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    Default SNES Powerpak is now available

    http://www.retrousb.com/product_info...products_id=84

    I have been waiting for this since I got my powerpak a year ago.

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    'Bout time! Love his products. I'm in line.

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    that looks pretty cool

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    I think this is the closest I'll ever get to playing an authetic cart copy of Secret of Mana 2 on my SNES. Consider this guy bought.

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    OK, I am confused about the whole "lockout chip" option for this product. Could someone please break it down in simple/noob/moron terms? If I plan to use this on an original NTSC AMERICAN SNES what option do I go for? etc.....
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    Quote Originally Posted by OldSchoolGamer View Post
    OK, I am confused about the whole "lockout chip" option for this product. Could someone please break it down in simple/noob/moron terms? If I plan to use this on an original NTSC AMERICAN SNES what option do I go for? etc.....
    You need to select the NTSC lockout chip option.
    If you had a PAL console you would select the PAL option.

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    Why do they list "Super Mario FX" on the incompatibility list?
    "Super Mario FX Super FX chip not supported"
    Is there a proto out there?



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    Quote Originally Posted by DeputyMoniker View Post
    Why do they list "Super Mario FX" on the incompatibility list?
    "Super Mario FX Super FX chip not supported"
    Is there a proto out there?
    Looks like the list was copied and pasted from wikipedia then alphabetically sorted.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DeputyMoniker View Post
    Why do they list "Super Mario FX" on the incompatibility list?
    "Super Mario FX Super FX chip not supported"
    Is there a proto out there?
    Super Mario FX probably never existed. They had Project Reality demos in mid 1993, so I assume that it is confused with this.
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    Default Super Starfox's Ark of DooM 3D?!?

    Like Super Noah's Ark 3D proves, a pass-through for Super FX games might actually work. Just put a connector with circut board routing to the CF card and it could work. Just slap a Doom cart on for Star Fox 2 or SMW2, or Starfox for Wave Race or that racing game. If Wisdom Tree could somehow use Wolfenstein to run it, why can't the SNES PowerPak pull it off? Keep in mind I'm just being hypothetical before you post a reply to this, though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Enigmus View Post
    Like Super Noah's Ark 3D proves, a pass-through for Super FX games might actually work. Just put a connector with circut board routing to the CF card and it could work. Just slap a Doom cart on for Star Fox 2 or SMW2, or Starfox for Wave Race or that racing game. If Wisdom Tree could somehow use Wolfenstein to run it, why can't the SNES PowerPak pull it off? Keep in mind I'm just being hypothetical before you post a reply to this, though.

    There is a bit of a difference between bypassing the lockout chip and implementing a coprocessor from another cart. I don't even want to think about how complex the voltage regulating would be.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Enigmus View Post
    Like Super Noah's Ark 3D proves, a pass-through for Super FX games might actually work. Just put a connector with circut board routing to the CF card and it could work. Just slap a Doom cart on for Star Fox 2 or SMW2, or Starfox for Wave Race or that racing game. If Wisdom Tree could somehow use Wolfenstein to run it, why can't the SNES PowerPak pull it off? Keep in mind I'm just being hypothetical before you post a reply to this, though.
    What would be the point? By the time you got a cartridge with each revision of the Super FX chip, you'd likely have most of the good games for it already (Star Fox and Yoshi's Island for example), with just a handful of other games left to buy that used it (Nothing else worth playing in my opinion besides Stunt Race FX).

    And I imagine the cost of custom engineering something that incorporated a cartridge bypass slot would cost far more than buying those last few titles that used one.

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    I am having the same issues
    bunnyboy is having me send mine back

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