i need help with my snes controllers

[Belmont86]

i have this super mario world 2 yoshi's island for super nintendo it was in working condition but i tried it a few days ago and it wont work i can see the nintendo title screen and after that i can only hear the music but the screen is all black no image will show please i need help i want to know if it can be fixed or not also i got wario land 4 for game boy advance and it wont load i just see the game boy logo but not the nintendo and it stays on that screen nothing else happens.

please brothers i need help with this problem thank you.

[Arseen]

Yoshi: Either dirty connectors for the FX-chip (the 2 extra boardson both sidesof the main board)? Or busted FX-chip?

Wario: Dirty connectors?

[Belmont86]

yoshi: i open it and everything seems fine i even cleaned the conectors and the fx conectors and still the same

wario: i cleaned them but still the same.

i dont know what to do.

[Arseen]

Try cleaning consoles as well.

If you can try the games on another consoles too, so you know is it console or the games.
But if other games work fine, it's the games probably.

[AppleQueso]

I've had an SNES get really screwy with Super FX games before, so the system being wonky is very possible.

[Belmont86]

i tried all of the other games and just that one wont play right.

[Arseen]

Sounds scarily like busted FX-chip = dead game.
But try with different console if you can.

[wiggy]

How are you cleaning the cart and system?  Do other FX games work?

[Belmont86]

i cleaned the contacts with alcohol and i tried star fox and it does play.

[Seraph Man]

Have you tested the games on another console? If you've got a store that sells old school games or does video game repair, they may have spare consoles which you can test the games your games on, if you don't have spare consoles to test with.

[wiggy]

Are you able to open the cart?  If you don't have a gamebit to do so with, then there's a trick you can use to open them with a cheap ball point pen.  That will give you better access and the ability to really give it a good scrub if it needs it.  Just "cleaning" it may not solve the problem.  Corrosion/buildup can be an issue as well.  I found that a huge amount of my carts were pretty crusty once I started cleaning and casing them (I bough most of my games used, so who knows how they were treated/stored before I owned them).

[Belmont86]

i did the pen trick and open it but everything its clean. im gonna try to test it on another console maybe someone i know has an snes to do it.

[Belmont86]

hi i got another question tcp friend. well i have 2 original snes controllers and am having problems with them. on both controllers the start button wont work i open it and cleaned it but that didnt fixed the problem. can someone give me an idea on what to do? thank you in advance

[wiggy]

Open again, check for broken/corroded traces from that button.

Clean BOTH the contact pads on the buttons themselves and the PCB.  Isopropyl will do the trick, any concentration.  If the brass contacts on the PCB look corroded, then I would suggest something called TarnX. I've been using it for a while to restore water damaged portables with a LOT of success. Just make absolutely sure to clean it all off when you're done. If left on metal, it will eventually tarnish/corrode the metal part (ironic, as it's used to remove tarnish).

[Dr.Agon]

i was going to suggest broken traces as well, had a controller where the start button didnt work all the time, opened it up and the board had a crack just after the start button, bit of solder sorted it out!