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@Felthry @rey i didnt try cleaning the console's contacts with the ethyl alcohol, fwiw, so ill try that next before i get anything fancier

@Felthry @rey i foolishly assumed it wasn't stochastic. in other words, i tried micro mages again and it worked this time; i even tried golf and it worked after hitting the reset button. tmnt i couldn't get to work at all but so it be

i guess its just a matter of making sure the connection with the pins is good

@Felthry @rey further testing:

Golf - yellow screen
TMNT - yellow screen
Micro Mages - yellow screen
Lizard - functions
Candelabra: The Mad Wizard - functions
Candelabra: The Rise of Amondus - functions
Candelabra: Estoscerro - functions

and those are all the nes games i have

@Felthry @rey i also have teenage mutant ninja turtles for the nes (the famously hard one), which i had never tried playing before, and that one gives me the same problem. the blank screen is even the same yellow color, oddly

... same result for Micro Mages, even... that one should definitely be working, because it's also a new game that was unused before i started testing it

is Lizard the only game i have that my NES likes????

@Felthry @rey i swabbed the golf cartridge's pins with some ethyl alcohol (it was all they had at the store) and a q-tip, and... it still doesn't work :'3 can't win em all i guess

@Felthry @rey oh nooooooo

i think im gonna leave it off, and then maybe see if i can get a transparent plastic casemod for the nes (at least the top cover), because i think that would look cool and also be a reminder to myself that i have in fact user-serviced it in some rudimentary way (this is a huge triumph for me)

@Felthry @rey what's the most dire possible consequence of not putting it back on

@Felthry @rey is the RF shield actually necessary to put back on

@Felthry @rey oh wait thats composite. i am a neophyte

@Felthry @rey it has red and yellow jacks on the side for video and audio, if thats what you mean. i think the guy who sold it to me mentioned that that was a mod

@Felthry @rey (also let's probably untag brad from this thread now oops)

@Felthry @rey @rainwarrior isn't it something to do with the video not being precisely 60Hz? i am indeed interested

@Felthry @rey success!! the music plays, all the controls work and everything. there are those wavy striations on the video output but im assuming those are just an artifact of some kind of something relating to using the NES with a modern television, or such. doesn't bother me either way

cc @rainwarrior thank you for your cool game that helped me test my NES repair job

@Felthry @rey yeah, i'll try lizard in it next. that one was completely unused and hadn't even been taken out of the box before i tried it last night, so if that one isn't good it's definitely not due to usage

i did a quick visual inspection of the pin connector on the NES side when i had everything off, and it didn't look corroded (i think someone had replaced it before i got it) which is why i think it's an issue with the Golf cartridge (perhaps corrosion on *those* pins)

@Felthry @rey update: when i put my Golf cartridge in, it boots to a solid yellow screen rather than doing a reset loop. which... is progress! that tells me theres something else wrong, probably with the cartridge.

when i tried Lizard before i snipped the pin, it showed the first frame of the title screen in the reset loop, which tells me that that game was probably on a good cartridge but the lockout chip was fritzing. the fact that Golf shows a solid color tells me maybe its pins are bad