A1: Hardware upgrades might happen if any “physical” problems become known or some end-of-life parts have to be replaced. However the capabilites of the hardware will remain roughly the same. Some improvements in performance or capacity are probably inevitable since parts are becoming cheaper and more powerful all the time.<\/p>\n
A2: Check the compatibility list<\/a> for known issues. If the game is listed it is known not to run on the sd2snes.<\/p>\n A3: DSP games require the DSP ROMs to be present in the “sd2snes” folder on the SD Card. You can get them here<\/a>. For sd2snes you need the *.bin files, NOT the *.rom files.<\/p>\n A4: The BS-X BIOS is required to run Satellaview games. Find the BS-X BIOS ROM (there’s a good chance it’s already in your ROM collection), rename it to “bsxbios.bin” and put it in the sd2snes folder on your card.<\/p>\n A5: One of the following could be the case:<\/p>\n If you have tried different consoles, different SD Cards, different power bricks, and cleaned the contacts, the sd2snes itself is probably at fault (e.g. a bad solder joint or component). Please run the diagnostic firmware<\/a> and send me the output, preferably a zip file of the entire sd2snes folder.<\/p>\n A6: No. I do not manufacture or sell the hardware.<\/p>\n A7: Here’s a list of shops.<\/a><\/p>\n A8: RedGuy’s SuperFX core supports something akin to overclocking, namely the reduction of memory access latencies that were present with the original SuperFX. As a result the core can be made to run faster.<\/p>\n A9: Quite likely.<\/p>\n A10:<\/p>\n If you still feel the sd2snes isn’t saving when it should, please report.<\/p>\n A11: The only enhancement chip where that would work is the DSP series (DSP1-4, ST0010) which are already supported natively. All other enhancement chips have the game ROM “behind” them and control access to it, which a cartridge plugged in parallel to the sd2snes cannot do.<\/p>\n A12: Most likely not. Some enhancement chips are too powerful to be supported by the onboard FPGA, and for some others I can only say I don\u2019t know before I\u2019ve tried. See http:\/\/sd2snes.de\/blog\/status#enhance for the current state of enhancement chips.<\/p>\n A13: The battery is probably empty. You can replace it with a very common CR2032 cell.<\/p>\n A14: Make sure your card is FAT32 formatted. Cards 64GB or larger usually come factory formatted to exFAT which isn’t supported (yet). Unfortunately, Windows won’t allow you to format any card larger than 32GB using FAT32. There’s a number of tools to do the job for you. To name a few: Q1: When more enhancement chips get implemented in the future, does that mean a necessary hardware upgrade? A1: Hardware upgrades might happen if any “physical” problems become known or some end-of-life parts have to be replaced. However the capabilites of the hardware will remain roughly the same. Some improvements in performance or capacity are probably inevitable since parts are becoming cheaper and more powerful all the time. Q2: Game XY doesn’t run properly. A2: Check the compatibility list for known…<\/p>\nQ3: Mario Kart\/Pilotwings\/other DSP games just lock up immediately.<\/h2>\n
Q4: Satellaview games just drop to a black screen.<\/h2>\n
Q5: My sd2snes doesn’t seem to run reliably. A large number of games crash at random, or the sd2snes doesn’t boot up at all.<\/h2>\n
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Q6: Can you sell me an sd2snes?<\/h2>\n
Q7: Where can I buy sd2snes?<\/h2>\n
Q8: Will there be SuperFX overclocking support?<\/h2>\n
Q9: Will there be SPC7110\/ST-011 support?<\/h2>\n
Q10: My sd2snes doesn’t save.<\/h2>\n
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Q11: Can’t enhancement chip XY be realized using a pass-through adapter with the original enhancement chip on top?<\/h2>\n
Q12: Will the sd2snes eventually support every game of the SNES library?<\/h2>\n
Q13: My sd2snes keeps telling me to set the clock.<\/h2>\n
Q14: I put everything in the right place on SD card but it’s still telling me “m3nu.bin not found!” or “menu.bin not found!”.<\/h2>\n
\nFAT32Formatter<\/a>
\nVerbatim FAT32 tool<\/a>
\nRufus<\/a>
\n“GUI Format” and “HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool” do not seem to work properly anymore on recent Windows 10 builds.
\nLogical volumes in an extended partition are not supported. Please make sure that the FAT32 file system is located either directly on the card or inside a primary partition. Only the first file system\/partition found is considered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"