WELL THIS IS INTERESTING.. Retron 5

[DonSilvestre]

Well, even after taking extreme caution in removing games, my NES slot pins have started to bend. Not only that, but the "death grip" hasn't loosened a bit, despite the bending. It still seems to read games okay when they're cleaned well, but I'm strongly considering an RMA request. As several others have said on here, how severe the slot tightness problem is does seem to be fairly random. Darn.

[Tanooki]

It seems to be just that, random, other than the Genesis slot being more tight for anyone because they didn't space it better for thicker sega boards. I'd just RMA it too if things are bending as that's a metal failure which won't improve or heal.

[graffix_13]

Has anyone had any trouble with Famicom carts? I received my first Famicom game yesterday (Ninja Gaiden 3) and I am getting that dreadful "Unknown Cart" message.

I've cleaned the pins, as well as re-inserted the cart probably about 50 times. No luck.

Is there anything else I can do to correct this? It's a bummer.

[Tanooki]

No, I've got almost 20 of them and a good selection of them use screwy konami vrc mappers and other stuff and they all right correct.

This will sound so 80s terrible, but blow on the cart pins. I hate even saying that as it's a moisture thing but I found a few times when it got bitchy about running a game that got it to transfer 100% without the crc check failure doing unknown cart.

[graffix_13]

No, I've got almost 20 of them and a good selection of them use screwy konami vrc mappers and other stuff and they all right correct.

This will sound so 80s terrible, but blow on the cart pins. I hate even saying that as it's a moisture thing but I found a few times when it got bitchy about running a game that got it to transfer 100% without the crc check failure doing unknown cart.

Heh, ok I'll give it a try.

Thanks Tanooki.

[wclem]

I dont want to start an issue but you really should "clean" the contacts. While blowing may seem to do the trick you also introduce a ton of corrosive elements to the cart. A little alcohal and a qtip or two and some firm rubbing should spring that cart to life.

[graffix_13]

This will sound so 80s terrible, but blow on the cart pins. I hate even saying that as it's a moisture thing but I found a few times when it got bitchy about running a game that got it to transfer 100% without the crc check failure doing unknown cart.

This.....worked. I can't believe it.

And yes, I used a q-tip with rubbing alcohol to cleaned the pins. It didn't work last night after I tried that.

[Jmustang1968]

Open the carts and really clean the pins

[Tanooki]

wclem I know all too well, that's why I said terrible.

The thing is famicom games are a risk to open since they have 20-30+ year old plastic tabs not meant to be re-opened and most often if you open it, you'll crack one of them. They're just not fun or easy to do. I've opened those I have unless they were (few) super clean already. I've found using this pincher tool I have I can actually clean it as effectively having it grasp something to run over the pins fortunately.

[RGSPro]

Has anyone had any trouble with Famicom carts? I received my first Famicom game yesterday (Ninja Gaiden 3) and I am getting that dreadful "Unknown Cart" message.

I've cleaned the pins, as well as re-inserted the cart probably about 50 times. No luck.

Is there anything else I can do to correct this? It's a bummer.

Had some problems with some Super Famicom games (SBM 3,4,5) but cleaned the pins and they worked fine after. Rubbing alcohol and Qtips, took a bit of brown crap off them.