Hey! First off I'd like to say that I'm new here and so far I'm loving the forums.
Well, anyway, this is the classic gaming section so I figured posting this here would be ok. A few days ago my friend, Jerry, traded me an SNES with a handful of games for a Gamecube with a missing power brick. Bad trade on his end? Nuh-uh, the SNES is, apparently, busted.
So I'm trying to play some Super Mario World right after he leaves, just to see if there's anything I can do and... BOOM! The thing starts working! Out of excitement I snatch SMW out of the console and cram Donkey Kong Country 2 in... And now it DOESN'T work. The same thing happened with DKC1, some Baseball game, a Super Gameboy with Megaman 2 in it and Primal Rage.
The thing turns on but there's no video. I've got it set to the right channel and everything, the cables are in good on both ends and the carts are clean but I'm only getting a black screen with random white, horizontal lines moving up and down it. Anyone know what the problem is or a way to fix it? Help would really be appreciated.
John Gibson
Hey, welcome to the forums. Repair work on consoles is a bit out of my league, but I did have problems once with a Super Mario Kart game. I had to scotch tape it together, and when it wouldn't work, I would press both ends of the cartridge together, and sometimes that would help.
I'm not a professional on this, and lord knows, this happens more frequently with the old NES, so it might be the pin connector inside the SNES, but no one hold me to that.
SNES games go for just a few bucks on Ebay these days. Get one that is in working order, and try it on your machine. If it doesn't work, it might be the console. If it does, the other games might be damaged.
Curious, the other games that don't work, there IS actually a game chip inside the cartridge shell, right? Your friend might have swindled you, and basically took the "guts" out of those non-working games.
Not sure if this helps, but let us know what happens.
miner2049er
Sound like it could be a dry joint inside or something.
The problem is you need a special screwdriver to open it up.
if you don't have one or don't want to mess around inside it, swap it back.
Black Flag NC
When I was a kid, my NES crapped out and the cartridge wouldn't stay all the way down in the system. Too fix this I shoved a hot wheels car in the slot to hold it down. Worked like a top, man. Pretty cool that we, as 9-year old kids, could fix this stuff. I wouldn't know where to begin to fix my ps2 nowadays.
The same thing happened with DKC1, some Baseball game, a Super Gameboy with Megaman 2 in it and Primal Rage.