Fuck people who say blowing in cartridges doesn't actually do anything, they're wrong

I thought it was the moisture in your breath increasing the conductivity of the contacts which made it work.

thank god for digital

it's literally just reseating the cartridge
the blowing part is placebo

Placebo does make you feel nice though

What you're actually doing when you blow on the cartridge is reseating it.
The NES has a bit of wiggle room and carts don't sit snug inside of it, this means that sometimes your pins won't line up properly.

If you ever turn on an NES and get that blinking green screen, you can just sit there and slowly shift the cart from side to side while its still on and eventually you'll see the main menu flash in and out. Just hit reset and you're good to go cause you've got the pins lined up now.

Blowing in the cart does literally nothing but get spit on the inside, you would have just as much luck taking the cart out and putting it back in.

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You're not supposed to spit in it dummy.

Game stopped working. *blow cartridge* Game starting working how do you explain that

It did fix it when it was sufficiently dirty to cause problems with the contacts.

Your breath basically always has moisture in it, every time you blow on a cart you're getting little spit particles on the pins inside that will slowly do damage to the game.

That's a good point

nah, take an eraser and clean the chips.

No just pulling it out and plugging it in almost never helps, you're spewing pseudo science that some braindead e-celeb taught you and you've probably never even played on old cartridges.

>the blowing part is placebo
what if theres dust in there?

user I still have the NES I grew up with, fucking try it next time your game won't boot, just shift it from side to side until it works. Spitting on your game has nothing to do with it.

Why didn't you ever have to blow into SNES or Genesis carts?
This is an NES exclusive problem because of the way the carts sit inside of it, it has nothing to do with dust and spitting on your games really doesn't help

Also NES owner here, true for NES, I swear though it just fucking works gameboy and famicom cartridges

Normal people don't spit everytime they blow a bit of air.

Yeah it does something, it makes things worse

Blowing into the cartridge obviously works to blow away material like dust and hairs that could be interfering with the contacts. But the moisture from your breath will cause corrosion in the long run so you should really just use a qtip with some alcohol.

At this point I think it's just zoomers writing articles about how it didn't actually work because it does fucking work. I actually still do it today, as a quick fix. Obviously alcohol is taking it to the next step, but sometimes a blow works.

>Why didn't you ever have to blow into SNES or Genesis carts?
That's a pretty big assumption right there. I doubt many people distinguished betweeen them and just blew whatever cardridge wasn't read. Hell, I still do it

It displaces dust, but the moisture will degrade the contacts much faster than just wiping or using alcohol instead. Short term it works, but long term you're just breaking your games.

Exhaled air has 100% relative humidity. The air is fully saturated with water, as in it literally can't hold more.

what are you a zoomer or something

Because those systems were better designed to avoid the contact problem of the NES.

Yeah you're right, it makes it even worse by blowing moisture in
>bro why use glue when you can use your own sticky cum??

Yes. To specify, it was only an issue with the original NES, not the later top loader model.
The original Famicom didn't suffer much either, the problem came from ridiculous redesign decisions intended to make the console look "more appealing" to the west (ie making it load like a VCR).
In comparison, the SNES, Genesis and N64 used similar slots to the original Famicom or top-down NES which is why there were far fewer issues (but whenever there was a problem, you bet damn well people would blow into that shit).

This issue with the NES comes from the fact that the original slot in the front-slot NES had very shitty connector pins that would stick and not seat properly, sometimes even permanently bending over time, meaning that the connection would not be flush. The issue was NEVER the cartridge, but the console. The best fix at the time was to remove and reseat the cartridge, hopefully getting it set right.

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>ps1 disc won't read
>blow on it
>works
Try to explain that away asshats

>doesn't work after 100 tries
>works the one time its blown
>HURR ITS JUST A COINCIDENCE EVERY TIME DURR RESEATING

Nah you're dumb

More than half the people on Yas Forums have no idea what you are even talking about.

The PS1 is a cheap piece of shit with a garbage laser and a lot of the time just opening and closing the lid was enough

even zoomers had Gameboys, that user is just a retard

This is the same kind of logic that leads to people doing superstitious shit like biting off a goats ballsack before going fishing because the last time they did it they caught a really big fish

If it works every time then there's literally no reason not to do it

what about all the times where it doesn't work so you just keep doing it until it works?

Almost every time some nigga says "Watch this, I'll make it work" they have to take the game out, blow into it, and put it back in a few times before it works.
Which basically means they kept reseating the cart until it worked, but convinced themselves that blowing air into the game woke it up and made it realize it was time to work

>dial up not connecting
>blow into phone
>can finally log into aol messenger

It can work depending upon the problem but it also damages shit, retard.

You don't blow air out of your mouth or nose without some modicum of wetness meaning you corrode the contacts over time for MAYBE getting dirt out which you could've done without adding humid water.

Blessed blowing, fixing my genesis games.

It works, but it also slowly corrodes the connections because there's moisture in your breath
>Just don't spit when you blow, how can you be such a troglodyte?
Yeah, sure, the reason you can see your breath on a cold day is because there's moisture in it.
So, if you think you're not spitting when (you) blow then go outside on a real cold day and see if you can blow without seeing your breath at all. good fucking luck

So what you're actually "suppose" to do instead of blowing at all is used canned air.

t. Daffy Duck

Dude, just take out the cart and put it back in a few times and it'll work. It's usually corrosion on the pins.

See: list of logical fallacies

leterr rip

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I never blew in them. I would insert nes carts until the were barely in and press them down making sure they would be tight against the front of the console. Works literally every time.

This shit too. Sometimes you need to tilt the cart.

I just put a fan inside of my nes and it never needed to be blown again because the contacts didn't get hot and disjoint.

i've never had the problem with anything other than a vcr style nintendo nor the need to "blow" into anything that wasn't a vcr style nintendo
which tells me that it was the engineering choices behind the nintendo design that became major flaws of the product
even the standup nes worked just fine without blowing, but by the time that released everyone had moved on to super nintendo

Sometimes this bullshit worked. Couldn't fix the big scratches on most though

I knew someone that would lick the cartridge.

>make up hypothetical situation that supports your argument
>haha I am right now
wow user thanks for this one neat trick to win every argument

>based retards didnt have proper gamerlip muscles to disallow moisture while blowing

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This is a thread full of larping zoom zooms, someone better give up the name of the youtuber that used a reddit level of science knowledge to say blowing dust off pins does nothing to help them connect. Ive had a top loader nes since it came out and it has this issue the game boy has this issue the snes the 64. Its dust you mongs. Your breath acts like free compressed air to blow that shit out of there. Sure the moisture does damage over time but my old nes still works and runs games just as good as it used to.

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Its literally not dust, you're just a fucking idiot

This. I've never had a NES but on anything from Gameboy to DS blowing was a powerful tool.

well it does do SOMETHING
it makes the situation worse by introducing moisture to the contacts

you should unscrew the case and clean the pins with eraser

>not using mold and mildew cleaner to clean the connectors
thats the problem, there is mold growing on the connectors
you have to spray it down and use steel wool to clean it all off

It was the contact pins not lining up properly. Very rarely would there be that much dust on a cartridge to impede contact.
The method I posted earlier was all I ever did.
It would rarely fail except for sometimes you would have to push it in or pull it out a few millimeters to get the proper contact.

>collecting dust while inside a box inside another box
sure thing

>blowing cartridges

What year is this?

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>not using a tuning fork
The problem is that Nintendo fucked up and set the natural frequency of the game carts to be different from the frequency of the NES connectors, that's all you're doing when you blow on it, raising the frequency the cartridge is vibrating at (and getting it wet and damaging it)

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All you had to do with game boy was move the cart up or down. You were just dumb.

>steel wool
Don't do this. The contacts are much softer and will easily be damaged.

Mold cleaners are acid too. Its a shitpost.

nah i'm different

Wrong
If a cartridge is separated from the console, the spiritual link between the two decreases. You need to infuse the game with a bit of your mortal soul as this acts as a spiritual catalyst, improving the connection. Hence why you spit into it