Comment on What a feeling that was

• grue@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t know what this gif is about; blowing in cartridges was an NES thing, not an SNES thing.

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  • Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Blow on a cartridge was a cartridge thing. The idea being to blow dust off the connector pins, the console itself is irrelevant.

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Of all the consoles I ever owned or played at other people’s houses, the NES was the only one anybody ever blew on.

      My lived experience trumps anything you can try to claim. You lose; good day sir!

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      • BadlyDrawnRhino@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I never owned a NES, but had a SNES and my brother also borrowed his friend’s Mega Drive (Genesis for those of you in the US) from time-to-time. All of us would blow the connectors on the cartridges, regardless of console. If anything went wrong with a game, the first step to troubleshoot was to take the cartridge out and give it a good blow.

        It was never about how the console actually worked, a five year-old isn’t going to logically think about that. It was all about a perceived performance increase by doing it.

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      • proper@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        in all your 12 years

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  • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m with you - I never had problems with my SNES games starting, whereas having to re-insert NES games was common. If other people had problems with SNES games, I never heard about it.

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