Ninja Gaiden Trilogy SNES not working - Very Clean

[Hobie-wan]

Well, if there was any leakage from the capacitor, it would be on or around the black can. If there's other residue on the green board, it could indicate that something else got in the cart. However, looking at Utah, yeah, you're dryer there. Only 17-34% depending, so you're going to have static issues up there, probably worse in winter. As I said, that is a possibility if it got a bad static zap.

Also, hooray for the strangeness of my previous post. I was distracted in the middle of a sentence obviously.

[Dahmer]

Well, if there was any leakage from the capacitor, it would be on or around the black can. If there's other residue on the green board, it could indicate that something else got in the cart. However, looking at Utah, yeah, you're dryer there. Only 17-34% depending, so you're going to have static issues up there, probably worse in winter. As I said, that is a possibility if it got a bad static zap.

Also, hooray for the strangeness of my previous post. I was distracted in the middle of a sentence obviously.

I don't see any residue by the black can which I can tell your implying that is the capacitor. If the game had been zapped is that fixable with installing a new capacitor. Top question I have is, should I try getting this fixed or return the game for money back? I really want to get it too work and am into the idea of learning more. looking online it is hard to find the best walk through to use with trouble shooting and fixing snes games. Any help? Many thanks!

Have a good labor day weekend!

[Hobie-wan]

If the capacitor went bad or got hot and oozed, that would be one thing. If the cart got static zapped, that would likely hose one of the chips which would mean it was effectively dead with out burning some new chips and heavy duty tinkering.

Honestly if you're not already a bit of a tinker with a soldering iron to check out the capacitor and you have the ability to return it, I would do that. Better to learn soldering on some old junky stuff or a little simple project that you can afford to mess up while you learn instead of something you just bought that the seller could say you broke it if you tinker.

[mjmjr25]

Yes, if return is an option, i'd do that.

If it isn't an option, you can sell it as-is not working.

You'd probably get $25 for just the shell/label and another $20-25 from some idiot like me who was sure they could get it working, so yeah, not-working I bet you'd easily pull $50 on it.