NintendoAge http://nintendoage.com/forum/ -Sqooner "Fixing http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=155240 2016-06-27T00:03:27 -05.00 AirVillain 74 Originally posted by: Kosmic StarDust

Pickers are cool. It never ceases to amaze me the prices people pay for old junk, especially rusty junk. Mint, yeah I can see that, but for instance signs where there's so much rust you can hardly read the logo, meh... Missed this.

Yeah, the rusty junk they find can be pretty crazy.

It's pretty awesome when they pull a rusty piece of junk out of the ground and make it into something nice, though. That's what I feel like when I shine up an NES cart and clean it up good.

Got myself a custom NES on the way... so the possibility of there being a repop set of pins is high but at this point I don't care. Looking for a nice piece of artwork.
  ]]> "Fixing" your NES' and playing games... http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=155240 2016-03-25T23:16:39 -05.00 AirVillain 74 "Fixing http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=155240 2016-03-25T22:33:11 -05.00 AirVillain 74 Originally posted by: Tulpa
 
Originally posted by: AirVillain
Repop = Reproduction. I heard it on American Pickers, haha... If you hear them use it on there, it actually makes perfect sense. I heard them use the term "repop" before "reproduction" and I still knew what they were talking about. And, of course, they were looking right at a new reproduction piece (replicating an antique).
Mike's from Joliet, Illinois and Frank and Danielle are from Iowa. People from those places never know how to talk right.
Haha... Right. Or Canada, eh? ]]> "Fixing http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=155240 2016-03-25T11:52:28 -05.00 AirVillain 74 Originally posted by: AirVillain
Repop = Reproduction. I heard it on American Pickers, haha... If you hear them use it on there, it actually makes perfect sense. I heard them use the term "repop" before "reproduction" and I still knew what they were talking about. And, of course, they were looking right at a new reproduction piece (replicating an antique). Mike's from Joliet, Illinois and Frank and Danielle are from Iowa. People from those places never know how to talk right.
  ]]> "Fixing http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=155240 2016-03-25T10:58:54 -05.00 AirVillain 74 Originally posted by: andrew244
 
Originally posted by: quest4nes

What the fuck is a repop.

That word sounds ridiculous and made up
iirc it was something coined on here years back from misuse of 'repro'.

I'll throw my hat in the ring for this thread; I can't remember exactly when I first got my current NES, but I know I've had it since at least 2012. When I first got it, I snipped the 10NES, cleaned and re-bent the pins. In the past 4 or so years, I've never had to perform any sort of maintenance on the thing. Sure I may get a blank screen every now and then, but just quickly reseating the cart once is all it takes.

I think the unsung hatred of the BLW is from it having an incredibly stupid name, looking fugly as hell, and that NES games look fuckin stupid sticking up inside the cart bay since you can't push them down anymore. I really don't think that's it.... But close.

Repop = Reproduction. I heard it on American Pickers, haha... If you hear them use it on there, it actually makes perfect sense. I heard them use the term "repop" before "reproduction" and I still knew what they were talking about. And, of course, they were looking right at a new reproduction piece (replicating an antique).

So I just used the terminology here...

4 years is a good run with a boiled/bent set of pins. I just did mine recently... as noted in the thread. ]]> "Fixing" your NES' and playing games... http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=155240 2016-03-25T08:08:04 -05.00 AirVillain 74 "Fixing" your NES' and playing games... http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=155240 2016-03-25T04:54:30 -05.00 AirVillain 74 "Fixing http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=155240 2016-03-25T03:33:07 -05.00 AirVillain 74 Originally posted by: stardust4ever

Well the NES was piled on top of other consoles slid off, and fell a couple feet onto a pile of game clutter. My game room is a pig sty. Wasn't a hard fall by any means. My atari has also faired similarly. Game boys and DS hold up pretty well against physical shock but the cart ports on SNES and N64 do tend to be a bit loose (about 2mm or so of wiggle room) compared to Genesis, Atari, and other top loading third party systems. Sometimes I'd stuff folded paper behind the game cart as I've had games crash multiple times on the SNES or 64 from tripping or yanking a controller cable.
You could chuck an Atari down a flight of stairs while on and it wouldn't even flicker. Also lol the portables are kinda designed for taking drops so it'd be pretty hard for one of them to fuck up

]]> "Fixing http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=155240 2016-03-25T03:25:03 -05.00 AirVillain 74 Originally posted by: andrew244

Originally posted by: stardust4ever

Originally posted by: andrew244

iirc it was something coined on here years back from misuse of 'repro'.

I'll throw my hat in the ring for this thread; I can't remember exactly when I first got my current NES, but I know I've had it since at least 2012. When I first got it, I snipped the 10NES, cleaned and re-bent the pins. In the past 4 or so years, I've never had to perform any sort of maintenance on the thing. Sure I may get a blank screen every now and then, but just quickly reseating the cart once is all it takes.

I think the unsung hatred of the BLW is from it having an incredibly stupid name, looking fugly as hell, and that NES games look fuckin stupid sticking up inside the cart bay since you can't push them down anymore.

 

Respectfully disagree with you there. By that logic, you could say the SNES and N64 and every other cartridge system out there looks stupid with the cartdge sticking out. The original loading tray, as a functional device, was fugly as hell. BLW simply works and is an elegant design, and the plastic is just as sturdy if not moreso than the original loading tray.

I had my NES fall off my desk without the game glitch or crash. Not in a million years would your game session survive a fall like that with the original loading tray. You so much as breath funny on the original loading tray, and your game crashes.
On the first bit, I was talking about the device itself. Bare PCB with really cheap looking edge connectors soldered on compared to the original pin connector. Once the BLW is inside, if you don't look into the system, it doesnt look much different from the original.

On the second bit...hell, most consoles couldn't survive a fall without the game freezing. It's probably since the BLW you're using is still brand new...wait a few years. And the original loading tray...yeah, no, I just put mine through a beating and the only times it fucked up was when the cart popped up from slamming the system. Otherwise, the thing was fairly resiliant. 
  Well the NES was piled on top of other consoles slid off, and fell a couple feet onto a pile of game clutter. My game room is a pig sty. Wasn't a hard fall by any means. My atari has also faired similarly. Game boys and DS hold up pretty well against physical shock but the cart ports on SNES and N64 do tend to be a bit loose (about 2mm or so of wiggle room) compared to Genesis, Atari, and other top loading third party systems. Sometimes I'd stuff folded paper behind the game cart as I've had games crash multiple times on the SNES or 64 from tripping or yanking a controller cable.
]]> "Fixing http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=155240 2016-03-25T03:00:15 -05.00 AirVillain 74 Originally posted by: stardust4ever

Originally posted by: andrew244

iirc it was something coined on here years back from misuse of 'repro'.

I'll throw my hat in the ring for this thread; I can't remember exactly when I first got my current NES, but I know I've had it since at least 2012. When I first got it, I snipped the 10NES, cleaned and re-bent the pins. In the past 4 or so years, I've never had to perform any sort of maintenance on the thing. Sure I may get a blank screen every now and then, but just quickly reseating the cart once is all it takes.

I think the unsung hatred of the BLW is from it having an incredibly stupid name, looking fugly as hell, and that NES games look fuckin stupid sticking up inside the cart bay since you can't push them down anymore.

 

Respectfully disagree with you there. By that logic, you could say the SNES and N64 and every other cartridge system out there looks stupid with the cartdge sticking out. The original loading tray, as a functional device, was fugly as hell. BLW simply works and is an elegant design, and the plastic is just as sturdy if not moreso than the original loading tray.

I had my NES fall off my desk without the game glitch or crash. Not in a million years would your game session survive a fall like that with the original loading tray. You so much as breath funny on the original loading tray, and your game crashes. On the first bit, I was talking about the device itself. Bare PCB with really cheap looking edge connectors soldered on compared to the original pin connector. Once the BLW is inside, if you don't look into the system, it doesnt look much different from the original.

On the second bit...hell, most consoles couldn't survive a fall without the game freezing. It's probably since the BLW you're using is still brand new...wait a few years. And the original loading tray...yeah, no, I just put mine through a beating and the only times it fucked up was when the cart popped up from slamming the system. Otherwise, the thing was fairly resiliant. 

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