Cartridge CPR Origins

[Archem]

Indeed. My NES still works, sans the weird "flashing" thing. Anyone know what I'm talkin' about? I've mistreated the hell outta those things, and they never let me down. Except for my N64. The power switch jammed on something, so now we can't turn it on. I blame Pringles.

As for my DS, those carts don't get dusty because "the'yre 2mm thick". Plus, they're open and exposed so the crap doesn't get caught in it.

[DragonBlaze]

Originally posted by blaze_shinigami

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Originally posted by DragonBlaze I've had more problems with CDs than I ever did with cartrages! My ps and ps2 always had problems with reading CDs, and I've even boughten used games that were too scraged to play on the psx. But as long as I owned the psx game, I felt no shame in downloading it to play on my computer, I did own the game so I had the rights to download it. The only time I ever had a problem with cartrages was when I tried playing snes games on my n64. I put an n64 gameshark in the 64, then I put a snes game on the gameshark. My 64 wouldn't work for a week. For the snes games, as long as you keep the little plastic protector on them, and use a dust cleaner on the actual system once and a while, it works fine

What? dust cleaner? I blew into the consoles. slapped em. flipped  'em over. they were  real troopers, those poor bastards.

Lol, I guess I'm just lucky. My snes still works like a charm, along with all its game. I never use it anymore though now that I have a computer :p. I play all my games on a snes emulator rather than a counsol. I'm a good boy and only download games I own though

 

*sniff* Final Fantasy Four... I miss you so much!

Thats what FF chronicals is for

[Osmose]

Blowing on the cartridge actually damages it in the long run, although it is a quick way to get the dust out rather than using something like a Q-Tip. But yeah, I think most of us did that naturally without thinking. Although I never tried to smash or bang any of my games - I'd think that that would damage them even more than blowing on them.


And Dragonblaze - contrary to popular belief, it is illegal, whether you own the game or not, to download a copy of it to play on your computer, emulator, to burn, etc. Quoting  this page from Nintendo.com,

 

There is a good deal of misinformation on the Internet regarding the backup/archival copy exception. It is not a "second copy" rule and is often mistakenly cited for the proposition that if you have one lawful copy of a copyrighted work, you are entitled to have a second copy of the copyrighted work even if that second copy is an infringing copy. The backup/archival copy exception is a very narrow limitation relating to a copy being made by the rightful owner of an authentic game to ensure he or she has one in the event of damage or destruction of the authentic. Therefore, whether you have an authentic game or not, or whether you have possession of a Nintendo ROM for a limited amount of time, i.e. 24 hours, it is illegal to download and play a Nintendo ROM from the Internet.

Therefore, unless you make the copy yourself and only use it yourself, you may not use a copy of any game, program, etc. that is not the original copy. And that applies to all companies, too, not just Nintendo.

Doesn't stop me, but still.

[Ben]

For my First Nes......I only had to give the odd blow...
Untill I got my game genie....and then it messed the tesion and I had to start wedging.....Sometimes with the game genie.....and then with folded paper......and then the machine was only operable when on its side......
Then, it had to be balanced with one corner slightly levitated....

And then I discovered a new one.....
If you put the game in, so that the edge of the game would rub against the NES wall, when you depressed the game into the machine, and you caught the lip in just a special way......it would work.....

My second Nes was stolen, so I didnt get that chance....by then they were welfare....

I didnt have any problems with my genisis....


Anyone remember mega man 3, and getting your friend on controller 2 to cheat up tha high jump, invincibility and slow motion?

Those were the days

[Cerebus]

For my NES, I had to blow in them. When I put the cartridge in the console, I put my thumb on each extremity and push it, not too hard. If it didn't work, I did the same thing but I pushed a bit harder. If the game began with a messed up image, I slaped the console. If it still din't work, I move the cartridge inside the console a bit, while the power is off. It it still didn't work, I didn't play.

As for Genesis, I just slap the cartridge in front, power on, if didn't work, power off, slap the cartridge in back, power on, if didn't work, power off, slap the cartridge in front, power on, etc. I sometime just hit on top of the cartridge.

As for SNES, I never had a problem with it.

N64, same as the Genesis.

Game Boy, just removed the cartridge and put it back until it worked.