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Stop Replacing NES 72-Pin Connectors - Refurbish & Revive Your Original!
A NES that blinks or will not load games gets its original 72-pin connector cleaned and refurbished rather than swapped for a replacement.
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NES
13 videos.
The classic NES fault is a blinking red light and a grey screen, and the cause is often the cartridge slot or dirty game contacts. Cleaning is therefore the usual first try, and parts such as the connector only come later.
Games that will not start are the subject of a cartridge cleaning tutorial. For the console itself, a clean and refresh of the stock connector is another route, while a Nintendo refurbishment, part one goes as far as a slot swap and new capacitors. Retro Video Game Repair also sells parts, such as the pads in its sticky controller buttons video. More on this job lives under cleaning.
Isopropyl is flammable, so keep the room ventilated. A slot swap or recap means a hot iron, fumes and old solder that contains lead. Old save batteries can leak corrosive residue.
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Restoring the Nintendo Console That Nintendo Didn’t Make
Sharp built its own version of the Famicom in 1986, combining two pieces of Nintendo hardware in one unit, and a broken Twin Famicom is taken apart and restored.
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NES HDMI no-cut mod - LumaCode for the Nintendo Entertainment System
NES owners wanting a digital picture can follow a route that needs no board cuts, using LumaCode with RGBtoHDMI. Links include PPUDigitizer firmware and games that rely on colour emphasis.
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Launch Day Nintendo Restoration - Part 1!
Launch day NES restoration begins here with a breakdown, cleaning, parts pulled from a donor console, reassembly and a test, all in part one.
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This NES Is Worth $200 - But It's Broken - Top Loader Repair + Mod
Can a NES-101 top loader that refuses to take a game be brought back? TronicsFix sets out to repair it, with an AV mod for better picture and sound planned once it works.
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Refurbishing a Nintendo Entertainment System - Part 1
A NES with a blinking red light and a grey or white screen gets a cart slot replacement and fresh electrolytic capacitors, once the RF and power housing is freed from the board.
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5 Nintendo Famicom Repairs - Part 1 (SRAM - Black Screen)
Two of five Famicoms under repair come first, one with an SRAM fault and one with a power switch problem, alongside a composite AV mod and controller clean-up.
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Get Your Old NES Games Working Again - Tutorial - How to Clean NES Games
Most NES games that will not start only need cleaning, according to this video, which opens a cartridge and works through getting it going again.
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Getting Amazing RGB Video from the AV Famicom!
NESRGB, a kit by Tim Worthington, goes into an AV Famicom for RGB video. Most of the time goes on lifting the PPU, which the maker says people find hard.
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NES Game Battery Replacement and Cleaning
NES save battery replacement is the job here, along with cleaning the cartridge contacts. The channel also mentions cells with solder tabs for anyone who prefers to solder the battery in.
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How to Repair NES Controller Sticky Buttons
NES controller buttons that stick are the fault here, and the maker links replacement rubber pads, so new pads look to be part of the repair.
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How to Clean/Repair NES Games
NES game cartridges are opened, cleaned and repaired in a guide from Retro Video Game Repair, whose shop also sells a game cleaning kit.
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How to Repair Nintendo NES System
Retro Video Game Repair swaps the 72 pin cartridge connector in an NES system for a new one, the part sold in the channel's NES repair kit.
