Yeah, the spring loaded cart slot is such a pain. look at the master system. It is just a regular cart slot, and i have never had any problem with an SMS, and have never seen one that didnt work. If nintendo had'nt tried to hard to make the thing look like a VCR, maybe it wouldn't be so hard to find one that actually works. and yeah, i guess i cant blame them, it would have been hard to sell an actual game machine after the 2600 market crash (so they made the carts huge like tapes and the system like a VCR) but why did poor canada have to suffer? Canada didnt have a video game market crash, and we got american systems with spring loaded slots that never work. what did canadians do to deserve that? Japan got nice famicoms that have no moving parts and always work. they never had a market crash.

anyways, im ranting. my point is, consoles with no moving parts usually work, sony systems shatter in the slightest breeze, and out of all the disk-based systems, the Saturn and gamecube are BY FAR the toughest. the gamecube, as you can see by numerous you-tube videos of console smashing and dragging behind cars, is near indestructable, and i swear a could park my car on top of my saturn and kick it around for days and then go play Sega Rally on it. that thing is amazing. sadly, that wasnt the case with the dreamcast. those things are weak

and im ranting again.