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I just bought one off ebay, and was wondering if anyone else has one of these. Do they work at all? I'd be cool not have to replace all the batteries on my carts. The description is kind of vague, heres the link. http://cgi.ebay.com/Super-Nintendo-SNES ... _500wt_722

is that the thing that can save states? if so, sometimes when you load a state the music will be wron and sometimes it glitches, there is a review of it on youtube

I have seen these before but don't own one. It says works on SNES and SFC. Does that mean you could use it to play SFC games on a SNES?

possibly, but all you have to do to play SFC games in a SNES is break off a couple of tabs in the cartridge slot. Easy as pie.

Yeah, you can use that thing to play SFC on a SNES. It sucks though, I use to have one. If alls you wanna do is play SFC game then DON'T get this thing, you're much better off breaking off the tabs in your cart slot.

I don't believe it saves game pak saves to it, like a memory card would, it just saves a state on a game. I think you have to keep the cart in there for the next time you power on the system, too. In other words, you can use it for one game at a time.

corn, if you're concerned about backing up your cart saves, there's a good solution. You can get the programmer for the Super Flash Cart (from Tototek). The whole thing costs $60, but you can get the programmer by itself for $25, and it's totally worth the price in my opinion.

http://www.tototek.com/store/index.php? ... ucts_id=39

If you scroll to the bottom, you'll see the option to select programmer only. Using this, you can back up AND flash a save file to a real cart (and the flash cart). So if you wanna back up your save, you can use this programmer. You can even use that backed up save in an emulator. What's more, you can flash the game save back to the cart, so that makes this perfect for changing batteries. Or if you're worried about your batteries dying, you can just back them up to the computer. When a battery finally dies, after you replace it, you can flash the save back to the cart.

Actually I have seen devices that will dump the SRAM for you. Granted, this was for a Game Boy, not the SNES. When I was a kid my brother got Pokemon Red, and the one save file thing sucked. So we got a device that plugs in to the Game Boy (like the Game Genie) that can dump your SRAM and replace it as needed.

ThatCrazyGu wrote:possibly, but all you have to do to play SFC games in a SNES is break off a couple of tabs in the cartridge slot. Easy as pie.

Does that kinda thing work when talking about playing US ntsc carts on a pal console? I'm guessing not seeing as one is ntsc and the other pal, but it would be cool to be able to import carts from the us.

The American SNES carts are too wide for the PAL cart slot, they wont fit. Also, the lockout chips differ so you would have to disable the lockout chip to be able to boot the game (assuming you found a work around for the cart slot). However some games wont boot with a disabled lockout chip (which is why people have it on a switch so you can enable/disable it at will). There's usually always a work around, though.

does this have all 64 pins? or just the middle row?
i see a wire attached to the device, the seller said it uses the nintendo power on it.

It's been a while, but I think the wire coming out the back would get plugged into the SNES' power plug, then plug the SNES ac adapter into the game saver. But I also kinda remember it being able to use it's own AC adapter. I definitely remember it being able to use batteries.