I never had to do that to my N64 cartridges. That was the meme for the NES.
And even then, blowing on it didn’t really help. It was the ejecting and reinserting of the cartridge that fixed the issue because the slot on the NES was janky.
We did it with the SNES sometimes, too. But yeah, never had to blow in the 64 carts. They just always worked. Shit, one of our 64 games the shell broke off so it was just the PCB and even that always worked.
I never once felt the need to blow on a SNES cartridge either. I promise you, it was 100% only a NES thing.
In fact, the edge connector was never really the problem and blowing on it was never more than a placebo that actually did more harm than good. The real issue was the weird VCR-like insertion mechanism the NES used, and I’m pretty sure
the later top-loader version solved the problem even for NES cartridges.
Way to make me feel old.
I never had to do that to my N64 cartridges. That was the meme for the NES.
And even then, blowing on it didn’t really help. It was the ejecting and reinserting of the cartridge that fixed the issue because the slot on the NES was janky.
We did it with the SNES sometimes, too. But yeah, never had to blow in the 64 carts. They just always worked. Shit, one of our 64 games the shell broke off so it was just the PCB and even that always worked.
I never once felt the need to blow on a SNES cartridge either. I promise you, it was 100% only a NES thing.
In fact, the edge connector was never really the problem and blowing on it was never more than a placebo that actually did more harm than good. The real issue was the weird VCR-like insertion mechanism the NES used, and I’m pretty sure the later top-loader version solved the problem even for NES cartridges.
I had to if it got dusty. But then, that was… nearly 30 years ago and I was a wee lad.
SNES for me, and rather frequently.