Please do not blow into the Nintendo cartridge

Rob Beschizza 5:04 am Fri Aug 2, 2024

Photo: Lost in the Midwest

Blowing into Nintendo cartridges loosens dust but accellerates corrosion and shortenes their lives. This is perhaps the well-known given wisdom these days, but iFixit took a deeper dive into the cartridge conundrum. Teardowns!

Here's a video showing off that official cleaning kit, embedded below.

Four years after the launch of th…