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…
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