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Just bought a SNES in good shape. If it hasn't yellowed already, do I have to worry? The room I keep it in gets some sunlight. Do I need to keep it in the shade?

>> No.8825651

>>8825638
Keep it away from the garish light of day I say.

>> No.8825657

The SNES is a shade plant. It’s attractive foliage spawns colors of purple, grey, and black, with black vines spouting vibrate berries. They combine well with woodland species such as CRT and VCR, and do not require watering. With reliable care they will flourish for many years and will add much to your garden.

>> No.8825660

isn't it like the type of plastic they used that caused it to yellow? if it hasnt yellowed yet it probably wont

>> No.8825665

>>8825660
It's UV exposure that makes it yellow

>> No.8825690

>>8825665
This is all but entirely verified to be false. It's the bromine in the plastic. It's why even models that yellow have pieces that are still grey.

>> No.8825719

Throw it away and get a Mega Drive. You'll thank me later.

>> No.8825731
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8825731

>>8825719
>Mega Drive
You lost the war with your inferior library, let it go..

>> No.8825742

>>8825731
all those classic snes games, like.... uhhh... umm.... uhh.... mario and uh..... uhhhhh... you know .... all those other ones, the list could go on

>> No.8825745

>>8825742
>Cope

>> No.8825746

>>8825742
please kill yourself

>> No.8825753

>>8825742
mental illness

>> No.8825784

>>8825742
The SNES does have way too much shovelware and a number of its best games never left Japan.

>> No.8825792

>>8825784
>there's good games i swear!!! you can't see them though, they're all hidden in japan, just trust me

>> No.8825805

>>8825792
This isn't a thread about the Saturn.

>> No.8825807

>>8825792
Why do I browse this shitty board

>> No.8825809

>>8825805
who said anything about the Smega Shitturd? take your meds.

>> No.8825815

>>8825807
i was just thinking that myself

>> No.8825819
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8825819

>>8825792
Literally better than any shmup on the Genesis.

>> No.8825826

>>8825805
keksamus maximus

>> No.8825830

>>8825819
>slows down

>> No.8825834

>>8825830
Don't care.

>> No.8825835
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8825835

>>8825805

>> No.8825838

>>8825830
Use the fastROM patch.

>> No.8825839

>>8825807
It’s literally the same 2-3 people that constantly shitpost
Stop replying to them and stop falling for the bait
This moron posts on pol all the time from Canada and tells people to come here and shitpost

>> No.8825843
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8825843

>>8825819
Eliminate Down begs to differ

>> No.8825850

yellowing has nothing to do with sunlight. it has to do with the chemicals used in the plastic to make it fire retardant. if it's going to yellow it's going to yellow no matter what you do. i'd think that if it hasn't yellowed yet then it's probably not going to.

>> No.8825860
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8825860

>>8825742
k
y
s

>> No.8825862

>>8825843
And then Elminate Down gets gangbanged by Axelay, R-Type III, Gradius III, Supernova, and Macross. At least pick a good Genesis shmup like Elemental Master.

>> No.8825869

>>8825850
Yes. They used some faulty ABS plastic in the SNES shells that turns yellow.

>> No.8825894

>>8825638
You should immediately get a replacement shell, in a color appropriate to your life choices.

>> No.8825903

>>8825834
I know. If you cared about quality, you'd be playing a Sega console.
>>8825839
I don't use pol, racism is for weak chinned faggots.

>> No.8825906

>>8825860
wow... that's a lot of shovelware. did you write all that down just now to debunk me?

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>>8825903
>quality
>sega

>> No.8825916

>>8825860
you could make an additional 2-3 pages of good NES games and its overall library is smaller than the SNES's is

>> No.8825917

>>8825906
nope. got it pre loaded for all the people who say snes has no games.
>shovelware
sure bud

>> No.8825920

>>8825906
Gtfo. Lester the Unlikely mogs Greendog.

>> No.8825923

>>8825903
>every Genesis model 2 and model 3 outputs broken sound
>even later model 1's without the ext port are fucked
>quality
lol no

>> No.8825931

>>8825920
lester aint on the list

>> No.8825936

>>8825923
>im poor and bought a cost reduced poorfag version and it was worse
cool story bro

>> No.8825948
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>>8825936
Early Japanese model 1s have horrendous jailbars. All models have controller ports that come loose.

>> No.8825952

>>8825936
>it was cost reduced so that excuses the audio hardware being literally broken and sounding wildly incorrect
lol no

>> No.8825962

>>8825948
>>8825952
yeah, and the power supply design is so flawed that the CPU fries itself at random
oh wait ... that was the ""super"" nintendo

>> No.8825964

>>8825962
Nobody's falling for it dude.

>> No.8825968

>>8825964
We just had this thread. And you had nothing to say to disprove the many anons posting pics of their broken snes collections. maybe someday they'll finally find one that works...

>> No.8825971

>>8825968
It was just the local schizo posting his ebay haul as usual.

>> No.8825973
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8825973

>>8825962
worth more bricked than a working sega

>> No.8825979

>>8825962
Yeah, instead the Genesis stops outputting sound and video at random. Much better.

>> No.8826042

>>8825665
Never ever been confirmed or proven in any verifiable way. It's hearsay on the same level as telling your friends mew is under the truck.

>> No.8826061

>>8825862
>Elemental Master
Agreed

>> No.8826064

>>8825979
source?

>> No.8826067

>>8825971
10/10

>> No.8826119

>why yes, my parents WERE heavy smokers, how'd you know?

>> No.8826342
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>>8825719
based

>> No.8827249

bump

>> No.8827267

>>8825638
ANY amount of sunlight will contribute to the yellowing effect. no one would say to be autistic about it and avoid even tiny incidental sunlight here and there, but know that the chemical process is taking place to a miniscule degree every single time sunlight touches it. if this is your "play" machine and you don't ever plan on selling it, i wouldn't even worry. you can retrobrite it or buy a new shell later if needed, and it doesn't matter because it's just yours to play.

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>>8826064
>source?

>> No.8827308

Maybe spray paint the whole thing with clear coat.
Just cover the ports with tape.

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8827349

>>8825638
Sunlight -> window -> console = yellowing
Sunlight -> console = de-yellowing

The process can be reverted to some extent so it will never be new. The good news is, yellowing takes years, but de-yellowing takes days. Still I would try to be careful, at the very least do not store your console on a shelf which has glass windows. It's what I had done to that game boy. Big mistake.

>> No.8827409

>>8827301
>random zoomers online is a source
Cool. I can also find forum posts saying the earth is flat, does that make it true? Let's see a peer reviewed study.

>> No.8827681

Remember how they found the original plastic molds for the breadbin C64 case and used it to make new cases?

>> No.8827809

are the non-yellowed ones generally worth more? mine still looks like the day it came out the box.

>> No.8827832

>>8827409
>implying shitloads of people are lying about their Genesis consoles breaking and asking for help as a prank
You're done here.

>> No.8827836
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8827836

>>8825819
Better than any shmup on the SNES. The sound track alone is just so fucking good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAa8jSzUhfA

>> No.8827839

I store my consoles in cardboard boxes
>8827324
This is nice

>> No.8827880
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8827880

>>8825819
>>8827836
In all seriousness, I'm gonna check this game out, it looks great.

>> No.8827886

>>8825784
Genesis has tons of shovelware too, mostly in the form of like 50+ different football games

>> No.8827931

>>8827301
These are most likely caused by cracked solder joints which are a simple fix.

>> No.8828197

bump

>> No.8828442

>>8827931
I put some of those links into Google and it does seem that was the issue with most of them.

>> No.8828450

>>8825973
Damn, let's just say it again so everyone can hear;
A broken SNES is worth more than a working Genesis.

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>>8825719
>>8825731
>>8825742
>>8825745
>>8825746
>>8825753
>>8825784
>>8825792
>>8825805
>>8825807
>>8825809
>>8825819
>>8825826
>>8825830
>>8825834
>>8825835
>>8825838
>>8825843
>>8825860
>>8825862
>>8825903
>>8825906
>>8825908
>>8825916
>>8825917
>>8825920
>>8825923
>>8825931
>>8825936
>>8825952
>>8825962
>>8825964
>>8825968
>>8825971
>>8825973
>>8825979
>>8826342
>>8827301
>>8827409
>>8827832
I-is that a console war????!?!??? OH MY FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOD YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSS HOLY FUCK YESSSSSS THIS IS JUST THE RIGHT FUCKING TIME NOW THAT THE WIFE IS OUT WITH TYRONE I CAN CONSOLE WAR ALL NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>> No.8828642 [DELETED] 

>>8828586
didn't read.

>> No.8828864

>>8828586
fuck you and everyone you replied to
go back to your shithole
>>>/v/

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>>8827349

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8829978

>>8827324
Yes, the nude mods.

>> No.8830186

>>8827349
>>8826042
I have a gamecube that yellowed on the front gray part, but only the half that got light exposure through the windows

>> No.8830318

>>8829978
Cringe

>> No.8830678

>>8827324
>no clear bracket piece
Lame.

>> No.8830704

>>8830186
UV can yellow plastics and papers, no one is disputing that. That doesn't mean a SNES not kept in front of a window won't yellow.

>> No.8830740

Certain plastics, in particular ABS, are prone to deterioration with time as the plastic is made by mixing with polybutadiene to give it softness. However the polybutadiene is prone to evaporating with time which turns the ABS brittle. The only way to fix this is to melt the ABS, re-mix it with polybutadiene, and re-mold it.

>> No.8830785

>>8830740
>prone to evaporate
the moment its made it starts evaporating.

>> No.8830871
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8830871

>>8825638
>>8830740

'ABS'' plastic like the SNES case, or 'acrylonitrile butadiene styrene' is very flammable so they add ''bromine'' to make it less so, being a very inexpensive flame-retardant. UV light that shines onto the SNES over its lifetime breaks the chemical bonds of the bromine so that it can seek oxygen in a process we call oxidation. Heat accelerates this process, and the bromine turns brown giving that SNES a beautiful retro-brown finish.

This is why you will see SNES's with the cartridge port unharmed as it was piece assembled at the factory and did not receive a treatment of bromine.

>> No.8830875

>>8827349
retrobright doesn't make plastic new again

>> No.8830987

>>8830740
You can re-juice ABS plastic with WD-40 btw.

>> No.8831004

it would certainly be possible to 3D print new SNES shells if anyone was willing to try it

>> No.8831012

>>8830740
Also not all ABS is created equal and some is better and some worse than others. Some is just junk and quickly gets brittle and breaks apart.

>> No.8832747

>>8830740
>>8830871
How come nobody is answering my question bin the OP? Do I need to worry about my console yellowing if it hasn't already?

>> No.8833143

SNES also have frequent issue with loose power jack.