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wiggy:
I've been sorta looking into high gloss adhesive inkjet paper for that reason. Some of my games are in pretty dire need of new labels, and I'd love to be able to just crank out some replicas.

I worked in used game retail for years. Man, the number of LIVE cockroach infested Genesis units I've seen. Opening an Aldi bag to see a little family of those things crawl out from almost every opening and the pepper-like scattering of roach shit in the bottom of the bags was about favorite thing about that job. I always dreaded the random Aldi bag full of who knows what that would get plunked down on the counter. Ick.

And for some reason, it was almost always the Genesis. No idea why.

There was a clear orange N64 once with a live infestation. I was like "WTF, you don't see what's going on in that thing? And you thought I would want to give you actual money for it?!" The store was in a rather unsavory part of town, so take that as you will.

Moviefan2k4:
How would roaches get into a video game system, anyway? My only guess would be the game slot, because everything else is tightly screwed together.

wiggy:
Roaches can get into pretty much everything. They are able to flatten themselves into damn near nothing. Just one more reason they've been and will be around forever. Little bastards...

irvgotti452:

--- Quote from: wiggy on May 22, 2012, 07:01:42 PM ---Roaches can get into pretty much everything. They are able to flatten themselves into damn near nothing. Just one more reason they've been and will be around forever. Little bastards...

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This is true. I've cleaned out a sega saturn and 2 n64's with bodies and cracked eggs (YUCK!). They can really get in there and mess things up.

madrocsz:
I too worked in game retail for a bit, similar stores, as much as I love carts, from the work perspective discs are way better lol.

I cannot say I am too picky about the carts I get, I have gotten some steals on some pretty beat up carts just so long as I felt it was either worth having a tad of dmg (on label maybe) or if I knew I could clean them up.

Tip - NES/SNES bits are best few bucks you can spend to be able to open the carts

Just dont be an idiot like me and get mega man 7 and x3 for cheap w/ poor labels and then decide to get the label off I would just set the top cover in goo gone for a few minutes. Melted cases and while 7 was easy to replace case, x3 has that huge chip and had a tough time retrofitting it into another cart, very upset about it.

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