“Can I run a gaming pc with a car battery?”

You can run a Sega Genesis off of a 9 volt battery I actually did this. Back in the day when I was in high school and we were doing finals. We were told we could bring something like a Gameboy as long as we had headphones. I asked if I could bring a Genesis is my English teacher I said as long as you got headphones a TV to play it on and a way to power it without plug it into the wall go ahead. So I brought a Sega Genesis with a 9 volt battery hooked up to it and one of them Sony Watchman. Hey my English teacher said he saw some weird-ass shit back in his day and this topped it. Also remember this was about two years before the Sega Nomad came out

It's actually kinda heavy and sad seeing it slowly dying instead of just shutting off all at once. I kinda felt bad for it.

"The batteries wont last very long" "The NES's voltage regulator is rated for up to 18 volts" Car Battery would like to know your location

"It was like watching life fade from someone's eyes." Then I got a Nintendo Switch ad. Good timing.

A single 9v battery will power a NES however not for long.

2:37 he could’ve used anything, literally anything as an analogy, and he used _human_ _centipede_ , that’s why I love this guy lmao

4:16 "Pfft. Do I really look like the kinda guy who would go outside?" *Proceeds to run a Sega Genesis on the highest point in Australia using AA batteries.*

"CHANGE DA WORLD MY FINAL MESSAGE. GOODBY E" - BatteryNES, 2019

1:14 "What happens if you pass DC trough a DC rectifier?" a) Absolutely nothing b) The DC converts back to AC c) Matt dies I'm guessing c) Matt dies

The dropoff of the power is actually a really cool effect. Instead of using a battery, it would be sick to set it up to some variable voltage power supply. Have it running, capture it all, and slowly slowly crank down the voltage to make it glitchier and glitchier.

I would love to see a speed-run of a game done on an NES with double-A batteries, where they have to win before the power dies, and the weirdness just makes it more interesting.

NES as the battery dies: "My mind is going Dave. I can feel it, I can feel it..."

It goes through a FUUUUULLLL BRIDGEE RECTIFIAAAA (electroboom)

7:54 Did he just Die to 1-1 Goomba?!

I love how hard the NES fought to keep working. Like it knew some kid was playing it and it couldn't let them down.

NES in Space running on batteries be like: My batteries are low and its getting dark.

0:44 "Always DC current" Direct current current

When you said it was like the light fading from someone’s eyes, an ad about childhood cancer played immediately after and I just about died from laughter

4:05 Super heavy duty batteries are Zinc-Carbon, alkalines are just called alkaline

FYI you can mix in parallel and in series connected batteries. It's not recommended without a voltage regulator, since not all batteries provide exactly the same voltage, even brand new ones. (The voltage of batteries will drop over time or by using them.) A correctly connected circuit will give you about double of game time and can possibly be infinitely expanded. Another solution to improve game time is to use a battery management system that automatically switches to another battery pack if it detects that the battery pack in use drops to a critical voltage. It's possible to expand game time by maybe 5-10 minutes if you connect the battery pack directly to the pcb, since the ac to dc converter does lose a voltage of about .7 on the diode. I studied electronics (not just in theory) a few years ago and even designed some custom audio pcbs. For safety reasons, you could solder a physical switch near the battery pack to prevent it from shorting out.

Just run 15 9v batteries in parallel should be hours of on time

@MattKC The real thing that happens when everything starts to glitch is that when the game tries to process the code, the cpu works slower and things like updating graphicks and processing logic desyncs and eventually it does not holds up.

Didn't expect it to be THAT fascinating when I clicked the video! I really like your storytelling-style.

Can you put DC through a rectifier? Yes. Should you? Probably not, if you want to be efficient. By connecting the DC through the rectifier you are forcing it to go through an unnecessary diode which will eat up approximately 0.7 to 1V, depending on the diode, per diode. The plus side is that a rectifier will protect you from destroying your electronics if you were to connect it with reverse polarity. Also, keep in mind that the rectifier would normally be outputting a rippling DC voltage based on the root mean squared of the adapter’s stepped down voltage. As for the Nintendo having a voltage regulator that can handle up to 18V, my guess is they wanted a universal design that would work with US, European, or other international voltages. It is probably using a buck converter to drop the battery, so your best bet for performance is a voltage in the middle of its range. It will not get hotter with higher voltages. Conversely it will be more inefficient with lower voltages. All that being said, good experiment. If you have any questions, I’d be happy to answer.

11:30 "and that's how I lost my medical license"

Nintendo: "Now you're playing with power" MattKC took the ad way too seriously.

2050: "Can We Run a Ps5 on 20A Batteries?"

Him: "I played Fallout New Vegas on Hardcore and Sawyer's Mod" Me: ..."I played Dr Mario in black and white" OHHHHHHHH

I remember as a kid I tried to use the nintendo plug on some other device and it popped and sizzled.

Undervolting is a key component of circuit bending, you can get all sorts of strange reactions. Kinda interesting running the hardware lower than it's rated voltage to see what happens

I love how I keep hearing this Infinitode 2 music in the background, it has such good tracks!

I love your videos man, they're original. You're conquering an unsaturated area and you're killing it

Mehdi Sadaghdar jumpstarted a car, so why not?

Next up: "Could you run a monitor from lemons and potatoes?"

Back in the day, I would power it with an old car battery since i had no way of getting an adapter. Watching your video explained why after days of playing the graphics were getting blur. I thought that the cartridge were dirty or were degraded. Now i see that all i had to do was recharge the old battery. Nice video by the way.

That's longer than what my Sega Gamegear lasted on batteries!

You could've made 2 (or more) banks of series batteries, and set them in parallel for more playtime. Would be interesting to have a charge/battery controller and rechargeable batteries to make it "mobile". This is starting to sound like a Ben Heck idea now.

It would be cool to experiment with the effects of low voltage on different games for extended periods of time, maybe setting up some system of controlling how much power you're sending to the system after first powering it on, then keeping it at a constant lower rate to just experiment with the buggy mess it creates.

in all honesty, I think you just made a surprisingly useful benchtop tool. when you got the mobo of your NES out on a cramped workbench (think Adrian's digital basement) it might be much easier to bring out that battery pack and plug it in instead of having to plug a giant wallwart into an already mostly-full power strip hidden behind a monitor or 2.

The sentence-mixed DK Rap bit got me lol. Glad to see you are (or at least were at some point) a fellow KZfaq Pooper!

2:37 "like a human centipede" yikes lmao

We used to run ours directly from the 12v plug in the motorhome along with a cheap lcd tv. The internal voltage regulator takes care of the few extra volts without any issue and with a 5kwh battery bank we never worried about how long we played. Good times.

11:10 So that's where creepypasta inspiration comes from...

8:41 Rechargeable batteries: am i a joke to you?

Damn I'd love to see a dedicated video of the NES low battery effects. Especially hooked up to a CRT tv as the composite fails.

I remember i did a science experiment that was “how many solar panels does it take to power a toy train?” That reminds me of this

Back in the day I wouldn't have mind this due to the fact how monstrous the plug-ins were on this and Sega consoles

as an eventually-to-be electrician, it makes me feel good already knowing the terminology and tools used in the video, even if its stuff you learn very early on

Excellent video. I found the glitches as it died really interesting. It could be a useful debugging tool. If we could match the dieing voltage to the different glitches.

Hey mattkc, do you have the full recording of the nes video degrading, i need to overlay everywhere at the end of time on it

How did you connect NES video output to the LCD PC monitor? I always wanted to do that, but I don't know how did you achieve this sharpness and crispness of image with composite video to VGA converter. I suppose that you might have very expensive, high-end composite to VGA converter. What model do you have?

I did this in school for a school trip. Had a portable LCD TV as well. One 9V battery powered the NES and TV for 3 hours. I got an hour with a Sega Genesis instead of an NES. I did it again but swapped it out for a 6V lantern battery, which the alkaline variant could have upwards of 11 aH (11000 mah). I was not the coolest kid in school, but I should have. Maybe if I did it with a PS1 or N64. Screw it, playing Earthbound driving north through Michigan was worth it.

I'd love to see this revisited just to see what other games make of the reducing voltage. Add sound for top notch viewing pleasure.

I did a similar test with my PSone and LCD. It worked, but had comparable battery life to a Game Gear because the backlight is the same fluorescent tech It would reset itself anytime the lid was closed once the batteries got low too, I think if the power was regulated it would help a lot

An easy way to double the play time would be to get twelve batteries and do a series parallel circuit, in the same way that a parallel connection works, you can take two series "battery packs" and use its outputs and wire it in a parallel circuit to have 9 volts but with the capacity of two batteries in a parallel circuit instead of just a single battery, and you can continue to add more packs of 6 batteries in series to the parallel circuit to increase the total capacity.

You should replace the linear regulator with a modern buck converter to see how much that improves the battery length. Probably about 75% of the power is being wasted by that regulator. You could also try using a boost converter and get it all running off one single AA

the 10 volts are easy to explain, brand new batteries tend to do arround 1.7v for very little time after their first use, and would you know 1.7v*6 is 10.2v, they tend to go to the advertised 1.5 after you use them a little bit

does that battery pack connect them "in series"? it looks like the parallel drawing you showed with 6 x 1.5a batteries

Your 9.89 volts is actually a little low. When rectifying AC to DC, you need to multiply the AC voltage by 1.41 to get the DC voltage, so with a 9v AC adapter, you will see around 12.7VDC on the DC side of the rectifier. When running DC through the rectifier, you will see the incoming DC voltage, less the forward voltage drop of the conducting diodes, so you could safely feed 12VDC into it all day long. A 12V sealed lead acid battery worth work great.

I mean. It's only logical for you to try and use batteries to run an SNES in the next video, right?

It'd be interesting to chronicle the effects of the batteries dying on various NES games. Could get some cool screenshots out of it, I'd imagine.

That's so cool, great video my man

would nihm work or would the voltage be to low since they are a slightly lower voltage? That would be the ideal choice well next to plugging it in obviously.

Famiclone: allow us to introduce ourselves

3:43 that does look like 1900mAH

So if it requires 9 volts could you run it off a single 9 volt battery

Could you power with a single 9v or 3 in parallel for longer performance?

you are seriously a hidden gem. you have great production quallity and very funny! you should definitely be more popular. You sir, just gained a new subscriber!

Me: I need to sleep Also me at 4:20 AM: _I NEED ANSWERS, NOT SLEEP_

I love how the music only kicks in when Matt says "Well lets break this down!" 0:16

Do you prefer your girlfriends in series or parallel? Human Cenepede - “mughughum”

4:16 I like how you're playing Space Queens from the cancelled Sonic Xtreme for the Sega Saturn in the background.

"like a human centipede" whoa slow down WHAT!!!

Thanks for actually showing what happens when the console runs out of battery power. That was super cool

When I had an NES I put 4 miniature lead acid batteries into it, which was all I could fit. I also made an antenna for the RF port. It was a fully wireless system, with the exception of gamepads.

Batteries do drop in voltage as they're used. This is actually how the amount of stored energy left is measured.

The footage at the end would make good footage for some kind of creepypasta.

I’d love to see you do the same for a SNES and N64, except recording audio this time!

Would be cool to see some more of those battery compartments wired in parallel for longer lasting battery

Now try to power the tv with batteries too

My dad and I did something similar years ago with a 9v battery.

What if you ran several of the battery holders together in parallel? Would that create a bigger capacity without increasing the voltage?

I actually tried this before, knowing a full wave bridge rectifier will pass DC through 2 of the 4 diodes it has, but for some reason, the 9 volts @ 1 amp did not power it up in either polarity. I am actually surprised yours worked for you. The only way I could get it to power up on DC was to literally solder 2 wires to the board opposite of the main power filter capacitor, but the NES is built so modular, it is easy to disassemble and reassemble.

You should turn this into a series on what systems you can run of batteries.

I'm enjoying the classic tracks in the background. 1. (I knew this but I forgot, the title read "Dance Music") 2. ? 3. Rain Eater 4. Contraduct Design 5. Spock's Cryo-Bed 6. BRD Keygen 14 (LHS/DFS) 7. ? 8. ? Let me know of other songs I didn't identify correctly.

I'm curious why the 7805 didn't just drop off once the voltage got below ~7.5. I'd be interested to see the regulator output on a scope. I wonder if some power was drawn through the video connector after a certain point or if the composite signal somehow caused feedback noise to corrupt the images

You could pretend it be like a cursed NES and then make a creepypasta about it

I appreciate the inclusion of "Space Queens"

How do you not have more views?

What video scaler are you using?

Wow, that ending is legit creepypasta material.

For the love of Super Mario himself, please tell me what is the music at 6:44!

at about 9:00 in that is definitely the Spyro: Year Of The Dragon - Paradox Crack Intro Theme lol

Although a rectifier rectifies the AC current in to DC it brings some kind of voltage change. It's the same how if you rectify 120v AC you get 170v DC. Although it is also dependant on the types of components you are using to do the rectification. Also if you want more power you can use 12 batteries. Make two sets of 6 batteries and put them in series, then connect the two sets in parallel.

This guy makes the ultimate videos to watch at 3 am

yes you can end the bast way is to connect 5V directly after voltage regulator 7805

3:23 what if you connect the 6 batteries in series and call it a batch and then connect 3 batches in parallel? That would be 18 batteries that last as long as 3 and it would still be 9v

10:20 did somebody know how music are playing in the Background?

Where can I get the battery holder like the one in the video?