Old school cartridges

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Who remembers gaming with cartridges? On your Nintendo or Sega, etc ...

Did you have to blow in it to make it work sometimes? Have a special trick?

 

Still waiting for them to come out with cartridges that blow me.

 

Lol I thought !

 

I remember the Atari 2600 and Colicvision that used cartridges .

 

Bad idea. The moisture from your breath would oxidize the components on the circuit board, eventually causing the cart to fail. And I should know, I lost a number of original Game Boy games this way for being a stupid little shit and not knowing any better.

The reason why NES games would seemingly just stop working was because the redesigned Euro/US NES units had a design flaw that would cause the connector pins to bend, eventually causing the cart to not properly connect with the NES unit. The only permanent fix would be to replace the damaged 72-pin connector in the unit with a fresh one. The Japanese top loading units to my knowledge didn't have this issue.

 

I remember Contra...



What a badass game!



We would just blow in them. Sometimes it would take a bunch of times though...

 

so does it seem to work because the moisture settles on the circuits and helps conduct the electrical charges? i sometimes have to blow into my phone's charger port to get it to connect and that's my based-on-nothing-scientific theory of why it works. and now it makes me think i should be finding a new method so as to not oxidize my charging components.

 

Yeah, that would seem to be the case. I noticed as a kid that every time I blew into the cart, it would eventually stop working after a time. Probably right after the moisture dries up and breaks the connection. It should be noted that eventually even blowing into the cart would stop working, when the connector pins would become loose enough that they just don't connect with the cart anymore.

 

Atari 2600 came with the cartridge Combat!...a totally worthless game.

 

I had Nes and Snes. I remember glitches with the Nes in particular, I think I tried every method in that OP pic.

I bought a Sega Nomad much later, which was basically a handheld Genesis that I got at an auction or something but that was mostly novelty and I played it sparingly.

 

Have you ever tried the glitches in Ocarina Of Time? I've gotten pretty good at some of them.

 

No, I only rented that game.

 

Makes sense, but it made my games work for as long as I needed them to.... before moving on to the next console.

 

Old school cartridge.....
Meh modern rubbish.


C-64 loaded with a cassette tape!

sounded like a fax machine in a normal tape player.

 

TIP!!

clean the contacts on the cartridge with a Qtip and some nail polish remover or isopropyl alcohol.

the moisture from blowing can cause a bit of corrosion. If needed you can gently remove the corrosion with a flat soft toothpick. I use metal tools but I have a lot of experience handling electronics. If you need to use metal to rub off the corrosion, be VERY GENTLE.

 

The coleco used a cart. ( Mid 80s some where) there was a game console and there was the coleco Adam . The Adam was a real computer . It used a tape drive , came with a printer. I got mine for around$300 .

 

I have cartridges for my Atari and Coleco

Yes blowing into them often helps alot!

 

Huh, silly me; I assumed it was in reference to things like the .303 Enfield, .30-40 Krag, or the .45-70.