How To:Clean Your Classic Cartridge Games

[Murphy245]

yeah well for $5 why not just replace the connector? I thought of cleaning each pin with sand paper and then re bending them slightly... but then got lazy. I have done 2 NES systems with new connectors and they play games almost 1st try every time!

i dont know where to buy them from,things like this arent easily available in the uk.

[playgen]

They are on uk ebay all the time, heres the cheapest one currently listed:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NINTENDO-NES-B...QQcmdZViewItem

[MN12BIRD]

yep I got mine off EBAY too! Actually... no I didn't! I think I got them off www.nintendorepairshop.com along with a "gamebit" to open a filthy N64 I wanted to clean up.

[Nunzio]

The NES is a terrible example to use for that video. Cleaning the hell out of the cartridges won't make it work any better.

Sure it will if you are on a top loader or using a game Genie. In any case most people buy new 72 pin connectors when they could just disable the 10NES.

[MN12BIRD]

Game Genie, 72-pin connector, or 10NES (copy protection) you should still clean your game carts no matter what so none of this matters.

[Rusty Venture]

The problem with the NES is that just looking at it makes the connector dirty and not work.

You must also have "The Touch" to make it work again.

[Nunzio]

I gave up using the touch years ago, now I have 2 NESs. One is modded and topless (calm down Rusty, it's just a console), the other is stock. The modded one is region modded, doesn't have the mechanism for pushing the game down and has the 72 pin connector turned around so the 'moving' side is in contact with the main board (and stationary) and the main board side is where the games plug in. The result? The pins don't move like normal and the connection is flawless. And then my other NES just has a Game Genie in it and it always works OK.

Works for me, but I clean my games too of course.