Time to get creative...

[PatMan33]

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!

[nurd]

Get a Game Genie handle.

[JC]

Hey, not a bad idea. I wonder if the converter could be removed from its plastic casing and swapped with the Genie's innards.

[son_ov_hades]

Get a top loading NES 

[NintendoKing]

Get a top loading NES 

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.

[UglyJoe]

Am I the only one who had their Game Genie handle break off?  It was only attached to the converter with glue. 

[NintendoKing]

Am I the only one who had their Game Genie handle break off?  It was only attached to the converter with glue. 

My game genie has the handle screwed on, not glued.

[PatMan33]

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!

[Jedi Master Baiter]

Am I the only one who had their Game Genie handle break off?  It was only attached to the converter with glue. 

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).

[nurd]

Am I the only one who had their Game Genie handle break off?  It was only attached to the converter with glue. 

Am I the only one who had their Game Genie handle break off?  It was only attached to the converter with glue. 

My game genie has the handle screwed on, not glued.

Mine was both screwed on and glued 

[NintendoKing]

Am I the only one who had their Game Genie handle break off?  It was only attached to the converter with glue. 

Am I the only one who had their Game Genie handle break off?  It was only attached to the converter with glue. 

My game genie has the handle screwed on, not glued.

Mine was both screwed on and glued 

Odd, mine isnt. Mine is a bit odd, it has visible screws on the back.