A few moments ago I took my Animaniacs Game Boy cart that was beyond repair. I gave it a good open cleaning and no avail, so I checked it with my multimeter and I got no voltage on both chip (not sure why but I have theories). Since I had no use for it, and there was no way it would work... so I decided to smash the two chips with a hammer.
What do you do with your games that just burn-out? I just smash them sadly. It only happened twice, thankfully.
I cleaned the cart, made sure it was all fine, and still my Sonic the Hedgehog for Mega Drive didn't work.
I haven't smashed or any thing, it's complete in box but will be thrown to the trash, probably, or put on ebay for 99p (yeah better try to sell it than throw away).
I have an extra copy of Micro Machines for the NES that doesn't work. I have a post-it note adhered over the label that says, "more like Broken Machines".
I have an extra copy of Somari that no longer works. I decided to open it up and take a look at the globtop board, and now it's all glitchy. Damn cheap pirate shit! >:(
I have a Quattro 4 in 1 NES cart that has game crippling errors, a famicom pirate that has game crippling errors, and like 6 famicom carts that don't boot no matter how much cleaning I give them. I just keep em anyway since they're kinda pretty to look at.
(BTW all carts I got that don't work were DOA >:()
A friend gave me a Sonic 2 cart a long time ago that displays the Produced or licensed by Sega Enterprises message but after that it doesn't do anything. I keep such broken games for spare parts.
I also had a caseless, broken 190 in 1 Famicom multicart with real chips lying around for many years until I completely forgot about it. Before throwing it away I decided to reseat all of the socketed chips since I had nothing to lose, and it worked! ;D I got a case for it and now it's one of my favorite multis :D
Quote from: ericj on April 19, 2010, 05:36:42 pm
I have an extra copy of Somari that no longer works. I decided to open it up and take a look at the globtop board, and now it's all glitchy. Damn cheap pirate shit! >:(
Somari I had was rather high quality fortunately...
Otherwise, I've only come across 2 games that wouldn't work at all (both in flawless cosmetic condition [pins and all], which left me surprised when they didn't work). In both cases, I just added them to excess game lots on eBay, stating they didn't work.
I have a number of Sega CD games I had as a kid that are now so scratched they're totally unplayable. Unlike cartridges, CDs just don't survive abuse kids put on them. :'(
a lot of my cd/dvd games wind up breaking with so many scratches, my brother usually doesn't bother to put them away, instead he just throwns the disc on top of the tv or on the game case. Gotta love discs because cartridges are so lame ::)
Normally I just take the games to my video store to get cleaned but it seems futile to not wreck Cd/DVD games.
dang I always sell my games when they don't work anymore. Of course, I always say what happened to them and that they don't work. Maybe someone can make them work you never know.
And people buy them? My Gameshark for the Game Boy Color just broke or stopped working to it's potnential a few days ago when I used the gamer trainer (first time actually using a trainer to make a code) and I froze Small Soldiers when playing on my Super Game Boy and I wnet to reset it but the cheat screen never came up... later I found that you Have to use the trainer to input a code but you have the have switch off when starting. I bought it new and all. At least I can take snapshots.
I know of a couple people that will trade me stuff for non-working (cosmetically sound) cartridge games. They use them to make repros or to just reflash them depending on what it is.