@@marvalcomicsfan123 well everyone knows when a flood happens you respond like they trained you in grade school....make sure you get your nes games off the floor, grab the cat, and get outta the flood area. If these steps were followed that game wouldn't have gone through what it did. Atleast it was covered and included with home insurance......RIGHT?
@@NEStalgia1985 They also forgot the golden rule of floods: If you really care about the thing you store away, DO NOT PUT IT IN THE BASEMENT! I guarantee what happened is this was in a basement where the people never went down there and that water was just sitting there for years.
I'm a bit late, just discovered your channel, but WOW dude. Great job on that cart, i thought that was a goner, I'll be a bit less reluctant in buying a cart that's in poor condition after seeing this. Great job man!!.
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This video was absolute fantastic. The life you put back into that Ocarina of Time cart was incredible. I wanted to know if it's possible for you to take a look at a Neo Geo AES cart I have recently purchased? The game is an early title Alpha Mission 2. The cart has garbled glitched graphics and I cleaned the contacts with a Hi polymer eraser and to no avail still no luck. You seem like the kind of guy who probably could pinpoint the cause of it. Let me know what you think and I can send you photos of the game and possibly mail the boards to you to make diagnosis and possible repair. In either case I appreciate you and the videos you post. Keep'em coming bud.👍😁😎👌
incredible work! excellent! Just a tip, never remove a cartridge with the console turned on, and especially don't re-insert it, this can instantly burn out the PIF-NUS, the N64 check chip or damage the cartridge itself!
@@sc3ku In this case, the console needs to be turned off and on correctly, turning it off and then inserting the other game and turning the console back on, in fact, this practice is condemned by Nintendo and was not actually launched, Banjo-Kazzoie just kept the project in the game
I have a Super Mario World cartridge in a similar condition. It still works, but the game had glitched a few times (nothing too serious) and I didn't know why. I recently bought a gamebit screwdriver and finally managed to open that cartridge. When I saw the state of the pcb board... it was like this Zelda. Before, I was wondering why this game had glitched sometimes, now I wonder how it still works lol I haven't cleaned it yet, as I was searching for a video of someone cleaning a cartridge in the same state as mine to know what I should do. Also, I have to change the battery and I'm afraid of screwing it up, because I've never done this before. But I have to try. Thanks for the video!
I hope it works out. Buy a crap game (Madden or something) or some old junk electronic item you don't care about to try desoldering some components first. Once you get an idea of how long you can leave an iron on a pad without burning the board it will become a lot less intimidating.
How hot do you usually keep your iron at for repairs like this? I recently tried to recap my first game gear but I think I either don't have fine enough points on my iron or my iron was too hot that I picked on a contact and pulled a trace lol.
Been there... I keep mine at between 720-760. For me, the key is an iron with the heating element built into the tip instead of a built into the iron. The heat doesn't transfer well otherwise. I used to have a cheaper iron with the heating element built into the iron itself and I would get wildly varying temperatures depending on the shape of the tip used and even cooler spots on one side of the tip or the other. Before I understood this, I would often go too hot ot make up for it and ruined a lot of things by accident.
Hey, thanks! I offered the game back but the guy game me the ol' "maybe, I'll let you know" routine. He was pretty surprised that I go it running again. I sold it a couple of weeks later and he asked me about it again a week or so after that.
First things first is the battery upside down? Sorry that's a common mistake made not an insult.... second does the battery have a charge, they don't recharge on the board, and lastly did you hold in select pressing power after saving....if those ideas don't work I'd check to make sure it's traces are connected and not shorted. Also can u enter a name shut it off and have the name save?
You know what i like about your videos. Your not quick to jump right in and do a board swap. Which really i have seen it done on boards that look way cleaner. Instead of taking the time to try and repair it. What these people are doing is causing the cartridges to slowley disappear quicker. I very much like to see extensive cartridge pcb repair. Especially when it works.
I really appreciate the kind words. Thank you. In many case with more desirable games, I will likely wind up doing a board swap later but the ultimate goal is to get the game working again. I still want the lesser game working, if possible so it can still be usable.
I brought a fainted pokemon stadium Nintendo 64 cartridge back to life as i cleaned the board and the points with a little of distilled white vinegar because i see some corrosion was on the points and above the points to where the Nintendo 64 couldn't detect the game
Great video. I have 3 cartridges (DK64, Ocarina of time, and Majoras mask) that I left behind when I moved out of my parents place. My brother got them and somehow left them outside to get rained on. I have them now and suprise suprise they do not work. Is water damage something that can come back from or are these carts toast? I do not know the extent of the water damage. All I know is they will not play anymore :(
Hi, thanks! It really depends on the extent od the water damage. If the chips are not damaged, the easiest thing to do is to find a cheap game with the same board type and swap the chips over. Trace damage can be a headache to fix but again, depends on how bad it is whether it's worth the effort and time. I got a bunch of very badly water damaged SNES games and plan to post a video of at least one of the this Sunday. Maybe seeing the repair attempt process will help with your games.
I just replaced the battery on my ocarina game. It boots up, but when I press start, the game beeps and the screen goes black.. anyone know what my problem might be?
