Got my old NES cleaned up last year and an EverDrive, and I'm set for life.
Got my old NES cleaned up last year and an EverDrive, and I'm set for life.
I took my NES down from the attic. It was in a box for probably a good 20 years. Easy. Plugged it in and it lit up, but games wouldn't play - gray screen.
Anyway, I took it apart, cleaned everything I could (according to youtube guides), cleaned my TMNT 2 cartridge and popped it in... after a few in/outs... it worked!!
So I played some of my old cartridges. Had to clean them all up and insert/take out/insert/take out etc. quite a few times with most of them. But they all worked! Game Genie even worked!
Anyway, I decided to get an EverDrive because ROMs are a thing now, and you can just pop in a card into the cartridge and have all the games ever created for NES playing on your original hardware.
I also got some wireless controllers. So I'm all set. This is such a fun world we live in.