Nintendo Standup

[DeathsHand]

Originally Posted by Dyne

And DeathsHand, you probably didn't do it enough. Is it hard to push the cartridge in? The spring-load won't work after it.

Oh right! Bending the pins!
I actually tried that, too, before buying a new pin connector...

I bent the pins the way it said to, put in Zelda (and yes, it was hard to get in), turned it on, worked on the first try... Put in another game (and already it was no longer hard to get it in), blink, blink, blink, blink... Put in another game, blink, blink, blink, blink... Put Zelda back in, blink, blink, blink blink...

I think our NES was just in terrible shape... As a kid, me and my brother played it all the time (and I mean all the time), and we didn't just stick a game in and play it, I'd play 2 levels of a game, switch games, 2 levels, switch, 2 levels, switch...
PLUS we had a game genie, which apparently had a slightly larger chip thingy which wore out the pins even faster...

The little door to the system was broken by one of us long ago, when we got pissed off after all the various trickery used to make blinky Nintendos work had failed us...
Then it sat around in the basement for years and years, not safely stored away in a box...

So anyways, after the bending of the pins failed, I said screw it and bought the pin connector, which, as I previously said, also failed (it stopped the blinking, unfortunately the picture was always insanely scrambled, and very sensitive to the slightest finiggling of the cartridge)...

There I was, a young lad with a nice source of disposable income who really wanted a consistantly frustration-free NES gaming experience (that wasn't an emulator)...

So I bought a top loader, hoping the stories I'd heard about them being much much much more reliable (as in if the game doesn't work, it's not the system's fault) were true...
And they were... Which made me am a happy camper... And that's all that matters...