(August 11, 2018 at 12:14 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote:(August 11, 2018 at 11:27 am)emjay Wrote: 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
Try this link. (If anything for the joke about the crucifixion painting. lol!)
https://medium.com/@DafeAllen/n64-random...83566a3c88
It requires zero skill to replace pin connectors... otherwise I wouldn't be able to do it. Google it and follow some schmuck's instructions on YouTube. It's that easy.
If your bored one day, give it a shot. It sounds like your interest in restoring your game systems is lukewarm, but it ain't so bad firing up some childhood memories after you get it working again, so keep it in mind.
Also, if you do decide to buy connectors, go ahead and grab a backup set. I feel good knowing I have an extra set even though the ones inside it are brand new.
Any favorite N64 games?
Thanks for that. I'm not sure if that's the solution, because I don't know if I actually have an expansion/jumper pack since I don't remember buying one... but opening the slot there is something in there with the ominous label "do not remove this label"... but I'd say the thing is fifteen, twenty years outside it's warranty so not a problem to do that 
I just don't know what it is though... it does move when pushed so it may be a default expansion/jumper pack (whatever they actually are) that came with the console... so could try and prise it out at some point. May as well, cos it's not doing much good now. And/or actually take it apart; my dad's a bit like Tim The Tool Man Taylor... I have great faith in his electronics and DIY ability... he knows what he's talking about... but he has fried a few things as well in Tim Taylor fashion, much to our continued family amusement So, he can help me with it As for reviving childhood memories from this, call me sad but I actually just enjoy watching 'longplays' of them on YouTube... so just trying to remember the games I used to play for one thing then looking them up on YouTube... and surprisingly they're almost always there, and played in full. That's was my compromise for the consoles not working, and was just as good for the nostalgia
As fir the N64, I'd say my absolute favourite game on that, without a shadow if doubt, is F-Zero X. I have played (and seen on YouTube) the GameCube version that followed it, and though faster it's just not the same; the biggest thrill with F-Zero X for me was the explosions, especially several at once... when for instance, you'd spin attack into a densely packed group and take out many ships at once... whereas with the GameCube version though it (I think) has the same attacks, you never see those results of them in that way, so it just became like a normal racing game.
