Top loading nes

[dukenukem]

Just recieved my top loading nes which is pretty cool but i notice it's very finicky with playing games.If i hold the reset button before powering it on then it will boot games but if i don't it takes a few times to get a game to boot.Any one else with a top loadeing nes have similar problems?

[jdheins]

i have two that work perfectly, i'm guessing it's got something wrong with it, you might take it apart to see if anything is loose

[jrokshady]

Compared to the older model it is a masterpiece of reliability. The only problem I've ever had with the newer NES is that it doesn't work with the Game Genie.

[Gamingking]

I can't stand the lines in the screen on my top loader. Thats why I plan on getting a AV mod done soon.

[thegamezmaster]

I've got two and love them. Until I can get around to doing an a/v mod that will take care of all video problems, what I did was get out an old vcr with great video circuitry and put an rf to rca plug on the antenna rf in and then ran a rca 3 male cable to my a/v switcher. RCA had yellow, white and red male tips on both ends and the picture looks great. No lines or interference on the picture at all. A quick and easy fix for now. Just a suggestion to do if you have the things just lying around till you can do the a/v mod. You can also use the RF Switch if you don't have the other stuff. Good luck.

[Satoshi_Matrix]

Just recieved my top loading nes which is pretty cool but i notice it's very finicky with playing games.If i hold the reset button before powering it on then it will boot games but if i don't it takes a few times to get a game to boot.Any one else with a top loadeing nes have similar problems?

First and formost, give the thing a through clean. The NES-101 is far more reliable than the NES-001 toaster, but you gotta make sure it's clean. Take a clean cotton t-shirt and a thin flat-head screwdriver or creditcard and jam it into the cartridge connector and move around slightly. You should be able to get out a lot of dust and other gunk. That should solve your problem. If not, take it apart and look for grounding issues. All the reset button is is a power interrupt switch that takes the 5v needed to run the games and throws it to ground, which is pretty much everywhere on the edges of the NES-101.



Compared to the older model it is a masterpiece of reliability. The only problem I've ever had with the newer NES is that it doesn't work with the Game Genie.

Check out my video where I address this very problem:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei03NX7w7cE



I can't stand the lines in the screen on my top loader. Thats why I plan on getting a AV mod done soon.

For sure. Like disabling the NES10 in a NES toaster, putting a custom dashboard on an original Xbox or installing a modchip in any model PS2, there's really no reason to suffer with the design limitations of the hardware when solutions to enhance the system are so easy and readily available.

[BetaWolf47]

Meh, I never mod any of my systems. I'll do maintenance if something is broken to begin with, like N64 analog sticks.

By the way, if you force the Game Genie into a toploader without any kind of adapter, it will work. It'll be nearly impossible to get out though. I can't imagine it being good for the system though!

[Satoshi_Matrix]

Don't do that. Forcing a GG into a toploader is extremely hard on the pin connectors. Unless the idea of desoldering and resoldering 72 individual pins sounds like fun, never force anything into your NES-101 that won't fit.

[hawk1234]

I recently bought a top loading nes. When I turn on the system with any game in it all that appears on my screen is a completely gray screen. What's wrong with my top loader? Is it fixable? Why does only a gray screen appear.

[Satoshi_Matrix]

Clean it. The cartridge connector is probably very dirty. Also clean your games. Use an old cotton shirt + thin flathead screwdriver or creditcard with 99% Isopropanol alcohol. You'll see visible dirt removed and deposited on the cotton shirt. That's what you DON'T want in your retro console!

[Aussie2B]

The toploader may be far more reliable than the standard NES, but it's not some magical piece of technology that's 100% flawless like people make it out to be. It's no different from any other top-loading cartridge-based system like SNES, Genesis, N64, etc., and just as those may sometimes not play a game on the first try, the toploader is no different. Even with my toploader and all of my NES games being clean, they still sometimes take a few tries before they work.