mini snes power issue

[girlracer]

has anyone ever had a problem on their snes that if u move it sightly it loses power. i have a mini that is doing just that.

i know its not the ac adaptor, cause its been tested with another adaptor and still does the same thing.

[Cronson]

Mine does the same thing. If anyone knows a fix, that'd be awesome.

[Anapan]

I've had a few devices with that problem. In most cases it was caused by the power cord getting pulled or impacted while plugged into the device breaking the soldered joint contacts off of the circuit board. Because the power input is usually anchored well, the traces are still making contact with the rest of the circuit, but can easily be disrupted. I fixed the problem by heating up the solder and/or adding more solder.
I don't have a SNES mini, but I do have a regular snes circuit board sitting beside me so here's a picture of the contacts I'm talking about.

I dunno if that's the problem, but it's worth a shot since I've fixed 3 laptops, a mouse, a gameboy, a portable television, and a MP3 CD player with that method. On 2 of those devices the problem wasn't even visible without wiggling the cord around to see a slight movement on the broken solder point.

[Cronson]

Anapan, thanks a lot. Very helpful advice. I'm tempted today to go pick up soldering kit and try it. I'll let you know if it fixes it.

[Cronson]

Well, the snes 2 has rivets holding it together so I think you have to drill the rivets out to open the snes. That also means to reseal the body, you'll have to have a rivet gun.

[lwcook]

Well, the snes 2 has rivets holding it together so I think you have to drill the rivets out to open the snes. That also means to reseal the body, you'll have to have a rivet gun.

Those aren't rivets, they're actually Nintendo security screws. To open it you'll need a security bit.