NES PPU question (NES-101 top loader)

[Niku-Sama]

how hot, if at all hot should the RP2C02G-0 get in a top loader.

i finally got one and its not working, i knew it wasn't working but to me it sounded like there was some feedback during games and some static on screen BUT...

games wont boot at all, i get a random flicker of colors, rarely any pattern but nothing pertaining to the game at all and i notice when i tap around the area with the pot above the reset button it kinda changes a bit, i think i am causing it with the tapping but it could be that its flickering to different colors so rapidly it just looks like i am doing it. and the ppu gets HOT. burning hot and i have a high tolerance, change oil on cars after they have been running in the summer tolerance for touching hot objects HOT.

cart is getting a good connection, it had some plastic chunks in the cart slot i got out and made sure the pins were ok, nothing too damaged, one was a bit bent out of the way but i was able to bend it back.

i'm thinking dead PPU or dying but i thought i would double check before i went and yarded one from a broken toaster

[Niku-Sama]

Welp this is exactly what mine is doing so i think i have my answer

https://youtu.be/sECekipX2EY

Maybe some ram too but i have tons of that

[Niku-Sama]

ok so I got this on the ebays
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that was the price after shipping, and its in good shape, no chipping some pits on the plastic on one of the corners like it was dropped on a coarse surface (like cement or what evs) but clean. thought the posting on ebay said it had noise on screen during games but played games still....



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nope

so I pulled it apart

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again still very clean, the cart connector was pretty crusty but I managed to get the shielding off of it and clean it up some and a bit o polish and there it be, lookin better.

then came the post about the PPU, I noticed it was hot but what I didn't notice until I watched game techs video is how fast it got hot. it goes from zero to scalding in under 2 minutes. and then after watching his video about the ppu and it giving the same exact screen....


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it was simple really, if I had waited and diaged it a bit more and noticed how hot how fast the PPU got then it would have been a no brainer. but instead I lost all patience and asked dumb questions.

I socketed the PPU because maybe, hopefully, in the near future i'll get a NES RGB kit from etim. maybe if I have any money left after PRGE