I found an old Street of Rage 2 for the Genesis and it was heavily corroded. Way worse than this. It literally has "rocks" "living" on the gold pins lmao. I honestly thought the game was done for. I went ahead and cleaned it all up, but the corrosion was just too much no amount of 99.9% IPA would get it off. What I ended up doing was getting a fine grit sand paper. I literally just went to town on the pins and literally sanded off all of the corrosion. Now all the pins looked a bit scratched, but they look super clean now. They all have a silverish color to them. A few of them have a brown/coper color to them. I went in pretty deep on those since those had the deeper corrosion. Anyways, the pins don't look perfect (obviously) but all corrosion is gone. The game also works perfectly. I beat the entire thing on a model 2 Genesis haha. I'm amazed at how durable these old cartridges are. The game literally works perfectly.
Straight up vinegar on a Qtip removes the corrosion. Then you use alcohol on a clean Qtip and wipe away what your cleaned. Been using this technique for 35 years. Works perfectly. In some cases where the corrosion is not removed, toothpaste WITH baking soda solves that and shines up the pins as well. 120 grade sandpaper in an up&down manner can help in extreme cases. But they always work afterwards...
@@PureConsoleGamers When using the vinegar, it removes the corrosion efficiently and you DO have to clean it off... Its not a simple wipe/saturate and go method..
Matthew 7:1 “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. 3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
I posted this as a response further down but will post it again as it's own comment. At first you can attempt to gently scrape off corroded pins with a paint scraper / razor. After an initial cleaning of the game pins I will use a SNES dust cover and fill it with just enough vinegar to soak the cartridge pins. I'll let them sit for 30 - 45 mins depending on how bad they are. After that, I'll remove them and dry the pins. After drying, I'll drum some baking soda on the pins and boards (I'll hear a little fizzle as the remaining vinegar is neutralized). After that I'll clean everything down with rubbing alcohol. Then I'll go over the pins with baking soda / water once again. I'll finally clean everything off with rubbing alcohol again. I usually dry everything well with compressed air. Small dings will remain where the neutralized / removed corrosion used to be, but the pins will otherwise retain their golden luster.
Subbed! Found you through your amazing theory you did with AgtJake! I was in the server when you guys talked about it 😍😍😍 loved the theory you came up with! It’s genius and makes sense more of Melina and ranni being the past and present version of themselves. Also I kinda wished maybe ranni would mention melina in the game more ❤❤❤❤🥰
for an1 who doesnt have this screwdriver (like me) first i tried to get the button out with some sticky tape and then I squirted a bunch of isopropanol on it and pressing it a bunch of times squirting more and more alcohol on it and eventually it got a little unstuck so i kept pushing it and the alcohol managed to clean the button and it works now ofc u need to put the console sideways and shake it a bit to get the excess fluid out and then wait for it to completely dry, works too ^^
This alone is probably the only reason to boot up Tokimeki memorial, Its really impressive that the pc-engine can handle the massive screen filling sprites like those attack carriers that show up in 1:33 , assuming that its with the help of the cd-rom attachment despite the game's ost uses the pce's normal sound hardware
Thanks for the tutorial! I’ll definitely give this one a shot. I’ve had my N64 since I was 5 (I’m now 24) and it keeps resetting on its own at random because the reset button is stuck like the one in the video. This is also a great excuse to clean the system because it is dustyyyy!
thanks for the vid, Im watching and clicking ads for you bc you are small, I hope you get $$$ from that and not nasty youtube. I appreciate you sharing your techniques. There are way to many clean, overview, basic fix videos for fixing pcbs, and not nearly enough that go into depth like right here. Subbed homie. You giving out trade secrets hahaha. I'm a fellow fixer btw, I love it.
I got a copy of Pilotwings from an antique place a week ago and it won’t boot up. After cleaning it with alcohol multiple times, even going as far as opening it up to get to the circuit board, I came to the conclusion that the buildup of corrosion on the outer pins is the source of the problem. Perhaps I’ll have to try this out.
Contacts are gold-coated copper. Pure copper is not good for contacts because oxidizes pretty fast. You are removing the gold exposing the copper. Before doing that, first I would use 99º rubbing alcohol. If alcohol is not enough, electrical contact cleaner will do it and you dont have to clean nothing after. I have recover some games using contact cleaner. Also when I am cleaning o repairing a carthidge console, I like to spray the contacts with cleaner, and insert a game several times to clean the contacts on the console. This also works with RAM sticks, graphic cards and slots on computer. Spray some cleaner in the slot, insert a RAM or GPU several times and the contacts in both, the slot and card will be clean
@@DigiPen92 nope I have a turbo duo R, the mini looked cool, but having duplicates of the same game just in another language felt like a waste of money.
@@DigiPen92 well isn't it really like 28 games cause of the dupes. I have a majority of the games yeah, dont have sapphire and splatterhouse. No snatcher unfortunately would have love to play that on the mini if it was translated. Oh and I don't have valkyrie, sapphire is a huge draw though.
