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| shenske:
--- Quote from: TDIRunner on January 16, 2015, 05:25:45 PM --- --- Quote from: wiggy on January 16, 2015, 05:04:25 PM --- --- Quote from: shenske on January 16, 2015, 08:52:13 AM ---I already grabbed you duke Nukem zero hour --- End quote --- Crap, I thought you grabbed the one with no subtitle :( --- End quote --- If this means someone has an extra copy, I might take it off your hands. ;) --- End quote --- well, i had a miscommunication with wiggy and i don't need it. Pm me :) |
| TDIRunner:
--- Quote from: sheep2001 on January 16, 2015, 05:41:20 PM ---You're not supposed to be buying anything! You'll get in trouble with the missus! Lol --- End quote --- For the most part, I've been pretty good. ;) With one exception (all of those 3DO games a few weeks ago), all of my pickups since last Thanksgiving have either been trades or Goodwill/flea market purchases (in other words, dollars at a time and well under market value). |
| TDIRunner:
--- Quote from: shenske on January 16, 2015, 06:23:12 PM --- --- Quote from: TDIRunner on January 16, 2015, 05:25:45 PM --- --- Quote from: wiggy on January 16, 2015, 05:04:25 PM --- --- Quote from: shenske on January 16, 2015, 08:52:13 AM ---I already grabbed you duke Nukem zero hour --- End quote --- Crap, I thought you grabbed the one with no subtitle :( --- End quote --- If this means someone has an extra copy, I might take it off your hands. ;) --- End quote --- well, i had a miscommunication with wiggy and i don't need it. Pm me :) --- End quote --- Sending PM now. |
| dmc1974:
--- Quote from: wiggy on January 15, 2015, 11:41:15 AM ---Um, no. I would never do that... 8) It's actually painfully simple. Like laughably. • Pour a small amount of isopropyl into a small ziplock bag • Place cart face down into bag, making sure that the entire label is soaking in the isopropyl • Wait. You'll be able to see the isopropyl seep into the label. It will become darker around the edges as it soaks in, and eventually work its way through the entire label • Pull the cart once it's thoroughly saturated (I'd wait about 2-3 minutes after the label appears saturated just to be safe. If it's not fully saturated then you run the risk of tearing the label) • The label should all but peel itself off at this point. I use an xacto blade to nudge up one of the bottom corners, then just grab and start pulling. Make sure to pull up, and not back. That is, don't pull the label in such a way that it is folding back on itself. You run the risk of creasing it if you stress it too much. Pull directly up, perpendicular to the face of the cart as best you can. The flatter you can keep the label while removing it, the better. But don't stress about it. It's really not all that delicate. Just be mindful so that you get the best possible results :) • Place the label onto the new shell ASAP. The adhesive is softened while it's still saturated with isopropyl, which give you some play while placing it. When it dries (which doesn't take more than a minute or so), the adhesive will become VERY tacky again. You won't easily be able to move it once it's touched the cart shell. You'd have to be 100% spot-on with the placement right off the bat. If it does dry out a bit, and you place it incorrectly, then just hit it with some more isopropyl to soften the adhesive again. ;) That's it. Takes about 10 minutes, and 90% of that time is spent just waiting. So grab your gameboy, play some Tetris, and wait for the magic to happen :D --- End quote --- Do you think that would work on SNES labels too? I found a copy of Illusion of Gaia at a thrift store for 2.00 that looks like it was put in a microwave and the shell is all melted. I have a donor shell but have no way of printing a new label, so I thought about trying this |
| wiggy:
No, not very well. They use a "dye sublimation" printing process for the front labels, which makes it difficult for the iso to penetrate. You'd have to leave the cart in the iso for a long time and at that point the ink may start to bleed (some do, some don't based on my experience). We actually DO use this process to strip SNES donor carts of their labels, but we put a small slice or two in the label to allow the isopropyl to penetrate, which obviously isn't what you'd want to do to your labels. Will work on the made in mexico carts though. They use normal, non-dye-sub labels. Got a huge box of SFC controllers in yesterday (you'll see why soon ;) ), and there were a couple of nice 3rd party controllers in with em. No use for them as far as my business goes, so into the collection they go! |
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