I cringe when I see people doing this shit. I know we all did it when we were kids, but that's only because we didn't know better. Now you know better, so stop doing that shit.
Barbaric. I just throw it against a matress or put it in the freezer like a civilized individual.
My friend had a ritual which involved blowing into the cartridge, patting his head three times, then rubbing it on his ass in three swipes. It worked every time.
Ive done this every time i swap carts for the last 20 years.
>>10869465I once knew a kid who fried his Sanic cartridge by wiggling it around in the slot of his Genesis to produce wacky graphics.
>>10869465>so stop doing that shit.
It's funny because the back label of the cartridge literally warns you not to blow on the contacts but no kid every read any of that shit.
>>10869489Must've been black.
>want to play some NES>game won't start>wipe cart with a cotton swab>game won't start>clean contacts with rubbing alcohol>game won't start>spray contact cleaner into the cartridge slot>game won't start>just blow into the cart>game startssorry but NES carts were made to be blown on.
>>10869465I hate pseuds like you. It works and it doesn't damage the cartridge.
>>10869465>I cringebecause you're a redditor, normal people don't "cringe" at dumb things
>>10869560>NES carts were made to be blown onwhy else would they make that comfy whistle sound?
>>10869465yeah, nowadays I put my tongue in there and taste the corrosion
>>10869465These days I blow into my USB ports to get roms working.
>>10869465I've never blown into a cartridge in my life, I always knew it was stupid to do for as long as I can remember.
>>10869465i did it last night on a gameboy cart
>>10869815kek same
>>10869465>Dude! It's gonna ruin the cart! Imagine the corrosion and ruined contacts in the year 3210!
>>10869465i didn't do this unless a game wouldn't work which was probably like twice ever
>>10869465Akchually you have to rub two cartridges
Works with my master system cartridges . they get dusty and I forget to use duster
>>10869465I just spin them arround like I spin usbs
>>10869993based quantum switch enjoyer
>doesnt know the yo yo trickyoure supposed to epoxy it to the side of a yo yo and do tricks like making the yo yo sleep, around the world, and other things so centrifugal force removes the debris.
>>10869465You're right. I've evolved to licking the pins. It's much more effective.
>blowing>not inserting the entire connector into your mouth and giving it a good succ
The trick is to use a Game Genie as a middleman and never worry about a bad connection ever again.
Do you retards not own a can of compressed air? Must all live in some shithole third world country where air is a rarity
>>10870684>hello, yes, I would like to purchase AIR please>yes, a dozen cans ought to do it, thanksconsumer brain claims another
This has never broken a game in the history of all time. Literally not even one.
>>10870690>spits on the PCBYes? Do you have a problem? This has literally never broken a video game before.>returns to spitting on the PCB
>>10869465>n64 cartridge in pictureThis never happened. I never once had to blow into an N64 cart or a Sega Genesis cart either for that matter. I didn't have a SNES so I can't personally verify that, but I never heard anyone else talk about having to do that with SNES carts. This was purely an original NES thing.
>>10870694I'd be less worried about breaking the game and more about breaking the console, one bad short and you're sending 5v down a pin that isn't meant for it and now your NES is melt
>>10870703This, I only ever had an issue with NES cartridges
>>10870703I had to do it with Game Boy carts
>>10869465I did this. Even licked cartridge before. I was a kid who didn't know better back then.
>>10870703happens with gameboy carts
>>10870703To back you up: I have heavily used a SNES, as a kid and as an adult, and I don't remember ever needing to do this with it. I also have far less heavily used an N64 and never had this problem with it either. It was only NES, when I was a kid.As an adult, I've had the problem arise with used Game Boy and DS games I bought on eBay. God knows how those cartridges had been treated though. Rather than applying moist breath I attempted to clean with isopropyl alcohol, which generally seemed to work.
Everyone knows the saliva moistens the contacts.
It's called foreplay, op. This is why you don't have a gf.
>>10870703I did it with n64 all the time, it worked.
>>10870703YeahI may have done it a handful of times for SNES or Genesis games but only from NES-born instinct in the 1/1000 times they had a bad connection rather than the 3/4 of the time with a NES
>>10871106>blow the cartridge>gently insert it all the way to the base>push in the reset button with your pinky while rapidly flicking the power button up and down
for some reason I can only get my NES going with tengen cartridges
>>10869639That describes over half of this website. Have you been on any other board?>>10870684I'm not a drug addict, so no.
>>10871129They're larger than your average cartridge so they reach spots Mario can't
>>10870689Kek I laughed
>>10869465>He doesn't boil his console's pin connectors in the rice cooker like a sane man
>>10870689>>10871229nta There are electric air dusters.
>>10869560The humidity of the warm breath aids the electrical contact connection.
>>10869465Blowing cocks is socially accepted but blowing carts isn't?
>>10869465They're my games and I'll do whatever the fuck I want with them.
>>10869465>I know we all did it when we were kids,bro, you weren't even born yet when this was a thing. quit larping.
>>10872143no way, is this really why it works? reminds me of how people talking to plants actually does help them grow because of CO2
>>10869465Hey, don't tell them what to do!
>>10872585This is a disguised /ck/ meme, anon."The [heat-related word] of the [relevant noun] [positive verb]s the [noun in need of the positive verb]"Such as >The heat of the butter cooks the steak
>>10869465>reseat cartridge 5x>nothing>blow in it, against my better judgement>works the 6th timeThis has happened too often for me to take gay pseud advice ever again.>"YOU TOOK YOUR QUEST HEADSET OUTDOORS, DONT YOU KNOW YOURE KILLING THE LENSES OMFG">"OMG I CANT BELIEVE YOU ARE VISITING JAPAN IN THE SUMMER, YOU DO KNOW ITS UNBEARABLE RIGHT">"OMG YOU ARE COOKING WITH OLIVE OIL, YOU DO KNOW IT HAS A LOW SMOKE POINT">"UH ACTUALLY CATS DONT MEOW AT EACH OTHER, THEY ONLY DO IT TO PEOPLE"Makes average spastics feel 20ft tall to parrot shit like this on the internet
>>10873492Yup>buy old gameboy and some carts>all carts get stuck at a garbled nintendo logo>break out compressed air, 91% alcohol, clean the carts and cartridge slot>nothing>clean everything one more time>nothing>take a deep breathe>blow into cart and console>works perfectso what do you suggest then OP
>>10869465Do you mean blowing on cartridges or playing shitty retro games
>>10869465For discs I knew a guy who would smear them in peanut butter or flush them
Game Center CX. Kacho... ON!
>>10873507I've literally never had a Gameboy game not work on the first attempt.
>>10874258I keep my gameboy in the bathroom so it's a little rusty
>>10869465Owner of my local game rental store begged the fuck out of kids to never blow on cartsI then learned to wipe the contacts with a qtip, sometimes with a tiny drop of alcohol
>>10869465Manual said not to blow on the games. So I did not.
>>10870689>hello, yes, i would like to purchase AIR pleaseYes
>>10873492think about it for 1 second, what do you think you're doing when you blow on the cartridge? If your answer is cleaning the contacts you can do that without spitting on it and itll be more effective. Noone is saying it doesn't do anything people are just saying it introduces a bunch of fat nerd spit into the mechanisms
>blow up balloon>stick straw in it>free canned air
>>10876305>pirating air
>>10869489The electrolytes from the ass sweat helped with the contacts.
just directly solder the pins to the console
>>10876557Would this work? I unironically would consider buying a couple hundred NESes and have them professional soldered to individual games if it meant never having to deal with poor connectivity.
>ugggh, don't you know that if you blow in the cartridge then you might have to spend 30 seconds every 50 years wiping the contacts down with some isopropyl?
>>10872667goddamnit
>>10876562Yes but at that point you might as well just put the cartridge in normally, jig it around until it starts right, and then literally never touch it again. Same result less effort.
>>10869610It fucking does over time, so STFUAlso OP is correct, the ideal way to clean them is with isopropyl alcohol
>>10869465I know right? Pissing on the pins was far more effective.
I can't be the only person who licked the pins
>>10877310unironically better than blowing on itblowing gets your saliva all over the pcb components, licking just gets on the pins which are easily fixed no matter how bad you fuck them up
>>10877310>pinsfucking autocorrect
>>10869465I do this everytime I plug in a DWM fiber card that costs more than your car.
Years ago my brother in law in Japan dug out his old super famicom when we were drinking and when the game wouldnt start both him and my wife were surprised and excited (maybe because drunk) when I blew in the cartridge. Apparently they all used to do it as a kid too.So it's a global thing, OP's a faggot. Go die isolated somewhere miserable doublenigger.
>>10869465>I blew on the port instead of the cartridgeswhat does make me
>>10869465I blow on all my cartridges with hot moist breath and then I sell them to retro game resale shops.
>>10872667Doesn't mean it don't work.
>>10869465>so stop doing that shit.No. My rooms are very dusty and I can always clean the contacts properly if it becomes an issue.
>>10877856>what does make meSomebody whose port cover broke off just like mine did.
I know people claim it does nothing, and that simply reinserting the cartridge is what does the trick, but I disagree with this, as blowing has a better success rate than just reinserting it. And isopropyl alcohol does a pretty mediocre job of cleaning anything that's really dirty. I've had some cartridges which no amount of iso fixed, and I indeed had to wind up using a bit of stovetop cleaner to get it to work. Also, Deoxit is great once you clean off some of the grime, especially since it works as a bit of a lubricant, really helpful for things like MVS carts which are notorious for connection problems.
>>10869465>just got an NES game>clean it with qtips dampened with generic glass cleaner on one end, use dry end after to absorb excess cleaner and more gunk>have a front loading nes>blow on inside of cart (quick, sharp bursts, do not spit)>gently wiggle it in so that it just passes the front edge of the slot>nudge the right corner so it has the slightest tilt>press cartridge down in place>power on works first try every time
>>10877884It's great because the cartridges last just long enough to work when the store owners tests them but then the corrosion sets in by the time some dumb faggot buys the plastic crap lol
