Cartridge Repair
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A ColecoVision cartridge pulled from the ashes of my house fire. I free the board, clean off the embedded soot, print a new shell and label, and see if Carnival still boots.
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A free, editable Atari 2600 picture label template, and the full process of rescuing two mouldy cartridges with home-printed replacement labels.
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A dodgy cartridge bent the pins in this Atari Jaguar’s cartridge slot, a repair I was told was nine out of ten difficulty. I desolder the old slot pin by pin and fit a new Molex connector.
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An Atari Lynx II that won’t load any games and shows INSERT GAME, fixed by cleaning the cartridge contacts and, crucially, the console’s cart slot.
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A Mega Drive cartridge that loses its save when the console is switched off has a flat battery. Here is how I replaced the save battery in Shining Force.