Hey everyone..
I'm a new user but an occasional reader / visiter. I posted this over at the nesworld forums and I'm not sure how you all feel about crossposting but there really hasn't been any leads on their end. I figured I'd try here as this is a little more "specialty" for the subject matter.
I'll just cut and paste from there...once again apologies if this isn't allowed.
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I purchased a powerpak some time ago and I've noticed some strange behavior...particularly with Super Mario Bros 3 (and yes I own the original cart..albeit sealed in the box).
My SMB3 rom used to work great when I was using the 1.11 mappers and when I saw the 1.12 update I jumped for it. Well, after I put it on the card I went to go play several of the games and noticed odd behavior. SMB2 was glitched out (playable...but extremely glitched) and SMB3 would start in world 1 as usual but had a world 8 color scheme, lullaby music, and wouldn't allow you to go anywhere on the map. Odd. Also, now Kirby's Adventure doesn't seem to work either but truth be told I'm not sure if it ever did.
So fast forward several months after an extremely busy season at work to now. I tried to fire up the SMB3 rom again thinking it might be different this time (??) and it obviously didn't change. Still strange looking level map w/ glitched out images. So I go and dl several different SMB3 roms (remember I OWN the original!) and all of them return the same exact screen. hrmmph
I thought that maybe if I go back to the 1.11 mappers it would solve the problem. Nope! It did however change the map slightly. So I put the 1.12 mappers back on the cf and now the new changed world map is the one that loads instead of the old one. Almost as though the nes has a cache. Oddly enough though SMB2 works now...kirby still doesn't.
I've tried to contact retrozone in the past with no luck.
It's most certainly more than the glitching that was described in past reviews. This is pretty much creating new screens / music and roms such as smb2 and smb3 do not work along with several others. I can see if this cart has seen abnormal usage but it still *smells* new.
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Well there you have it folks..not really sure what the issue is here.
Any help is *extremely* appreciated on this matter. I've also tried different nes toaster systems for testing with no luck...
Fingers crossed!
I'm a new user but an occasional reader / visiter. I posted this over at the nesworld forums and I'm not sure how you all feel about crossposting but there really hasn't been any leads on their end. I figured I'd try here as this is a little more "specialty" for the subject matter.
I'll just cut and paste from there...once again apologies if this isn't allowed.
*snip*
I purchased a powerpak some time ago and I've noticed some strange behavior...particularly with Super Mario Bros 3 (and yes I own the original cart..albeit sealed in the box).
My SMB3 rom used to work great when I was using the 1.11 mappers and when I saw the 1.12 update I jumped for it. Well, after I put it on the card I went to go play several of the games and noticed odd behavior. SMB2 was glitched out (playable...but extremely glitched) and SMB3 would start in world 1 as usual but had a world 8 color scheme, lullaby music, and wouldn't allow you to go anywhere on the map. Odd. Also, now Kirby's Adventure doesn't seem to work either but truth be told I'm not sure if it ever did.
So fast forward several months after an extremely busy season at work to now. I tried to fire up the SMB3 rom again thinking it might be different this time (??) and it obviously didn't change. Still strange looking level map w/ glitched out images. So I go and dl several different SMB3 roms (remember I OWN the original!) and all of them return the same exact screen. hrmmph
I thought that maybe if I go back to the 1.11 mappers it would solve the problem. Nope! It did however change the map slightly. So I put the 1.12 mappers back on the cf and now the new changed world map is the one that loads instead of the old one. Almost as though the nes has a cache. Oddly enough though SMB2 works now...kirby still doesn't.
I've tried to contact retrozone in the past with no luck.
It's most certainly more than the glitching that was described in past reviews. This is pretty much creating new screens / music and roms such as smb2 and smb3 do not work along with several others. I can see if this cart has seen abnormal usage but it still *smells* new.
*snip*
Well there you have it folks..not really sure what the issue is here.
Any help is *extremely* appreciated on this matter. I've also tried different nes toaster systems for testing with no luck...
Fingers crossed!