Hello, Recently I bought a Snes with 4 games through the dutch equivalent of Ebay. It's a PAL version. When I started playing I noticed weird errors on screen with all the games. I attached some pictures so you can see how it looks. The games adventures of mighty max and super soccer work fine, only the startup screen is messed up. With Timon and Pumba's jungle games the error is constant on both the startup screen and while playing for example pinball. The game Asterix is even weirder. The starting screen is messed up and while playing there is nothing I can walk on, but when I jump up I suddenly stand on a tree and the environment shows. The background doesn't seem to be in sync with the game, as I can stand on air. Things I've tried: With the Snes came a 3rd party AC adaptor with 9volts and 800mA, not the right one I found out while searching on the internet. I borrowed an original Snes adaptor from my brother with 9volts and 1300mA. Unfortunately the same problem still exists. So that possibility is ruled out. I tried different TV's with no luck, I used a new composite video cable(with red, white and yellow pins). I even used the original rf switch to plug it in an older TV from the 90's, but still the same errors. I borrowed the game Donkey kong from my brother which works fine on his Snes, but that game won't even startup on my Snes. When I switch the nintendo on it says on the tv it can't find a signal. It has to be something inside the Snes. It seems the problem is only showing while there is non moving background like in the game menu. The seller won't reimburse so I'll have to fix the problem on my own. Do you have any idea of what could be the problem? Thanks, Stephan I used photo uploader to upload all the images at once. http://pho.to/4aOJk
Is the system possibly modified? Region modding is popular with PAL systems. Sometimes just to make the PAL games run at 60hz rather than 50hz. Some games can have problems like in your pictures when they are run at the wrong region setting.
It might be just a connectivity issue. Have you tried cleaning the connectors (both on the carts as well as in the console's cart slot) yet?
That is a good point. People selling old games and consoles often do not do any sort of cleaning. Sometimes that's all that is needed to get things working again. Cleaning the cartridge connector can be more tricky than cleaning the cartridges so it might make sense to start with the games first.
yeah that's is so true. I brought a snes off ebay a ffew weeks ago £5 seller said he tested it and got a black screen but power light was on I knew what it was got it plugged in my cart and it worked basically his cart was dirty so it sold it off as faulty
