YOU CAN ACT LIKE A MAN! What's the matter with you? Is this what you've become, a Hollywood finocchio who cries like a woman?

It actually wouldn't surprise me if the next Xbox or any future consoles blocked used games. If you look at the PC it has been done before. Has any of the DRM and copyright protection schemes on PC games have had any impact on piracy. The answer is not in the least bit, but what it has done is effectively eliminated the used PC game market.

This is why the industry will eventually move to digital distribution soon. You wont be able to sell what you don't actually own.

1. On the original PS1 release you wouldn't even be on disc 2 yet

2. If you are still interested in the MGS series when you finish I'd recomend the third next.

Check out the connector is it corroded or are there any pins bent or out of place. You can also try cleaning the connector itself by rigging up something like a credit card with a thin piece of cloth over it dabbed in rubbing alcohol and clean it by pulling it in and out not side to side as that could bend the pins. If that doesn't do it than it's something on the board that went bad. Also check and make sure the power supply is official I heard of alot of people having issues with third party adaptors for the snes that can cause alot of weird issues

Did you try cleaning the games contacts? If not the contacts could just be dirty clean them with q-tips dabbed in rubbing alcohol.

Ok so 2. is immediate regardless of which one. The list of games that don;t work are randomized depending on either if you have top or normal loading Nes. However there is a rather I believe 75 games for top and 98 games fo regular that don;t work if I remember when they sent out the notice. Eventually companies began utilizing the tech for the NES to the point where any altering and things would occur or not work. 111 games have visual effects, around a slightly the same but lower number have that problem on regular, and top has over 2 dozen and regular had about 3 dozen for control effects. Visual effects include game graphic being altered, reflected, negative, pixelated, flashingetc. Control effects involve lack of responce, no resonce, opposite interactions, glitches, non existent objects, mirroring of the gameslevels. Now the god news is most "talked about games" most won't have much of aproblem with this Although I don;t think Crystalis would work on your Nes if you ever heard of it but I believe the old ag said about 1% of pupular games don;t work on the regualr NES (Still a decent number though) and around 1.5-2% for the top loader. Switches when talking about control issues. although visual issues are around the 35% or higher for each. Bu basically you should be ok. Name some games you are concerned about and I will tell you if they work.Jakandsig_

I'm not so much worried about any game in particular Since all of the games in my collection play flawlessly on the NES with the disabled chip. And I have a couple other NES's hanging around so if a game failed to start it wouldn't be a big deal. I was just curious to know if it would cause any issues in case I decided I wanted to do it to to the rest of them. Looks like I won't be doing that.

I've done it to one of my NES's before and it never reset it self again after that. But what I want to now is there any downside at all to doing this. Could it interfere with loading some unlicensed NES games that employ various methods to bypass the chip.

Not really much music, If the game is not heavily story driven I'll listen to talk shows like the Stern show while I play.