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Tightening Cartridge Lever

If your cartridge lever is loose on your launch model SNES, you can take the console apart and move the bottom end of the spring into the hole on the left. This will add more tension on the spring and make the cartridge release lever much …

1 min readUpdated Oct 9, 2026

If your cartridge lever is loose on your launch model SNES, you can take the console apart and move the bottom end of the spring into the hole on the left. This will add more tension on the spring and make the cartridge release lever much more firm.

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