Still_Servant
05-26-2013, 01:20 AM
I purchased an SNES at a tag sale the other day for 20 bucks. The system looked to be in good shape. It was clean and the pin connector looked good. It came with one game, NBA All-Star Challenge. A crap game, (one I had for the Gameboy growing up) but whatever, I didn't buy it for the game.
The NBA game plays great. You can play it for hours. Since this is my first SNES, I didn't have any other games so I bought Aladdin. The game never goes to the opening Nintendo title screen. It then freezes every time right before it gets to the player select screen. I thought it might be the game and brought it back to the store but it played fine on their system.
Since I thought this was weird, I brought the whole system in for the guys to look at. They proceeded to insert game after game into the system only to have all of them freeze at various times before the player select screen.
In short, the SNES only plays one game and that is the one it came with. I opened her up and dusted her off but no dice. I'm really stumped on this one and I figured I would ask around before I totally give up. I'm assuming that there is something wrong with the motherboard. In that case, I don't think there's any way to bring her back. I could see if it didn't play any games, but to play one game so perfectly and no others is just mind boggling to me.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
The NBA game plays great. You can play it for hours. Since this is my first SNES, I didn't have any other games so I bought Aladdin. The game never goes to the opening Nintendo title screen. It then freezes every time right before it gets to the player select screen. I thought it might be the game and brought it back to the store but it played fine on their system.
Since I thought this was weird, I brought the whole system in for the guys to look at. They proceeded to insert game after game into the system only to have all of them freeze at various times before the player select screen.
In short, the SNES only plays one game and that is the one it came with. I opened her up and dusted her off but no dice. I'm really stumped on this one and I figured I would ask around before I totally give up. I'm assuming that there is something wrong with the motherboard. In that case, I don't think there's any way to bring her back. I could see if it didn't play any games, but to play one game so perfectly and no others is just mind boggling to me.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.