How To Refurbish Your NES Pin Connector

[Cronozilla]

I did this a couple years ago using a safety pin (didn't have any precision screwdrivers small enough) ... It's been a bit too tight since and you can clearly hear metal scraping metal, which isn't good.

I decided to just leave a cart in there for awhile to depress them to a more reasonable position, I hope it'll work well.

When I did it, I noticed Nintendo published titles seemed to work effortlessly, but some other publisher games still had a lot of trouble getting properly aligned. Still better, overall, then not working at all, but it was a strange thing.

[Zing]

This fixed my NES, all games load up first try now.
But I did break the controller port while doing it, unplugged it with a screwdriver. Hard to plug back in though, be careful if you do this.

I've taken apart quite a few systems and never had to disconnect the controller connections. The bottom shield is loose enough that it can just "dangle".

[floattube]

This fixed my NES, all games load up first try now.
But I did break the controller port while doing it, unplugged it with a screwdriver. Hard to plug back in though, be careful if you do this.

I've taken apart quite a few systems and never had to disconnect the controller connections. The bottom shield is loose enough that it can just "dangle".

It wasn't intentional.

[AppleQueso]

i've always just unplugged them