Last weekend I picked up a lot of games (SNES and SMS) off my friend (traded for them, cost me nothing), and one of the items I got was a Super Wildcard DX.
Quick story on this little guy: I traded it to my buddy a few years back for a guitar pedal and a Sega Genesis model 1 + Sega CD model 2 w/ the end so the model 1 genny would fix/look properly.
Anyway, for those that don't know what the Super Wildcard is, it's a SNES ROM dumper. It's pretty useless for that these days, since you can find every rom online, but what some of the other features it has are quite useful, even for today.
First, this device takes floppy disks, so rom's would span across multiple disks if they are bigger than 1.44 MB in size (most of the games I like will span across 2 to 4 disks).
Second, this little thingy here will load roms off of floppies. Pretty sweet since now I can play Final Fantasy 5, Terranigma, Tales of Phantasia, etc., without the use of an emulator or a reproduction. It's a little time consuming, but it is what is.
Third, and one of the coolest things ever - you can dump SRAM from one cart and either 1.) use it with your roms, or 2.) load it into another cartridge. I'm unsure if you can take a save from an emulator and load it up (will be testing that out shortly), or dump the SRAM into a file to use in an emulator (again, will be testing that out as well).
The sram transfer from cart to cart is quick - as fast as turning on the SNES, turning it off, inserting the new cart, and turning it on. I'll try to get some pictures of it later, maybe a video if people want one.
The only problem(s) I have with it is 1.) I couldn't get it to work in my SNES Jr. (mini snes, model 2 snes, whatever you want to call it), and 2.) it doesn't balance right in the SNES, so I need to prop the back up with something (at the moment, it's some card protectors).
Figured I'd share this with everyone since I'm sure not everyone has seen/heard of this thing, and maybe there are some owners out there that don't really know how to use it.
Edit: It's not a DX2, it's just a DX
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Edited: 11/16/2011
at 08:24 PM
by dra600n