How to Restore Yellow Games and Consoles
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- čas přidán 7. 08. 2024
- I show you how to restore your old game consoles and video games that have turned yellow. I originally saw this method of the 8-bit guy's channel and figured I'd put it to the test for myself.
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When you said Crahno Trigger my head almost exploded
Lollll
I thought everyone was peeing on them
Avgn
You sir just earned a subscriber.
Heh your childhood theory on yellowing is a lot more dignified than mine I used to think the yellowing was due to these things being peed on one too many times.
You weirdo. I only peed on the games that were difficult to complete not the console itself.
R/cursedcomments
r/deletethis
well, i’ve never heard of that one before lmfaooo
Put it in the sun instead of a black light. Check on it every hour to make sure it doesn't get too much exposure. I've used the same process dozens of times.
Kevin Willett My Nes console now have some white marks on,because I think I over posted to the sun,how can vanish those marks,if is posible???
Nice ! But what do you consider too much exposure ?
How fast does the sun process work?
Nice video man, very helpfull. I like the why u talk, hugs from Argentina
Is always better to do it with a led uv light box and hydrogen peroxide in liquid form and is marblelization free. Only takes 24hrs in the box.
Problem is that 1 gallon of 20% hydrogen peroxide is around $30 and can only do one side of the SNES. It will also evaporate and likely not be enough to do the second side. What does work is the hydrogen peroxide vapor approach where you just seal your box and put a tray of the 20% hydrogen peroxide in it. It will evaporate and still bleach the plastic. You will also only use a small amount of the hydrogen peroxide.
My 1990 SNES needed over a week to get to where it needed to be with the vapor approach. It was ultra yellow... I've actually never seen a more yellow unit. If you can spare 7-10 days I think this is the best approach because the result is always flawless. I also think the SNES is unique in how long it takes to properly retrobrite so other plastics will probably bleach much faster.
I thought the yellow plastic meant it got too old! Haha! Great video, too. I'm trying to teach myself how to restore old consoles and I like this method a lot :)
thanks :) I can't take credit for the method though but i figured i'd at least do an "average joe" trying out the "retro bright" method
Always good to try it and tell others if it works so they don't end up wasting time lol
While the main case is a chemical reaction in the plastic, I wouldnt entirely rule out the possibility of the nicotene causing some contributory yellowing
I thought the same thing.. It definitely didn't help!
what's the sun method? is it just leaving it out in the sunlight? I just wanted to double-check before I actually did it, since I don't have a UV light
Will this work with Angelus sole brite?
A few days ago, I got a SNES. I got it for trading in some movies at a local shop (price was $70). It is in great shape and isn't the slightest bit yellow. It doesn't appear to have been chemically brightened. I think I need to run over it with a magic eraser (or perhaps a pencil eraser), which should help remove any dirt lodged in the texturing of the plastic.
It isn't very dirty inside but I want to go in to check the capacitors anyway so it will get a good cleaning soon.
I think this one spent most of its life in a box because the warning sticker next to the power button is completely intact.
The weird thing about the yellowing is that some yellow more than others and I have seen ones with one half of the case yellowed and the other not. I haven't been able to verify it but it has been suggested to me that they used different chemicals in different lots of plastic and some won't yellow.
snes plastic is better quality
I'm going to have to try this now on a stormtrooper helmet, either that or, in going to have to get some gloss white spray paint. Luckily, it is not too badly yellowed but it is still noticeable as it is only on the front left of the helmet.
I was wondering why my Super Nintendo never turned yellow; my family's had it since '94. A little advice for those who still have that nostalgic gray look to your SNES's: keep them safe under a desk, and go easy on the lights in the room it's in, they'll remain gray much longer.
yeah it was news to me that just the light in your house can turn it yellow over time. Some people go to extreme lengths to prevent this including putting UV filters over their lights in their house.. which i guess makes sense if you're a collector i just don't know if i would go to that legnth
It wasn't the chemical on its own causing it. Nintendo was shit at making plastic at the time so they could have put too much or too little bromine into some of the molds. So some are yellowed and others will probably stay gray forever.
When originally released. All the originals had a chemical in the plastic that turned them yellow. It's not a mystery. Yours was a second wave.
The problem with yellowing plastics still exists in the 21st century.
I have a white PS3 Dual Shock controller that half-yellowed. I bought a later white DS3 that hasn't yellowed.
I have an HRAP 2 joystick case which has yellowed but NOT the white plastic that holds the PCB for that joystick!
They made a similar joystick for a licensed HRAP, also white plastic, but neither of these cases (2009/2010 vintage) have yellowed on me and they were bought within a year of the older HRAP 2 (2008 vintage)!
Some of the factories cheaped out or weren't diligent with the chemical mixes for the plastics.
I haven't done anything special for these joysticks... They're pretty much all sealed in boxes when I'm not using them. Heck, the HRAP 2 wasn't used for at least 5-7 years and it's just now I broke it out and find out it yellowed on me!
I frankly think all the Retrobrite will do is bleach the plastic closer to its original color. It won't change the "chemical fate" of the plastic. That's built into the chemical formula of the plastic. !
You're basically coloring plastic the same way people color their hair when it turns grey...
I'd be curious to see if a stronger UV light would be more effective - they do come in varying intensities and those room lights tend to not be that strong.
so you basically put on the paste and put wrap on it and put it under a UV light? for how long and why is the UV light required?
You can use the sun, it's faster and better.
Great stuff man! Much appreciated.
I like your late 90s / early 200's grunge style. Was helpful video
Will this work on a 3DS cartridge and its sticker?
My SNES broke almost 10 years ago and I was only like 9 when it did so I had no idea what was wrong with it or how to fix it. I took it out of my shed like 3 months ago and found out that the problem was the adapter port being broken. So I bought a new back panel, AC Adapter, and a soldering iron to fix it, which I did (it was my first time soldering anything). However, the adapter I bought I guess stopped working because the SNES doesn't turn on anymore. I heard that the off-brand adapters having a 9V output instead of 10V is an issue, which I hope is the case and not the SNES having a new problem. Anyway, it having been in the shed for so long has turned it extremely yellow, nearly brown, mostly on the top half. The bottom half is still grey with some yellowing on the front with the switches being completely brown and not blue or purple anymore. My bad for writing an essay, my point is I'm gonna try retrobrighting it lmao great video.
You probably need to reflow all of your solder joints. They get brittle and the metal forms a honeycomb structure over time, causing too much resistance for the board to work. You couls also have some bad capacitors.
I think Im over posted my Nes to the sun and now have some white marks due to the Salon Care 40 solution,is there any way to make those marks disappear???
i dont think so :( unless you added more salon care and made the console match the white marks at least?
Does this work with browned switches?
Have the same shirt! Love it man!
hell yes! Genesis fans unite!
@@DancingwithGhosts Prog rules!
This is a very interesting video. I collect just like you and I might need this technique for restoring PC cases and consoles so thank you for making this video!
my pleasure.. i got the idea from the 8-bit guy so I can't take all the credit
Did you get any white marks or uneven results where the cling wrap was touching? I tried this with my PAL SNES and i ended up getting white marks all over it
nope, no white marks, you have to make sure to apply the peroxide as evenly as possible
try making a solution of hydrogen peroxide and water and submerge the casing in it. should even it out, or at least make it less obvious
you can remove white marks with knock off magic erasers from the dollar store. its only sitting on the plastic, the white marks isnt part of the plastic
Using a UV curing light for resin is what you should do here. It's way better than even sunlight and especially a black light.
Does anyone know if it works on gamecube console? They are purple but gets stained over time .
I always thought the yellow things were nicotine stains ... maybe it's because I've seen a photo of 2 white chairs compared together the one from the "smoking allowed" room was yellow
And the one from the "no smoking" room was white and new
Smoke isn't the main cause of ABS plastic yellowing, ABS just yellows over time. Chairs aren't made out of ABS, it's a completely different thing happening. But yeah, smoke particles could've easily deposited themselves and contributed to the plastic turning yellow. Not the nicotine itself but the tar and a bunch of other shit.
Just dug my Snes out as I found a super game boy in second hand shop. And boy has she yellowed was just the centre panel when I packed her away.
Using direct sunlight is better uv plus heat. But watch it takes a bit of time but once it gets going it turns fast
if i dont have one of thoses lights and not much sun here right now what can i do for my snes system
i think at that point your options are going to be pretty limited
Honestly go buy a black light or a uv light even a black light bulb for lamps (not the cheap ones under $4) and make an exposure box even out of cardboard. Do exactly the same thing as the video shows with the chemical. The issue here is the black light is angled and the shells were not getting direct uv exposure. Now it the black light was hung above it and closer they results would have been way better. Seen a lot of videos on this subject.
I noticed that most ppl who do this to restore their console are using the wrong UV light it is taking you guys days to get the yellowing out because the light is too far away not concentrated enough or you aren't using a stronger light bulb.
For great result I used 100w black light. one to the left and one on the right for 4 hr I did change it's position every hr and the yellowing was gone. I did over do it on my test run on a snes shell and over bleached the console. I did it for 8hr and had added way more salon care.
What would happen if leaving it too much
For some reason my moms SNES never turned yellow over the years
Means it probably wasn't exposed to much light, heat, etc
I always thought it was from the humidity in the air
Let’s be honest, we’re here for the SNES
Honestly at the time I’d got a snes from my cousin, I’d never seen one, so I thought the yellow color it had was natural, I also had a hard time playing a lot of the games because
1.I had to order rca cables from amazon because my tv didn’t support the Rf adapter
2.the save battery was dead on some of my cartridges so when I saved, my progress would be reset
Wtf I had mine for over 20 yrs mines never discolored.
Yo, help, my snes is a lot more yellow than this, will this method work for me? Even if I let it on the paste for like, 12 days.
probably, but i've heard that the sun is actually more effective than black-light, just leave it out there for a long time. the longer you let it sit the more bleaching will take place
@@DancingwithGhosts thanks!
would salon sun bed work.
Anyone knows what the background song is at the start of the video?
It's a stock Final Cut Pro X jingle
That was fast, thanks! Well it's groovy. If you ever remember what its name is, I'd love to know it :) Video was nice, btw. I'm looking for a way to remove yellowing from the sticker itself, but that seems to be much trickier, if at all possible...
I felt the grandparents smoking comment in my soul lol
Smearing issues with the creme? 8bit guy used clear and sunlight. Also nice Gators poster
Why is this dude hilarious
What is the name of the bits
I thought that’s what the nes originally looked like for the longest time.....
SNES cleaning, Genesis shirt.
What do you use the lotion for?
what lotion? i do have lotion but it wasn't in frame in this video.. and i use it for masturbation.
Why qtips and not some kind of cloth?
Qtips are easier to maneuver and easier to dip into the bottle of peroxide. Also they are easier to get into small, tight corners of the plastic.. You could use a cloth but you better wear gloves because that stuff burns if it gets on your skin plus you're going to ruin that cloth but it's upp 2222 youuuuuu
Also. Could you just paint it? Are people not into painted snes's?
The sun seems better, i went outside and put mine in my car under the sun with that stuff for an hour and it turned my nes from yellowish looking to brand new looking. Now my super yellow snes is sitting out there.
I subscribed Because of your theory on why it turned yellow . Also your supposed to put slightly more cream on it , and your supposed to leave it outside on the sun so it can be exposed to more uv light .
They turn yellow because of the chemicals they used to make the snes back then. It's not a mystery.
I’m trying this process rn.. got a rough shape snes on offerup with games for 25.
Only the top of Chrono Trigger was yellow, it was that good.
wouldnt it be a better idea to create a solution of hydrogen peroxide and drench the casing in there? no skipped corners, no potential color differentiation....
from my understanding the UV-light is an important component to this process and if you submersed the case in peroxide it might interfere with the light hitting everything evenly.. plus you need a solution with a very concentrated amount of peroxide and to my knowledge, only the paste has a strong enough concentration to work effectively.. however i'm sure you could try it out yourself it might work
So does the heat itself really make it yellow? maybe that explains why some consoles get yellow, I've been living in my house without air conditioning for over 20 years, was thinking if the heat itself was the cause.
Heat as well as direct sunlight and florescent lights can cause yellowing. Also, if you store your consoles in an area with extreme temperature swings, like an attic or a garage can cause yellowing, even if boxed up, as well as wreak havoc on the internals.
Ayyy Genesis
I didn't hear the audio but if you want to get rid of the yellowing all together let it sit outside in sunlight. The UV Rays will activate the salon care.
i heard that method takes much longer
Cigarette smoke definitely does turn (or quicken) the colour of these plastics. But UV/heat also. I got a SNES from CEX here in the uk, their site has stock photos so no idea what I'd actually get. It came as grey as it must've been in the 90s, more I'm scared to even have my curtain open that the console's closest too lol. Might put a sheet over the cubby holes where my retro consoles are. My dreamcast from CEX weren't so lucky though, need to give that a whitening. Some tips though, a bright incandescent light or 24 hrs+ of being left in the sunlight, using a big zip lock back instead of cling film (to avoid blotchiness) or best it to leave fully submerged in 40 cream developer in a plastic tub.
The way you say Chrono
Like an American?
Mig 28 No, we still say Kro-No Trigger, not Craw-No Trigger.
Boss video tho thank you
When a strong UV light is turned on in a room, objects around it are bleached.
My snes did the exact opposite of what yours did... My controller ports turned yellow but the rest is still grey!! looks great and i love it
oh that's weird.. it's all about what plastics they initially used at the factory. The ones that turned yellow had a different mixture in them than the ones that stayed grey.. science and stuff.. i'm out of my league
Yeah strange how they all go different, my pilotwings cart turned yellow on the back but the front is still grey.
What's with chrono trigger getting yellow? My chrono trigger is yellow as well
just happens to most SNES cartridges over time if you leave them in any kind of light or heat.
It looks like it did sort of work on the SNES. Honestly, a better solution would be to strip it of it's paint, primer and spray new paint.
It works 100% of the time. You can even customize it to where it doesn't look so much like a 'kiddy' console. Something like white and black face buttons would look really good.
all my experiences with spray paint leave the thing that i'm spraying feeling sticky
Oml your snes is so yellow 😂
i knoooowww
it looked like someone pissed on the plastic.
I think I might have to call a professional to do this because I think I might mess it up.
its cool but i’m not doing all that, too complicated
Can i use salon care 30
Anything with hydrogen peroxide works, it will just take a little bit longer. There shouldn't be too much of a difference between 30 and 40 though so it's all good.
"Kron-Oh-Trigger"
Like I really can't get past the way he says that, lol.
Thanks for the tips though, Dancing With Gahsts.
Chrano Trigger
Thank you for your detailed video experimentation. Please ignore the down votes.
thank you :) that was nice of you to say.. hope the video was somewhat informative
Couldn't you just use hydrogen peroxide?
the hydrogen peroxide liquid isn't nearly strong enough to make a difference
You can watch the yellow off of game courses by using water and make sure you dried pretty nice amount of the water off the thing of you using okay
what the heck are you talking about
You can wipe off the yellow off the game country I don't know I said that word right by using water dry up the water first and then wash away the yellow off a game cartridge don't know I said that word right
@@sammiehawkins1422 i still have no idea what you are talking about but from what i'm hearing you're saying all you have to do is use water? that wont work buddy im sorry to tell ya
Use water on the game cartridge
Different shirt I don't believe it 😅 jk jk
The bottom of the snes looks good, in my opinion, White and yellow goes good
lmao do you do your eyebrows?
Bromine
Fail
Nice Kr0No trigger
He calls Chrono Trigger CRON-O Trigger lmao
I don't care if my SNES is yellow it's not but I wouldn't care
then this video wasn't for you lol
Idk lol it was in my recommended so watched anyway sorry for wasting your time
you didn't waste my time at all, if anything you wasted your own time lol.. hopefully you at least found the video somewhat entertaining
what do you mean?
Other than it turning yellow the plastic will become weaker. Thats why you sometimes see people who have some of the casing cracked off in the corners or near the air vent.
your video is good but lose the stupid music its not needed
Ur consoles turn yellow coz ppl pissed all over it lmfao 😂 😂 😂 😂
wow
I cringed everytime you said Chrono Trigger wrong. I try not to be a jerk about these kind of things, but the letter "A" is not present in Chrono Trigger. It's pronounced Cr-oh-no.
#Epicfail 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
You just lost some good money
Hey Dancing i know you might not respond but would it be ok if i skipped doing the take apart im a kid and i dont want to mess it up
well the reason why you take it apart is because you eventually have to wash the bleach cream off the plastic and you couldn't really do that if it was the full console because water could get inside and mess up the components
@@DancingwithGhostsis there a video on that i could watch