two decades ago, the power adapter for my SNES died. ebay and amazon both existed, but I went to radio shack.
Got a perfectly fine alternative adapter, and it did pretty well for about ten years. When it died, I was not sure if it was the console or the brick that had given up the ghost. So I put both away, and put it out of mind.
I had a spare $20 lying around recently, and ebay offered me a $5 off coupon. So I bought a genuine Nintendo branded replacement.
The SNES worked fine. It was the brick. I'm happy.
One downside to this is the secondary market HEAVILY pushes third party replacements for the AC adapter. I was turned away at several shops asking for a legit AC adapter, and burned a previously good rapport with a guy I've been buying older games from for years at the swap meet.
The manual for the Super Nintendo says to ONLY use the deck with the legitimate hardware, SNS-002.
And they were right.
