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A whole new 72-pin fix
wiggy:
Backed. Drop in the bucket for something so perfectly simple and genius.
Moviefan2k4:
If they can get these made quickly (like in the next 3 months), I'll buy three for the NES systems I have in a box (never got around to replacing the connectors). It sounds like a very inventive solution, to the point I'm surprised Nintendo didn't come up with it 25 years ago.
KalessinDB:
He's projecting March for delivery, and while many Kickstarters go long, with his background I expect him to be pretty accurate about it.
As to Big N's decisions... you gotta remember it was right after the big crash of '82. They were trying as hard as they could to make the NES look like anything BUT a gaming system, the push-in/push-down thing was intentional. They surely knew it would cause more stress on the connectors, but wanted to make it look different... The Famicom was just a standard cart connector after all!
Moviefan2k4:
I know all about the history of the NES, but my point was regarding why Nintendo didn't offer a similar replacement part once people's systems started malfunctioning. The original connectors wouldn't have lasted more than 2 or 3 years, so they'd have heard about the complaints by 1989 for sure. The Model 2 NES didn't show up until '93 I think, or maybe even '95...and they wound up stripping AV input on that.
wiggy:
--- Quote from: Moviefan2k4 on December 06, 2014, 02:51:13 AM ---If they can get these made quickly (like in the next 3 months), I'll buy three for the NES systems I have in a box (never got around to replacing the connectors). It sounds like a very inventive solution, to the point I'm surprised Nintendo didn't come up with it 25 years ago.
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$$$
that's your answer.