Unused Pins on SNES Cart Slot

electromaster64 · Post by **electromaster64** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 5:49 pm

I am back from spring break and got Ben's book in the mail. Today I was looking and noticed the there are 8 unused pins on both sides of the SNES cart slot. Were these supposed to be used on the "expanison" that never happened? Or are they actually used in some games? If they are not used then that means that there 16 less wires that I need to solder

Post by **gannon** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 5:57 pm

I know they're used on the super gameboy, but I'm not sure of any other games that use them.

electromaster64 · Post by **electromaster64** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 6:38 pm

Awesome I won't connect them then because I don't own a Super GameBoy. That saves time.

SNESguy · Post by **SNESguy** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 9:01 pm

Actually you want to connect those 16 extra pins. You know why?

They are used in many of the later generation games such as:
Starfox/Street Fighter Alpha 2/Doom/Many other games--Super FX Chip
Megaman X2/X3---Capcom C4 Chip
Super Mario RPG----SA-1 mod chip----will not work if those pins are not connected---this is why the tristar didn't work with this game.

I am sure that there are about 25 or so games that need those pins to work.

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 3:24 pm

I think Zelda needs it also, and Super Mario All stars

electromaster64 · Post by **electromaster64** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 10:48 am

Bummer I guess I will wire them up.

gobbo · Post by **gobbo** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 7:56 am

I also belive that the following use them as well...
StarFox (SuperFX)
F-Zero (Mode- whatever)
Mario Kart (Same)

They might not though...