Harvest moon SNES not working

Cavenyx

Just bought a copy of Harvest Moon for SNES. Cart looks good. I tested it and it didn't work so I tried cleaning it, no luck.

I tried it on a normal Snes, Retro duo and even the Hyperkin Supaboy. It does not work.



I opened it up and took some pictures of the board. The contacts look good but I'm no pro at this so maybe someone can spot the BooBoo.



Could the battery be the problem? Wouldnt the game start but not save in this case?



I'm out of options. Help!





**Edit  I noticed it says 1993 on the board and the game came out somewhere in 1997? Am I the victim of "board switch fraud" here?

NewUser123456789

Honestly to me those pins still look dirty, what method did you use to clean them?

Abelardo

sns-aywe is Harvest Moon



Yeah like Paul said the pins still look a bit dirty, recently I tried the pencil eraser method to clean the contacts and it's very effective, give it a try!

Shinju

Pins look worn to me, the gold is pretty much gone.



Is that a spec of dirt on the trace for pin 11 on the backside of the cart? Almost looks like the trace was cut.

Cavenyx

Originally posted by: Paul



Honestly to me those pins still look dirty, what method did you use to clean them?

Just a Q-tip and window cleaner. I'll give it another rub.



I usualy just give it a small rub and the game works fine afterwards but maybe this one requires a heavier scrub.



Thanks

Shinju

Another trick I do if the game is being a pain is to get the finest grit sandpaper and give a few light rubs accrost the pins then do one more pass with a Q-tip and rubbing alcohol and 9/10 times they fire right up unless there is damage to the board or chipset.

Cavenyx

IT'S ALIVE! I used rubbing alcohol this time.



Rubbing alcohol > Window cleaner

Shinju

Originally posted by: Ravengamer



IT'S ALIVE! I used rubbing alcohol this time.



Rubbing alcohol > Window cleaner

 

Crisis Averted!



Lesson of the day too!

Cavenyx

Originally posted by: Shinju

Originally posted by: Ravengamer



IT'S ALIVE! I used rubbing alcohol this time.



Rubbing alcohol > Window cleaner

 

Crisis Averted!



Lesson of the day too!





 

  Big relief!  I paid 10$ in a local ad for it. Shweet!



Ima go play me some harvest moon now. 



Thanks for the suggestions/help guys! Greatly appreciated!

NiO

same is happening to my Mario RPG... it doesn't work... I'm gonna try with the pencil eraser method and later on alcohol and see if it works (I hope so)