Taylor, Taylor, Taylor.
Let me tell you a not very interesting story.
A long time ago when I was a little lass I got an N64. I was given Zelda OoT, got stuck, rage quit, then never played it again. A while back I took the N64 out of storage but it was borked and I didn't know why. Dude at the game store told me it was the AV cable so I brought a new one. It wasn't the AV cable.
Turns out to fix it all I had to do was shake it violently. Now it works. Years later, still stuck on Zelda because I don't know how the diddly to get out of that room~