Ask GameJew!

[IggyHazard]

VHS > DVD.

DVDs are always so unreliable compared to g0od ol' tapes.

[BandakaKush]

Oh god! I almost shit myself when you shoved the nes game in there. What cruelty.

[BCBTV]

are joo really a joo?

[IggyHazard]

Oh, I remember blowing into the cartridges! And into the NES itself! And the spit (which I was never comfortable with). Now if only I could get my copy of 'WALL-E' (special edition) to work. They do something to DVDs nowadays that makes them not work right.

[benegeseritwhore]

you have made nes repair incredibly sexy!

[jaydstein]

This is hilarious.

[jokerchat]

wow

[hakohey86]

game jew ur the fucking man

[NintendosAdvocate1]

I've heard of blowing on the cartridges, but using your tongue? Come on GameJew, that's so unsanitary!

I heard that you can also push the cartridge a little to the side (I forget which side?) after it's pressed down and it will work. But the best thing to do is either replace the 72-pin connector or buy the remodeled NES. That one is so much better than the original model because Nintendo fixed a lot of problems in the remodeled NES that the original had. It never gave me trouble.

[schoeneberg]

Game Jew, your super rad

[SurooshX]

the blowing, the blowing, the blowing of the cartridge...

[xGLLx]

blow it? give it toung? then shove it in hard? lol

[moskos11]

you know what you should really make a cd and sell it on the internet or something like that think into it

game jew rocks

J_matthew

[con5253]

wow thats racist you say that because hes jewish

[brunobabashay]

you would make a good doctor or lawyer, not a good brewmaster or pawnshop owner.

[marc1189]

OMFG...the ol' cartridge tricks! so many memories of playing old cartridge systems, put it in, it doesn't work, blow a little and still doesn't work. then my friend takes it and blows harder and it doesn't work...then suddenly we lock eyes in a stare that says... "you're on..." and we have a contest to see who can get it to work first. and yes NEVER give up!

[namr3h]

Awesome you use what I always called the diagonal push method! I would do that and I worked so well! Awesome. Great minds think alike.

[m0u5y]

OMG I DO THAT TOO!!!! OH MY GOD!!!!!! I had to do that with my grandma's... it crunches every time haha and works. WOW, and I thought I was... :( original.

[ExistentialistMartyr]

Gamejew, thank you so much! I tried the cartridge on cartridge trick. Works like a charm! :D

[aldfkjldasfkj]

Oh yeah, and don't get mad at the NES, GameJew is right about that too :)

[aldfkjldasfkj]

Hooray for Ask GameJew :)

Anyway, the key is to make sure the connectors are, well, connecting. Blowing helps get dust off, and everything else is just making sure the connectors on the cartridge touch the connectors in the NES itself. I've found wiggling the cartridge in the NES helps.

[Blacksun1942]

GameJew is a great man.

[Vitrous]

"Why would you want to get mad at this guy?"

That made me laugh. And I most certainly wouldn't get mad at that guy.

[Nintendish]

GO GAMEJEW DOG

[Nintendish]

I remember when you did this in the Wii waiting line and there were 2 nerds and one had a '' i pwn noobs '' shirt on

[47drift]

Hey there GameJew. As much as I love the idea of finally being able to communicate directly to you, I don't think it's such a great idea to make an account with a shared password. Someone might change it, and that wouldn't be good.

[friendsofgamejew]

They'd have to know the email to change it! I think.

[OnlineMaven]

Licking the cartridge could help the contacts conduct better. So it might actually help. Great new segment.

My question, Game Jew, is where did you get that outfit?

[BotenMikey]

Sorry for double commenting Gamejew, but when I was a wee gaming lad the reason we blew into out carts was to remove any dust that may have gotten into it. Of course, you never questioned these things when you were young ^_^ But yeah, we also used to play into the console themselves, like with a Megadrive or a SNES where you just push down the flap thing.

[BotenMikey]

(Youtube doesn't allow more than 500 characters at a time, and I have a lot to say ^0^) But yeah that's the reason why we did it. But there's one more thing. One unwritten rule of blowing into carts as a kid was to NEVER allow any sort of water vapour come from your mouth into the cart. As we were under the impression (probably from too many cartoons) that even the slightest bit of water could completely frazzle anything electronic. And I as horrified for a moment to see you doing it.

[BotenMikey]

Now, is that really safe? if you say so, then I'll have to try it, I currently have a Super Metroid cart that I'm having trouble with.

And by the way, Ask GameJew is a lovely idea that i'm really excited about too! And I do have a "problem" with Super Metroid that I'd like to ask you, but my camera is currently on the fritz at the moment, so we'll see ^_^

[BotenMikey]

Oh GameJew, we all love you so much ^_^