I got an NES a long time ago and it has the blinking red light. Here's all the info I have gathered from these forums and elsewhere: ⋅ Cleaning/maintaining your stock 72 pin connector is generally a better idea than buying a new one ⋅ You can boil and then bake the 72 pin connect...

I still have my original SNES Gradius III that I purchased as a kid. No box though. I tried to get my 7 year old son into the game, but I think I destroyed his desires to play shmups because it is so difficult. Whoopsie. For those that are having trouble, I've found the best loadout is the following...

I noticed the joystick I played with was a little stiff. I have not idea if that is normal or not and I haven't bothered to try my second one yet. It seemed like for going left or right (especially left) I had to push pretty hard. It added a bit of challenge to dodging and shooting, but I suppose t...

just to finish out this thread, i received my new touchscreen and got it installed. the whole thing works beautifully now! it's like new!

i took the whole thing apart again and quadruple checked that the ribbon cable was plugged in properly and i can't get it to work.

amazingly, you can get a new touch screen on dealextreme.com for $2.60, so i ordered one. hopefully that will get the ds smooth sailing again.

thanks for the insight.

the hinge broke on my nintendo ds lite, so i purchased a new shell and began the project of replacing it today. everything was going fairly well until i went to replace the colored square on the bottom screen with the new color. instead of peeling off just the square colored rim, i peeled off the wh...

i'm loving the podcast so far guys, but it's not fun having to manage the downloading, organizing and tagging of all the shows myself. i created an rss feed that you can use in the zune software to download the podcasts automatically. if you are unaware, there's a wordpress plugin called podpress th...

i purchased two sets from deal extreme. thanks for the heads up.

i hear that the hori screen protectors are the best around. opinions?

i think i'll pick up a couple. are these two the same?

http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-b7- ... -196x.html
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6878175007

big lots sells video games!? holy crap! i've never set foot in the place but maybe now i need to.