SNES hardware troubles

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SNES hardware troubles
by on (#31938)
I, feeling a sudden need for a SNES again, went down to a local game shop & bought a busted SNES for $10.

W/O even checking it out, I pull it open & jump the fuse. It's a 1st revision w/ the SPU daughter board. I plug it in, only one game out of 3 plays (Logic Bomb, other 2 where Super Metroid & Starfox). My first instinct was to reseat & flip the connector, didn't do anything.

Anyone know what's wrong? I'm scared...

by on (#31980)
Bump. My scaredness level has reached a level of scariness that no one has ever been scared of before...

by on (#31981)
Try more games, especially early simpler ones like Super Mario World. Not enogh data so far.

by on (#31983)
Sadly these are the only games at my disposal. What the hell happened to my collection of 20-30ish SNES carts from my childhood...

by on (#32005)
Reseat the internal connector, put cleaning solution on a cart's "golden fingers", insert, eject, insert eject, insert and it should play.

by on (#32006)
Lol, that's like the FIRST thing I did! :P

EDIT: I just had a thought, maybe this has to do w/ the amount of amps going into the mobo! I've never had an official SNES AC Adapter for like 6 years, so I've been using any 7+V AC adapter I could find & cut the tip off of it. The one I'm currently using works just fine w/ a rev 2/3 system, but since this one has the SPU daughterboard maybe Super Metroid & Starfox are taking a few hundred milliamp too much...I'll find a higher AC adapter to use tomorrow & see if I'm correct...

by on (#32009)
Holy shit, you're feeding your SNES AC? I think they do have a reverse-polarity diode, but that's not a good rectifier. Also, the NES power adaptor is 10V DC. 7V AC will rectify to significantly less, especially with a half-wave one made of a single diode.

by on (#32026)
I said AC? Meant feeding it DC, lol.

by on (#32963)
Wouldn't it be an AC adapter since you are adapting AC? Was the NES 10VAC? I thought it was 9VAC. The SNES I know is 10VDC.

by on (#35095)
Run the snes tester rom (from the "burn in/test cartridge") on the snes (borrow a copier from someone). That should tell you fairly accurately whats wrong with it. I have one here which has a duff s-cpu, the divide registers don't work properly and hence just about nothing runs except the copier menu, the tester rom, and mario paint.

LN

by on (#35096)
lol, this thread! I still don't have a SNES controller to use on this unit (I bet one'll show up somewhere in my attic or something), once I do I'll test my original theory that the mobo isn't getting enough juice, THEN I'll investigate further if necessary. :P

by on (#35097)
Quote:
I have one here which has a duff s-cpu, the divide registers don't work properly and hence just about nothing runs except the copier menu, the tester rom, and mario paint.


I've got a 1/1/1 here that flips the tiles around on all sprites larger than 8x8. So yeah, you can play any game that doesn't use sprites.

I disabled the CIC and plan to use it with my dead-SRAM copier (it isn't the socket IC SRAM chip, I've tried replacing that) for stop-n-swop tasks.

by on (#35100)
byuu wrote:
I've got a 1/1/1 here that flips the tiles around on all sprites larger than 8x8. So yeah, you can play any game that doesn't use sprites.

Or SMB1 in All-Stars. Doesn't that one use 8x8s almost exclusively?