Can someone help me fix this NES?

Alright, so basically, my local Youth Center found 2 old NESs but couldn't get them to work. It was of course the famous blinking screens. The person who runs it said it would be alright if I took them home and took a look at them. Now, I have never owned an NES before, and I'm pretty sure they were discontinued anyway by the time I was born, but I thought it could be done. After a while of searching, I decided on the technique of cleaning the 72 pin connector. Long story short, I screwed something upand decided I would just order a brand new 72 pin connector and use that on the other one. Well it just came, and I installed it, but rather than the screen blinking in 100 different colors, it decided to just stay on green, but not blinking. I tried tinkering with it some more, and now it is still different types of green but blinking.

Now for some of the smaller details, that I'm not sure if they will help or not. I don't know if the connector was 3rd party or not, it said it was published by Nintendo, but it was cheaper than I thought it should be, and it arrived in nothing but plastic wrap. On the NES it is installed on, I pretty much have to jamthe gamein to get it in there, and it takes a lot of strength to pull the cart out. This opposed to before I put it in, it would slide easily in and out. The games I borrowed, to see if it was just a problem with the games, were Tetris, TMNT, and The Jackal. Please tell me if these games are known to work poorly, but they seemed like the best ones, considering they didn't have Zelda or Mario or things like that. As my friend and I have been working on this, it seems to be getting very popular around the younger kids and they are very anxious to see if we can get it to work. I really don't want to let them down, please help me.

clean your cartridges with alcohol and q tip. i did it to a game and the whole q tip was black

Yes clean the games very well. But if you did the 72 pin connector and did it right and the contacts are all clean it might be a worse problem =(

The 72 pin connector should be in perfect condition, it seemed pretty shiny, and since it is supposed to be new, I can't see why it would be a problem. However, the last one seemed clean also, though I have not cleaned the games yet. We tried several games and assumed it had to be the NES itself, but I could try this.

The 72 pin connector should be in perfect condition, it seemed pretty shiny, and since it is supposed to be new, I can't see why it would be a problem. However, the last one seemed clean also, though I have not cleaned the games yet. We tried several games and assumed it had to be the NES itself, but I could try this.

bub166

Best if you take your NES to an independant used videogameshop. There are 3 in my city. You need to get the Nintendoscrewdriver (they will have on) to open it up to clean or replace the 72pin contection. It is not too hard to get a NES running again. Just need the Nintendo screwdriver to open it. (The hard part)

Cleaning the connector pins on the cartridges is a good first step, if you have to you can order the small bit to open them and clean the inside as well.

I can't go to an independent used game shop, because I live in a small population area. There is one GameStop about 30 miles away, but that is it.

They are, as I said this 72 pin connector was bought New and not used.

Alright, so basically, my local Youth Center found 2 old NESs but couldn't get them to work. It was of course the famous blinking screens. The person who runs it said it would be alright if I took them home and took a look at them. Now, I have never owned an NES before, and I'm pretty sure they were discontinued anyway by the time I was born, but I thought it could be done. After a while of searching, I decided on the technique of cleaning the 72 pin connector. Long story short, I screwed something upand decided I would just order a brand new 72 pin connector and use that on the other one. Well it just came, and I installed it, but rather than the screen blinking in 100 different colors, it decided to just stay on green, but not blinking. I tried tinkering with it some more, and now it is still different types of green but blinking.

Now for some of the smaller details, that I'm not sure if they will help or not. I don't know if the connector was 3rd party or not, it said it was published by Nintendo, but it was cheaper than I thought it should be, and it arrived in nothing but plastic wrap. On the NES it is installed on, I pretty much have to jamthe gamein to get it in there, and it takes a lot of strength to pull the cart out. This opposed to before I put it in, it would slide easily in and out. The games I borrowed, to see if it was just a problem with the games, were Tetris, TMNT, and The Jackal. Please tell me if these games are known to work poorly, but they seemed like the best ones, considering they didn't have Zelda or Mario or things like that. As my friend and I have been working on this, it seems to be getting very popular around the younger kids and they are very anxious to see if we can get it to work. I really don't want to let them down, please help me.

bub166

if you dont want the blinking, try this

if you dont want the blinking, try this

bigM10231

Have you tried putting in the game but not pushing it down? Some of the new 72pin connectors are a little tight so they don't work when they're pushed down like an original nes is, at least that's the way my NES with a new 72pin connector is.