Seeing Korone Blow on the SNES Cartridge Completely BROKE Towa for 5 Minutes Straight [Hololive[ 

Yeah, that's an old school gamer, right there.

Well her pa really influenced her

No, she's a boomer

@@KABLAMMATS She is probably a millenial. I would guess early 30s.

@@markusburstrom3485 At what point does the boomer generation end and the millennial one begins? I’m still confused about that…

Towa: witnesses the lost ancient art of blowing

I remember the times... Then using paper and alcohol.

​@iKilleas I used a airblower from a car wheel mini compressor 😂

The purpose of blowing is not to remove dust. The reason it works, is the metal contacts oxidize over time which degrades the electrical connection. When you blow you end up releasing moisture from your mouth into the contacts which temporarily increases the conductivity of the contacts. It's a bad long term solution, really need to clean the contacts with alcohol and make sure the insertion system of the console doesn't have worn / bent out of place pins which causes the poor contact in the first place.

Wait till she see the ancient of kicking the tv to work

dont forget the concussive maintenance on the tv and at times the console

@@gampie13hit the tv at 45 degrees 😂

Me too, just depending on both devices and any cases

@@gampie13 It's the first step before the arduous process of moving the massive CRT far enough to try reseating the cables.

@@tokinosoda12thapostleofthe12 Don't forget to move the Antenna too.

@@CartoonHangout BUT IT WORKED. Note the caps lol.

​@@CartoonHangoutthe pins are made of Copper so they doesn't corrode

@@lancelnce Wtf? Copper absolutely does corrode.

@@gathenhielm9977 the Thing they put on cartridge pins does not corrode that's what I'm saying. Unless it's a pireted cartridge

@@lancelnce A quick google image search of "game cartridge corrosion" instantly proves you wrong.

That and opening a game case to play something only to find the wrong game in there. Which proceeds you to playing a game of "where the hell do you belong!!"

Or accidentally plugging in the wrong way tri-color cable in the TV. You were lucky if the TV holes were color coded too. 🤣 God I hated that, cause I had to unplug everything otherwise the old cable TV didn't work watching regular television channels

@@claouslive Nah, that still happens, especially to my niece and nephew with their Switch cartridges. They'll bring a case over to our house, and end up having the wrong game in it, lol.

@@Xtoxinlolinecronomicon don't forget about the magical "antenna/coaxial switch"

@@claouslive Hahahaha true, true!

Old habits die hard.

It can't be helped if it makes the games run through making blowing.

@@linusgustafsson2629 It _can_ be helped. Use Q-tips with a tiny bit of rubbing alcohol on them to clean the contacts. On the NES specifically, it's not rare for some deformation to have happened on both the cartridge connectors and the cartridge slot connectors on the console itself, this can be fixed by carefully tweaking them back into proper shape, or in the worst of cases, replacing them entirely.

​@@0neDoomedSpaceMarine : For the classic NES, some sort of replacement is most desirable. The actual connector is part of the problem, as the friction of cartridge insertion is too low to reliably remove the naturally building oxides- remember, Earth's oxygen is by nature a very slow fire, and that has it's costs. Also, apparently the plastic of the connector degrades. Best to buckle down and prepare before it stops entirely.

@@absalomdraconis You don't usually need to replace the connectors entirely. The major issue with the NES is that it has a really unconventional cartridge port which uses that tilting elevator setup, which works, but it's really easy to accidentally apply lateral leverage on the connectors, especially when you're a little kid who don't know that's a problem. You can fix the vast majority of NES consoles with connection problems by cleaning the connectors, and then carefully reshaping the pins. After that, it's just a matter of being a bit more gentle and conscious with handling, and then maybe cleaning the contacts every few years or so. There did also exist some kits which replaced the elevator mechanism itself with essentially a straight slot, but those were only produced in limited numbers I think. You also don't really need them. The original Japanese Famicom had a conventional toploading slot, so this is virtually never a problem outside of North America and Western Europe, nor for any other console with a normal toploading slot (like the NES toploader). All you need to do there is occasionally clean the contacts.

You forgot the last resort: - Use Q-tip and alcohol

My ps1 only read disks properly when it was upside down. Then it stopped reading disks altogether and I bought the slim version. But in this state it worked for almost 3 years.

@@ivd0s My friend's C64 wouldn't load games unless there was a blanket on top of the tape deck.

I don't remember 3 and 4

@@kylewoodowens4488 3 and 4 worked for CD consoles.

She is in her mid 20s, is just that she always preferred playing on PC than having consoles for what she talked before holo.

@@TheRatedOniChannel I mean, Korone turns 40 this year so she does have more experience of the old rituals lol

or maybe she was not a gamer back then.

​@@MikeHoney-qy6nlHer and Watame are the oldest followed by Botan I think.

@@MikeHoney-qy6nl It is pretty unlikely she's 40 but more closer to very late 20s to early 30s. I know about the stuff before the Korone character but I swear it's been all hearsay and nobody's been able to provide a clip. I say this because there is an older clip of Korone (in-character) saying she was still quite young when the PSP came out and her father playing it Even I know to do the old cartridge blowing trick and I was born in '93 which was just at about the tail-end of cartridge use and transition to CDs

I was binge watching Bae's and Biboo's zoomer moments but ofc, it happens in the JP side of things. It's amazing (and sad) that towa only just know the SNES (or Super Famicom) had a predecessor.. She could've just know from the games alone but never really knew where it was from. Not to give Towa any shade of anything, I like her too.. but yeah I'm turning to dust myself

There's videos out there of those canny Mr. Incredible getting older and older based on what's your first game in a franchise. For Megaten/Persona, the player was older than the big bang before Shin Megami Tensei III gets mentioned

The internet says it's a myth, but experience says otherwise.

​​@@remiremiremi111For sure. I can't count the number of times this worked on me. Just a bit of shaking and blowing air to remove "dust" works like a charm lmao.

Fun times.

yeah its weird, even the back of some carts literally tell you to not blow them, but 9 times out of 10 that little blow makes it work like factory new

Well the cartridge is dirty, you're just cleaning it "incorrectly" over time the saliva will eventually damage something in some time later, when? Who knows

Praise be to the Omnissiah!

Confirmed. The machine spirit of the cartridge is a toddler that love being raspberried.

*unholy screeching to the Omnissiah*

Yes!

Komainu, we need you!

Agree

THIS. 😂

She blew in the cartridge twice and blew on the console slot once. Then she lightly dropped the console on her carpet and then it worked.

Or Goldeneye. *Geddan intensifies*

Or James Bond Jr. 🤣 sometimes F-Zero too

nice pfp, i used to use the exact pic on somewhere else

@@PenguinLord10 Copyright bots are still on the prowl for that. I learned that the hard way years ago.

@@Supperdude9 a lot of vocaloid and touhou song is claimed by some random fake artists to this day, it's crazy

This. I started watching Hololive in early 2020 thanks to Korone! I still remember all her legendary memes like my second favorite "Water in the fire?! Why?! Water in the fire?! WHY?! I notto understando", "small small turtle house" (basically both her English-only Super Mario Bros streams were goldmine of memes), "Eekum bokum", and my favorite "I'm die, thank you forever" from Calli-Korone collab about defusing bombs. Now, I cherish and adore FuwaMoco, so my JP oshi is Korone (unfortunately I do not know Japanese), but my EN oshi are FuwaMoco. I can't wait for the HoloCerberus collab!

I didn't knew they are allowed to use emulators 😮

​@@lancelnceOficial PC versions or new consoles releases

@@lancelnce Official ones. Game compilations also.

Didn't she ended up playing a gba game with tilt controls on the gamecube? like literally moving the whole console? 🤣

@@AthosJosue yes

Stick drift is nothing compared to trying to play Atari games with that piece of shit joystick that would sometimes just not work in one direction....imagine trying to play Pacman, but you can't turn right, lol.

It took me years and years of daily gaming to get stick drift on my first DS3.

> aim always driftin' due to stick drift Mario Party 1, or, how I destroyed all my controllers and friendships

@@theoya Mario Party 1 gave many a children stigmata. There was even a class action lawsuit.

Ancient, ancient IBM PC ritual... avoiding the first slot because cards worked weird there.

hindsight i reckon its probably just "the good ol'have you tried restarting it" as with any tech and the blowing was just a placebo

​@@namo2403dust interference is a real thing

@@priestesslucy3299 yeah but how often is it really a malfunction due to specifically dust and not any other reason such as perhaps a faulty cartridge during production, a copper pin being bent, a bug during coding, snes overheating or a mini power outage anything along those lines ya know, its not like tech and quality control was the same standard as what we have today

@@priestesslucy3299 it theoretically could be, but usually isn't. Especially on a game that's been in and out of a system in the last, like, year. Blowing on the cartridge was just glorified reseating of the cartridge pins.

@@priestesslucy3299 No, it really wasn't. That's why the contactors were so bloody huge on the cartridges and console.

She DIDN'T EVEN TURN IT OFF just ripped out the live cartridge. And then the game started glitching out even stranger, like "ioh the music started again, why" Not just her that found it hilarious.

Gaming CPR

First Flare, now Towa Korone is a menace and should be stopped!

Pavlov's Korone

What about those?

PS1 too, and blow on memory card

Shoutout to the PS2 slim working properly for exactly a month before refusing to function unless you put a very specific coffee cup on top of it.

Hololive members aren't allowed to use emulators, so any game they play is on original hardware. (Throwback to that stream where Miko brought her playstation but it was a PS4 instead of the PS3 they needed, so she ran out last second to buy a PS3.) I'm guessing Korone has a huge console collection!

If you have the money and brains it's not very hard, can do it much better quality than korones cheap composite to HDMI box, using a retrotink, ossc or framemeister.

​​@@Zanpaa I think she does, there was a stream where she talked about it, I think the xboxes are some of the consoles she wanted but couldn't get, but she's played on famicom, super famicom, N64 (banjo), playstation (digimon world), playstation 2, playstation 3 (siren), playstation 4 (crash bandicoot 4) , sega saturn (dropped it on a getting over it stream 😅). On PS2 I think she played the aniki game in a competition against marine

so gamergirl spit to help play games. this is truly untapped market right fucking there

That's why I pee in the cartridges a little bit.

@@Draffut2003 what the fuck

You make it sound like that's a bad thing.

Yeah, usually when clips say BROKE, the streamer in question just chuckles a couple of times. I don't usually use stuff like this for my titles, but I feel like it's warranted here

YES! Did exactly that. All the time.

I think that was probably common in a lot of places, they were chunky plastic units you put into a machine hooked up to your TV to play, just like VHS tapes. Some people would call them 'tapes' but we knew that was obviously wrong, because unlike VHS or 8-track there was clearly no reels of tape inside these cassettes.

Ko'one is actually one of the older holomem.

@@adenpowter really? i assumed she was in her 20s, is she actually like 40-ish?

@@Endymion766 I think somewhere in her 30s iirc. But either way her dad was/is a huge gamer so even if she didn't experience those console gens directly, she would have gotten second hand exposure growing up from her dad.

@@Endymion766she's turning 40 this year

@@NewsofPE had no idea, so she's my age, that makes this less weird

Super famicom☝️🤓

She has a lot of these old machines, apparently. Would be surprised if she didn't have a regular Famicom too.

She have most of them. Famicom, Super Famicom, Turbografx16, Sega Genesis, Sega Saturn, N64, Dreamcast, Game Cube, Wii/U, PSX. If she had the game on cartridge/cd, she always plays them on the original console.

@@Koronesuki1313 I'm pretty envious, ngl.

I mean there was the 3ds which used the cartridge .. I still blew on the cartridge slot and the cartridge itself and it worked xD

True. I have to do that with my charger all the time.

I don't know why but I've never thought of doing that! Guess I'll give it a shot soon and see if the old magic still works!

@@LordSleven There is logic in the madness, the ritual services a spiritual & physical purpose akin to witchcraft.

Sorry about that! Fixing the thumbnail now

I've been saying this!!!!!! their love for old media, their surprising athlethic ability, the dynamic they have between them and their chat, their humor for random sometime insane things, and so much more subtler similarities, she's jp jerma

We didn't have those easily back in the day 😂

Korone mentions that towards the end.

Yep, at the end of the clip she actually addressed that. She knows you aren't supposed to but it's become a habit.

Have you like watched the whole clip..?

She knows, mentioned once about the effect and multiple times that it was out of habit