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The original front-loading NES is quite infamous for having a poorly designed cartridge mechanism that bends and loses contact with the game cart pins. This is
by tdicola 11y ago
The original front-loading NES is quite infamous for having a poorly designed cartridge mechanism that bends and loses contact with the game cart pins. This is why people were always blowing on games and jamming them back in the NES back in the day. The later top-loading NES fixed the problem but is kinda rare and doesn't have RCA video outputs.
I don't think the original Xbox had many reliability problems though, maybe you're thinking of the Xbox 360 and its red ring of death problem?
- fuzzix 11y agoThe NES cart connector can be repaired with some patience or replaced inexpensively. A lot of sites selling new connectors claim they are made with more robust materials than the original connectors, but I'm not sure how true that is.
- userbinator 11y agoOne of the biggest differences between the NES and much newer consoles like the Xbox is that the NES is, in comparison, extremely simple; it's been reverse-engineered down to the transistor level: http://breaknes.com/ http://breaknes.com/ (If you are interested in advanced RE, I recommend learning Russian...) http://www.qmtpro.com/~nes/chipimages/ http://www.qmtpro.com/~nes/chipimages/ In other words, even if there are no original physical NES or their parts around in 30 years, relatively speaking it would be trivial to perfectly emulate one in software or hardware (e.g. an FPGA), because the functionality of the entire system is known.