Ever since opening my personal SNES, I've always found it over-engineered. The Mega Drive having the power LED the way it is is a pain, though. You're very lucky to get one where the LED is held in by tabs. In older runs, it's encased in the glossy ring with plastic welding. Also as long as you don't intend to use the RF connection, the shielding's irrelevant.
Bro I used to work in a second hand store, we used to torch the plastic to renew it, we would cover the important parts, then torch the plastic, this slightly melts a layer leaving a new layer underneath, mabey this tip could help you, Google it it's a common car garage hustle trick 👍
I did not get to grow up with gaming systems, unless you count a joystick that hooked up to my parent’s computer. (Rabbit hole, but did anyone else play the game with the mummies?) I had friends who had one of those systems, so I occasionally played on both. Rust issue aside, as I am sure they don’t all get that rusted, I can see how less pieces would make the Genesis a more enjoyable clean. After watching so many of these videos, it is easy to see that the designers and manufacturers are not thinking about cleaning ease. Kids don’t tend to use kid gloves when playing their games, grime is inevitable. I think there would be many more console-safe cleaning products and tools if that was kept in mind, but where is the $$ in that when you can buy a BRAND NEW one?! Rant done. Loved the new intro with the video clips! Gave it a bit of a mini retrospective vibe.
Got my SNES from my brother who got it from a heroine addict who try to sell it and then trew it away, there was shit and blood alle over the console, games and controller. But gloved up, trew up almost a few times and cleaned it in and outside. But when it was clean it was so satisfying to have a almost mint (not colored) working console :)
your video is called cleaning king, you graded the snes lower due to a non cleaning issue and then didnt for the genesis rust which is a cleaning issue. Good video otherwise and a decent job done cleaning them up
The OEM joy con controllers and those thumb sticks are carbon pad based, cleaning them with contact cleaner will help but eventually the carbon pad wears out and the same problems will occur, or it won't register inputs at all. You can find pictures of the internals on the net. Love watching your tear downs and deep cleans :)
The older systems metal parts contained more carbon steel, where newer consoles metal parts are mostly aluminum and stainless steel with a lot lower carbon content or it is electro plated. So of course the older metal will corrode more and it is a lot harder to reverse the process once it starts
Weird bottles like that splash because air needs to enter to let the liquid out. An old auto mechanics trick it to "pour sideways" to allow a path for air to get around the fluid. If you've ever done an oil change on a car, and couldn't figure out how to pour it to not splash oil everywhere. This is why. If you hold the bottle so that the larger surface area is up, then air can get in easier and you don't splash.
For the SNES cable, you could try to measure the pin width and pitch (spacing from pin to pin) and get a decent replacement. If you know what you need to buy, flex cables are really cheap. You just have to be able to decode/figure out what to get.
I also grew up with the inherited path of Nintendo from my siblings, so we got the SNES but I didn't know Sega consoles were a thing, all my school friends had Nintendo until I got a new front door neighbor, he had the genesis and to me there was no war we would lend the systems to each other so I got to experience both but I Always enjoyed the Nintendo games more, especially later on.
I have used 'Iron Fallout Remover' from the automotive industry on DMG Game Boys that had rust and it worked like a charm.. Bilt Hamber make some IFR that is fantastic...
Definitely give it to you after the hard work if cleaning that v. gross bug debris! I like the fact you don't seem to skip as many of the tear down steps as TronicsFix does ;-)
Just bought a used 40GB PS3 Fat that was professionally cleaned, CPU/GPU re-pasted, bluray laser cleaned, disc drive gears re-lubricated, and the body polished to remove scuffs and minor scratches for only $75. It looks and runs like a brand new PS3 and games look great on my little 24 inch 720p TV. In fact Killzone 2 is still beautiful even by 2024 standards so long as its connected to an appropriate display (don't connect the PS3 to a 4k TV, it looks bad). I know my specific model doesn't feature backwards compatibility, but I have a PS2 Fat in excellent condition connected to a flat screen CRT via S-video cable for my PS2/PS1 gaming needs, looks amazing, the PS2 definitely still feels like a powerhouse when played on CRT, games just look so good. I mean, afterall these years it's still hard to believe that a game like MGS2 looks as good as it does on the PS2. Of course I have a PS5 connected to a 65 inch OLED and it looks gorgeous, but the PS1,PS2 and PS3 definitely still look great in their own right when connected to period appropriate displays.
The hair looks like animal hair, probably both cat and dog hair, and the sawdust look could be regular dust mixed in but, for that amount to be in there, i'm willing to bet it was in a lounge garage setup. A lot of people used to have their garages as extra hangout spots for watching sports or playing video games outside in the summer. So it's probably debris from sitting in a garage for multiple years, especially if whoever owned it liked to work with wood in the same space like my grandfather does, the garage is basically his crafting space and he owned a lot of old consoles and games back in the day, so if the previous owner was anything like him, definitely a garage gamecube. It could also explain the rust without widespread liquid damage.
I don't know why people wouldn't like magic eraser, five of those things saved my 7 nintendo 64 cartridges and got them working again AND completely cleaned their shells and made a food molded 3DS i rescued from a relative's kid look good as new (aside from the gouges and deep scratches in the shell, but i like to call them battle scars), those things are crazy effective Edit: Now i see the problem, flimsy paint. Though imo the light blue looks better anyway XD
Thanks for the video! I got out my old controller and some weird orange gunk was smeared on the joystick, I followed along and cleaned it :) Much easier than taking apart my switch controller was, I am so glad the joysticks just pop off like that and the complex bits are separate so I could get that gunk off without worrying about wiping the gunk into the interior.
10:52 - 11:01 -- I don't buy that, dude. If someone is willing to disassemble their console that is filled with delicate and intricate parts, setting up a small bin with some hydrogen peroxide solution and a few UV LEDs that are already configured for use by plugging them in should not be a problem. On top of that, hydrogen peroxide, UV LEDs, and a small plastic bin are inexpensive. Are you sure that is your reason -- accessibility? Just seems more of an excuse to me, all things considered. Or is this one of those things where fear that you will be deemed an Odd Tinkering clone or some other similar channel? You did a good job on the cleaning, but if you're not going to bother retrobrighting those two panels, it seriously leaves the job feeling incomplete, so why do it at all if you're not going to see it through? Just my thoughts on it.
