• Psythik@lemmy.world
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      14 hours ago

      Same, except for the Genesis as well. The N64 was extremely reliable. Games always booted on the first attempt and never crashed.

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      Yeah same but we were hooked on some crap. Breathing heavily on the cartridges does what: introduces moisture. Maybe we were destroying our games in the long term. We did feel like we got immediate results.

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        The NES was the only one that had defective connector design because of the side loading mechanism of the US console.

        Top loading consoles NEVER needed that. I played hundreds of games across multiple top-loading consoles and never once had one not start up IMMEDIATELY the first time.

        Anybody who was blowing in their SNES/N64 cartridges was insane.

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              16 hours ago

              It helped in the sense that it got us to remove and reinsert the cartridge. However I blew into my cartridges up to N64 and would even smack them against my palm.