SMB3 Cartridge Fail (My SMB3 Has Finally Kicked The Bucket)

[mrnicenoob]

My left ear is lonley

[CrazyEnzo03]

@mrnicenoob No, there's sound coming through the left side, just not as much. The video was not like this originally.

[gmodfan11]

I do this on purpose by hitting the side. Doesn't break it luckily.

[SkylacedSolace]

well oops

[johneymute]

i remember when i was a kid i had the same problem with random glithes appearing contstantly,i first tout it was my copy of smb3,cuzz other games just worked fine,cuzz even on other nes systems it happened.

not realizing that the cartride was all dirty inside, i blowed a 1000,000 times in it,untill we bought the nes cleaning kit along with another nes and presto it worked like a champ,the older nes finaly failed to work cuzz we played allmost 24:7 a day!!!!

[CrazyEnzo03]

@johneymute NES cleaning kit doesn't fix the problems I have with this cartridge.

[theretrogamer14]

oh I had a game that glitched but much worse (just had to jiggle it around to fix it though)

[Caleb5617]

sounds like one of the contacts on the cartridge got destroyed when you "manhandled" it into your NES

[moviepeople1]

I guess this is Mario..

(puts on shades)

On Shrooms.

YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHH

[yourfaceninety]

This seems to be a common thing :( My Mario 3 is about the same... it puts block units and enemies out of nowhere while removing other random things..

[Stogryn]

Did you cartridge tilt?

:D

[Brawler1100]

i bet the nes reading groves got worn.

[jevansturner]

Very neat. It looks like the mapper chip inside the cart is messed up. I think mine is also bad, but the glitches aren't quite the same. I also have the same flickering at the left side of the screen, right above the status bar. I'll have to grab another SMB3 cart to find out if that's normal.

[Dark0Lord7]

@jevansturner You mean the glitching at the right of the screen? Well, they're normal. It's a programming flaw.

[jevansturner]

@Dark0Lord7

I know about the stuff on the *right* side. I wouldn't even call that a glitch. That's a side effect of the mapper chip and it's normally hidden by overscan (on any TV that an NES would have been connected to back in the day).

I'm talking about flickering on the left side of the screen, right where the status bar section meets the gameplay "window." Look slightly above where it says "World 1".

[CrazyEnzo03]

@jevansturner My television isn't one that the NES would have been connected to back in the day, but it is old enough that it hides that.

I didn't notice the flickering above "World 1" tbh, maybe because I've seen similar things in my other games, but not exactly.

[jevansturner]

@CrazyEnzo03

I'm going to dig up another SMB3 cart today and see if the flickering is there on the left side. If it's not there on another copy of the game, I think it could be a good indicator of a bad SMB3 cart.

[10forRP]

Damn dude... That sucks. My SMB3 cartridge has some graphical problems as well. During the first few levels there will be horizontal sections of the screen that are shifted really far to the left. It seems to clear up the farther you get in the game. I wonder if the ROM chips actually degrade over time?

[retrolinkx]

How sad, seeing games get glitched up,messed up and broken like this must be very sad, imagine the hours wasted, and this happens.

Have you tried blowing in the cartridge? XD

[CrazyEnzo03]

@retrolinkx uh, duh?

I even tried NES cleaning kit.

[Awesom3Gamer]

@CrazyEnzo03 Your breath contains moisture, therefore making the connectors on the cartridge rust so try to not do that. Cool video anyway...

[TheSuperMegaUltraMan]

@CrazyEnzo03 Find a terrible video.

It will blow so hard your game will start working again.

[BlindfireNinja]

Well that was the most entertaining thing I've seen all day...