Whitening your yellowed Famicom

[MaxXimus]

replace them, haha.

[133MHz]

only the controller ports of my SNES are yellowed.

Same here!

[michaelthegreat]

It would be pretty cool if you painted it white and then gave it a clear coat for gloss. Make it look more like nintendo's newer systems...

[battra92]

only the controller ports of my SNES are yellowed. Is there any way to change it?

Not too much, really.

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

It's all in the plastic and unless they were kept in a cool, dark place they will yellow. I have one SNES that is half-yellow and one which isn't. I just kind of live with it but if you ever want to do a case mod, the yellow one should go first.

By the way, how about vinyl dye for the OP?

[Nickv]

once i painted a nes controller with pearl white paint and it came out looking amazing. I just got a "home computer" knock off famicom, i think im gonna give it the pearl treatment to see how it looks

[nurd]

Mix in some glow-in-the-dark with it

[MaxXimus]

That would kick major butt.

[nurd]

Now what be even  cooler is if somebody made a famicom shell out of metal. Not like those famicomboxes, but like the original famicom, same shape and size, but out of metal.

[133MHz]

Wrap it in very very flat aluminum foil, and et voila .

[battra92]

once i painted a nes controller with pearl white paint and it came out looking amazing. I just got a "home computer" knock off famicom, i think im gonna give it the pearl treatment to see how it looks

Pictures please!

[MaxXimus]

I don't know if an aluminum famicom would look that good. What I do think would look good is a translucent famicom. Like see through, but fuzzy as a pose to clear, you know?

PS: 500th post.

[nurd]

I know, like the way that frosted (etched) glass looks, except with plastic.
That would look cool.

NickV, if you do the pearl thing, post pictures

[MaxXimus]

Yup. Or those cool lego pieces, haha

[FamicomFreak]

hmm my SNES is yellowing as well although I have another one that's in perfect color I would like to paint my yellow snes into that light silver the new consoles have. It's a great idea!

[a.l.e.x00]

Thanks for the advice guys. I have not done anything to it yet.  I think I will leave the piss colour yellow until I find a donor case.

I do have a broken Famcom I'm debating on parting out if I can't fix it. Unfortunately it's not too white either. Apparently tobacco is/was popular in Japan as a lot of the Famicom stuff I've gotten have tobacco gunk on it. 

Actually, tobacco is never the fault of permanent discoloring. It is always the plastic itself. Look at all the Super Nintendo consoles. Sometimes, it is only the top that is perfectly discolored, or bottom, and the other half is perfectly, not discolored. Tobacco smoke would not only affect one half, but everything. Apparently, a certain chemical was added to the formation of the plastic, that made it stronger against fire, or something, and that chemical, with age, affects the color of the plastic. I assume this is the same reason for all discoloring of plastic, including the Famicom consoles. So don't blame the tobacco, blame the aging chemical, or chemicals, used in the formation of the plastic, to make it stronger against fire, or something. I don't remember all of this exactly, but this is the basic idea.