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Manufactured by: Hudson Soft |
Super MutiTap - The oddest thing about all the multiplayer adapters, is
that is not are made by Nintendo, who manufactured the NES Four Score and
NES Satellite 4 player adapters for the original Nintendo (Nintendo may have
designed the specs for the 5 player adaptors, however, I am not sure). Also,
unlike the Sega Genesis, which had two incompatible four player adapters for
a while, all multiplayer adapters for the Super Nintendo and Super Famicom
are all intercompatible. With a multiplayer adapter, you can play games with
up to 5 players (four plugged in the adapter which is in controller port 2,
and player one on the controller plugged into port 1). Only standard
controllers can be used with a multiplayer adapter. The Super MultiTap
originally came with the Super Bomberman game for the SNES, then it was
later sold separately; the Super Bomberman/Super MultiTap combo package
retailed for about $59.99, individually the adapter sold for about $29.95 (I
believe).
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Manufactured by: ?? |
Super MultiTap - This is a multi-tap in a neat Bomberman head
design! This is another neat accessory which only came out in Japan,
unfortunately. It is otherwise identical to the Super MultiTap.
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Manufactured by: Tyco |
Power Plug - This will turn any controller into a
"super controller"! The idea is to give a controller, regardless of type,
basic functions like turbo fire and slow motion, as well as other functions
not commonly available on most controllers. There were versions of the Power
Plug for both the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis.
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Manufactured by: ASCII |
Turbo File Twin -
This was originally released for the Famicom, and when the Super Famicom
came out, an adaptor was released for it to work with it as well. I would
imagine around that time, ASCII decided to release this, which is compatible
with both FC and SFC. If anyone has the exact date, please let me know. |
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Manufactured by: Naki |
Tribal Tap -
If you don't know already,
multitaps allow several controllers (in this case, 5) to be put into one
port, with another in the other port, creating enough hardware space for 6
players on one SNES. Games like bomber man, and Micro machines normally
support official, and un-official multitaps. |
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Manufactured by: QuickJoy?? |
Super 5
-
Multiplayer = Multi Fun! That super 5 makes simultaneous Four exist
specially CONTROLLER haven and a switch, with switch between 2-3-5 players
can be selected.
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Manufactured by: Nintendo |
Super Game Boy -
This lets you play GB games on your SNES, in color! Normal GB games will be
using a palette with four colors which you can edit yourself but many newer
GB games (released after the Super GB) supports 256 colors in static screens
(i.e the title screen) and 12 colors in the normal game! Since the simulated
GB screen doesn't fill out the whole TV-screen and you can create your own
border that fills out the rest of the screen. However you can't link
together a GB and a Super GB with a link-cable and play head to head, not
even with two Super GB´s! My advice is to only get the Super GB if you have
a SNES but don't have a GB already and still wants to play all the brilliant
GB games there is. With the Super GB you can then play all the SML games (1,
2 and 3) and Zelda 4 for example. But if you already own a GB or want to
play head to head it's not worth it .
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Manufactured by: Nintendo |
Super Game Boy 2 -
At the launch of the special Pocket Camera System in Japan, Nintendo also
launched a new improved Super Game Boy. This new Game Boy adaptor is
compatible with the Pocket Camera, and allows some extra features when you
play the GB game Pocket Monsters with it. That's it! So if you hasn't
got either Pocket Monsters or the Pocket Camera don't bother!
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Manufactured by: Nintendo |
SuperLink - This is
another multiplayer adapter for the SNES, from Bullet Proof Software. This
adapter is, basically, a box half an inch high, three inches across and two
inches wide. On top, most of the area is raised, with the four controller
ports vertically lined up, and the SuperLink nameplate below the two middle
ports. The top of the area towards the front, which is not raised, has a
small switch to change between two and four player mode. The SuperLink
functions exactly the same as the
Super MultiTap. The SuperLink followed the release of the
Super MultiTap, and wasn't nearly as popular, and are somewhat rarer. |
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Manufactured by: Nintendo |
Super Scope - This
is Nintendo's own zapper gun (rather zapper bazooka!) for the SNES. It's 2
1/2 feet long and shaped just like a bazooka (duh!). As you can see on the
picture it's got a little plastic thing that acts like a support for your
shoulder. This also has two buttons, the fire button and a pause button.
Unfortunately the gun sucks batteries like there was no tomorrow! It uses
the whole load (6 AA batteries) in about 4 hours! The Super Scope comes
bundled with a 6-games-in-one cart called Super NES Super Scope 6 Game
Pak, but when you get tired of these there aren't so much other to do
because according to my sources there are only about 7 Super Scope
compatible game out there! Here are the list of them all: Lamborghini
American Challenge (How can you steer a car when holding this bazooka?!?),
Battle Clash, Bazooka Blitzkrieg, Yoshi's Safari, Terminator 2: The Arcade
Game, Tinstar and X-Zone. Personally it think that the NES zapper is 10
times better than this sad accessory! |
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Manufactured by: Lewis Galoob Toys |
SNES Game Genie -
Just like the NES version, this version is not licensed by Nintendo.
Nintendo has felt that the Game Genie goes too far in its ability to allow
players to cheat, and refused to grant them a license, and their "Seal of
Quality". The Game Genie was released anyway, first in Canada, then a year
later after Nintendo took them to court over it and lost. The Game Genie was
developed by Codemasters of England, the same people who previously released
licensed games, as well as a slew of unlicensed products for the NES after
releasing the Game Genie. Production and distribution was done by Galoob
Toys, Inc. in the US, as well as Canada I believe (can anyone confirm?)
Versions of the Game Genie were also released for the NES, SNES, GameBoy,
Sega Genesis, and Sega Game Gear; Sega, by the way, had no problem with the
Game Genie and gave the two for their systems their seal of approval.
Support for the Game Genie was dropped a few years after the SNES released,
and the Game Genie line ended, replaced by such devices as the Game Shark,
which is still in product for today's latest consoles.. |
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Manufactured by: Sports Sciences |
TeeV Golf - The
golf club is another specialty controller from Sports Sciences, the same
people who brought us the Batter Up! baseball bat controller. The TeeV Golf
is much like your everyday golf club, with about the same size, weight and
feel. There is a sensor on the front of the face of the club, which sends a
signal to a sensor box on the floor, which plugs into either SNES controller
port, I believe. |
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Manufactured by: Nintendo |
Batter Up! - This
is definitely another one of those gimmicky accessories released for the
SNES, which offhand is a good idea in theory, but just doesn't work in the
real world. The Batter Up!, made by Sport Sciences, is a baseball bat
controller which is for use with any baseball game. This device sounds like
a clever idea, but it never caught on. You swing the Batter Up! bat to
control your on-screen character's swing, sort of a virtual reality type
thing. Honestly, though, I have no idea how it works, and I can't find any
info on that, not even on the manufacturer's own website. I assume the
device senses your swing and creates a composite of a standard controller
motion; since virtually all baseball games use a similar controller scheme
for batting, this makes sense. |
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Manufactured by: ?? |
Super 8 - This is a
NES to SNES adapter, allowing you play your old 8bit NES games on your SNES,
as well as Super Famicom games. This device plugs into the SNES via the
cartridge port, and has three ports on top, one for SNES/SFC, one for NES
and one for Famicom games. This device gets its power from the SNES; no
separate power supply is needed. It costs about $59.95 new; you can purchase
one from Multimedia 1. This adapter is has also been sold under the name
"Tri-Star" |
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Manufactured by: ?? |
Satellaview - This
modem is an add-on for the SNES, released 1995, in Japan only. The
Satellaview uses a Japanese satellite system called "St GIGA" to get it's
information. With the Satellaview you can download updates of new games and
get hot news, cheats, tips, demos, info about new Nintendo games, events or
interviews, charts and rumors. A problem with the system was that you could
only download a certain game, for example the new "Chrono Trigger demo" when
it was being "broadcasted" at a certain time. You had to wait until a
certain time or day to be able to download it (just like
recording a TV-show from
the TV). The things you downloaded could then be saved in a thing that you
plugged into the cartridge slot that could hold 1 Megabit of data. This
little thingies was called BS-X Special Broadcast Cassettes and
looked like the Super Game Boy. It was only from 4 pm to 7 pm
you actually could download stuff with the BS-X because at the other time of
the day the satellite channel that the Satellaview System used broadcasted
normal TV-shows! On the other hand everything you downloaded was for free.
Nintendo managed to blend in some advertising to make it profitable. When it
was released in 1995 both Konami, Square, Taito and Data East was planning
to use the Satellaview for their advertising but the only two companies that
actually supplied software for the St GIGA channel was Nintendo and Square! |
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Manufactured by: ?? |
Stuntmaster
- If
you have any info, please
e-mail me. |
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Manufactured by: Nintendo |
Mario Paint - If
you have any info, please
e-mail me. |
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Manufactured by: Naki |
Pro Extension - If
you have any info, please
e-mail me. |
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Manufactured by: Aura |
Interactor - If
you have any info, please
e-mail me. |
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Manufactured by: ?? |
Action Replay - If
you have any info, please
e-mail me. |
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Manufactured by: Nintendo |
X-Band - If
you have any info, please
e-mail me. |
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Manufactured by: Nintendo |
Lethal Enforcers
- If
you have any info, please
e-mail me. |
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Manufactured by: ?? |
If
you have any info, please
e-mail me. |