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00:00Hello and welcome back to another video. Today I've got some more Japanese computer
00:05slash video game stuff. This is the Sword M5, or at least a version of it. It's actually the
00:10Takara version. So there's two versions of the original Sword M5, and then Takara also
00:16licensed and made their own versions. I've got the Takara version of it here. I've got the
00:20accessories and a bunch of different games. So we'll go through all these, but we start with
00:25the actual console itself, just because I don't think many people have actually seen this. It's
00:30a pretty rare system. I believe it was also sold in Europe as well. Probably have to cut here. Let's
00:38open it up. This is the slightly smaller version. The original Sword M5 was bigger. Can I get them out?
00:53And you can see it's got a little keyboard here, got a very large computer, cartridge slot here,
01:00insect cartridge, helpfully labeled, but there should have been a door on top of here. You can
01:04see that's missing. Got little clips for it, and that would be a thing that could close down
01:11with the dust cover, and you open up when you put the cartridges in. Now this design is a different
01:15color scheme, and a different randomistic car one from the, I think it's the Sword M5, maybe the
01:21junior version. There is a version of the actual Sword M5 that does have this exact same chassis,
01:27and there's also a slightly larger different version. It does have a power LED, which is pretty useful.
01:34Not all these old systems did. So if we have a look on the back, there's actually quite a lot
01:39of rear I.O.
01:40We've got our power connector, which is a pretty non-standard, it's like a DIN connector. So it's
01:45one with three, six pins. We've got a cassette tape, which is a DIN, but with eight pins. We've got
01:51this
01:51printer connector, which is again, not a standard connector. We've got two controls, which are again,
01:56smaller DIN connectors. Looks like it's the same as the S-Video. We have our sound and video out, and
02:02then
02:02RF. So it looks like it has both RF out, like all systems did, but it does have a dedicated
02:08composite video
02:09out. Interesting. It doesn't have the standard colors, where you'd have video being yellow,
02:14and then depending on the sound, either white or red. We've got a switch there. Actually,
02:20we've got some channels maybe. H and L, so high and low. Not sure.
02:28Pretty simple system. And then like a lot of Japanese computers, it does have the larger English
02:36characters. Yeah, but then also slight, I think that's Hiragana, there as well. And then also
02:43some like printer characters in the corner. So each key is, looks like, used for four different things.
02:50As for accessories, the accessories package here is large in the actual system itself.
02:57I think a lot of that's probably taken up by the power adapter.
03:02It's got a lot of pins like that, and it's probably got multiple output voltages, and all the power adapters
03:07tend to be quite large.
03:14Got a switch box, but that looks like the, obviously it is a tommy one.
03:26And a three standard, well that's all spoken. Ah, that's no good.
03:35We'll start with the switch box.
03:38Pretty basic, all of them all look the same. Pretty similar to the Famicom ones.
03:44This cartridge, yeah, it's all completely smashed open. And I've had this, probably about two months
03:51to sat here, so I can't exactly go and try to get money back for being damaged in shipping now.
04:00Yeah, this is a copy of the Basic. So there's a few different versions of Basic available for the
04:05sword systems. Each has a different letter, and unlike most systems that have like a version of Basic,
04:11what you can use. These ones have versions of Basic for specific tasks, with them sort of being tailored
04:17for whatever specific operation it is. Yeah, well, that's all gonna fall apart now, isn't it?
04:26Maybe at some point I can try to get the PCB out, we can look inside that. Probably won't do
04:30it in this
04:31video, but yeah. That cartridge isn't gonna be much use to me, and it's not gonna fit in when it's
04:36all
04:37broken like this. I'll probably have to try putting the PCB in itself. But luckily, you don't actually
04:43need the Basic cartridge if you're putting a game cartridge in, which is what I'll probably be using
04:48this for. Just a bit of shame with that cartridge. Hopefully these other ones are broken. I think
04:57maybe this is some dense stuff, and it's got a big heavy power brick in there. That's very big.
05:05That might have crushed it. It's a shame that it knows that earlier, I guess, if I should open this
05:10this, sooner after getting it. It's also a potential, I might have a different basic to one of these as
05:20well. Little chips broken off there. A bit melted from the plasticizer there. It's like a disc style controller.
05:27It's a little action button. Yeah, small little DIN connector. That's one controller. Is there a second
05:37one here? Doesn't look like it. Yeah, more little bits of broken plastic are falling out.
05:46Let's go with this. It's quite large. That's a large connector there. It doesn't actually tell us
05:53what the output is. So you want two amps, 100 volts in Japanese 50, 60 hertz. But it doesn't actually
06:00tell us what the output is. I'm going to have to look that up. Okay, this is quite the large,
06:07even with a dedicated on-off switch on here. So yes, maybe there isn't an on-off switch on the
06:12actual system, and it's controlled by turning the power on and off on the actual power supply,
06:17which is not something that I'm used to. This elastic band is broken in there as well.
06:23Because everything in here is sort of broken. Yeah, but I probably want to try to get one of these
06:29connectors and make my own power supply. I'll put this on the floor now because there's a bit
06:36too many things on the bench at the moment. Then for here we have a video, just an RCA cable.
06:48It's generic, no specific color, just one thing. It's not like it's both. This is for cassettes.
07:02More bits of plastic falling out. And there's a few more in there as well. This is for the cassette
07:11tape drive. Those in the cassette. And then one of these is for the in, one is out.
07:18Obviously because you are using a cassette drive to be able to both read and write. So once the
07:22sound in, once the sound out, and then once for the control of the actual system. A lot of the
07:28older ones that are designed specifically for computers allow the computer to send their signal
07:32to the tape drive to start and stop it. Which is, I guess, a useful thing, not really something you'd
07:40see now. I think this is a larger one here. There might have been, I know this has got some
07:46actual
07:46cassettes in it as well, but there might have been a copy of basic here as well. So we'll try
07:51to have
07:51a look at that because I think these ones are just all games. Also there's only one controller.
08:02Let's just try to cut that through there.
08:22And there's more in here. Let's get this one out.
08:28So that might be a card that that looks similar.
08:56I think we always had these ones. Oh, what they were on the top as well.
09:03Because if they don't have an end label, you've got them all together, you don't really know what's which.
09:12These ones do have an end label, so I guess you would know for that that this one is
09:18Hudson game. Not sure what this one is. There's something racking in there as well.
09:23So these ones are like counter breaking. There's no end label on that one. Something came by Hudson.
09:29I don't know what it is. I don't know what it is. This is basic. Why? So well, it's the
09:34same
09:34version of basic as this one. It's just a different label. I assume there's one version
09:39that's the Takawa version. The one must be the sword version.
09:42A bit similar backs at least. Slightly different color but it looks the same.
09:50And this is what a regular version of basic. It isn't broken looks like. But basic G. So there's two
09:57versions of basic in here.
09:58We have Step Up. This is the Takawa version. A bit of Appling. There you go. That's a bit more
10:09damage there.
10:11Actually look kind of like the MSX cartridges. That one looks okay. A bit of damage on the back of
10:18that one.
10:20Put the controls and everything on. Actual cartridge.
10:25And this one is Bosconian. And this is the sword version of the cartridge.
10:34That's slightly rattly as well. And those are all the loose cartridges. Put those ones there.
10:42And we have some cassette tapes. Takawa. This is basic I. So I assume that means that this one
10:51requires basic I. And that's the language written in. So you put basic I cartridge in and you load this
10:56one up.
11:02But it's not hard to tell. Because it has an opaque little cover there. But it doesn't look like there's
11:08too much tape on this.
11:10I'm not sure what this game is. Chain. I'm not sure if that's basically the game. Can't read the katakana.
11:18Another one here.
11:22And it'll all say chain. So if this one is basic I. This one. It also says basic I in
11:29the corner as well.
11:31And it's QD something. And this is basic I. So I guess a basic I is the version mostly for
11:38games. Not sure.
11:42We have our actual boxed games now. I'll start with the larger package.
11:58Also I don't have a tape drive. So I can't really play cassette games. Since I do have the actual
12:06cable. I could probably do it manually. Just getting a mp3 player or something. Or maybe even just a regular
12:13cassette player. Plug this into the output. Whichever wire it is. And just make sure I
12:20press play at the right time.
12:26So let's have a look at these ones.
12:37So I don't think there should be any more duplicates. There was that more duplicate with that
12:41corpial basic I.
12:45Oh there's a Bosconian. Which is one that we already had a look at isn't it.
12:49Yeah so there's another duplicate.
12:55I believe these ones are all boxed.
13:02So these are all I believe the sword versions.
13:06That one is Takara.
13:07What's this one? That is Takara as well.
13:10There's different style of boxes from different
13:12companies. But this is Super Cobra for Konami. Which I have this on the Casio P3 1000.
13:21Let's have a look inside here.
13:26Pretty simple boxy. But nice boxes.
13:31They are larger than the actual game itself. I know some of these older games
13:36have boxes at the same size. There's actually all cards inside.
13:40So this is the advertising for other games.
13:42The Dark Tank Battalion. And then a few other ones in there.
13:45And the label is appealing there.
13:48Super Cobra looks fine. Konami industry.
13:51Which is interesting.
13:53Nothing I've ever seen. Konami for Konami industry.
13:57It's like a ranch that makes products. Or maybe you're used to.
14:00I'm just used to seeing it as Konami.
14:06Anything else in here? Nope.
14:10So there's this little catalog here.
14:13It's only a really interesting thing. No manual or anything.
14:17There's a few things. Is it? Locomotion?
14:19Oops. Nope.
14:21I guess it's all planned version of Locomotion.
14:25I'm not going to take all these open.
14:27It's going to take me a while to put back together.
14:31Save that for a long finish. We've got Real Tennis.
14:34This one isn't a Konami one. So my theory about
14:37different styles of boxes being because different manufacturers don't really make sense.
14:41Dig Dug, which is one we're just looking for at Bosconian.
14:47Great. This one has an image on the back.
14:50These ones don't.
14:51And Power Pack.
14:52Same image as the back of the actual cartridges, but close enough.
14:58This one has a Panasonic Corporation label.
15:01I don't know what that's for.
15:02Must be a used bag or something.
15:28It's really done a good job sealing this one up.
15:33I don't know why they've sealed that one so tightly all by itself.
15:43And there's a pit chaser.
15:45We've got a Takara one.
15:48Here's the back.
15:48There's other pictures.
15:50It's a pretty basic looking game.
15:52So yeah, that's all the games I've got, I guess.
15:55At some point, I'll probably play these different videos up.
15:58I'll make a dedicated video actually showing off the hardware before I get it up and running.
16:03But for now, that's probably going to be a bit inconvenient.
16:06Especially when I don't really trust that power supply.
16:09All these old power supplies don't really work.
16:12But I'll probably check it out to see what I can do.
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