Can I get this Duck Tales working again? Open Cart Surgery

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Жыл бұрын

Someone scratched up this copy of Duck Tales on NES and it hurts my feelings. I'll do what I can to get this game working again.
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@JohnRiggs Жыл бұрын

New to Open Cart Surgery? I've done over a hundred of these videos you can binge right now! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/epmko9OjtauygZc.html

@dwaynemenzies8824 Жыл бұрын

Gilatinous

@jediknight52501 Жыл бұрын

A great game that I loved to play on the NES

@nickparsons337 Жыл бұрын

This episode has officially become my favorite open cart episode.

@omarvalderrama1314 Жыл бұрын

I like the style all blue glasses n tshirt matching I have those glasses

@davidwilkerson1904 Жыл бұрын

You should invest in some copper wick to help desoldering along with liquid flux to help keep the solder balled up.

@MissingLinx Жыл бұрын

To put it back together you should have used ducktape.

@marccaselle8108 Жыл бұрын

Woo-Hoo!

@mraycgz Жыл бұрын

Good one

@destindude1978 Жыл бұрын

You really quack me up 🤣

@brokenastartes2848 Жыл бұрын

😄

@marccaselle8108 Жыл бұрын

@@mraycgz thanks

@aldoushuxleysghost Жыл бұрын

"I almost kissed you right on the tip". 🤣 😂 💀 I lost it there I live in Kentucky. About an hour from Louisville. Maybe I'll pop in and try to find you there

@bstar777777 Жыл бұрын

When you are soldering the pins, you really want to use flux so that the solder immediately attracts to the metal. I have a couple flux pens lying around that make it trivially easy to do. When you are done clean up the residue with IPA.

@guillermos8447 Жыл бұрын

Agree 100%

@nyanpasu64 Жыл бұрын

If this is flux core solder, the freshly melted solder may have enough flux to wet onto metal until the flux burns off on the iron. In some cases, adding extra flux still helps.

@bisnaut2751 Жыл бұрын

Those resistors are actually capacitors as indicated with C....resistors are designated with R on the silk screen

@egocide9034 Жыл бұрын

Good usage of that there Double Dragon jingle. Yeah, it's stuck in my head now lol.

@andychamplin Жыл бұрын

I'm going to share my recent open cart surgery. Recently I purchased a couple of games from my upstairs neighbor's boyfriend for $20. Arcana and Super Wrestlemania which had been in storage for as long as he could remember. Arcana cleaned up fine and worked pretty good. Super Wrestlemania had some serious water damage, but the board seemed to be intact. I cleaned it up and it didn't work. I grabbed my multimeter, soldering iron, flux pen, and solder. There were places where there wasn't any solder so while I was reflowing I was also adding new solder to these areas. I double checked everything with the multimeter and I was pretty satisfied. I handed it off to my brother and he popped it in and it worked like it was brand new. The cartridge was still dirty and scuffed, but for being my first cartridge I actually repaired I was satisfied.

@fluffybutt38 Жыл бұрын

You done really good on the soldering , but flux is your friend .

@themrnails Жыл бұрын

PRO TIP: if you decide to solder please cover the gold fingers and flux is your friend.

@7thangelad586 Жыл бұрын

I like the sleight of hand. Can we see a Riggs magic show in the future?

@northofnashira2575 Жыл бұрын

1:50 John's homage to Jay in Mallrats backstage before the dating game show.

@DoctorSquirtle Жыл бұрын

I'm hearing the DuckTales Moon Theme in my head. One of the best pieces of music in a video game ever. The version in the remastered game is amazing too and it was used as both a lullaby and an action sequence in the cartoon reboot. Great job getting it working again.

@AndyDo Жыл бұрын

Smokemonster is why NeoGeo is as alive as it is today, in a lot of ways.

@khaimk4r4su Жыл бұрын

8:42 that was so funny and melodic!

@imslipfactory6107 Жыл бұрын

Love the music on this game! Really liking the cart repair videos as well.

@KEE_Wii Жыл бұрын

It’s amazing how much staying power Duck Tales has had considering my kids are watching it now. From what I gather these early games are actually really good.

@leozar69 Жыл бұрын

I didn't have Duck Tales, but I had Chip & Dales, and Darkwing Duck, among other non Disney games. Willow, and Battle for Olympus are 2 very nostalgic and memorable games for me. I could keep talking about classics forever ✌🏻😅 I love my Steam Deck by the way.. Best game preserver machine. 😊

@Deanster101 Жыл бұрын

Love these videos, more open cart surgery please!!!

@caseywilliams4145 Жыл бұрын

Hope your feeling ok bud always good to see your videos

@Jshsprngr Жыл бұрын

Solid to “Flux” (?) is the term when it “melts”

@archer6979 Жыл бұрын

I see you found a good spot for the princess tomato in the salad kingdom Famicom cart.

@doublebass1985 Жыл бұрын

A good analogy for the liquid solder is that it looks like liquid mercury you know like in those old thermostats? or an old thermometer.

@EtaYorius Жыл бұрын

This dude looksand sounds exactly like Lester from GTA5, dang he even have the same quirks lol. I'm totally subscribing.

@MiamiSunrise Жыл бұрын

The desoldering gun sounds like a piggy 🐖🐷 Oink Oink!

@jswets5007 Жыл бұрын

Great job. Get bifocals or a magnifying glass 😂

@TheMultiGunMan Жыл бұрын

Great video as always John.

@RufusTheRed Жыл бұрын

i love these so much john , thank you , i got my soldering start turning old controllers into joysticks , moved to battery replacement , havent messed with chips yet , you make it look so easy , i stress any time i need to , my super mario rpg ff6 lagoon ff4 secret of mana and evermore all need changed and i honestly spent to much to want to do it to them until i have to so im playing them knowing i could lose all my save data at anytime if they are 23-30 years old and still working. rereading that i may be mentally ill , who talks like this.

@Bobby8451 Жыл бұрын

Lol, no wonder Riggs got bad eye sight. Staring at those little board points will do it. RIP eyes.

@leozar69 Жыл бұрын

That is one of the classic Disney games I didn't have growing up. But I do now. Back than I had Chip & Dale, and Darkwing Duck. Don't remember if I had other ones..🤔 It's interesting to see you fix these games 😊 Very informative. Thank you 👍🏻

@sambranton3346 Жыл бұрын

I loved that game,, bought it on holiday in the states for a fraction they cost in the UK. Got home to find out I could only play it using a game key which I had to get via mail order and it took weeks to arrive. Still have it all in the loft. Love these videos.

@IowaRetroGamerDad Жыл бұрын

" Looks like it could burn you if you touch it.... DON'T TOUCH IT! " John Riggs

@macaronibones105 Жыл бұрын

Open Cart Surgery Easy: "We need a 1UP card," Med: "Have to get the bright boy for this," Hard: "We're going to pull this one's brain off, and stick it on that one."

@PantsManUK Жыл бұрын

Great vid, turned up in my recommended list and thought I'd give it a go. Pronunciation tip for the UK trip - Norwich is pronounced "no-rich" (with the short "oh" sound of "not", rather than the long "oh" of "no").

@CarecaRetrogamer Жыл бұрын

Hey, John! WOW, Duck Tales!!! This is amazing! That Moon music is SO nostalgic, brings back memories of when I was a kid playing it... OMG... Great job bringing it back to life, man! Nice video, man! Cheers!!!

@talon12020 Жыл бұрын

I can't say I've ever seen anyone solder without using flux before.

@OuTSMOKE Жыл бұрын

DUCK TALES! A WOO-OOO!

@ChairmanMeow1 Жыл бұрын

"That feels so good. Gonna give it a little wiggle too." - John Riggs Hope you're feeling better!! :)

@destindude1978 Жыл бұрын

You should do a whole video on fixing that entire bag of games that you showed in this video!

@popculturehero Жыл бұрын

Really Enjoyed this one. More involved than the usual cleaning fixes, a little soldering action reminds me of fixing computers in high school. "Don't touch it!" Seemed to go perfect. Just scraping the ruined board and a football game. Life is like a hurricane.

@CalTheHogNosedBat Жыл бұрын

the line "there's crowning" actually made me laugh, awesome work, John

@MrRobarino Жыл бұрын

As an alternative to swapping the chips, those gouges in the board could have been jumper and soldered over by gently scrapping away the green solder mask on each side of the break

@GAMECLOSET Жыл бұрын

YAY! Dude, that was just cool. I have been reluctantly holding off on soldering. I’ve seen Perifractic of Retro Recipes do it, The 8-Bit Guy, many others, and I finally caved in and bought a decent little soldering station. I still need one of those desoldering guns because that’s the way to go. But I have wick here for now. I have 6 Atari 2600s I want to attempt saving. They all probably need new caps, so, wish me luck. I’m going to begin on that soon, but I’m probably not going to do a video for that… I’m a comedy video game channel, not a “watching me give myself burn blisters channel” 😂. Thanks for the cool video.

@hectormontalvo5565 Жыл бұрын

Patient saved Dr.Riggs!✌

@scottg7660 Жыл бұрын

Moon theme all day.

@adamp2201 Жыл бұрын

Can't wait to see you in Louisville! Grew up in the area, it's amazing

@tommythrowback Жыл бұрын

Man I really enjoyed that! I see you in everyone’s videos like PGS and Retro Rick. I hope we can meet at a con soon. I also loved your top Neo Geo game videos. Keep up the great work and Gabbo was right you are awesome!

@petercorsi7454 Жыл бұрын

"It's crowning" lol

@Wheels8504 Жыл бұрын

The best way to start my afternoon

@bonesz0659 Жыл бұрын

Great job John! Glad to see your getting lots of use out of the desoldering gun I sent! I love mine too! Keep it up brotha!

@BDBD16 Жыл бұрын

Did you say Duck tales?? A WOOOOHOOO

@charliehustle2591 Жыл бұрын

My kids hear it as well (CRT frequency). Drives my youngest crazy. 😂

@galenhead5252 Жыл бұрын

Howard the duck took it out on that snes game...mr Riggs Midas to the rescue lol sweet

@RetroFix Жыл бұрын

Strangely I've notice Ducktales is a frequent NES "open cart surgery" at my place of business but never a dang board swap! Woooooo boy! Hakko 301 for the win!

@froggy7570 Жыл бұрын

"Life is like a hurricane... living in Duckberg." "Racecars, lasers, aeroplanes!." "It's a duck blurr!" "Might find a mystery." "Or rewrite history...!" "DUCKTALES... A-WOO-HOO!!!"

@jeremy2283 Жыл бұрын

One of my favorite NES games. Hope you get it working John! Edit: too bad the original board is bad.

@IowaRetroGamerDad Жыл бұрын

Some days I feel like I just need to listen to the Duck Tales and Rescue Rangers theme song on repeat. lol Great video John!

@bryanjensen2614 Жыл бұрын

It should be a mandatory requirement that every time you say Duck Tales you have to say "awooo-ooo!" after it.

@mtshark7 Жыл бұрын

Nicely done John!

@derekthedragonlayer Жыл бұрын

This video has confirmed that I'm not crazy and CRTs actually make a distinct high pitched sound. I can still hear it in this video. Guess I'm not old enough yet lol

@branscombe_ Жыл бұрын

looking great today my man. sky blue is def. your colour!

@robart1979 Жыл бұрын

You're a hero and true friend to the retro gamers out there. Impressive work, Mr. Riggs.

@atranfanatic Жыл бұрын

Great job man! Another great game saved!

@NoShoesPlays Жыл бұрын

YAY! I love these videos John! See? You were like "I need carts to do surgery on" and here we are! Thank you!

@justinmohan7103 Жыл бұрын

This was a really good one of these Open Cart Surgeries. It had a lot of twists lol.

@dwightdixon8508 Жыл бұрын

No tech background or engineering degree ain’t got nothing on decent success rates working on these since the 90’s. IDK spitting out unrom, cgr, prg & eprom sounds pretty techie to me LOL great work sir!

@JohnRiggs Жыл бұрын

all through osmosis.

@travisjames8551 Жыл бұрын

I love your open cart surgery videos i binge watch them all the time 🙂

@ShiroiAkuma Жыл бұрын

I absolutely loved this when it came out.

@biostemm Жыл бұрын

How do you think the original cart got those scratches on it?

@loopymatt2 Жыл бұрын

Fixing one of the best NES games ever! 😍 I'm hoping to come see you at the Louisville Arcade Expo!

@shadowvash07 Жыл бұрын

As far as conventions go, really hope we get you at TooManyGames sometime soon.

@CanadianRetro Жыл бұрын

Hope to see you at MWGC. Cheers John

@Patmanx1 Жыл бұрын

10:01 I use an old radio shack soddering starting kit iron. It's not fancy either, but It's changed all my gameboy batteries and modded my GBA just fine.

@matthewlane518 Жыл бұрын

LOVE the blue glasses

@willeysingleton3057 Жыл бұрын

That was actually impressive

@fatfurie Жыл бұрын

dibs on this copy!.. great work haha

@maxstoner5527 Жыл бұрын

I don’t care a whole lot about fixing old games or fixing anything really. However the knowledge you impart is still interesting to me and your a likeable fella 🤙cheers 🍻

@TedSchoenling Жыл бұрын

also bodge wires will work just fine to repair the damaged traces.

@emmanuelpregnolato5026 Жыл бұрын

Love the explanations. Tx R.

@Jay_AB_ Жыл бұрын

That's a impressive "fat sack" you have there John, great video as always

@zacharyagler3007 Жыл бұрын

Maybe we should call you Dr. Riggs

@warrendesenberg Жыл бұрын

Hoping to get to Midwest Gaming Classic too!

@garrettstevens944 Жыл бұрын

I want to dissect one of those boards for knowledge

@Mrshoujo Жыл бұрын

Scratched edge contacts? Just flux and solder over the scratches and traces, bridging the damage.

@catholicactionbibleonlyist1813 Жыл бұрын

Where on long island,I assume Hicksville again, I know Hicksville all too well,Billy Joel is form Hicksville I am from Bellmore which is on the south shore

@The2xWhiskey Жыл бұрын

I had to do this with my personal copy of Mega Man 2. The pin form factor on the PCB wouldn't let it work with my top-loader NES.

@genos_vacuum Жыл бұрын

If you haven’t met this man yet I suggest you do! He is a a blast to talk to and is VERY polite! Met him at Sac gaming expo and is just the best human being in the world! Thank you for your videos!

@andrewdupuis1151 Жыл бұрын

Duck Tales great game i played it on c64

@jonothanthrace1530 Жыл бұрын

Weird hypothesis re: chip orientation on the boards: It's so you can read the chips if you're holding the board the way you would to put it in a front-loader NES. Don't ask me why you would be inserting the board itself and not the entire cartridge. (I'm not even sure if you can get an NES game to work with just the board; I bet the weird slanted loading system would get cranky if you tried.

@Xx1SailorScoutxX Жыл бұрын

It's possible; you'd just have to take off the top half of the shell of the console.

@gedfaz Жыл бұрын

Excellent that you are coming to England.... It's pronounced 'Norich' by the way.. the 'w' is silent.

@CB3ROB-CyberBunker Жыл бұрын

yeah. sram chips usually come in both wide dip and narrow dip packages. there is no functional difference between them. just a matter of an extra row of pads with the exact same pinout in the middle.

@LoriArrowood Жыл бұрын

Hope you enjoyed the Louisville Arcade Expo!

@davidbrinkman7867 Жыл бұрын

Love me some Riggs MD!

@Mike__P Жыл бұрын

No tech background, as he explains what the chips on the PCB do lol AND has a $500 soldering gun 😂

@Perfectly_Balanced930 Жыл бұрын

So I have a few NES games that I've tried playing in a Hyperkin NES clone console. I cleaned all the carts but I still cant get them to work consistently. Sometimes I get a black screen, sometimes a distorted screen, sometimes a normal screen. Any idea what to do next? I used isopropyl alcohol, jewelry polishing rag and finally brasso to clean the contacts. They shine like new but very inconsistent when it comes to loading on the Hyperkin. Thanks.

@codyseevers6405 Жыл бұрын

I said to my self he look like he wants to kiss the soder remover seconds before you said you thought about kissing it. You just gave it that look.

@ultramaximusreviews Жыл бұрын

Very interesting video

@nowster Жыл бұрын

Norwich rhymes with porridge. If you have time, visit the cathedral.

@peterluxford6752 Жыл бұрын

John you are hilarious 😂 Really enjoyed your vid 👍😎

@steampog Жыл бұрын

Duck Tales, Woo-ooo

@RecrutaZero78 Жыл бұрын

Wow! I’m extremely intrigued about the circuit boards. Wondering where to find them? Apparently there are different ones? How to know which is which? 🤔🤔🤔🤔 Not sure if a video about would have interest but I will keep an eye on it 😊