FS: "Official" HK region SNES (PAL50/60hz)

For (an >$50 offer) + s/h you get:

Original Mani Limited UK modified SNES released in 1992 for the Hong Kong market. This system is probably not officially licensed by Nintendo, it was stock modified a la PCE for the French market to use Japanese SFC (/North American SNES with adapter) cartridges but output PAL-I video for Hong Kong. (Or UK)

Official PAL controller (system cannot use NTSC controllers without a mod, which I can do for you on request)

Original box, smaller than "normal" SFC boxes, its in pretty crisp condition, someone taped the system shut at one time or another so there is some tearing. The styrofoam is in pretty bad condition, it appears that at one time, an AC adapter poked its way through the box... The bottom is also slightly dirty and indented.

I have tested this console, it works flawlessly. I haven't any PAL games to test the system but I imagine it doesn't play PAL games. Perhaps it does, that would mean it plays ALL games! I have tested the system with a NTSC SA-1 game, it worked in both 50/60hz. This is the absolute BEST way to play Super Mario RPG in Europe!

Condition, the console is in almost immaculate condition, this is truely the nicest console I've ever seen originating from Hong Kong, (No niccotine gunk, no dirt!) It isn't perfect however because there are a couple surface scratches on the bottom (on the VERY fragile plastic where stickers go) and there is slight yellowing on the front end of the bottom case piece (right under the controller ports). The controller is a tad ghetto and has a little dirt between the cracks, I've never used a PAL controller before now so most likely, its no different than other PAL pads but neither PAL or JPN pads compare to US ones!

Remember, I don't have any AV cables for it or an AC adapter. This system claims to use "AC" 9V, 1.3A. This couldn't literally be AC so it must be "inverted" DC. I'm not sure if this console is modified to use DC but I used a 9VDC 1.5A adapter with a DC jack enlarger to run the console successfully. This all seems strange to me because the original SFC uses a 9vDC rated at 850mA... So either buy a NES-002-GBR UK adapter (or North American NES adapter) or do what I did with extreme caution!

Pix0rs:

 

Well, doesnt the EU (S)NES use AC?

 

I wouldn't know, but AC according to Nintendo is DC with center pin positive

 

This is an officially licenesed product from Nintendo, like THE games was in the UK, Mani was the Hong Kong distributor.They distributed the N64 stuff as well in Hong Kong.They released pal Super Famicom's and then after the eu version of the Snes came out, they released this new modified version which had a better display and less problems than the eraatic pal Super Famicom's.

 

Well its still available. Come on EU gamers, heres your chance to play SMRPG/other SA-1 games in PAL.

 

Bump, if no one here wants it it's going on eBay.

 

Why can't it be AC? I'll have a probe if I can find a PSU

 

AC is alternating current, the jack is DC meaning the center pin is "negative" and the outer pin is positive so electricity flows through the console all the way back to the negative pole. With an alternating jack, there would be no positive or negative because each pin would alternate their polarity 60 times a second.

 

Hmm, well a good point, but in the UK we always put the fuse in our "positive" lead on our supply, and we have to have coloured leads to show positive and negative... so explain that!

 

I have no clue how you do things in the UK I think something is bizzare about the console because it the system literally requires 1.5A "AC" (DC...) when NTSC consoles only require around 700mA. I tried using a 850mA Famicom adapter with the PAL SNES and it wouldn't turn on :\

Also, running a current backwards (AC) through circuitry would surely damage it. Perhaps PAL consoles have an internal AC/DC converter?

 

Must be, I'm pretty sure there's very few CPU's that run on AC (I believe Zilog made one though)

 

You mean a bridge rectifier ;-)

For those going huh? it is 4 diodes arranged thusly:



Actually, I'm way ahead of you there! I couldn't find a SNES PSU (must all be in the shed!! sure I had loads in the house, odd), but there was a SNES lying open, so I looked. Well, the heatsink was in the way, but I couldn't see any diodes near the power input.

I dunno about your one, but don't forget that a UK PAL SNES has a different type of connector from the US SNES... it is more like a Genesis one, but shorter I believe... i.e. it doesn't have that middle prong.

If I remember rightly, a UK PAL SNES runs off 10-12V at about 1.2A, I'll check when I find a PSU (or if it is written on the console). I'd imagine a UK PSU would work on yours. I'd also imagine that switch is 3rd party mod, unless you have Nintendo documentation stating otherwise.

Looks nice, though!

 

It says something like "10-12V at about 1.2A" on the console.

You don't think the switch is from Mani? I do. Its a very nice switch. I've never bothered to open up this SNES and I don't plan to. So, the world may never know.

 

Oh yeah, i forgot you said that! Hey I was tired! hehe.

Yes, this company are probably responsible for modding a normal HK SNES. It looks pretty neatly done, though. Does it still have untampered security screws in the machine? I guess the company had the correct screwdriver.

I just tested an early NES PSU, which should be the same. It is rated 9V AC 1.3A, and I got a reading of just under 11V AC. Couldn't get a DC reading off it, so yes the SNES requires AC!

With a brief glance, there is something in the SNES which could indeed be a rectifier, but might just be a regulator. I will look later, as I have to go to work now.

 

The PAL NES PSUs are the same - I don't actually have a SNES one, but my NES one works on a SNES. I never actually noticed they were AC - it would explain why it wouldn't work on my SMS, though...

 

Ouch. Poor SMS...

 

You'd think that, but it still works! And my wire+sellotape 60Hz mod (I only have a humoungous soldering iron) hasn't killed it yet either.

 

Lets abandon this thread, I keep getting my hopes up that someone actually wants to buy the SNES.