My SNES collection

I'm rather enjoying this blogging, and I've been thinking about all of the different things I can write about. I'm currently at my girlfriends house in Colchester and my SNES collection is at my house. So I'm not able to play it currently, but I can write about it. I thought I could write a short background to my collection, and go into more details when I've got access to it again.

I do however have a photo of it to hand:

As far as I'm concerned, this is my perfectly curated collection of 30 cartridges. This picture was taken in about 2013 and I haven't added anything else since then (and I've been to Japan in the meantime, but that's a story for another blog!) This is what I play and I don't see myself adding anything else to it.

In the past I've owned way more SNES games, including some with boxes. 😅 I've had a Super Scope and various arcade joysticks but as I got older I lost interest in having things for the sake of having things and so I sold off all but what I really wanted and would play. Actually, as I write this I think should probably sell the Super Game Boy as I use the GameCube adaptor if I want to play any of those on the big screen!

To start at the bottom, we've got two PAL SNESs (SNESes? SNES?). The one on the right is my main one - you can see on the picture that it has a larger cart port cut out. I had it modded by Console Passion with the switchless mod. It can run at 50/60Hz and will more-or-less play any SNES game from any region. The left-hand SNES is essentially my backup machine. I also got rid of the original power supplies as they were getting old flakey. I bought two replacements from Consolegoods which should see me right for some time.

In rows from top left (PAL unless noted):

1) NBA Jam, Street Racer, Sunset Riders, Pop N Twinbee, Parodius Da! (JAP)
2) Super Tennis, Earthworm Jim, The Firemen, Ghoul Patrol, Super Donkey Kong (Country) (JAP)
3)Pilotwings, Street Fighter Alpha 2, Super Aleste, Super Streetfighter 2, Darius Twin (JAP)
4)Sensible Soccer, Donkey Kong Country, Super Mario All Stars, Super Mario World, Super Mario Kart (JAP)
5) Starwing, Super Bomberman, Super R*Type, Zombies, Yoshi's Island (JAP)
6) Super Mario Kart, Axelay, Street Fighter 2 Turbo, Yoshi's Island.

I've got duplicate copies of Mario Kart and Yoshi's Island as the Japanese versions do prefer to run at 60Hz because of the DSP in MK and the Super FX in Yoshi's. Running the PAL versions of those games at 60Hz means they either don't run properly or act all funny!

I picked up the Hudson Super Multitap at a flea market in about 2004 - I've only seen one like it since then. It's great for Super Bomberman and Street Racer, which admittedly I don't get to play all that often with more people! I didn't take pictures of my controllers, but I've got 5 or 6 official controllers and a couple of good third-party ones.

That's it for this post! Just an overview! As you saw from my games list earlier, the games weren't sorted when I took a picture. Over the coming weeks and months I'm going to post more articles about specific games and genres.

I'll leave you with these two little photos. These are close crops of my room at Uni in 2002. You can just about see NBA Jam in the cart slot! Can you spot anything else? There's some games there that I don't have now!