Hi all,
Finally got round to modding my SNES with Borti's SuperCIC mod which I purchased from here. The mod works fine, though I can't seem to get the new power LED to work.
At first I thought it might be a cold solder joint on the appropriate jumper pad. Re-flowing however didn't appear to solved the problem.
I tested the LED with a coin cell battery prior to installation and I got it to light up, so I know for a fact that the LED itself is not an issue. I even tried jamming the same cell into the controller port to check I didn't damage it during the soldering process (with the power turned off obviously!) and it still worked. I also tried a continuity test between the jumper and the Anode of the LED and I could get it to glow faintly, also reported zero resistance.
I've checked the connections to and from the LED itself and I can't seem to find anything
The instructions state that with an Anode LED I might need to short or remove a 'PreResistor' somewhere, though I cannot for the life of me work out which component exactly that's referring to. My best guess is a 10k resistor on the SuperCIC board itself, but I'm not sure that's the right one...
I'm pretty sure it's an Anode LED, as the provided instructions have 'Anode' specifically highlighted on it.
Other than that, the mod appears to work without major issue - tested with a Japanese copy of Kirby Deluxe which appears to boot just fine. I understand that it's one of the harder games to boot owing to additional built-in region protection.
I'm sure I'm missing something painfully obvious but I cannot for the life of me figure it out - any ideas?