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re: How did we all know to fix NES cartridges as kids in the 80s/90s?
Posted on 4/2/24 at 8:22 am to Fenster
Posted on 4/2/24 at 8:22 am to Fenster
quote:Yeah instead of taking us to that learning place the bus should have just drove us around all day
I learned it how I learned everything: on the school bus.
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Posted on 4/2/24 at 8:23 am to TideSaint
Did anyone else ever clean a CD by flushing it in the toilet?
Posted on 4/2/24 at 8:24 am to TideSaint
We just figured it out. If you want something, or to play something, bad enough you figure it out. We didn't give up and say "I can't " like today's youth.
Posted on 4/2/24 at 9:16 am to REB BEER
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We used to have to wedge a skoal can on top of them sometimes to get them to work.
same theory. we used 2 cartridges most of the time.
But to the OP, it is funny to think about how everyone knew this was the fix back then.
Posted on 4/2/24 at 9:33 am to TideSaint
My dad saw me blowing in a game once, and asked me what I was doing. I told him getting the game to work. He told me all I was doing was covering the connectors in spit. He told me if the game wasn't working to put rubbing alcohol on a quetip and rub the cartridge and the connector in the nintendo. It worked everytime.
I slept at a friends house and we got the grey screen I told him about the alcohol thing, and he told me that was stupid.
I slept at a friends house and we got the grey screen I told him about the alcohol thing, and he told me that was stupid.
Posted on 4/2/24 at 9:59 am to doliss
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The other fix I used was inserting the cartridge just barely enough so that you could push it down into the console. That seemed to work more than blowing on the end
That or I would push it all the way down and insert another cartridge in on top of it just enough to stay put. This usually worked as well
Posted on 4/2/24 at 10:28 am to TideSaint
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no medium to share it yet
Magazines. Spreading the word at school.
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