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AdventWolf on 22 July 2009

I'm not sure, when I was looking for a used NES I occasionally saw brand new ones on eBay if you want to do that.
Are you gonna get a regular NES or top loader?



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sguy78 on 22 July 2009
AdventWolf said:
I'm not sure, when I was looking for a used NES I occasionally saw brand new ones on eBay if you want to do that.
Are you gonna get a regular NES or top loader?

The original NES.



The Ghost of RubangB on 23 July 2009

What the top loading NES gains in top loading, it loses in not having stereo audio output. Original is the way to go.



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AdventWolf on 23 July 2009

Yea the original also looks better on screen, it is really colorful and it sounds better.
As long as you take good care of it and clean the pin often, it will be a good system.



sguy78 on 23 July 2009

If I wanted one of the remakes, I might as well just get an emulator anyway. It's just not the same.



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AdventWolf on 23 July 2009

You talking about the the top loader? there is an official Nintendo top loader, and there are unofficial cheap ones.



wiifan75 on 23 July 2009
The Ghost of RubangB said:
Well I know with the NES the only part that actually goes bad is the 72-pin connector, which can corrode after a decade or two if people are blowing in their games or putting rubbing alcohol or water inside them without drying them. You can get any old crappy NES (that at least turns on) and replace the 72-pin connector really easily, quickly, and cheaply. I did it myself and I know absolutely nothing about electronics. You unscrew some stuff, swap it like LEGO, and screw some stuff back on. Or if you buy one of the refurbished NES's off eBay, somebody just replaced the 72-pin connector and now it's as good as new.

I didn't realize this.  Thanks for the info in here.  I'll be getting my NES going again by the end of the year.  Now what about controller repairs?  I wonder what storage my old games are in?  I'll have them out for the holidays.  Go old school with my brother like when we pull out our atari system.  But newer if that makes since.



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O-D-C on 23 July 2009
The Ghost of RubangB said:
Well I know with the NES the only part that actually goes bad is the 72-pin connector, which can corrode after a decade or two if people are blowing in their games or putting rubbing alcohol or water inside them without drying them. You can get any old crappy NES (that at least turns on) and replace the 72-pin connector really easily, quickly, and cheaply. I did it myself and I know absolutely nothing about electronics. You unscrew some stuff, swap it like LEGO, and screw some stuff back on. Or if you buy one of the refurbished NES's off eBay, somebody just replaced the 72-pin connector and now it's as good as new.

Or you can take a NES or a SNES, mail them to Nintendo, and they'll factory clean them for you and mail them back.

But my 2 SNES's still work perfectly, and one of them even got urinated on by a drunk idiot who was sleepwalking.

I'm not too sure if Sega's still crazy enough to support 20 year old hardware, but Nintendo definitely does.

Good luck! I still need to get a Genesis and a Sega CD when I get some money.

wait Nintendo will factory clean their old consoles?

if thats so Im sending in my NES and SNES in tomorrow, get em all shiny looking.