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oldgamerz:
a little 97% isopropyl alcohol is a great method for cleaning out the cartridge tips, just use a cue tip dip it in that stuff and gently scrub, with the cue tip of the dirty edge. then take a dry cue tip and scrub the vary bottom of the the game tip.

Trust me it does wonders and one time. It was reading the games right after I removed some thick black dirt off my entire NES collection those cartridges were so dirty before cleaning them not even a new retro duo would read them before I cleaned all of them :D now all of them work perfectly

polygonalpixel:

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--- Quote from: rayne315 on September 01, 2017, 10:19:44 am ---2. N64 carts (don't know why but I have never found but a handful of pristine carts

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I know what you mean here. Whenever I add to my N64 collection, it makes me feel like I was the only kid in America growing up that actually took care of their cartridges.

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Every time I am in a thrift store or used game shop and see N64 carts, it always looks like they have urine stains on them. O.o

marvelvscapcom2:
I think it depends on the vendor and their standards. I have been to retro stores where no lables are damaged at all and everything is so beautiful and alphabetically organized where games are professionally cleaned by the workers before being sold. Those are the places I like to go to :)

But the worst I ever seen was a man at the flea market who specialized in fishing gear and lures. He had a giant table hosting his 5th annual video game barbeque where he was baking video games out in the summer sun. All of the games were sun faded to the paint of being almost unreadable. I went to pick one up because I thought it was flinstones surprise at dinosaur peak but it stuck to the table cloth as it had melted in the 90 degree heat in July. Most of the games had brown gunk on them and it wasn't worth the time to even pry them off of the table cloth. :(

But I think your theory is right, which is why the collecting surge getting so popular is a good thing for preservation because most collectors love and care for the relics and games they have. Anything that falls into the hands of a casual player or little kid will be abused and the more and more that happens is 1 less mint copy in circulation. I see it most with SNES. Finding a flawless Super Mario World 2 Yoshi's Island has been hard for me. :D

Warmsignal:
How about quality of DVD / blueray case era games? Freaking atrocious if you look closely at them. Plastic cases with scuff, snags, holes, artwork with creases, folds, indentations, manuals with curled up ears and picked at edges, and discs with a plethora of scratches. After discovering some of the crap I've foolishly bought thinking complete was all that mattered, I'm looking to replace a number of my games with better copies.

hoshichiri:
It seems like some kids just treated their games differently than others, regardless of how typical kiddy-gross they were. I remember going to friend's house to check out her copy of Final Fantasy X. She walked into the house holding it CIB, I went to the bathroom first. When I came out, I saw the game case in her room, but she was in the living room loading the disc. When I walked around the corner, the manual was on the dining room table. Now, I wasn't the most careful with my PS2 stuff, but at least my case & manual was on the floor/shelf in the same room as the PS2! I actually asked her about it, she didn't even realize she'd dropped the stuff where she had. And yet she wondered how she kept losing things...

I also learned from babysitting that the presence of a toddler changes everything. Just because the first grader knows not to put French fries in the disc drive doesn't mean the two year old gets it. I sometimes wonder how many junked up games are the result of a kid being forced to "share" with a diaper-clad sibling.

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