I soak my cartridges in Goo Gone as it doesn't hurt the plastic any and you have to clean the shell anyways and you can reuse the Goo Gone as many times as you need. The only issue is that Nintendo cartridges have a thick plastic film on their cartridges so it may take some soaking time to remove the label or you can try to peal a little bit off after soaking it in water.
Looks great. Late to the show here, next time try Bestine on the label. It will not hurt plastic or the label. I use it to take stickers off cardboard game boxes, manuals and labels.
Many smaller Retro Game Stores and even Comic Stores that sell Retro games still and will do!I got my battery replaced at one just a few weeks ago!All I did was ask and paid the guy $10-20
Is there a database of game labels that don't suck? I went to that one site, but they have only a handful of games.. and some of the labels aren't even scaled as if one has to do it themselves. I just want to print and go.
segaretro.org does have a lot of Mega Drive cartridge scans, but you might have to search elsewhere for the top part of the label. I think it's going to be a bit of manual work regardless, unfortunately.
Only if you sell the items as 'like new' or 'mint'. While it might ding a few bucks off if you sell them as 'cleaned and restored' or 'excellent condition with reprinted labels' it's totally fine. For personal collection reasons? You can do whatever you want with the cartridges you own, it's distribution/sales you have to worry about.
