/vr/ - Retro Games

Most of the time I don't care for the paint jobs, but that's really nice. Really like the amount of gloss.

>>601002
that's what happens when someone uses high quality materials and not spray paint from a can

>>601002
Me too. I'm going to try to contact him via his youtube to figure out how to get that glossy finish. Essentially he has just said to sand it a shit ton and use auto paints.

>>601029

Ruin? I also don't see the point of doing so... but I fail to see how the act ruins it.

I don't care for modding consoles. I prefer them the way they are. But, if someone wants to ruin a console like that, well it's their money.

>>601029
I don't think it ruins it... But there are some people who paint their consoles and prefer to only do it to consoles that are damaged or just visually flawed in general.

>>601027
it's just a clear coat used with painting cars

>>601071
Yeah, but I see myself fucking something up, so I'd like to emulate his technique. I've seen some shitty looking painted consoles with matte finishes. I need an airbrush.

I wouldn't mind doing that to an old NES that I can't for the life of me get black marks off.

>>601109
just get a quality airbrush with quality paint nothing from pepboys or some shit like that

>>600987
looks like something a late 90's born hipster faggot would do

>>601158

Indeed. The gloss looks great though.

I would do a Mopar Orange myself.

I'd prefer to have my NES painted much like the one in OP's picture. Touch up the color on it. Paint the top a pure white, give the bottom a nice stone grey color, retouch the text on it so it stands out, and make the whole thing glossy.

>>601172
>Mopar Orange
Not quite, but here's one from the same guy in orange.

>>600987
ruin your genesis and I ruin your life. If that shits a model 1 I will seriously kill you

>>601364
Model 2 actually, and model 2s are all over the place.

>>601357

Not bad, but I would of stayed consistent with the orange and mixed in more black.

>>601375
Yeah, I agree. I actually am not a fan of the purple and black combo either.

>>600987
I really wish I could put art on the back of my JXD s7300, its just begging for it.

>>601372
yeah go for it pink that shit up it will probably look sweet. I just think model 1 is perfect elder god tier and should not be harmed. Especially if you got the kick ass HIGH DEFINITION GRAPHICS one

>>600987
cool dust magnet

>>601540
The people who are seriously bothered by dust should be dusting it at LEAST once a week in the first place which would solve the problem.

>>601540

They have these things called dusters. They clean dust up. They just came out with this technology last week.

>molesting consoles

would never do it, oem or gtfo

>>601558
Has science gone too far?

>>601569
Why not? Srs. Do you just prefer the look of them in their unaltered state? I can understand that.

I would honestly like a GameCenter CX themed NES. Can anyone help me with some preliminary design ideas? I was figuring the NES would be Black and Gold, and the top part of the NES having the GCCX logo on it. I was also thinking the logo could be cut out and have a clear piece of plastic under it so that it can light up. I was also thinking that the doorlid should say "Nintendo Famicom" with the traditional FC font on it, since Arino uses an FC instead of an NES.

Any other suggestions?

>>601634
Why do people like that shitty chink so much? He sucks at games

I can't condone doing this to 'healthy' consoles, but if your shit is yellowed or scuffed up or whatever go nuts.

OP's example is a particularly well done example of this stuff. Most are terrible shit done by lazy, skinflint hipsters.

>>601637
/v/ is that way bro

>>601638
>Not letting it yellow to the point of gold.

>>601637
>>601653
>ask for suggestions
>no one cares
>only shitposting now

>>601682
when this happens, generally it's considered good form to delete the thread and try again another time

>>601682
>GameCenter CX
I'd help with ideas, but I have no idea what that is. Also laziness.

>>601691
He's not OP.

I might sound like a bit of a douchenozzle here, but: I think that as collectors we've kind of got a duty to preserve these systems as well as possible while still enjoying them.

On the other hand OP's shit looks great. Hipster or not it's an absolutely amazing finish and something that's obviously been done with a lot of love. I still just can't shake the nagging voice in the back of my head telling me that's one less working NES out there for future gamers to enjoy.

>>600987
>I'm thinking of painting my Genesis pink, but I've never done anything like this before and I'd imagine I'm shit with an airbrush.
If you must 'defile' a console then do everyone a favor and pick up one of the many broken machines floating around ebay for literally pennies. If you fuck up (good, even airbrushing is a real art) then nothing was wasted, and if you don't you can simply swap cases and you didn't murder a 'vanilla' machine, you rescued one.

>>601697
>No idea what GCCX is

I'm not trying to fanboy on you but you are genuinely missing out

Keep an eye out for the daily GCCX thread, grab a link, and watch an episode of a game you like, I think you'll like it. Basically it's a tremendously lovable Japanese man playing a really hard game trying to beat it, failing miserably, and there are segments where he'll be visiting arcades or doing other things like that

It's really great, I think you'd like it

>>601708
You did sound like a douchenozzle and I almost responded such, but then I realized I agree 100%.

>>601708
>that's one less working NES out there for future gamers to enjoy
Excuse me if I'm misreading, but you do know that all of the stuff he paints is fully operational, right?

>>601728
Going on from this:
>>601634
I was thinking the controller could get a similar treatment, with the corner that has the Nintendo logo replaced with the GCCX logo and the Nintendo logo directly under it. I was also thinking that the left of the cross and the A button to be panted gold and have angular lines meeting at the bottom, with the phrase "To continue, hold left and press A" being between the lines. Well, whatever he said in that one episode for his "gravestone", which was a Hudson continue trick.

>>601682
Just paint the top white and the bottom red and put a classy sticker of the king mascot on the bottom right of the top

>>601172
My grandfather restores classic mopar cars and paints them, He's been doing it for over 20 years

Luckily I can just have him show me how to paint mine.

>>601569
I like oem look too, however I generally have 2 or 3 of each console, so might as well customize the ones I use just to play on, and leave the ones I keep stored away nice and original.

>>601708
This. If you're going to do this pick up a dead machine or one that's scuffed up or yellowed. Your first step is going to be a giving it a good sanding down anyway. You can get the look you want AND pass your decent case on to a machine that dearly needs one.

It's the only way to atone for your sins against preservation!

>>601770
>Luckily I can just have him show me how to paint mine.
>tfw my grandfather did the same
>before he died
>I will never have my grandfather teach me how to paint my toys
;_;

>>601735
Yeah. My fault. Where I said 'working' I meant 'vanilla.' I don't think for one second that someone would do such careful work on a dead system.

>>601653
answer the question I tried to watch it one time and I was bored out of my mind. I can dislike gamecenter cx it doesn't matter what words I use when expressing that distaste. The guy sucks at games and spends too much time babbling on about the philosophy behind him sucking so much.

>>601775
Sorry about your grandfather.

Maybe our grandfathers were drinking buddies back in the day.

>>601786
>answer the question

No, just go back to /v/.

>>601783
Ah, gotcha. I figured it was a misunderstanding because the rest of your statement seemed to show that you did know. Wanted you to know people aren't just going around killing perfectly good consoles.

Just thinking about trying to get such an even and flawless finish on areas like the 'grille' on the right hand side of the case makes me sweat a little, and I'm no stranger to working with an airbrush. What a great piece of work.

I'm normally all for leaving consoles untouched but if you must customise them then you could do a whole lot worse than that.

>>601797
no you go back to /jp/

>>601817
I've legit never posted there once.

>>601802
I actually am. I work for a branch of Sony, and part of our job is to locate any and all Playstation one and Playstation two consoles and games and we buy them and destroy them, reclaiming the plastics and metal for Sony's new console. We do this so that more people when looking for a game console will choose to buy the latest consoles instead. I'm pretty sure Microsoft has a branch that does the same.

>>601826

>>601826
So this finally means that the GameCube (and Xbox) have won legitimately?

>>601826

>>601838
They'd need to do a lot of destroying to accomplish that.

>>601826
Disgusting.

>>601843
130 million units, at least. Most of them already broke though, so we could say around 70 million.

>>601826
Do you do ebay?

>>601826

>>601863
>most of them are broken so more than half of them should still be working

>>601873
meant to hit 6. I know it's an exaggerated number, I think the closer number to failed units is closer to 30 million.

>>601774
>This. If you're going to do this pick up a dead machine or one that's scuffed up or yellowed.
I did the standard 'black Amiga 1200' thing this way. Grabbed a 'nicotine gold' donor machine from ebay and then waited almost a year for an unrepairable CDTV keyboard to show up just because I couldn't live with destroying a working example of something so rare just for its pretty black keycaps.

My old case 'revived' a machine that would have probably ended up scrapped or parted out, and I wound up repairing three CDTV keyboards that just needed a bit of love before finding my truly dead donor. My conscience is clear.

>>601867
We use ebay, some of our jobs are to frequent yard sales in the more well to do towns and parts of cities, some of us use craigslist. I don't actually do any of that, I work in the warehouse and I feed discs to the machines all day.

>>601826
Were you actually employed as a video game hitman, what proof would they have that you don't just keep the games you have to sell them when they become incredibly difficult to find?

>>601894
>more well to do towns and parts of cities
>for playstation
You should go to the ghetto instead. You'll find more.

>>601902
They can tell by weight if anything is missing, they weigh the carts of shred discs on scales when they become full.

>>601826
There's a special hell for you.

>>601826
>People actually believing this.
Oh lawd.

>Nintendo lagged behind Sony for two generations
>Sony blew all their PS1 and PS2 money on the PS3
>they kept losing money
>Sony has to farm and destroy leftover PS1s and PS2s now
>yfw*

*actually means Yamauchi's Face When

>>601897
Pics?

>>601904
They probably do, I don't exactly know how it works since those jobs are for higher ups in the company. Everything I know was told to me by my supervisors whose job is to basically orchestrate the whole warehouse, and package everything up and load it onto the trucks to be shipped off elsewhere on forklifts.

I have destroyed many of the most rare playstation one and playstation two games, I don't really look at what discs are when I'm working now since i've done it so long it has become boring really.

>>601938
gimme some names so i know how much of a fuck i should be giving if i believed you

>>601930
I'm stuck at work for the next few hours but if this thread is still going I'll certainly post some once I get back. If not I'll attention whore it up in the next computer thread!

Not much to see though, really. I'm utterly unoriginal and went for the same matte black as everyone else in the world.

>>601946
I know I've destroyed many FF VII discs, we feed many final fantasy series for playstation one, out of all the games for playstation one I believe I see these the most because it was such a highly printed game.

For playstation two, I'd say the most rare game I've fed would have to be the .hack part 4, I don't come across too many of this game, but I have seen what you would consider many of them.

>>601983
I'm calling bullshit

>>602041
SO WUT IM MAKING DIS ALL UP?!

SO WUT?!

U WANNA FITE ABOUT IT?

I have a sickly yellow Famicom I've been meaning to paint. Taking suggestions.

>>602106
Paint it to look like a Super NES.

>>602106
Give it some Nyquil and schedule a doctor appointment.

>>601983
Part of me wants to believe this because I really do think Sony is just pure fucking evil, but the rationalist in me is screaming bullshit at the top of its lungs.

Oh well.

>>602312
Google lead me to a thread saying that Gamestop destroyed its old ps1 games. Probably not for the same reasons, but the fact that they'd do it might mean that Sony might do it too.

>>602326
GameStop probably just had a bunch of shit games no one wanted. Destroying old stock because it's not worth keeping and isn't selling is understandable; actively seeking and destroying classic video games and consoles is an entirely new level of evil.

Again, I don't believe it, but if I did, I'd probably try to kill Kaz Hirai with a car bomb.

inb4 few decades from now op feels like a retard for destroying something that holds a certain entrensic value
just throw it in the closet instead of destroying it and making it worthless you dumbfuck
or give it to me
consoles were made with certain colors for a reason, i.e translucent etc

>>602312
>mfw i was a kid who thought vidya wasnt worth anything and wouldnt ever be
>mfw i went through 5-6 black label copies of ff7 and destroyed all of them by leaving them out, scratching them, etc
the same goes with multiple other games that are worth a pretty penny now
>mfw i could have thousands of dollars of games if i wasnt a dumb kid

>>602360
>intrinsic value
Genesis 2s are a dime a dozen and I got the one I plan to paint I haven't even had long.

>just throw it in the closet instead of destroying it and making it worthless you dumbfuck
>selling something of great intrinsic value
>painting something makes it useless

>consoles were made with certain colors for a reason
pic

>>602386
>there were more N64 variations than there were N64 games

how

>>602386
>Genesis 2s are a dime a dozen and I got the one I plan to paint I haven't even had long.
its that same mentality as a kid that made me destroy so many copies of games/consoles that are worth hundreds now
someone would gladly enjoy having it, if you want to paint something paint your cock

>>602425
Again, I don't own any games I intend to resell. I'm sure if the genesis 2 ever becomes some sort of rarity that some kid somewhere absolutely must have, he'd be willing to take mine for free, no matter what color it is. Meanwhile, my immediate entertainment is a factor. I like shiny things.

I might just paint all of my consoles now. Thanks for the summer project, anon. <3