Friday, August 12, 2005

Tinkering and NES Repair

My girlfriend's next-door neighbor was preparing to move out of his apartment and kindly offered Kristen a chance to scavenge stuff he was going to throw away before the rest of Madison did. I indirectly benefitted from this, as the fool was throwing away a NES!

Fortunately, Kristen just took the thing, along with games like Contra, and gave them to me!

Despite having the words "STILL WORKS!!" scrawled on it with a Sharpie, it does not in fact work -- the dreaded grey screen of death, or the blinking grey screens abound. I've experienced this phenomenon with my older NES system, and was able to have it corrected by some guys in the local used game store. This time, I'll do the repair myself, with help from The Nintendo Repair Shop. A $3.95 part, and I'm set to hack away! (Although still not as much as this guy did.)

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