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Star Fox 64 and Uselessness
On 04/12/2013 at 02:28 AM by Super Step See More From This User » |
So some of you may remember a week or so ago I had fired up the N64 and found that Donkey Kong 64 and 1080 Snowboarding would glitch after a few minutes of playing. I mentioned that I had been fiddling with the A/V cables (now that I remember red goes in the middle, there should be a lot less of that in the future) and turning the console on/off several times trying to get it to work, as well as the fact for some reason I always seem to have to turn the DVD player on then off to get full image and sound... I actually don't think that's entirely true, and next time without any A/V cable troubleshooting, I don't think that'll be the case. I need to work on getting my color-coded wires down before I fail to diffuse a bomb and kill myself. After that stunt I pulled on my neighbors with the HAL 3000 two blogs ago, It's only a matter of time, really.
Maybe watching Queer Eye for the Straight MacGyver can help
Well, I was playing Star Fox 64 this time, for quite a while, but then it froze I believe right at midnight, or close to it, cause I pressed the TV/Video button after turning it off, and Daily Show was just starting. So what I'm thinking is this may have something to do with the fact I was recording a re-run of Conan at 11:30, then recording a Daily Show re-run at midnight, while Conan was still going, and I'm thinking because the TV I play on is hooked up to the DVR, maybe that was too much going at once, hence the game freezing? It is overkill, so something to think about.
Pictured Above: Men deep in thought
... about bomb diffusion and what a metrosexual MacGyver might look like
As for how far I got in the game itself, I was on the right (re: red-lined) path until Slippy died in the toxic waste planet. I had just the level before been thinking, "actually, annoying as that toad is, the submarine did have unlimited torpedos, and Falco and Peppy are being kinda disrepec..." *cut to next level* "Fuck you Slippy, I was having a great run! ASSHOLE!" So I had to beat the pirate guy boss without a health bar showing up for him. On the bright side, Kat showed up in Macbeth, the tank level I was taken to for failing.... or so I thought was a bright side, but she said she'd take the switches on the left if I got the right. Well, from what I could see, I got all the switches on the right, yet somehow still wound up with one or two swicthes showing up as red on the master switch at the end, and fighting the "bad-ending-to-the-level boss." So I restarted. A lot. Gets a little old having Falco say "I guess I should be thankful." Yes jackass, you should be; it was ONE SMALL ENEMY, and I saved your dumb ass from more damage pretty quickly.
So to recap:
Seemingly Useless (picture courtesy of Falco's remake of Titanic, subtitled "Going Down")
Definitely Useless (and apparently licks other toads before flying;
just cause Denzel can do it doesn't mean you can!)
Total ungrateful asshole, obsessed with cat porn
Anyway, I took into consideration some advice I was given last time:
Pixlbit's PB&J host, Jason Ross, said it was an issue with pins in the N64 itself not connecting to the cartridge correctly. I hadn't thought of that, but it seemed in there pretty tight this time, so I don't think that was it.
Coolseltzer was kind enough to give me a number to call and see if Nintendo would clean it. It does need to be cleaned further, so regardless, I'll be doing that as well, and calling if major problems persist.
teemurro77 had said to blow in the cartridge. Oh believe me, I grew up with cartridge-based Nintendos, I know the drill! lol so I don't think that's it, but I did like the comment.
Thanks to everyone that was kind enough to comment that blog with helpful troubleshooting tips on that blog, and if you don't think my DVR overkill hypothesis holds water and want to help me be less of a jackass when troubleshooting my consoles, or just want to share some thoughts on Star Fox 64, feel free to leave a comment.
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