BROKEN NES Tetris Game - How Does This Happen
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In the title, you ask "how does this happen?" Back in the day, it was a PITA to get a NES to load a cartridge, so the rumored fix was to blow on the edge connectors to remove dust, A person's breath is full of moisture, perfect for causing corrosion on something like this.
Compressed air is a better option here
@@randomchannel9331 compressed air for home use didn't exist back when Nintendo came out. 😂
@@OUTATIME84 i mean now lol
Aren’t the pins gold? So the mess might just be solidified mouth liquids…
@beanman that's erosion caused by moisture.
I spent so much time playing this on Nintendo trying to beat my dads score when I was a kid. I miss them both....
Rest in peace.
May they Rest In Peace
Sorry for your loss
Fatherless
@@ygx6 Oh my god. No. No. We don't do that here
I use Meguiars All Metal Polysh. It's actually a paste used for making exhaust tips shine again, or like intake manifolds or camcovers. But it's insane how easy this stuff gets that nasty grime off.
Using isopropyl for this stuff is a misconception. IPA is actually good for cleaning screens because it 'dissolves' grease
I don't know if you have ever tried it but I would occasionally use braso to clean and polish up game contacts. It worked very well and it had two advantages one it would help reduce future corrosive effects and two it would help make contact because it would deposit a thin layer of copper or brass onto the contacts. You would need to be extra careful to remove any extra to prevent damage to the circuit board itself but once you had everything cleaned and stuff it would stay in nearly perfect condition for a very long time.
Brasso worked for my games too. For some reason it's frowned upon... but like... it works really well IMHO.
@Michael Jensen the reason why most of the time it is frowned upon is because with some kinds of circuit board coatings and sometimes the board itself braso can damage them if you don't properly clean it up afterwards. If you are actually doing your job well then you should already be cleaning up the board and such so you shouldn't have any problems. It's particularly good for preservation in most cases where you're very attentive to your job but if you don't do a good job then you are just as bad as if you had never used it or misused it. Braso has metal in it along with a chemical that deposits that metal onto existing metals. It works particularly well when you get matching metals to do your jobs with. For example iron on iron, brass for brass, copper, silver ect. They make many other types of braso that you can purchase however they can also make you have problems on rare occasions if you use miss matching base metals and deposit metal. You can also find composite braso that deposits a mixture of metals that results in a very high corrosion resistance for whatever you use it on. The other reason why I have seen it frowned upon is cost, typically the costs of doing an extra good job will be three to five times the cost of doing it wrong or cheaply but I would rather do it correctly once than cheaply.
Someone really liked tetris but not enough to just leave it in the machine.
Oh yeah I did that with some of my games. But the dirt always finds a way to come back.
corrosion
Not dirt. corrosion from blowing into the cart
The best method I've found for cleaning edge connectors is also the cheapest. Just take a piece of printer paper, fold it three times to make a small rectangle, soak one edge with a little contact cleaner (isopropyl alcohol also works -- just takes a little longer), and scrub the contacts with the wet edge. I've cleaned carts that were much worse than this one in about a minute using this method.
“From Russia with fun!” Huh. How come I had never seen THAT before? Also, good job! This might help me in fixing some carts myself.
It’s the original videogame console Tetris. :) I believe it says “From Russia with fun!” on the Gameboy cartridge too, but I’m not sure.
Man an nes game is like a bag of lays. 90% nothing 10% of the actual thing
DKoldies be like:
Lemme sell that for 80$
Glad that Deoxit exists from that recent DK Oldies scandal video from a couple of days ago. It took me forever to get rid of corrosion with a pink eraser, and spraying contact cleaner directly onto a microfiber cloth, and going to town on it with it. Some NES games took half an hour to clean out they were so darned corroded. Going with Deoxit and a magic eraser from now on. It makes sense now why NES games are so corroded; so much moisture from blowing.
i suggest to use stuff like "Cif" or "Vim" cream to clean this kind of pin oxidation, it takes a fraction of time and effort!
they are home cleaning products meant to clean stuff like chrome faucets etc. it kinda feels like the polishing cream for cars headlights
As always, the metal polish does the job right 🙃
This sorta reminds me of when I had a dishwashing job stuff would just never come off
Holy Moly... you should send this video to DK Oldies... this is refurbishing
that's one wtf corrosion on that edge connector... hooow
High grit sand paper is what I use and after doing hundreds of cartridges nes snes n64 sega anything you name it it’s never damaged any of them
The best way is scratching with Scotch Brite green
Getting rid of the gold exposes the metal on the conectors. A really cheap metal that oxidates faster than your body in rainy days. 💀
I have a DOuble Dragon 2 cart where the guy that sold it to me (really cheap btw) used actual thin grade sand paper to clean it. 💀
Funny such a big cartridge for such a small board 😅
Use a fibreglass pencil to polish up the contacts instead an eraser which leaves deposits behind
If only my Sega Genesis games could be that easy to fix...
Blowing on it caused this. That thing everyone thought fixed their games was actually the thing making them not work.
Deoxit works wayyyyyy better for old dirt and cleans any corrosion from age on both the cart and the pins on the connector
I like the pink one because it s so.... wide. That s what she said!
So take off the gold plating which protects it?
The plating is already corroded
Yeah sanding /polishing off the gold plating is just going to make it corrode faster next time. I’d probably do it if I could electroplate it again but otherwise no abrasives on contact pins
Use lemon to clean the pins, it will clean faster and it's cheaper to use😅
Moisture from your breath causes accelerated corrosion over time. -- Btw, have you checked out the aftermarket game, "From Below"? It's like Tetris, but with a giant squid that is messing with your already placed pieces. It's fun.
an eraser, huh? always used alcohol and cotton swab myself but never on any cartridge this vintage.
Just realized "IPA" is just Isopropyl Alcohol abbreviated
That's what she said
I wonder why Nintendo made the cartridges so big if that's all that is inside.
Where do u find these broken games? I want tp fix some myself
Try using a fiberglass pencil,it’s all I’ve used for years on arcade pcbs traces and cartridges to clean the pins back to silver
Magic erasers. Try em.
Does this work for fixing an Action Replay for Nintendo DS?
The only problem with metal polish is it removes the gold plating on the edge contacts.
Now you need a big Marge
You just run paper over the contacts cleans them up no problem
Desolder the lockout chip. It will save you a headache, when the chip inside of the console will go faultt, because on NES, these lockout chips are pain in the nuts, so that's why you should by a top loader one.
Two words fiberglass pencil
That cart was owned by a smoker
That is corrosion from blowing into the cart.
I wonder if brass-O would also work.
Well that's metal polish, so the same as what he used
make sure to gold plate it again
And that's why I own this game on my ps2 no worries on cleaning pins...🤔
What kind of metal polish did you use? Like.. TarX or something?
i thought it was an ancient ram stick for a second
what about Deoxit?
Is there a reason people don't use fiber glass brush pens?
3M scotch bright pad will do the trick
the rubber is not great for that, I don't know why but after cleaning with hard rubber the contacts get super dirty after just lying in a closed for couple weeks. I just use yellow cif (it's stronger than white) or wire scrub for the very bad cases
Don't smoke kids
or you use the blue side from a eraser
Don't polish games as it removes material and these pads are already extremely thin
why are you using rubber?
Hey bro, ive got marioland 6 gold coins for my gameboy, how much would that go for it works perfectly fine but the sticker is faded and skuffed
Can't you just look that up online yourself? There are websites that are dedicated to keeping track of the value of games. Worst case scenario, take a look at eBay.
@@ephgm i did but the price ranges from £5 - £300 so idk
@@MorsAlgic You have to remember also that condition matters, and 300 pounds? Of your money may be for mint in box.
Another thing to take in consideration is that the price that something is listed at doesn't mean it'll ever sell at that price. It's all a question of whether or not someone wants to spend that much money on it. You can try to put it up for the most you think you can sell it for, but it may sit there for a while for someone to want to buy it, if they ever do.
I once put a car part up on ebay that I never got a chance to install in my car before it got totaled. I put it up for twice what I paid for it. It sat there relisting automatically for around a year, and I had actually forgotten about it. One day it sold and it felt like a bonus. The same thing can apply to games.
Modern day are restoration
Maybe a smoker?
Should always blow
They where really dirty.
10$? For a broken one? Rip off, I bought mine for 10 working and clean and there's many more online and at a physical store I can go to right now
Maybe the seller had a really tight 72-pin connector that could get enough of a connection to run the game.
@@soundspark fair
LTT used hand sanitizer and it worked surprisingly better than just alcohol.
That was too remove a sticker and the glue under it
Dkoldies could never
Like it wider 👀😈😂that’s wat she said
hi can you help me my laptop is so slow it takes 20 seconds to open a app
That's more of a software issue than hardware. Sounds like you probably have too many programs running in the background. Control+alt+delete to open the task manager to see how many programs are running
@@BurritoKingdom thankss
Either you have too many programs running and not enough ram, or you have a mechanical hard drive that is just old.
My laptop from 2016 had its mechanical hard drive give out last year, so I replaced it with an SSD and now it boots and loads apps significantly faster.
Almost every time I see a laptop with a mechanical drive, it runs horribly. It doesn't matter how much you play with the software, it still crawls. If someone comes into my store and complains that their computer is slow, I take it in, then I turn it on when I have the chance and the first thing I do is check to see if it has a mechanical drive. If it does, I tell them it needs to be replaced. I don't even have to bother playing with the software unless something is noticeably wrong, but I still check it before I finish it anyway. I clone the drive if it's possible so I don't need to reload and the customer has all their stuff the way they are used to it. Most people do have a few things they don't need, but nothing usually makes anywhere close to the speed difference between mechanical and solid state.
The only other thing that could make a difference that you can change is if you have less than 4gb of ram. Windows 10 and 11 both run horrible if you're running 1 or 2gb, even with a solid state. However, if you have at least 4gb of ram already, adding more usually won't make too much of a difference, at least not nearly as much as replacing a mechanical drive with an SSD. The whole reason for RAM is that your computer stores recent data in it and replaced the oldest data with new data from the hard drive as it's needed. All data you need goes to RAM first and then to the CPU for it to process it. Hard drives are typically the slowest component in your computer, that's why RAM exists and why your computer runs better with more RAM; because it doesn't have to keep getting all the data from the hard drive every time you need it if it's already in RAM. Switching to an SSD eliminates a huge bottleneck for how fast your CPU can receive data to process, and makes it so adding more RAM usually doesn't matter much since it can get data from the SSD almost as fast.
You can also blame the CPU for some of the speed too if it's a really bad one. Anything Intel Celeron, Atom, Pentium, or AMD A or E series are garbage, but you won't be able to replace them without replacing your whole laptop. AMD E2 chips with an SSD and 8gb of RAM will still run like it's got a brand new mechanical, absolutely horribly.
When I first switched to solid state on my desktop, it went from taking about 4.5 minutes to boot and be usable to about half a minute. It's even faster than that now that I'm running an 11th gen Intel i9 with 64gb 4000mhz DDR4 RAM with an M.2 NVME Gen 4 SSD instead of a SATA SSD. It boots in less than 10 seconds.
dk oldies sux
Cleaning contacts with a school eraser is not a good idea, it generates static electricity and can "erase" fragile components.
IPA is mostly worthless
An ultrasonic fixes most of your cleaning issues
Nobody's using Nintendo games anymore. Those are, way, "old" school. Like, late 1980's to early 1990's.
Yup. I own two 89 models, one is in excellent condition, and one with a shoddy case and a PCA that someone has worked on previously. The latter I eventually plan on using for modding.
It may be old school, but sometimes it just feels better to play on original hardware, rather than using emulation.
Then we also have my wife's original SNES system with all of her games. That guy is in near mint condition and can't help but treat it like a delicate flower... Especially so since it's her original hardware from childhood, and I don't want an early grave lol.
Theres a huge retro games market, especially for systems that are not backwards compatible.
lol people are still playing NES Tetris to the point where players discovered an entirely new way to hold an NES controller to move the pieces faster
Randy's q-tips. Has alcohol in them. Good for this and cleaning your weed pipes.
Jesus I bet Dr disrespect would love to have a 1v1 battle on this old classic
Use a magic eraser on the pins
Considering the dirt on those pins I would not even considering looking at the board or even try to clean it with anything else then a brass polish…..🫣 everyone with 1 hour in electronic fixing would have realized the crap on those pins are the first culprits to look at..
DeOXit