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acceptable67
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 Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 1:10 pm Post subject: Gameshark Question! |
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Hi there, I'm not sure if this is the right forum to put this, but I had purchased a Gameshark recently and it arrived today. Put it in with Super Mario 64, and all I get in the LED is an '8'. I've tried absolutely everything; cleaning contacts, blowing, putting in games from all keycode regions, nada.
I really would like this to work. Any advice?
Flashed double lines on screen, so it's detected. But just blackness.
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fantsu
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| Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 12:19 am Post subject: |
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Basic trick is to pull the shark out just by little so the contacts work better.
There might be problem with the flash program of the gameshark too. |
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acceptable67
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| Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 4:41 am Post subject: |
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| fantsu wrote: | | Basic trick is to pull the shark out just by little so the contacts work better. |
I will try this suggestion. Otherwise, going to attempt to return it and get another. (3 GS's I would have then, ouch.)
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Dragonsbrethren
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| Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 6:33 am Post subject: |
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| The N64 GS dies if you look at it the wrong way. |
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HackBond
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| Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 6:42 am Post subject: |
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| Dragonsbrethren wrote: | | The N64 GS dies if you look at it the wrong way. |
Hahaha, with the amount of GS's that have died, it's probably true. |
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bmw
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| Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 3:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Several of my gamesharks have died just sitting in storage. I busted mine out not that long ago (had 3 working ones) and that's down to just 1. |
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acceptable67
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| Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 7:05 pm Post subject: |
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Read about a guy who's GameShark nearly cought fire.
These things are terrible haha... Bought another one. Cross fingers the damn thing actually works X
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Wreck
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| Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 12:57 am Post subject: |
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I barely use either of my two anymore. Thought one had died off, but ended up working again. Always ready with a trusty Q-Tip whenever I'm in need of GameShark usage. It seriously seems to help a lot.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 5:27 pm Post subject: |
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Wreck, you mean with 90% or higher isopropyl alcohol ?
I'm kind of skeptical about applying on my slim PS2 eye.. and hopefully it may resurrect my v3.2 Gameshark too |
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acceptable67
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| Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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If you have the bricked/broken hardware LED '8' rubbing alcohol won't work.
I went to the store with my friend and bought a bottle specifically for this. Took the cart apart, applied to contacts, cleaned out all the dust. I did get to clean up my N64 carts, though!
If the one coming in the mail works, I can reflash both of my other GameSharks via Piggy Back method, and if all works well I should have 3 working GameSharks.
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Wreck
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| Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 12:39 am Post subject: |
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I just use the plain old Q-Tip. With decent enough pressure applied, it works for me quite often. If a GameShark is screwed up because of a program error or manufacturing issue, this obviously won`t help. But if it just has problems starting up sometimes, a good cleaning isn`t a bad idea.
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acceptable67
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| Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2013 10:14 am Post subject: |
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Got a new one in the mail. Working like a charm. Piggy-backed it with my other 3.x and it reflashed it, so now I have 2 working GameSharks. 
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EternallyAries
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| Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2013 4:22 pm Post subject: |
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Every GameShark I own has died. Its a surprise there still GameShark carts going around the market for the N64 today. But I do say there was one GameShark I own that lasted me for about 6 years. And it was the original version. Any GameShark I own after the original version died on me in less then 3 or 4 months. So I just give up on such a thing now unless I got my hands on another original factory sealed GameShark.
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