NintendoAge http://nintendoage.com/forum/ -Sqooner Has anyone fixed a faulty Nintendo Switch cartridge themselves without having to send it in to Nintendo for repair? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=8&threadid=187839 2019-07-13T16:20:12 -05.00 Majin Majora 9 Has anyone fixed a faulty Nintendo Switch cartridge themselves without having to send it in to Nintendo for repair? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=8&threadid=187839 2019-07-10T18:32:06 -05.00 Majin Majora 9 Has anyone fixed a faulty Nintendo Switch cartridge themselves without having to send it in to Nintendo for repair? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=8&threadid=187839 2019-07-05T10:42:40 -05.00 Majin Majora 9 Originally posted by: Boosted52405

What do folks do with all those Pokemon DS Distribution carts that have been snipped at the bottom? I swear I've seen someone on here that attempts repairs at those...


I fix them. You basically transplant the chip to another board- it's tedious though. ]]> Has anyone fixed a faulty Nintendo Switch cartridge themselves without having to send it in to Nintendo for repair? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=8&threadid=187839 2019-07-05T10:35:09 -05.00 Majin Majora 9 Has anyone fixed a faulty Nintendo Switch cartridge themselves without having to send it in to Nintendo for repair? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=8&threadid=187839 2019-07-05T10:09:01 -05.00 Majin Majora 9 Has anyone fixed a faulty Nintendo Switch cartridge themselves without having to send it in to Nintendo for repair? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=8&threadid=187839 2019-07-05T07:46:28 -05.00 Majin Majora 9 Has anyone fixed a faulty Nintendo Switch cartridge themselves without having to send it in to Nintendo for repair? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=8&threadid=187839 2019-07-05T03:54:03 -05.00 Majin Majora 9   ]]> Has anyone fixed a faulty Nintendo Switch cartridge themselves without having to send it in to Nintendo for repair? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=8&threadid=187839 2019-07-04T17:42:00 -05.00 Majin Majora 9 Has anyone fixed a faulty Nintendo Switch cartridge themselves without having to send it in to Nintendo for repair? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=8&threadid=187839 2019-07-04T17:26:01 -05.00 Majin Majora 9
The top three games that become faulty from what I have read are as follow in order:

1) Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
2) Splatoon 2
3) The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

(There was a third party game as an outlier, but it was a single person, so it may have been a one time fluke.)

I have Mario Kart 8 Deluxe for Nintendo Switch. (Second copy of the game that I've owned.) The game cartridge will not read whatsoever 100 times out of 100. Only the MK8D cartridge has this fault; every other game cartridge works, so I know it's not the console's game cartridge reader. The pins looks pristine like any other game cartridge I have. It has to be something to do with the board inside of the physical cartridge. From what I have read, if you open up a game cartridge, there is no way to put it back together; essentially rendering it useless.

Does anyone have any insight at all regarding this topic of faulty game cartridges? I'm no expert or guru with electronics and PCB's, but I know there are a few of them on this forum. I find it incredibly annoying that there are no answeres on the entire worldwide web...  ]]>