Super Mario Brothers 3 problem

I have a retron 3 and it plays games like battletoads(lol) and double dribble perfectly. So I am having a great time and I pop in what I bought it for, SMB3. It shows the intro screen but the controller does not react, it just sits there taunting me. There is also no sound but I feel like there was never sound at the begging I can not remeber. Does anyone know why this could be happening. Also SMB1 just sits on a grey screen but that is because the stupid game store i go to sells crappy games =/. And these games are compatible with the retron it is not like I did not do some research. Thanks fellow legacy gamers.

Have you cleaned the cartridges? if you don't know how you can use some q-tips soaked in some window cleaner or some similar similar solution the rub it along the cartridges contacts then let it sit to dry (don't put it in the console covered in the cleaning solution). Hope that helps.

yeah i was about to say, there are hardly ANY games that are NOT compatible with the retro consoles. usually it has to be SNES or Genesis games that have a chip in them that makes the game better (Doom on snes, Virtua Racing for genesis, etc)

i cleaned it and it ended up working, I actually just recently learned that you could straight up scrub it with window cleaner. I wish I always knew thats what you could do opposed to blowing on it until its broken ahah. I am going to have many super mario sesions ahead of me now haha =D thanks for the responsefadeetoblackk

[QUOTE="fadeetoblackk"]i cleaned it and it ended up working, I actually just recently learned that you could straight up scrub it with window cleaner. I wish I always knew thats what you could do opposed to blowing on it until its broken ahah. I am going to have many super mario sesions ahead of me now haha =D thanks for the responseDarkman2007

It's probably better to use alcohol though, not because it's a better solvent but just because it dries so quickly and you don't really have to worry about it being dry.

[QUOTE="Darkman2007"][QUOTE="fadeetoblackk"]i cleaned it and it ended up working, I actually just recently learned that you could straight up scrub it with window cleaner. I wish I always knew thats what you could do opposed to blowing on it until its broken ahah. I am going to have many super mario sesions ahead of me now haha =D thanks for the responsemagnax1

It's probably better to use alcohol though, not because it's a better solvent but just because it dries so quickly and you don't really have to worry about it being dry.