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I recently discovered a couple of individuals mentioning that they used Stabilant 22 on their NES to enhance connectivity and prevent corrosion. Has anyone here used this on their NES's 72 pin connector (or carts), and, have you had success with it?

So I've been poking around the internet a bit for equipment that would do the job for this mod, but have so far been unsuccessful. I've only found things that are 2.54 mm pitch, haven't found any connectors or ribbon cables that sport the 2.5 mm pitch. So I was thinking of a possible alternative, th...

There must be other applications out there for 72 pin connectors...how are famiclones getting ahold of ones that make better connections, for example? I realize it would not be as simple as just slapping one of those on a toaster NES though, since they are vertical. But I thought, is there a such th...

After reading a few other posts on this site, I am beginning to believe I simply destroyed the connectors by cleaning them with an abrasive substance. They have been worn down so they no longer appear gold. I bet that's what's going on. For some reason I have not had this problem with any other cart...

So far, I've actually had pretty good luck with the replacement cartridge connectors I got on eBay - it just tends to get dirty easily. I came up with a simpler cleaning method though... The official NES cleaning kit is this "cart" with a handle, and a funny cardboard thing inside, instea...

~J-@D!~ wrote:

ZomCoder wrote:Someone (I think J0D$I can't remember how to spell it haha)

Is that me?

Yes, I think in a thread in the newbie section I saw you say something about this forum and it inspired me to continue to gush about the forum also so I chose to put said gush in this thread.

I'm fairly convinced at this point the cart itself is the prob. If connection was a problem, the game should be scrambled on start up and it almost never is. It is always in transitions. The screen blanks out, something else is loaded in CHR and in the nametables, and then the scramble happens. And ...

Well, the reason I suspect there's something wrong with the particular cart is *NONE* of my other games have this problem. They all work flawlessly except for this one game (except for Castlevania, which I hear has a bug in the early carts). I have a new 72 pin connector in there which so far is rem...

So, despite what I said in an earlier post, my R.C. Pro Am cart continues to get scrambled. Sometimes it scrambles, sometimes it doesn't. It always happens on a transition, where bankswitching presumably would be occurring. This leads me to believe that the mapper is faulty. I'm considering getting ...

I just realized I lied in my previous post. I did have a teacher early on. When I first got into programming, there was a small computer programming class for kids in my town..I learned how to make simple games in QBasic. I think when I said I didn't have a mentor I actually meant when I started to ...

Someone (I think J0D$I can't remember how to spell it haha) said something in another thread about how great this forum is, and it made me feel like responding but I felt it would be most appropriate in this thread... I've never encountered a group of people on the internet so inviting and tolerant ...

Thanks, Celius! I had read the rule about the BG using the first pattern table and the sprites use the second, and I THOUGHT I had accounted for that, but apparently not---for when I set the correct bits in $2000, it started to work in all 4 emulators that I mentioned.

I found a good tutorial/demo on doing a split screen effect with the MMC3 irq, originally written in nbasic. I used nbasic to translate this to nesasm, and then I hand-translated it to asm6. The demo does not work in Nestopia or Nintendulator, but does work in JNES and FCEUXD. The IRQ routine should...

Ok, that makes sense, thanks. I thought that must be the case. Perhaps some mention of that should be made in mapper docs or on the wiki, newbies might be completely thrown for a loop by that.

I'm having trouble understanding how we can have a PRG block begin at $8000, yet this is also a control register for MMC3 (assuming of course that our ROM specifies MMC3). What am I missing?