Super-NT-Jailbreak

[invaderyoyo]

Yeah, and I just checked the UPS site and it's now just leaving Las Vegas, apparently *sigh* I guess they were swamped with orders.

Well, some other people that ordered the one with purple were still waiting so I thought that might be the case.

 

[Hanafuda]

leaving Las Vegas

Great movie.

One other thing I should've mentioned earlier - you can tweak video and other settings in-game, but you have to save the settings for them to stick. That can also be done in-game though. Just the first couple times I changed resolution or enabled scanlines, etc., it reverted back to default when I turned it off. Also there's a return to factory settings option so tinker away, you can't really fuck up.

 

[invaderyoyo]

Great movie.

One other thing I should've mentioned earlier - you can tweak video and other settings in-game, but you have to save the settings for them to stick. That can also be done in-game though. Just the first couple times I changed resolution or enabled scanlines, etc., it reverted back to default when I turned it off. Also there's a return to factory settings option so tinker away, you can't really fuck up.

Does the brightness of the image change for you? I have mine set to 720p with regular scanlines and it looks great, but the overall brightness changes depending on what's onscreen. Idk how to explain it.

 

[Hanafuda]

Does the brightness of the image change for you? I have mine set to 720p with regular scanlines and it looks great, but the overall brightness changes depending on what's onscreen. Idk how to explain it.

The overall image necessarily dims a bit with scanlines. You can adjust the scanline intensity and also there are RGB gamma sliders which can be adjusted individually or set to stay locked together, but I haven't messed with that yet. If you're saying there's a varying brightness without any change in settings, no I haven't seen that. Also give that hybrid scanlines setting a try - I've only had a couple hours to mess around but I think I prefer it over the normal scanlines.

 

[invaderyoyo]

The overall image necessarily dims a bit with scanlines. You can adjust the scanline intensity and also there are RGB gamma sliders which can be adjusted individually or set to stay locked together, but I haven't messed with that yet. If you're saying there's a varying brightness without any change in settings, no I haven't seen that. Also give that hybrid scanlines setting a try - I've only had a couple hours to mess around but I think I prefer it over the normal scanlines.

Yeah, there's a varying brightness. I tried the hybrid scanlines and I didn't like them.

 

[ca032769]

Ok, wow, this Super-NT with the jailbreak is the best. As you can see if you look close in the pictures below, no cartridge is installed, just the SD card on the right side of the Suoer-NT.

I received mine a couple days ago. They didn't have the Classic Grey so I ordered the Black. Not bad, but I might get a Classic Grey once they're available again. Anyways, I used the jailbreak from here and everything works as advertised. I'm now using my 30 year old wired controller to play these from my childhood & will have to order one of those 8bit wireless controllers.

My unit came with firmware version 3.1 (December 12, 2017). I installed the most recent jailbreak 6.5 and within 3 minutes I'm was on JB6.5 (March 03, 2018).

Since the pictures below were taken I've moved 3,768 SNES titles to the SD card which only takes up 5.22GB. These include No Intro USA/EUROPE/JAPAN, No Physical ROM Support, System Hacks & Translations. I've gone through several rom tests from all regions and all except one so far have worked. It was a rom from Europe and it told me it wasn't meant to run on my system.

 

[the_randomizer]

Ok, wow, this Super-NT with the jailbreak is the best. As you can see if you look close in the pictures below, no cartridge is installed, just the SD card on the right side of the Suoer-NT.

I received mine a couple days ago. They didn't have the Classic Grey so I ordered the Black. Not bad, but I might get a Classic Grey once they're available again. Anyways, I used the jailbreak from here and everything works as advertised. I'm now using my 30 year old wired controller to play these from my childhood & will have to order one of those 8bit wireless controllers.

My unit came with firmware version 3.1 (December 12, 2017). I installed the most recent jailbreak 6.5 and within 3 minutes I'm was on JB6.5 (March 03, 2018).

Since the pictures below were taken I've moved 3,768 SNES titles to the SD card which only takes up 5.22GB. These include No Intro USA/EUROPE/JAPAN, No Physical ROM Support, System Hacks & Translations. I've gone through several rom tests from all regions and all except one so far have worked. It was a rom from Europe and it told me it wasn't meant to run on my system.

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Only downside is chip support being unlikely, so a flashcart will be necessary to play those, but yeah, the jailbreak firmware is a nice touch You have to manually change the region from NTSC to PAL for the EU ROMs. Maybe.

Edit: I know the SD2SNES is planning on adding SA-1 and GSU/2 support.

 

[ca032769]

Only downside is chip support being unlikely, so a flashcart will be necessary to play those, but yeah, the jailbreak firmware is a nice touch You have to manually change the region from NTSC to PAL for the EU ROMs. Maybe.

Edit: I know the SD2SNES is planning on adding SA-1 and GSU/2 support.

Yes was going to get a SD2NES but will hold off for a while. Maybe in the future, there are more then enough to play for now.

Also, yes for the one that did not play I'll try changing it to PAL, if I can find it again. I was just randomly trying US/EUROPE/JAPAN titles and they all worked, except that one.

I'll have to play with them more and see how much of an issue playing them all in NTSC is. What's great is the menu shortcut to just load up another rom without having to exit the current title in use.

Also of note to anyone, because I didn't see a reference to it anywhere, the titles need to be unzipped. I tried several zipped titles and none would load, just black screen after 99% loaded.

 

[the_randomizer]

Yes was going to get a SD2NES but will hold off for a while. Maybe in the future, there are more then enough to play for now.

Also, yes for the one that did not play I'll try changing it to PAL, if I can find it again. I was just randomly trying US/EUROPE/JAPAN titles and they all worked, except that one.

I'll have to play with them more and see how much of an issue playing them all in NTSC is. What's great is the menu shortcut to just load up another rom without having to exit the current title in use.

Also of note to anyone, because I didn't see a reference to it anywhere, the titles need to be unzipped. I tried several zipped titles and none would load, just black screen after 99% loaded.

Hmm, weird, someone needs to file a report on GitHub. Another perk for SD2SNES is the MSU-1 chip, too bad PAL is 50 Hz.

 

[invaderyoyo]

Hmm, weird, someone needs to file a report on GitHub. Another perk for SD2SNES is the MSU-1 chip, too bad PAL is 50 Hz.

A little bit off topic, but where did you buy your SD2SNES? Did you get it from krikzz or buy a chinese one?

 

[the_randomizer]

A little bit off topic, but where did you buy your SD2SNES? Did you get it from krikzz or buy a chinese one?

Nope, bought if off a member on here, actually, I felt better doing that way it works great I just wish my controller didn't suck I'll have to find a better controller, the one for my Super Famicom sucks (buttons are worn).

 

[invaderyoyo]

Nope, bought if off a member on here, actually, I felt better doing that way it works great I just wish my controller didn't suck I'll have to find a better controller, the one for my Super Famicom sucks (buttons are worn).

I ordered a chinese one off of ebay. If it doesn't work, I'll get my money back.

I don't think the jailbreak is gonna support any of the special chips, but idk. I'm just very impatient. With the SD2SNES the only games missing, that I care about, are two Kirby games and Yoshi's island. You can buy the Super Famicom versions for a lot less.

 

[the_randomizer]

I ordered a chinese one off of ebay. If it doesn't work, I'll get my money back.

I don't think the jailbreak is gonna support any of the special chips, but idk. I'm just very impatient. With the SD2SNES the only games missing, that I care about, are two Kirby games and Yoshi's island. You can buy the Super Famicom versions for a lot less.

Krikzz stated that he would be working on SA-1 and Super FX in the near future for SD2SNES

https://sd2snes.de/blog/status

Nice thing is it's future-proof, but IMO, you should've gotten the real deal *shrug*

 

[invaderyoyo]

Krikzz stated that he would be working on SA-1 and Super FX in the near future for SD2SNES

https://sd2snes.de/blog/status

Nice thing is it's future-proof, but IMO, you should've gotten the real deal *shrug*

SD2SNES is open source. Anybody can make one if they have the equipment. There's no "real deal". Granted, krikzz's product will be higher quality.

 

[the_randomizer]

SD2SNES is open source. Anybody can make one if they have the equipment. There's no "real deal". Granted, krikzz's product will be higher quality.

That's assuming people know how to program unto an FPGA.

 

[invaderyoyo]

Do you guys think there would be interest in Super Game Boys with the clock fix? I did the fix to my own SGB and it works perfectly!

There's a place nearby that sells them cheap and I was thinking this might interest some people since the jailbreak convinced a lot of people to get a Super NT. This makes the SGB run at the correct clock speed instead of dividing the Super NT/SNES's clock speed by 5.

This is the mod I'm referring to:
http://soundofsilver.co.uk/blog/2015/02/super-gameboy-speed-fix/

 

[huh123]

Does anyone have any answer to what max size and what types of memory cards this will take when the mods start to get released? That's my only gripe about all of this.

 

[nickerous]

My super nt is arriving tomorrow. If I already have a sd2snes, is this jailbreak necessary? Even if I dump my own games, the saves won’t come over, right?

 

[invaderyoyo]

My super nt is arriving tomorrow. If I already have a sd2snes, is this jailbreak necessary? Even if I dump my own games, the saves won’t come over, right?

The saves can also be dumped.

 

[ca032769]

I have fun with my jailbroken Super-NT. Anyone know of a Mega-SG-Jailbreak?

EDIT: Never mind, when I didn't find it here on GBATemp I should have googled it. Found it on YouTube and just followed the links. To find it just google or go to YouTube and search for "Mega Sg Jailbreak SmokeMonster"