SNES technical trouble!

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People did that to steal from rental stores, rent a good game and switch the board with some crap that they personally own. The asshole is whoever owns a Load Runner 3D cart with Majora's Mask in it. I have no idea how they weren't found out and charged for the carts, you'd think it would be found out pretty quickly by whoever rents it next.

I had a similar experience myself recently, I found a copy of Top Gear 3000 for the SNES but when I put it in up booted Super Metroid. It worked a bit better in my favour but I already had a copy of Super Metroid in the proper case so I didn't need this one.

I actually had this happen to me with a copy of Turtles Tournament Fighter for the SNES when I was about 13 (the store didn't even believe me when I returned it and actually opened a new SNES just to test it). It had a copy of Home Alone stuffed inside (woo-hoo )

What really struck me as fucked up is the twisted cap to keep the damned thing from even working. That's actually "smart" thinking on the part of the jackass that did that. It woulda been obvious that the boards were switched if he had let that be, but twisting the cap makes the game simply appear defective to 99% of the population, including the rental store that would NEVER go through the trouble of opening it, let alone know what the actual problem was if they did. So, the guy who did it doesn't appear to have done anything to purposefully swindle anyone, but rather just be the last guy to rent the cart before it inexplicably died. Crafty, but still a HUGE a-hole.

That's why I think whoever did this to the Zelda cart twisted the cap, then they could return it complaining it didn't work, the store would test it and nothing would come on the screen thus getting them another rental. Also it would put more suspicion on the previous renter of the game.

I found a picture that I took of the board with the twisted cap.

Exactly. The thing is, none of the employees at a rental shop give a shit about a defective cart, even the managers. It doesn't come out their paychecks, so why fuss over it. Plus, I imagine a lot of carts died after so many rentals. It's not like these things are well taken care of. Take a look at a rental DVD/disc-based game. They're very often beat to shit.

I meant if the rubbing alcohol doesn't work, I'll drown my sorrow in vodka.

Hahahahahaha! Sounds like a good plan to me