The shop
Tested. Sealed or loose. Real.
Hand-tested retro carts and consoles, NES through Xbox. We boot every cart on real hardware before it ships.
Live at launch
SIDELOAD
Pre-launch
Insert coin // booting…STAND BY,
STAND BY,
PLAYER ONE.
Sideload is a small family shop for retro games, Switch mods, and save-battery surgery. Hand-tested. Hand-soldered. Built by people who actually play.
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What we do
Three benches, one shop.
A small family — three of us — running it from one workbench. The shop, the mod table, the battery rig. That's it.
The mod
Picofly installs, done right.
V1, V2, Lite, OLED — soldered with magnification, every install on camera. Footage kept on file. No mystery work.
Live at launch
The battery
Save-battery surgery.
We dump your save bit-for-bit, swap the dead battery, and restore the file. Your 1998 Zelda playthrough survives.
Live at launch
Sell to us
Got a game gathering dust? We’re buying.
Sealed N64s, NES rarities, Pokémon carts, GameCube and Wii libraries, PS2 black-label discs, the random Saturn import someone left in a closet — drop a couple photos and your asking price, and we’ll get back to you in 24 hours.
- Real offer or honest pass. No silence, no lowballs that pretend to be offers.
- If we want it, pre-paid shipping label on us.
- Payment lands the same day we test it on real hardware.
Tested on real hardware
Every cart boots on its actual console before we list it.
Every install filmed
Pre-install unboxing through final test. Footage kept on file, period.
Anonymous on purpose
No names on the site. Just the work. We like it that way.