OK, well, I bought a copy of Blaster Master from my local used game store and the outside looked IMMACULATE and the pins looked decent. Well, I cleaned it with alcohol on a q-tip like every game before I try it and put it in the system and...nothing. Tried cleaning more...nothing. Well, today I brought it back since they have a 3.8mm security bit (just ordered mine ).
It turns out the inside must have gotten wet at some point because the resistors were very corroded and there seemed to be a couple brown spots on the long skinny sections of the pins that lead back to the main chips as well as a very brown/rusty looking side of a resistor.
We cleaned it as best we could and they said they would give me a refund if I tried it again and it didn't work (they didn't have an NES to test it there) or even let me exchange cases if I bought one online and it wasn't as good, but does anyone think it would be possible to bring it back from the dead?
The inside looks identical to this scan of "Solar Jetman"
The most damaged/corroded/rusted resistor is the one in the lower left of the picture with the lower side (with respect to the picture) in the worst shape.
So I was wondering if water can damage/fry the actual main chips or do you think the resistor acted like a fuse and burnt out? I'm interested both as someone interested in preservation of the NES as well as a Mechanical Engineering student interested in a real world scenario. I can take a picture of the ROM board whenever I get my copy of Blaster Master from Amazon.com in and go to bring this copy back if anyone is interested. This is the first used NES game that I couldn't get to work with alcohol and a q-tip.
It turns out the inside must have gotten wet at some point because the resistors were very corroded and there seemed to be a couple brown spots on the long skinny sections of the pins that lead back to the main chips as well as a very brown/rusty looking side of a resistor.
We cleaned it as best we could and they said they would give me a refund if I tried it again and it didn't work (they didn't have an NES to test it there) or even let me exchange cases if I bought one online and it wasn't as good, but does anyone think it would be possible to bring it back from the dead?
The inside looks identical to this scan of "Solar Jetman"
The most damaged/corroded/rusted resistor is the one in the lower left of the picture with the lower side (with respect to the picture) in the worst shape.
So I was wondering if water can damage/fry the actual main chips or do you think the resistor acted like a fuse and burnt out? I'm interested both as someone interested in preservation of the NES as well as a Mechanical Engineering student interested in a real world scenario. I can take a picture of the ROM board whenever I get my copy of Blaster Master from Amazon.com in and go to bring this copy back if anyone is interested. This is the first used NES game that I couldn't get to work with alcohol and a q-tip.