bfutrel Posted December 1, 2005 Share Posted December 1, 2005 Good news - I found my 7800! Woohoo! Bad news - it does not work. There seems to be some rust or something on the back of the circuit board near the power connector. Actually after removing the shielding, there is quite a bit of rust on most of the solder joints. Rats! Any suggestions besides getting another one? It appears to be a 1984 system based on what is stenciled onto the circuit board. Found quite a few games with it too... 7800 games Ikari Warriors, Asteroids, Xevious Desert Falcon, Centipede, Joust Tower Toppler (x2), One-on-One, Donkey Kong Jr Food Fight (my fave!), Galaga, Pole Position 2 Ms. Pac Man, Barnyard Blaster, Choplifter Robotron: 2084, Summer Games, Jinks Fatal Run, Karateka, Dig Dug Ballblazer 2600 games Atari: Swordquest Earthworld, Super Breakout, Berzerk, Missile Command, ET, Realsports Baseball (case cracked by Dad's boot ), Bowling, Millipede, Star Raiders (no keypad), Circus Atari, Vanguard, Jr Pac Man, Solaris, Battlezone, MouseTrap Sears Tele-Games: Space Invaders, Stellar Track M Network: Super Challenge Football, Super Challenge Baseball, Dark Cavern, Armor Ambush, Air Raiders, Astroblast, Tron Deadly Discs, Adventures of Tron Imagic: Demon Attack, DragonFire, Quick Step, Solar Storm, Cosmic Ark, Riddle of the Sphinx Coleco: Carnival Sega: Tapper, Star Trek: SOS Activision: Starmaster, Grand Prix, Spider Fighter River Raid (pirate) US Games: Commando Raid, M.A.D., Entombed Parker Brothers: Tutankham, Q*Bert, Reactor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeybastard Posted December 1, 2005 Share Posted December 1, 2005 If you're going to toss the dead one, shoot me a PM. I need a power button for mine so perhaps we can make a deal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 When you say it's broken, what exactly does it do or not do? Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfutrel Posted December 2, 2005 Author Share Posted December 2, 2005 When you say it's broken, what exactly does it do or not do? Mitch 975257[/snapback] It powers up (the red LED is on), but shows no picture at all. The last time I had the system out, it would show green and orange vertical bars on the TV until you tinkered with the cartridge a few times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+-^CrossBow^- Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 Most likely it does work okay. Needs a cleaning no doubt. Search a bit and you'll see some good ways to clean out the cart slot of your 7800. If it had issues before you stored it away...they won't have gone away over time and will have worsened. When I finally pulled my 7800 and games out of 10 year storage, I had to clean all the cartridges and the cart slot on the 7800 as well before I could even get 1 game to work. Haven't had to clean it since...and that was about 6 years ago now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 I've got to agree with Cro§Bow, try cleaning the carts as well as the cart slot and see if that takes care of it. When they don't get used for a while the corrosion builds up to the point where nothing plays. Good luck! Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadow460 Posted December 3, 2005 Share Posted December 3, 2005 I know this has been asked before, but how does one clean the actual cart slot? My 7800 works fine, but I've got a Saturn with a flaky cart slot, and I assume you'd clean them the same way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted December 3, 2005 Share Posted December 3, 2005 Well, you can cut down one from another system or improvise. A thin cloth dipped in Isopropyl alcohol wrapped around an old credit card should work. Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadow460 Posted December 3, 2005 Share Posted December 3, 2005 Well, you can cut down one from another system or improvise. A thin cloth dipped in Isopropyl alcohol wrapped around an old credit card should work. Mitch 975793[/snapback] I've got that readily available. I'll give it a try, then, and see if it'll register the memory card a little easier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted December 3, 2005 Share Posted December 3, 2005 Use a cedit card and VERY high grit sand paper if worste comes to worste. I can garuntee that will work, but be sure to do the alcohol treatment also after the sandpaper to clean it right proper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+-^CrossBow^- Posted December 3, 2005 Share Posted December 3, 2005 Very High Grit sand paper? I think you meant a Very FINE grit sand paper. If you use a high grit paper..then the contacts will just be scratched up and not really corrosion cleaned or resurfaced as I would like to call it. If you use a fine grit paper like that used to get mirror polish on heatsink faces and to smooth down CPUs...then that would do a much better job of cleaning/polishing the contacts. To be honest, the Saturn has such small pins that it really is a bear to clean that cart slot. Mine also doesn't seem to see the memory cart well. But these problems went away when I finally got my 4-1 action replay plus cart. It appears to have a slightly thicker PCB and makes better contact in my Saturn's cart slot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadow460 Posted December 4, 2005 Share Posted December 4, 2005 Isn't the Action Replay made by InterAct? First thing I had problems with in that slot was one of their cartridges--the Memory Card Plus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+-^CrossBow^- Posted December 5, 2005 Share Posted December 5, 2005 usually yes...the Action Replay is made by Interact. And it is a Memory Card Plus that I also have trouble with on my Saturn. However, this action replay plus 4-1 is only Action replay code compatible. It isn't made by Interact. I don't know who makes it...but it is considered hands down, to be about the best add on card you can get for the Saturn. The best memory card in general is the actual Saturn Backup cart from Sega. But those tend to get even more expensive than the 4-1 carts do like I have. You can't save to the 4-1 directly from within game like you can to the Sega memory card, or sometimes to the memory card plus (When it works...). But you can store a ton of saves in the cart by backing up what you have in the Saturn's internal save. Funny how you also mention the same memory cart as I with regards to the problems. As I understand it, the Interact Memory Card plus is one of the worst for the Saturn in general. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadow460 Posted December 6, 2005 Share Posted December 6, 2005 Yep it is, and that's why some of the local stores smash them when they come in. The more Memory Card Plusses that get smashed, the merrier. I also had a gob of problems with both Gamesharks. I'm going to go out of my way to avoid and to warn everyone I see to avoid all InterAct products that aren't controllers of some type. My Saturn GameShark died, and my N64 one is gonna corrupt some game saves if I keep using it. Now I have seen an Action Replay on ebay that looked like it was in a white Backup RAM cartridge case. I wonder if that's the InterAct product or the other one. I saw a Backup RAM cart on ebay also. I was gonna bid on it, but I know someone on this forum needs one, and I didn't want to outbid them when I have a Backup RAM already. I'd like to get a second one to assist me in writing a FAQ. That one sold for $20 plus shipping. I paid $65 for mine when it was brand spanking new. So really, they are selling cheap, as $60 plus tax was the suggested retail price when they were produced. That is the best $60 a Saturn owner can spend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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