Don't tell me how to live my life. You're not my real dad!
this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023
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Mine will be back with the milk any day now. It has only taken 20 years.
It worked 30 years ago, it'll work today. Now, where's my cane?
Air keeps escaping mine, so I keep trying to blow it back in...
My game card slot is not allowed to drop below 2 atm of air pressure π
Tangential story. About 7 years back I had a Saturn SC2. One day the warning lights and speedometer etc went all wonky. Car wouldn't start etc. Mechanic said it's likely the computer needs to be replaced.
Fast forward to me figuring out where it was located. I removed it, blew out the connection with just my mouth as I didn't have compressed air to use, and put it back. Worked perfectly after that until my shifting forks cracked several years later and I had to junk the car. Man I loved that car. Good ol' Phoebe (a moon of Saturn and what I named my car)
Maybe you actually have a superpower to fix anything just by blowing on it but you have only ever tried it with that.
That was like a 500 dollar breath of air, that's awesome.
No I don't think I will
The correct answer is compressed air! Breath brings moisture, and compressed air blows the dust out much more efficiently!
Look, what I do when I'm short on cash, but want a new console is my own damn business, so just-- OH!!!! Blow INTO their consoles. Never mind.
Gotta blow on the carts to perform better
People to this day blow in their cartridges soβ¦^^ But the donβt insert cotton tips is probably good advice.
What should we blow instead?
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The real trick is to lick your cartridges before inserting them, helps the bits slide through more smoothly.
You mean I can't get the dust out of the Wii U disk drive that way?
You can't tell me who or what I can or can not blow. In fact, I'm going to blow into my switch right now just to spite you!
Why would you put a cotton bud in?!
Blowing into it nowβ¦ yeah Iβve done that ππ
Yeah well, I will still blow into my NES games, no matter how many youtube videos and articles try to tell me that it's bad. It works and I've never had any ill effects and I've been doing it since the 80s.
Yeah, you blew into the cartridge, not the NES itself.
Isopropyl alcohol (99% is the good stuff), maybe 2-4 cotton swabs, air dry. Dip swab, rub contacts softly, flip sides of cart, rub, cycle swab, repeat. I had no idea for so many years I was actually damaging the cartridges by blowing into them which just put hot air and moisture on dust. If you have any Switch cartridges or older, and haven't done a proper cleaning, it's amazing how shiny and vibrant the contacts will end up looking, along with the cartridge working more stably.
Twenty bucks is twenty bucks
Stuff like this is why they put a special coating on switch cartridges to make them taste disgusting, so kids don't eat them lol
Does the nintendo logo ever look fucked up on the switch? No, then why even blow into it? It's like an SD card slot and no one blows into these.
I don't think there's anyone doing this.