Modder Matthias has created the world’s first USB reader for SNES cartridges. This contraption simply “makes the cart show up on a PC as an external drive with the ROM file inside.” Video after the break.

Admittedly, the number of cases in which one has a working cart but no working console, and a working emulator but no working ROM, are probably quite low.

[via Kotaku]

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