How Is Your SNES Gaming Going?

[Ziggy]

It's not terrible, actually, but it did make you think a little harder about exactly what you wanted to put on there.

Exactly. If you want to play Earthbound, Secret of Mana 2, or some other such game, it's not really a problem. You flash that game to the cart, then you don't have to mess with it until you're done playing the game. Not too big of a deal.

People get these newer flash carts and dump an entire ROM library on it day 1. I could never do that. I only add a game to the memory card if I wanna play it. I take off games I end up not liking.

The Tototek cart now tho, it's just not worth the price. It's $60 plus shipping from China. The Super Everdrive is only $80 and you can get it locally. The Tototek cart is really only worth it if you can score a used one for like $30, or if you wanna use the programmer to backup/transfer save files from legit carts (although you can just buy the programmer separately for $20 or $30).

Sucks for me because the Tototek Super Flash Cart was $100 when I bought it, maybe even a tad bit more. Plus EMS shipping from China. What I paid for it, plus what I paid for the (used) SNES PowerPak, I could have bought an Sd2snes with that money! But at the time, there were no other SNES flash carts available.

[Xeogred]

People get these newer flash carts and dump an entire ROM library on it day 1. I could never do that. I only add a game to the memory card if I wanna play it. I take off games I end up not liking.

That would be my approach. What happened over the years when I used to download mega rom packs? I wouldn't play anything.

One game at a time fellas...

[nightrnr]

I'll add a voice of support to the SD2SNES as well. It's a great piece of kit. I got it for Christmas a couple of years ago, although I paid half the cost. It's certainly been worth it. I don't know if Super FX or SA-1 will ever happen, but what it does have still puts it well ahead of any of the other carts. It's also useful that I already own the SA-1 carts I actually care about, I've got SFA2 to cover the SDD carts, and Star Ocean has an uncompressed hack.

I STILL wish there was a decompressed hack for SFA2, even though I have the cart and other ports to boot). Apparently there used to be files for emulators to play it that way (when there was no S-DD1 support), but there are no active download links in my searching for them (as if I could even do anything useful with them ).
It just seems like there are no good reasons NOT to have a hack for it. If this were DOOM and that was the only thing standing in the way, you just know someone would make it happen (since DOOM needs to be playable on everything possible ).

Also, somebody actually ported Road Avenger to run on the SD2SNES. I still need to give that a shot.

Holy Wow!
I wonder if someone could get a couple other FMV games on there. Dragon's Lair and Time Gal (among a few others) would be really neat to play on there, not to mention giving the extra space on my SD card a purpose.

[Tanooki]

I put in a request for you elsewhere for that SFA2 pack. It's bugging me, I had it maybe a year ago if that and erased it because I ran out of room on my little thumb drives I was degraded to using when I lost access to a 1/2TB portable drive.

I've searched using custom tricks, best I could do was track down some data about it and info, but again no link or dead links as late as 5 years back. All the 2002-04 links to a pair of sites (web and ftp) are long dead and I couldn't even get the download annoyingly through the internet wayback machine to pick it up (though the site it was on worked.)

[Sarge]

I should dig around on some of my backups. I don't remember if I got the pack for SFA2, but I know I did for Star Ocean... which doesn't really help.

EDIT: Dang it, only the Star Ocean pack. I never bothered with the SFA2 one 'cause I had the cart.

[Tanooki]

I do too, have since I oddly found out years ago (latter half of the 90s) NOA quietly had a phone in store where you could buy games off them with the manuals new, but not box. I got SFA2 direct from NOA over their 800# I think it was like $10-20 around 1997-98 for it. Not bad given Capcom charged like $60 for the game because of the compression chip and put it out against Mario 64 at the time.

People like to dig at it due to the decompression times around the fights, but it's a damn good conversion, plays great, and somehow managed to have less problems than the PS1 release. The period definitive version was Saturn though largely as they really did squeeze the CPS cabinet game in there very nicely as they did quite a few times with other fighters too.

[nightrnr]

People like to dig at it due to the decompression times around the fights, but it's a damn good conversion, plays great, and somehow managed to have less problems than the PS1 release. The period definitive version was Saturn though largely as they really did squeeze the CPS cabinet game in there very nicely as they did quite a few times with other fighters too.

I know, and a decompressed version is supposed to take care of the delays before each fight (probably the main reason I want it, along with maximizing the SD2SNES potential).

I put in a request for you elsewhere for that SFA2 pack.

Thanks,
Anyways, I've done my own searching a few weeks back and probably ran into the same dead links that you did.
Again, not sure what I'd do with them; maybe bug a few people at romhacking. Seems like having the files to link would have a better chance of finding someone that could help.

That's neat about how you got your cart though. I didn't have an SNES of my own back then (had a couple friends that did, so I wasn't deprived, but I got myself a Genesis around that time frame).
My cart I found box and cart (years ago) for $16 (give or take). Ran into a manual for it out of the blue a year or two later for free. It's one of my few complete SNES games .

[Sarge]

Yeah, I found my copy at a video rental place that was dumping their SNES stuff. I think I've got the manual. I know I have the box, though.

[SNESdrunk]

I've got Super Famicom Dragon Quest 5 and 6 coming CIB, hope to play those on the ol' Retron 5 with an English patch

[Sarge]

Cool! I actually snagged those not too long ago, cart-only though. I need to see if I can mine a few more Japanese carts at some point.