I crapped out and got a Retron 2, it works fine but I might work more on rejuvenating my original NES cuz I've had the same issues. The toploader sounds more reliable, cuz all my other toploading systems have never given me problems, even my Colecovision works fine, but they're expensive, harder to find, and they only support RF. When I was a kid I used to play my NES games in RF, and then I didn't care, but since switching to AV cables, never again