You need to pay royalties for both the song itself and the performance of that song separately. By using covers they save a lot of the cost of licensing the real known song, and while karaoking most people won't notice.
So, to answer the question about why they are weird covers, there's actually two different portions of each music track in existence you can license. You can license the arrangement, or you can license the performance. The "performance" license is essentially giving you the rights to play the studio recording, whereas an "arrangement" license gives you the ability to play the musical arrangement/sheet music/tabs/whatever and perform it live or make your own recordings, but you don't have access to play the original recording. This is how bands like Disturbed are able to put out a cover of The Sound of Silence, and how the Guitar Hero/Rock Band games were able to get cover versions of very popular songs. Also, historically the arrangement licensing is *significantly* cheaper than the performance licensing. For some bands, by a factor of 10x or more. I'm actually curious how much money they actually made on this machine, given the bananas amount of songs it has and has high scale artists like Taylor Swift in it. I can't imagine margins were very high at all, even at this kind of insane price point.
Interesting. I didn't know about the two separate licence types, and thought the performance licences were the only ones available and that it was just cheaper to licence the 'performance' of covers.
@@kbhasi Yeah its an interesting concept, and it all comes down to the money at the end of the day. Whoever is “playing” their part on the track may not be deserving of 1/4’th of the entire tracks royalties - are they a hired gun, are they playing a part thats only in a song for 30 seconds, or are they one of the founding members of the band? Plus, there are some thoughts of the whole producer/mixer ecosystem getting a songwriting credit, but not a performance credit - but sometimes they do cause they filled in a punch in riff after the band flew home and the track just needed 10 seconds of bass re-recorded - its extremely simple in concept but wow does it get insane very quickly.
There's actually a whole thing with this type of stuff with the song Call on Me by Eric Prydz, which if I remember correctly was taken from a 2002 live with Cassius and Together (which consists one of the members from Daft Punk)
36:06 been working on the Prologue 21 a bit recently, and it does this as well with it's songs and video clips from the CD changer. Some songs do seem to prefer defaulting to certain clips, but are anywhere from spot on to hilariously weird. The Sakura Wars main theme will usually default to older Japanese buildings and cherry blossoms, but I've also gotten WWII clips of planes being shot down behind other upbeat game soundtracks and guys in black jumpsuits dancing to psychedelic giraffes paired with classical music.
The 🎤 came with Wii U Sing and was compatible also with some Just Dance installments for a sing-along, that has no real purpose other than detecting the sound coming to the microphone and reflect the volume level in a “noise bar” when a song was playing
Awesome piece of history, thanks so much for sharing this. FYI, Xing is pronounced "X-ing", as in "ecks-ing". The Japanese transliteration is "ekushingu".
This is so bizarre in every way possible: the machine itself, how it's built like if a crazy inventor in his garage got some parts and a wii u from a store and glued it all together, the intented audience, and the price!. Wow. it's so niche, how can it be a good bussiness model?. And the people buying it could probably do the same with a laptop and a couple of usb microphones. It's like bulding a space shuttle when all you need is a car. It's fascinating!!!.
Wow, what an odd device. I'm very impressed with how they made everything work together. The red and white RCA Jack's make a lot of sense because it's the most common connection to use between a head unit and something like a record player or cassette deck on a home sound system. There are "superior" options like Optical aka TOSlink for audio delivery but RCA is a legacy standard in that world. Thank you for such an interesting video Adam. It's ok you don't know a lot about music, you just haven't found what you really like yet.
We had the Joysound Wii U app in the UK and we used it a fair bit, had 2 mics (one from sing party?) You could purchase time and sing to your hearts content for the duration, had a great selection of songs.
23:00 I have no clue about how these work, but the Prologue 21 appears to have 100 folders #0-99 that sort out song data by the last 2 digits in the song selection code
I wouldn't be surprised if they have completely standardized karaoke songlists across all systems over there. And like, people just _know_ the numbers of the stuff that they want to play and can just reliably punch them into any system and have the song pop in (if available). Y'know, kinda like JAV.
and with that, Adam found his new favorite karaoke machine. You should totally use that thing during your next live stream this December. By the way, Do you know if the kiosks that they used to have at pottery barn are any different from the kiosks that they had at other stores?
@@AdamKoralik They were VHS tapes with songs from Disney movies I always thought why anybody would buy those instead of the actual movie. It had the songs with lyrics like in Karaoke only difference I guess is that they didn't remove the voices 😅
We had a digital online version of the Wii U Joysound software in Europe, but it cost a monthly fee to use, and the servers are long gone. I do own a mic for it lol...
This thing is amazingly cool. Hope you can try and have some fun with it at local con. But if not, it's nice to know that it's in good hands that will look after it. Thanks Adam for showing this off.
Just today, MVG said the Wii U is basically a doorstop…. Funny because we still play ours weekly! Also now we know the answer to question Scott the Woz brought up - why does the standalone Wii-U microphone exist? 😂
Maybe you didnt think about it, but there are SO many Japanese speaking people (or other included languages too) living in America that would love to have access to this for its intended use of karaoke! Fully loaded with all the songs we know and love!🤩 I understand your unit is for collection/preservation ,but it would be a dream if these were more common and we could rent them for events, parties, etc. Thank you for the video, it was a great breakdown!!
This video motivated me to get a CiB Dreamcast karaoke unit. Had to put a Japanese PSU board into my DC to make the setup work, but I can't get my DC online atm and I imagine the disc calls home to a long dead karaoke server for the addon. It looks awesome though, kinda like 32xing your DC, but in reverse (cable setup is very similar to Genesis+32x setup.)
I'm sure you already tried both HDMI slots but it would be cool if the other HDMI displayed the gamepad screen. ** Thx for the video I really enjoyed it!
Ive been actually trying to make this game work since this way is the only way to play it after the servers shut down. There is actually a dump of one of this cabinets on the internet archive (Wii U Joysound Festa) which seems to have the files , i did try to get it on my hacked wii u and install the main softrware and one of the "dlcs" icons that appear on the video from 1 to 99 (the one i chose ened up being the 99 one) on the NAND but when opening the game it gave me an error that there is no hard drive connected so ig i would need to try installing the "dlcs" there for the game to read it or maybe the game needs all 99 of them to work? im not sure
The Gambler: A super genuine song about reflecting on your own life and how to deal with the life you've got. JoySound Festa: Yeah, how about we show some chick in a bikini on a beach for this song, sounds about right. XD Love it haha
i feel like nintendo could of sold this whole setup to the public for way cheaper for them to buy. all this retail bundle would of come with was a stand for the gamepad, a microphone and a copy of the same software that kiosk has pre installed on to the wii u menu (of course you can use it as a standard wii u) i feel like this could of actually moved units into more japanese homes and apartments. and also this would also be a bundle sold separately if you already had a wii u
Don't have anything directly pertinent to add, just wanna say I adore my Wii U. It's natively backward compatible with Wii and GC if you're playin backups, has a lively homebrew scene, and will have unofficial online servers in April. I encourage folks to snag a used one while they're still cheap :D
I've been watching Adam cover obscure gaming oddities for over a decade...and I think of all the videos I've seen, this one takes the cake! The device itself looks like it's a beast. I wonder how much does it weigh? Also, would you consider modding it in any way?
Do one of the other HDMI ports output audio only? Other than one (possibly) being an input, I'm not sure what else the other HDMI ports could have been used for. EDIT: The reason I'm thinking one may be audio only is because the Wii U didn't have a seperate optical audio out like most other HDMI consoles. Also, not really related, but you mentioning Kenny Rogers was the third time I've heard/seen him today. First I saw a poster in the back of a stage I work for from when he preformed there, watched an episode of LOST where he was mentioned in the season 4 finale, and now this video. I don't think I've ever even heard his music before lol.
The gambler is a country song The gambler is one my all time favorite country songs The gambler is being played we all think it takes place during the old west More interesting getting a RV then a joysound Festa
wow been waiting for this video on the Wii U Joysound! Yeah I'm not surprised they locked it down super tight so you can't really do a whole lot outside of playing the joysound stuff... though why would you want to, for sure. I haven't looked into it but I think they continued the service over on the switch? so yeah can't imagine them wanting to keep the wii u end of things up after that. definitely checking out the sample songs here in a minute though. wife's a big MJ fan so sent her thriller can't wait to hear her reaction, haha.
What an interesting piece of machinery, haha. I personally do not like karaoke, so I would never buy this for that use. But, if I ever came across this WiiU for a cheap enough price, I'd buy it. Don't think I'd ever use it, but it would be just for solely collecting.
I have a dream to make a homebrewed Karaoke English disc for the Dreamcast Karaoke unit with video game songs but I don’t know how to make Dreamcast software
I'd assume they use covers because it would be much harder to grab an instrumental for the official version due to licensing and multitrack issues. Also seeing Nickelback on that list is insane to me
It's a shame I can't use your Discord guild because of the DM rule... One of these days I do want to mod the gamepad to fix an issue you had with it in this video, I just can't quite afford the tools to work on that project yet. Hopefully I can get started on it by the end of this year though.
@@AdamKoralik Yeah there's a rule where if you "block DMs from moderators" you'll get banned and I don't want to enable DMs from everyone because that leads to random DMs and back in the day security issues.
Very interesting! This probably wouldn't interest you in particular, but I wonder how far back the Japanese music goes, be awesome to karaoke to 70s & 80s stuff?
Nintendo never made a Wii U Ethernet Adapter, Nintendo up to recently still sold the Wii Ethernet Adapter as being compatible to the Wii, Wii U, AND THE SWITCH. Believe it or not 🤣
I LOVE how pationate about retro even new devices that upscale to current TV's. ..you are the type of creator as well as @MetalJesusRocks...and @My Life in gaming ...as well as other retro game reviewers...Id LOVE to know how you get ur hands on things like the SuperGraphics..(that will play the 1000 games for orig. Pc Engine hue cards..the Supergraphix not many know if using the supergraphix has an extra sound chip that produces more stereo and better sound all around..supergraphix. I feel missed their USA market as it would absolutely do what sega genesis and SNES would...but it never caught on...keep it up @@AdamKoralik ✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️
Cool, how'd you get to buy it, Adam? We must sing everyday, it's relaxing and science says it make for better relationships. God bless rare retro hunters.
great video! do you think we can « reproduce » a wii u like this? i know there are the joysound app on the switch and wii u but the wii u version is the most « karaoke » experience with the gamepad, but the service of the app ended in 2023.. actually i live in japan i saw these machines for around 20000¥ (140$) on mercari but i already have a wii u in my country but i go often in karaoke and for sure i’m going to miss it..
@@AdamKoralik thanks! Love the videos I've always been a huge wiiu fan and when @Zer064 did a video on it I checked out Japanese Mercari and found one. Thanks for being through with the system.
ofcourse its a contraption just to play karaoke typical japan. the think also doesn't look like its from 2012 more like 2000 .another joke about japan japan has been living in the year 2000 since 1980 awesome country
As somebody who does karaoke and has even done it in Japan, it's common for songs on karaoke machines to not be the official release that an artist puts out. A lot of times they will be midi tracks of a song. But copyrights do affect those versions of songs.
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I absolutely adore how weird this thing is. I wish more companies would do weird things like this in the modern era.
You need to pay royalties for both the song itself and the performance of that song separately. By using covers they save a lot of the cost of licensing the real known song, and while karaoking most people won't notice.
So, to answer the question about why they are weird covers, there's actually two different portions of each music track in existence you can license. You can license the arrangement, or you can license the performance. The "performance" license is essentially giving you the rights to play the studio recording, whereas an "arrangement" license gives you the ability to play the musical arrangement/sheet music/tabs/whatever and perform it live or make your own recordings, but you don't have access to play the original recording.
This is how bands like Disturbed are able to put out a cover of The Sound of Silence, and how the Guitar Hero/Rock Band games were able to get cover versions of very popular songs.
Also, historically the arrangement licensing is *significantly* cheaper than the performance licensing. For some bands, by a factor of 10x or more.
I'm actually curious how much money they actually made on this machine, given the bananas amount of songs it has and has high scale artists like Taylor Swift in it. I can't imagine margins were very high at all, even at this kind of insane price point.
Interesting. I didn't know about the two separate licence types, and thought the performance licences were the only ones available and that it was just cheaper to licence the 'performance' of covers.
@@kbhasi Yeah its an interesting concept, and it all comes down to the money at the end of the day. Whoever is “playing” their part on the track may not be deserving of 1/4’th of the entire tracks royalties - are they a hired gun, are they playing a part thats only in a song for 30 seconds, or are they one of the founding members of the band? Plus, there are some thoughts of the whole producer/mixer ecosystem getting a songwriting credit, but not a performance credit - but sometimes they do cause they filled in a punch in riff after the band flew home and the track just needed 10 seconds of bass re-recorded - its extremely simple in concept but wow does it get insane very quickly.
There's actually a whole thing with this type of stuff with the song Call on Me by Eric Prydz, which if I remember correctly was taken from a 2002 live with Cassius and Together (which consists one of the members from Daft Punk)
Adam’s karaoke hour, when? This thing is cool.
36:06 been working on the Prologue 21 a bit recently, and it does this as well with it's songs and video clips from the CD changer. Some songs do seem to prefer defaulting to certain clips, but are anywhere from spot on to hilariously weird. The Sakura Wars main theme will usually default to older Japanese buildings and cherry blossoms, but I've also gotten WWII clips of planes being shot down behind other upbeat game soundtracks and guys in black jumpsuits dancing to psychedelic giraffes paired with classical music.
Ha, that's awesome.
The 🎤 came with Wii U Sing and was compatible also with some Just Dance installments for a sing-along, that has no real purpose other than detecting the sound coming to the microphone and reflect the volume level in a “noise bar” when a song was playing
Awesome piece of history, thanks so much for sharing this. FYI, Xing is pronounced "X-ing", as in "ecks-ing". The Japanese transliteration is "ekushingu".
We one of these still active here in London UK.
I can also speak Japanese and operate it showing some more videos of it.
I totally love that you own this, I know if anyone's going to preserve it and take care of it it's you. I enjoyed the video man thanks
This is so bizarre in every way possible: the machine itself, how it's built like if a crazy inventor in his garage got some parts and a wii u from a store and glued it all together, the intented audience, and the price!.
Wow. it's so niche, how can it be a good bussiness model?. And the people buying it could probably do the same with a laptop and a couple of usb microphones. It's like bulding a space shuttle when all you need is a car. It's fascinating!!!.
I lived in Japan for 3 years, and I really miss the karaoke bars.
Wow, what an odd device. I'm very impressed with how they made everything work together. The red and white RCA Jack's make a lot of sense because it's the most common connection to use between a head unit and something like a record player or cassette deck on a home sound system. There are "superior" options like Optical aka TOSlink for audio delivery but RCA is a legacy standard in that world.
Thank you for such an interesting video Adam. It's ok you don't know a lot about music, you just haven't found what you really like yet.
The jumbo Stylus that attash with a wired is literally the one from the DSI XL !!!
We had the Joysound Wii U app in the UK and we used it a fair bit, had 2 mics (one from sing party?) You could purchase time and sing to your hearts content for the duration, had a great selection of songs.
23:00 I have no clue about how these work, but the Prologue 21 appears to have 100 folders #0-99 that sort out song data by the last 2 digits in the song selection code
I wouldn't be surprised if they have completely standardized karaoke songlists across all systems over there. And like, people just _know_ the numbers of the stuff that they want to play and can just reliably punch them into any system and have the song pop in (if available).
Y'know, kinda like JAV.
As one of the rare fans of the Wii U already, I adore this thing.
Looks straight out of an 80's sci-fi movie, like a spaceship prop.
and with that, Adam found his new favorite karaoke machine. You should totally use that thing during your next live stream this December. By the way, Do you know if the kiosks that they used to have at pottery barn are any different from the kiosks that they had at other stores?
He needs a third Channel. Adam's Sing-Along Songs. Who remembers those Disney VHS's from the 90' 😅
Not sure.
@@AdamKoralik They were VHS tapes with songs from Disney movies I always thought why anybody would buy those instead of the actual movie. It had the songs with lyrics like in Karaoke only difference I guess is that they didn't remove the voices 😅
Anyone else yell "Stylus!!" 😂
We had a digital online version of the Wii U Joysound software in Europe, but it cost a monthly fee to use, and the servers are long gone. I do own a mic for it lol...
This thing is amazingly cool. Hope you can try and have some fun with it at local con. But if not, it's nice to know that it's in good hands that will look after it. Thanks Adam for showing this off.
Looks like you could launch rocket ships with that thing, but then again I'm no expert on karaoke machines.😅
Just today, MVG said the Wii U is basically a doorstop…. Funny because we still play ours weekly!
Also now we know the answer to question Scott the Woz brought up - why does the standalone Wii-U microphone exist? 😂
I would say yes, showing off weird game consoles, would absolutely fit your Channel.
2:19 ah yes, *XING,* manufacturers of the best ROAD CROSSING and CROSSwalks in the world
Shocked Scott didn't get this one first
Maybe you didnt think about it, but there are SO many Japanese speaking people (or other included languages too) living in America that would love to have access to this for its intended use of karaoke! Fully loaded with all the songs we know and love!🤩
I understand your unit is for collection/preservation ,but it would be a dream if these were more common and we could rent them for events, parties, etc.
Thank you for the video, it was a great breakdown!!
Thanks for watching!
This video motivated me to get a CiB Dreamcast karaoke unit. Had to put a Japanese PSU board into my DC to make the setup work, but I can't get my DC online atm and I imagine the disc calls home to a long dead karaoke server for the addon. It looks awesome though, kinda like 32xing your DC, but in reverse (cable setup is very similar to Genesis+32x setup.)
That thing is surprisingly “homemade” on the inside. It’s lots of stock Nintendo parts with basic PC parts 😂
I cant believe i didnt get the notification from this upload. Good video! Youre welcome for getting you one 😂
MVP!
Based on the views, I'm guessing most people didn't get a notification. :/
@@AdamKoralik love the current state of RUclips
I'm sure you already tried both HDMI slots but it would be cool if the other HDMI displayed the gamepad screen. ** Thx for the video I really enjoyed it!
Ive been actually trying to make this game work since this way is the only way to play it after the servers shut down. There is actually a dump of one of this cabinets on the internet archive (Wii U Joysound Festa) which seems to have the files , i did try to get it on my hacked wii u and install the main softrware and one of the "dlcs" icons that appear on the video from 1 to 99 (the one i chose ened up being the 99 one) on the NAND but when opening the game it gave me an error that there is no hard drive connected so ig i would need to try installing the "dlcs" there for the game to read it or maybe the game needs all 99 of them to work? im not sure
Where do you have room to store this? Looks huge or maybe it’s not really huge in person.
Currently that is an issue.
The Gambler: A super genuine song about reflecting on your own life and how to deal with the life you've got.
JoySound Festa: Yeah, how about we show some chick in a bikini on a beach for this song, sounds about right.
XD Love it haha
i feel like nintendo could of sold this whole setup to the public for way cheaper for them to buy. all this retail bundle would of come with was a stand for the gamepad, a microphone and a copy of the same software that kiosk has pre installed on to the wii u menu (of course you can use it as a standard wii u) i feel like this could of actually moved units into more japanese homes and apartments. and also this would also be a bundle sold separately if you already had a wii u
How to turn your Wii U into a medical device.
Don't have anything directly pertinent to add, just wanna say I adore my Wii U. It's natively backward compatible with Wii and GC if you're playin backups, has a lively homebrew scene, and will have unofficial online servers in April. I encourage folks to snag a used one while they're still cheap :D
What a weird machine, well hey it's part of Nintendo history
Wow that is a weird Wii U! Never seen one. 🎉 🦎🦎🦎🦎🦎🦎🦎
I know there was Joysound software for the Japanese Wii U, but a whole console dedicated to it? That's interesting to say the least.
I've been watching Adam cover obscure gaming oddities for over a decade...and I think of all the videos I've seen, this one takes the cake! The device itself looks like it's a beast. I wonder how much does it weigh? Also, would you consider modding it in any way?
Like 40 pounds. As I said in the video, I did install DNespresso so it's softmodded.
Do one of the other HDMI ports output audio only? Other than one (possibly) being an input, I'm not sure what else the other HDMI ports could have been used for. EDIT: The reason I'm thinking one may be audio only is because the Wii U didn't have a seperate optical audio out like most other HDMI consoles.
Also, not really related, but you mentioning Kenny Rogers was the third time I've heard/seen him today. First I saw a poster in the back of a stage I work for from when he preformed there, watched an episode of LOST where he was mentioned in the season 4 finale, and now this video. I don't think I've ever even heard his music before lol.
The gambler is a country song
The gambler is one my all time favorite country songs
The gambler is being played we all think it takes place during the old west
More interesting getting a RV then a joysound Festa
wow been waiting for this video on the Wii U Joysound! Yeah I'm not surprised they locked it down super tight so you can't really do a whole lot outside of playing the joysound stuff... though why would you want to, for sure. I haven't looked into it but I think they continued the service over on the switch? so yeah can't imagine them wanting to keep the wii u end of things up after that.
definitely checking out the sample songs here in a minute though. wife's a big MJ fan so sent her thriller can't wait to hear her reaction, haha.
You're always getting all the cool stuff, huh adam koralik 👍👍
What's the other minigame on there besides Whack a Mole?
Not sure to be honest.
Adam rules Dreamcast
What an interesting piece of machinery, haha. I personally do not like karaoke, so I would never buy this for that use. But, if I ever came across this WiiU for a cheap enough price, I'd buy it. Don't think I'd ever use it, but it would be just for solely collecting.
I have a dream to make a homebrewed Karaoke English disc for the Dreamcast Karaoke unit with video game songs but I don’t know how to make Dreamcast software
No singing?
Not cool, Adam 😂.
I'd assume they use covers because it would be much harder to grab an instrumental for the official version due to licensing and multitrack issues. Also seeing Nickelback on that list is insane to me
Also, 2TB. In order to hold the amounts of music these hold, you need much more space unless you go MIDI (which they likely did).
It's a shame I can't use your Discord guild because of the DM rule...
One of these days I do want to mod the gamepad to fix an issue you had with it in this video, I just can't quite afford the tools to work on that project yet. Hopefully I can get started on it by the end of this year though.
DM rule?
@@AdamKoralik Yeah there's a rule where if you "block DMs from moderators" you'll get banned and I don't want to enable DMs from everyone because that leads to random DMs and back in the day security issues.
@@gudenau That's only for specifically targeting mods, not the general matter of having DMs disabled. Don't worry, you're fine
But will it run Doom; or Crysis
Actually there is a Doom build for the Wii U, so...yes.
Move over Atari Jaguar Dental Unit...this is definitely fascinating.
Very interesting! This probably wouldn't interest you in particular, but I wonder how far back the Japanese music goes, be awesome to karaoke to 70s & 80s stuff?
No clue.
Scott the Woz going crazy rn
Nintendo never made a Wii U Ethernet Adapter, Nintendo up to recently still sold the Wii Ethernet Adapter as being compatible to the Wii, Wii U, AND THE SWITCH. Believe it or not 🤣
So, just to clarify, did Nintendo have a hand in this? Or did they grab a WiiU off the shelf and repurpose it for this?
They were definitely involved, yes.
dont fret, adam is thinking about us, thee viewer, before buyying his joysound
Nice find. I would have thought thats worth more than 180 dollars to collectors!
I think most have no idea it exists
inb4 the third OrkyUnit sells for $1800
This JoySound Festa doesn't look like so joyful to take on travel as the Sega Neptune 😅
I think you mean the Pluto. :P
@@AdamKoralik It's slipped past my mind since I have been binge watching Star Talk with Neil Degrasse Tyson 😅
It can’t possibly get any more obscure 😂 Japan is just different 😮
"Festa" means "party" in Portuguese if anyone is wondering 😂
I should start a karoke business, 16'000$ per machine with 300$ a month subscription??
I LOVE how pationate about retro even new devices that upscale to current TV's. ..you are the type of creator as well as @MetalJesusRocks...and @My Life in gaming ...as well as other retro game reviewers...Id LOVE to know how you get ur hands on things like the SuperGraphics..(that will play the 1000 games for orig. Pc Engine hue cards..the Supergraphix not many know if using the supergraphix has an extra sound chip that produces more stereo and better sound all around..supergraphix. I feel missed their USA market as it would absolutely do what sega genesis and SNES would...but it never caught on...keep it up @@AdamKoralik ✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️
The Q one day. I'll get one eventually, in just not dropped over a thousand on one.
Wow I thought it was a dev kit💯🎮
Well, Thriller and Go Go Power Rangers are muted due to copyright.
Wait... really?
Edit: They seem to be working fine.
@@AdamKoralikyep…
What in the Nep!?
The Neptune?
@@AdamKoralik reference to the Neptunia game series
Which is also based on the Video Game Console wars, Neptune Being Sega.
@@simplebutnotsolongname6642 Yes though Neptune represents the Saga Neptune an unreleased console not SEGA it's self.
It's really fascinating you'd find the theme to the westernized version of Power Rangers. Any idea if Japan had both versions of the show?
It might, but searching for it would be a pain for a non-Japanese speaker.
I mean I don't know if Japan ever broadcast Power Rangers in addition to Super Sentai. I do enjoy both versions of the show.
did you watch one guy who also made a few videos on this this year?
That's OrkyBorky of Freedom.
Man, that thing is awesome.
That's what she said.
The real question is does Scott have one :)
A rare failed system is now even rarer....
Bog standard!…😂😂
Awesome machine.
No live singing? Lmao
Cool, how'd you get to buy it, Adam?
We must sing everyday, it's relaxing and science says it make for better relationships.
God bless rare retro hunters.
A guy in my Discord tracked it down.
Did you check if it had Yakuza karaoke songs on it?
I did not, I wouldn't even know how.
The second time i seen this and i want one cause of that hard drive caddy make soft modding so easy
Hopefully you don't end up having to return it, although if that were even possibly the case, that's the fault of whoever sold it.
I can't imagine that would ever happen.
great video!
do you think we can « reproduce » a wii u like this?
i know there are the joysound app on the switch and wii u but the wii u version is the most « karaoke » experience with the gamepad, but the service of the app ended in 2023..
actually i live in japan i saw these machines for around 20000¥ (140$) on mercari but i already have a wii u in my country but i go often in karaoke and for sure i’m going to miss it..
I presume so, it's mostly the files and the extra hardware you'd need.
ive been actually trying to make the game work on a hacked wii u using an already existing dump from the internet archive (dunno who did it)
@@gaybowoser oh that’s cool! did you get that to work ?
USA Owner Number 4 here!
You MVP you!
@@AdamKoralik thanks! Love the videos I've always been a huge wiiu fan and when @Zer064 did a video on it I checked out Japanese Mercari and found one. Thanks for being through with the system.
Ha, that's Orky Borky of Freedom.
Hey, I think this Fax machine is broken.
Wii u is already weird
Here's a tip - show, don't tell.
Cool, thanks.
am i the only one geting tigh in my pants watchng the vido for power rangers?
would this thing not be pronounced "Fiesta" FE-S-TA and not Festa as in Uncle?
Neither would be right.
Fiesta is pronounced "Fee-es-tuh"
The Addams Family character is Fester.
Wii U for love love motels
This contraption come from zimbabwe?
Vocals not lyrics.
ofcourse its a contraption just to play karaoke typical japan. the think also doesn't look like its from 2012 more like 2000 .another joke about japan japan has been living in the year 2000 since 1980 awesome country
Quit the talk and show us the system.
It's literally on screen the entire time champ.
FIRST!!!
As somebody who does karaoke and has even done it in Japan, it's common for songs on karaoke machines to not be the official release that an artist puts out. A lot of times they will be midi tracks of a song. But copyrights do affect those versions of songs.