Spanner Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 (edited) One of the connectors on the board of the cartridge could be sticking out abit and when you inset the cartridge it catches on one of the teeth in the slot and beds it. It could be down to just one cartridge doing it, if you fix it and it happens again then its a cartridge doing it. Edited January 30 by Spanner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peloquin17 Posted January 30 Author Share Posted January 30 3 minutes ago, Spanner said: One of the connectors on the board of the cartridge could be sticking out abit and when you inset the cartridge it catches on one of the teeth in the slot and beds it. It could be down to just one cartridge doing it. I’m pretty sure I checked the cart connectors when cleaning them, but now I’m having second thoughts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pumaconcolor Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 I'm sure this is why previous Atari clones didn't have cartridge slots; who wants to deal with angry customers and their ancient cartridges? I hope Atari sticks with it and makes improvements and further revisions on the 2600+, since it seems like it could be a really excellent long-term product. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SabertoothRetro Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 @Ben from Plaion - Is there a way to order replacement cartridge guides? The plastic on my right cart guide is chipped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben from Plaion Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 41 minutes ago, SabertoothRetro said: @Ben from Plaion - Is there a way to order replacement cartridge guides? The plastic on my right cart guide is chipped. DM me I can send you one 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peloquin17 Posted February 5 Author Share Posted February 5 thanks to Ben, my 2600+ is back up and working! I guess I should update the firmware now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben from Plaion Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 20 minutes ago, Peloquin17 said: thanks to Ben, my 2600+ is back up and working! I guess I should update the firmware now. I'm pretty sure I updated the dumper to 1.1.0.9 so indeed just update your firmware and play some games! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draugr Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 (edited) Just a thought here and maybe this is not the case, but is it possible that the pins in these cart slots are cheaper quality than those made back in the 1970s/80s and they bend or warp much easier than the original cartridge ports/pins from back then? I'm just asking because I bought an Ultimate64 which is a modern FPGA C64 board. I've had the 2600, Colecovision, Intellivision, NES, C64, Atari 130XE, 600XL, etc... most since the 1980s and I NEVER had a damaged cartridge port or bent pin. Then one day my Ultimate64 wasn't working when inserting carts. I went crazy trying to figure out the issue. Was it the cart, the computer itself? Nope! The cart port had a bent pin. First time I ever experienced that and I rarely used carts on my Ultimate64, but back in the day, I'd use carts like most of us (all the time). When I got my Ultimate64 Elite board the first thing I did was buy a cartridge port elbow device so I could connect that once to the Ultimate64 cart port and then just insert the carts into the top of the elbow adapter, thus avoiding problems such as bending the pins on the actual cart slot. John Edited February 7 by Draugr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SabertoothRetro Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 On 2/2/2024 at 9:14 AM, Ben from Plaion said: DM me I can send you one Thank you. DM incoming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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