Garbled Graphics NES

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I have an NES since 19 years and was shelfed for like 15-16 years, then I reconnected it 2 years ago and I was surprised that everything was working fine, even the duck hunt gun was working correctly, I was testing all of my 25 games in order to sell them and apparently all worked fine (I had a hard time in some of them but got all of them to work). But oh well, I only had luck selling like 3 of the catridges so I boxed my console again.

3 days ago, I tried to reconnect it again and found out that none of the games were working, I was getting the red blinking light on the NES. I know that blowing into catridges is a bad idea because you can spit into them accidentally and would get worse, but I did it very carefully and finally got them to work but with garbled graphics and it's really a pain, when the game is inserted I need to wiggle them and when I finally get an image I hit the reset button and it works fine at the beginning, but when the games starts to play more content, they start to display garbled graphics and finally get to a point where the game freezes.

I lent two of my games to a friend in order to test them on a different console, but in this case, it's worse because the games don't even load, even if I blow or wiggle the catridge.

So I really don't know if it's an issue from the NES or from the games, but I really doubt that all of the 20 games are having issues. What do you think it could be?



Best Answer

The blinking red light is caused by the NES' pin connector being bent due to the system of pushing the cartridges down. I suggest installing Blinking Light Win: https://www.arcadeworks.net/blw , which changes the mechanism to be more durable and removes the region lock.




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How do you fix wavy lines in NES?

A grey screen may show up as well. Basically the game isn't going low enough in your NES and you use another game to push it down further. Also hit the reset button a few times and this could work as well.



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