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Old 12-17-2005, 05:04 AM   #1
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Old 12-17-2005, 05:18 AM   #2
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Old 12-17-2005, 07:42 AM   #3
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hahaha! I remember those cartridges... in fact I still have some of mine. Ahh the classic days of blowing and swabbing....
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Old 12-17-2005, 01:15 PM   #4
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Its so true, how you got so used to your own system that you knew exactly how that cartridge needed to be blown and inserted to get it to work.
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Old 12-17-2005, 01:47 PM   #5
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it's funny cause it's true.
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Old 12-17-2005, 01:47 PM   #6
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Old school.

I don't understand why more people didn't do fix their NES's; it's really just elementary circuitry.

I guess people just like to be idiots and blow inanimate objects, like he pointed out very well.
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Old 12-17-2005, 03:34 PM   #7
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They warned against blowing into the contacts. I've fixed many a cartridge by just cleaning the contacts. But now I think I have to clean the contacts of our SNES, since many (clean) games don't work the first time I put them in.

And how do I fix my NES? I think I have a couple of broken NESses somewhere....
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Old 12-17-2005, 03:45 PM   #8
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They warned against blowing into the contacts. I've fixed many a cartridge by just cleaning the contacts. But now I think I have to clean the contacts of our SNES, since many (clean) games don't work the first time I put them in.

And how do I fix my NES? I think I have a couple of broken NESses somewhere....
http://www.classicgaming.com/feature...les/nesrepair/

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Old 12-17-2005, 04:55 PM   #9
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I did that actually!

It didn't work like new (still did blinky, occasionally), and after about 2 weeks a game that I bought totally screwed up the new pin connector...

So I said screw it and bought a top loading NES (harder to find, costs a bit more)...

Now there's an NES that works like new :>
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Old 12-17-2005, 05:12 PM   #10
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Not hard to find the PIN connectors to buy
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Old 12-17-2005, 05:15 PM   #11
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Does anybody know if Europe got top-loaders? Or those replacable connectors?
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Old 12-17-2005, 05:45 PM   #12
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Not hard to find the PIN connectors to buy
It isn't hard to open up an NES and bend some pins. Why waste any money on that.

And DeathsHand, you probably didn't do it enough. Is it hard to push the cartridge in? The spring-load won't work after it.

Seriously, guys, I'm a floozy at hardware. And it was no problem for me.
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Old 12-24-2005, 06:30 PM   #13
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I took good care of my NES and it still works great. Every other person I know who has one somehow let it get jacked up. They're all banged up and sticky and barely work.
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Old 12-24-2005, 08:10 PM   #14
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And DeathsHand, you probably didn't do it enough. Is it hard to push the cartridge in? The spring-load won't work after it.
Oh right! Bending the pins!
I actually tried that, too, before buying a new pin connector...

I bent the pins the way it said to, put in Zelda (and yes, it was hard to get in), turned it on, worked on the first try... Put in another game (and already it was no longer hard to get it in), blink, blink, blink, blink... Put in another game, blink, blink, blink, blink... Put Zelda back in, blink, blink, blink blink...

I think our NES was just in terrible shape... As a kid, me and my brother played it all the time (and I mean all the time), and we didn't just stick a game in and play it, I'd play 2 levels of a game, switch games, 2 levels, switch, 2 levels, switch...
PLUS we had a game genie, which apparently had a slightly larger chip thingy which wore out the pins even faster...

The little door to the system was broken by one of us long ago, when we got pissed off after all the various trickery used to make blinky Nintendos work had failed us...
Then it sat around in the basement for years and years, not safely stored away in a box...

So anyways, after the bending of the pins failed, I said screw it and bought the pin connector, which, as I previously said, also failed (it stopped the blinking, unfortunately the picture was always insanely scrambled, and very sensitive to the slightest finiggling of the cartridge)...

There I was, a young lad with a nice source of disposable income who really wanted a consistantly frustration-free NES gaming experience (that wasn't an emulator)...

So I bought a top loader, hoping the stories I'd heard about them being much much much more reliable (as in if the game doesn't work, it's not the system's fault) were true...
And they were... Which made me am a happy camper... And that's all that matters...

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Old 01-02-2006, 05:32 PM   #15
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In bypassing the talk of fixing NESes (mine still works fine, thank you very much), wow, the guy was hilarious. It was all so true... even to the point of poeple humming the Mario music on the elementary school bus -- and parents not holding down the damn "b" button. So funny, and oh so true.
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