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So, i recently found all the missing pieces of my SNES and got it to work. At first i thought there was something wrong with my AlttP cartridge: the triforce intro looked all mangled up, the map screen was just a black screen with link's face and the current objective and it didn't save the game. After some research, i found out that it's not uncommon for old SNESs to have their picture processing unit damaged simply for being old, so my games were working just fine except for one that i couldn't get to work... but after some extensive cleaning i finally got Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge to work and oh boy, was it an interesting sight:



For reference, this is how the game is supposed to look like.

What amuses me the most is that it's just not a graphical glitch, two of the inital rooms appear to be merged together or something, trapping Spiderman in this psychedelic limbo with catchy music.



Apparently, the SNES' ppu is in charge of dealing with all the fancy 3d-ish stuff it tried to pull off or something, so playing a game like Megaman X works just fine. I don't want to imagine how DKC would look like in my SNES though.