just wondering if anyone had any experience with these, my nes was on the fritz and i tryed to bend my connector back in place but with poor luck. I just hope the one i ordered on ebay is good quality. hopefully this will fix my problems.
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just wondering if anyone had any experience with these, my nes was on the fritz and i tryed to bend my connector back in place but with poor luck. I just hope the one i ordered on ebay is good quality. hopefully this will fix my problems.
Don't waste your time bending pins. Look at the feedback for ones on ebay some are junk and bowed when you get them (the $1-$2 ones). If it's a realistic price and people said great quality that's your part.
Bending isn't the only (or even the main) problem: it's dirt and oxidation. Before option for a replacement I'd try cleaning and/or polishing it first. Unless you messed the pins up already.
For cleaning use a credit card with a soft/sturdy (fairly thin) cloth over it dampened with alcohol both on the cart and motherboard ends of the connector assembly, and also use an eraser on the board connector followed by rag/swab with alcohol to remove any rubber bits.
For polishing, replace the cloth with fine (1000 grit or higher) sand paper and carefully worth over the connector (and the motherboard end as well if necessary). It's good to have that sandpaper around when you need to polish other corroded/oxidized contacts too. (some carts need it rarely and soem other things)
Disabling the 10 NES chip also helps (no blinking), carefully pop/pry off pin 4 on chip 3193A (for US/NA models). Technically you're supposed to cut and ground the pin, but simply cutting it works without any issues apparently. (works for me and I've never heard of problems from not grounding)
If that doesn't fix it, the you'd need a replacement connector. The gold ones might be a little better, but I don't think it makes too much difference. The common is that they're too stiff and must operate with the ZIF tray in the up position (stresses the board when down), thus stress is unavoidable for the Game genie.
yeah i already ordered the 72 pin connector off ebay, i do have a old high frequency cleaning kit that ive used and its helped some, but i would like a more permanente fix, i just hope the pins on the new connector arent that stiff.
OK, but polishing (with no bending at all) turned my non-working connector into one that's worked fine for a little over a year now. (with clean games at least)
One other thing that gets games working that's not often cited is to wiggle the cart back and forth to seat it properly. (not pull it out to the edge and not cramming the cart down and wedging it there)
That and clean games.
I replaced the socket in my NES with one of the newer, non-ZIF ones and honestly, it didn't help much. Games that were giving me problems before were still giving me problems and as an added bonus, it's now also much more difficult to insert / remove the games.
I've had better luck with my 72 pin replacement, it seems. When you pull off the old one, make sure you clean the connection on the motherboard, it's probably is nasty.
My cart slot is so tight that you don't even have to press the cartridge down, just insert the game and hit the power button. Assuming the game is clean it works the first time, every time. I have been told that it will loosen up with time.
I bought a 72 pin connector thing on ebay I've never had any problems with green screens or flashing lights since.
i was kinda worried about it being so tight oh well, i like that link deo gave with the refurb, anyways this is the one i bought. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=350364077723 hope it ends up okay.Quote:
Originally Posted by GohanX
Its not so tight that it requires Hercules to remove it or anything. It still takes more effort to remove a Genesis cartridge.
Funny thing about mine is that it is finnicky about working in the down position but always works when up. I've been told it will loosen up after a while, but I like it the way it is now.
I buy 72 pin connectors from The Eight-Bit Kid of ebay and they work better than new and they only cost $4.75 a pop.
MAKE SURE YOU CLEAN ALL OF YOUR CARTRIDGES' PINS WITH ALCOHOL BEFORE YOU USE THEM IN YOUR NEW CONNECTOR.
You can quickly and easily dirty and damage your new connector with dirty cart pins if you don't clean them first. This happens to most people who get new connectors, and are always confused when their new connector works just as poorly as their old one.
well if this new connector doesn't work well then i'll try one of his then, and i have cleaned most of my cartridges just not all of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by sean
72 pin connectors help, but after installing quite a few I am more concinced they are a waste of money.
I have found that using fine grit sandpaper on the pins follwed by a thorough bath with 91% isopropyl does quite nicely. Worst cases require using a magnifying glass to look at the pins and pry them up slightly with a jeweler's flat-tipped screwdriver. This normally makes a system work good as the day it was new.
As was said earlier, disabling the 10NES chip will do away with the flashing screen at startup.
Yeah, but if the connection is bad, the game still won't run. My 10NES was disabled years ago but dirty games still don't run ... they just don't flash when they're failing now.Quote:
Originally Posted by tz101