A SNES I have that is so old it has yellowed with age (The yellow color is due to oxidation of the plastic that was used). I don’t even know if it still works… 😭 The last game I played on it was Super Mario World and I experienced a corruption in which the screen went completely black and there was a rumbling sound in the background.
There is a treatment for that that involves like baking soda and aluminum foil and UV light. I think it’s called retrobrite. Might be worth looking into but at the same time if you’re going to do that you might have other repairs you would need to make on the machine.
A SNES I have that is so old it has yellowed with age (The yellow color is due to oxidation of the plastic that was used). I don’t even know if it still works… 😭 The last game I played on it was Super Mario World and I experienced a corruption in which the screen went completely black and there was a rumbling sound in the background.
There is a treatment for that that involves like baking soda and aluminum foil and UV light. I think it’s called retrobrite. Might be worth looking into but at the same time if you’re going to do that you might have other repairs you would need to make on the machine.
imo it’s not really worth it unless you really need to make it look new… the chemicals are toxic and plastic will get weaker as well.
Apparently it’s hydrogen peroxide and not baking soda but I am not aware of hydrogen peroxide being especially toxic.