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Post by King of Kings on Feb 22, 2012 16:16:40 GMT -5
I recently found my SNES in my closet. I've been looking for it for a while, and I'm so glad I found it. I forgot that as a child, it used to sit next to my N64 and when I was playing OOT I used to write the songs on it. I had no paper for some reason. Bolero of Fire and a bunch of other stuff were etched on it. I took some hand sanitizer and hand wipes and cleaned it off. It's like new now, and my controller is as well. I'm using my Gamecube AV cables for video but I forgot that I don't have a DC 10V AC Adapter. I have no idea where mine went to. I think I have a Sega Genesis one around, I'm certain I do actually, but I don't know if it'll work. Should I try to find it? If not, where can I get one? I've looked on Amazon but most of them have 1 star reviews that say it was defective upon purchase. I'm thinking of going to a local flea market and looking if there isn't a good, cheap, place online. Oh, here are the photos of before and after as well:
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2012 16:25:45 GMT -5
I would suggest a gaming store that sells stuff from every era of gaming if you have one. I've got one in my small town that sells stuff all the way back to NES. If you don't have a store like that then I'd try ebay. I saw one on there for $6.50 with free shipping
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Post by King of Kings on Feb 22, 2012 16:49:18 GMT -5
Perhaps I'll look into eBay. We do have a place like that in my area but the oldest console I saw that they had last time I was there was N64. I'll probably call 'em up and ask, if they don't have one I'll look on eBay.
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Post by Too Sweet on Mar 7, 2012 23:43:11 GMT -5
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Post by M on Mar 8, 2012 6:06:08 GMT -5
You could probably stop by a good will or a flea market and snag a SNES with an AC Adapter and controllers for $10, then you have a back up if your old one breaks or you can just sell it.
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Post by Sully© on Mar 9, 2012 15:23:43 GMT -5
Ordered that when I found mine, works wonders.
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Post by Ian from 616Entertainment. on Mar 15, 2012 20:23:45 GMT -5
See if there's a Disc Replay by you. I work at one of the Illinois locations, it's a used electronics store and classic systems are one of our specialties. We sell them for $4.
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Post by jaymieandrogyny on May 10, 2012 2:38:11 GMT -5
Holy crap, that thing looked like it took a beating. Good job on making it look brand new! Well, there's always eBay or Amazon, but I believe Nintendo.com still sells replacement parts for all of their systems, which is pretty neat and shows how dedicated they are to their customers.
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Post by k5 on May 10, 2012 10:48:13 GMT -5
Holy crap, that thing looked like it took a beating. Good job on making it look brand new! Well, there's always eBay or Amazon, but I believe Nintendo.com still sells replacement parts for all of their systems, which is pretty neat and shows how dedicated they are to their customers. i wouldn't go that far - they make a huge amount from people for fickle bullcrap reasons. example? super smash bros 64. you can't save your unlocked characters or matches or arenas on the memory card, it's on a save drive ran by a battery in the cartridge of the game itself. but guess what happens when that battery dies? there's no reason for it other than making people have to go into their pockets (again).
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Post by jaymieandrogyny on May 10, 2012 14:19:51 GMT -5
I've never heard of a save battery dying in an N64 game.
I mean, there are old, beat up, worn in NES cartridges out there with functioning save batteries.
Besides, it's super easy to unlock everything in Smash Bros. 64. Melee and Brawl, that's a different story.
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Post by k5 on May 11, 2012 8:10:20 GMT -5
look it up, it's quite rare but occurs in like 11 titles. i think no mercy may have been another of these.
and you have to consider, when i have buddies over and we want to smash it up, we don't want to sit around for 45+ minutes to get the extra characters. it's a waste of time.
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Post by jaymieandrogyny on May 12, 2012 2:53:00 GMT -5
Yeah, it would suck to have a save battery die in a cartridge, but I don't think it was some scheme Nintendo pulled to get extra money out of people. More like, they thought it would be more convenient if you could save your game to the cartridge. There are few good games that had to save to the Controller Pak, and most of them weren't made by Nintendo. If anything was unnecessary add-on that made people waste money it was N64's memory card.
I get that save batteries die and it's pretty inconvenient, but it's like saying the GameBoy Advance or DS needed a memory card.
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Post by k5 on May 12, 2012 18:44:49 GMT -5
well, you have to consider that the gameboy advance or ds ran on batteries you can buy in any modern hardware/convenience store. the battery that a 64 game cartridge needs to save is ONLY made by nintendo, and they even made a special screw head that is near impossible to get into...as only nintendo has this special screwdriver head to get the ing games apart. they straight up DON'T want you to be able to do it yourself. it's really, really ridiculous.
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Post by Mr.Amazing on May 24, 2012 23:25:14 GMT -5
I still have one in a closet that looks brand new if you dust it. Still got everything it came in. I don't really know why I have one.
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Post by jaymieandrogyny on Jun 2, 2012 23:53:49 GMT -5
What was up with some peoples' SNES consoles turning yellow on the bottom? I never had that happen to me but I've seen a lot of them with the bottom half completely yellow. It's pretty common.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2012 18:28:18 GMT -5
^ mine is like that on the top, it was like that when I bought it of the great 'bay in late 09... I remember reading that it had something to do with the kind of plastic they used for some of the consoles. It looks disgusting as hell, but at least it works on the inside. Man do I love the SNES. A lot of my SNES carts and I think even some of my N64 ones have the same problem. Edit- this is a pretty cool link that explores the nature of Super NinTANdos (lolololol) www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/189
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Post by JC Motors on Nov 21, 2013 12:39:37 GMT -5
Holy crap, that thing looked like it took a beating. Good job on making it look brand new! Well, there's always eBay or Amazon, but I believe Nintendo.com still sells replacement parts for all of their systems, which is pretty neat and shows how dedicated they are to their customers. They don't. I was looking for a replacement Zapper on their website and they didn't have them. I did find an original grey Zapper at a thrift store for $0.98
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