/vr/ - Retro Games

I see a Famicom pad! Ooh, is that a square-button famicom, the rare one?

wh... wait a minute... this isn't a lot of packing

This is some bullshit

Rekt.

>>888532
Well the box was crushed.

What did you expect?

and that's why you pay more for EMS shipping

>SAL
You dun goofed.

YOU CAN REBUILD IT. WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY.

What? Here's what I would do. It just needs some TLC.

Buy scrap plastic sheets and cut them into small lengths, not unlike bandages, and put them aside.
Buy some CONCENTRATED PEROXIDE
Buy some OXY-CLEAN
Buy a LARGE-ISH CLEAR PLASTIC TUB
Mix up RETR0BRITE paste

Disassemble the Famicom
Spread RETR0BRITE paste onto the yellowed plastic. Glop it on evenly and totally
Let it SOAK UP DEADLY SOLAR RAYS for few hours

WASH CLEAN

Now you use epoxy resin and the plastic strips to rebuild the housing of the Famicom, attaching them to the INSIDE where no one can see them, and let it all cure for at least a day. After everything is back together and cured tight, fill in any holes or cracks with resin and let that cure. Buff it down flush with the surface. Paint optional.

does it still work?

This is just too painful to look at. I need to go lie down, I think I'm gonna be sick.

Working on saving it now. The PCB looks great. Oddly it is a very late revision with SMD RAM, yet it has the REV0 CPU...

>>888557
That would not have been an issue if there was more than a single layer of bubble wrap.

DAMN that sucks OP. How much did you pay for it, if you don't mind me asking? Also, what's the best place to buy Famicoms? Preferably ones that aren't hideously yellowed?

>>888532
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAHAHAH

That's what you get for buying shit from japan. Didn't you see the video on youtube how they handle international packages?

That's what you get for not waiting for the retron 5.

Joking aside. That fucking sucks bro. I'm sorry for your loss. Can I ask how much you paid?

>>888510

>Buy shit internationally

I do a small prayer when I receive even domestic packages in one piece.

lets face it OP, you would have posted this shit regardless of it being broken so at least this way you get more attention, and that IS what you really want.

>>888659
That's assuming it was handled by Pitney Bowes.

>>888510
>square buttons

op you knew what you were buying didnt you how much did that thing go for

Working on the AV out now. Should be no problem.

I paid about $80 for it. The RF output was snapped off, so that is why it was $80. I was going to AV mod it anyway, so there you go. This also means that without video output, it saw very little playtime (I imagine this happened early on). The pads are in great shape, and the PCB looks brand new.

Did you get SAL or RSAL? RSAL has insurance.

Also, does your mailman hate you? I've never gotten a SAL package with as much as a dent in it (/toy/-fag here).

>>888702
So you knowingly overpaid for a broken famicom and you expected it not to get fucked in delivery?

Cmon now OP. You're just torturing yourself.

>>888702
>$80

Holy shit.

Aren't they like $20 on Rakuten? I know the mandatory EMS would be $15-$20, but goddamn, $80?

>>888707
>dat shipping

>>888704
That's not overpaying when you consider the ease of repair and the rarity of the system

>>888707
Not for a square button famicom those are much rarer

>>888532
jeez, those pieces of plastic are quite neatly arranged for randomly crushed product... you would almost think that it was already crushed and OP just stuck it back in the box and took pictures of him opening it up for attention, but of course he wouldn't do something like that.

>>888659
>That's what you get for not waiting for the retron 5.
nice viral marketing bro

>>888721

What? No. That would be just weird.

>>888721
I like how your cynical bullshit is your first response. Did it not occur to you that that photograph could have been the last one taken after all the shit was put in one spot?

>>888727
hi op

>>888736
Hi? What's up?

>>888727
if he actually recieved it smashed wouldn't you think that he would try to contact Ebay or the seller or what ever instead of acting like it's no big deal and trying to fix it? I mean he spent $80 on it supposedly.

>>888724
If you don't think that shit is awesome you're a faggot

>>888713
>ease of repair
broken shards of plastic

yeah i'm sure he'll have it looking brand new in no-time

>>888752
I think he means repairing the broken RF output, not the shattered case.

>>888745
I *did* contact eBay.

>>888752
The ease of repair refers to the broken RF port. As described in the auction and pictured, there was nothing wrong with the plastics. As described, it is an easy repair.

Now the repair is a matter of swapping the body with a junker famicom.

>>888760
then why are you here?

go fix it you fucking faggot.

>>888760
>I *did* contact eBay
then WHY are you repairing it?
also is Ebay, not eBay, the site was made before the iProduct craze caught on.

>>888760
>there was nothing wrong with the plastics.
what?
but you already posted this pic >>888532 that shoes that the case is shattered
get out troll

each one of these fucking thread has revealed massive faggotry.

>unboxing is something tweens do on youtube

Kindly and quietly never make another one of these threads again, they are meaningless and self absorbed.

>>888774
On the auction.

>>888792
what?

>>888782

>There was only ever one good unboxing thread
>on /g/ a few years ago
>Tons of unboxing faggotry on /g/
>Guy takes a dozen or so high definition shots of him slowing unboxing his item
>end reveal is an empty box
>mfw

>>888796
>/v/ unboxing thread
>everyone expects it to be a dragon dildo
>it isn't
>mod bans op

>>888532
I don't know whether to laugh, or feel incredibly sorry.

At least the controllers are fine, all you need to do is replace the top shlel and all will be well.

>>888926
hey man he ordered something from japan, you know, that cool place he wants to be associated with?

>>888972
So? I ordered my Famicom from japan and everything was fine.

>>888972
So, I ordered my Famicom from japan and everything was fine.

>>888972
I ordered my Neo Geo from Japan, and a fuckload of toys. Doesn't mean I want to be Japanese. It's a racist, insular shithole of a country. In my mind, it's the same as California. It would be a nice place to live if 60% of the population would just be relocated to Chinese labor camps.

>>888513

#1 CARDINAL SIN OF PACKAGING: EMPTY SPACE IN THE BOX

>>888518

#2 CARDINAL SIN OF PACKAGING: EXPECTING A THIN LAYER OF PAPER OR BUBBLE WRAP TO PROTECT SWEET FUCK ALL

>>888582
Considering this is a god damn square button famicom, listen to this man!

>>888702
Why would you AV mode such an old model of the system? It would be better off preserved exactly as it came out of the box. I'd trade you a newer, unbroken fami for this one in heartbeat.

>>888767
The site was always spelled like that idiot.

>>888760

Don't replace the case with a standard famicom case. The square button systems are slightly different. It's better to keep it original, or trade the broken system for a whole new one.

>>889054
The top halves were exactly the same, the difference is with the bottom halves (which is fine on this one from what I can tell). Square buttons have a glossy bottom, while newer ones are matte.

>>889065
Is the cartridge slot door intact?

Holy shit this thread is ridiculous. RIP in peace intelligent discussion on /vr/.

That really sucks OP, if you think you can fix it then at least that's something. Hopefully the seller you ordered from is professional enough to at least offer a partial refund.

>>889090
Yes. Why wouldn't it be?

>>889102

>intelligent discussion on /vr/
>unboxing thread

0/10 m8

>>888634
from the looks of the box, it had impact damage from something bigger falling on it. Some really heavy freight probably hit into it because someone probably put the box into a spot where it fit low down in a stack of boxes, as opposed to higher up where it would have been safe.

Not much would have saved it from that kind of shipping.

>>888510
That's a shame dude, it looked so clean too.
I got my famicom shipped over from Japan as well and had no problems...it just doesn't work.

>>889129

Nothing really falls on anything else. That's not how crushing happens during shipping. If you've ever been in a shipping warehouse, you'd see that they pile shit the size of OP's box into 4-ft steel cages that can stack on each other at the corners, so no single package has to hold up an unreasonable amount of weight. Anything heavy gets labeled as such and put on pallets with the other heavy shit instead.

Boxes at the bottom of a cage end up having to hold up some weight but anything properly packed can take it. The box's outside edges are where most of the force goes, and as long as they hold, the contents are safe from being crushed.

The one thing you absolutely must never do is leave a lot of empty space in a box. That shit will just cave right in, and suddenly the weight isn't being held up by the edges of the box. It's pressing right down on the contents instead.

>That smashed box
I get the feeling you're in this situation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijmdVlQ36-w

>>889247
But that is the exact opposite to OP's situation.

The guy in that vid is in Japan and had stuff sent from the US.

>>889290
They most likely go though a reverse processes

>>889319
that moron in the video also has his stuff repackaged by pitney bowes.

look, the shipper clearly fucked up and didn't include enough packing material. that box also looks paper fucking thin, typical shit noncorrugated japanese box. fucking fail. I'd shit all over the seller's face and get a refund.

also who the fuck pays $80 for a famicom? especially one that is banana yellow? are you fucking retarded? they are like $5 on yaj.

>>889471
yaj?

>>889483
yahoo auctions japan, aka retro gamer heaven

>>888659
That was china dipshit.

>>889498
How do you order from there?

>>889517
use a middleman service like rinkya. they are not the cheapest, but they are the easiest for people new to the yaj game. there are other options that are cheaper but rinkya is very noob-friendly. I used them a little in the past but I moved on to other services that are cheaper, smaller-scale that I was able to build personal relationships with to get better service.

>>888651
Why would you want to buy from where the OP did? Don't you see how they treat their merchandise?

>>889545
What services would those be? I might be interested in importing some stuff

>>889832
rinkya, like I said. great place to start. google "rinkya"

>>890023
I meant the smaller and cheaper ones