00:02 Its genuinely heartwarming that Kaylin emoting "Most Upset" bubbles up as joyful laughter! I love that and don't ever want that to change. The rest of us tryhard grumps would rage and be in a bad mood all day after finding a scratched disc. Kaylin is doing it the right way.
Love this content so much, I could watch hours of you clean,repair and replace video game systems. It's also calming to see how gentle and thorough you were.
9:14 Those internals look ancient. Wikipedia said the original NES Ricoh CPU was manufactured at 6,000 nanometers. That is crazy. Current computer CPUs are at 3-6nm which is 1,000x-2,000x smaller. Another thing I read on Wiki that is crazy is there has been almost no inflation in Japan over the last 40 years. It said Famicom cost 14k yen in 1983 which is equal to 19k yen in 2019. That is only like 40 percent inflation over 36 years. In the same timeline U.S. currency inflated by about 350 percent based on median income over that period going from 20k to 68k. It is probably actually closer to 500 percent based on how much everything cost just for living expenses.
For about 30 years after WW2; the Japanese economy was propped up by the U.S. Now they are a extremely prosperous Same with S.Korea. That's what happens when countries wisely spend the money we handout.
@@thepropcollet To be fair, Japan has a history of needing to be self-sufficient due to how hard it could be engaging in trade. Anytime the Chinese Emperor closed the border, it got extremely difficult to conduct trade outside of the country, there's really only a few countries that are near enough to them to make trade particularly practical.
So many great NES games. I loved most of the obvious. Zelda, Mario 3, Contra, Kirby, etc. One of the more obscure games I super loved was Cobra Triangle!
It's not a bad job, but I would have applied some dielectric grease to the motherboard connection, just to ensure that no moisture got in there to corrode the board. I saw a Super Famicom one time that was almost completely rusted out inside.
I saw the NES zapper in the background. I used to love the NES Zapper when I was a kid. I can remember playing duck hunt and holding the zapper close to the television
Those were great, I also loved the NES Power Pad that encouraged kids to exercise while playing their NES. It's just a shame that the necessary work to emulate the interlacing doesn't seem to be a thing so that the NES Zapper will work on TVs that aren't of the CRT variety.
Yes, a store might be able to justify buying a disc resurfacing machine, although most stores would just refuse to buy the game if it appears to have a bad surface.
You guys are awesome! Please keep it coming. I'm new here, and old, but I dig the passion. I can tell you guys care, and your commenters seem to feel it as well. Good luck young ladies, I am impressed.
That disc was either used as a toy to throw around or the owners pet had fun with it and used it as a chew toy. My Nintendo Entertainment System had the cartridge issues. I took it apart and fixed it and I'm happy that you show how to do it so more gamers can fix their NES to keep on gaming and have fun. Cool video. ^_^
@@SmallSpoonBrigade That's great. I love that after all of these years the community is working together to keep these wonderful retro games alive. ^_^
@@supersmallchibiwolf872 Yep, and it appears to be quite affordable when you consider the cost of just the regular 72 pin replacement being about a quarter the cost of the kid. And, it looks like I've finally been able to source a replacement cart slot for my Game Gear, so one of those will go in the GG and the other into the cart reader. They aren't even canabalized out of other units, so my GG Game Genie can sigh a breath of relief.
Awesome tutorial! Only things I would recommend is when putting screws back in, twist them backwards a bit till u hear a soft click the screw them in. That way you are using the threads allready in the plastic and not creating new ones. Also, those deeper scuffs might come out with a magic eraser!
Upon taking one of these apart, long ago, I found some weed hidden in the bottom in the secret compartment on the bottom for the not used expansion port
0:10 What the hell did they do this poor Wii game? 😨😧 The N.E.S. [especially older consoles] get worn out over time, and seeing you fixing, cleaning, and bringing back the NES Console to its former glory just makes me happy 😊 My favorite NES games beside Super Mario Bros are: Mega Man 1 - 3 Ninja Gaiden Contra More video game console restoration videos please! 😁😄😃😀
Never knew what was inside of the nes until now. It's pretty much like a big game chip. Favorite nes game would have to be Batman...beat it several times when I was a kid. Loved the wall jump, and the Joker boss.
maybe not a drill but there are electric screwdrivers with clutches that can definately make the job a lot faster and not run any risk of ruining or stripping anything.
Coheed and Cambria, and ELP at riverside, but YES at the riverside was my favorite, you didn't ask, but I jumped to that. Hope the Hawthorne Heights concert was awesome?!
One of my favorites is Life Force, because that was the first game I bought with my own money when I finally broke my dad down in getting a NES 'for the family'. I remember examining the different box art for way too long in the 'world of Nintendo' section at Caldor. That enough 80s references for ya? lol It was a really cool shooter for its time. Then Bionic Commando and Adventures of Bayou Billy are some early notables besides the obvious Zeldas and Marios.
Not commenting my favourite NES game... But seeing you said loving puzzle games, what's a couple favourites aside Clu Club Land? Some I love are Gravity on DS, Mercury PSP, Gluf Megadrive, Kurushi PS1, Shift Extended on PSP, QIX arcade, and on PS3 King Oddball and Tennis in the face 👌
Super Mario Bros. 2 was my childhood favorite video game of owning a major gaming console the NES! Because, my Game Boy Color requires newer batteries after so many long gaming hours!
A couple things, one if you're going to go to the trouble of replacing the pins, it's worth smearing some dielectric grease to the motherboard side of the connection, the pin connector is something that can be manufactured again, and I'm fairly sure the one you're using is new, but the motherboard side is pretty much irreplaceable without getting one of those new opentendo boards and taking the risks associated with moving some of those chips to the new one. The other thing, is that I don't think it's actually necessary to press the cart down, if you look at the mechanism, it's already connected the moment you push it in, the downward press was just a marketing thing. I personally press mine down, because the pins are bad and in order to judge how far to push the cart in, I need to push it just far enough to barely clear the case. One of these days, I'll replace the current mechanism with one of those nintendo drawers, but I do all my NES gaming on a Mister FPGA, so that's not a high priority item.
Maybe this is what I needed to save the old family NES ... I've been dealing with cameras for a few years now, so this might be easier than I was worried about.
I couldn't name any of their songs, but I was grade school/high school friends with one of the band members of Hawthorne Heights. Hope you had a good time!
Nintendo always instructed, or people always understood to press down the cart, so whenever I used a Game Genie, it was "magic" that the game would play not being pushed down. With a replacement 72-pin that I installed in my system back in 2012, I was able to just insert carts (with some more force than the old pin connector) without pressing down.
Nintendo pushed that view because they wanted the NES to be more VCR-like to distance itself from the Atari and other home consoles. It's not required to push it down and if you look at the connector, the pins are connected as long as you've pushed the cart back far enough to make connection. VCRs definitely weren't common at the time, but they were around and people had some awareness of them.
i remember when i first took apart my nes to clean it. it looked so overwhelming at first and i watch lie 6 different videos about disassembling the nes. after taking it apart i boiled the 72 pin connector and deep cleaned the nes and after that taking them apart now it was easy.
Oh the days when everything wasn't glued or "snap-shut" together and everything was serviceable. I remember modding my original first edition PS1 so it could play, ahem, "otherwise acquired" games. took about 15 minutes with soldering. That PS1 lasted me 10 years and would have lasted longer if I didn't have to get rid of it due to moving country.
Last time I had to fix a console, I was looking up FAQs online on how to replace a Laser for an O.G. PS2 b/c it stopped reading the discs... Regular Maintenance saves you money down the road, no matter the system.
Have you ever tried repositioning the pins on the original connector using a pick or similar tool? There will never be new connectors that are produced as good as the originals. All the ones I've come across the pins feel dangerously tight when inserting a cart or they just suffer from flimsy overall construction.
I always liked using the game genie to bypass a loose pin connector. You can't really use the genie then because the screen is messed up but it allows The actual game to have a great connection.
I bought a very cheap Nintendo NES system for cheap but I already know that I'll have to do this.. Going to watch several videos and get ready as it is waiting a door as my NES system was missing a door and I can't tell you how filthy it was when I got it ..but it was $55 bucks before taxes.
I would have gently scraped a toothpick between the main plastic plates of the controller (to loosen built up palm gunk) before proceeding with the toothbrush, or does that put wear on the plastic, thus potentially allowing moisture inside the controller? Yikes, I didn't know the Shop Mouse hung with Shrews bubbling lord know what in large black cauldrons in the dead of night, lol.
BW100 can help if you don't wanna take apart your controllers, but you should. Tobi is true on that, keep your stuff clean. Learn and take care. Simple Green is like WD-40's anti. Just looked up Hawthorne Heights, how did I miss this.
Yes, and if you look into the unit while you push down on the slot, you can see that it's not connected tot he back. And from the video, you can see that there's no pivoting to the pins. All you're doing by pushing it down is increasing the likelihood that the pins will get bent. Hence all the issues with having to remove and reseat carts. Eventually you'd do it enough times that you'd get the cart in correctly to make contact.
00:02 Its genuinely heartwarming that Kaylin emoting "Most Upset" bubbles up as joyful laughter! I love that and don't ever want that to change. The rest of us tryhard grumps would rage and be in a bad mood all day after finding a scratched disc. Kaylin is doing it the right way.
When things were simple 😊 no fans no hard drives no updating just a simple motherboard and connectors gotta love the 8 bit days of the late 80s ❤
YOU WILL HAVE E.T AND LIKE IT
That's cool you take the time to clean and replace parts of the old NESs and you're not just a flea market for stuff. Keep up the good work.
A segment with THE shop 🐀! This is a good one
I love this shop! Wish it was next door 😄
💙
Ikr? Would love to live in close distance. Maybe one day if I vacation in Florida I can visit the shop and bar
@@cluelessdrifter9881I live in Florida and it’s still too far away.. 😐
Hell, I wish I knew where it was. I'd go traveling to check it out. I'm sure it would be worth the trip
@@jtoast Umm just go to the link in their channel description
Double Dragon II is probably my all time favorite just because its short and sweet. Also the music and gameplay is so good.
Love this content so much, I could watch hours of you clean,repair and replace video game systems. It's also calming to see how gentle and thorough you were.
9:14 Those internals look ancient. Wikipedia said the original NES Ricoh CPU was manufactured at 6,000 nanometers. That is crazy. Current computer CPUs are at 3-6nm which is 1,000x-2,000x smaller. Another thing I read on Wiki that is crazy is there has been almost no inflation in Japan over the last 40 years. It said Famicom cost 14k yen in 1983 which is equal to 19k yen in 2019. That is only like 40 percent inflation over 36 years. In the same timeline U.S. currency inflated by about 350 percent based on median income over that period going from 20k to 68k. It is probably actually closer to 500 percent based on how much everything cost just for living expenses.
For about 30 years after WW2; the Japanese economy was propped up by the U.S. Now they are a extremely prosperous Same with S.Korea. That's what happens when countries wisely spend the money we handout.
@@thepropcollet To be fair, Japan has a history of needing to be self-sufficient due to how hard it could be engaging in trade. Anytime the Chinese Emperor closed the border, it got extremely difficult to conduct trade outside of the country, there's really only a few countries that are near enough to them to make trade particularly practical.
So many great NES games. I loved most of the obvious. Zelda, Mario 3, Contra, Kirby, etc. One of the more obscure games I super loved was Cobra Triangle!
Love seeing the care and attention you folks take. Keep up the great vids. Best from Aotearoa! 🥝
It's not a bad job, but I would have applied some dielectric grease to the motherboard connection, just to ensure that no moisture got in there to corrode the board. I saw a Super Famicom one time that was almost completely rusted out inside.
I saw the NES zapper in the background. I used to love the NES Zapper when I was a kid. I can remember playing duck hunt and holding the zapper close to the television
Those were great, I also loved the NES Power Pad that encouraged kids to exercise while playing their NES.
It's just a shame that the necessary work to emulate the interlacing doesn't seem to be a thing so that the NES Zapper will work on TVs that aren't of the CRT variety.
All-time favorite NES game is Bubble Bobble. I _still_ have that tune stuck in my head.
Nothing makes me happier then keeping gaming alive. Great job on the nes and cleaning on the ps4 controllers. Also look at that Saturn inventory.
Yes, a store might be able to justify buying a disc resurfacing machine, although most stores would just refuse to buy the game if it appears to have a bad surface.
Duck Tales was my favorite and then BAM, you were testing the Duck Tales game! I’m making a trip to your shop!
Duck Tales 2 is even better
You guys are awesome! Please keep it coming. I'm new here, and old, but I dig the passion. I can tell you guys care, and your commenters seem to feel it as well. Good luck young ladies, I am impressed.
Great video. Enjoyable and informative. Would love to see more vids like this and restoration projects.
We’ve got more on the way!
So glad i came across this channel recently. Already one of my favourite's! 👍
0:10 wow the DJ played that disc like Plok ! 😂💥👊
If I'm ever down in FL I'll definitely come by your shop! Love these videos, keep it up!
I see these videos, and it kinda makes me wanna road trip from Colorado to Florida just to shop for all the nostalgia!
Thank you for making these videos. Watching your videos is very calming to me.
That disc was either used as a toy to throw around or the owners pet had fun with it and used it as a chew toy. My Nintendo Entertainment System had the cartridge issues. I took it apart and fixed it and I'm happy that you show how to do it so more gamers can fix their NES to keep on gaming and have fun. Cool video. ^_^
💙💙💙
@@RadJunk ^_^
There's also a new NES drawer available for purchase that should be a lot more durable. From what I understand, it should be a lot more durable.
@@SmallSpoonBrigade That's great. I love that after all of these years the community is working together to keep these wonderful retro games alive. ^_^
@@supersmallchibiwolf872 Yep, and it appears to be quite affordable when you consider the cost of just the regular 72 pin replacement being about a quarter the cost of the kid. And, it looks like I've finally been able to source a replacement cart slot for my Game Gear, so one of those will go in the GG and the other into the cart reader. They aren't even canabalized out of other units, so my GG Game Genie can sigh a breath of relief.
I've learned so much about caring for console from you all. I love the cleaning videos.
Cleaning consoles is so satisfying.
I’ll take all the old oem pin connectors you pull out!
They shall live again.
Im really loving the how-to DIY for repairs content.
Thanks for pointing out the lip. I've seen a lot of people put them back incorrectly.
It’s definitely tricky at first!
I'm jealous, your shop mouse seems dope. My shop mice just destroy things and poop everywhere.
Awesome tutorial! Only things I would recommend is when putting screws back in, twist them backwards a bit till u hear a soft click the screw them in. That way you are using the threads allready in the plastic and not creating new ones.
Also, those deeper scuffs might come out with a magic eraser!
Love the Hawthorne heights shirt, I’ll guess you saw them recently
Upon taking one of these apart, long ago, I found some weed hidden in the bottom in the secret compartment on the bottom for the not used expansion port
Score!
The ol’ stayin’ up late for a concert and then going to work the next day-one of my favorite pastimes 🎸
0:10 What the hell did they do this poor Wii game? 😨😧
The N.E.S. [especially older consoles] get worn out over time, and seeing you fixing, cleaning, and bringing back the NES Console to its former glory just makes me happy 😊
My favorite NES games beside Super Mario Bros are:
Mega Man 1 - 3
Ninja Gaiden
Contra
More video game console restoration videos please! 😁😄😃😀
i've done this to a nes before!! it made a BIG difference! much love!
"Between the future and the past tennnssee....lies the present in the distannncceeee." 🤘🤘🤘
Low-G-Man is my all-time fav NES game. And that's a game I've never heard anyone else talk about. Captain Skyhawk is high on my list too, though.
My favorite NES game is Little Nemo Dreammaster. Love the concept, the gameplay, the music. Still haven’t beaten the last level.
DID SOMEONE EAT THAT DISC?!
But it's always great to see someone take restoration steps like this. I could learn something.
Never knew what was inside of the nes until now. It's pretty much like a big game chip. Favorite nes game would have to be Batman...beat it several times when I was a kid. Loved the wall jump, and the Joker boss.
maybe not a drill but there are electric screwdrivers with clutches that can definately make the job a lot faster and not run any risk of ruining or stripping anything.
Coheed and Cambria, and ELP at riverside, but YES at the riverside was my favorite, you didn't ask, but I jumped to that. Hope the Hawthorne Heights concert was awesome?!
Ah, always cool to see old machines saved like this.
I just want more videos of anything honestly. Cleaning, customizing or even just throw up a retro play through.
I could listen to your voice all day lol. Chill vibes.
wait this is my new favorite channel
I love this shop so much! I wish it was next door I'd go there all the time 😄
One of my favorites is Life Force, because that was the first game I bought with my own money when I finally broke my dad down in getting a NES 'for the family'. I remember examining the different box art for way too long in the 'world of Nintendo' section at Caldor. That enough 80s references for ya? lol
It was a really cool shooter for its time. Then Bionic Commando and Adventures of Bayou Billy are some early notables besides the obvious Zeldas and Marios.
Just found this channel, cool stuff, I always enjoy watching store channels and seeing what you guys get in. Subbed you
Captain Skyhawk is super underrated. I played the heck out of it as a kid!
Not commenting my favourite NES game... But seeing you said loving puzzle games, what's a couple favourites aside Clu Club Land?
Some I love are Gravity on DS, Mercury PSP, Gluf Megadrive, Kurushi PS1, Shift Extended on PSP, QIX arcade, and on PS3 King Oddball and Tennis in the face 👌
Super Mario Bros. 2 was my childhood favorite video game of owning a major gaming console the NES! Because, my Game Boy Color requires newer batteries after so many long gaming hours!
For NES, I always preferred the historical strategy games, like Silent Service, Nobunaga's Ambition, Genghis Khan, and Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
A couple things, one if you're going to go to the trouble of replacing the pins, it's worth smearing some dielectric grease to the motherboard side of the connection, the pin connector is something that can be manufactured again, and I'm fairly sure the one you're using is new, but the motherboard side is pretty much irreplaceable without getting one of those new opentendo boards and taking the risks associated with moving some of those chips to the new one.
The other thing, is that I don't think it's actually necessary to press the cart down, if you look at the mechanism, it's already connected the moment you push it in, the downward press was just a marketing thing. I personally press mine down, because the pins are bad and in order to judge how far to push the cart in, I need to push it just far enough to barely clear the case. One of these days, I'll replace the current mechanism with one of those nintendo drawers, but I do all my NES gaming on a Mister FPGA, so that's not a high priority item.
Maybe this is what I needed to save the old family NES ... I've been dealing with cameras for a few years now, so this might be easier than I was worried about.
Fresh and clean again as NEW
I couldn't name any of their songs, but I was grade school/high school friends with one of the band members of Hawthorne Heights. Hope you had a good time!
Nintendo always instructed, or people always understood to press down the cart, so whenever I used a Game Genie, it was "magic" that the game would play not being pushed down. With a replacement 72-pin that I installed in my system back in 2012, I was able to just insert carts (with some more force than the old pin connector) without pressing down.
Nintendo pushed that view because they wanted the NES to be more VCR-like to distance itself from the Atari and other home consoles. It's not required to push it down and if you look at the connector, the pins are connected as long as you've pushed the cart back far enough to make connection.
VCRs definitely weren't common at the time, but they were around and people had some awareness of them.
i remember when i first took apart my nes to clean it. it looked so overwhelming at first and i watch lie 6 different videos about disassembling the nes. after taking it apart i boiled the 72 pin connector and deep cleaned the nes and after that taking them apart now it was easy.
Love the shirt. And thanks for the tips. Great video.
For speed i used to use a battery operated electric screwdriver to take screws out
That's really awesome you replace that connector on every console that comes in.
Favorite NES game, got be Mario Bros. 3. So good. Also loved Duck Tales.
Great choices!
Oh the days when everything wasn't glued or "snap-shut" together and everything was serviceable. I remember modding my original first edition PS1 so it could play, ahem, "otherwise acquired" games. took about 15 minutes with soldering. That PS1 lasted me 10 years and would have lasted longer if I didn't have to get rid of it due to moving country.
I’d throw it a party. That always cheers me up. But this works too
Um ... so happy you appeared in my feed :) Liked and subscribed
Love seeing you upload a new video, damn I wish your store was near me but sadly I’m all the way across the country lol
Thank youuu!!!
Across the world for me
Great retro mod repair video!
Dang it, I should've come in on Sunday. It's always been so busy every time I come in.
Awesome video! What type of camera are you using?
2:15 Your warrantyyyyyy!!! 🤣
Captain Skyhawk was one of my favorite NES games growing up!! :D Still have my copy. Your husband has good taste :P
Yessss!
Last time I had to fix a console, I was looking up FAQs online on how to replace a Laser for an O.G. PS2 b/c it stopped reading the discs...
Regular Maintenance saves you money down the road, no matter the system.
I want a store like that and/or work at that store hahaha
So amazing!
Thanks Sam and the lovely shop mouse! 🐭
Have you ever tried repositioning the pins on the original connector using a pick or similar tool? There will never be new connectors that are produced as good as the originals. All the ones I've come across the pins feel dangerously tight when inserting a cart or they just suffer from flimsy overall construction.
GOW controller and console looks rad for sure. I always loved the PlayStation controllers but I’m an Xbox man.
You can also use the game genie always and perfect connection every time
100 % Captain Skyhawk. Just bought a boxed copy for next to nothing since there are many copies and few that share this opinion.
Just bend the pins back. I use a sewing needle. I’ve done it to at least 50 nes systems. Works great. And disable the lock out chip
I always liked using the game genie to bypass a loose pin connector. You can't really use the genie then because the screen is messed up but it allows The actual game to have a great connection.
Hi Sam more videos like this would be good .
My favorites mega man series. Iron tank. Captain skykid. Mario bros 2. My wifes favorite is castlevania
Hello. I’m Bradley Black….Greenville,SC. SNES, PS1, N64, PS2 gamer. Cool VG store videos.
That's a RF shield, not heat shield. It's cool you clean your consoles, not many game stores do that.
I sadly realized that after I said it 59 times haha.
I bought a very cheap Nintendo NES system for cheap but I already know that I'll have to do this..
Going to watch several videos and get ready as it is waiting a door as my NES system was missing a door and I can't tell you how filthy it was when I got it ..but it was $55 bucks before taxes.
I was always really happy playing Willow.
I would have gently scraped a toothpick between the main plastic plates of the controller (to loosen built up palm gunk) before proceeding with the toothbrush, or does that put wear on the plastic, thus potentially allowing moisture inside the controller? Yikes, I didn't know the Shop Mouse hung with Shrews bubbling lord know what in large black cauldrons in the dead of night, lol.
During the NES breakdown and clean, what was the background music titles and artists?
Thank you for your attention to detail!☺️
BW100 can help if you don't wanna take apart your controllers, but you should.
Tobi is true on that, keep your stuff clean.
Learn and take care.
Simple Green is like WD-40's anti.
Just looked up Hawthorne Heights, how did I miss this.
More cleaning videos with less music would be rad. A lot of people don’t see the inside of anything and it’s pretty interesting.
You can also do the blinking light mod and lockout chip mod. You can play the games without pushing down
Yes, and if you look into the unit while you push down on the slot, you can see that it's not connected tot he back. And from the video, you can see that there's no pivoting to the pins. All you're doing by pushing it down is increasing the likelihood that the pins will get bent. Hence all the issues with having to remove and reseat carts. Eventually you'd do it enough times that you'd get the cart in correctly to make contact.
I usually just bend the pins back in place.
But I've replaced a few
before my stroke which paralyzed me I was a matter of fixing these Nintendo pin connector
Favorite NES game is Maniac Mansion.
You know you got an old console when you only need one screwdriver bit to take the whole thing apart.
I solved this by never changing the game. I’ve been playing Tetris for 3 years now 😅
I love the shop mouse! She's hilarious "...and don't forget to like, share and subscribe" 👀
Loving the videos.
Hawthorne Heights yaas! Dope shirt!
Those years of using the Game Genie totally destroyed my pins 😢