100 things you did to get glitchy NES games to work

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1. Put games in freezer.
2. Put games in sun.
3. Licked the connective circuit.
4. Held game down in the drive.
5. Held the on button down with tape / hands...

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 30 September 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

6. blew into the cart
7. rubbing alcohol & q-tips
8. stuck a controller in there to hold the gamething down
9. flipped the NES onto its top

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 30 September 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

10. - 69. Take cart out and then jam it harder back into slot.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 30 September 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

70. Jiggling

― Laura H. (laurah), Friday, 30 September 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

71. Mashed the reset button, despite the bad things you heard it could do.
72. Took the top off the NES and bent the pins back towards the cartridge (I still have one bashed up, open NES just in case the one I pick up isn't working, and you can always rely on it).

― melton mowbray (adr), Friday, 30 September 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)

73. Stuck the cartridge almost all the way in, then pushed it downwards so that it just barely went far enough in to go down. Hard to explain, and I can't remember it ever working. The blowing thing was basically the best solution, and all those people who said not to do it were fools cause it worked!

― dan i. (Dan I.), Saturday, 1 October 2005 00:42 (twenty years ago)

74. Down Up Down Up Down Up Down Up Down Up Down Up Down Up Down Up POWER ON (This isn't a wang joke).

75. The subtle-but-underrated slight tap of the reset button when the title screen's showing, but flashing on and off.

all those people who said not to do it were fools cause it worked!

OTM, who were they trying to kid? Enjoy your flashing power lights, non-believers!

― melton mowbray (adr), Saturday, 1 October 2005 00:51 (twenty years ago)

6 and 75 otm

― astroblaster (astroblaster), Saturday, 1 October 2005 01:43 (twenty years ago)

So hey is it true that the japanese version that was top-loading from the outset had hardly any of the problems with which we all are so familiar?

― dan i. (Dan I.), Saturday, 1 October 2005 03:48 (twenty years ago)

walking away and coming back

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 1 October 2005 05:43 (twenty years ago)

it didn't work cuz they wanted it to look like a vcr

― Allen E. Riley (allenriley), Saturday, 1 October 2005 07:31 (twenty years ago)

also: my nes has a large, fist-sized crack on the top

― Allen E. Riley (allenriley), Saturday, 1 October 2005 07:32 (twenty years ago)

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