Reset Switch??

extremesonic · Post by **extremesonic** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 7:09 pm

I've gotten pretty far in my SNESp project. I get the screen running(bright and vol adjusters show up), but the SNES seems to be doing squat. I've had my dad helping me, and he seems to think that i need to jump the reset switch area to fully complete the circuit(so that power is going to everywhere on the SNES board). I have no wires or anything going anywhere on the reset button right now. So should I jump the reset button(we've figured out where)??

Turbo Tax 1.0 · Post by **Turbo Tax 1.0** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 8:10 pm

dont jump the reset switch, think about it when you push the reset button the snes restarts so if you jump it, it will never start

unless you take the wire off u used to jump it

extremesonic · Post by **extremesonic** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 9:05 pm

yeah thats what i was thinking, but my dad keeps saying, in the case of the reset switch, that its on when its not pushed in, so by removing it, were making it off(ie pushed in), causing it not to work.

legoboy · Post by **legoboy** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 9:29 pm

Usually that would be the case... but it seems that how the SNES reset works is it just creates a short from power in directly to power out. And because electricity likes to take the path of least resistance, most if not all will just skip all the electronics of the SNES. So, if you were to short it, all that would happen is you would discharge your batteries... <i>allot</i> faster.

Post by **gannon** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 9:43 pm

I thought the snes reset switch just pulled the reset pins on the chips high.... or low, can't remember. Anyways, by jumping the reset switch with wire it'll always be resetting and won't work.

extremesonic · Post by **extremesonic** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 10:36 am

hmm, well then I'm not sure what my probelm is then. I'll post some pics to see if anyone here can help me with my problem