• grue@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

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

    Edit: you can downvote me, but I’ve owned a SNES since 1991 and have literally never felt the need to blow in a cartridge.

    Edit 2: By the way, blowing into the cartridge never actually worked to begin with, even on the NES. It only seemed like a thing because of the North American NES’s shitty push-in-then-down cartridge loading mechanism. Not only did top-loading consoles like the SNES and Sega Genesis not have the cartridge connection problems that led people to think they needed to blow on it, the top-loading revised NES didn’t either!

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      8 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.

      It was shocking when I learned many years later that blowing on the cartridge did nothing.