Suits wrote: ↑February 8th, 2018, 12:35 pm
Is anyone else getting the Super Analogue NT ??
A mild curio into the world of hardware replication here.
So, I've had my Super NT plugged into my TV in the front room for over 3 months now and apart from, what I'd describe as an overly sensitive cartridge slot, it's a wonderful piece of kit and has performed admirably so far.
Until recently. I wanted to go back into some Yoshi's Island so went for my NTSC cart and plugged it in. The game would boot past the 'Nintendo presents' screen, then would always crash. Sometimes the game would make it ever so slightly into the intro screen sequence then it would reset the console - taking you straight back to the lovely Analogue boot sequence.
You'd try it again and it would just keep crashing.
Upon much head scratching, firmware updating and cart swapping I concluded that it was the Super FX chip games that were crashing the console.
I checked the Q&A section and troubleshooting on Analogues website and reached out to them on Twitter but neither were fruitful.
I then turned to reddit in the hope that someone would have an idea and after numerous people telling me to clean my carts (my carts are clean yo !) someone pointed out to me that Super FX carts draw more power than standard SNES carts and questioned what my power supply was...
That was it, my Super NT was being powered by my TV's USB 5V supply and the increased draw of the chipset was causing the console to crash/reboot.
I didn't know/forgot that those special carts did this, so it never occurred to me to worry about the supply once the console worked on it's supply initially.
I switched it to it's own mains supply and boom, worked as it should immediately.
I replied to my own Twitter post to Analogue, indicating what the problem was and Analogue thanked it a few hours later, maybe it was news to them also - I doubt it. Would have been nice if they'd acknowledged my original Tweet just as quick mind.
Anyway a post for future reference/troubleshooting perhaps.