I bought a mega drive a couple of years ago and it definitely takes a few attempts to load some of the games!
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citrusface@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Your sega will probably just keep doin this forever. I don’t then systems of this generation will ever not work (as long are you aren’t a neanderthal… But even then, maybe it will)
smeg@feddit.uk 8 months ago
citrusface@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Clean or replace your pin slot in the console and clean the contacts on your game. That should fix that.
smeg@feddit.uk 8 months ago
What’s the best way to clean them? I assume something more than the old blow-into-the-cartridge trick?
citrusface@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Good ole rubbing alcohol and a q-tip! That’s all you need.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Thirty years ago my grandmother was carrying my 1987 nes down some stairs and her sock caught on a nail. She fell down the stairs, broke her hip, two fingers, a toe, shattered her left arm in 9 places around the elbow, suffered a concussion, and was in icu for two weeks, plus a trip later 500 miles north to the Mayo Clinic to get an extensive nuts bolts and plates surgery to save her arm from being amputated.
The NES survived unbroken and still works to this day. Tecmo Super Bowl is still the best football game.
citrusface@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s a fuckin story right there. Both your grandma and the nes are survivors.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Yes indeed. Grandma isn’t doing the best anymore, unfortunately, but she’s 92 now and still going.