My NES rules!!!

[Atari Master]

Most people complain about there NES's giving poblems. But my NES is almost like a SNES. You just have to blow in the game once and it'll work perfectly.

 

I've seen evil NES's tho. Hedgehog's NES is pure evil.

 

But it did take me two and a half houres to get it to work.

[Nukey Shay]

Over time, the card connectors can get stretched so that they don't make full contact with the board. Corrosion can also build up over time. All consoles should work fine if the connection is clean and sound (unless the problem is elsewhere).

[Nukey Shay]

Using the Game Genie can speed up this "stretching", since that card is slightly thicker than most game carts.

[Atari Master]

I'm not gonna be using the game gene anyway. I could always fix the pin connector if it stops working. But right now it's smooth sailing!

[MacGurl]

My NES works great too. I very rarely even have to blow in the cartridges to make them work

[Atari-Jess]

I like marshmallows.

[Rockin' Kat]

I'm guessing the Game Genie was thicker than most carts because unlike most carts it can't be pushed down once you insert it because the game cart sticks out too far..so it wouldn't work if it wasn't thicker.

 

I used to have a friend who almost always played using his game genie...but I don't remember his system having trouble when it wasn't inserted....when I was there I usually pulled it out because I wanted to try playing without cheats first..

 

oh well.... now that I have a game genie after wanting one for so long I'm not sure if I want it anymore after realizing it was thicker.

[sdstuff64]

I have a top loader so it works fine and my friend has a regular one and it works fine too.

[tamashii14]

you all have better luck than me. i have three nintendos now, all with problems. i finally broke down and bought a super8. i know it was too expensive but i'm tired of problems and this hasn't failed me yet. :wink:

[Atari Master]

What in hell is super8? I keep hereing about them.

[KAZ]

I heard somewhere (I don't know where from), that blowing into Nintendo cartridges only makes the problem worse, because it somehow makes all that junk that's already in your cartridge just go further in.

 

Kind of like rubbing dust off a cd with your fingers, you just get them even more oily and full of crap.

 

I've also heard that using the "Q-tip" cleaning tip with isopropyl alcohol that works great for Atari cartridges will actually DESTROY Nintendo or Super Nintendo Cartridges. is this correct?

 

I tried Q-tipping an NBA Live 96 for Super Nintendo, but it didn't harm it that I saw.

[Nukey Shay]

Atari Master--

The Super8 is an adaptor you use with the Snes to play the regular Nes carts.

It's kinda funny, since the Nintendo rep that I spoke to (when Snes made it's debut) was telling me that no such adaptor would ever be possible since the two systems are completely different.

"Nintendo is better, since Sega allows this and blah blah blah..."

Not very long after, the Super Gameboy cart came out...so I knew that this wouldn't be too far away as well.

Once emulation hit the scene, the point was moot (so long as a less-advanced code was being emulated).

[Rockin' Kat]

I've been using Q-tips and alcohol to clean my NES cartridges for a little while now...Personaly I think the warning against alcohol and other such solvents on the cartridges was in hopes of making money on over-priced cleaning kits.

 

I also use a thin cotton rag (a ripped up old t-shirt), a butter knife, and alcohol to clean the cartridge slot on the NES's I have.

 

My NES works fairly well..though sometimes I've had to mess with it a little to get some cartridges to work.

 

Of cource, now that I've found a place that sells new (and supposedly re-designed) 72pin cartridge ports for the NES at $7.99 each I figure I'll go ahead and buy one. This place also has other replacement parts for Nintendo, Sega, and Atari systems. ...

[sdstuff64]

That's cool. I got a cleaning kit for $7.99 that works on all these systems:2600,7800,turbo grafx 16,sega cd,game boy,gb pocket,game gear,master system,nes,genesis,snes,and n64.Wow,all that for $7.99.It's made by Performance and so far it works great!!!

[Atari Master]

I dont really belive that Alcohaul and Q-Tips will destroy a game. Alcohaul dosent effect metal from my understandings. It evaporates fast!

 

Blowing in them from and angle might work better.

[Adrian M]

I dont really belive that Alcohaul and Q-Tips will destroy a game. Alcohaul dosent effect metal from my understandings. It evaporates fast!

 

Blowing in them from and angle might work better.

 

The documentation included with the official NES 8-bit Cleaning Kit (which I own) suggested that you dilute the alcohol with a little water. That particular kit never made you buy or use a "special" solution...just alcohol and water and some sufficient drying time and your NES was as good as new. Never had any corrosion problems with the pins/connectors after years of regular cleaning.

[Atari Master]

Alcohal is usually 70% isprophy and 30% water so that might just work out. Most people use 99%.

[Big Player]

The cleaning and messing with the cartridges to get them to work are why my NES sits in the closet unused.

[Atari Master]

What did you do to it? Took me two hours to get mine working. But after it was smooth sailing.

[Big Player]

Nothing aside from the ordinary cleaning. It works fine, as long as you don't change the cartridge.

[Atari Master]

Thats weird. You can pit only one cartrage in?

[Rockin' Kat]

the 'one cartridge' thing is probably that each time he removes a cartridge and puts another one in it probably takes a lot of futsing with to get it to work. So if he has one cartridge inserted and it is currently working, then as long as he doesn't remove it he won't have to go through the hassle.

[Big Player]

SuperPsycho has crystallized my thoughts perfectly. Thank you.

[Atari Master]

Mine did that. I belive that after an NES isn't played for years. It were's down and just dosen't work good. So, just keep fighting it and it will work better, and then, it'll work more and more untill it's perfect.

[ubersaurus]

He probably just wore out the connectors when he did use it, and it stayed that way. I hear that some of the new connectors don't fit in the same way, so you don't have to push down on the cartridge to run it, which means that the console won't wear out like it would normally.