Stop Blowing on Your Carts and Fix Your NES's 72-Pin Connector | This Old Tech 

I'm to old to change my ways. Been doing it for 20 years. Don't care if I'm only 28.

Seth is always entertaining

Next video. Repairing 360s that have red ringed

How about don't tell me what to do when it's been working for 40 years

It’s brilliant to see a site as mainstream as yours hopefully encourage people less confident about preserving hardware and software like this. Keep it up! 👏🏻

Thank you for posting this video as it is helpful. Is it possible that you might be able to demonstrate a DIY kit for an NES for those of that might have NES games w/out a console?

Love this!!! Great video Seth

Great vid, very well done sir 👌

you should have cleaned the contacts and the board too with some kind of alcohol before you put everything back together and if the connector's pins were in any way bent or damaged boiling it wouldn't have done anything. Inspect it and bend pins back up

Please keep this series up!

More videos like this, please😄. Awesome video IGN!🤘

Rambletron engaged!

Any recommendations on which new 72 pin to purchase?

Excellent excuse to get your NES in tip top shape... since we don't have Bionic Commando on Switch, or even WiiU Virtual Console.

FYI, you can and in my opinion should take a hook pin and bend the pins back straight as they were when you first bought the system.

Mine is 26 years old & working flawlessly. But, thanks for the hack.

Make sure to ground yourself when handling internals of electronics so you don't short circuit anything from any potential static electricity

Awesome vid

Thanks for sharing this critical part in retro gaming preservation, our latest retro newsletter is number 72 (which is the number of Pins a NES cartridge has) and to celebrate this fact we are going to feature this video. Link in bio.

My roms dont need blowing.

Is there to get 72 pin connector with out un screaming the mother board ?

Fixing or replacing the pins is part of the problem. For most people do not want open up the NES. Get or make a cartridge cleaning kit and clean the contacts of the cartridge and clean the pins. Also, buy canned air and use it whenever NES has blinking light of Death. If you are brave enough to replace the pins, still clean the cartridges. You don't want to put a dirty cartridge into a new pins.

Another timely video from ign.

But HOW LONG do you boil the pin connector before it’s al dente, Chef Seth? It takes about 20 minutes for eggs. 😝

Must be cold in that room/basement to wear a vest and a coat.

Thank you but i'm still gonna blow the dust off

Blowing on your cartridge is a rite of passage. Don’t ruin tradition.

The trick is to not push the cartridge in and leave it as far out as you can where you can still lower the bay

Can someone explain what boiling the pin connector actually does?

The pins on the main board not being cleaned prior to reinstalling the 72-Pin connector imo was a wasted opportunity.

What does boiling it actually do?

NES is haunted? Who ya gonna call?

They fix it no the n64?

That's an old wives tale

A 15min video that could’ve been fully replicated with a short.

Nes and SNES are the most durable consoles ever. Most playstations and Xboxes stop working after several years.

More of this content, less cheezit content. Please.

The 20th century was always wrong and we are now in the 21st century.

💙

It works xD

Engineering is a form of science

No thank you ill keep blowing... Gawk gawk

Blowing did nothing, even though we all did it. Removing and reinserting is what cleaned the contacts. There is a better way.

Lol. This is The Way

Who has patience?

Slow day huh?

How many people even still have these

No!

😂

Super mario land 2

No

It’s been working all this time sooooooo….🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️

No.

What kind of heresy is this!!!!!. Its common to blow it ;).

Just use emulator dud

Worst tut ever. Thanks IGN as always

One word Emulators

This is DUMB. And WRONG. Blowing on carts will do absolutely zero damage what so ever to the carts. We are talking decades of blowing in those things on a regular basis before the moisture will do any notable damage. Statistically speaking, 99 percent of these issues stem from DIRTY PINS. NOT broken pins. Do not do this unless you absolutely have zero other choice. And EVEN then. It makes far more sense just to buy a new system. It's cheaper even.