I received an NES cart with some extremely corroded pins. After cleaning them and also using some high grit sandpaper, it would run, but there were major graphics problems.

On a lark I opened up the cartridge and started checking continuity. Wouldn't you know it one of the traces near one of the pins was totally corroded through.

1 bodge wire later and it works like a charm.

The game is 'Zanac' by the way.

Yesterday I thought, "it would be fun to play an NES game this evening."

I then proceeded to accidentally bend a pin on my stupid aftermarket cartridge connector.

Then I had to disassemble the whole console and try to fix the connector. Then I couldn't get the system back together. Then the game still wouldn't boot because of tarnish on the cartridge pins which I eventually had to use sandpaper on.

By the time I got it all sorted out it was bedtime lol.

I seem to now own 134 unique Atari 2600 games.

I'm not sure if this is impressive or pathetic. Maybe a little of A, a little of B.

Now available in dark mode!: https://github.com/bentlartson/bop1990/

Seems kinda fitting given the dark subject matter of the game...

It's been a decent amount of work, but the port of 'Balance of Power' I've been working on is now pretty much fully playable.

Feel free to download it and let me know what you think (Windows only at the moment).

https://github.com/bentlartson/bop1990
https://github.com/bentlartson/bop1990/releases/tag/v0.1