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Questionmarktarius posted...

That shouldn't be possible, unless the battery has leaked all over, or you've badly mishandled the games.
They were made long before RoHS, so that's actual lead in the solder. Tin whiskers won't happen.

I'd say what, 5% of games actually have a battery?

Depends on your definition of 'badly mishandled'. That can be something as simple as have the 72 pins exposed without the sleeve protector and/or the box to a myriad of environments that can erode the pins, on top of wear and tear on the pins. I wouldn't say 'badly mishandled' since I'd suspect most people that have their NES collection out and exposed don't have the sleeves or the boxes.

Nobody is scratching their ass on the pinouts of the cartridge

And not to mention you had every dingus blowing their saliva into the cart and into the console thinking that was helping things