ShiningRangerSaga
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Post by ShiningRangerSaga on Nov 12, 2015 7:10:54 GMT
So, I decided to challenge myself this week: I wanted to find the dirtiest, nastiest "as is, untested" japanese SEGA Saturn I could find, and attempt to make it as clean as possible and I ended up scoring this. Was it worth the price? No, but it wasn't ridiculously overpriced so I said hey, why not. Saving a saturn is always good! Heres the machine. My main question is whats the best Color restoring methods? RetroBright? Anything else less sketchy? let me know!  |
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Victor Rong
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Post by Victor Rong on Nov 12, 2015 10:16:19 GMT
Amen to another Saturn saved but wow, did the ebay seller description say how long it had actually been stuck up that giant's bum?!  Good luck. |
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mick_aka
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Post by mick_aka on Nov 12, 2015 11:30:48 GMT
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ShiningRangerSaga
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Post by ShiningRangerSaga on Nov 13, 2015 0:10:29 GMT
holy shit.... guess im off to get some bblonde! |
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Catch22
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Post by Catch22 on Nov 13, 2015 2:49:55 GMT
Or the Jerome Russel 40 is the same stuff... already in cream form. Buy from the store, and slap it on. Good luck... Oh, and you might want some blacklight bulbs if it's overcast. Need all the UV light you can get.
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Post by Yart on Nov 13, 2015 8:48:26 GMT
LOL
"WOW!! SEGA SATURN!! SO WHITE!! VERY SYSTEM!! MUCH RARE!!"
*Shows the yellowest system ever and claims its white*
This is gold.
Also good luck! I wanna see the results!
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ShiningRangerSaga
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Post by ShiningRangerSaga on Nov 14, 2015 6:11:02 GMT
Definitely need some blacklights. Its totally fall here in Canada, nearing snow. Havent seen much sun in the past few weeks.
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Post by Anthaemia. on Nov 14, 2015 12:07:26 GMT
I can understand this happening to a Dreamcast or even SNES, but how did you manage to turn a black console like the Saturn such a shade of yellow?  Seriously, that very brand of peroxide is what my wife uses (or at least she did until recently, when she decided to switch to having purple hair)! |
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ShiningRangerSaga
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Post by ShiningRangerSaga on Dec 10, 2015 6:03:12 GMT
Due to the extremely busy life Ive been leading as of late, plus a little festive mood lack of motivation, Ive decided to skip filming entirely and just post pictures. The packaged somehow arrived on a sunday. Upon opening it was disgusting as fuck. there was a feel-able film over the plastic of gunk and the door of the system would not open. Upon deconstruction I laid eyes on what had to be THE filthiest machine Ive ever seen - hair after hair, and so many fuzz balls that it took me two days to get them all out, and completely wipe every piece of insides of the system and motherboard wish a q tip and rubbing alcohol.the bottom rf shielding was very rusted, but cleaned well. before even taking it apart or cleaning it at all though, I tested it.I turned it upside down and managed to shimmy the door open and get a game in there. Upon first start, it SUCCESSFULLY BOOTED A GAME. I could not believe it. Once opened, I found the spring the the door lid lodged between the cart slot and battery area. I put it back in place and the door still didnt open all the way. I also noticed one of the plastic poles on the right side plastic piece that goes into place along the lid's small hole was snapped off. I fashioned my own out of a 1cm or less piece of cut up q tip. It worked perfectly, and the door then opened and closed perfectly. Here is the end result of the clean up. Moral of the story: buy a "dead" saturn!!! they deserve life again.   |
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Post by mancity on Dec 10, 2015 8:49:16 GMT
Keep an eye on it, because I did an Amiga 1200 and it re-gained about 50% of its yellowness about 3 months down the line.
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mick_aka
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Post by mick_aka on Dec 10, 2015 10:48:41 GMT
Amigas and late C64s always do, I assume it's a higher concentration of fire retardant chemicals.
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ShiningRangerSaga
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Post by ShiningRangerSaga on Dec 10, 2015 15:46:08 GMT
I guess I should mention I didn't end up retrobrighting it at all
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Post by zyrobs on Dec 10, 2015 19:55:12 GMT
I would've just put it in another case. I have so many dead PAL units, I actually started ordering spare japanese motherboards for them, but I can't decide if I should convert them to PAL picture output (since pal-60 also gives picture with composite, but ntsc-50 will be greyscale only, and sometimes off-center). I guess I should mention I didn't end up retrobrighting it at all How did you clean it then? Just wiped the crap off and it looked like that afterwards? |
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Catch22
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Post by Catch22 on Dec 13, 2015 13:58:11 GMT
Congrats man. Glad to see another Saturn saved... non-FRANKENSTEINED!
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Post by barryburton on Dec 13, 2015 18:23:38 GMT
When the cockroaches inherit the earth after the next nuclear war, at least they'll have some awesome Sega Saturns to entertain their mutated super brains.
Love how tough these consoles are!
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