[Video Tutorial]How to clean game cartridge's

Includes but not limited to: SNES, Genesis, Sega CD, PlayStation 1, Nintendo 64, Dreamcast, Game Gear and I guess the Virtual Boy.

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[Video Tutorial]How to clean game cartridge's

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I made an easy to follow tutorial on how to clean game cartridges on youtube.
This can be used for any cartridge based games, but in this video I show you n64 games.
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Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrGFgpTsWQI
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Or just open the cart up, and use a pencil eraser like I do, to lift off the dirt and shine the traces - fast, effective and virtually free...
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Im sorry, bit I'm sure that like every videogame knows this. I used to do the SAME trick back in the NES days.
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HotDog-Cart wrote:Im sorry, bit I'm sure that like every videogame knows this. I used to do the SAME trick back in the NES days.
But some might not :P
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nope. I'm pretty sure everyone knows.
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collinE wrote:nope. I'm pretty sure everyone knows.
No, I think everyone just knows the blow on them trick. Not really cleaning them is better.
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Don't use 70% alcohol. It can leave a residue on the pins. Use 90% or higher. Denatured Alcohol works great. A regular electronics cleaner works even better.
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Where I live it's very hard to get 90% but 70% works fine for me. Never tried denatured. I have a friend who has some trouble with his SNES- he uses aerosol contact cleaner.
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Try a pencil eraser! :wink:
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That's usually only for us hackers who have a gamebit though. But still if you have on then go for it, I'll have to try that.
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