I opened up a SNES I had acquired, and I was surprised to find the mainboard was much smaller than it should be! Upon closer inspection, I found that it was a 1CHIP mainboard, with the much prized SRGB A chip! This is weird, since this board was created for the SNES Jr, and we never got the SNES Jr in Australia. What's also odd is RGB works out of the box, I was under the impression you needed to mod the console to get RGB output? Anyway, behold the freakshow that is the PAL SNES 1CHIP board inside a standard PAL SNES case! (note the different design for the front U bracket thingy, it can't be held in place by the mainboard, since the mainboard doesn't reach that far, so it's got an extension that allows it to be screwed in place) And here's the SRGB A chip: I was hoping this might also fix the "audio buzz on bright screen" I was having with my other SNES, but that's still happening. Oh well, better picture quality is nice.
This is normal, later consoles were 1chip and they are supposed to have RGB out of the box. It was the snes jr that didnt.
That is NOT a snes jr mainboard. Too large, and two years early (snes jr released in 1997). It also doesn't use a controller board. The ports are integrated.
Oh, so it's just a smaller board? What's the point of that if the case is still the same size? :suspicion: Whaaa? Why would they do that? They clearly thought there would be something to gain from region-locking controllers (except in Japan and America :\), so why reverse this decision later?
It saves money. You'll notice your snes board still has "empty" areas with little sign of traces or components. snes jr must be modified to directly play a single original pal cart. all factory units I'm aware of had an ntsc cic chip.
