Cart Rattling?

[Bobinsky]

Do Famicom carts usually rattle when you shake 'em?

[nintendodork]

A few of mine do...I think it just depends on various things (age, usage, etc.)

[133MHz]

No, if yours does, it's got a broken bit of plastic inside.

[nintendodork]

Curse various Famicom cart producing companies (Including Nintendo) and their laziness

[JC]

The boards inside are held in place by tabs and sometimes a hole through the board where a peg from the cart runs through. If any of those break, your board will be destabilized. Sometimes you get a nice jingle from the loose plastic piece. It seems to happen more with pirates than with licensed carts, for the obvious reason.

[Bobinsky]

Well, there is not anything apparently broken inside, it is just that the board is a wee bit loose.

[FamicomFreak]

Yes it's plastic broken inside. Sometimes you'll hear like there is something inside. Well the carts should work normally if you take care of them you know. I have a couple that do that I wonder how many beatings they went through before they came to paradise(me) wekekkee

[Walky]

No, if yours does, it's got a broken bit of plastic inside.

Or even a capacitor some times

[Doc]

Yeah, a lot of mine do. They work just fine, as others before me have said, it's just a piece that was broken. It does make you wonder who the heck owned these things before you did... some of mine had dirt that was in places where I can't even fathom dirt getting into! Did these people bury their games in wet soil before sending them to me, sometimes?!

[nensondubois]

My Super Mario USA cart doesn't rattle so the Nintendo carts are a little bit better, even my Lagrange Point cart doesn't rattle so games licensed through Nintendo are still strong which means these were probably made with the same machines.

[manuel]

It all also depends on how "mistreated" the carts were through their lives.