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    mabie one of the problems is the heat. you know like if you pulled a 24 hour NES or SNES marathon or its hot outside it could discolorise it


    just a thought

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    Just to fuel this fire, my nintendo products existed in a heavy-smoking house and never yellowed. They probably didn't get too much sun but the air was definetly crappy / smoke-filled, and my SNES is still pretty.

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    Big Discovery!!! In my math teachers class, she has a whole bunch of computer monitors and they are half yellow and half white and the yellow parts are facing the sun! so the yellowing is from the sunlight!

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    Question: Did anyone, ANYONE on this second page even attempt to read the two dozen posts on the first page? I'm guessing not.

    WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR:

    1) Many (but certainly not all) NES and SNES units have a tendency to yellow with age.

    2) The yellowing is consistent in pattern; that is, you don't usually see consoles that are partly or minimally yellowed. In fact, some have even opened up yellowed consoles to find that they are just as yellow on the inside as on the outside. In addition, consoles that have never been out of their box have been found to be yellowed.

    3) Referring to point 2 -- this would seem to indicate that the problem is not based on exposure to sunlight, as can commonly occur with other types of plastic. Hence, the color shift is more probably based on a chemical change from exposure to something in the air.

    4) Referring to point 3 -- the chemical change is most probably not caused by cigarette smoke or lack of cleaning, as many have testified.

    5) Referring to point 3 -- it has been proposed that the yellowing comes from oxidation of some compound inherent in the plastic. This is more probable, considering the evidence related in point 2.

    WHAT WE DON'T KNOW YET:

    1) It is possible but unproven so far that the chemical shift, assuming there is one, may be triggered by regional differences in air quality. This would most likely be hard to test, but minimal study of this idea -- based on an informal survey -- could be undertaken within the forum.

    2) We have no knowledge of exactly what the oxidized compound is. Any chemists out there willing to test it (school project, perhaps)?

    3) We have no knowledge of which batches of Nintendo products were affected by this difference in the plastic, or when these batches were produced. Serial number cataloging and (again) a survey might help in this regard.

    Now, everyone stop bitching and let's figure this out once and for all.
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