SuperCIC Snes

[scrappysphinx]

Hi all, before we start i'm gonna say a big thank you to Chinners. He donated me a pic programmer and without that this mod wouldn't have happened. So thank you buddy

Now on with the good stuff.

Today i received two snes in the post. One from Tajmaster on here which had a yellowed top but clean bottom and one from ebay which had a clean top and yellowed bottom. Switch stuff around and ended up with a nice clean snes with minimal yellowing. A few weeks ago i also received a snes and two games (Pal Starwing & Jap Street Fighter) from Fitzsteve which i ended up damaging while trying to fit a 50/60hz switch (see this thread).

So now i have my two snes i was going to attempt to install switches and lift a pin of the CIC to disable the lockout. I then came across the SuperCIC by ikari_01. This allows the machine to boot any region game and also provides switchless 50/60hz switching using the reset button and a bicolour red/green led.

I had also bought a few weeks earlier some switchless chips for the megadrive system from bad_ad84 and hadn't got round to using them. Both codes used the same 16F630 pic chip so i decided i would erase one and try and write the SuperCIC to the chip and install it in my new clean snes.

Here's the shot of the motherboard freshly removed from the case and showing the original cic chip.

Now with the CIC chip removed. To remove the chip i melted solder along all legs and then gently lifted the chip on one side then repeated on the other.

Now the pic chip all wired up using these instructions from Wolfsoft. Not the neatest job but it works.

Pal Starwing cartidge (Green LED)

Pal Starwing at 50hz

Pal Starwing at 60Hz

Jap Street Fighter II Cartridge (Red LED)

Jap Street Fighter II at 50hz

Jap Street Fighter II at 60hz

Finally put back together

There is a last mode i can set it to which is Automatic (Orange LED). This will boot the game in its native frequency, i.e. pal game boots at 50hz then after 8 seconds it automatically switches it to 60hz. This allows the system to get around the pal games that detect the saystem is in 60hz and throw up a lockout screen.

All is working fine and its time to put it back together and to find an RGB cable (only have AV at the moment).

 

[Tajmaster]

Looking great Mike, good job dude

 

[BamberO]

that is a thing of beauty

 

[OllieDoodle]

Good job with the 50/60Hz switch - my snes yellowed ages ago. I still play snes games(disclaimer-the ones I bought anyway!) via emulation but it's not the same as playing on the actual hardware.

 

[-Acid-]

The switchless mod is great, i've had the cart slot widened too so my pal snes plays anything from anywhere with no adapters

 

[scrappysphinx]

Thanks guys, as said before its not the neatest job but its functional. Need to buy another chip now though so i can do the other one

 

[keropi]

great mod!!
I've also installed SuperCICs on snes consoles, it's awesome! Here is a pic of my 1CHIP snes with supercic , in-game-reset and 50/60hz switch , it worths the extra effort because of the better video quality

 

[scrappysphinx]

Hey Keropi, nice looking Snes. I saw the IGR but since the machine is usually placed on the desk infront of me i didn't think i'd need it. I'm trying to save some pennies now for the SD2Snes.