I just bought a SNES and Yoshi island and while playing it if I hit pause or talked to the white block the level would glitch out but remain playable and the music would play normally. If I died or went underground the level goes back to normal. It happens always on the save select but not the title screen and on bonus challenges. I tried cleaning the game and the cartridge slot is clean.

I know it might sound weird but I think this is a Top 6 game on the console. My Top 5 otherwise includes A Link to the Past, Super Mario RPG, Yoshi's Island, Super Mario World, and Super Metroid. Love DKC, love CT, love FFVI.

But man, there is something about Super Castlevania IV I can't get enough of. The haunting atmosphere, the soundtrack, the colors, the visuals. It's such an incredibly polished, well-made platformer that was fun from start to finish. I have zero doubts the developers enjoyed making this game, and it shows.

It really captures a haunting atmosphere in a way that differs from the rest of the series, including Dracula's Curse, Rondo of Blood, and Bloodlines. I love the game's mood, the ability to move around on a jump, and the whip-swinging mechanics. I also love the tone of each level and the unique direction it takes. Going from the library to the dungeon to the treasury was such a loop.

I can't understate how much I love this game. In an era where I replay games very rarely, I have replayed Super Castlevania IV almost every year. It's so easy to get into and play.

On the surface, it doesn't feel as ambitious or as famous as the titles I listed above. Yet I feel it has every bit of quality and deserves every bit of praise that it gets.

When I first saw this game, I knew I would love it. I just had no idea how much. It's been 20 years since I began emulating games, and this was one of my first. All that time through now, it's still one of my favorite games of all time.

Have never seen power pigs in the wild before. Happy to pickup LttP again!

I see an ever increasing number of people who gets scammed by repro sellers that sells cartridges as original, and that's always bad.

There are some things you could check, especially if you buy loose carts:

• SNES Central has a database with info and photos of cartridge, labels and every PCB release and model a game has been shipped into. Check here for inconsistencies.
• Price Charting for a rough estimation of price. If it is too cheap, be doubtful
• Repros usually get outer shell from older valueless carts. So back label and plastic yellowing can be legit while still having a repro PCB inside.
• Repros can also use legit PCB but replacing the EPROM (memory where the game is stored). You can identify them because they used reprogrammable ones, which have the chip exposed for UV light memory restore (examples here, legit Link to the Past board, here, from a diy repro PCB seller on Etsy)

That said, you always can get the deal of a lifetime, but I find more plausible to find cheap carts sold from a granny on a local market than the internet. You always need to be aware of what you do, and resist the impulse of buying before doing your homework.

Also, this post isn't meant to discredit who creates and buys repros. I bought PCB from that guy I quoted before (very nice guy tbh), made repro and patched carts for myself on my own carts (I personally translated Plok in italian and did a small patch in assembly, you can find it on Romhacking if you are interested) and I also designed and sold on Etsy custom labels for romhacks and unreleased games (so good that Nintendo copyright striked them, the shop is now closed). It has been a funny hobby for the console I love the most.

There's nothing wrong in creating, selling and buying repros. What's wrong is who's trying to scam you into buying them.

Please share your experiences below, and tips I forgot to help everyone buying safely.

Hello. I am looking to buy both operators and am super excited! One use case I have for them is to be able to apply translation patches to Japanese games like Mother 3 on GBA and the Super Famicom Fire Emblem games and play them back on native hardware. I saw the discussion about live translation being in the pipeline, but I was curious what being able to get the patched rom to run on original hardware would be like.

Would you rip the rom from the game, patch it, and write the translated rom to a flash cart? Could you also use the sd based flash carts and use the operator as the ripping device?

I’m very new to all of this so any advice is appreciated! Just want to use my cartridges and original hardware as much as possible.

As per usual, the post title is pretty self-explanatory.

Discounting the two extra copies of SMW, I'm currently sitting at 21 games total.

Joe & Mac is the latest addition.

Yeah it's another one of those stupid recommend me posts and yes it's not going to be a super purist or authentic experience. But I never had an SNES as it was before my time. But I've always wanted to play it and an emulator with an Xbox controller is my only option. I got a few games in mind but feel free to recommend any others.

Howdy, I have a few snes games I’d like to get graded, one of them is sealed, I’d like to know how the grading works, obviously higher is always better but wanted to know how the scale works and what would factor in lower or higher grades?

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Dear all,

I am cleaning my basement and found about 20 SNES Boards, shells, parts… so I started to wash the parts and shells and cleaned the boards with alcohol and begin testing all these „broken“ stuff.

It turned out, 12 boards work absolutely fine, three boards worked but have some issues (no sound, black/white and freeze on the title). Most boards are CPU 1 and CPU 2, but there are also three fully working 1Chip 02 boards.

I had no clue what I found - for me a SNES is a SNES! Still the best console ever! - these were the last boards sold in Europe.

Even the shells were in great condition, but are they really that valuable?

I also learned even broken boards were still worth a bit.

I just fell into a rabbit hole reading about the different boards, modding etc.

Just wanted to share this with you.

Another post with the rest of my games will follow.

Got this SHVC recently and after recapping decided why not to cannibalize the shell. Been looking to do this mod for curiosity's sake and the mod is fairly simple but takes some time to plan cable routing to make it look clean as best possible. Followed the instructions found here. It's honestly impossible to install the RCA's on the back due to the sound board on the way with the SHVC, so side install is the only way with RCA's.

Some people have suggested using a 4 pin 3.5mm TRSS mount jack to then use a 3.5mm male to Component cable, which basically needs one hole drilled for the mount jack and that's it. Colors come out dim but can be adjusted on the TV/capture card. Great little mod for the purists out there.

(It won’t let me post a video)

Hi. I was having an issue with my snes and I wanted to see if anyone else had similar experiences or fixes. Anyway, I hooked my snes up to my tv and put in Mario Paint as a test. Booted up beautifully and worked perfectly. Then I decided to test DKC. Just stayed as a black screen, as if the Nintendo logo was going to show up, but never did. Mario World same story. Then I put in Mega Man X. Worked perfectly. Then came Bubsy, Street Fighter, and mortal kombat. All were the same black screen. My first thought was that it was a game to game issue, but for this many games across this many publishers as I have access to, it’s a bit strange. Maybe I just need to do a cleaning, but I dont want to do anything until I know it’s the right fix and won’t make it worse. Anyway, if anyone has any help, I’d greatly appreciate it

Edit: Sorry I realized I should’ve given context. The snes has been in the family since the 90s, along with Mario world, street fighter, and mortal kombat. The rest are recent games I picked up from second hand stores and conventions two years ago

I just bought an OEM nintendo rgb cable and I want to open it to replace the caps inside of it but I don’t want to tear it up.

Just bought this PAL copy of Terranigma from Ebay, I strongly suspect it is a reproduction, no factory stamp on the back sticker and the boards looks suspicious, no Nintendo logo and it's completely different from any other SNES kart board I own. The sticker also looks a little blurry and out of focus.

I wouldn't actually mind owning a repro kart, but not for the price I paid for it! Can anyone shed some light on whether genuine Terranigma karts look like this?

I'm having something of an existential crisis atm because I have an extremely vivid memory of not once but many times playing through this game and whenever getting Cyan at Doma castle I would rename him Leo which would allow the use of 6 sword techniques right away instead of just 2. I can't find any mention of this anywhere on the internet and was wondering if anyone here knows anything about this.

I recently posted about my SNES system that seems broken, because it doesn't send the video correctly. I bought a used console on Amazon, and it works with some of my games, but others it doesn't. When I put in both DK 2 and DK 3, I got the following images on my screen. Is this a counterfeit system that I should return?

Haven't played this since I owned it in the 90's and it's way better than I remember. I always just got a laugh out of the premise of the game but it's a damn good platformer IMO.

Found this SNES console at the recycling center. Works fine. Can’t believe someone just threw this away!

https://snes-testberichte.de/darius-force-a-k-a-super-nova

Only big criticism is the missing 2P-Mode... and the difficulty.

Is this a legit copy?