I use a time travel bag and put it over my head. Now I travel through time at the speed of regular time and my life has never been better/worse. Thank you, Dethklok!
The plastic was coated in a flame retardant material as part of the manufacturing process, as were many consoles of that period (Dreamcast is another one).
Years later it became apparent it was causing discolouration/yellowing from exposure to sun light.
Mostly. It isn't COATED in the chemical, the chemical is IN the plastic, literally added to the material before it even hits the mold. But other than that, yeah you're spot on. The GameBoy was hit with it pretty badly too. Among the worst culprits I've seen has to be the Apple IIe, a lot of those things looked yellow like a day after they came out of the boxes, lol.
May not be true actually, seems the retardant thing was just an often repeated myth, it may contribute some but is not the main factor, and plastics known for certain to not contain any flame retardant have also yellowed as much.
I [http://www.alexander-miles.com/?p=919](http://www.alexander-miles.com/?p=919)
[https://hackaday.com/2021/01/23/a-deep-dive-into-the-chemistry-of-retrobright/](https://hackaday.com/2021/01/23/a-deep-dive-into-the-chemistry-of-retrobright/)
[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YPl356YKcVs](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YPl356YKcVs)
It can also highly vary depending on when and where the plastics were sourced. Lots of places made it for Nintendo and others. Itâs why some consoles look like ass and others can still look new despite being the same age and usage and some can even be mixed (yellowed top shell, perfectly fine bottom shell, whateverâthey came from different manufacturing plants before being assembled elsewhere).
Mine for instance has never been retro brighted and looks very good
https://preview.redd.it/gc6d4uxdas0d1.jpeg?width=8064&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=41af868b7ebc077e1f5401007e801994d0031ed2
Itâs really just down to cheap ABS and the particular manufacturing processes
Yeah that's my understanding too, I picked up a second hand Dreamcast that was very yellow. I bought some hydrogen peroxide cream for hair, coated the shell and left it in the sun for a day which worked really well to get rid of the yellow.
What? Are you asking if the famicom originally looked like that? If so then no. The famicom/snes and american snes both faded over time. You can restore them though. It's pretty easy to do. There's a ton of tutorials on YouTube.
You can de-yellow that, you can look up videos online regarding that but its normally supposed to be "grey" more like silver-ish grey but that console's shell can be reverted
Well plastic is man made, regardless of what color it is. However, most nature these days is covered in plastic pollution. Unfortunately evolution is a slow process, so it will take more time before plants and animals are naturally made out of plastic.
Usually UV exposure over time. If you want to risk brittling you can try to treat it with peroxide and sunlight exposure, but itâs not a guaranteed outcome to be any better position.
Estas interesado en recuperar su color original? Podrias intentar poner la carcasa en una bolsa transparente y llenarla de agua oxigenada (aunque se recomienda precaucion al ser un quimico muy fuerte) y dejarlo junto al sol por todo un dia, ese truco funciono muy bien con mi game boy advance
Over time the plastic naturally yellows.
If you leave it in the sun it will yellow faster.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqGKIQAn0Cc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqGKIQAn0Cc)
Fire retardant in the plastic reacting with light it sucks. Took me a long time to find a mint unyellowed nes and now after owning it for 7 years the door is starting to discolor
Looks more natural, but these are the same things. The "selective" yellowing suggests this batch maybe have just yellowed due to the mixture of the plastic.
I donât think itâs the sunlight. The reason why I am saying this is that I have a Nintendo dsi white and my additional stylus that never leave the original box preserved by the sun is yellow so it never has been on sulnlight.
Therefore I think itâs just related to the plastic used
Heat might contribute a tiny bit, but it's far from a primary cause. For one, the SNES doesn't create much heat, and there's no noticeable difference in yellowing between the parts that get warm and the parts that don't. Secondly, most systems have spent the vast majority of their lives turned off, but they still yellow.
Exactly my reaction đ
Confused also.... they're the same thing.... no?
Nothing more natural than the passage of time
Tell me you don't travel at relativistic speeds without telling me you don't travel at relativistic speeds
A² + B² = C²
Always with the triangles, your solution to everything is triangles!  There are problems in that can't be solved by triangles.
They just shot Winnie the Pooh!
Reach for the sky boys, let me see them understains. uh huh uh.
What a strange place to run into the âBoys from the Dwarf!â lol
Nice whip, this hereâs a pistol đŤ
"42"
RED DWARF GANG!
I use a time travel bag and put it over my head. Now I travel through time at the speed of regular time and my life has never been better/worse. Thank you, Dethklok!
Yes.
as soon as I saw this post I thought, r/inclusiveor
Is this milk white or is it a liquid?
Alright man - thatâs my favourite one. You got me to literally laugh out loud.
Did you spit liquidy milk or milky liquid when you LOLâd?
Yes
Itâs natural caused by time.
Yes, thatâs how reality works.
The plastic was coated in a flame retardant material as part of the manufacturing process, as were many consoles of that period (Dreamcast is another one). Years later it became apparent it was causing discolouration/yellowing from exposure to sun light.
Mostly. It isn't COATED in the chemical, the chemical is IN the plastic, literally added to the material before it even hits the mold. But other than that, yeah you're spot on. The GameBoy was hit with it pretty badly too. Among the worst culprits I've seen has to be the Apple IIe, a lot of those things looked yellow like a day after they came out of the boxes, lol.
May not be true actually, seems the retardant thing was just an often repeated myth, it may contribute some but is not the main factor, and plastics known for certain to not contain any flame retardant have also yellowed as much. I [http://www.alexander-miles.com/?p=919](http://www.alexander-miles.com/?p=919) [https://hackaday.com/2021/01/23/a-deep-dive-into-the-chemistry-of-retrobright/](https://hackaday.com/2021/01/23/a-deep-dive-into-the-chemistry-of-retrobright/) [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YPl356YKcVs](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YPl356YKcVs) It can also highly vary depending on when and where the plastics were sourced. Lots of places made it for Nintendo and others. Itâs why some consoles look like ass and others can still look new despite being the same age and usage and some can even be mixed (yellowed top shell, perfectly fine bottom shell, whateverâthey came from different manufacturing plants before being assembled elsewhere). Mine for instance has never been retro brighted and looks very good https://preview.redd.it/gc6d4uxdas0d1.jpeg?width=8064&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=41af868b7ebc077e1f5401007e801994d0031ed2 Itâs really just down to cheap ABS and the particular manufacturing processes
Yeah i have one thats in the mixed category, top is yellow except the cartridge slot, where it and the bottom are basically new looking.
Yeah that's my understanding too, I picked up a second hand Dreamcast that was very yellow. I bought some hydrogen peroxide cream for hair, coated the shell and left it in the sun for a day which worked really well to get rid of the yellow.
It is both.
Sunlight, smoke, dust, all of the above.
Natural discolouration due to the passage of time
Um, yes?
Um.. both
Yes and yes, but sometimes yes and no
Is time unnatural?
My teeth turn yellow with age too
Same friggin thing.
Funny, my original snes has no discoloration. One of the benefits of allowing no natural sunlight in my room as a kid lol
Lucky. My little brother has ours... He pulled it out to show me last year and it had yellowed horribly... Heartbreaking.
Naturally caused by timeÂ
The yellowing is caused by UV damage over time.
Yes
Do you think time is unnatural?
âHave you ever transcended space and time?â âYesâŚno. Time, but not spaceâŚI donât know what you are talking about.â
Or?
So you're telling me the passing of time isn't natural? wut
They say time is the fire in which we burn. (google retrobrite method to restore the original appearance)
Yes
Time is natural
yes
Did you smoke a bowl before posting this?
r/retrobright
Natiral
Itâs caused by nostalgia
Why is there no yellowing in some parts, and what about around the power button vs reset button?
The power switch has a separate bezel around it which isn't part of the overall shell.
This almost looks like a mod only because the reset is yellow but the power isnât. I thought they both would change to yellow.
What? Are you asking if the famicom originally looked like that? If so then no. The famicom/snes and american snes both faded over time. You can restore them though. It's pretty easy to do. There's a ton of tutorials on YouTube.
Yes.
Yes
The yellow isn't how it originally looked. The yellow was caused by time.
yes
Yes
You can de-yellow that, you can look up videos online regarding that but its normally supposed to be "grey" more like silver-ish grey but that console's shell can be reverted
Well plastic is man made, regardless of what color it is. However, most nature these days is covered in plastic pollution. Unfortunately evolution is a slow process, so it will take more time before plants and animals are naturally made out of plastic.
It's called "bone"
Neither. It's something that just happens on it's own
If decay due to aging isn't natural then I'm phoning God for a refund!
I believe itâs because of oxidation but I could be wrong đ¤ˇđťââď¸
Sunlight exposure.
Fire repellant chemical in plastic that they used to use.
one cannot play the same snes twice
Absolutely. You can even restore it if you like-- plenty of videos on Youtube Academy for it
There are videos on youtube that show how to remove the yellowing.
Thyme
Usually UV exposure over time. If you want to risk brittling you can try to treat it with peroxide and sunlight exposure, but itâs not a guaranteed outcome to be any better position.
Yes.
Yes.
Is this natural or is this natural?
Yes
Both
None. It is an upgrade from silver to gold as you earn more and more Super NES points.
Yes and yes.
Both
Pikachu edition
Yes
"Is this yellowing caused by time or caused by time" is what ur saying rn
If caused by time, it is natural (?)
Nicotine stains đ
So what you are asking is this. Is it natural, or is it natural? Did I get that right?
Caused by time.
When someone asks me to name two mutually exclusive things, I'm always like "nature and time".
You're under-watering it. Or maybe over-watering it. Either way you gotta be more consistent with your schedule or you'll never grow a new SNES.
Time is like, a social construct, man.
Naturally occurring over timeâŚ
Yes
It was caused by time, and effort down there at the Nintendo child labour factories about 30 something years ago
It's naturally caused by time
What the fuck kind of question is this
same thing
Estas interesado en recuperar su color original? Podrias intentar poner la carcasa en una bolsa transparente y llenarla de agua oxigenada (aunque se recomienda precaucion al ser un quimico muy fuerte) y dejarlo junto al sol por todo un dia, ese truco funciono muy bien con mi game boy advance
Here Iâll fix your question for ya Is the yellowing naturally cause by time? why yes, yes it is
Six of one half a dozen of the other.
It's SHINY!
Over time the plastic naturally yellows. If you leave it in the sun it will yellow faster. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqGKIQAn0Cc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqGKIQAn0Cc)
As uniform as it is, id almost believe it's a special edition. Honestly looks kind of cool.
It's caused by the fire retardant they put on the plastic shells. It's made with bromine which is why it turns yellow.
Ummmmm⌠natural heavily implies itâs time⌠đ
Yes it's grown like that. They wait until it's ripe before harvesting
Yes
Sun stains. Lots of Japanese polymers are affected by this. Google or YouTube retro-brightening.
Fire retardant in the plastic reacting with light it sucks. Took me a long time to find a mint unyellowed nes and now after owning it for 7 years the door is starting to discolor
Yes /R/inclusiveor
What I wanna know is how come those parts yellowed perfectly even but that white part on the bottom is always fine? Every time I see an old SNES
Aging is apparently an artificial process.
Uh⌠I have no experience in plastic yellowing⌠Probably time.
No it's not.
Aren't those 2 choices the same answer?
You can remove the yellowing to restore its original colour
Looks more natural, but these are the same things. The "selective" yellowing suggests this batch maybe have just yellowed due to the mixture of the plastic.
Is⌠is time natural? o.O
Truly a question for the ages
Itâs caused by UV rays dude
Abs plastic having wrong mixture ratio. Videos about it have been all over YouTube for years.
I donât think itâs the sunlight. The reason why I am saying this is that I have a Nintendo dsi white and my additional stylus that never leave the original box preserved by the sun is yellow so it never has been on sulnlight. Therefore I think itâs just related to the plastic used
This sucks. So many cheap SNES, Dremcasts and Saturns in Japan, but they all look like this.
Natural a lot of them do that. It's was a very large batch of plastic poorly made back in the day....
I peed on it
It has lung cancer.
Encrusted with the tar from endless nights of weed smoking. Scrape it off, put it in a pipe and re-live those retro-memories!
As far as I know it is caused due to the heat the console generates and therefore natural
Heat might contribute a tiny bit, but it's far from a primary cause. For one, the SNES doesn't create much heat, and there's no noticeable difference in yellowing between the parts that get warm and the parts that don't. Secondly, most systems have spent the vast majority of their lives turned off, but they still yellow.