Buying used games and not knowing that they don't work.

[hamburgler]

Ever get a game that you bought used and you thought it would work but all of a sudden it diddn't work at all and you get very furious for buying a game that doesn't work.If so, share your stories about the used games you bought and diddn't work at all.

[Quazick]

I once bought a game from a store and it didn't work... LOL

[hamburgler]

Me go sleep now.Me tired. LOL LOL LOL Oops no,me no tired,Me angry. LOL

[maxlords]

I once bought a game from a store and it didn't work... LOL

Strange...the same exact thing happened to me once....

[josekortez]

I just received a Kirby's Avalanche for SNES in the mail today from an Ebay seller. The seller listed the cart as dead, and I understood that, but I thought I could bring it back to life. Just as she said, it doesn't work.

The areas between the gold connections on the chip are green. I cleaned it an alcohol swab and let it dry, but it still doesn't work. Any suggestions?

Whatever the case, I'm keeping the box and instructions. I could trade the cart to Game Stop and put the buck or so credit towards the GC Zelda pre-order, or I could perform CPR on it...

Still, I don't know where it's been...

[robot717]

I bought Final Fantasy Adventure for Gameboy.Shortly after it arrived the battery backup conked out.I plucked it out of my GBA and chucked it across the room while uttering things that can not be printed here.

[Bratwurst]

Yeah.. but the battery can be easily enough replaced. Try my Zelda gameboy cart that won't even boot up. Only brings up a garbled Nintendo bios screen, that's it. Opened the cart up, can't find anything wrong with it for the life of me. At least I got a snap case out of the crummy deal. x_x

[bargora]

I bought a Super Mario 64 for $9.99 used from the video rental joint. I didn't get around to trying it out until two weeks had passed and the receipt had been lost (although with the number of rental stickers on it, there can be no doubt where it came from).

It didn't work. I broke out the cleaning kit and gave it a good going over. It still didn't work. I swore, but refrained from hurling the cart.

The next week, I decided to try cleaning the cart again. This time, it worked! So don't give up on a cart just because a single cleaning doesn't revive it. Give it another try, and then sternly pronounce: "I command you to rise from your grave!"

[Chunky]

ok well i'm not going to say do this, and i'm not going to say I've done this.

but people i know used to put coats of clear nail polish on the carts pins(whatever your word it for them). and take them back to the rental store. They didn't work, the store tried it, later cleaned it a few times.(you really have to do it hard to get this off) IT still failed, and in the trash it would go.

Then they would dumpster dive and there ya go, you got a cart.

[Ruudos]

No, but I bought games that didn't work according to sellers, while they did work after a short clean.

[Happy_Dude]

Recently picked up 13 NES carts for $3 each and NOT 1 WORKS >:(
A friend of mine has a toploader so when I see her next I'll take the paperweights
over and test them. I'm starting to be wary of 2nd hand NES carts :hmm:

[chocobokick]

We bought an Uncharted Waters for SNES at Canton Flea Market in Texas. It wouldn't work, and when Brian took it apart he saw why.
It looked like someone had taken a screwdriver and gouged and scratched the heck out of it, then lovingly put it back together.
Should have let your sister play too I guess, LOL

[ManekiNeko]

I bet Maxlords finds some way to blame Bush for this.
"Bush is so stupid, and ugly, and evil, and uh, smelly, that he makes game cartridges melt when he walks by them! That's why they won't work! Get a refund from Bush! He's got plenty of oil, and he's a big evil Republican, so you know he has enough money to do it!"

JR

[Raedon]

I baught FF7 for the PS1 used several years ago. looked fine not scratched to bad at all.. wouldn't boot. That experience was a catalist for me not buying and collecting cd based games.

[ManekiNeko]

It hasn't stopped me, but I don't blame you a bit for feeling that way, Raedon. Used games on CDs are next to impossible to find in mint, or even working, condition. I've still got a copy of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night that won't play past the first confrontation with Dracula, and needless to say, I find that very aggravating.
Here's to hoping my copy of Final Fantasy Tactics is in better shape. Why the heck did I buy this game when I don't like Square or the later installments of the Final Fantasy series? I guess I just couldn't resist the price. Eight dollars is a steal for that game, even if it is the Greatest Hits pressing.

JR

[CrazyImpmon]

I've bought a few NES games from Funcoland that didn't work like Megaman 4 (rattled too) and Spelunker. No amount 0of TLC would make it work. I only returned Megaman 4 because it was more than a dollar, the other were just blown up.

I also have the 2600 version of Star Wars Arcage game that doesn't work either. (Even opened it (at the expense of an otherwise intact label) and did everything I could think of. Probably got fried before I got it. I'm sure I still have the game and the cart.

[nesman85]

at software etc i bought a quarterback club cart for n64 because it was only 3 bucks, but it didn't work when i got it home. i also got a paperboy nes game that doesn't work in a lot.

[Arqueologia_Digital]

I bought a Pac-Kong for Atari 2600 a few months ago (i said, wow!, it´s horrible but it´s rare!!!), finally, didn´t work and second...was pirate :-( , but finally i sold it for $ 20 :D

[GENESISNES]

i got a few funcoland games over time that didnt work. some of them were fun too

[jhd7]

I won a large lot of NES games on eBay several years ago. The seller said they weren't tested, but how often do NES games go bad? Well, I found out. Over 20 carts wouldn't work. Upon further inspection, I discovered they were intentionally damaged... chips were missing, leads had been cut, and so on. Now whenever I see an auction that says "untested," I'm thinking that the games simply don't work and the seller is trying to cover his ass.

In the 5+ years I've been collecting NES, over 2000 carts have passed through my hands. Only two wouldn't work... and I still have them.

[YoshiM]

Bought Little League Baseball for the NES from Funco. Got it home and the game would play for a few minutes, then the screen would garble. I cleaned it, went through a bunch of cotton swabs and still didn't work. Later when I got the security bit, I popped the cart open and saw why: the contacts were worn away. It was too late to take it back to Funco.

Another Funco tale: bought Populous for the Genesis for $1. Took it home, didn't work. First I thought that it was my deck, as Populous was I believe a non-licenced game at the time (I could be wrong). Took it back to Funco and they tested it on different systems. No go. Oh well.

EB: bought Doom for the N64. Sucker wouldn't boot. Took it back and got an exchange credit.

Other than that, I really never had many problems with buying dead games. The above was about it.