Looks like there's a 4.4 update today.

According to some random guy in facebook comments who claims to know; they aren't selling enough of the black one so they are trying to force people to buy it to level their stock out before they will let people buy the good colors.  So if you buy a bunch of black ones it might speed it up  
 

It's been out for like a week now.  

 

It is also possible that black was the most popular color so they made more of them. Now the other variants are sold out. Those wanting another color might be waiting a long time for batch 3. I got NA purple myself.

 

Someone could buy a black one and send it to me. That would help reduce the stock.  

I signed up for a new credit card just so I could order one of these.  

I'm holding off and hoping that they re-release the original purple color though. The black one is ok but I want to have it match my AVS with the original color scheme.

But being snarky is all I can do...  

As I said above, I tried all sorts of firmware versions, both official and jailbreak.

But I DID get it to work finally by moving it around back and forth in the slot. Of course, I could never get this to happen consistently, so you're right, the cart's pins probably aren't working as they should, though I'll again I could try this game 10 times on my original SNES, and it would boot 10 times.

Since it hasn't been that long, and I'm gonna be in that area tomorrow, I'm probably just gonna try to return it from where I got it, I guess. I'll be fine playing it via the jailbreak (or Super Powerpak) for now.
 

I must have misread something on the blog post.

 

Check the date stamp in this forum post. Sunday March 4th, 12:55am
http://atariage.com/forums/topic/...

 

The changes UCON64 made which is how I got the Game Genie codes to try on DKC2 seem to be wrong from what I've seen from investigating it a bit further. Codes are possible but unfortunately it wasn't that easy to find them. You could still potentially get the game working if you get the right codes. It is very odd for the cartridge to work on original hardware but trigger the anti-piracy on the Super NT.

Another thing you could try is inserting it into the Super NT through a real Game Genie to see if it's the connector on the Super NT not quite liking the DKC2 edge connector.

Yes, from my understanding, the anti-piracy warning targets copier devices, not cloned hardware. If you play DKC2 or 3 on a hardware clone, you'll get access to the same amount of SRAM that's physically built into the cartridge. Applying an arbitrary amount of SRAM for the game to play around with, especially on copier carts which utilized more RAM than needed, or emulators that don't apply the correct amount, you'll get the errors.

I wonder how it runs on the Everdrive and the Super NT JB firmware? Do the SNES ROMS specify how much RAM is on the cart? I may mess around with it on my Everdrive and see if I can get the warning to pop up by forcing incorrect settings.

It's also plausible that one of the address lines to the RAM could be malfunctioned, such as a bad trace on the PCB itself, or bit rot of the mask rom causing the check to fail. Also if one of the RAM bits is stuck returning incorrect values? But that would cause the same error on a real SNES if there was a cartridge defect.

Well, I know for a fact DKC2 works on mine, so you sure it isnt just dirty pins or something?

DKC2 works on mine as well, from start to finish. No issues at all.

Well, like I said in my last post above, the fact that it only seemed to work at certain times depending on the cart’s position inside the slot, seems to mean to me that something’s up with the pins, though as Kosmic pointed out, it could be some issue with the board I didn’t catch when I had it out. (See last page for photos)

Either way, I was able to return it and get a shinier copy. All it needed was a bit of swabbing and it booted right up. 

But thanks everyone for all your suggestions for, at least for a while, seemed like a very odd situation. 

No detective work, no electrical sleuthing, no security bits, just return and replace? Comforting to know the seller took it back and more than likely threw an otherwise great game in the trash.  
 

Uhh... check back through the thread. There were a ton of trials, errors, and retrials done as we tried to figure out what was going on. This was my project for the past week, and even though I was never able to get it running on the Super NT, I know this cart is in good hands.

The seller is actually the manager of a game shop in the OKC area, and has way more time and resources available to fix it good as new than I ever could. When I brought it back to him and told him what was going on and the multitude of things we tried, (Big shoutout to Kevtris and the Analogue Discord community as well!) he said he was more than willing to take it from there, said it was “his baby,” and promptly swapped me out with a new one. 

So believe me when I say that DKC2 is not going in the trash. In fact, we probably saved it from such a fate.
 

Glad to hear that!  
 

A new firmware update for the Super NT has been posted.

Fixed Unholy Night crash/graphics issue.
Fixed the -1 fix again to remove vertical zebra stripes.
Fixed high-res colour math issues so Marvelous: Another Treasure Island works now without graphic glitches.
Fixed Chrono Trigger crashing on entering save menu.
Fixed Rendering Ranger R2 / Targa.
Fixed Flashback's audio buzz when entering inventory.
Fixed Arabian Nights audio feedback issue.
Changed wording of the checkbox in the cheat codes. It now says "enable checked codes" to reduce confusion.
Changed "tools" menu to "cheat codes".
Added a "disable hotkeys" feature under hot keys. This lets you disable all hotkeys and controller auto polling until power is cycled.
Fixed "menu bounce" setting so it shows up again.
Fixed Tiny Toons Buster Busts Loose audio crash
Fixed Batman Returns audio crash
Added debugger under "hardware" menu (probably not the most useful for most people but I use it a lot so someone developing a game might find it useful).

This rounds out most of the problems people had that I know of. Top Gear 3000 still has an issue as does Front Mission (jumping text) but that should be fixed by the TG3K fix. I will fix these on the next release.

It is available here:

https://support.analogue.co/hc/en...

Awesome! I'll try this when I get back home.

Kevtris doesn't rest.

Thanks for all your hard work Kevtris.

When will the other colors return?

 

A tweet I just read indicates that the just-updated jailbreak can dump your SNES games to SD!

https://twitter.com/smokemonstertwi/status/97847266637299302...

Wow.

Awesome work Kevtris.