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Cat5 is solid core copper and will break easily with repetitive movement. Old IDE cables are stranded. Easily moved and can handle more abuse. Cat5 is twisted pair, and as long as you leave it twisted, you should be fine as far as noise and interference. IDE is not shielded so I believe Cat5 would h...

Thank you uXe,

This information is very helpful. I will give this a try

Thank you tokumaru, I made the correction.

If I switch them out permanently, can I cause damage to the CPU?

After finally getting my hands on a PAL version of the NES I was surprised by a vew things. I expected the normal cic red blink when attempting to play USA games, but what I didn't expect was the Gamepads from the NTSC versions not to work. I was curious if anybody here might have some insight to th...