8th March 2004, 11:27 PM
I never tend to have trouble with the carts myself because I always put them back in their cases when I'm not playing them. Sometimes I need to clean the connectors, but generally I don't really even need to clean much except the occasional NES cleaning.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)