Way to make me feel old.
I never had to do that to my N64 cartridges. That was the meme for the NES.
And even then, blowing on it didn’t really help. It was the ejecting and reinserting of the cartridge that fixed the issue because the slot on the NES was janky.
Excuse me. Everyone knows the blowing was crucial.
Not for the N64. The games always booted on the first attempt.
Furthermore, the spit from your breath can corrode the contacts, which can make the problem worse. Your N64 games were having issues cause you kept blowing on them.
That’s why we used the cold breath! I told you there was an art to it. Also, we still have the console, games etc, everything still works :)
Edit: I was talking about NES but also have N64, same applies.
Crucial? … it was necessary … plus you had to wave it around in your hand like a fan to make it do something and then once you inserted it, you had to nudge it to the left, right, back, forth, up, down until you found just the right nudge to get it to work
Yes crucial, the ritual blowing of powerful blasts of cool (not wet) air, to get the dust out, and then firmly push it in, to show it that you meant business (and complete the spell). You might be getting mixed up with the secret cheats for games. Up up left right down down wasn’t it?
Up up left right down down wasn’t it?
That was for the controller when the game actually started running … I was talking about the original NES catridge problems … once you inserted the cartridge and it didn’t work, one trick you did was to nudge the cartridge ever so slightly to the left, right, up, down or push it by a fraction of an inch or back … eventually one of those movements placed the cartridge in the right place to get it to work.
But those button combinations … we tried getting our hands on gaming magazines to find codes but seldom did. I didn’t live near any cities or near any stores that had good magazines (or any magazines lol) … but it was like magic if you happened to stumble on a cheat code by accident and then spend weeks trying to recreate it only to never find it again.
Lol I was partly joking around but we were the same with the cheat codes! I remember a friend showing the first one to us and we were amazed. It seemed so much more fun back then, when every advance was so hard won. I don’t recall if there were any Nintendo magazines available here, but if so, we didn’t have any. There used to be premium rate phone help lines if you got stuck on a game, but otherwise you were on your own.
Were you in the US, by any chance? I know the NTSC cartridges were different (PAL here), so maybe that’s why our ‘technomagical skills’ differ.
We did it with the SNES sometimes, too. But yeah, never had to blow in the 64 carts. They just always worked. Shit, one of our 64 games the shell broke off so it was just the PCB and even that always worked.
I never once felt the need to blow on a SNES cartridge either. I promise you, it was 100% only a NES thing.
In fact, the edge connector was never really the problem and blowing on it was never more than a placebo that actually did more harm than good. The real issue was the weird VCR-like insertion mechanism the NES used, and I’m pretty sure the later top-loader version solved the problem even for NES cartridges.
I had to if it got dusty. But then, that was… nearly 30 years ago and I was a wee lad.
SNES for me, and rather frequently.
From a current European view
Nintendo will really slap that seal of approval on anything these days huh
Need a new constitution.
Wtf is an electoral college? What is this, the pre-civil war slavery era?
Also, the “natural-born” clause of the presidency requirements are outdated and did not prevent a foreign asset into the oval office.
Arnold Schwarzenegger would be a much better president than whatever the fuck we got now.
America is a scratched PS1 disc, you have to turn your PS1 at an angle against the wall to get it to function properly.
Smear toothpaste on it
Right-ish, and far
Blowing and now against the wall? UwU
Except this game has a centuries long record of murdering and maiming women and children around the globe. Unplug it and toss it in the trash where it belongs.
We tried it back in the 90s and it didn’t seem to help
I did not have sexual relations with that cartridge!
Just to be clear, definitely don’t blow on the cartridge. It will only cause corrosion and can also cause mold to grow on the contacts area… if it needs cleaning, use a dry cloth or alcohol swab.
Too many game cartridges have been ruined from years of blowing on them.
just unplug it and throw it in the garbage bin
Well it’s either that or we have to unplug it and plug it back in.
just throw us in the trash its where we belong
Stormy Daniels already tried that.
I mean it worked for her at least
All you’re doing is corrode . . Nevermind keep blowing.
Clinton seemed to enjoy it
