Jagasian
06-02-2005, 10:12 AM
Official NES carts have contacts that are roughly .045" thick, yet some carts, typically the unlicensed ones, use a contact thickness of .063". Carts that are known to use a thicker contact are: Codemasters games, the Game Genie, and the MIDINES 1.0. Using these carts will bend your toaster NES's 72-pin connector out of shape. Since they are thicker than the official carts, they will loosen the 72-pin connector enough to make it unable to properly grip your official NES carts which are thinner, at .045". So there was a grain of truth in those statements that Nintendo made about unlicensed carts damaging your NES. I always thought that they were full of it, but maybe they were referring to the carts' contact thickness issue.
One solution that some people have is to always use a Game Genie, but there are drawbacks to this. One of which is that there are games which do not run correctly through a Game Genie. A better solution would be to have two toaster NES's: one that you only use official thickness carts in and the other that you only use unofficial thickness carts in. Of course, this necessitates two NES's, which is a big drawback.
Maybe somebody could make a short passive adapter that goes from the too thick .063" to 0.45". Then the adapter would only need to be used on unofficial carts, so that these carts don't stretch the 72-pin connector out of shape. Either that or make an adapter that goes the other way, so that people with connectors that are already stretched out of shape can still use their official thickness boards. Does anybody know if such adapters already exist?
Anyway, it is something to be aware of, and along with not cleaning their carts and 72-pin connector, helps explain why so many people with toaster NES's have problems.
One solution that some people have is to always use a Game Genie, but there are drawbacks to this. One of which is that there are games which do not run correctly through a Game Genie. A better solution would be to have two toaster NES's: one that you only use official thickness carts in and the other that you only use unofficial thickness carts in. Of course, this necessitates two NES's, which is a big drawback.
Maybe somebody could make a short passive adapter that goes from the too thick .063" to 0.45". Then the adapter would only need to be used on unofficial carts, so that these carts don't stretch the 72-pin connector out of shape. Either that or make an adapter that goes the other way, so that people with connectors that are already stretched out of shape can still use their official thickness boards. Does anybody know if such adapters already exist?
Anyway, it is something to be aware of, and along with not cleaning their carts and 72-pin connector, helps explain why so many people with toaster NES's have problems.