Repairing video game cartridges such as NES cartridges or SNES cartridges

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We've published an article about repairing video game cartridges. Leaked from actual technical manuals used by Video Game Cartridge Engineers! Hope you enjoy it.

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Have you ever pulled out an old video game cartridge from the attic and plugged it into your Nintendo only to be welcomed by an empty, black screen? Are you terrified that this experience will happen again? Worry no more, as this article will walk you through the steps necessary to make your video game cartridge function again!

Symptoms


There are many ways to tell that a cartridge is not working:

• Screen is black - Usually you should expect to see whatever game you loaded. If you see nothing, then something is wrong.
• Screen is fuzzy or otherwise distorted - The game loads, but has distorted lines or other funky images on it.
• Smoke comes out of the console - That's never a good sign.

Is the problem really in the video game cartridge?

This is the first question you need to ask yourself before following any of the steps mentioned hereafter. The problem could not be related to the cartridge, but to the user (yes, we are talking about you)...

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Guide to repairing video game cartridges

[kangaroo]

Very funny

[Tauren]

who thought of blowing into video game cartridges?