Also, some mold has apparently been spreading through my vcr, because it has been smelling since i've put a moldy vhs tape in there, and now after two months it doesn't even give a picture anymore.
THANK YOU! My mom's basement got flooded and our family videos were moldy like this and we were devastated. Cleaned them like you showed and they work like a charm! So wonderful! Can't express how grateful we are for your video!
Glad i found this video. Starting to collected animated movies/shows and as i was cleaning out a shelf that was no good, turns out a few tapes have caught mold. luckily their not so hard to find for a reasonable price, but i definetly will invest into another old VCR and convert it into a cleaner, just in case i run into a issue where a tape is hard to find/expensive
BEWARE! THE MOLD ACTS LIKE GLUE, HANGS ONTO THE ROLL OF TAPE, SO WHEN THE VCR GRABS IT, AND THE MOLD IS HOLDING IT TOGETHER, IT CAUSES THE TAPE TO BREAK!!
You should use an older VCR which does not have the tape laced round the drum in fast wind. That way you don't risk contaminating the whole tape path with mould or harming the heads
Nice to see the Shannara series get some love! Thanks for sharing this video and introducing the movie and game to folks who may not have been aware of it
Oh cool idk it was fixable of ya found a tape an it had visible through the clear plastic windows fwiw.. but merely figured it was junk thus I did not buy them.. just ones that were when I would buy goodwill tapes fwiw as a kid.. just looked for non moldy blanks.. for recording simpsons fwiw.
For the people who want to know what would happen if an emergency happened during testing, the siren would likely go for longer or start doing attack. (Wailing up and down.)
We have some family tapes that are molded. Some don’t spin when you hit play, basically won’t move. Is that the mold? And why about tapes that you can what they audio but see no video? We weee gonna send these off to a company to restore but it’s very expensive and don’t know which tapes have stuff we want and stuff we don’t. So if I could do this myself that would be amazing! I’m pretty tech savvy, but never done anything like this. I wonder if some of the tapes needs to be restored completely to be able to be played. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Can you clean a tape and still use the same VCR to watch tapes on? Assuming you do a good clean and if it's maybe a light cleaning job to begin with? I only have the one atm
I played the PS3 game back when i was a kid!! When i saw game play again, I got so many flashbacks! I remember feeling uneasy ehile playing it, but I founf it very fun at the time.
I think I'm going to go back and watch the rest of this series. I can see you put so much effort into making this vid and it's very high quality. shame you weren't getting the views you deserve.
Found your channel through Coury and Chris' "Here's my question for you" podcast. This is the first of your videos I've watched, and all I can say is: "fantastic work!" Excellently researched and delivered. Your passion is evident, and appreciated. Little Nemo was a favorite game of my childhood, though I never got very far. I've made it one of my goals to complete it as an adult. May have to rely on some save states on an everdrive though! Keep up the great work and best of luck!
Would you clean a second time to improve? Or would that be risky? TY BTW: I'm so klutzy, notsure I could do this. I have a couple of vcr's, even one that takes VHS tape and records onto dvd. But I have pretty bad amount of mold. We'll see.
