How To Jailbreak The Super NT Run Roms From SD Card

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[@alanf261]

ETA PRIME if you don’t want to jailbreak your console, which update should you use?

[@chico4723]

For the analogue super nt what sd cards micro or regular and is it compatible with SDHC or SDXC ? What speed of card 0 to 300mb/s? What sizes of GB to put all snes ROMs on one card like what best and fastest card can use and weather use micro or regular?

[@trulydumb506]

ETA PRIME hi this is a really late question but I hope you see it, if I have a cart (final fantasy II in this case) and I jailbreak my NT can I use the SD card as a means to back up my saves Incase the battery ever dies? So play through the port but when I go to save have it save on the card?

[@xminorthreatx]

Your use of the term "save states" is confusing. The jailbreak firmware doesn't support save STATES -- as in "press F5 in an emulator to save your exact location in a game" -- at all. It can only save games that feature your typical 3 slot, battery-backed RAM saves if you exit to the ROMs menu and hit the appropriate button. It will then write to an .sav file stored in the /saves directory.

[@trulydumb506]

If I have a cart (final fantasy II in this case) and I want to save my game, could I in theory play the game and then when it comes time to save, save it to the sd card, so if the battery were to die I'd still have access to my saves?

[@advancexz0]

thank you, it was really confusing me "save states" with real world battery saves.

[@Passenger-nj7in]

oh man thanks again for the explaination, I was turning my head about this. But now it makes perfect sense. Super NT copies the *.rom contents into RAM upon loading the game, it can't be compared to reading from an actual cartridge. So the saved games need to go into separate files, they won't be written into the rom file after you're done saving.

[@houseyUK]

A lesson to anyone on how to make an instructional video! Quick, to the point, no idle waffle. Great job ETA Prime...great job!

[@beefcurtainz69]

The term save states might confuse people as the super NT jailbreak doesn’t support them. It only lets you save games that had regular battery backup saves.

[@StatiKClanPC]

You stress in the beginning that it can be bricked if you lose power, but Kevtris has actually confirmed the Super NT is unbrickable

[@MrSegAsh]

It can be bricked. If you pull a cart out and put another in without switching off the power will brick it. I don't recommend it.

[@symphony137]

@@MrSegAsh How would that even brick it? That doesn't really make sense to me since the carts aren't writing anything to the system.

[@Jesterclown17]

@@MrSegAsh ... I just can't imagine why anyone would do that in the first place. Thats like shoving two ps2 disks in a ps4. Why?

[@fishface6247]

@@Jesterclown17 not really. Physically shoving a 2nd disc into a drive that is only meant to have one isn't really the same as switching cartridges while the system is still turned on. That kind of concerning to me. I have children and that could happen for sure.

[@drewtalks]

Damn ETA Prime with the killer hacking tutorials

[@ETAPRIME]

Thanks homie

[@steveothehulk]

Is this just basically the same as having an everdrive? Without the need for a flash cart do the games run just as good as everdrive?

[@pwinterhalter]

This makes this machine a lot more attractive because if you have an original console, sd2snes is going to cost about 200 which is about the price of this.

[@ToploadedGaming]

So if I understand you correctly, there is no save states? It only allows you to successfully save a game that had the ability to save? Or is it that you can use save states on games that had a save feature? Cause unless I’m mistaken, save states and regular saves are two different things.

[@megakoni1]

I think he means normal save states featured within the game itself. So it's just like the original snes then, you can only save in games that could actually save. Other games which never had saving features and a battery for that will just work like on the original snes. You have to play through them in one run, or you can use the ingame password features to return to the point you were

[@esprithk]

No, it cannot do Save by snapshot yet.

[@StatiKClanPC]

It can if you have flash carts that support it though such as the sd2snes

[@ethan5487]

Do you have to update the firmware before jailbreaking, or does the jailbreak contain all of that as well?

[@UnixGoldBoy]

A good question that nobody is asking: Does this use a "Real Time Clock" like the SD2SNES does when you are loading your ROMs from the SD Card?

[@chico4723]

For the analogue super nt what sd cards micro or regular and is it compatible with SDHC or SDXC ? What speed of card 0 to 300mb/s? What sizes of GB to put all snes ROMs on one card like what best and fastest card can use and weather use micro or regular?

[@dpsnake4760]

Hi, I did exactly what you showed on this video, but I do not see my games at all. I made folder from A-Z, but when I go to "Browse SD Card" it just doesnt show my games. It just shows a list of files like "copying.linux""licence.broadcom" "licence.oracle" "cdmline.txt", etc. Any help or suggestion I'd really appreciate it.

[@gamepro94z]

Did you ever get it fixed? What was the problem?

[@snazzy1995]

What if I only have the one SD card at the moment ? Can I Jailbreak it and then delete the jailbreak and use the same SD card for roms ? I mean if I need to update the firmware in the future ill be sure to pick another one up. just at the moment I don't have a spare

[@Christopher_Gibbons]

just to reassure people you cannot actually brick an fpga through software like this. You may disable the unit if you loose power, but that is noting a jtag cant fix. Just download the free programming software from altera and use the jtag pads on the board to push the firmware. This is some of the most tinker friendly hardware I have ever seen. Everything is clean and spread out. Everything is labeled. Seriously everything. Individual smt resistors are labeled. Outside of educational boards that is exceptionally rare.

[@AxiomofDiscord]

When you say Jtag are you taking for granted everyone else has the extra hardware to reprogram the chip that has the firmware on it? If not is there some other way to go about it?

[@Christopher_Gibbons]

@@AxiomofDiscord well you can get a cheap JTAG cable for $10-$15. But frankly the software support for JTAG is dwindling rapidly. I wouldn't work about it though. Far more knowledgeable people than me are saying the super nt is virtually impossible to brick in the first place.

[@AxiomofDiscord]

@@Christopher_Gibbons most modern stuff is hard to brick ... my worst time was with original xbox bricking itself and modding it back to life so at least it could function again ... firmware was flakey on those and now the older they get less and less work well that and if the hdd and proprietary dvd drive still work

[@RaymondOlivares]

With this work if I use a MacBook to download the jailbreak firmware?

[@mytruefreethoughts4943]

Does the Super NT interact with the roms on the flash drive as if it was a real game cartridge?

[@ETAPRIME]

Yes

[@vtnwesley]

So is it only the save stating that needs to be supported? When running off SD, does it support standard game saving emulation or are save states the ONLY method to save?

[@xminorthreatx]

According to official sources, the SuperNT can't be bricked. Still not the best idea to unplug anything while its firmware updates.

[@Girz0r]

ETA, when you play this on your TV ... is it able to stretch to the 16:9 wide format? I have a SNES mini with 280 games and I feel it's the biggest drawback. Even though I still have save states and cart saves. 4:3 or original doesn't look good on newer TVs.

[@JUSXTREME96]

Michael Hein You would probably have to stretch to 16:9. Nobody likes SNES at 16:9, its terrible. It's meant to be at 4:3

[@TigerGreene]

Any updates since this was uploaded that allow more flexible saving options?

[@d.e.2338]

Hey! I'm 32! Did you just call me fat? Now I'm depressed and want a bucket of ice cream.

[@d.e.2338]

@Shank Adams No, that was just sarcasm.

[@hostmaster8977]

Hi, Is it possible to install the jailbreak over any official firmware? or it has to be over the 4.5? I installed the official 4.7 Do I have to do a firmware downgrade first?

[@sangbeta2043]

The expression "save state" should be reserved for the way emulators can save a game at any point. Super NT is not an emulator.

[@allenmitchell09]

I would say it's a hardware emulator.

[@OldsXCool]

The Super NT is most certainly an emulator. It doesn't use software to emulate. It uses a programmable chip which is programmed just like a software emulator. Byu, the creator of BSNES and Higan which are the finest SNES software emulators had a hand in creating the Super NT. Without his years research along with the developer of SNES9X, the Super NT would not exist.

[@diopterdoctor120]

Why doesn't the file extension .SFC roms work with the Super NT?

[@prankmonkeyxs650]

I think you just told me the answer to my save problems

[@ToploadedGaming]

I have the NT, I didnt realize this was possible. But damn, no reason on earth for me to do an everdrive or sd2nes or any emulation, retropie now that this baby can be jailbroken. This baby plays snes games perfectly. All you have to worry about is the TV you use to avoid lag issues. Great work ETAPrime!

[@WelcomeToTheCBC]

Toploaded Gaming you still need an sd2snes for special chip games

[@ToploadedGaming]

WelcomeToTheCBC I buy the real carts. Mostly, id use the sd card setup to capture footage for clips on my channel. I realize that not everyone is doing this though.

[@chigimonky]

WelcomeToTheCBC The sd2snes can't play most of the special chip games.

[@WelcomeToTheCBC]

Porter Rockwell my point was it plays more than the jailbreak and it plays a lot of the special chip games and the fx chip is working now but still needs optimization

[@esprithk]

Toploaded Gaming this jailbreak cannot do SAVE by snapshot yet.

[@zevenenzeta]

this doesn't work i did everything right and it didn't flash my super nt at all can anyone please help me out ?

[@Superior1337]

Is it possible to play GB/GBC Roms via SD Card too? Because I could also play GB/GBC with the Super Game Boy Module too. So maybe gb roms are possible too?

[@TheBroz]

What’s the last game that’s shown loading up?

[@Risingstarsification]

How do I remove jailbreak? After you already jail broken you console?

[@MundoNintend0]

Thanks for the video and if I want to leave the SUPER NT again with the original factory-free frimware that does not have Jailbreak I have to do, I hope you answer my question.

[@MundoNintend0]

thank you very much @ETA for the video I have two questions when jailbreaking the Frimware, can the console be restored to the original firmware in the future, on the other hand today there is a new firmware 5.0 that can be updated to that firmware.

[@shalokshalom]

he literally said that

[@Dracoknight627]

How is the performance of SNES roms on the Jailbroken Firmware compare to running the Roms on Raspberry Pi 3 running retropie?

[@ToploadedGaming]

Jeff K Its running virtually indistinguishable from the carts on the super nintendo itself. This is an FGPA. Its not emulation. Retropie is good, but this is Gourmet compared to the pie.

[@hdmartyh]

Roms aren't the bottleneck. It's the type of system running them. In this case its fpga so there is zero/minimal bottlenecking unlike software emulation which adds timing issues and lag no matter what your running it on.

[@AxiomofDiscord]

Depends on your metric for "performance."

[@AxiomofDiscord]

@@hdmartyh You can reduce latency in software emulation to less than actual hardware. That will not be happening in FPGA and yes the timing will be different of course. Some say anything different is inherently worse and for that crowd FPGA is sometimes good enough and others will still say original hardware or nothing at all. I believe there is a lot of misinformation. That being said to do run ahead emulation in an attempt to make the games more responsive than ever you need a pretty powerful desktop computer for even SNES.

[@khog143]

Can it play roms from other systems, or strictly SNES?

[@GamerBronyEs]

Only SNES, since it is not an emulation machine

[@AxiomofDiscord]

@@GamerBronyEs Unless someone wrote an emulator for a SNES. I have ran NES and SCUMMVM games on an N64 so there are some weird things out there. And before you ask why the answer is always "because you can."

[@Tiknuttle]

Can you use an SD to micro SD adaptor?

[@Dikwili]

Whats the point of game saves when you have to be playing a game that saves anyway? Seems like that kind of degeats the prupose of game saves

[@engin3ar]

Great video, as always

[@JohnSmith-zl8rz]

how do you know that rooms are well extracted from the carts, maybe all have issues? there's any "official" source for roms?

[@symphony137]

So the actual designer of the Super Nt (Kevtris) said it is unbrickable.. Meanwhile this guy here is saying there's a risk and it can be bricked if we lose power during the flashing process. 👀

[@fishface6247]

Does this still work

[@Squishmallows24]

Do the games look just as good playing off an SD card?

[@steveothehulk]

Can a hyperspin style game select be possible on this now it’s jailbroke?

[@FlintG]

This is really awesome! Will we be able to play games like from Nes or even Genesis?

[@mzik0013]

You can play to starfox? Yoshi Island? Etc..? It doesnt work at home (expansion not supported) :(

[@shivasthong4924]

Does it run games needing the SA-1 chip?

[@chumbert5]

Can you please make a video on how to take an sd card that has Retropie for the pi 3b and use it in a 3b+? I can’t figure this out and I don’t wan’t to lose all my files

[@esprithk]

Thx. No, it cannot do "save by snapshot" but still a great feature to be able to play ROMs, even I already own an EVERDRIVE.

[@QLTD]

I don't know why they didn't make it support playing SD card ROMs from the beginning!

[@WelcomeToTheCBC]

Quick Look n Teardown its illegal...

[@QLTD]

the everdrive did it

[@xminorthreatx]

Nah brah

[@WelcomeToTheCBC]

Still illegal bro lol

[@QLTD]

WelcomeToTheCBC I don't think so, it is illegal to include ripped game ROMs but including and SD slot so people can play homebrews should be ok, it's not gonna be diffrent than an EverDrive Cartridge!

[@Pandakids09]

Any way of running other kinds of ROMs like Genesis and GB,GBC, and GBA?

[@scottkundel]

Worth getting this if you have a hacked SNES Classic?

[@ETAPRIME]

It's hard to say. The classic she's does a really great job but if you have the extra cash I would suggest picking one of these up.

[@ToploadedGaming]

I would say if you like to complete games that are hard? Something like lets say difficult shooters, run and guns like Contra 3 or super punchout for example, if you find that playing these games on the classic is harder for some reason, thats because it is emulated, and if playing these games is just some weekend retreat for you, this isnt the option for you. But if you play this stuff frequently and ultimately want to be able to beat all games you come across, it is the best way to play games in an all in one setting. There is now no better way for HDTV’s. It all depends on how much you notice the difference between the real thing and the classic. If you don’t notice a difference, and don’t care, save your money. I also have the AVS, these systems are top shelf stuff.

[@supersonics5000]

Is it possible to upload 2k 1440p resolution? Great content btw.

[@valhallaoutcast]

Please stop giving me ideas to spend money on things I can already do on hardware I already own .....#ineedthat

[@Professor5180]

Couldn't you just use an Everdrive instead?

[@OldsXCool]

You could, or you could just keep the $200+ and do this instead.

[@ericvarga2451]

Sweet!

[@ericochoa4034]

Hmm I wonder who is behind the jailbreak software...

[@jamesarmstrong3000]

Well, I'm glad that you're thinking about it...KKKKKKKKKKKKK

[@nickperez915]

Nice

[@amishpatel7794]

First and hi