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Conference rusure::nintendo

Title:	Nintendo Game Systems
Notice:	Please enter Super NES notes in Yuppy::Super_NES.
Moderator:	RUSURE::EDP

Created:	Tue Oct 20 1987
Last Modified:	Mon Feb 03 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	847
Total number of notes:	11602

815.0. "Is Nintendo fixable? " by VSSCAD::DBROWN () Wed Nov 17 1993 13:54

    
    
    
    Does anyone know what it means when,
    You put a game in Nintendo and all's you get is an orange color on 
    your screen and it makes a funny noise?  Is it worth getting checked
    out/fixed?
    
    
    thanks
    deb

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
815.1	DIRT !!!!!!!!!	RAYBOK::COOPER	One-ton Tomato !	`Thu Dec 23 1993 13:28`	9
	What the orange (or red) color means is that the cartridge is not making good contact on all its pins. I usually have to clean the game deck and game when this happens. SOrry it took so long to respond, I have been away from the notesfile for a while. JIm Cooper
815.2	Buy a cleaning kit.	WFOV12::STONE_A	If you can't sew it, RIP IT!	`Fri Sep 23 1994 12:27`	8
	They sell cleaning kits that go from $5 - $10. I picked one up for 10 that cleans NES SNES gameboy and sega. stoney
815.3	Beyond hope of repair?	CXXC::REINIG	This too shall change	`Tue May 30 1995 11:44`	18
	My nintendo blinks on and off. I've pulled the plastic cover, and the metal cover inside, exposing the connection pins. I've cleaned them and levered them up so that they should make good contact with the games. In the past, this has always fixed this problem. When I did it last week, the nintendo worked for about five minutes, then reverted to the blinking behavior. (screen image looks good for a few seconds, then fuzz, then looks good, ...). I did it again yesterday and the same thing happened. It worked fine for 5 minutes then reverted to the bad behavior. I used one of the cleaning kits sold by toys r us to clean the thing. In the past I used some aerosol spray from Radio Shack but Radio Shack doesn't carry the spray anymore (they have some more expensive spray). Any suggestions or is it time to buy a replacement? August G. Reinig
815.4		RUSURE::EDP	Always mount a scratch monkey.	`Tue May 30 1995 14:20`	13
	Check the contact that should be closed when the game is pushed down (not in). Blinking is the designed behavior (I have no idea why) when the game is pushed in but not down and power is turned on. (It would have been a much better design to make that contact the power switch: Click a game to take it out, and the power turns off. Push a game down, and the power goes on.) -- edp Public key fingerprint: 8e ad 63 61 ba 0c 26 86 32 0a 7d 28 db e7 6f 75 To find PGP, read note 2688.4 in Humane::IBMPC_Shareware.
815.5	Can't find it	CXXC::REINIG	This too shall change	`Thu Jun 22 1995 18:54`	4
	I checked but couldn't see which contact you are talking about. Did I overlook something obvious? august
815.6		RUSURE::EDP	Always mount a scratch monkey.	`Tue Jun 27 1995 09:21`	13
	Re .5: I don't know what the switch looks like inside, but the blinking you describe is too much like the behavior when a cartridge is not depressed to be coincidence. There must be some switch that is activated when the cartridge cradle goes down. -- edp Public key fingerprint: 8e ad 63 61 ba 0c 26 86 32 0a 7d 28 db e7 6f 75 To find PGP, read note 2688.4 in Humane::IBMPC_Shareware.