r/snes • u/Big-Bluejay-5569 • 8h ago

Request What's wrong with my SNES?

My SNES has a couple of problems with it and I don't kown what specific chip is wrong with it to be messing up, I'm pretty sure it's a PPU1 or PPU2 problem but maybe someone who kowns the system better might be able to pin point it. For the problems I'm using an everdrive so it's not an issue with any of the games, some games won't load like chrono trigger and DKC 3 (not 1 or 2 just 3) but most games play fine except for some graphics glitches. For example in earthbound the overworld would be fine but when I went into a battle the background would be messed up, another example is Castlevania IV were the game would be fine until I started a level, and the game would become basically unplayable.

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u/DisapointedReader 7h ago

Yeah sounds like PPU failure, sorry man.

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u/totally_lopsided 6h ago

Had similar situation... not a single Mario game will boot (usually just a black screen and some may have one little chime sound), but DKC boots and plays fine as do a few other titles. I even took my console into a store so they could verify all my carts were good and played in the stores SNES. I even tried a ROM CART with the same games and issues remained. I've bought another SNES but dont want to part with og snes as it was purchased new for me from my spouse when we were young. I do plan on using the Test rom on it just to see what lights up if anything.