Anyone know anything about SNES repair?

[DejahThoris]

Mine suddenly went out on me.  Was working great, hadn't used it in a while, bought a PowerPak and returned to my console with new-found passion.  But the PowerPak wouldn't work...  Twice out of ~50 attempts at reseating it booted.  I assumed it was the PowerPak as normal games would boot just fine.  In the past day or so though it's started taking several re-seatings to get normal games to work, and tonight, nothing.  Over half an hour of reseating the cart to no avail, multiple games tried, cleaned both the connector and the carts, still nothing.

Any ideas?

[Drakon]

Bend pins back, clean them.  I find that with a lot of snes system if I insert the cart all the way and then lift it back up a teeny bit I get a much better connection.

[DejahThoris]

Bend pins back, clean them.  I find that with a lot of snes system if I insert the cart all the way and then lift it back up a teeny bit I get a much better connection.

Did that, now most of my games work, PowerPak won't, neither does MMX2.  I don't have any other special chip games, so maybe that's it...

[Drakon]

Did you try your powerpak / mmx2 in another snes?  You could probe that the cartridge pin connections are connecting to the pcb on the underside.

Bend pins back, clean them.  I find that with a lot of snes system if I insert the cart all the way and then lift it back up a teeny bit I get a much better connection.

Did that, now most of my games work, PowerPak won't, neither does MMX2.  I don't have any other special chip games, so maybe that's it...

[GohanX]

If all else fails, you can try swapping the cart slot. The SNES one doesn't require soldering if I remember correctly.

[DejahThoris]

Did you try your powerpak / mmx2 in another snes?  You could probe that the cartridge pin connections are connecting to the pcb on the underside.

Bend pins back, clean them.  I find that with a lot of snes system if I insert the cart all the way and then lift it back up a teeny bit I get a much better connection.

Did that, now most of my games work, PowerPak won't, neither does MMX2.  I don't have any other special chip games, so maybe that's it...

No other SNES to test on, have one coming in the mail..  And MMX2 worked last week without issue, so I wouldn't assume it's the game.

[xelement5x]

Maybe the PCB on the powerpak was thicker than regular SNES games and was just that extra bit to push the pins out a bit too much on your SNES.  You said you already bent the pins back though right?

[DejahThoris]

Maybe the PCB on the powerpak was thicker than regular SNES games and was just that extra bit to push the pins out a bit too much on your SNES.  You said you already bent the pins back though right?

Yes.  I've tested a bunch of games, and anything with a special chip doesn't work, anything without does.  No DSP, no Capcom chip (I forget what MMX2's chip is called), no SuperFX, no PowerPak.  But normal games work fine...  Freaking weird...