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General Gaming / My New NES!
« on: July 23, 2003, 04:01:49 PM »
Want your NES to work like brand new? First off, I agree, stop blowing into games... Clean them with the alcohol solution, and if they are seriously corroded, get some fine grit sandpaper, a fine fingernail file will do, and pass it a few times over each side of the board in the cartridge then clean it again. The real problem is inside your NES though. The old 72-pin connector. Open your NES, remove the screws that hold in the big shiny metal housing inside, then remove the screws that hold the big black plastic piece in.. once everything is loose you should be able to slide the big black plastic thing off and you'll see the slot where the games go into and connect.... Those metal pins inside that slot are undoubtedly old and are no longer pushed far enough out to make good contact with your game cartridges. If they look like they are far enough out they could just be dirty, clean them just like I described for the cartridges, but be careful not to mangle the pins. If they are not making good contact you've got two options.... The easy way is to go on ebay where there are plenty of new 72-pin connectors for sale for less than 10 bucks and they will make your NES work like new... if you're like me and you're cheap and can't wait for that to come in the mail, bend the pins out yourself. If its done right it will work great. I can't give any easy way of doing this, just experiment. Ive tried taking a very sharp tool with a curved edge on it, almost like something the dentist would use, and using it to bend the pins out. On another system i actually used a small screwdriver to press in the little clips that hold the pins in and pulled the pins out to reshape them... both systems work fine. If you're not very good with tools and figuring out electronic devices you're probably better off getting a new connector. I guarantee if your system is lighting up properly but just not playing games correctly, these are your problems and solutions.
