genesis help

themadhacker · Post by **themadhacker** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 4:53 pm

I just got a genesis2 at a yard sale. it works, but sometimes a game will freeze. sonic 2 freezes randomly, and had it happen to ms. pacman. sonic1 won't even play. the only thing I can find wrong with it is that the LED is shattered (don't know how it happened, but opened up the case, and there is the LED with most of its plastic missing). so I want to know if a missing LED can cause my freezing problems. I cleaned all the games BTW.

DK · Post by DK » Sat Sep 20, 2008 5:09 pm

Try cleaning out the cart slot. That problem sounds like a bad connection due to a build up of crud on in the cart slot.

themadhacker · Post by **themadhacker** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 5:14 pm

ok then I'll try that.

themadhacker · Post by **themadhacker** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 6:01 pm

I cleaned the cart slot. then i started playing sonic2, got to a save post, and...it freezes. everything gets extremely pixelated, and I can't do anything

demonofaj · Post by **demonofaj** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 11:24 pm

Clean the cartslot using this method: Get a Q-Tip, dip it in rubbing alcohol, and then for each pin, just lightly scrub. A shattered power LED shouldn't hinder a console at all. Hmm, maybe the carts are at fault? Did you buy the carts at the garage sale along with the system?

themadhacker · Post by **themadhacker** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 7:26 am

demonofaj wrote:Clean the cartslot using this method: Get a Q-Tip, dip it in rubbing alcohol, and then for each pin, just lightly scrub. A shattered power LED shouldn't hinder a console at all. Hmm, maybe the carts are at fault? Did you buy the carts at the garage sale along with the system?

that's exactly how I cleaned it. yes I picked the games up from the yard sale, as this is my first and only genesis.

themadhacker · Post by **themadhacker** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 4:37 pm

double post.

It's definitely the genesis. put in another game, and the sam,e thing happened: playing game for ten minutes, then FREEZE! If anyone has had this problem, can you help me fix this?

themadhacker · Post by **themadhacker** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 6:01 pm

anyone? i would like to fix it. if i can't though, I will salvage the cart slot and try to make my radica use cartridges

Ace_1 · Post by **Ace_1** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 6:44 pm

Check the solder under the cartridge slot. It sounds to me like the solder on the cartridge slot is giving way.

themadhacker · Post by **themadhacker** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 6:58 pm

ok then, I'll check

EDIT: all the solder and pins are secure. I just don't feel like going out and buying a new ganesis. oh, and btw, the old owner may have been a bad modder. there are several tiny melt spots around the case that look like a soldering iron could have caused. so I am thinking maybe the old owner tried to replace the LED, and just broke pieces off of it, and then fried part of the mobo with the soldering iron.