Question about a Jap cart in a PAL SNES

[Sonny_Jim]

I've ordered the bits and bobs I need for the SuperCIC mod for my SNES and as a test cart I grapped a Jap copy of Pilotwings. At the moment I'm still waiting for my PIC programmer to turn up and I haven't lifted pin4 of the CIC, so it's a standard PAL SNES for the time being.

I tried my Jap copy of Pilotwings in my PAL SNES to see what it would do and I was expecting a message on the screen along the lines of "This cartridge was not developed for your console" or something similar. What I get instead is no video output at all.

Is this normal behaviour or have I got a wonky cart? I'm guessing that the CIC is causing the SNES to constantly reset, hence no video output.

[TPSNT]

That is normal behaviour. Just like you said, the CIC keeps the SNES in reset state until it finds a matching CIC on the cartridge.

[Sonny_Jim]

Cool, that's what I thought. I just won 6 x Jap games (3 x Mariopaints) and a Jap Super Gameboy for £3, so I've got plenty of carts to test it with now ;-)