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This is a well-known remedy in collector’s circles. An eraser on the contacts also does wonders. One common cause for NES glitches is for the 72-pin connector
by tiltowait 2y ago
This is a well-known remedy in collector’s circles. An eraser on the contacts also does wonders.
One common cause for NES glitches is for the 72-pin connector to get bent out of shape. You can find replacements on eBay, and it makes a world of difference. Surprisingly, it’s also good advice not to push the cart down once it’s inserted, as that increases pressure on the pins and bends them more over time (despite the slot allegedly being zero insertion force).
- ssl-3 2y agoA pencil eraser is a well-known remedy in all kinds of circles. A friend brings me his crashy scratch-built computer. I take the lid off, use a pencil eraser on the DIMMs, and reassemble it. It's fine after that, minus a couple of atoms or so of gold plating thickness. As long as it's a good pencil eraser, anyway -- some leave a smeary mess. 25 years or so ago, I was reading that the cart socket on the Nintendo used repurposed regular card-edge parts; parts that were never meant to work at multiple angles. I don't know the validity of this, since I haven't yet restored either of the two NESs that I have here (both of which I should have sold -- even broken and dirty -- during the NES Mini craze). I've thus never had a good, stern look at that socket. (But back in the 1980s, between us young kids and our electronics-luddite dad and a phone call to Nintendo, isopropyl was the answer.)