SNES help, donkey Kong country 3

[e_brugal]

Hi guys, I'm at one of my wife cousin house and we are playing SNES, but we are trying to play now donkey Kong country 3 and when we try to start the game this sign appear



And won't let us play it.

Someone knows why this sign appear and how can I eliminate to start playing it. We are playing it on an original SNES,  never mode, never repair, original from factory, one owner since 1993

Any help on this will be appreciated

Thanks 

[Spiden]

Open up the cartridge and make sure it isn't a pirated copy.

[e_brugal]

Didn't bring my tools,  but it seems to be original, they have that game since the '90s and they had play it on the same SNES always

[Spiden]

It could be that the connector pins inside the snes are dirty, combined with a game that has some serious anti-piracy mechanics. Use the t-shirt and credit card cleaning method on the snes and see if that has any effect.

[e_brugal]

Did that and still the same, but the snes works with mario all star, although batman, Tom and Jerry and pilot wings won't work at all

[Thom Grayson]

It could be that the connector pins inside the snes are dirty, combined with a game that has some serious anti-piracy mechanics. Use the t-shirt and credit card cleaning method on the snes and see if that has any effect.

T-shirt and credit card?

[Arseen]

It could be that the connector pins inside the snes are dirty, combined with a game that has some serious anti-piracy mechanics. Use the t-shirt and credit card cleaning method on the snes and see if that has any effect.

T-shirt and credit card?

Put the creditcard inside the shirt and use it to clean the contacts inside the SNES.

[delinom]

According to The Cutting Room Floor, this anti-piracy routine is triggered when the game is unable to detect SRAM, i.e. the memory used to save your game progress. I'd say the SRAM battery is dead, and replacing it should fix the issue.

[e_brugal]

According to The Cutting Room Floor, this anti-piracy routine is triggered when the game is unable to detect SRAM, i.e. the memory used to save your game progress. I'd say the SRAM battery is dead, and replacing it should fix the issue.

Thanks, 

Well after talking a lot of replacing the battery on a game on some thread, and discussing how easy/difficult it is, and seeing others changing their's,  i think my first time changing a battery has come damn it, I thought this day will never come and I will never have to change a battery on games lol

The bad thing is that the game is not mine lol

[delinom]

I don't know if dirty pins can trigger the anti-piracy warning, but it's a good idea to try cleaning them before replacing the SRAM battery, specially because other games aren't working either.
If you can, try playing the games on another (working) SNES to determine if it's a game or console issue.

[e_brugal]

I don't know if dirty pins can trigger the anti-piracy warning, but it's a good idea to try cleaning them before replacing the SRAM battery, specially because other games aren't working either.
If you can, try playing the games on another (working) SNES to determine if it's a game or console issue.

Definitely i will clean the cartridge, didn't do it right away because i didn't have my tool with me. but i clean it a little bit with Q tip and alcohol and the console with a clean T shirt and a card with a little of alcohol.

Thanks for the tip 

[Kriegspire]

I couldn't play the JAP version of the game on a PAL system with a converter.

As it is one of the last SNES games released, they put some serious anti-piracy on this cart.

Could be the battery, or dirtyness.

[e_brugal]

Well, today I went to my wife cousin house and clean five games, including donkey Kong country 3 and solved the problem, no longer showing the sign I post in the first post, so didn't had to change the battery.

The other games are now working too, except batman that didn't work at all, I saw some water marks so don't know if that cause the game to stop working. All games were dirt as hell  but now they are playable

Thanks everyone for the help