My NES is on the fritz. I decided to get it out yesterday and see if it still worked. After some searching for cords, etc, i got it working. Today, however, it wont work. What its doing is when i press the power button, it goes to static, then a white screen, rinse and repeat. During this, the power light is ONLY on during the white screen. What is wrong with my NES, and is there anything i can do about it?
That was a common problem with the old NES. see if you can get a hold of one of the cleaner kits for it. Also, it could be the game isnt in quite perfectly, a lot of the time, it required perfect wiggling skills to get games to work.
I have a working original NES that I got the year it came out, like my grandparents, it has only grown more tempermental with time. I can usually get it to work, but too much effort. Try to pick up one of the remodeled NESes that look like a SNES that went on slimfast. They are far more reliable.
They’ll cost you a ton too. Ebay for it or go look in used game stores.
That much? I got one for $30, new, like 2 or 3 years ago at a GameStop
Don’t worry, it happens to every man at some point.
Tuh Urk, stop staying up until 4 AM.
Oh, that’s nothing serious! That’s a very, very common problem with the NES, and it happens pretty much all the time. It just means that the inside is a little dirty, and it’s usually due to the game, not the system. Have you tried any other games on the NES yet? It’s most likely just that one.
By the way, I made this a while back to reflect the good old days of the NES: http://nesnotworking.ytmnd.com/
It usually blinks black and blue. And when you almost have it working, it blinks the game and black. On that occasion, if you hit reset when the game screen blinks in, it makes the game load correctly.
Nope, tried every one of my games, blown all of them, AND the NES.
Epico: Yeah, it was doing that the day before, but since yesterday all it is is static and white. ;_;