Would a USA SNES fit in a UK shell?

[egparadigm]

Thanks for all the info guys. I hope that one of my two SNES consoles will be able to confirm the working condition of the UK controller I bought yesterday. (EDIT: reading the above, now, I see that will be possible!)

I just won a USA SNES on eBay for £10, so I'll keep you posted in the retro forum, should I decide to press ahead.

[mmmonkey]

Good buy on the US SNES there Super Mario World as well!

[Hohum]

Bargain price that, despite the yellowing! Mine doesn't seem to have yellowed at all, guessing it has a different type of plastic.

[Roddie]

Yeah it's good because the case is the part he won't actually be using!

[egparadigm]

If I keep the US shell, I might respray the yellowed part. Surface printing like the SNES logo always annoys me, as it makes re-spraying a no-go.

Anyone know what kind of spray paint is best for consoles?

[Pavey]

I used a plastic primer, then regular car paint on my N64.

You can then lacquer to achieve a gloss, but i preferred the matt look.

[egparadigm]

Yeah, me too. Cheers m'dear.

[Salsa Party Animal]

I would bought it if I seen this offer

[honeymustard]

If I keep the US shell, I might respray the yellowed part. Surface printing like the SNES logo always annoys me, as it makes re-spraying a no-go.

Anyone know what kind of spray paint is best for consoles?

The logo is just a sticker, you should be able to remove it and reapply it over paint.

[mmmonkey]

Seriously? Mine US SNES logo is definately printed on and it's as tough as hell. Much like the PC Engine logo on the white console - it even withstands bleach!

[egparadigm]

Another question!

Before opening up the SNES I understand it is wise to discharge by turning on the console after it has been disconnected from the wall. If I do this on my US SNES, though, the light does not flash off and then go dead. Hellbelly seems to think his one does this.

Should I be discharging my US SNES before opening it up? How do I know when it's done?

[honeymustard]

I don't think mine does either. It's not that big of a deal, it only needs to be left on for about 5 seconds or so.

Edit: and yeah Hellbelly, you're right about the logo, upon closer inspection. Whoops :P

[egparadigm]

I have a question, now, regarding the use of American pads on a UK SNES.I got my UK SNES working today with a new PSU.

I bought a controller extension from a forum member which has acted a little temperamentally. Sometimes it stops responding, as though I have loosened the connection. Works 7/10, though.

Anyway, today I put my UK SNES on with a PAL copy of Donkey Kong Country. Most of the time, with a US controller connected to the extension cable, the characters seem to move very slowly from left to right, and sometimes not at all. The face buttons seem to react normally, but the D-pad is very sluggish.

Plugging the US controller directly into the console, or using a UK controller on the extension is perfectly normal, and sometimes even the US controller with ext. works fine.

If it was to do with the lock-out, would it simply not work at all? Since I suspect it has nothing to do with this, what on Earth is going on? Could it be to do with removing and re-inserting the controller?

[mmmonkey]

You can easily modify the PAL SNES to work 100% with pads from NTSC consoles. Might be worth trying to see if it sorts out the quirks!

http://www.gamesx.com/wiki/doku.php?id=controls:snes_con_region_fix

(I've never tried it, but I've seen it on a few websites)

[egparadigm]

I had more of a fiddle about last night. I managed to reproduce the symptoms using a UK controller through the extension cable. I guess that means it's definitely to do with the ext. cable. I still don't understand why sometimes and not others...

Thanks for the link, BTW.