opinions are always opinions i suppose. i do know however, that i just paid 188$ (4GB CF card + reader + DSP1 + PAL Lockout + shipping) from my SNES powerpack a minute ago, and it was so worth it that it's not even funny. sure, it was a bit pricey, there's no saying that it isn't. i just looked at it from the item value point of view. If i were just ot pirate some pack of all SNES roms now, then i basically just paid 188$ to get like 1500 games (or whatever the number of compatible SNES games is) only thing i'm playing on mine, will finally be frontmission translated to english tho (for which i do own a legit JPN copy)
Looking at the compatibility list (http://www.retrousb.com/downloads/incompatibilitylist.html), I notice that Super Mario FX is listed. I did a bit of Googling, but it doesn't appear that any leaks/screenshots/alpha/promo materials have ever surfaced... I guess this is another "just in case" listing, like FX Fighter?
thats bullshit, Super Mario FX was a 3D version of Mario for the SNES, later becoming Super Mario 64 ;P
I don't think Super Mario FX truly existed outside of an initial concept phase. Remember that by late 1993 (the same year StarFox came out), the N64 was already announced. Besides, if something like this was in development, I'm sure that someone at Argonaut would have mentioned its existence.
I guess we should all be glad Mario 64 didn't look like Starfox... call me crazy, but I still like Mario 64 graphics, in all its colorful, Goraud-shaded glory. Try it in hi-resolution widescreen in Project 64: it doesn't stretch the image, it actually expands the field of view. But I was kinda hoping somebody would pop up to prove me wrong, with a scan from some early-90s gaming magazine or something though. ^_^
I might've mentioned this elsewhere, but - bought one, it arrived a week ago with a nice £20 customs charge. It doesn't work. Emailed to ask what the crack was and found out they're shut until some time in January, at which point presumably there'll be a huge email backlog so I doubt this is getting sorted any time soon. Sigh.
Not working as in, black screen. SFC works fine for all my other NTSC-J carts. Even if my CF wasn't supported it should still be booting, and it isn't. I've done all the obvious stuff (copied necessary files to the CF and so on). I'm not angry at the shop per se, but it is a pretty frustrating situation.
Unfortunately more and more people have been coming forward having Consoles that are incompatible. If you don't want to wait and have the ability to try it on a different SNES you may get it working. But since you're in the UK and using a SFC I'm guessing that's not practical for you. Clearly the SNES PowerPAK was not tested on a wide enough array of SNES hardware revisions or something. It's strange because I've never heard of the old Copier units not working on certain consoles because of their revision. By the way even on the site they do tell you that Super Famicom Jr and the SNES Mini don't work.
I would try it on my PAL SNES but I've gone and fucking lost my import adapter for it. A further complication is that the SFC isn't a standard model, it's a HK one with the 50/60Hz switch built-in. Interesting to hear that other people are having issues, though. I'd done a search and found a couple of people with problems but you never know how representative that is of the actual problem.
Well the import adapter may not work as it must connect ALL pins to the cartridge port, if it leaves off the extra 2 sets of pins to each side of the main connector it won't work. But if the import adapter plays games like Doom then it should do the PowerPAK. Ofcourse you could always look into putting a switch in your UK SNES to disable the lockout. All the reports of problems with various systems has made me less enthusiastic about the SNES PowerPAK. If it works for you it sounds great, so long as you never need to put it into another system that might not work. I currently use a Game Doctor SF7 and a laptop to upload via parallel port to it. It's not the most convient setup but it works. I wanted the SNES PowerPAK cause it seemed much more convient but for the price and potential problems I'm not so sure now since I already do have a working setup.
Even if the adapter for my PAL SNES did work, I wouldn't be using it since it runs in 50Hz and I don't think I have the requisite RGB cable for it. Anyway if you were interested I'd wait until the compatibility stuff has been fixed, because even if this started working fine tomorrow it would've been more hassle than it's worth. A short time back I bought a SWC backup unit but that didn't work either so I had to send it back. Factor that in and the total cost so far to get a backup solution working has been over £100. Basically all for one ROM hack, too. Must be mad.
The SNES PowerPAK has received an update recently which has fixed the SNES Mini/SFC Jr compatibility issue and presumably issues with other revisions. And apparent some SDRAM error is hopefully fixed now too that some people were having. So it seems that it's a better deal now. I ordered one, and last I checked they were still in stock if anyone else was wanting to get one.
