WTB two adapters: SNES to SFC, NES to FC.

WTB two adapters: SNES to SFC, NES to FC

Trying something easier this time. I'd like to play American titles on my Super Famicom and Twin Famicom. Message me if you have the correct converter for either. :thumbsup:

Update: SNES to SFC adapter bought.

 

still looking.

 

okay you don't need a adapter for snes to sfc , open up the snes and remove the two tabs and the you can play sfc game,same goes for n64 .

 

Yeah but I was looking for the opposite. Playing snes games on sfc would take a major case cutting with that method. I hope what I'd ordered recently is right.

 

I am looking for the same thing Lum. Where did you order one from?

 

Mine was on ebay (sold out because I bought it).

snes import adapters are drastically easier to find in europe. you may need to use the 'saved search' feature and wait for one, or poke around at pal sellers to ask for shipping to your country.

Be sure to ask good questions if the pics don't make features obvious. Some snes adapters lack the extra pins for expansion chip games.

 

oh i see i though believe there is one on ebay right now.

 

lum:
are you still looking for one of these? I believe that I still have one extra of the honeybee type converters (works both ways, and contains all 3 sets of connectors to accommodate the dsp enabled games).

shoot me a pm and I'll check tonight.

 

well i'm having trouble with mine or don't know how to use it properly. seems like the only thing i can get this to do, is load my pal Pop N Twinbee with a compatibility error message (perhaps the game is checking for 50hz?). hasn't started up usa or jpn games i've tried.

 

Not a lot of room for user error with these things. Cart you want to play goes at the front, cart of the same region as the SNES goes at the back.

Some of these import adapters are junk, mind, and some are designed for one region (i.e. for playing NTSC games on a PAL system) and may not work or be as compatible for other configurations. When I was playing import games on my PAL SNES it took me a couple of duds before I found a decent one.

 

Oh. Yeah I can't be any less ambiguous on my intent here. I want to play American games on a Japanese system. Completely straight forward in technical terms (same base hardware means no lockout chip, pinout, or video mode issues), yet it's difficult to find adapters advertised to do so.

 

I am just waiting for a few NTSC carts I brought to arrive and I am just going to widen the slot of my PAL SNES. I have already don't the the region and 50/60hz mods on it.
Just too damn hard and expensive to get a convertor.

 

like Alchy stated, it sounds like you've got one of those that require the game of the same region to be attached to the back to and used is used for the region lock-out chip in the cartridges. the one that I have is a straight through cart that was designed to work as a sfc->snes or snes->sfc converter.

it requires no alteration to your system and contains all three sets of connectors leading from the cartridge itself to the system so it works with the dsp games (eg. mariokart, votoms) as well as the super fx games (eg. stunt race fx)

these particular adapters haven't been manufactured for quite some time now and are highly sought after.

edit: you've got to love those hk companies. I noticed this when taking the photos, but the branding on the cartridge doesn't even match what was one their box.

 

Thanks dude. Your tip helped. Now I can play special games like Mega Man X2, Yoshi's Island, Kirby Super Star, etc. And no slot cut! I'd picked an adapter connecting all pins for this kind of reason.

I probably will need a mod after all on Pop N Twinbee however. Still gets the error message.

Or does a 2nd PAL cart have to be connected into the back? Though I don't see how that working would be logical given how these adapters operate.

 

I'm not sure, but I thought that the cartridge in the back needed to be of the same region that your system is from.

 

This is the fundamental rule with these things.

 

Ah. Good to know, means the adapter is doing its job correct and now my PAL game fails at the 50/60 hz check rather than lockout.

 

I guess this would be an appropriate place to write about my experience with SNES import adapters on a PAL console. I started out with an adapter that had the secondary cart slot on the back of the cartridge, which looked a bit like Lum's (that doesn't mean anything, incidentally, there are plenty of variants). Had nothing but problems with that one, incompatibilities all over the place and it wiped Super Mario World's save games almost every time it was unplugged. Junk. I think I had a second like it which also didn't work as I wanted.

I then bought an AD-29 Universal Adapter. At the time I wanted to play Super Mario RPG as I had the US cart, I was told this was about the only adapter that had a chance of booting it. Well, it doesn't. But it does play literally everything else in my collection on my PAL console. I can see one on Google for $20, that seems reasonable as mine was about that price in pounds. Apparently the "universal" bit does mean that it can be used in all regions, certainly I've had some luck running NTSC-U games on my SFC with it, but as always with these things, YMMV.

/rambling

 

Like Alchy, natively I'm a PAL gamer but I always endeavoured to buy import hardware because of the speed difference, especially in the old 16BIT days. In the case of the SNES I bought myself a Super Famicom and to play American or Euro carts all I ever needed was a Datel Action Replay. Any combination of carts and host machines are possible, an AR will work on any unit regardless of origin, you just make sure the boot cart on the back matches that of the consoles region. As long as you have the most up to date AR you should never have a problem getting anything to run. If a game doesn't run 'from the off', chances are that there's a code that can be entered that will circumnavigate the lockout

 

With SNES sorted out for the moment, what do I need to know about NES to FC?