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6310826 No.6310826 [Reply] [Original]

I say we find the bastard that decided plastic consoles needed a flame retadent that turns the consoles piss yellow and break his legs
Posts you yellowest

>> No.6310830

https://youtu.be/QwU8j2_6IOI

Fuck him

>> No.6310834
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>>6310830
Opps did not mean to post that lol

>> No.6310841

Eh, the way I see it, it's charming. Like an old book's yellowed pages. It shows its history.
I can understand it being annoying for young people who want to buy one of those, though. It's not the same to have a console you've owned since childhood, and turned yellow over time, to buying an used one that's already yellow, without it being connected to your personal history.
That said, my SNES didn't turn yellow. And I got a US Saturn.

>> No.6310846
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>>6310841
I guess you have a point but its atill ugly

>> No.6310867

yellowed electronics are top aesthetics

>> No.6310970

You know how there's replacement, custom, etc. shells for things like the dreamcast? Even the NES has some. Why doesn't a console as popular as the SNES have a modernized shell?

>> No.6310973

>>6310826
if you keep a snes long enough it becomes the mythical GOLD snes of legacy.

>> No.6310976

>>6310973
No, that's only if it's untouched by the sun. Once it turns 30 it turns into a wizard.

>> No.6310994

>>6310970
Probably because it only seems to be a prevalent problem with the US shells, and not even across the board with those models. Someone will decide to make them eventually I'm sure.

>> No.6311005

>>6310841
>>6310867
It works well with vintage guitars, new reliced guitars are ultimate low test though.

>> No.6311014

>>6310994
I see it in SFCs from all regions. It's something that happens in all of them, US consoles are probably the most reported on because the visible area that staining can occur on is much larger.

>> No.6311019
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6311019

Here is my original snes. Friend asked me if i wanted it cleaned up. Umm nope.

>> No.6311175

>>6311014
It's because it ends up two-toned very obviously.

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>>6310826
> why yes, I prefer my electronic products to burst into flames

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>>6311019
At least your case is all uniformly yellow. On mine only the top shell is yellow.

>> No.6312119

>>6310994
>Someone will decide to make them eventually I'm sure.
And sadly it'll be garbage

>> No.6312193

>>6312116
may i ask why you haven't cleaned up the jam splotches?

>> No.6312195

>>6312119
Probably. But every so often there's something that doesn't entirely blow.

>> No.6313013

>>6312116
But it's cringe all over so at least you've got that

>> No.6313034
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rotten apple

>> No.6313037
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6313037

yellow is only stage 1, stuff gets real when you hit the orange stage

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>> No.6313642

>>6313037
my C64 has gone to brown.

>> No.6314156

>>6310826

Anyone else find it ironic that Nintendo didnt put the bromine on the cartridge port.

They be like "you buying a new game to replace your melted one inside your fireproof Nintendo".

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>>6310973

>> No.6314560

>>6313642
Mine had gone to plaid

>> No.6315261
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6315261

>>6310841
>tfw your childhood SNES is still a nice uniform platinum colour

>> No.6316414

>>6310826
The real crime is not using glorious PVC plastic for the consoles.

That's why the IBM-made Model M keyboards never yellowed (except the spacebar, but only on some UK-made boards; they made the spacebar with PBT plastic elsewhere).
They don't have any ABS plastic on them at all (with that one exception that only holds true for a smallish minority of them).
>but the environment
Well, fine. Bakelite, then. Pick whatever you want.

>> No.6316417

>>6313602
I can actually smell the nicotine on that.

>> No.6316423

>>6315261
that might be a 1chip (or a SNS-CPU-RGB).

BTW the top of one of my late-model SNES's cases is slightly yellower (and MUCH brittler) than the bottom half. So of course now it has a splinter in the shell. It feels like it didn't yellow at all until around 2015 and then it just went through the roof.

>> No.6316429
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6316429

My most yellowed thing is probably my Amiga 500. The case is only a bit yellowed, as seen where I peeled a sticker off (ghasp) to drill a hole (ghasp).
The keyboard is much worse, and actually has a key with a few fractures in it that have been superglued back down.

>> No.6316439
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6316439

Oh, I actually do have something yellower, although you can't tell in the pic.
That fujitsu keyboard's been painted over, but it's horrible piss-yellow. There's a spot on the underside I left so you can still see it, so I'll try to dig it out and show it.

>> No.6316445

>>6316439
if you look closely you can see the places where the paint is rubbing off. Unfortunately that experiment was likely a failure. Anyway, the main reason I did it was because of dirt i couldn't get out of the textured plastic rather than the yellowing.

>> No.6316475

>>6315261
I got mine in the Super Nintendo Super Set and it isn't yellow at all, I must have got a good roll because all the others I see look disgusting.

Is there a way to clean that off?

>> No.6316710

>>6316423
Nah, it's not a 1chip. The serial number starts in "UN6", not "UN3". I don't really care though, I've had it since 1995 so that's worth more to me than the quality of the chipset. And the colour is most likely from the fact it spent its entire life in a basement, away from UV light.

>>6316439
What firmware are you running on those routers? Cool keyboard by the way, what are the switches on that? I've got an old Apple M0116 with Salmon Alps and I absolutely love the thing.

>>6316475
There isn't a way to "clean" it off, but the 8bit guy on Youtube has a lot of tutorials for using Retro-Brite, which is this home-made hydrogen peroxide solution that removes the oxidized plastic (if this isn't exactly how it works, someone feel free to correct me). I've tried it on a Macintosh IIsi with meh results.

>> No.6316749

Is there any disadvantage to just leaving them yellow? Its not secreting any weird chemical is it?

>> No.6316863

>>6316749
As long as you don’t lick it you’ll be fine.