SUPERCHARGE Your Super Nintendo!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,273 words · ~6 min read
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let's begin with the good news i found my composite to four-pole three
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and a half millimeter adapter that i need to plug my super nintendo into my
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fancy OLED tv wish i had a framemeister
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but this'll do the bad news is five minutes before we
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started filming this i tripped on this cable knocked my snes off the coffee
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table and cracked it here and here
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and now it makes this noise
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the good news is that whether you have working hardware or not analog is
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launching their super nt very very shortly so it is a great time
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to be a retro gaming enthusiast if you're into this nest and
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we have the perfect tool to make your experience complete this
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is exactly what it sounds like the sd2
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snes it takes this
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and adapts it to this
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zotac's mech one pc is an ultra slim desktop built for gaming featuring a
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sleek robotic style design check it out now at the link below so on first glance
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there's really not a lot to this guy but as we dig beneath the surface a lot of
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thought was given to the tech that's gone into it and compatibility so it
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should be a complete well near complete one size fits all so on the subject of
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size and fit you can see it is shaped like a super famicom cartridge but it
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has the tabs for the north american region version so what that means is
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that it will fit universally in any snes
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or super famicom without any modification whatsoever
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this sd card slot has near universal compatibility so they don't have support
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for x fat yet but it supports up to sdxc
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and they've tested up to 200 gig cards
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in here so it should be pretty much format fat32 and go it can't take full
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advantage of the speed of those high-end sd cards mind you but
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rom's loading at nine megabytes a second is pretty good and they claim that menu
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navigation is snappy on the high resolution
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512 by 224 menu
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oh yeah baby it's got real-time clock
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support it supports rom sizes up to 128 megabit the only 96 is implemented right
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now uh because nothing bigger than that has ever been produced and
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they claim it will operate totally seamlessly regardless of region
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so 60 hertz and 50 hertz and it's got a
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super cic or as i like to call it super sick i don't know if anyone actually
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calls it that but it's got a reverse engineered super cic chip inside of it
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so you don't have to worry about any anti-piracy you can run it on a
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non-modded console from anywhere building out your sd card is pretty
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straightforward you just need to format it fat32 it supports up to 16 000 files
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per directory and you have to select compatible roms it is enhancement chip
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compatible though it should be noted that star fox i know you were going to
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ask that star fox is not supported not that
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enhancement chip it's fired up
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oh does it work i don't see the light on
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oh that sucks
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oh hey lights on okay hold on
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wow that looks terrible thank you
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thank you built-in scaler let's see if there's anything we can do about that
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all right well
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controller me so whether you're using an 8-bit
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wireless controller or an original one you just navigate the menu like this and
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then uh what what do i what should i what should i do
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sure that and i own super mario world
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i don't know if i could legitimately say the same about everything we are
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scrolling through right now
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oh wow that loaded really fast hey
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okay you wanna play sure you know what i'm gonna be a dick
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and i'm gonna do level two first so that i can get the switch palace
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that's right oh okay oh
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uh input lag
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oh there is yeah
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that's fine that's fine if i was going to show off my skills it would be on
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this level anyway no this is not good not good oh
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come on had enough of your bull crap Anthony oh
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gotcha and i'm standing right on
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oh how you like that timing oh no no take that no
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that's fine plenty of time for a comeback here yeah get back get back get back over
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here get back over here oh [ __ ] your little guy
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oh no okay so that's pretty much the
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experience with original roms but we're heading into the msu one enhanced folder
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where there are actually a few games that we've got here like
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legend of zelda linked to the past see that that's a 15 meg wrong
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that means cd audio
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cool huh you know
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we treat unskippable cut scenes like they're new
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but they're actually not so something that people should know
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before they buy something like this is that it comes with
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none of the feeling of actual ownership of owning original cartridges and none
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of the benefits of emulation because it's not emulation you're just running
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the original ones and zeros that were on the original cartridges
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on the original hardware for basically the original experience unless you're
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using modified roms like this chrono trigger one for example that has this
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slick animated intro
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so that's pretty much it at 200 it's not
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cheap plus you provide your own sd card but if you're an enthusiast let's say
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for example you've got a really large cartridge collection and you a you don't
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want to wear them out or b don't want to hassle around with finding them and
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plugging them in and unplugging them this is the way to archive your entire
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library in one place and get the actual
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genuine original experience of the original software on the original
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hardware and don't let the
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early 2000s inkjet printed label fool
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you this is the real experience let us
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know actually in the comments too if you guys would like to see more of this kind
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