Anyone know how to clean the inside of old Nintendo 64 games?
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 at
7:09 pm
Sugarbaby asked:
My old Nintendo 64 games have this green crust on the metal inside so they won’t work in the system.
My old Nintendo 64 games have this green crust on the metal inside so they won’t work in the system.
yeah I have one or used to………all you have to do is blow in them!
64 cartrides are pretty much industructable. But if you mangaged to F them up you’re pretty much screwed. If they’re games you love go look at your local game trade store like gamestop. Or look around on eBay and half.com and see if you can find it cheap. But odds are the cartriges you have are crap and can’t be fixed.
yeah blow on the games… or wet your finger, and rub it on both sides of the part of the chip that sticks out of the game. This always helped me. Hopefully it’ll work for you.
blow into them
cue tips… or just give it to poor children at an orthanage to fight over. Or a third world country, where lawn furniture is used as a come on!
the contacts have gotten green? it’s not solid, like junk, but it still prevents the game contacts from communicating with the pin connector within the N64
get a Q-tip, dip it in rubbing alcohol, and clean the metal contacts. the alcohol evaporates quickly, which is a nice plus. that should be good enough
if you really want to get into it, you can get a security bit set from ebay that can open the N64 games, as well as snes, nes, and sega games. that will allow you to open the plastic outer casing, and clean off the chip better. not usually necessary though