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Epsilon
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sTo0z
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| Posted: Tue, 18th Sep 2012 01:30 Post subject: |
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My favorite FF title and favorite SNES game right there.
Enjoy my friend.
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Epsilon
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| Posted: Tue, 18th Sep 2012 01:32 Post subject: |
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@Sabin I shall look into it, does not sound like it would be hard, much soldering required?
@sTo0z I hope so, we shall see  How long is the tutorial? I mean when does the game open op? allowing you to explore, I read that you get a ship.
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| Posted: Tue, 18th Sep 2012 01:37 Post subject: |
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Practically effortless to anyone with an iota of skill -- though of course, this is really only worth it if you're going to be putting any serious time into your SNES. I don't think it's worth doing for one game -- but if you plan on playing many then it might be worth looking into.
http://www.gamesx.com/importmod/snes5060.htm << Easiest. Lift and solder two pins, then solder a single wire and a resistor to another chip. Four solder points (not including soldering onto the switch) easy. This will give you a switch that disables the lockout chip and turns to 60Hz mode in one.
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http://www.mmmonkey.co.uk/console/nintendo/snes-switches-1.htm << This is the recommended one, giving switches that enable/disable the lockout chip (some games won't boot if it's disabled) and also a 50/60Hz selector switch (some PAL titles don't like running in 60Hz, such as Star Wing) This one is recommended.
http://www.mmmonkey.co.uk/snes-switchless-modchip/ << considered the ultimate mod but requires a lot more soldering and also a purchase of a new programmable CIC chip and a writer.
As for the game itself, it opens pretty much as soon as you leave the first town - probably not even an hour of gameplay - though don't forget to check the house right at the entrance to Narshe to get a feel for the game. You get the first airship when you reach the Opera House but that's a significant amount of time into the game and once you've finished in the Empire, you get the ship to keep and can explore the rest of the world.
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Epsilon
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| Posted: Tue, 18th Sep 2012 02:00 Post subject: |
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Well looks like I'll be going down the electronics shop tomorrow for some parts, thanks!
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Epsilon
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| Posted: Tue, 18th Sep 2012 02:08 Post subject: |
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| sabin1981 wrote: | | You're welcome If you go the SuperCIC route; someone is selling a preprogrammed SuperCIC chip for £4. All you'd need to do is buy and solder. Just remember what I said; it all depends on whether you think this will be worth it or not -- one or two games? Probably not worth it .. you'd be better served with emulation (bSNES is 99.9% SNES accurate) |
Worth it? I already spent over 600$ on this stuff. 6 more isn't going to hold me back. |
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| Posted: Tue, 18th Sep 2012 02:13 Post subject: |
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Playing on a PAL machine is the wrong way to do it though, my man, unless your machine has been converted to run at NTSC/60, as the game will be running 17.5% slower than normal. Still... I'm suitably envious of the pure retro goodness oozing from that photo <3
Those things are great, shame the price is so exorbitantly high at $190 each. I'd rather just pick up another Magicom and load from floppy 
However! Even patching the ROM won't change the system output, it simply cannot output NTSC60 signal - no addon cart can do that either; the SD2SNES patches the ROM to get around region restrictions, preventing the infamous "black item/equip screen and oh look, there go my saves" issues ---- but the SNES hardware itself will still output at PAL50 and NTSC titles will run slower because of it. Some will even have game glitches/issues and, worse, some will even have the audio running 17.5% slower as well -- which is downright sacrilege on a SNES 
