Chindabin

People are having electrical issues with their Noir's? I wonder if this sort of thing could affect cartridges, I posted earlier my issue where Castlevania overheated and melted while I was playing after years of working fine, and still working ever since without issue. I also just had my Startropics 2 saves wiped despite swapping out the batteries for all my NES games a few months ago. And I know I did it right with Startropics 2 because I was fast enough to still preserve the saves with its residual charge. Could this be related?

I can't speak to Metroid but SMB3 is probably my most played nes game. That game absolutely has plenty of slowdown, not nearly as much as Kirby but it's still there throughout. Just finished an every level playthrough on NT Mini a couple months ago and it felt pretty close to what I remember on NES. Go have a look at speed runners playing the game, they will throw bob-ombs off screen during the world 8 autoscroll levels, just so they don't explode and lag the game.

Konami made the PCB but yes I'm aware of Capcom's slimy arcade business with their suicide boards. The only NES cart I've heard of overheating is Action 52 but that thing is obviously built off-spec and is janky as all hell. I'm willing to accept that maybe the hardware is getting too old to the point of failure, but that does also require accepting a rather large coincidence. I've played this cartridge several times to completion on my NES and on the very first time playing on the Noir it melts within 30 minutes. The person who replied in the reddit thread claiming his cartridge died after regular use in a toploader is really the most evidence I've seen; I just wish there was more documentation on the internet so I could attempt a repair. I would have sooner pointed to a power issue, capacitor or resistor before the actual ROM chip, I mean aren't those the things regulating how much power is being sent to the ROM chip? Alas, my beginner soldering skills don't quite stack up to the expertise of Voultar and I'm not sure where to begin troubleshooting. But curiously enough, it's been a few weeks since that cartridge melting. I've played for hours more on the Noir and the same copy of Castlevania and both are working fine! I just beat it again today with no troubles or irregular temperatures. Makes tracking down any potential issue all the more difficult if I can't even replicate it.

Hello gentlemen, long time lurker here. Yesterday I had quite the surprise when my authentic cartridge of Castlevania melted in my NT Mini Noir. I have a detailed post on r/AnalogueInc but the running theories is an electrical short or because the cartridge uses the less common Konami-made blue PCB, the NT mini was feeding it too much voltage. I tested again today on my NES and Noir, but I was unable to reproduce the event. But I know folks in here are really knowledgeable, has anyone ever experienced or heard of this happening on original hardware? It's left me absolutely paranoid to play the Noir again. I've reached out to Analogue support and expect to hear from them sometime this week. Part of me hopes this is the cartridge's fault but this is also the company that shipped cartridge adapters that bricked MegaSG's so who knows?