Someone mentioned that there's a translated version of Terranigma that doesn't need a modified SNES to play? Is this true?
i really want this but i find it hard to justify the purchase as i already own a snes Tototek flash cart. i would pretty much just be buying convience of the CFC.
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The SNES did not use mappers, hence why 99% of games work on this cart. The SA-1 and Super FX chips are coprocessors, essentially bumping up the capabilities of the SNES. The SA-1 is actually very similar to the processor used in the SNES, but it runs at 10 MHz, nearly 4 times faster than the system. It would be a logistical nightmare to try try to make a flash cart for it, and really not worth it. Hell, the people who dumped the SA-1 games literally removed the rom chip off the board to read the ROM. It is the same deal with the C4 chip in the Mega Man X2/3 games, it is a coprocessor, and it would require significant modifications to get it to work on a flash cart.
As for Street Fighter Alpha 2, it uses an SDD-1 chip, which is a graphics decompressor. It could be playable if someone bothered to hack the rom to include the compressed images. Someone actually did that for Star Ocean, meaning that if you can find this patch, you can play it on your Power Pak (at 96 Mbit, it wouldn't play in most copiers, except those that allow bank switching). Also, Mode 7 is a hardware feature of the SNES, and has nothing to do with any chip on the carts.
<Evan_G> i keep my games in an inaccessable crate where i can't play them
Good information Evan. I only mentioned mappers because I saw a link on the retrousb site for SNES PowerPak Mappers version 1.00 but I assume that's just them staying with their NES Powerpak lingo.
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How hard just to add a SDD-1 chip in the cart..for games like star oceane & sfa2
The 96mbit version of Star Ocean doesn't use bank switching. It just maps into nearly the entire memory space of the snes. The only reason it worked on the gd7 was because it had flexible memory mapping. It is possible to make a repro of this version using a normal hirom board provided that you have the memory chips with a high enough capacity.
Very hard. If it was easy to do, it would have been included. The creator himself said no add-on chips would be supported except for DSP1.Originally Posted by MarioMania
Can MMX2 & X3 be playable without the CX4 chip??
it plays in the Game Genie no problem
Is there any reason why they used CompactFlash instead of MicroSD (or something that's well, more common than CF is)?
I'm not complaining about the price or the lack of chips or whatever. But CompactFlash? o_O
I recall bunnyboy saying that the parallel interface of CF was faster than the serial interface of SD. Maybe it's just less taxing on the hardware to use parallel rather than serial.
Why dosn't bunnyboy do a Genesis/32X/Master System version of the Powerpak..but called something else
Look here: Problem I think with this one is it uses a GBA type flash cart, which is sold separately. So at the cheapest, for the cartridge and flash card will run you over $200.
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I'd buy that right away from retrousb, although would be great if whoever did it could make Game Gear games playable. An N64 cart would of course be the holy grail for me. The best thing about retrousb's stuff is the ability to go right onto a common flash media via USB.
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Just so everyone knows, this poster is obviously an alias of Dutch. Dutch was banned from NA for being a scammer and a dirtbag who has nothing better to do than make fake accounts to talk shit about people. The only problem is, because of the language barrier and his distinct posting style, everyone knows who he is immediately after he posts.
Can't wait to order mine, it'll go nicely with all my other retrozone stuff
Yeah, dutch just seems to try to hate and just fails miserably. It's comical.
Although it's neat, I'm going to save my cash for now as it's not a must have like the NES one. Down the road, it'll be nice to play the titles I have sealed that I can't bring myself to open.