That was one of the best things about the NES, you could fix the games by blowing on them.
That's actually the worst way to clean your cartriges. I found that you can flawlessly clean them, by opening up the cartridges, and rubbing the bronze connectors with a white eraser. Rich, from ReviewtechUSA, made a great video about this very issue. I'm supprised that no one actually talked about this. He aslo said that alcohol is the worst way to clean a cartridge, becasue it corrodes the bronze metal connectors, and makes them malfunction. Now I wonder how you can fix a scratch on a game disc?
angrybull said:
That was one of the best things about the NES, you could fix the games by blowing on them.
That's actually one of the worst ways to clean a game cartridge I found. Rich, from ReviewtechUSA made a video about this very issue. He said that that the best way to clean a video game cartridge, is to open the cartrige, and rub the bronze connectors with a pencil eraser. He also said that cleaning the cartridge wiht alcohol, or any other liquid chemicals, is the absoute worst way you can clean a video game cartrige, becasue it corrodes the bronze connectors, and makes the game malfunction. I'm supprised, that no one even mentioned this, until recently. Now, I wonder how you can fix a scratch on a video game disc?
you can generally buff out scratches with a buffing compound; popular choices include brasso and mild toothpastes.
scratches on the bottom of a disc are generally not serious damage, because that is not where the data on a disc is. instead, the data is located not too far under whatever printed label on the front there may be; scratches there tend to be quite fatal.
so it's almost a good thing that people have such a fixation on the "shiny side", because that's also the big physical protection of a disc. many scratches on the bottom can generally be buffed out provided they aren't so deep as to have actually hit the top.
