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    Bargora, if they're the ones by Player's Edge then I have the one for the NES.

    Cleaning all my carts I discovered the connectors for my copy of Lifeforce are really rusty looking.
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    I know it sounds like a lot of work but I always clean all of my carts. Now I open them all up and clean all the contacts with a white eraser. Before I used Armour all auto glass cleaner. That stuff works amazing as well as working on the outside of carts and the lables.

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    Generally, no. Not unless they won't work until I do.

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    I clean every game I get before testing it. I have always done it this way, it just made sence because some of the games I get have gunk on the cart.
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    I clean everything I find. carts, consoles, CD's, the boxes, whatever. Like a few other have posted I really enjoy making a grubby nasty old system look all shiny and new.

    I'm especially particular about cleaning my NES carts. for some reason those always seem to be the dirtiest. I still have my original NES purchased in 1986 and until I started collecting a few years ago it had never had a used cart in it. it works great and I want to keep it that way so it only get carts with gleaming contacts inserted into it.

    I remove all stickers, markers and whatever crud may be on the stuff. I've got a table (my cleaning station) in my game room fully stocked with all the essentials, q-tips, paper towls, alcohol, bestine, goo gone, Windex, 409, etc.

    it's a pain in the ass sometimes, I feel like I spend more time cleaning stuff than playing it but in the end it's worth it.

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    I agree with Blondie Lover. My Genny is from 1990 and SNES 1994...a big mistake I always made is renting games. I think of it like this: when you have unprotected sex with several people who all have had unprotected sex with several people. That's how VDs spread, people.
    Like with used and rented games that have never been cleaned. (er, in a way) My cartridge slots are dirty no matter how clean my games are now. It's hard to get in there, first of all, and hard to get the dirt out!
    I'm just glad I got a NES with a new 72-pin connector. Those old NES cleaners are hard to come by, it seems.

    Or like ground beef: one hamburger is made up of hundreds of cows, blood and intestinal contimation high...

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