In doing so I never had a single problem with my NES playing any game >.<

Occasionally I would have to use the “insert it just enough to where it is seated, then stop” technique.

Those things were very tempermental.

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My foolproof plan was Windex. Hold the cartridge sideways and spray (not stream) the Windex along the chip on the bottom and then press it all the way in to the NES. Do not dry it.

I don’t care how dangerous it sounds or how dirty the cartridge was, it has a 100% work rate for me and I’ve used the same NES system for about 15 years.

A friend of mine was notorious for having the top label of his games missing from using the “resistance method” lol.

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If that didn’t work I usually jammed the cartridge into the systems, sometimes I would push it up and down a bunch of times, just to show the system who’s boss.

At some point I also got a Game Genie and that made it work much better, plus I got to cheat.

On a side note, after my original Playstation (before the Dual Shock version) stopped working consistently I turned it on its side and that magically fixed it somehow.

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1) Blow into cartridge
2) Insert as far as I could and then pull a little bit out
3) Blow into cartridge again
4) Insert and put 2nd cartridge on top

Usually one of those would work. Also, since my brother and I were only a year apart, you need to mix in “yell/fight with brother” intermittently.

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I can recall
1. Blowing on the cartridge
2. Blowing in the NES
3. Barely inserting the game and pushing it down as soon as it was in far enough
4. Hammering the reset/power buttons on and off till I saw the game come up.

About 4 or 5 years back, I became friends with a Nintendo nut in one of the local Gamestops by me. Turns out, our constant blowing in the games as kids was one of the main reasons that the games messed up so much. When you blow into the cartridge, you get some spit on the chips. The spit the starts to corrode the chips and gets into the connector piece of the NES, corroding that as well. It makes sense why the T-Shirt trick worked good for your friend. Less spit = better working games.

Another thing that Mr. NES taught me is that there is a way to get your old NES running in tip top condition. He told me to look for 128-pin (I’m pretty sure it was 128) gold connector piece on eBay. It cost me like 15 bucks with shipping. Came with instructions on how to replace your old piece in the Nintendo. After that, clean your games with just a Q-tip dipped in water. Let them dry for like 20 mins. After that, you don’t have to blow. I did attempt all this and it worked quite well.

This also made me wonder something. Why didn’t we have this problem with SNES and Genesis games, too?

-Parise

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I didn’t blow into the cartridge.
I didn’t jam the cartridge into the game.
I didn’t even hold any buttons.

I merely “slid” the cartridge into the slot, directly into the “down” position without pressing hard at all. Just enough so that it stays in “down” position. Press power once, and it worked like a charm. My Nintendo still works to this very day, but I use Virtual Console to play my games now anyways.

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