My SNES paint job

0newinged · Post by **0newinged** » Tue Jul 01, 2003 5:21 pm

Well originally this unit was pee-yellow except for a few grey pieces. I picked it up from Value Village for $5 and I've been trying to decide what to do with it. Soo a few days ago I was bored and decided to do something with it. So I went down to the local Home Depot and picked out some paint and supplies (thanks to Xylene's tips

) and just started working on it.

eye candy:

I had to go with "Satin" color Krylon paint since it was the only flat paint they had besides ugly brown. The clear coats turned out really good, overall everything worked out. Mind the dust and things in the pics (they're not stuck in the paint..). That little hole near the reset switch I sanded down as much I could, looked like the result of a cigarette burn from the previous owner

I kept the controller ports grey (the only thing that was grey anyway

) just for some contrast, plus I'm lazy and didn't want to fcuk it up...

the back, took care to save the label

the bottom of the unit, didn't care too much about it as it's not really seen much but it came out pretty good...

I think it turned out pretty good considering I've never used spraypaint

T1z3R · Post by **T1z3R** » Tue Jul 01, 2003 5:27 pm

i like that shade of grey. very nice job. i dont think we can get Krylon paint in the UK. anyone know of a similar brand?

gonna do anything else to it Onewinged? like controllers or anything?

az_bont · Post by **az_bont** » Tue Jul 01, 2003 5:28 pm

What's that port on the bottom for? Did it ever get used, like for that BS Satellite thing?

0newinged · Post by **0newinged** » Tue Jul 01, 2003 5:57 pm

Thanks I don't know if I'm gonna be adding anything soon might try adding a 50/60hz switch and a lockout disiabler switch, maybe some LEDs if I can think of a place to put them.

As far as I know that port was just used for the BS, and I think it was where the Snes CD-rom addon was supposed to connect.

T1z3R · Post by **T1z3R** » Tue Jul 01, 2003 6:09 pm

how about a nice blue LED in the middle above the eject button? or even where that hole was that you sanded, maybe even put one either side with blue on the left below the POWER switch and red on the right for when you hit RESET?

Juggalo_Jay · Post by **Juggalo_Jay** » Tue Jul 01, 2003 6:15 pm

Very nice paintjob man! Also, once i think about it, nintendo puts extension ports under all their consoles, but so far only the gamecube has made any real use of it.

Warmachine · Post by **Warmachine** » Tue Jul 01, 2003 7:00 pm

You should have used it for contest.

Lyris · Post by **Lyris** » Tue Jul 01, 2003 8:03 pm

That is absolutely incredible - although I still prefer the Japanese and European SNES styles. It'd be so nice to see the mode done to one of those.

Warmachine · Post by **Warmachine** » Tue Jul 01, 2003 8:56 pm

What do those look like?

someoneElse · Post by **someoneElse** » Tue Jul 01, 2003 9:04 pm

Warmachine wrote:What do those look like?

Nice paint job. Shame the Super Nintendo logo was painted on the original instead of molded onto the casing like the Nintendo logo, otherwise it would have looked even better from not having to mask it off.

Warmachine · Post by **Warmachine** » Tue Jul 01, 2003 9:13 pm

lol that looks funny. I like the other one more

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 10:09 am

Snes CD-rom addon was supposed to connect.

That turned into the playstation theres the whole story at national console support

Love the paint job though!!!!!Good work

Skynet · Post by **Skynet** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 10:58 pm

we got both styles of the snes in australia. what countries did get both styles?

btw, nice work!

Grooverider · Post by **Grooverider** » Thu Jul 03, 2003 2:26 am

The US style SNES looks awful - very boxy. The European/Japanese one is much nicer. To be honest I think Nintendo are pretty bad at designing boxes - apart from the Gamecube which is quite nice.

OmegaZEROCustom · Post by **OmegaZEROCustom** » Thu Jul 03, 2003 4:09 am

Well, Nintendo did a good job with the Mini-SNES design. But they left the EXT port off of it, since it had no use in America.

Of course, the N64 ALMOST had a use for it. The N64DD. Only Japan got it, but it still used the port.

And the Jap. NES/Famicom had the 3-1/2 in. floppy drive, and Nintendo probably added the port to the NES in case they decided they wanted to release the drive here.

But it is nice to see the GCN useing the ports, and so far, 2 of the 3. The GB Player uses the high-speed port and the modem/BBA uses EXT1. Odds are EXT2 won't ever have a use, but at least Nintendo has it.

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Thu Jul 03, 2003 9:55 am

I still haven't seen a mini snes

someoneElse · Post by **someoneElse** » Thu Jul 03, 2003 1:44 pm

mattthemodder wrote:I still haven't seen a mini snes

MoDkId90 · Post by **MoDkId90** » Thu Jul 03, 2003 2:14 pm

than mini snes look really kewl where did you get the picture???

someoneElse · Post by **someoneElse** » Thu Jul 03, 2003 3:18 pm

MoDkId90 wrote:than mini snes look really kewl where did you get the picture???

Classicgaming.com through Google image search?

I have one of both, tried to modify the reciever for my pair of SNES wireless controllers so that it could fit the ports on both consoles, gave up and picked up a pair of extension cables for it. Insert irony here.

Doesn't seem to have quite as much trouble getting the cartridges to make contact as the older one. (I actually had to put a long bit of dense foam rubber behind the cartridge slot door on the old one to try and make the door keep the cartridge wedged in the proper position and not wobble.

riva16 · Post by **riva16** » Thu Jul 03, 2003 5:04 pm

Good job. If its ok with you, I'll put your SNES on my site. Looks really good. I suck at painting. I dunno why...