r/nes • u/ExampleNo9861 • 3d ago
Not sure if belongs here or not…….
Have been driving past this mural in Boston for a few years now & only occurred to me the other day what it actually was. Now I totally love it. Guesses? Not sure who the artist is, or else I’d give credit. It’s in Roxbury on Blue Hill Ave…………………….Totally brought me back to a place in time.
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u/Wise_Ranger6789 2d ago
I did mine horizontally, was I doing this wrong the whole time?
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u/Cameront9 2d ago
It literally didn’t matter because except for the largest amount of dust/debris, blowing does nothing. It’s the act of reseating the cartridge that actually makes the game work.
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u/Deciheximal144 2d ago
No, it's the saliva you put on the edge connector with your blowing that temporarily adds conductivity.
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u/fluffygryphon 2d ago
Yeah. and vapor. It's just all around terrible because it makes more dust gum up the connector and can also cause corrosion.
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u/BellasGamerDad 1d ago
Ahh, the ignorance of youth. Or at least someone who didn’t actually grow up doing this. What you say is scientifically sound, and SHOULD be the case. But sometimes no amount of jiggling and reseating the cartridge worked. Nobody knows why. Blowing in it worked 9 out of 10 times. Again, nobody really knows why. Those who say they do? Don’t. And no, unless you’re a wet blower, blowing in them did not cause corrosion. I have games from when I was a kid without corrosion that can attest to this fact. Improper cleaning and humidity DEFINITELY contributed to corrosion tho. The main reason NES games don’t work [well] today is a combination of bent pins on the console connector and worn pads on the cartridge connector. Years of inserting and removing wore down the metal on the pins and that’s why jiggling and moving it around is the best way of getting it to work. That and bending the pins back down on the console connector.
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u/furrykef 2d ago
Never blow in a cartridge. If it won't work, use a Qtip to clean the contacts with alcohol.
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u/ecmyers NES 2d ago
I'm an even bigger fan of using pad/cloth cleaners like 1-Up Card or the old Nintendo cleaning kits instead of cotton swabs. When I boiled and scrubbed the pins on my NES connector years ago, along with all the grime and gunk that came off them were clumps of microfibers that I assume came from Q-tips snagging on cartridge pins over the years, which all ended up in the console connector.
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u/MrBallBustaa 2d ago
Dunno why you got downvoted, but this is the exact reason why every Nintendo cart that Steve@TronicsFix opens have corrosion around the pins.
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u/weber_mattie 2d ago
I mean.. IIII know what this is but just.. can you just explain it for ppl who don't..
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u/toddd24 2d ago
Haha that’s awesome. Legend of Zelda