{"id":8717,"date":"2007-04-03T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-03T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/04\/03\/nes-72-pin-edge-connector-replacement\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:35:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:35:20","slug":"nes-72-pin-edge-connector-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/04\/03\/nes-72-pin-edge-connector-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"NES 72-Pin Edge Connector Replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"1\">\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/wiki_archive\/A\/NES_72-Pin_Edge_Connector_Replacement\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/w\/images\/3\/3d\/NES_72-pin_edge_connector_replacement_08.jpg\" height=\"427\" width=\"640\" border=\"0\" alt=\"NES Internal Screw Removal\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>NES Internal Screw Removal<\/center><\/p>\n<p>After acquiring some replacement NES 72-pin edge connectors to fix NES&#8217; for both <a href=\"http:\/\/replika.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">replika<\/a> and I, I decided to take step-by-step photos of the replacement and write up a tutorial on it. So, I give you my <a href=\"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/wiki_archive\/A\/NES_72-Pin_Edge_Connector_Replacement\">NES 72-Pin Edge Connector Replacement Tutorial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is actually really easy to do, fixes the blinking-gray-screen problem which plagues almost every front-load NES (you know, the problem which were supposedly resolved by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bustedtees.com\/shirt\/blowme\/\">blowing on the connector in the cartridges<\/a>), and can be done with just a screwdriver and replacement connector. There is no soldering or electrical repair skill needed for this.<\/p>\n<p>Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/hardware\/EASY_NES_blinking_gray_screen_fix_Replace_The_Connector\">please Digg this story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NES Internal Screw Removal After acquiring some replacement NES 72-pin edge connectors to fix NES&#8217; for both replika and I, I decided to take step-by-step photos of the replacement and write up a tutorial on it. So, I give you my NES 72-Pin Edge Connector Replacement Tutorial. This is actually really easy to do, fixes\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,25,11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-games","category-making-things","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12913,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8717\/revisions\/12913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}