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Someone. please, help my SNES!
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I just bought a used copy of the Super Scope 6-in-1 cartridge, and it looks absolutely pristine. There's not a scratch on the front or back labels, and I took a magnifying glass to the contacts and could not find a trace of dirt, or a hair, or anything. It looks like it was played once and then never played again.
I just put it into my SNES, which has never had a problem whatsoever since I had it from all the way back to Christmas '92, and the last time I played it was a few days ago. Perhaps a week and a half ago at the most.
I put in the 6-in-1 cartridge and turn it on. I get a garbled screen of what I know is supposed to be the part where "Super NES Super Scope 6" reverse-zooms in on the screen. I turn it off, eject, and clean it the cartridge. I try again. I still get the same garbled screen.
Thinking the game is just defective, I put in the game I last played (Metal Combat: Falcon's Revenge). NOW IT IS GARBLED AS WELL!
I immediately take the official SNES cleaning kit (yeah, I have one of those) and begin quickly using it on the console. I try again with Metal Combat: STILL GARBLED!
It is also the same garbling every time. For example, with Metal Combat, what I know is supposed to be just the Nintendo logo as soon as you turn it on is now a crazy maze of white and black of the same garbled sprite repeated. And it's always this with each time I try to turn it on.
The game plays like nothing is wrong. The sound is fine as well. It's just the screen is garbled like nothing I've ever seen before.
WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED AND HOW CAN I FIX IT?!
I just put it into my SNES, which has never had a problem whatsoever since I had it from all the way back to Christmas '92, and the last time I played it was a few days ago. Perhaps a week and a half ago at the most.
I put in the 6-in-1 cartridge and turn it on. I get a garbled screen of what I know is supposed to be the part where "Super NES Super Scope 6" reverse-zooms in on the screen. I turn it off, eject, and clean it the cartridge. I try again. I still get the same garbled screen.
Thinking the game is just defective, I put in the game I last played (Metal Combat: Falcon's Revenge). NOW IT IS GARBLED AS WELL!
I immediately take the official SNES cleaning kit (yeah, I have one of those) and begin quickly using it on the console. I try again with Metal Combat: STILL GARBLED!
It is also the same garbling every time. For example, with Metal Combat, what I know is supposed to be just the Nintendo logo as soon as you turn it on is now a crazy maze of white and black of the same garbled sprite repeated. And it's always this with each time I try to turn it on.
The game plays like nothing is wrong. The sound is fine as well. It's just the screen is garbled like nothing I've ever seen before.
WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED AND HOW CAN I FIX IT?!
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I WILL NOT BE DOING 3DS FOR NWC THREAD. SOMEONE ELSE WILL HAVE TO TAKE OVER.
Spoiler contains Friend Codes. Won't you be my friend?
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Mario Kart Wii: 3136-6982-0286 Tetris Party: 2364 1569 4310
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TATSUNOKO VS CAPCOM: 1935-2070-9123
Nintendo DS:
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More Friend Codes!
Mario Kart Wii: 3136-6982-0286 Tetris Party: 2364 1569 4310
Guitar Hero: Metallica: 1032 7229 7191
TATSUNOKO VS CAPCOM: 1935-2070-9123
Nintendo DS:
Worms: Open Warfare 2: 1418-7870-1606 Space Bust-a-Move: 017398 403043
Scribblenauts: 1290-7509-5558
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Or rather, research what fuse is responsible, open it up.....
Edit: .....or is the chip outright fucked because of the short circuit? Assuming that's what this is, of course.
I WILL NOT BE DOING 3DS FOR NWC THREAD. SOMEONE ELSE WILL HAVE TO TAKE OVER.
Spoiler contains Friend Codes. Won't you be my friend?
More Friend Codes!
Mario Kart Wii: 3136-6982-0286 Tetris Party: 2364 1569 4310
Guitar Hero: Metallica: 1032 7229 7191
TATSUNOKO VS CAPCOM: 1935-2070-9123
Nintendo DS:
Worms: Open Warfare 2: 1418-7870-1606 Space Bust-a-Move: 017398 403043
Scribblenauts: 1290-7509-5558
This happens to NESes too. They'll work fine, and then bam, garbled screen.
My NES was dead in this same way when I broke it out a few weeks ago. I followed the instructions here and now it works perfectly. Maybe something similar can be done inside the SNES.
Something on the board just goes bad. I mean hell, it's 17 years old. That's pushing it already. The plastic on my first SNES became brittle and fell apart before the logic board went.
http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/repair/repair_limitations.jsp#snes
In fact, they already killed support for the N64.
The link UncleSporky gave is basically just trying to repair the damage of the connector on the NES instead of replacing it. It's not expensive to buy new ones so we did, but on the SNES apparently that's not an option so maybe you can follow the same kind of advice? I don't remember what the connectors on the SNES are like precisely but if they're spring-loaded then maybe you can perform the same procedure.
If the alternative is just finding and buying a different SNES console, then you don't have much to lose by trying some surgery imo.
There are also Taiwanese knock-off SNES's that are still being produced. I never picked one up, but I've talked to the guys at the local import game shop and they've said they generally work well. You can also pick one up for less than fifty bucks. You can find them pretty cheap online to. I'd ask around, maybe in G&T what a good one is to buy. Surely someone on this forum has a recommendation.
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Because it isn't made by Apple.
The chips eventually give out. Memory, Bios, The main CPU or sound chip. Eventually everything fails.
capacitors die pretty fast, as they simply dry up
chips have basically wear and tear through electrons practically chipping away parts of the circuit paths, kind like why light bulbs wear out
sounds like this was a short circuit though. which maybe also was the reason the game was only "played once", because it destroyed the first SNES it was put into, too
That's deep man.
At least I know I can return the 6-in-1 game. Maybe I can explain what happened and haggle with them for another SNES. :P "Hey, about this warranty you have for used games. What happens when a game as clean and pristine as this destroys my SNES on its first powering on?" But yeah, I should try opening this one up and seeing if there's anything I can do. I wonder how many Bic pens will have to be sacrificed for this.
I WILL NOT BE DOING 3DS FOR NWC THREAD. SOMEONE ELSE WILL HAVE TO TAKE OVER.
Spoiler contains Friend Codes. Won't you be my friend?
More Friend Codes!
Mario Kart Wii: 3136-6982-0286 Tetris Party: 2364 1569 4310
Guitar Hero: Metallica: 1032 7229 7191
TATSUNOKO VS CAPCOM: 1935-2070-9123
Nintendo DS:
Worms: Open Warfare 2: 1418-7870-1606 Space Bust-a-Move: 017398 403043
Scribblenauts: 1290-7509-5558
However, once I had the system reassembled ... it no longer powers on. Not even a blank screen. It just won't power on at all. I tried switching the old connector back in, but no good.
I'm not very hot when it comes to this sort of thing ... any ideas?
Are there any other AC adapters that might work with the NES? I wanted to try and maybe swap one out and see if that wasn't it.
EDIT: Seems it is the old NES AC Adapter ... switched it out and it works. Boy do I feel dumb.