CastleofIllusion Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 Just like the title says, what do you do with your dead carts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ransom Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 I save 'em up and send 'em to Al. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastleofIllusion Posted March 2, 2012 Author Share Posted March 2, 2012 For what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deteacher Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 Store credit! Gut 'em, remove the labels and ship them to him for homebrews and he'll give you store credit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastleofIllusion Posted March 2, 2012 Author Share Posted March 2, 2012 Cool, now if you don't mind me asking, who is Al? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+save2600 Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 Albert owns the site and runs the AA store. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frostbite Bailey Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 Make them live again 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cebus Capucinis Posted March 3, 2012 Share Posted March 3, 2012 Crush them and snort them. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted March 3, 2012 Share Posted March 3, 2012 Well, I generally get them stuffed, after a proper interval of course. Then when I can make time, during the afternoon, I dress them up, arrange them neatly around a round table, and we have tea, play cards, and read poetry to each other. Schnookums is the best poet, he has a deep soul. Then at night, well... Oh, wait -- dead carts? Never mind, then. Sorry. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+save2600 Posted March 3, 2012 Share Posted March 3, 2012 Crush them and snort them. That would give the definition of "blow" whole new meaning. ...2600 Pac-Man just blows! ...and how. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennybingo Posted March 3, 2012 Share Posted March 3, 2012 I used to give them a proper burial in the backyard....now I just have them cremated. I keep them in the urn I found while playing haunted house: As you can see, I still haven't finished the game! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Posted March 3, 2012 Share Posted March 3, 2012 Put them on ebay as "untested". That was a bad joke. I have bought quite a few dead carts off ebay, I smash dead carts to pieces so that no one will ever feel the disappointment I felt. 1)Solaris (did not work) 2)Ghost busters (game would crash when I went back to headquarters). 3)Frankenstein (did not work, sold as untested) this was all in the past 3-6 mths. Because of the age of the games(30+ years), if they arrive broken, I just accept it gracefully. By smashing them!. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiddlepaddle Posted March 3, 2012 Share Posted March 3, 2012 I put them in my "maybe someday I'll try and clean them even better" box. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amstari Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 Al was asking for carts recently: http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/194137-wanted-common-atari-2600-7800-cartridges/ If they are in good condition he can use them for homebrew carts. http://atariage.com/store/index.php?l=product_list&c=24 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ham Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 How common are dead carts? So far all the carts I bought off ebay, craigslist, local game stores, etc. have worked. I had a bunch of carts that wouldn't work initially, but worked after a cleaning or two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the.golden.ax Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 Box of crap 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastleofIllusion Posted March 5, 2012 Author Share Posted March 5, 2012 How common are dead carts? So far all the carts I bought off ebay, craigslist, local game stores, etc. have worked. I had a bunch of carts that wouldn't work initially, but worked after a cleaning or two. Lets put it this way, Out of the 150 carts I got, I have 4 dead ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylon Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 I just throw 'em in a box and send them to Al. 3rd party titles just get tossed or shot. Usually shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Let's see, over the years I've had: - four Intellivision carts I thought were dead, but one of those worked in someone else's system -- jury's out on the other three; - two dead Genesis carts, one of which I gave to someone who also couldn't get it to work; - two dead 7800 carts, neither of which boot no matter what I try; - one dead C64 cart, which turned out to have damage to the traces and was repaired; - one dead NES cart, which I sold to someone on AA for super-cheap (it was a rare-ish cart) in the mutual hope that they might get it working; - and one dead CoCo cart, though it possibly wasn't dead but just needed a cleaning (this was when I was younger and didn't know any better). I think that's all of them. Oddly I don't think I've ever had a dead VCS cart (despite having hundreds pass through my hands), nor a dead SNES cart. Just about every shell can be used for something, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Phruby Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 I'm putting in the secret landfill right next to all the E.T. carts. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ham Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 How common are dead carts? So far all the carts I bought off ebay, craigslist, local game stores, etc. have worked. I had a bunch of carts that wouldn't work initially, but worked after a cleaning or two. Lets put it this way, Out of the 150 carts I got, I have 4 dead ones. k, thanks. It looks like dead carts are kind of rare, but I'll probably get one sooner or later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari2600Lives Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 (edited) I have just been real lucky but in over 30 years collecting (on and off) and hundreds if not a thousand+ carts I have messed with , I have never run into a dead Atari 2600 cart that at some point I did not get working again with proper time and cleaning. Edited March 5, 2012 by Atari2600Lives Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godzillajoe Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Swallow them whole, with beer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireStar Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Use their carcasses to decorate my desk. (They're also handy for cleaning cartridge slots!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhd Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Give them to your favourite local thrift shop to sell for an inflated price. (For the record, I've only ever had 1 dead 2600 cart and 1 dead Coco cart.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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