/vr/ - Retro Games

>lengthy abrupt loading screens occur in the middle of the level

My genesis has been working fine, until today. The game I was playing was running fine, and then suddenly froze (music still playing). You know, the type of thing that happens if you wiggle the cartridge around while its in the slot, except I was not touching the genesis whatsoever.

Reset the game, and this time it froze during the intro. I try reinserting the game, and now I get nothing when powering on. I said "fuck it" and decided to switch to another game, and strangely that one didn't work. Or the next one or any of my genesis games.

So, I decided to give it the works. Completely opened up the genny, cleaned the cartridge slot pins using the credit card method, etc. Even took out the motherboard for inspection. No fucked up capacitors and I don't think there are any dry solder joints, although I know fuck all about soldering and I can really say is that I didn't happen to see any cracks/rings around any solder joints, but they're also tiny and I barely know what to look for, so take that with a grain of salt.

So I try inserting a couple games to see what I can get. Now I'm at least able to get the TMSS screen, but when it goes away I just get continuous black screen and no game.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I really don't feel like going through the trouble of buying a replacement genesis