Alright, I've got a converter that lets me play my Famicom games on my NES. Everything was fine until I went to take it out of my NES one day and found myself with a hand full of ribbon. The cartridge and the converter remained trapped within my console for some time while I kicked the wall a few times and then went to get a screwdriver.
Anyway, I've got to come up with some way of replacing the ribbon that got torn off of my converter. I thin it'd be a stretch to try to reapply it so I'm looking into alternative methods. Have any of you had this problem and made up a solution for it? Currently all I can really come up with is getting some kind of strong twine and craftily wrapping it around the converter.
Thanks for any suggestions you can give me!
Get a Game Genie handle. :D
Hey, not a bad idea. I wonder if the converter could be removed from its plastic casing and swapped with the Genie's innards.
Get a top loading NES :P
Quote from: son_ov_hades on September 11, 2008, 08:39:51 pm
Get a top loading NES :P
That would have been the solution I would have recommended, my converter fits perfectly in the NES 101 Toploader and has no need for a ribbon.
Am I the only one who had their Game Genie handle break off? It was only attached to the converter with glue. :P
Quote from: UglyJoe on September 12, 2008, 08:02:02 am
Am I the only one who had their Game Genie handle break off? It was only attached to the converter with glue. :P
My game genie has the handle screwed on, not glued.
Haha... I was silly. I do have a Top Loader and that was the first thing I tried but the games weren't working. After pondering it for a bit the problem hit me. Turns out that I was plugging the games into the converter backwards. I'm so used to having the games label side out that that's the way I put them on the converter. Since it wasn't going into a standard NES I didn't even notice the contour lines not lining up. It works now though, but now I have to look at the ugly backs of the cartridges.
At least I can play though! The frontiers of ignorance have been pushed back!
Quote from: The Uninvited Gremlin on September 12, 2008, 08:13:06 am
Quote from: UglyJoe on September 12, 2008, 08:02:02 am
Am I the only one who had their Game Genie handle break off? It was only attached to the converter with glue. :P
My game genie has the handle screwed on, not glued.
I was (still am?) dreading that day. Mine seems to be on the verge of doing that. I just might get another one, seeing as it'd be an excuse to get the variant (I have the gold one, not the black).
Quote from: UglyJoe on September 12, 2008, 08:02:02 am
Am I the only one who had their Game Genie handle break off? It was only attached to the converter with glue. :P
Quote from: The Uninvited Gremlin on September 12, 2008, 08:13:06 am
Quote from: UglyJoe on September 12, 2008, 08:02:02 am
Am I the only one who had their Game Genie handle break off? It was only attached to the converter with glue. :P
My game genie has the handle screwed on, not glued.
:P
Mine was both screwed on
and glued ???
Quote from: nurd on September 13, 2008, 07:58:52 am
Quote from: UglyJoe on September 12, 2008, 08:02:02 am
Am I the only one who had their Game Genie handle break off? It was only attached to the converter with glue. :P
Quote from: The Uninvited Gremlin on September 12, 2008, 08:13:06 am
Quote from: UglyJoe on September 12, 2008, 08:02:02 am
Am I the only one who had their Game Genie handle break off? It was only attached to the converter with glue. :P
My game genie has the handle screwed on, not glued.
:P
Mine was both screwed on and glued ???
Odd, mine isnt. Mine is a bit odd, it has visible screws on the back.