Hi all, got this knockoff cart and I'm wondering if there is any way to add cheats? Tried pressing Select while highlighting a game but no go.

I had the Mario Paint game on SNES as a kid. It was from the UK so would have been PAL version.

To cut things short, I think you need to have some saved images in the game. Then at the title screen, we used to try and connect a second controller to the second controller port (mouse was in controller port one). Sometimes - when we wriggled the 2nd controller connector in 2nd port socket, at the Mario Paint intro screen, we could trigger a "please wait" screen, and it would be followed by a preview of images, one of which was an image I had saved in the game.

I've not seen any mention of this, and no longer have easy access to the SNES, but... I'd love to understand what the heck was happening there, and am so surprised to see no reference of this anywhere online. Does no one recall this.. ?! Starting to wonder if we stumbled on something?!

I'd love to hear if anyone else saw this easter egg/hidden function/normal function in Mario Paint that I can't see documented anywhere online - mostly because it was when I was maybe 5 years old, and I barely remember it fully. If it is unknown to folks, I hope it's useful to anyone interested!

The backstory is - my brother and I were super young and managed to trigger the screen in this way while we were bored. The screen would say "please wait". For whatever reason we were always scared by the abrupt way it popped up "please wait" and how we triggered it by wriggling the second controller connector in the port when connecting it, so we'd just turn the console off and not wait. It became a kind of creepy thing we wouldn't want to go past.

But one day our uncle was round and he wanted to see it. And that's when we actually waited ... but I barely remember what happened. From memory, it started an image preview of stuff saved on the cartridge in a presentation format..

Anyone that has any info - I'd love to know more after so much time. It's something of a legend from my childhood at this stage!

Hi I am thinking about buying a SNES original model without its original power supply who makes the best third party power supply for the original super Nintendo

It has been a while since I have played SNES on real hardware.

I have an SNES connected to my tv in my room. I have a copy of super mario world that I thought had an issues because it would twitch/jump around a bit visually when I played it, but none of my other cartridges do that. Today I bought another copy of it, that has been tested, and it does it too. I'll add a link, but what could be causing this? Why is it only super mario world? Is this a common issue?

video: https://imgur.com/gallery/46yrOZ6

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I love Kirby, so I wondered what is your favourite one on snes.

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Using Universal Adaptor Expert Version on SNES. I can boot into the title screen of FFV well, but the second I try to go past it goes really glitchy. I can still hear the music fine, however. I know some games had high security when it comes to region locking, but I can't seem to find it documented anywhere that FFV was one of these.

This includes box artwork, advertisement, branding, cartridge + controller styles, etc.

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Easy recommendation. If you have the means, get a Retrotink- it is just that good.

I got the 5X Pro and updated the firmware. Running SNES S-Video to the Retrotink, outputting to a 60" 4K TV at 1080p and the output (after about 10 mins of one time set-up, easy) looks like native 1080P output.

Very impressed! Any questions? AMA

I got a JP SFC console but also have a couple of US games (including Starfox). What’s the best adapter to get and where to get ?

So I understand the Krikzz products seem to be the best, but they aren't preloaded with games, I'm looking for a cart that is preloaded. I'm trying to keep it simple, but also want to make sure it won't damage my original SNES system. are the ones sold on Amazon OK? Magic City Vault 900-1? or Retrotech?

I have a work PC and our IT security means it's pretty locked down, no way i can download files to it to load up an SD card, so i need something preloaded. Also just looking to get some additional multiplayer (multitap) games for my kids, and don't really want to spend the money on original carts for games that aren't' that great and they probably won't play that long. And there is a bonus of me getting to play Super Metroid, Megaman, and Earthbound as i don't have those yet, and I'm not sure i want to spend the money on the orig. carts.

So, I recently recieved DKC2 and 3 in Jap versions and I'm currently trying to run it on a PAL SNES with Action Replay 3 that can be used as an adapter for NSTC and Jap games run on PAL SNES. It works with DKC1 Jap but not with DKC2 and DKC3, so do I need to do something or do I need to completely dezone my console. Thanks.

I'm wondering if anyone knows where I could buy a 3D printed or injection molded SNES region free tray for an OG super Nintendo as all I can seem to find is the ones for the junior and not the original launch model or it's later revisions as I don't want to have to try to bust the little plastic pieces that stop you being able to play Japanese games on an original super Nintendo myself and possibly lose my 6-month warranty on the system from the person I'm buying it from

So I have a SNES that works for the most part. It plays my games well enough and only has two real issues with it, one being that my Metroid related games have a lot of graphical issues in the literal background (along with my copy of Aladdin’s title screen looking funky, but the game is otherwise perfectly fine), and the second being that my hack copy of Hyper Metroid will delete its own save file every other time I turn it on.

I also have a Retron 5 but it won’t read the hack cartridge. That being said, the aforementioned graphical errors are gone on the Retron.

So I’m looking for suggestions on a modern system that will not only play my regular SNES games but also some Metroid hacks.

Hello all,

I've never owned a SNES so I imported Super Famicom from Japan, because I wanted the original console. I live in Europe, the console came without a power brick, what kind of power supply would you recommend, or should I get 110V original and then convert from 220V?

Is it possible to play other region (US/Europe) games on this console (for example via rom cartridge)? If I have understood correctly, NTSC games run at 60 fps while PAL games 50 fps, what happens if I run PAL rom on this NTSC-J console, will it be 50 or 60? I assume NTSC-U games would run fine.

I think I need a scaler as well, I was thinking OSSC, but are there any other alternatives?

Any other advice also welcome, because honestly I have not much idea what am I doing.

Hi I am planning on buying a super Nintendo and I am wondering what is the best HDMI adapter to get as at the moment I am not putting any sort of upscaler into my setup so no open source scan converter retro tink at the moment