well finally have my japanese sms set up as well as my tototek flash cart and adaptor.
to make a long story short my goal was to play phantasy star in english with the fm sound. after loading the game + fan translation on the flash cart and going to play i switch over to the FM synth i get silence.
i know the machine is good because it plays other jp carts with fm fine and the roms with fm (the jp version of PS) for example play fine. i've checked the patched rom in an emulator and it worked fine with toggeling between option on the title screen.
yes, i'm aware i can just play it on a pc, thats not the point.
now i've had a few people inform me that the problem may acually be with the tototek adaptor but as of yet i can't seem to find any alternative adaptors out there for playing US sms games on a JP system. can anyone reccommend a diffrent adaptor and point me to where to purchase it?