Are my Snes 2's Fake or maybe the game?

I think I need a little help I picked up a game yesterday for the snes with no label. I do this a lot so its nothing new. Well I got home and my Snes mini was hooked up so I went to test the game and it comes on and I find out that its Donkey Kong Country. The game plays its intro I go to the game select and there is no game to select so I start a new game. When I do this I get this screen



So I try to switch systems and I hook up my other snes mini and the same thing comes up



So I switch to a model 1 system and it works no problem but does not hold saves. I dont understand why my minis do this I have never had a problem before like this. Does anyone know anything about this problem or even see it before?

 

I have read about fake snes jr's showing up here and there. Check this article out. It will help you determine if your snes is the real deal.

http://fami-complex.blogspot.com/2011/04/how-to-spot-bootleg-sns-101.html

Basically, the differences in a real and a fake snes jr are subtle but noticeable in comparison. A dead give away will be if your snes has Phillips rather than gamebit screw. If you still can't decide if it is real, just open it up and compare the pcb to that of others.

 

Yea I don't think there fake... I think it is the game after cleaning the game with different cleaner over and over I did get it to work on the minis. Now I got to go find the save fix

 

This message is because when the copy protection routine checked the available SRAM it failed to be satisfied that there was 2 Kilobytes of SRAM. This leads to this screen that normally is only tripped on older Copier devices that will map more than 2Kb of SRAM for the game. This can also happen when the cartridge is making poor contact usually from being dirty. This has absolutely nothing to do with your console other than the cartridge port which may also be dirty.

I have never heard of "fake" SNES Minis before.

 

I hadn't either until about 7 or 8 months ago. I saw a random article about them and it seems like they pop up now and again. The lengths the manufacturer went to is astounding. I have seen pics of a fake in the packaging that even included the consumer information pamphlets. Like this:

http://www.nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=34&threadid=38867

 

I happen to own one and it's VERY GOOD at it because every single game I tested on it worked fine (only SA-1 and S-DD games won't work simply because it lacks the CIC chip)

 

Does it have RGB wired to the AV port? And couldn't you modify it to have a CIC inside so SA-1 and SDD-1 would work? Though I guess you'd need a truely dead SNES to get a CIC from since unlike NES aren't the SNES CICs actually different chips between the key and lock modes?

 

Same thing as NES CICs. The cartridges with FX chip in them (besides the first version with MARIO-1 chip) have the F411 on them operating as key.


The above one isn't a FX cartridge but works the same way ... :thumbsup:

Also the clone has no S-Video and no RGB, just as the real deal... :lol: