Can I Fix these 5 Broken NES Games? 

Hey John, I’m the guy who gave you those games. The “green stuff” was made by the guy on that business card. He’s one of my good friends. He sells it at his game store. I used it on both Blue Marlin and BTTF, but was not able to get either of them to work. That’s why those two games were so clean. Every other game I’ve used it on in my collection has worked. The other 3 games were given to me by another friend that owns a game store that said they did not work. I didn’t even I didn’t even bother trying those ones. Funny that you didn’t need to do anything to them to get them to work lol. You can also use more of that “green stuff” when cleaning. I unscrew the cap and dip the q-tip inside personally, then I clean it off the pins with isopropyl alcohol. If you have any questions about it don’t be afraid to reach out to.

Urban Champion IS my favorite NES game , but probably not for the reason that you think . My best friend wasn't a gamer but he bought me a game for my birthday back in the 80's . It was Urban Champ . My best friend of 38 years died in a tragic car accident back in August . So glad that I still have that game . It is my favorite in my collection .

Blue marlin was one of my rental favs. Loved following school's of fish and seeing ths marlin shadow pop up. Anticipation waiting to see your catch. Fighting a strong marlin and the line gauge constantly pinging would test your nerves. You had to pay attention to the hook set, line, stamina man such an amazing nes game do many good memories

5:36 that single line you sang brought me back in time harder than ANY of your other nostalgia vids.

I recently bought some silver conductive pens to "redraw" traces. Actually fixed an old Ti99 4a doing that. Worked like a charm.

"Half video games, half food" BEST LINE of 2022!

It looks like one of the pins isn’t making contact somewhere in the wrestling game… whether it’s due to the wiring between that pin and the chip on the cart, or something wrong with the chip itself, IDK. But doing a contact trace is probably your best bet on that one, and that doesn’t take an EE degree to do.

I played Blue Marlin many times back in the day. I would constantly catch a 2400 lb. Blue marlin and the game would go blank. Called the company about it and they never heard of that happening. Guess i'll never know why.

I played Casino kid so much as a kid with my Dad. I remember getting to the King and was so excited.

Good video! I enjoy watching your OCS videos! Hope you will do more of them! Your sure were working fast, at the end of your video? LOL!

Great seeing you repair those games 🎮

8:44 John Riggs inner Beavis and Butthead

John, the games that did work, you should hit start to play it and see if the graphics are still fine. I sent you a rad racer 2 a while back and the graphics were fine on the opening screen, but it's when you play the game is when the graphics were messed up.

Next time add flux when you touch up solder.. if you’re just touching the solder to the iron, the solder will become brittle and prone to cracked joints.

"Her side of the family... Ooh! Watch out now!" 😂 Same, John, same!

Oshkosh! I live in Appleton WI which is about 20-30 minutes north of Oshkosh. I go there all the time! Great vid!

Spotted Cow is so good. As a Wisconsinite, thank you for giving it a shout out 😃👍🍺

I haven't even watched the video yet, and I KNOW! My man John Riggs has those games covered.

John get yourself a multimeter and check continuity on the un working games. Also you can see if the rom is good by dumping the ganme and comparing the contents to a good rom. If you have corruption like that one game it will be an address missing.

Good video keep up the good work 👍

this is my favorite part of my day off, you cleaning games.

John is rocking the spotted cow 🐄 much respect from Wisconsin.

Well at least you have doner boards John. Awesome episode as always.

Blue Marlin is an awesome fishing game. It has cool multiple choice dialogue scenarios you have to choose the right answer to help you reel in the fish. Choosing the wrong answer hurts your chances. You can catch sharks too. It's one of my favorite games on the NES let alone my favorite fishing game.

Thanks for your videos Thierry

there is a slice trace at second 437, maybe try to put some sodder over there and check continuity on all pins

I spent three hours of labor making two NES games I bought on ebay work. I'm pretty new to this level of effort, most Sega Genesis carts just needed a swab or two of the pins. Not literal (multiple) alcohol baths and deep scrubbing.

Hey dude! Spotted Cow! I live on the MN/WI border and used to cross the river all the time to get that stuff! They only sell it in WI.

Thats cool that game stores from oshkosh, im glad u had fun in Wisconsin. Cant go wrong with any new glarus beers.

Jesus Riggs, you need to be more cautious when using a soldering Iron! Add to your tools a third hand to hold the cardiges for you, and dont use the Iron so close to your face. Please, be safe. :-)

Hi John, I was about to look at your new "games we were playing sega genisis 1989" video and can't find it anywhere. Did you take it down???

Yess. Snes wrestling games ranking? I’m all in.

I use Weiman Glass Cook Top Cleaner it works great on all cartridge base game's.

All hail the asshopper! Long shall he reign! Mentioning being half video games and half food gave me flashbacks of The Fly x'D

Still a pleasure watching OCS vids and hope the series never goes away👍. I was suprised Back to the Future wasn't going to work, I thought evil never died 😂

Try a bit of flux on the pins before you reflow. It will go smoother.

Awesome vid!

I played that Casino Kid game! The blackjack is RIGGED! LOL!

Amazed you still had a Spotted Cow left. Im running dangerously low myself.

Wait, do we find out if you managed to fix the other games that still didn't work?

I use a pencil eraser to clean (cartridge) contacts. It's not too abrasive and cleans up well.

I’ve had ALOT of Spotted cow when I was in Manitowoc Wisconsin ha ha

*confused* I thought there was a different video, and then there wasn't, and now there is this. >.>

For the games that did work, perhaps try them on an original toaster model NES. As I recall, the cost reduced NES top loader did not have the NES10 security chip, and so if there's a failed NES10, or more likely a borked pin to the security chip, then the games may actually not be working on an original NES model. Would be worth a try. My guess on the broken carts are either broken traces on the cart PCB, or possibly just a killed ROM chip.

I remember renting a RPG-ish casino game when I was a kid, was that by chance "Casino Kid"?

I'm curious about that Extra Life cleaner. Where can it be purchased?

Question? For NES cartridges, do all 5 screw carts originally come with flathead screws, and do all 3 screw carts have Nintendo screws? I'm trying to figure out which of my cartridges in my collection have the flathead screws but should be the Nintendo screw.

Personally I use 99% iso alcohol then finish with a mars eraser. Usually it gets it working. If it doesn’t work typically the chips are bad or bad trace(s).

Too bad about Blue Marlin, I liked that game. Tag Team Wrestling is a lot of fun too.

I have full faith you can!

I'm your age john and i really loved Urban Champion.

I was lucky to pick up my top loader with a dog bone controller for $75 before the prices on video games surged.

Too bad Dr.Riggs you couldn't save them but such is life!😭

I just use fresh squeezed lemon or lime juice. Always work for me ... With a Q-tip

to get back to the future cart to work you must collect a ton of clocks :P

Try this at your own risk... to fix messed up video cards we stick them in the over at 385 for 5 to 15 mins. it re flows the solder

I have fond memories of tag team wrestling as a child

You should have bought another bottle but with Chuck Norris tears in it, the game would become the console and the NES couldn't work without the game. In addition to curing cancer by looking at the screen.

Question: and I just thought about it 🤔 brake cleaner.. to clean the gold slots instead of blowing it... 🤣

I appreciate the videos Riggs. I was able to get a friends Grind Stormer working because of you.

Do you ever clean your 1 up cards?

I live in Wisconsin and spotted cow is the best

John Riggs!

hmmmm wierd green stuff will cause Crazy eyes!

I don't think I've ever seen one of those 1up cards fix something on here. Maybe I'm wrong, but they don't seem very effective.

Bruh! You should really try to fix your Retro trio plus

I have a copy of Pokemon TCG that won't read anymore. I have the tools to open, but I didn't see anything out of the ordinary when I did.

I’m probably the only person who gets non working nes games and tries to get them working and if either the prg or chr chips are bad I will burn a new eprom and solder that in place than use it for a donor

I may be the only one who loves Blue Marlin more than I should still today

Im a brasso guy John, just use a magic eraser to take all residue off wiping the short way on every pin. Love the "open carts' brother, 👍

Did you ever thought about using flex on resoldering teeth

It's probably best if Back to the Future isn't working! 😋

Wifi-seeing fumes lol

Has anyone ever had the issue I'm having there are a few nes games I have that won't play unless you press the reset button I have 4 nes consoles and they do that on all 4 of them

All that repair effort with no positive result. Drink another strawberry milk and sell those games at a convention

When you solder do you use flux?

Back to the Future and LJN games are better off broken than working.

Don't use the green toothpaste by resetting your teeth by resoldering... It looks like in the video

I'm curious. You said don't use brasso, but I'm sure I've seen you use it countless times before on games. Am I wrong?

It's like. Gaming toothpaste.

Urban Champion is a classic, don't listen to the haters.

So.. why is the video about SEGA games not working?

"I got 5 on it."

try some DeoxIT

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Through that crap games away with the atari

I always use an eraser to clean games.

👍👍

Let's be honest, probably not lol 😅

Stop trashing Brasso. It works fine, you just have to clean it after with IPA and not leave it on there like a savage.

Just throw them into a pond

Your failure rate is rising.

Nope