July 2015 - Stuff bought by those who survived Juhannus

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Megatron:

--- Quote from: kittybones26 on July 27, 2015, 04:55:41 AM --- Anyone have suggestions on how to handle the mold / mildew damage? I am thinking I am scraping the entire artwork and manual portion of every case? How would you guys recommend cleaning the actual disks before I use them on my personal system?

Here is what the artwork and the manuals look like after they were carefully peeled from the cases from most of the lot.

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My dad used to work in mold removal, so here is some basic info -
As for labels/manuals - it is almost impossible to remove mold/mildew from paper, so these are most likely garbage. If one has a small bit, you may be able to rip that part off, however from the pics a lot of it is not salvageable.

As for the discs, this will depend on how bad the damage is, however start by removing any clumps or physical pieces of mold that you can. For the residue or light spotting, some rubbing alcohol (possible diluted with water - i'm not sure how discs handle this stuff) is how to remove it from various surfaces including glass and metal.

Finally - and this is important, make sure none of it is black mold. If it is dark green, you are fine as that is 99% non toxic, however black mold can be deadly and self replicating, meaning it will reproduce on its own forever - like hazmat suit stuff, so just make sure everything is the green kind.
NOTE - this stuff is not common, and it doesn't look like it from the pics (just very dark green). It is also unlikely that these would be so lightly covered if it was actually black mold - still, better safe to double check.

Araden64:
Here's my genesis pickups for the month

All complete in box :D
I plan on putting Earthworm Jim 2 and Shining Force II into a clamshell later, and I need to figure out how to store my Game Genie.

Also managed to snag a revision 1.00 Revenge of Shinobi, has Godzilla, Rambo and all the other unlicensed bosses.

Only have a few more games that I really want on the Genesis now.

irvgotti452:
Sheesh haven't posted here in a while.
Here's what I got this weekend!

Found the PSTV for 40 bucks on Amazon last week and took advantage of Gamestore's 3DS trade in deal and traded in a gifted 2DS for the 100$ credit towards that spiffy new 3DS :)
N64 RGB board for my Ice Blue N64 :) and a cool PS2 to HDMI adapter (pretty much component ->digital signal).

Spoonman:

--- Quote from: palmer6strings on July 26, 2015, 11:14:53 PM ---I'm pretty sure that applying peroxide would damage the label... Not to sure though never tried it though. I have however done the heat that shit up method, most of the time it works perfectly fine and as long as you take it slow it should come off great.

If some of the sticky stays on the cart, go to walmart/hobby lobby/or something like that and buy one a sticker maker for $20. Make it sticky again and there you go.

But then you could try that mix of junk stuff on it and it should clean it up.

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Alright then. Heat it w/ just a hair dryer?

monjici:

--- Quote from: irvgotti452 on July 27, 2015, 08:39:19 PM ---Sheesh haven't posted here in a while.
Here's what I got this weekend!

Found the PSTV for 40 bucks on Amazon last week and took advantage of Gamestore's 3DS trade in deal and traded in a gifted 2DS for the 100$ credit towards that spiffy new 3DS :)
N64 RGB board for my Ice Blue N64 :) and a cool PS2 to HDMI adapter (pretty much component ->digital signal).

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Not sure if you have that deal locally, but the PS TV bundle with the controller, lego game and 8GB card, hdmi cable, usb cable is 49$ (CAD) at walmart. At that price, it's hard to pass on it if you are searching for an extra controller.

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