Intellivsion Problem

[thegamezmaster]

Got an Intellivision, cleaned the connector and games and seems like half of the games work and some don't. Anyone have any suggestions as to what's wrong? Thanks.

 

 

[Nukey Shay]

List examples of working games and non-working games?

[thegamezmaster]

List examples of working games and non-working games?

 

burgertime works fine two copies of pitfall opening screen only. defender the game just starts with ship going straight up then explodes. demon attack works intermitantly too.

[thegamezmaster]

List examples of working games and non-working games?

 

burgertime works fine two copies of pitfall opening screen only. defender the game just starts with ship going straight up then explodes. demon attack works intermitantly too.

 

 

Can anyone offer some advice as to what to do?

[eatenbygrues]

I posted this in another thread but I think it's applicable to this:

 

I have had similar issues with my Model 1. I would put in a game and get either a black or a solid color screen and everything was immaculately clean. Now the intellivision model 1 uses a fairly similar cart slot to that on the NES and they both suffer from getting loose over time. If you notice a lot of the later intellivision games, the white label ones, like thin ice and thunder castle tend to have much thicker pins than the earlier titles.

 

Anyway what worked for me is I got a small screwdriver and slightly bent all the pins in the cart slot out so that they would make firmer contact with the carts. This took a few tries before I got it to consistently read all my games. You might want to look online for any of the guides on refurbishing a NES 72 pin connector, it should be pretty similar except you can't remove the connector on the intellivision like you can on the NES. Just be very careful about this. Those pins are pretty fragile and you don't want to snap them off. It helps to remove the case to do this.

 

If you have any of the white label games it might be worth trying those first. Since they are a lot thicker they tend to work more easily.

 

So it started with an issue pretty similar to yours where some games worked and some didn't.