Flash Carts killing your consoles (According to Nintendo life)

KRIKzz is so confident in his products that he deleted the topic about René's article on his board...
We really need other flashcard competitors to increase the quality.

 

Sane answers.
Everything else is drunk talk.

 

If someone's console fries what is the likelihood they're going to attribute it to 3rd party hardware and not just wear and tear?
It took me 2 gamecubes to realize my madcatz controller was killing them.

 

Did anyone actually take into account the risk of shorting out and damaging the cart slot when using it excessively with original cartridge games?

I mean, when using a flash card you generally select games without using the cart slot.

Would be interesting to see some statistics about this after 10,000 cart inserts/removals in a console.

 

I remove USB drives without safely ejecting them first. I'm not going to avoid using a flash cart because of the tiniest possibility that it might perhaps at some point potentially cause some unknown level of damage to either the console or cart, not sure which.

 

The cartridge slots aren't really a big point of real failure. You can clean or replace those if need be. The real damage is when custom ICs are damaged. Since they are custom, replacing them is difficult since the only source will be other consoles. It's theoretically possible you could have FPGA designs to replace custom chips in the future for certain chips in certain consoles as we can see the beginning with products like the Analogue NT Mini and RetroUSB AVS clones of the NES.

My original SNES that I've had since the 90s developed an internal failure very recently in one of the two PPU chips. It certainly wasn't a flash cartridge that caused that. Age and use are going to always be the main factors in failures. It's like people that believed PS1 modchips or CD-R use caused them to fail. It's using them that causes them to wear out/fail. Although I guess in the case of the PS2 there actually was a reason in some models that modchips could cause laser failure issues.

 

Since Windows XP, Windows defaults to an automatic safe USB eject mode. As long as you're not read/writing from it when you pull it out it's always safe.

 

He's a mad lad, don't deny it!