage switchable to 3V 4.5V 6V 7.5V 9V 12V via integrated resistors , because the original SEGA wall wart passed away ... maybe the 10 Volts is for the sound level only

Terrific work! PLEASE do this again with variable voltage, this seems like a whole new way of doing Vinesauce-type corruptions. Maybe you could add a button or two that cuts or dips power for a short amount of time, see if that affects anything?

What a great video! Cheers from Detroit!

Well knowing you make videos again, I shall subscribe.

Thank you Matt, you really are the expression of quality > quantity in term of videos. I still haven't watched any of your videos without enjoying it.