Oddly stained SNES?

[Iroquois Pliskin]

I picked up a used SNES at a garage sale (complete and working). Oddly it's stained yellow everywhere except the cartridge louding area and the controller ports. Not from a smoking home. Anyone have ideas?

 

[Puffa469]

An ultra common occurance with old SNES's. Nintendo used a cheapass plastic to save a few bucks on snes manufacturing, and the half yellow, half grey snes is the result. I'd say prolly 9 out of 10 snes's suffer from yellowing.

Theres no way to remove the yellowing either, short of sanding the entire case down, but then you'd lose the texture. You can paint it, or learn to live with it basically.

 

[Iroquois Pliskin]

Thanks that answers that

It doesn't bother me much, just curious since I know cigarette smoke yellows plastic, but why it didn't happen in the other areas.

 

[brainmunch]

They used different batches of plastic to make the different sections of the system. Read this, it will answer all your questions

http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/189

(This should be stickied, or something)

 

[Halo05]

Your new/old SNES has jaundice. Take 'er out back and put 'er down.