/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4974736
why

>>4974736
Would bang

>>4974741
Such a retro feel

ds is a pretty decent platform day-sue

>>4974736
saw that on reddit this morning :-)

>>4974736
That’s disgusting, probably weighs a ton and is poorly balanced, even for my 8” wide alpha wrists

>>4974787
>even for my 8” wide alpha wrists

keks were had.

>>4974736
You're guaranteed to see gore on /r/retrogaming, and they don't even know it's gore.

>30 dollarios

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Free-Shipping-Untested-Super-Famicom-Nintendo-Game-console-System-Japan-B874/232654273883

>>4974784
>>4974801

I sometimes go there for laughs in the retro game stuff. They were praising this thing like it was the second coming of Jesus. Seriously, I fucking hate the place but it's got good gore source material. They were lining up to buy this piece of shit.

>>4974805

Damn, look where the controller plugged in, it's clean, meaning this is likely 100% authentic nipponese nicotine folded over 1000 times.

>>4974818
Why did you delete?

>>4974841
pic wasn't related to what I was talking about, this is the pic:

>>4975189
That's the only way to make those games work, you blow into them.

>>4975189
Why do Nintendo tapes need this but not movie tapes?

>>4974825
>just one slot used
so ronery
>>4974805
imagine the smell
>>4974736
at least that involves actually modification, not "Look at my modded gameboy painted with nailpolish, please upboat ^^"

>>4975181
>government property
>shitty paper label torn off
>item's purpose written back on in marker

That's not gore; it's history.

>>4974805
Pics like this make me wish i had some skills. I'd love to give that a good clean, paint it over with a decent colour that matches the orignal and stencil the logo back on. Wouldn't have a clue to go about doing it.

>>4975456
You can get chemicals to reduce yellowing on plastic, not sure if it works on nicotine stains, You don't need skills, just chemicals, perserverance and a couple of brushes.

>>4975216
>Nintendo tapes

Because there is no magnetic tape inside and NES cartridge. The moisture from your breath aids the contacts in making proper connections, but it also facilitates corrosion on the pins.

>>4974736
This is pretty cool, obviously just a personal electronics challenge the creator set himself. It's not as if a rare and special gamboy died for this or anything.

>>4974825
its not from cigarette smoke.

ABS (acrylonite butadiene styrene) plastic is flammable, so they added bromine to it, to make it less flammable. bromine is a yellowish brown color. after years of exposure to light, the ultraviolet rays start to break the molecular bonds and separate the bromine from the ABS, allowing it to oxidize and start to turn the plastic yellowish brown.

>>4975482
source:
https://www.tested.com/tech/2505-why-your-old-super-nintendo-looks-super-yellow/

Im too confused to be angry

>>4975482
Look around the controller port though, that part looks like new. I know these can yellow, but I honestly think it's tar/nicotine from cigarettes. Look at the sheen that the surface has, it looks like shellac. I know they can yellow, but I really think it's from smoke.

>>4975464
And here when I was a kid I thought I was "blowing dust off of the microchip." LOL

>>4975515
it could be a combination of both, but theres no way all that is from cigarettes

>>4975515
no
its not yellow there because the controller plug covered that part

http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/189/what-happened-to-my-snes-case-discoloration-in-classic-machines

>>4975525
Nah, that's not a normal shade of yellow for a sufami. Believe me, I saw my share of yellowed systems for sale in Tokyo shops, they don't get like that, the yellowing pattern looks different when it's from sun or air exposure. I've also worked with my share of tar-cleaning thanks to both my past work in a used electronics store and my experience of having moved into a home that was populated by a two-pack-a-day smoker before they bit the big one. From my experience of seeing this kind of shit, I can assure you that this is some quality cigarette residue.

Incidentally, if this came with the cords and was tested and working it would be a deal at 20 bucks, even in the cheaper shops I saw the tested and complete stuff started at about 3000 yen.

>>4975464
Why are super famicom carts called cassettes on the little flap thing then? I think I've uncovered a conspiracy

>>4974787
I dont know man, Im kind of interested in how that thing would play certain games.
>hold it comfortably with one of my giant hands
>stylus in the other

>>4975216
I find it funny that people called the cartridges "tapes" back then

>>4975456
Hydrogen peroxide my friend.

>>4975546
The fact that it's cleaner right in front of the cart around the buttons is more evidence of tar buildup, that part is cleaner from hands rubbing on that part when inserting/removing the carts I bet

>>4974805
>>4975671
I'd clear coat the FUCK outta that.

>GBA SP top screen connected to GameBoy with Nintendo DS hardware inside
BAH! BAH!

>>4975671
Restoring something like this would be so fucking satisfying.

>>4975464
It's mostly just the reseating that makes the pins contact better. Blowing is placebo.

>>4975645
>>4975636

https://www.google.com/search?q=why+does+nes+look+like+vcr

>>4975970
>Blowing is placebo.
LIAR

>>4976037
it's genuinely bad for them and I'm tired of cleaning this shit off. Fucking mouth blowers.

I never had to blow my Game Boy cartridges...

>>4976072
That's because it wasn't designed to look like a Walkman.

Found this rare gem

>>4974892
what even is this?

>>4976115
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>>4974736
>combining a DS, GB & GBA into one handheld
unless it can't play everything up to DS i don't see the problem here. half of you guys get pissy about emulation anyway so this would be the next best thing short of carrying a DS & GBA around.

>>4976213
>destroying original hardware for YouTube likes and subscribes

>>4975645
>movies were on tapes
>music was on tapes
What else would they call them?

finding an ags-001 screen is a pain in the ass :^(

>>4975731
Yeah, nothing comes close to being frustrated about never being able to remove the smoke smell

>>4976306
>music was on tapes
Underage detected

>>4976498
Anon, do you know what year this is, right?

>>4976226
So all original hardware has to be treated like fucking museum pieces? This isn't like they're "destroying" two perfectly working, super rare items. There are a billion fucking Game Boys and the such, and there's no telling the condition they were in before this mod.

>>4975184
Looks A E S T H E T I C.

I wouldn't do it, but its not that bad.

>>4976043
Yeah this the moisture in your breath causes corrosion over time.

>>4976213
GBA, yes. GB, unlikely.

>>4976115
You could possibly save this. Dont cause metro roids are is a gay game

>>4976675
You're off by about an order of magnitude. 118.69 million DMGs were sold worldwide.

>The original internal codename for the Game Boy was "Dot Matrix Game", which its initials came to be featured on the final product's model number, "DMG-01". The internal reception of the device was initially very poor; the DMG even earned from Nintendo employees the derogatory nickname "DameGame", dame being the Japanese for "hopeless" or "lame" in that context.

>>4975437
US history is 90% gore

>>4976976
stupid frog gameboy poster

obligatory

>>4977434
I like it. There's 28 million of them so it's no loss if you don't.

>>4976461
>ags-001
For what purpose?
Also, you can buy reproduction 001 screens for like $40, slightly cheaper than the ags-101 screens.

>>4976306
Movie and music cassettes had magnetic tape in them. That's why they were called tapes. Cartridges don't have magnetic tape in them.

>>4975970
>>4976043
>>4976701

is right. When a game won't work, I have to stop myself from blowing into it, but I take it out and reseat it. It works. >>4976037

>>4976976
Please delete this with fire.

>>4974805
>>4975671
>the logo is clean, too
priorities.

>>4976760
>the DMG even earned from Nintendo employees the derogatory nickname "DameGame", dame being the Japanese for "hopeless" or "lame" in that context.
Why am I not surprised.

>>4977716
It's a transliteration, dear.

>>4975671
It looks like it'd feel greasy and oily

>>4977458
>For what purpose?
I don't wanna mod it to make it compatible with 101 screens, which are everywhere

>>4974736
>gameboy
>gameboy SP
>SNES
>Nintendo DS
Why would you do that? It's not even good.

>>4977878
>gameboy
>gameboy SP for top LCD
>gameboy for bottom screen
>snes buttons

Good question. Yes, electrical wise it makes sense, but otherwhise, why?

>>4976976
>$51
Is there some sort of hidden meaning here?

>>4974805
anything that touches this instantly becomes yellowed.

>>4977915
>$51
>50 cal

He is clearly trying to communicate that he is currently in a 5150 hold.

>>4976976
soundcloudrapper.jpeg

>>4974825
>100% authentic nipponese nicotine folded over 1000 times

>>4978626
The white SNES with red lettering looks pretty nice. If it wasn't for the pixel art vomit that is covering the top of the console it might look really nice. The gameboy is ruined.

>>4978626
If it wasn't for the pixel art vomit that is covering the top of the console the white SNES with the red lettering could have looked pretty nice.

>>4978626
Would play. The green buttons are gross tho

>>4978626
Will that abrade and get ugly if someone actually plays it?

>>4978626

>bomberman

???????

>>4979285
Pricecharting says that's worth $8.45

>>4977724
I was referring to ninty-drones not seeing the glory of the gameboy.

>>4974805
this being a gore thread I thought at first glance this thing might be relic'd

>>4977434
I don’t get it.

>>4979740
Did you know most of a Nintendo tape is just air?

>>4975464
>>4976037
>that one kid who would come over and blow in your NES carts no matter how many times you tell him to stop

>>4979285
>Condition:Acceptable

>>4979786
That's the lowest condition rating you can have for something that still works.

>>4976976

>>4976496
I'd seal it in a container with a box of bounce sheets and not remove for one year

After a healthy scrubbing of course

Though I wonder if there isn't some sun damage too there. The space in front of where the cart goes is less yellowed, so it might be sun damaged but that spot was shaded by the cartridge (ie. the system was in a windowsill for 30 years).

That the thing is pretty evenly yellowed all over, however, brings question to that theory. I imagine that if there is any sun damage, it's minimal compared to smoke damage.

Fuck, is the listing still up? I almost want to buy it just to see it and try restoring it.

>>4976496

I fucking hate it when I buy a game and it comes from a smoker. The smell eventually goes away though

>>4976037

just use a q-tip with some rubbing alcohol

>>4975515

oh god the "no SCART" guy is back

>>4980376
*kisses you gently*
You got discord? We could also email...

>>4979285
>how you want to remove your cart f.am?
>just leave the power on and rip it out
>say no more

>>4979731
>OP of that """art""" btw

Drew some anime character (Senketsu if you wonder who) on a PSone casing using permanent markers.

Last time I did a thread half if not most of /vr/ was ultra-triggered about it, although the markers do a good job at covering up how beaten up the case was before I painted it.

>>4976760
Oh no, there's only 118,689,999 Game Boys left

>>4974805
>People painting their systems gold ? lol who does that kinda sh- OH! GOD!

>>4975184
I will never understand the practice of putting obnoxious LEDs in otherwise stock systems. The fuck is the appeal? I feel like it's just something that morons do as "babby's first soldering project" or something.

On the same subject, FUCK LEDS in electronics that are always on. Back in MY DAY, when you shut something off, the light went off with it. Why the hell does everything need to have lights all the fucking time? My living room entertainment center is like a friggin' christmas tree at night.

>>4982637
I tape over the blue ones if there's not an option to disable them like my pro monitor has. They bleached the sticky notes I had over them.

>>4982650
Yeah, fucking computers are the worst. The only fucking fans I could find to fit my case had stupid fucking LEDS in them. so I had to destroy them with a drill because I don't need everything fucking glowing. Apparently, companies are trying to convince us all that we're in the future by just making everything as though it were a prop for Tron.

>>4982661

>>4982661
The more I stare at it the worse it gets

>>4975437
It could be formerly Al Gore's.

>>4976175
Most likely Gyromite or Stack Up.

>>4982661
Oh Ben Heck, you wily old fox you.

>>4979285
how did this even happen

>>4979740
That's just a 3d printed key chain with a stick numbnuts or else the ring would be the size of a bracelet

>>4982661

>>4979285
I wouldn't trust my games to Franco

>>4975515
Why would you need to do that? You can get all of that from the multiout.

>>4979731
>>/vr/thread/4680674#p4682297

And yes, I actually am the OP of both that thread and the picture. I am planning another evil work :^)

>>4976461
Is that your desk underneath? Because that looks like a cool as fuck desk

>>4974805
>>4979725
>the guitar equivalent of this yellowed S-Famicom would be worth thousands more than the unyellowed

>>4984737
it's a giant mousepad actually

>>4982661
this board is SFW, man...