AppleKid | 4 Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 So this is weird to me. I've opened literally hundreds of SNES and Super Famicom games and never seen this before. Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Driftwood | 209 Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 Looks like someone ran a jumper wire With a resistor to bypass perhaps a broken trace under an ic on the other side of the pcb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AppleKid | 4 Posted August 13, 2021 Author Share Posted August 13, 2021 Very interesting. Makes me wonder what happened. Thanks Driftwood! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a3quit4s | 4,103 Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 Definitely have seen people run jumpers to bypass broken traces but never had someone put a resistor/capacitor in. Interesting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Driftwood | 209 Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 You see this all the time in the arcade pcb world... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scaryice | 589 Posted August 14, 2021 Share Posted August 14, 2021 This is normal. They were fixed by Capcom: https://tcrf.net/Mega_Man_X#Copy_Protection 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a3quit4s | 4,103 Posted August 14, 2021 Share Posted August 14, 2021 2 hours ago, scaryice said: This is normal. They were fixed by Capcom: https://tcrf.net/Mega_Man_X#Copy_Protection Interesting and good find. I used a link in what you provided to get here which has a screenshot. https://web.archive.org/web/20210127154007/https://byuu.net/cartridges/boards/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AppleKid | 4 Posted August 15, 2021 Author Share Posted August 15, 2021 (edited) Wow. I had no idea that was a thing. That's really interesting. I wonder, if I was to remove the wire, would it cause damage or just make the game enable the protection mode. I love learning nifty facts like this. Thanks everyone *Edit* On closer inspection I can see that I would need to repair the 2 traces as well. I think I'm gonna go for it lol. Edited August 15, 2021 by AppleKid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sumez | 2,968 Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 Wow that's a really interesting piece of history. Why would you want to remove the wire? It's obviously meant to be there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AppleKid | 4 Posted August 18, 2021 Author Share Posted August 18, 2021 On 8/16/2021 at 2:30 AM, Sumez said: Wow that's a really interesting piece of history. Why would you want to remove the wire? It's obviously meant to be there. Because I think it would be interesting to see the copy protection enabled and how it behaves. Could be fun to mess with Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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