I bought the PowerPak well over 2 weeks ago and a CF to finally see what this cart is all about. All I have to do is follow the directions on how to setup everything, place the roms in the CF card, insert the CF card in the PowerPak, insert the PowerPak in the SNES, power it on, and choose the game from your list and your up and running!!! Simple right? WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!! It's not simple. In fact it's a damn headache and frustrating! I mean, why in the world would a $140, + $6 in shipping, device be so difficult?

 I have spent almost the entire week trying to figure out how to get a single game to run on this expensive beast and still haven't had any luck what so ever. I get real ticked when I pay an over priced item like this PowerPak and it doesn't function right. I also noticed there's no FAQ's, no explanation, or even a freakin' walkthrough on this thing anywhere on the net. Why? Probably cause people couldn't figure it out too!! I have bought a flash cart in the past, a GameBoy Advance flash cart, and the thing was probably made in Hong Kong, China and the cart actually works. All the games I loaded on the thing and it works with no problem what so ever. Sure, there was also no FAQ's or instructions on how to get the thing to work but at least there was someone out there in internet world who kindly made a walkthrough on how to get the thing to work for all of us. The same goes for my DSi. I bought a flash cart for it and works great.

Now here's my situation. I have a CF card, I format the card in FAT32, download the latest mapper update, place my roms in directories like stated in the manual, power on the SNES, choose my game and this is what I get:

I have read on other forums where users have stated the roms we're downloading are bad. Well, I say yes and no on this theory because how is it every game, 122 SNES roms, I downloaded and not one of them works? All of the 122 roms I have and all of them crap out. If it's true about the roms being bad then where in the world can we find good roms at? Another theory is downloading the roms that have the (!) which means they are good. Well, I ran a test to see if that works. I downloaded Super Mario World_(U)_(!).smc, placed it on the CF card as the only single game on it, ran the PowerPak and got the same garbage as the image above. Yet another theory has to do with the type of brand CF card you have. So now I gotta go out and buy yet another CF card till I find one that works? Don't you think we have spent enough money on this PowerPak? How many CF cards am I going to have to buy till the right one comes up? It's a waste of cash!!

I'm sorry but when I spend so much investment on something that doesn't work I get upset. Let this be a warning to those thinking about buying the SNES PowerPak. Until I hear a solution that works, the SNES PowerPak to me is nothing but FAIL!

Pinball Quest .                      Baseball Stars                               Tetris                           Yoshi                         Pirates,                                   Pac-Man (Tengen),                       Baseball,                                                    Super Spike Volleyball,       Skate or Die,                                  Gauntlet,                      Gyromite,                 Track & Field II,                     Monopoly,                                        Barbie.....

A new NES homebrew made by Arto of FunkyFlash fame. The download is available here

http://www.nesworld.com/homebrew/super_pakpak_by_aoh_games.zip

Now the question, I have M27C256B EPROM's and I notice that they are a bit shorter than 27c010, 28 instead 32 pins. Can I use thouse on TKROM boards as well? I also see on a board, the last two pinsholes on each row are not being used, does it mean that 28 pins eproms are all right? 

My second question is the wiring. There must be a reason to wire some pins together. Can anyone explain this? Is the wiring patron alway the same or it depends what kind of board or eprom chip I'm useing.

I woud be gratefull for the info!

they were all crazy sounding games. the guy did art & said he would pay someone to make him some games.

dont know where the post went but I was wounder if any work had been done on the games yet or if the guy just dissapered after posting.