/vr/ - Retro Games

>>423485

Please tell me he at least took it apart before spraying

>>423501
Let's find out, give me a minute and I'll take it apart. Need to sand it down before I do anything anyway.

LikeI say the machine works so I think he will have.

>>423485
>Sanding it back down tot he original plastic is now an impossibility
Why?
You're going to have to strip all that shit off before you even think about re-spraying it anyway, it's a fucking disaster.

Fuck me, I bought a PS1 the other day and forgot to buy a memcard.

Thank fuck for that, it's all clean.

>>423512
All the varnish from the original plastic will probably have been sanded off when he strayed it the first time, so if I take this paint off the original plastic will be a fucking mess. Plus I already have an original so a spray painted one might be cool, if it's done right. Need me some colour suggesions though.

>>423485
Try a dab of this. It removes paint and doesn't harm most plastics in the brief timescale needed to clean (it is friggen MAGIC).

Obvious warnings:
* Be well ventilated. Seriously. Outside with wind.
* NEOPRENE gloves. This stuff will eat vinyl and latex.
* Keep away from the PCB/electrics/optics.

Just dip a Q-tip in, rub on the painted area for a few seconds, and wipe it with a fresh piece of paper towel (have a big stack of pieces of paper towel handy). Repeat until clean. Wipe periodically with a wet piece of paper towel to remove the excess thinner.

>>423535
i was just about to post, but i actually agree with the guy you quoted. you're going to want to sand all the paint off anyway and apply a primer before painting it again. you might consider just finishing the sanding with a fine grit, like 600+, and leaving it like that

why fucking bother. Take a $20 down to your retro game store, and buy a new one.

Or take a $10 to your local goodwill.

>>423535
Matte black, then spray satin red into the cap and fling it over it.
Spray gloss transparent for seal.
If you use good quality paint instead of terrible shitty Valspar, it'll look better than this.

What the fuck happened here?

Also, the spring sems to be missing fromt eh power button. Not too much of an issue, it still works.

>>423539
I'll check it out. I suppose I could use some earbuds for the fins.

>>423553
a) Because if I tried to spend $20 on anything here, they'd look at me funny.
b) Because it's not about a PlayStation, I have one of those. It's a project.

>>423564
Looks interesting, although that seems to be flaking.

Keep us updated on the finish product.

Jesus, I though you got one of those cool developer PS1s...

I'd totally repaint it bright orange, but that's just me and my horrible favorite color

>>423572
he might have left the buttons on when he painted them and just covered the rest of the system. he probably also didn't use a finish

also i am going to recommend red with white buttons because red is a swell color

Failing restoring that case, you could pick up a broken one that someone spilled water on or something and combine the good case with the good internals.

>>423572
>that dust in the vent

NYEH

the uderside of the laser assembly.

>>423597
Looks to be the case.

>>423636
It's not dust. It's just where he didn't spray.

The main board. Those wires mean it's been chipped.

>>423646

I retract my goodwill / retro game store statement. Those guts are worth gold.

wait, is the laser not fucked now or are you some kind of rocket scientist? there's a sticker on it man, says 'don't touch' and everything, it looks like a pretty important sticker dude. I always listened to the sticker.

Also, that "paint job" is fucking hilarious.

>>423586
>those cool developer PS1s
The Net Yaroze? Anyone actually have one here? Ever see one in the wild? I'm still curious about those. I have a few compilations of Yaroze games and some of it is really cool, kinda like old PC demo scene stuff.

>>423646
Cool, it's modded. That's lucky on your part.

Personally I would paint it gold. I like gold. Not in a blingy way, but I just think it looks neat. I have a PS1 at home that I stenciled a big Atari logo on the cd lid.

The underside of the main board. Will be storing this in an anti static bag while I respray it.

>>423646
Hey, brah.

Does chipping a console drop it's value?

>>423669
nah, you can take these things apart six ways from sunday as long as you're careful.

>>423672
If anything it raises it

>>423672
PS1s at the moment are worth jack, chipped or unchipped. Chipped means as the games get rarer, you;'ll still be able to play digitally preserved ones.

>>423669
This has obviously been apart before and still works. I'm keeping everything in anti static bags

>>423646

Cool. Wait a sec, has someone soldered that shielding on to the board?

>>423597
>poland ps1
this +1

>>423672
Playstations aren't really worth a lot or sought after in a way that rarer, more expensive things are. Generally most people would take a modded one over one without a chip. I would pay maybe $40 for a clean, working, chipped PS1.

>>423673
1996? SCPH-700X series. That's good. Except losing the A/V outs.

>>423712
That says 1998, which means it's one of the later 'old' style ones.

>>423572
Nah it's not flaking, I sprayed it in a dirty area. I think some of it's dust, dirt and grass.
First time building and painting an enclosure myself.

>>423691
It seems so.

Wasn't fully disassembled when sprayed, then.

>>423774
Forgot pic.

>>423743
The later 900x models have no parallel port but this one does. You can just read the model number from the underside of the case anyway if he hasn't painted over it

Not that it's important, the only distinctions between PSX versions besides the menu design is having a parallel port or not, and having RCA ports on the back or not (or s-video too for Japanese 100x units)

>>423801
And the position of the laser assembly*

Doing some sanding on the back.

>>423787
What a surprise - he did paint over it!

Almost there...

>>423832
Fotgot pic, again.

Why not just paint over the existing layer of paint?
The answer might be obvious but I've never dabbled in blinging up my consoles.

>>423841
It's smooth and so the layer over it won't stick properly, and the paint will glob up and look generally horrible. Also the added mm or two of thickness would mean that the buttons might not fit etc.

Also here's the sticker.

Now that IS poor.

Okay guys I'll get back to you tomorrow ehn I've gone and bought some paints.