R-Type 3 for GBA was simultaneously an inferior port of the SNES original and a technological feat. From what I recall, Raylight, the company tasked with porting the game to GBA, did not have access to many (if not all) of the original assets from Irem, resulting in a buggy mess with horrible hit de...

Welp, just downloaded a Mame Rom of R-Type, and yeah, it's definitely NOT the game itself, R-Type itself is actually super responsive, I could immediately feel the difference and beat the first level first try while it took me like four game over screens to do the same on R-Types. It's definitely s...

I'd check all the pins for corrosion or detritus. If there's gunk like that going on, I'd clean the pins carefully and isolate them as they are supposed to be. A lot of times with chips like this, it's short circuits caused by crud doing wonky things, but not the chip itself actually being fubar. I...

How well do the third-party "Retro" systems work for SNES? I'd rather make a emulation box and and use bSNES / Higan. Add a Retrode if you need to use your carts. I have plans to set up a MacMini to an HDTV and run OpenEMU , but dangit, original hardware is part of the fun. Eventually the...

Thanks, all. I was hoping there would be a quick fix to resurrect the thing. In doing a bit of search engine research, it seems that this sort of problem is starting to be come more and more common as the hardware ages. Since the chips are mostly custom-built, and replacements are not readily availa...

Has my SNES finally given up the ghost after 24 years? It appears that any mode-7 layers are now garbled, but the other layers display fine. I first noticed it when starting up Actraiser, and the spinning/stretching logo was not holding together. I re-seated the game and connectors, and tried again,...

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