Thank you! :)

Haha, I got lucky this time.

Thanks! :)

RetroGameTech Wow, a reply again? What a month!

can you do repairing a ps2 video?

will you ever do a video about this beast?

AquaDonkey69 480p Possibly, I'm building a collection of them! Got some really bizarre ones.

Hello, YOU!

The smell is horrible would knock me sick

***** Stop that, I need my voice to speak myself :D

Wow! compatible with both systems! I need one of those!

Thanks for the tip! I never knew that. Will open it up when I get the new drive. Cheers!

i happen to have the battery infront of me nimh 80mah 3.6v this one www.ebay.com/itm/1-pcs-80mAh-3-6V-Ni-MH-Button-Cell-Rechargeable-Battery-w-Tab-Green-/351792398716?hash=item51e876017c:g:unIAAOSwENxXlcOL

Thanks for the warning! I immediately opened my device and the battery was terrible... But not much damage on the board yet. I need to sand it and neutralice it (+ new battery and caps). Seems like its not very hard to upgrade it to 32m, or to ntsc. There seems to be some bios updates too. And i believe that the usb floppy emulator will work also, cause it uses only 5v. But it might need the 100x floppy not the 1000x. There has been some issues with those on other systems. It would be nice to see video for the upgrade too.

Good point, thanks. Its the cheap NI-CD battery. I think i will put battery holder and Li-ion to it. I will try to put that floppy emulator too, the E100 version (2 digits).

Kangsteri don't use lipo The internal charger can't handle that

MantaRayGun that's exactly what I was thinking

I had modded NES and SNES back in the day, running converters (honeybee) and cartridges with obscene amounts of games on each, straight out of Japan.

dunxy Like an Everdrive? Do you remember the name, by any chance? I'm interested in multicart stuff.

***** Not sure about that, but it is just really interesting to see something thinking outside the box.

***** ah! Gotcha! I guess that would save a tiny bit of room if you put the carts into the storage shed. otherwise, Floppy Disks deteriorate over time...so I don't see any other benefits of this. It's still cool.

I wonder if you could transplant an amiga floppy emulator drive and the use flash cards or usb sticks to read the roms off of it.

yeah probably a GOTEK or a HXC emulator would work...

Glad you enjoy them! Thanks for taking the time to comment.

I would guess the seller has had it laying around for years but no longer has the console. Better to sell it as faulty than as working and then getting negative feedback and complaints if it had stopped working. I've got a tonne of junk like that and I'd not sell it as working unless I could test it before sending it out.

Why do people suddenly start sentences with "So..."? Really annoying.

So you just noticed that?

ZeldaBoy savage

*puts on grammar Nazi hat* You can use so when introducing a concluding question or statement. So I kicked him in the nuts. So you just noticed that? *takes off hat and easy peel off Nazi forehead sticker*

Indeed! :) But I'm still curious if there is something I'm missing. Possibly some caps on their way out or something..

+RetroGameTech I would suggest to back up those old floppies, and perhaps upgrade to a USB auf floppy disk emulator. That should reduce load times, and have everything on a thumb drive instead of those floppies. Nice find

Thank you :)

Im sure he doesnt think its a shame there was nothing wrong with it.

Haha! Maybe he does - he likes the challenge of fixing stuff!

It's kinda bittersweet :P . Less work for me, but less content for the video.

RetroGameTech ...martin...ive got a couple of snes and a megadrive faulty motherboards if you need something challenging..im down here in london..been hesitating to write here publicly..I dont do social media..my mobile is 07975560182..one snes has black screen the other black bars...one MD blank the other unstable graphics..also a super famicom with blank screen..thanks specs

Putting your phone number in the comments of a youtube video? I cant think of a much worse idea than that. Not smart bud.

Thanks for watching and commenting :)

I just wonder if there are some temperamental caps hiding inside, haha.

He even says it's a clone in the video. More than once.

no the SNES doesn't have a lockout mine is real and does not have a lockout the pal and NTSC are different because of the shape of the cartridge

eein fredrickson Incorrect. SNES games had a CIC lockout chip. They were more for locking out bootlegs and unlicensed games and less about region locking.

Emmett Turner I don't know much about the lockout but I did experience that many early games worked fine on the system I used (called "UFO" or something) but then other games that were a bit newer like Mario All Stars would actually display a message about piracy and knew it was not geniune. My guess is that there were multiple generations of lockout chip software and noy just one type like the older NES's 10NES chip

ssdwellah That message was not triggered by the lockout chip. Without defeating the lockout chip it actually wouldn't get that far. The lockout chip is "defeated" by inserting a legitimate game into the top. The CIC key in the game pack will unlock the CIC lockout chip in the console and allow it to boot. That's how Game Genie, Pro Action Replay, Super Noah's 3D Ark, Super Wildcard, and Professor SF/Game Doctor, Super UFO, etc worked on a real SNES: they all used the CIC key inside an original game pak inserted into the top or back. The message you were seeing was related to Hi-ROM, Lo-ROM, and SRAM checks. For example, a game like Donkey Kong a Country might check that the SRAM exists and is at the right capacity. It might also test to see if read-only ROM addresses allow writes. If anything is different from what the game expects, it throws up that screen. A tool called UCON was excellent for cracking those checks and patching the ROMs so that they worked anyway.

Yeah it was a bit of an impulse buy and a lucky find. Worked out well.

Still 100x cooler than a flashcart though :)

RetroGameTech Points for that :p

Thank you!

That is pretty handy. You could even download other people saves and put them on your own cart.

I never saw that episode but I would have loved something like this for my MegaDrive back in the day! It probably cost a fortune back then.

Well they seem to still work, so your memory is serving you well. :)

TDK, BASF, Maxell and FUJI were the best for audio and VHS tapes and discs.

I know there are way more efficient and practical ways of playing backups nowadays, but getting your SNES to load them off floppies is weirdly satisfying. That sounds kinda sinister!

I had one of these on an original US SNES. It worked without a cartridge plugged in, only needed to plug one if if you were going to play it or dump the ROM to a floppy.

Wrong, Kyler. He even states in the video that it's a clone.

How many times can Kyler own himself?

its a snes Jr, so its technically a clone of the original snes. anyways, It is so ugly. Nes Jr was prettier.

FireAdrix Not an official SNES Jr. He opened the system before and found it was a hardware clone of the SNES Jr rather than the real thing.

Totally! The stuff of playground myth, haha

Yeah I signed in to suggest just that. It should greatly reduce load times.

That's the plan provided the games are easily patched and not in some sort of unknown format. I've ordered an external floppy drive for the laptop to mess about with :)

Would not be worth it with this model as you would have to use CF card to floppy IDE, and this unit can't handle games bigger then 16Mbit in size anyways, or any of Super FX games. You are better off with a homebrewed Wii running the games via emulation. Also to note you have to apply special patches to the games to make them work, and the menu system can't handle that many files. Also another option if you want true hardware is something like an SD2SNES or Super EverdDrive that directly accepts full size SD cards.

Commodorefan64 I was with you up until Wii. There's no need to hassle with setting up that, a 10 year old laptop is more than capable of emulating snes games.

D-no P the SWC isn't any better for handling enhancement chips. infact thanks to its age it's worse.

RevengeofGothzilla seriously after getting the last Wii update, it was about a 30 mins process to do the letter bomb hack, and to download the homebrew channel then install the emulators, about maybe another 5-10 mins to transfer all the various game roms to my SD card, plus I don't have to pull out a laptop, AC adapter, usb controller and VGA/HDMI cables everytime I want to play a game on my big flat screen TV I can just sit down in my big oversized lazy boy pick up my Wii Mote, and Wii controller Pro, and I'm ready to game fire up a game in no time. If I want to game on the go I just grab my Android phone, and MOGA Hero Power Bluetooth controller, and I'm good to go.

RevengeOfGothzilla 14 yr old laptops are good emulators too, i can even emulate PS1 (albiet with graphical issues)

Or just rent games and copy them. Maybe not as economical, but still works. I would have copied every game I could get my hands on as a kid.

Rent them!?. It was 1995

+michael brown what you didn't rent games in 1995? I sure did. Blockbuster was in its heyday and there was a mom n pop rental store on every block. where did u grow up?

Yeah we had blockbuster but was more film than games so was catoureloge or new

I'm sure you weren't the only one, haha

Cheers

I was thinking the same thing. I'll be keeping an eye out for one :)

hteekay *Hundreds. a standard single layer CD-ROM is 650mb. Max rom size for a SNES is about 2.44mbs

well not all roms are at equal sizes some are really small but you're right it can only fit hundreds . Which is hundred times more than floppy disks.

I'm really liking the Super Card and clone combo. RGB mod will be icing on the cake xD

Yes, but FLOPPY DISKS

This!

i wonder if you put in something like this www.ebay.com/itm/3-5-144MB-Upgrade-Floppy-Drive-to-USB-Flash-Disk-Drive-Emulator-CD-Screws-FT-/221706722597?hash=item339ec01d25:g:OwsAAOSwnDxUhX2j would the damn thing work?

It depends on how many floppy disk drives the driver in the wild cart system will work with. Those devices are pretty generic so they should work, and be quite a bit faster too.

it only lets the system see one at a time. I am guessing if you do the setup on a pc then it should work with no problems for all the virtual disk drives this thing is supporting.It would be cool to see it in action .

It's very possible but my loft is really well ventilated and dry. Either way the PSU is toast. Hope the mobo is ok :(

RetroGameTech Depends where it went wrong. Could have even been a large spider making residence, causing a short. Normally, the mobo gets toast, but, if it had a quality PSU, you might be okay.

Could be, but those Dells are notorious for popping the PSU.

googleboughtmee I don't know how old your sys tree m was but if it's about 15-10 years old there was a very widespread case of bad capacitors used in electronics. Power supplies and regulator circuits use caps a lot. It was s whole big thing about industrial espionage and someone stole the formula for an electrolytic capacitor, but the formula wasn't complete or was deliberately booby trapped so the chemistry was a bit off. So long story not so short, if you are willing to solder it look for bulging or blown caps.

Same, I love the obscure unofficial hardware from previous gens.

Thanks for the tip! I'll keep that in mind.

I will probably keep it as is but mess around with it to see what works :)

yes you could . i remember them too. i only had the 16m one myself.

Yup, you can do that. I had the 16M model and got a memory expansion for it. Someone in the UK did it for me if I remember it correctly. :)

what was the difference? it could play larger games or something? Also, were there any cases where games got split across several floppy disks?

MrDebauch Yup, larger games. A lot of games were split on two disks. I can't remember if there was any game that needed three of them though.

***** oh okok makes sense.. i had super street fighter in mind when i was thinking of that. I still use a lot of old music gear that requires floppy disks.. i have moving boxes of them haha.

I'll take that as a compliment (I think) Haha

It's possible. I have a feeling the seller wasn't the original owner and wasn't 100% familiar with the device.

Charles Ost How exactly did you find them?

I wonder how easy it would be to throw some extra RAM in this thing. I can see a socketed chip through the cart flap.

SF2 Turbo is only 20 or 24Mb. My Wild Card is the 24Mb and SF2 Turbo works fine. 2 discs it takes though.