Dansrevenge Posted May 1, 2010 Share Posted May 1, 2010 I recently bought my first Atari 2600 (jr) online and it came with 6 games but only 2 appeared to be working, on closer inspection river raid appeared to have pieces of plant material wrapped around the inside (bad feedback) and the others have either one or two of the small plastic bits either side of the circuit board broken off and the 2 that work dont have this problem, so i was wondering am i right to assume that because of that the games wont work and can anything be done to fix it. thanks in advance for any help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari181 Posted May 1, 2010 Share Posted May 1, 2010 I recently bought my first Atari 2600 (jr) online and it came with 6 games but only 2 appeared to be working, on closer inspection river raid appeared to have pieces of plant material wrapped around the inside (bad feedback) and the others have either one or two of the small plastic bits either side of the circuit board broken off and the 2 that work dont have this problem, so i was wondering am i right to assume that because of that the games wont work and can anything be done to fix it. thanks in advance for any help! The "plastic bits" are they just the board or part of the circuitry? If all is circuits are fine try cleaning your contacts with alcohol. Lots of info on this, just search the forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dansrevenge Posted May 1, 2010 Author Share Posted May 1, 2010 I recently bought my first Atari 2600 (jr) online and it came with 6 games but only 2 appeared to be working, on closer inspection river raid appeared to have pieces of plant material wrapped around the inside (bad feedback) and the others have either one or two of the small plastic bits either side of the circuit board broken off and the 2 that work dont have this problem, so i was wondering am i right to assume that because of that the games wont work and can anything be done to fix it. thanks in advance for any help! The "plastic bits" are they just the board or part of the circuitry? If all is circuits are fine try cleaning your contacts with alcohol. Lots of info on this, just search the forum. Thanks i meant the plastic pieces on the 'case' but on cleaning them more thoroughly they now work, should have thought before posting i suppose. also i managed to open river raid and found it had a spiders web inside but now works. + im amazed at how small the actuall game is compared to the cartridge sizes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DickNixonArisen Posted May 1, 2010 Share Posted May 1, 2010 Oh yea, most cart games are like that, esp. NES... if you look at how big a famicom cartridge (the japanese version of the NES) is, and they usually contain an identical or sometimes even more complex game, then look at an american NES cart, well, ... whose decision was it to make my collection take up so much space? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dansrevenge Posted May 1, 2010 Author Share Posted May 1, 2010 maybe they thought we were just clumsy foreigners and would either lose or break smaller cartridges, and i agree on nes and if this image which i just found is real then it just illustrates your point perfectly http://technabob.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/nes_on_cartridge.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLANNERY Posted May 2, 2010 Share Posted May 2, 2010 (edited) maybe they thought we were just clumsy foreigners and would either lose or break smaller cartridges, and i agree on nes and if this image which i just found is real then it just illustrates your point perfectly http://technabob.com...n_cartridge.jpg Now that's a sweet looking videogame console! Perfect for travel. I think I need me one of those! Edited May 2, 2010 by FLANNERY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.J. Franzman Posted May 2, 2010 Share Posted May 2, 2010 Plugging a cartridge into a cartridge is just wrong! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DickNixonArisen Posted May 3, 2010 Share Posted May 3, 2010 (edited) how about this? ...and that is real, by the way. It's just a NOAC (NES on a chip, basically all the hardware of the NES done on one chip). They weren't around when the NES was first made, though. They're even smaller than you'd imagine by looking at this. The Yobo clone is the one I have. I'm thinking of making a nice hardwood NES out of it. Edited May 3, 2010 by DickNixonArisen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tetrode kink Posted May 4, 2010 Share Posted May 4, 2010 (edited) how about this? Careful, we don't want to give A.J. agita! -tet Edited May 4, 2010 by tetrode kink Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.J. Franzman Posted May 5, 2010 Share Posted May 5, 2010 But, is there more than one actual game cartridge in that ridiculous stack? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DickNixonArisen Posted May 5, 2010 Share Posted May 5, 2010 cartridge? no.. but the cd must be a game Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koopa64 Posted May 5, 2010 Share Posted May 5, 2010 Sonic 3 and the two Sonic & Knuckles carts are games... Also, that tower would never work because the Power Base Converter (above the 32X) is completely incompatible with the 32X. Not to mention the fact that you can't plug two Sonic & Knuckles carts together, but I'm getting off-topic here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ericwierson Posted May 5, 2010 Share Posted May 5, 2010 how about this? ...and that is real, by the way. It's just a NOAC (NES on a chip, basically all the hardware of the NES done on one chip). They weren't around when the NES was first made, though. They're even smaller than you'd imagine by looking at this. The Yobo clone is the one I have. I'm thinking of making a nice hardwood NES out of it. Never have I seen such a monstrosity. It looks like a vacuum cleaner. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThelonelyAlien Posted May 5, 2010 Share Posted May 5, 2010 how about this? ...and that is real, by the way. It's just a NOAC (NES on a chip, basically all the hardware of the NES done on one chip). They weren't around when the NES was first made, though. They're even smaller than you'd imagine by looking at this. The Yobo clone is the one I have. I'm thinking of making a nice hardwood NES out of it. Never have I seen such a monstrosity. It looks like a vacuum cleaner. Get that genesis to the hospital! It has a tumor! It a CDMali32xgmnt tumor on it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
classicgamingguy Posted May 6, 2010 Share Posted May 6, 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowdoggie Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 (edited) It's not a tumor. It's not a tumor... at all. Edited May 7, 2010 by shadowdoggie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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