SNES Fuse Replacement

If your as clumsy as me you’ll open your SNES for a tinker only to blow the fuse within seconds. The SNES uses 1.5 amp pico fuses soldered directly to the PCB, these fuses can be a little hard to find so a solution which uses a widely available fuse can be employed instead. Simply by soldering a couple of fuse clips to the solder points a 1.5amp glass fuse can be easily fitted and removed when needed. Read More

Super Mario RPG PAL SNES Mod

Circa 1996

I was obsessed with the idea of Super Mario RPG. All I knew about it was the information I could pull from a few screenshots and a vague article from my crumpled issue of the Nintendo Magazine System (Nov #38).nintendo magazine system nov 38 I waited and waited for this game, every inch of my school book covers scrawled with drawings of SMRPG characters, dripping in ink from my felt tip pens… but the game never came. While America and Japan basked in this games beauty and melody, I (and the rest of Europe) wondered why they never got to save the princess in isometric 3D. Well apparently it was due to laziness Read More