Do you shove NES games to the left or to the right?

[Eduardo]

When going into the first NES do you put the cartridge close to the right or left? I saw a youtube video where they talked about putting them in them pushing them to the right but this must be damaging, then banging it three time and pushing it in slowly. Typical NES hocus pocus.

[shopkins]

I put them in and see what happens. Then, if they don't work, I slide them gently a little at a time in either direction, pressing reset with each move to see what happens. Usually works.

[Eduardo]

I stopped pushing them down as soon as I changed the 72 pin connector. now I don't have to shove them in all the way for them to work. Some games have thicker cards I noticed, those are harder to get in there. I try to get them in the center.

[garagesaleking!!]

are you talking about the game tray, or the game itself. I think the black tray naturally moves to the left a little when you push it down by design to lock it down. As far as games I just push them straight in, to me its more about how tight or loose they are.

[dreamcaster]

I put it in a top loader.

[Eduardo]

I dont use the top loader because I dont have it connected. I like the dance with the old one. I mean when you lay it on the tray to align it to the left or the right.

[BetaWolf47]

I use whatever works. If you remove the RF shield, you can move the game even more :D

[MASTERWEEDO]

I also use a Toploader

[Zing]

I never cared unless the game didn't work for some reason. My NES rarely had the blinking problem up until my friend "lost" it sometimes around 1999.

[Oldskool]

I have a toaster. It also has a new 72 pin connector. I just slide it in, push it down, and it works. I don't leave it up, I don't put it in on one side - none of that stuff. It works the way it did on Christmas morning of 1987.

[Eduardo]

The guy who sold me the 72 pin connector (8 bit kid, great guy!) told to just leave it up since it doesn't need to go down and pushing it down is what bends the pins.

[burn_654]

I've noticed that different (toaster-style) nes systems have different sweet spots. One of mine is dead center, but the other is achieved by nudging the cartridge a bit to the left after you've pushed it down. It's not even a big amount, but it gets most of my games running within one or two tries (this is with the lockout chip.) I compare it to knowing weird quirks of an old car - things are going to be different. Gotta have the touch.

Bear in mind that neither of my current nes systems have had their connectors replaced (although the one may have before I owned it.) so mileage may vary. But I believe in the nudge to the right or left having made a big enough difference for me.

[dnehthend]

dead center pulled out as far as it can be with the pins barely touching :hmm:

[Oldskool]

The guy who sold me the 72 pin connector (8 bit kid, great guy!) told to just leave it up since it doesn't need to go down and pushing it down is what bends the pins.

Yeah maybe, I just like using it the way it was meant to be used so I push it down. To me it's just odd playing a game with it in the up position, my friend used to do that and it just seemed weird.

[Eduardo]

I think they just added the push down feature to make it feel like a VCR. Pushing it down is not necessary for it to work. It just stresses the pins. I verified it with all my games, they dont need to be pushed down.

[Arkhan]

I just slam it in however, as hard as I can, and if the game doesnt work I kick the NES down the stairs and cry about it on youtube.

[lazyhoboguy]

Every game seems to start up differently in my NES. I just move the Cartridge around it hit reset a bunch until I see any flashes of life.

[Enigmus]

I repositioned the bottom pins on my NES's original connector, but when it didn't have rebent pins, I didn't do the shoving thing because I think that might screw up the pins even more. I just tapped or lightly shaked the NES, it made them work fine after I cut the NES10.