(August 11, 2018 at 11:12 am)vulcanlogician Wrote:(August 11, 2018 at 11:02 am)emjay Wrote: Ah. Makes sense... they're certainly cheaper and you can pick em up anywhere. I just find that the consoles themselves aren't reliable enough for me to commit to that... both my N64 and Mega Drive don't work properly any more...they work sporadically. I don't know what happened to my SNES so every now and then I look on ebay for one and consider getting it, but I have to weigh that against the possibility of it being likewise unreliable. If it weren't for that though, I'd love to get one.. play Mario Kart, Mario All Stars, and Striker again... those were my favourites I think.
You can buy newer versions of the consoles for pretty cheap. If you don't mind doing 5 minutes of work with a screwdriver, you can simply replace the pin connector on your old consoles, too. (If your console powers on but doesn't play games, the pin connector is most likely the issue.) They cost around five bucks and will probably last a lifetime if you only play your Mega Drive on occasion.
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Wow... so you actually know how to fix them. The closest I've ever got to fixing them is blowing on the cartridge or in the slot, or with my dad, when I was a kid, cleaning the contacts (or whatever they were) for control pads with methylated spirits... but that still didn't help much... still ended up with about ten partially working control pads
Anyways, the N64 just continually resets... so my theory is that perhaps the reset button got held down in storage and is now semi-stuck down.. or something like that. And the Mega Drive is just very fragile... the slightest touch of it and the screen will freeze. And both of them need a lot of blowing on carts before they work, if they do.
But anyway, thanks for the advice
