Freak SNES: Some consoles exhibit strange timing behaviour or excessive address line noise.

Clean the slot contacts on the SNES and the sd2snes thoroughly and retry. If the slot contacts are dirty it might introduce enough resistance to delay the signals coming from the SNES, or going to the SNES, enough to make it crash.

Dirty slot contacts: The sd2snes is more timing sensitive than a normal game cartridge.

Faulty power brick: The external power supply of the SNES doesn’t provide properly stabilized power, or the voltage has dropped.

Try another SNES or, if you feel like it, have the caps replaced. Weak capacitors in the power section of the SNES may cause the console to crash.

Weak capacitors in your SNES: The sd2snes draws more power than a normal game cartridge (and the Super Everdrive or Powerpak, for that matter).

A large number of games crash at random, or the sd2snes doesn’t boot up at all.Ī5: One of the following could be the case: Q5: My sd2snes doesn’t seem to run reliably. Find the BS-X BIOS ROM (there’s a good chance it’s already in your ROM collection), rename it to “bsxbios.bin” and put it in the sd2snes folder on your card. Q4: Satellaview games just drop to a black screen.Ī4: The BS-X BIOS is required to run Satellaview games. For sd2snes you need the *.bin files, NOT the *.rom files. Q3: Mario Kart/Pilotwings/other DSP games just lock up immediately.Ī3: DSP games require the DSP ROMs to be present in the “sd2snes” folder on the SD Card.

If the game is listed it is known not to run on the sd2snes.

Q2: Game XY doesn’t run properly.Ī2: Check the compatibility list for known issues. Some improvements in performance or capacity are probably inevitable since parts are becoming cheaper and more powerful all the time. However the capabilites of the hardware will remain roughly the same. Q1: When more enhancement chips get implemented in the future, does that mean a necessary hardware upgrade?Ī1: Hardware upgrades might happen if any “physical” problems become known or some end-of-life parts have to be replaced.

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