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Title: <News> - Nintendo Playhouse
Post by: saint on May 04, 2007, 03:57:04 pm
The shot of the front of the building is by far the coolest... (http://arcadecontrols.com/arcade_main.php#2361)
Title: Re: <News> - Nintendo Playhouse
Post by: ChadTower on May 04, 2007, 07:45:23 pm

The cartridge is upside down.
Title: Re: <News> - Nintendo Playhouse
Post by: saint on May 04, 2007, 07:52:58 pm
Heh. Did you read why?
Title: Re: <News> - Nintendo Playhouse
Post by: ChadTower on May 04, 2007, 08:01:37 pm

In 15 years of repairing NES systems, playing them, having spent 20+ hours a week as a middle school kid on mine or those of friends, I've never seen that.  Ever. 

Title: Re: <News> - Nintendo Playhouse
Post by: Zero_Hour on May 04, 2007, 10:08:37 pm
But that's just it. YOU repair them. Other people just jam another cartridge in and see what happens.  :P
Title: Re: <News> - Nintendo Playhouse
Post by: shmokes on May 04, 2007, 10:50:51 pm
But that's just it. YOU repair them. Other people just jam another cartridge in and see what happens.  :P

I'll vouch for it.  I've done it, and I've seen it done by other people lots of times.  You click one game in normally, and then stick another game in on top of it.  It presses down on the game that's inserted properly just enough to make it work.  Sometimes.  As we know, any NES fix is hit and miss.
Title: Re: <News> - Nintendo Playhouse
Post by: ChadTower on May 05, 2007, 09:57:17 am
But that's just it. YOU repair them. Other people just jam another cartridge in and see what happens.  :P

I didn't start repairing them until I was an adult.  As I said, I spent as much as 20 hours a week as a kid playing NES in my house and friends' houses, never once saw the spring loader wear out.