/vr/ - Retro Games

At first, it looks like a minor shame...

...until you see the work of the BRAIN.

>>877378
A combination of patience, vigorous scouring with paper towels + rubbing alcohol, rubbing the pad of your thumb on the marks, scraping your thumbnail on the marks, and scrubbing with the inside of an ordinary dry t-shirt will eventually remove all that marker shit completely. I've fixed up at least half a dozen games this way. It does take patience, but it's quite possible.

>>877383
Or I can just scribble over it with a dry-erase marker and wipe it off with a paper towel.

Yes, you can remove permanent marker that way.

But I don't want to, because it's silly.

>>877383

Or he could use an eraser.

A regular-ass grey brick pencil eraser will remove permanent marker from plastic; it does still take a little while, but it's super effective compared to other shit.

>>877378
>"HI JOHN"

>>877406
He hates every single one of us. Shit's so cash.

>>877380
Aw fug dis hurtz.

>>877378
Get a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser.
It works wonders.

>>877437
Jesus christ cart slavery?

>>877437
holy shit

>>877372
I have a Super Ghouls and ghosts cart which has no visible damage and it is not a bootleg. However, the stage 3 boss is invisible when I use it.

>>877437
I guess they brand everything like steers down in OK.

I used to have a copy of Double Dragon with a Castlevania label on it.

>>877468
What are you playing it on? A legit Super Nintendo or a RetroN?

>>877468
famiclones have trouble with certain Capcom SNES games. besides SGnG, Mickey's Magical Quest's 2nd boss is invisible, and Demon's Crest has trouble playing.

I have a final fantasy cart that saves and runs perfectly but inexplicably glitches out and deletes saves. Physically perfect though!

>>877386
Hahahaha! I've done that since I was a kid! I thought I was the only one who did that though. :D

>>877731
Maybe the battery is dying

Have Zelda 2 golden cart...Well the back half of it is golden. Somehow the front found a way to almost turn into a ugly black rusty color.

>>877768
I'll be honest, I had only just discovered this method within the past two months or so, from another /vr/trooper.

>>877437
I see your branded game and raise you one and a cracked Final Fight. I also have numerous carts with various degrees of label damage as well as a copy of Mega Man X that absolutely refuses to work no matter how much I clean it.

>>877805
>copy of Mega Man X that absolutely refuses to work no matter how much I clean it
have you checked the circuit board for damages

my friend has a copy of ssb64 that had cold solder joints on the rom chip
pic related

It's a Saturn Magic Knight Rayearth disc.....

No one's gonna beat me =(

>>877854
The board looks fine to me.

>>877872
You have my condolences. At least if you want a replacement, you can just get a loose copy since you already have the case and manual.

>>877805
>carving your social security number into your cart

>>877882
the game didn't work unless it was pushed in the console with allot of pressure during gameplay

after resoldering it worked normally

This was a copy of Castlevania Lords of Shadow that I bought (new) at Gamestop on launch day.

It didn't play, all the orange was on the data side, the other side was normal.

>>877882
Yeah, but now I regret not getting a replacement disc when it was $50 loose.

Nowadays it's like $85 loose. It'd be better to just get a Saturn modchip. I've got the right model 2 for it.

>>877940
>implying that's a game.

>>877882
Look closer, see the hairline fractures on the solder blobs? Unless they're being forced together, it's lucky to work. Reflow it with a heat gun or solder iron and the cart will be good to go for another 10 years at least unless you live in extreme cold.

>>877380
I thought that was ghost and goblins at first. It would have been a well deserved hole.

I don't really have any pictures, but I had an snes copy of mortal kombat 2 that is really screwy

The sprites in game "hang" whenever you do anything somewhat complex (jumping, special moves, multiple punches) and just sort of stick that way until each round ends, eventually it just got so bad that it wouldn't even turn on and instead shat out a bunch of random game noises in randomized pitches until you turned the game off

>those tiny mom-and-pop convenience stores that rented games and movies

I forgot those even existed.

>>877468
Have you tried cleaning the contacts? I had a copy of Castlevania 4 that some of the sprites would glitch. After I gave the contacts a good cleaning, everything worked fine.

>>877537
Legit SNES. I cleaned it and opened it to make sure it was legit, but I saw nothing wrong. I assume one of the chips got damaged at one point. God knows what the previous owner did with it.

>>877380
Was it signed by mega man?

>>878118
You should test it on another SNES. I had a copy if Magical Quest starring Mickey Mouse and it didn't load the 2nd boss on my SNES but it would on my friends.

>>877891
it's probably actually a rental code or something

>>877380
The megaman on the cover looks like "Oh, shi-".
Lel

>>877380

... does it work?

Posting a classic.

Damn! Some messed up shit in this thread.

I found this gem at a flea market about a year back. Paid a dollar just because it made me laugh and I was curious to find out what it actually was.

Sorry about the shitty pic. Shitty phone camera.

Any guess what it is?

>>879870
Back was decorated as well.
Contacts were more corroded than any cart I've ever owned. Had to use metal polish to get the game working.

Give up?

Super Mario 64

>>879872
>Give up?
I don't think it's that we gave up, we just couldn't be arsed to post. The mustache part really gives it away though.

Got this Hybrid Heaven cartridge for $1. I looked up the inmate's number and he's apparently serving a life sentence.

>>879879
Yeah. I know. I really don't care if people get it or not. Just for fun.

Although whoever allowed there game to get so dirty to the point of unplayability is a jerk.

>>879892
You've got a cartridge with a cool story, bro.

>>879892
What did he do?

>>879952
Not sure. I only did a quick search and it only gave me what prison he was located at and his sentence. I'm guessing it probably would be either rape or murder.

here's mine

>>877383
>>877386
>>877391
Or... googone/wd40

>>879798

>>877430

Do not EVER use a mr clean magic eraser on any textured surface like a game cartridge because it files down the surface itself.

Got this for 3 bucks at my local used game store, the title is written up top in sharpie and the picture doesn't really show, but the thing is really sun damaged and orange

>>880081
If you really paid $8 for that, I could never be your friend.

>>879892
holy shit this is fucking awesome.

Crazy question: why don't you jerks just replace the backs on your snes/nes/n64 games with the one from a sports game or some shit?

>>880132
Your mother's a jerk!

And she wears combat boots.

>>880132
But I do.

>>880132
NES sports games tend not to suck, though.

>>880132
You shouldn't have to though. Some dick shouldn't have thought that fucking branding or otherwise demolishing the back of the cart was a good idea.

Besides, every sports game sacrificed by doing this removes it from the pool, so eventually if people keep on doing that, those sports games will become more rare, and you'll have to pay more for them.

>>880106
>If you really paid $8 for that

>>880081
>Got this for 3 bucks

>>880241
>Spent 3 whole fucking dollars on that

Either 1 dollar or free. That's the only price for that.

>>880241
price tag on the cartridge reads $8.

>>880247
I'd love for you to provide links and/or stores where I can go get games for free, or a dollar.

>>880250
>What is old price tags.

>What is flexible pricing.

What is bartering.

Just because there's a price tag on something doesn't mean that that is the price. My Chrono Trigger had a sticker for around $100, and I bought it for $30.

Fucking Blockbuster and their fitted property stickers. I'm sure everyone here remembers games with these tags, even more so if you had bought one.

As you can see, I tried to remove it only up to the label on my Conker's Bad Fur Day, but failed & fucked up one of the edges.

Top view so you have a better idea of what I had to work with. They're super sticky too.

I never had a damaged game, because I always take great care of all my things, and I would never buy one online or in-store without first making sure it looked alright.

There was a guy at a flea market who gave me a copy of Monkey Magic for free, just because the disc was scratched up. I cleaned it, and it works fine.

>>880636
O god those stickers...
If you peel them off CD based game the game gets ruined too in my experience.

>>879803

>Mega Man X in the upper right
>$11

>>880636
Is it the black or grey turok wars that had the faulty co-op mode?

>>877383
>>877386
>>877391

You guys are full of it, in cases where the marker has bled into the plastic it just won't come off. I've got a lot of games where I've been able to take off a top layer of, say, "Kevin" but the purple-ish ghosting is still there and you just can't get that shit up. 20+ years of exposure is not kind to plastics.

>>879892
Most epic thing ever posted anywhere. Holy shit.

>>880680
Well NO SHIT no solution is perfect. Thanks for the notice.

this is the worst thing i got

not too bad, but still

>>880752
>label is designed to make you want to peel it

oh god why

>>879798
>>880016

You can have the entire top half gone and it'll still work since the main guts of the thing is at the bottom.

Now getting it out of something like a front loader NES, that's another story.

>>880945
>easy to peel sticker on something you rent for your kids
GENIUS

>>880680
I'll ghost you, you stupid bitch

>>880668
Probably the black one. It was the original release. The gray variants were made for people who wanted to exchange their carts. That's why they are rarer than the black carts.

>>879982
>spraying wd40 on a cart where it could potentially get inside of said cart
no

>>877768

Off topic but that Squall actually looks pretty good as far as cosplayers go. That Quistis is pig disgusting though

>>880256

You mean haggling, dumbass. Bartering means you traded for it.

>>880020
THIS. The Magic Eraser is actually a really fine sanding block/sponge. Don't use it on any textured surface, like the SNES. It'll make an obvious flat area where you used it.

>>880236
FUCK ALL SPORTS GAMES

There's probably enough out there to replace every back of every good cartridge at least twice. If that isn't enough, the Chinese make some pretty decent knockoff cases. Just print your own rear label or buy one and you're home free to everyone except a faggot cart-grading collector.

>>877805
Have you tried light grit sand paper on the contacts?
Sometimes the corrosion is just stuck the fuck on there something fierce, and even alcohol won't get it off.

Take some light grit sand paper and gently sand on the edge connectors , then clean off the gunk with alcohol again.
I ordered some Super Famicom games from some dude in Japan a while back, and they were in good condition when they arrived but they WOULD NOT fucking play for shit no matter how much I cleaned. Tired the sand paper thing, they work great now.

>bought SmartBall from local vidya shop
>put in cartridge later that day to play on my SNES
>weird intro comes up that I know is not from SmartBall
>turns out the game is actually Lufia 2 but someone probably switched the boards accidently
>tell manager at store I go to about it
>he tells me to bring it over
>he made a new label for it and put shipping wrap as a way to laminate it

Pic related. I think he did a good job. I don't mind it since I only paid $10 for it.

>>879803
Good ol' Tony's poop. That's some good shit.

>>880667
That's cheap for Mega Man X now. I see it for $25 at the cheapest all the time now.

>>884338
Wow, talk about an upgrade.

just saw this piece on ebay

>>887932
for $35 no less

>>877383
take a marker and cover the whole thing black so it hides the writing. guaranteed to work

I bought a damaged copy of Renegade with the intent of replacing the sticker. Here's how it looked like...

>>887996
And here's the finished product.

Saved this from a bootlegs thread. I will probably never know what is actually on this cartridge. This saddens me.

>>887997
>Jocker Returns
Goddamn Jocker. Harkim Alysum was supposed to be secure.
Bat-
man's work is never done.

this is just the worst of the cartridges, don't even get me started on PSX discs

>>888208
No... my eyes...
What monster did this?

>>888208
Me, when i was young, i didn't take care of them, and now they look like this, i'm thinking of cleaning all my cartridges up the best i can sometime soon, just need to know the right way to do it. Although whatever that pink stuff is its melted into the plastic and probably can't be removed.

>>888208

It's like witnessing a hate crime.

>>888208
pink goo? what in the fuck is that shit?

>>888208
>dat raspberry sherbet

>>888245
i know and im ashamed, i really want to clean them up along with my old systems
>>888247
i have no clue, its plastic like and doesn't come off

>>888247
heres a closeup of the pink mystery goo

>>888252
>i really want to clean them up along with my old systems
They're beyond help. Let them be at peace. You should have them cremated.

>>888272
Naval Jelly?

>>888235
>i didn't take care of them
That's not simple neglect. That's outright abuse. If you were too young to know what you were doing, then it's the fault of your parents. I've never seen seen quite that level of atrocity.

>>888278
i dont know what that is, so im assuming not.
>>888274
but they all still work, i just don't know how to go about it. Rubbing alcohol a rag and scrubbing?

>>888286
>but they all still work
I would swap out the internals with cases from clean, cheap sports games and print out new labels in as high quality as possible. Those cases are not worth trying to save.

>>888208
>>888235
holy fucking fucking shit
what did you do

>SMB2
disassemble/clean it and then try your luck with super glue

>pink goo
heat it up with a hair dryer
and check if pink stuff gets soft

>>888283
i assume i knew what i was doing, just didn't care at the time. oddly enough its only the games, all my systems and controllers are just fine, aside from dusty and yellowed.

I don't really have games that are too fucked up besides the label.

I have a lot of empty NES plastic carts. So I just replace them.

Yeah, Madden N64 games are the cheapest source of replacement N64 shells. They tend to be $1 each, and are usually in good shape. Goo-Gone can get rid of the old labels.

>>888297
besides the pink goo its really easy to clean them up. i probably will have to do that for the goo coated games though

>>888286
Naval Jelly is a gelatinous corrosive used for cleaning things like anchors. It probably would have completely dissolved your shit though. It's probably a red soda with lots of citric acid that they were allowed to soak in for weeks. Maybe Barq's Red Cream Soda.

>>888326
i'm thinking more like "super glued to a wall which was later exposed to dampness/water"

for some reason kids who were born in the 90's have an awful habbit of glueing things to bedroom walls

>>888326
i remember what the pink goo is. I took some shit to a friends house when i was young and in the bag were some n64 games, i had a pink glow stick that broke in the bag and it sat untouched for about a week. You triggered that memory out of my brain.

I have a cheap Link to the Past that's fully working but with a ripped label. Can anyone direct me to a good way to print labels, or find a broken cart with a clean exterior?

>>888341
There we go solved that mystery. I have no doubt that the shit inside glow sticks would have some pretty significant properties given the time to act on plastic.

>>888372
Anything that happened before early 2009 has to be, i guess triggered for me to remember, i wont just remember it without an external trigger. That started because of a bad concussion. something about >>888326 saying acid and soaking triggered it from my memory.

>>888326
>Barq's Red Cream Soda

DAMNIT, I WANT SOME. FUCKWORD, IT IS FOR SALE NOWHERE NEAR ME.

Anyway, maybe pick off some of the pink crap and burn it. The color of the flame can help tell you what's in it, and may help divine a method of dissolving it without destroying the game. Kind of a poor-man's, poor-man's mass spectrometer.

>>888390
that sounds like a good idea, ill start a thread sometime possibly tonight more likely within the next few days about cleaning up all my old gaming stuff to make it look nice.

>>888390
you ever had orange cream soda? shits awesome.
sage for off topic

>>880642
Toothpaste is good for getting rid of sticker residue and it leaves a fresh minty smell

>>888393
Yeah, Stewart's Orange Cream Soda is amaaaaaaaazing. Jones Soda makes some perfect cream soda of their own, since they use SUGAR instead of Horrible Fucking Corn Slime.

I ordered a green NES pak for my Everdrive, which is currently in fucked-up Lifeforce case. I think I will make up a new label for it and title it Doc Robot or something. You know, from Mega Man 3, as Doc Robot was a body that could "play" the "ROMs" of Mega Man 2's robot masters.

Hey OP, I went to Grey Highlands, too. :3

>>888002
it's posted in every bootleg thread ever, no one knows who owns it, it's said to be an image some one found on tumblr

>>877430
No. Fucking no.
Spray on some Scrubbing Bubbles and wipe off.

>>887998
looks nice I guess, but personally I think it would have been better to make an exact replica of the original sticker rather than that retro as the modern gen sees it thing you made

>>877940
>not making mad bank selling it as a misprint to a collector

>>879892
Where did you even get that?

>>879892
its soooo cool, can I have it?

>>877731
yeah sounds like a dying battery like >>877772
said. I had a super mario world that did the same thing

>>879892
imagine a similar cart but it's god tier like LOZ or Star Fox and the inmates would all delete/beat scores to piss each other off?

i mean assuming it's like any other personal affection it would be traded around like cigs

>>888954
>this post
I don't even know where to begin...

>>888272

Looks like fucking bubblegum melted and then baked on.

>>888323

IT'S STILL IN THE GROOVES OH GOD

>>888341

Glowsticks contain a lot of nasty organic compounds, including urea.

The downside to this is that most solvents that act on those compounds also act on plastic.

ripped right out when i took the cartridge out

Picked this up over the weekend. The stickers are on the manual, and won't come off without ruining it. Not as bad as the other stuff posted in here, but still bugs the shit out of me.

>>889291

derp

>>888208
If carts could turn into the undead and become zombies this is what they'd look like.

>>879789

>>889292
JOKH

>>889292
One of my favourite games ever, can be pretty rare so its sad to see a copy purposefully damaged like that. How much did you pay for it out of interest?

I have a pretty good fucked up Genesis cartridge. Missing label, only one screw, writing all over the thing, the whole shebang. If I remember I'll post some pictures when I get home from babysitting for my buddy.

>>889323

$34

>>877437
>>877469
Yup, I come from OK too. I have a Quake 64 cartridge with that same shit, and in fact, I even know where the said movie store is, used to go there a lot.

>>880250
Yup and it's sat at the used game store for almost 4 months and I'm like "listen dude, I'll give you a few bucks". I buy from him a lot and the cart still worked.

>>880651
yeah it says that on the label.

I've got a weird one for you. I found this blank black N64 cart at goodwill for 2 bucks. I have photographed it here next to the only other black cart I know of which is the Turok 2 cart.

What is strange about this mystery black cartridge is that is doesn't work, but has some noticeable corrosion on the contact surfaces and the two screws. Also there is zero adhesive residue from either label sides and the grain, for lack of a better word, looks smaller on this game than on turok.

Any recommendations on how I should polish the contacts for this mystery cartridge?

>>889827
i believe there are 20 black colored cartridges clean the reader with 91% rubbing alcohol

>>887997
Ok, wow. I'm seeing copies of this game go for $30ish. That shape it shouldn't be more than $10.

Makes me mad because I'm seriously looking for a broke gross looking copy that I can turn into a Mr. Gimmick cart. This is the only donor board that works.

>>889827
You can use 90%+ isopropyl and a pencil eraser.

Brasso also works wonders but requires a little more finesse.

>>889946
why even bother honestly. wasting a perfectly good cart/game to destroy it for a inferior version of mr. gimmick.

just get the famicom version and enjoy superior music.

I had gotten a free copy of Super Mario Bros/Dunk Hunt with my spare second hand NES for free. Can you tell which copy I got for free? I don't know what the fuck happened to it, looks like it was label side down in some coffee spill and then ripped off a table surface weeks later. Disgusting. Luckily I have a good condition cart already that I've owned since new because I'm not a failure of a human being.

Here are my worst carts/cases.

>>879798

Dude there's virtually nothing in your average NES cartridge.

>>877437

The actions of unwashed savages. This makes Ohio look enlightened by comparison.

>>884289

She has nice armpits but apart from that I agree.

>>879870

Pokemon Black

>>888407

>toothpaste
>sticker residue

No shit? That sounds like it would just replace one residue with another.

>>889827
Like I said here: >>879872

I used a metal polish. But try some of the other suggestions first.

>>890145
Shut up.

>>880642
Rubbing alcohol is quite good at removing sticky shit, if that fails goo gone works really well also

I don't have a picture but I do have a story
>12th birthday party
>fat obnoxious kid that nobody likes come
>gives me his gift
>unwrapped
>Goldeneye for N64
>cart is damaged and dirty beyond belief
>chunk of plastic missing
>parts of the contacts are cracked off, like chunks of the pcb are missing
>he was just at my house the day before and we were playing my copy of Goldeneye
t- t- thanks

>>889535
I literally lived within walking distance of that place until the damn tornado. Their cat is super nice.

>>890128
>not swapping the front of spyro with some shitty CD

>>889292
I wonder who would answer if you call that number

>>892754
Agreed, but that manual is still pretty roughed up.

>>889264
Oh man, that's too bad, that game is really hard to find!

I have a slightly amusing story that's not very /vr/ relate,d but it's thread related so whatever:
>at LCS, only store in town that sells used games for virtually every console you can think of
>find Ultimate Spider-Man for Gamecube for $4
>decide to get it
>guy sees me buying it
>"You know it's interesting, that's one of the first Marvle games to cross over with other characters, like Wolverine is in it and stuff."
>owner comes back with the disc, takes the time to look at the back of it
>"You know it's funny you should mention Wolverine, it looks like he got a hold of this thing"
>it's scratched to hell
>far more scratched then any disc has any right to be without it delving into "You are a dick who did this on purpose"
>buy it anyway because $4 and I like to gamble
>it works fine despite the damage
I also found a copy of Mario Kart Double Dash! there that looked like a fucking cat used it as a scratching post. I didn't get that one.

These guys usually sell pretty good stuff, though. Got Wario World for ten bucks with manual and it still had the damn Nintendo Power/Club Nintendo advert in it.

The game with the sticker on the back is Turtles in Time.
I dont know who this copy of Bomber Man belongs to but its been at my house for years

>>888628
I actually picked it up from my local used game shop.

>>888927
Sorry, I'm gonna hang onto it.

>>879872
>wisard

Not only does it have to be ruined, it's not even spelled right.

Fuck, I wish I had a picture from when this happened.

Brother had SFII for the SNES. While playing and getting his ass kicked, he fucking raged, ripped the cart out, grabbed a bigass machete, and chopped the fucking cartridge in two.

Right above the actual PCB, meaning the goddamn thing still worked perfectly.

We still laugh about that one.

>>892968
This post made my day, thank you

>>888323
Is that... shit? Is there literally shit on that cart?

>>893015
its sticky and syrupy, my best guess is some soda of some sort.