Quote Originally Posted by Dashopepper View Post
I was playing Pokemon Stadium 2 with my niece when after about 45 minutes of play there starts a grumbling distortion of the sound that grew louder and then the game froze. It literately sounded like it was blowing up. So now the cart is completely dead. Pins are clean, cart is in immaculate condition. Anyone know what might be wrong or have it happen to them? I opened it up, one capacitor and a couple resistors, those ever go bad? Any place to start would help.
Sadly I am not surprised, that game seems to die all the time along with a small number of others, usually Ocarina of Time, Super Smash. The usual culprit is hairline cracking of the board near the black plastic piece. N64 games have a stiffer design than other carts and fail this way fairly often, usually I swap the rom chips into a donor junk game, but this one doesn't have any compatible donors.