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  2. Posted

    The yellowest SNES I have is one of the original SNES model that has separate sound board inside.

     

    Interesting, I just got my very first set of gamebits today and opened up one of my SNESes (I'd opened all my standard-phillips-screwed systems already and I had to see what was inside the SNES). I don't know anything about electronics, but it looked like there was a separate sound board on this one; this one isn't yellowed at all.

     

    Is there a good set of pictures of the different internal hardware somewhere? Does the separate sound board coincide with the painted "eject" text (vs. the molded text)?

  3. Posted

    I got a 2600jr at Goodwill yesterday. It works great, but the cartridge slot has some broken and missing plastic. One of the prongs that opens/holds the carts in place is missing, and two of the corners are chipped.

     

    I've never had a Jr. before, but I'm wondering what the general consensus is on this sort of thing. Are they often busted like this? Should I keep it or return it and wait for one in better shape?

     

    What would you do?

  8. Posted

    I am thinking about eventually getting myself a SNES and collecting some cartridges for it, so I was browsing on Ebay when I noticed a lot of consoles have this weird yellowing where the top portion of the console (aside from the area around the cartridge port) is that sickly yellow that some plastics exhibit when they get old or are exposed to cigarette smoke but the bottom half of the console is white!!! Why is this? Did Nintendo use a different plastic for the top part of the case? Is it because the top part has been exposed to sunlight?

     

    The SNES yellowing thing is well known and reasonably well documented. It's due to... well... bad plastic, not sunlight or anything like that.

     

    Joystiq has a pretty good link/story about it here.

  9. Posted · Edited by MFoolsRun

    Now I'm starting to get embarrassed.

     

    Same Goodwill, new find, need some advice on some of it.

     

    Atari2600jr with power adapter $8

    This system is a little beat up; one of the prongs that holds the carts in place is broken off and the cartridge slot in general has some other broken plastic in it. The system boots just fine, but with the cosmetic damage, it might not be worth keeping. Opinions?

     

    A set of paddles $0.50

     

    Two 2600 controllers and a power adapter $Free (convinced them they should have gone with the bare 2600 I got the other day)

     

    2600 Games:

    Basketball

    Bowling

    Enduro (green label, the one I got the other day had a blue label).

    $1/ea

     

    Gamegear, beautiful shape, AC adapter included (the screen is kinda blurry, but I've never owned a Gamegear before, so I don't know how crisp the LCD is meant to be. Should it be really blurry?

     

    The Gamegear was in a soft case with the following games:

    Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

    The Majors Pro Baseball

    Winter Olympic Games

    Sonic 2

    Outrun

    Jeopardy!

    Columns

    Spider-Man

     

    In one of the outer pockets there was something that calls itself a Nuby Converter (Master System cartridge converter) along with Mono Poly (??) and Black Belt for the SMS

    The whole soft case and all its contents, $25

  12. Posted

    I went back to the scene of the find to see if there was anything I'd missed, or if there was more to the collection that hadn't made it out to the floor yet and found the following:

     

    All loose

     

    2600:

    Football

    Super Football

    Dodge 'Em

    Flag Capture

    Haunted House

    Raiders of the Lost Ark

    Boxing

    Laser Blast

    Desert Falcon

    Air-Sea Battle (no end label)

    Home Run

    Space Invaders

    Space Attack

    Defender

    Enduro

    Asteroids

    Math Gran Prix

    E.T.

    Pole Position

    Star Wars Jedi Arena

    Galaxian

    Centipede

    Combat (no end label, but who cares, I'm just going to shim a table leg with it)

    Astroblast (someone decided the end label should be blue and colored it with a marker)

     

    7800:

    Super Skateboardin'

    On-on-One Basketball

     

    All in an ugly blue case not at all designed for games

     

    All together, $10

  13. Posted

    Thanks for all the replies. I have to take it slow with all this stuff to keep the wife happy, but eventually I'll eBay up myself some controllers and a power cord (the real tragedy is that I just traded all my found 7800 games to wccw mark a week ago because I didn't have a 7800).

     

    As I posted elsewhere, I scored a complete (with box!) 5200 on the same ridiculously lucky Goodwill run, so I have to save some time and dollars for filling out that new branch of my collection as well! Apparently I'm the only person in history to like the 5200 controllers.

  14. Posted · Edited by MFoolsRun

    Thanks! Hopefully I can score a power cable on eBay or something soon and try it out. The video cable looks like it's the same kind of thing as the 2600, so I can probably just replace it with a single RCA cable and then use one of those RF-to-coax connectors.

  15. Posted · Edited by MFoolsRun

    I scored a bare 7800 at Goodwill tonight. It's my first 7800, so I don't have the power or video cables to test it with. How likely is this to be broken? I realize that's a tough question to answer, but with some systems, like the three-plug original PSX, you can pretty much assume they're broken, so what's the ratio on 7800s?

     

    Edit: I've opened it up, there's no rusting or anything like that. There was a piece of broken black plastic rattling around, but I coulnd't find where it came from. I assume it's from a game.

  16. Posted · Edited by MFoolsRun

    Oh no! My 5200 doesn't fit on my system shelving! It was about to be my ninth simultaneously plugged-in system but nooo, I have to go buy more shelves first ;)

     

    Anyway, after my few minutes of testing, I really like the 5200; I've never had one before; I hope the 7800 is as rewarding when I can get it set up!

     

    Since we rolled over to a new page, I want to ask again incase it gets lost: my just-found-at-Goodwill 7800 was bare and I've never owned a 7800 before. I don't have a power or video cable for it. How likely is it that a 7800 would be broken? I realize anything's possible, but do they break often? I've got the Goodwill 2-day return policy, but I have no idea whether to expect it to work.

  17. Posted · Edited by MFoolsRun

    It was a good night at the Goodwill.

     

    I walked in and sitting on the case where they usually put the one copy of Combat they keep to taunt me was a boxed 5200. No manuals or internal packing, but the system is in fantastic shape and there were games with it.

     

    Here's the haul:

     

    Atari 5200 (with box)

    Two controllers

    All cords

    Berzerk

    Pac-Man

    Galaxian

    Star Raiders (with book)

    All together, $20

     

    No overlays, but I'm gonna guess I can print those out from the interwebs somewhere. Tested it and it works perfectly. What a great system!

     

    But there was more back on the electronics shelves!

     

    Atari 7800 with a copy of Fight Night in the slot

    $10

    No controllers or cords, and this is my first 7800, so I have no idea how to tell if it works. How often are these things broken? There's something rattling around inside; I'll open it up later to figure out what. Meanwhile, some insight on how often these break would be great.

     

    Atari 2600 (four-switch woodgrain)

    Just like my existing 2600, but in worse shape. I figured I'd snap it up just incase I ever need a second one.

    $10

     

    E.T. CIB (box crushed)

    $1

     

    I had a good night.

  19. Posted

    You could definitely make some money on the SNESes on EBay if you wait until it gets a little closer to the Christmas season. As said early, the Genny's don't sell, they're hard enough to GIVE away, you could probably do alright on Craigslist though.

     

    Good idea. I figured the Genny's wouldn't go anywhere, but I'm going to find myself with a spare SegaCD pretty soon, and that might help to sweeten a deal.

     

    Thanks for the advice.

  23. Posted · Edited by MFoolsRun

    Hi,

    Like many of you I've ended up with a number of extra consoles over the years. I have something like five SNESes, three Genny's and three NESes, all in addition to the ones I have plugged in.

     

    I have controllers and cables for most of them and I'm wondering whether you all think it's worth the time and effort to try to hawk them either here in the Marketplace or on eBay?

     

    Do you guys have luck moving your spare systems?

  24. Posted

    Do you want to replace an existing one, or did you buy a VB without one to begin with? If the latter is the case, then you should know that there's also piece that the foam shielding connects to, and which subsequently snaps onto the Virtual Boy. Without that piece, the foam shielding is useless.

     

    For what it's worth, the foam shielding has a part number VUE-010, and the snap-on eye-piece has a part number VUE-012.

     

    --Zero

     

    Thanks for the part numbers. Basically I was wondering if it's possible to get the eyeshield (and snap-on thingie) separately, which opens up the range of Virtual Boys I can look at :)

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