Video Game Repair: How To Clean Your Game Cartridges

Those extraordinary great NES, SNES and Atari recreations we as a whole love so much are getting truly old. Most are more than twenty years of age and many weren't too well dealt with by their unique proprietors. Cartridge diversions work with metal connectors and after some time those connectors oxidize and end up unusable. The uplifting news is most cartridge diversions will work with a couple of basic cleaning methods.

Technique #1 Q-Tips and Alcohol. For this strategy you'll require q-tips and liquor. Weaken the liquor with water it utilize a creamer blend of water and liquor. A few people say that you should utilize refined or sanitized water I haven't discovered that this has any genuine effect in cleaning the cartridge. Take the q-tip and dunk it in the liquor at that point move it here and there over the metal contacts inside the cartridge. At that point take a get q-tip and dry the liquor in a similar example. In the event that the q-tip looks grimy, at that point rehash the procedure until the q-tip is generally perfect.

Technique #2 WD-40 or Audio/Video Cleaner. A few cartridges have oxidized to the point where the above system won't work. So then we need to have a go at something somewhat more unforgiving. Rather than liquor we are going to go after a jar of sound/video head cleaner or WD-40. Shower a little sum into the cartridge let it sit for a couple of minutes for the synthetic substances to produce results. At that point take the q-tips and get dry the contacts again going all over each metal contact.

Strategy #3 The Eraser. I haven't ever needed to utilize this strategy as most diversions will work utilizing the over two strategies. Notwithstanding, some swear that this works and I don't see it doing any harm so I'll incorporate it. For this system you'll require a little Security Bit screw driver (you can discover them on ebay) and an elastic eraser. First you'll need to open the cartridge utilizing the screw driver and take out the circuit board from inside. Presently move the eraser all over each metal contact. Clean away any left over eraser buildup. The thought here is that the eraser will go about as a grating specialist and expel some oxidation from the contacts without harming the real metal.

On the off chance that those don't work a few people recommend utilizing metal cleaners, for example, those used to clean old coins and such. I don't recommend this on the grounds that those are unforgiving and could abandon you with a diversion that will never have the capacity to be played again.