rester | 3 Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 I recently got a few NeoGeo Cartridges and some of them show glitches on screen. Some have no audio, others have part of the screen messed up. I am playing US cartridges on a Japanese console (shouldn't matter). Tried to clean the cartridges with q-tip and alcohol but didnt really do much. Can the cartridges be damages? It's weird because this is happening on multiple of them. Or maybe the console? Thoughts appreciated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a3quit4s | 4,300 Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 Total speculation but multiple carts is probs the console but no way to know for sure unless you have a multimeter to do some trace checks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rester | 3 Posted May 23, 2021 Author Share Posted May 23, 2021 Here is the example of Last resort. FWIW some cartridge work fine and the neogeo aes neosd works fine as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sumez | 3,127 Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 Sounds like a classic example of dirty cartridge connections honestly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rester | 3 Posted May 23, 2021 Author Share Posted May 23, 2021 I rubbed the connections with alcohol- there was dirty but things did not change. Still glitching Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanooki | 5,079 Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 Yeah what, the carts? Rig up something like the NES cleaning kit for the CONSOLE and hit that vigorously. That does look like a dirty connector more than a cart, especially since you've cleaned them. It is possible you have invisible to a glance funk, maybe a magic eraser bit wet with 91% alcohol would help. I've had to do this before, and despite the usual on a paper towel appearing clean, I get a little hidden gray that was more dug in and bam the game worked. Worst case scenario, you're starting to have a chip failure, but the NeoGeo being arcade hardware has checks and it would start kicking some sort of warning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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