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Dead 7800 carts


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How often have you encountered them? I bought 4 carts locally last weekend and didn't try them out until my console arrived today. It seems Asteroids and Galaga are both dead. The 7800 boots up and the Atari logo comes up and then...nothing.

 

Is there anything simple that can be done to revive these, or should I just take them back to the shop I got them from and trade them for other carts?

 

 

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My first copy of Galaga had a weird glitch in that you could play through two waves, then that first bonus wave would never appear. The game would not crash, it would just stay there as if stuck between the 2nd and bonus waves. You had full control of your ship to slide along the bottom and fire while the starfield twinkled along, but the next wave never came. I took it back to the shop and swapped it out for a copy of Dark Chambers.

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Put that nonworking one back in and have it pushed forward (or back) and power on- if it comes up and stays you have a squishy cart connector.

Try both forwards and back-
I have over 400 carts and only one was 'bad' (it got a salt water or soda bath in it's distant past)

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Spray some CPU duster in the cart slot. Follow up with some contact cleaner, then vigorously insert and remove a game before it evaporates. Sometimes it's the connector that gets dirty, especially if you've just crammed some secondhand never-been-cleaned games. Debris will transfer to the connector slot making all your games not want to work.

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