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  1. I've seen someone use a folded business card on YouTube. That should be strong enough not to brake or rip and still be soft enough not to damage the pins. Think I'll give that a go.
  2. Maybe soaked is the wrong word. Lightly misted maybe Just so it's slightly damp with isopropyl. I'm open to alternative suggestions though.
  3. Just another question guys, I've seen people use a credit card with paper folded over it dipped in isopropyl alcohol to clean the pins in the cartridge slot by inserting it into it. Is this recommended?
  4. Thanks for the warm welcome everyone. To answer some of the questions, it was pretty messy in there and I cleaned cartridge slot and the top of the main board and surrounding areas so maybe it was that that cured it. Yes, I've noted that all the stripped down intellivisions on YouTube look different inside to mine. Was gonna ask why but it must be because they are all NTSC and as such we're built differently. Not sure about getting a cover, maybe later. At the moment I just like looking over at it sitting on my rack, love it My father was very generous when I was a kid, I remember have pretty much every game including the computer module, sound synthesizer module and melody blaster with keyboard. I remember my favourite games being : Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Dracula Shark Shark Tron Deadly Discs Night Stalker Utopia Sub Hunt Although I remember my favourites swapping all the time back then and I'm sure I'm forgetting some. Intellivotion - Close, that's the Swedish Bamse, my username comes from the Danish one below
  5. Hi Had Intellivision when I was a kid and decided to get one again after seeing the rise in emulators both physical and code. Personally I wouldn't want to play an Intellivision game with anything other than original controllers so decided to get one using Ebay. After a bit of searching found one a bought it for £40 (not bad I think). It worked but the picture when tuned into either of my LCD tv's was awful. Bought a new coax cable and also an old DVD recorder (Ebay again) and tuned it into that and then run the signal from the recorder to my tv via composite out phono's. Picture is much better now. Had a problem today. Cleaned my Soccer cartridge which worked OK before but was filthy. When I put it in the intellivision after cleaning however, all the sprites where artifacting (not sure if either of those terms are correct ?). Tried other games and all the same, graphics were all wrong. So took it apart and it was really really dusty inside. Cleaned out the inside and also cleaned out the connections in the cartridge slot with contact cleaner and a cotton bud best I could . It's all back to normal now so I'm assuming it was dirty contacts in the cartridge slot and when I cleaned the cartridge I dislodged some of the dirt in the slot itself. Does that sound about right? If so, how are others cleaning their cartridge slots?
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