Restoring Extremely Yellowed Sega Dreamcast - Retro Console Restoration
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- Published: 01 December 2019
- Sega Dreamcast restoration - In this video I will restore Dreamcast console launched by Sega in 1999. I bought this yellowed console and a game from Japan. This is a e version of the console, which can be seen from the red Dreamcast logo. Dreamcast has been one of the most requested consoles in the comments even though back in the day it was a flop.
For the disassembly of the Sega Dreamcast I used a phillips tip for my screwdriver. For the firs 3 screws I needed a screwdriver that didn’t have changeable bit because the holes for the screws were so deep and narrow. This console has so many different screws that I used an ice cube tray to hold the screws separately. This also helps me to remember what came from where because I can just put everything back together in reversed chronological order.
Once the top part is open you have to be careful to not turn the device upside down without holding the disk reader, because the top part of it is loose and if it falls it might rip out the cables on it or cause other damage in general the disk reader is a sensitive part so you want to be careful with it if you open it up like I did.
Once everything was pulled apart, I looked for any corrosion and dirt on the boards. Mainly I had some slight corrosion on the power unit. I used pressurized air to blow off any loose dust etc. and then I used isopropyl alcohol to clean off the corrosion and dirt. In general, there was not much dust or damage, it could be that this console was not used much ever. It also didn’t have the usual signs of previously opened consoles. I also cleaned the disk readers lens and the connection ports with alcohol because because on the very first try (which I didn’t film) I had some connection issue with my av-cable.
To get rid of the yellowing on the parts I put the parts in a bath with 12% hydrogen peroxide and left them in UV-light for around 2 days. Everything else was done much faster but the really yellowed parts of the body took ages to get done. After this I washed and dried the parts (this is very important). If moisture is left in the shell it will start corroding the parts again.
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Dreamcast: Flan Edition.
A bit too much commentary but other than that good job.
*THIS is just proving how we Fins are quiet people! He's not speaking at all. Finnish people in a nutshell!*
Can you do a PS2 Restoration Video?
Rare tails special edition
Oddly this was highly satisfying to watch.
My favorite console ever. The most innovative and entertaining to me. I still hope that they relaunch a new versión of this, with memory cards that work for play too. That was an awesome feature. I still remember how I played with my chaos from Sonic. :') Keep bringing Dreamcast to life and shine! :D
Was looking for insperation for my PCMod for this old ASUS chassis I got off someone. Think I just found it. Even has the crystal shape like the power button. It's a MiniATX too.
What the fuck is up with the sound?
Good Job! Gotta love the Dreamcast!
Yellowed Sega special edition Super-Hyper-Dooper-rare only one made
Isn't off-white like a creamy white colour? I'd say the DC was more light grey than anything
It's still looks great tho
I actually think that it looks pretty cool all yellowed
To me on the thumbnail, it looks less like a yellowed Dreamcaster and more like a golden limited edition Dreamcast. If that was available today and if the Dreamcast was still around, I’d get it.
I wish there was a Mini Dreamcast, just like the Mini NES and SNES
Hubiera puesto the game "Sonic Adventure and Power Stone"
That's a piece of art...
you kept your dreamcast in horse piss for a year or what? come on.
WoOow
i bought my dreamcast in 2019
Subcribed, Well done video Odd!
is the 12% hydrogen peroxide an off the shelf product or are you making it? Id rather use a fluid than painting a gel or paste on like I've seen you and other do previously. A bath is much more appealing.
Damn smokers
I first thought it was a special gold addition one 🤣
That looks like a legit color rather than a yellow our of dirt
do you have a link for your UV led?
You know when sometimes games will give people golden hats or whatever to people who have had the game since launch or something like that? I think that whoever used to own this dreamcast got the veterans skin.
Y'all need to start buying curtains.
Did you add some water or just hydrogen peroxide?
How are you getting a PAL signal out of an NTSC console? I don't see any modchips on the board...
How do you make sure not to ruin the stickers when you do this process?
Dude you ruined a rare golden edition console :v
First console to introduce 2k anything
Did they nut on it???
Darth Vader repairs your dreamcast.
Yeah but then you have to play dreamcast
Was so nice in yellow.
Yellow plastic is like generalised cancer you can slow it down and change it's color but it will stay meaning the plastic will be super brittle after and will probably re-yellow.... those activist old retro saving agency are just there to try to save the past but let it be move on :) bought a dc 9.9.99 it's 2020...... time to move on!
looks dope imo
Wait I don’t understand, I thought UV light causes the yellowing. So exposed to UV will whiten?
Memoriieeessssssss!!!!!!!!! 😖 I miss them days man.Thumbs up if u 90s kid feel me on this.👍👍
why clean it? it was great as the golden dreamcast
I thought that was the Super Dreamcast (for celebrate super sonic)
Being an ex smoker I can tell you it became that way due to nicotine.
That actually looks cool with those colours
my inner James May approves of this
Imagine that kid to whom this console would have belonged, smoking 3 packs of marlboro a day
IT LOOKED BETTER GOLD!
plot twist that was a limited edition dreamcast lol
Looks like a special edition piss colored Dreamcast
I wonder why the Dreamcast has so many more screws than other consoles of the same period
I can smell the metal screws
Its weird to see someone restore it. Someone could have mine. Its works perfectly fine and its not yellowed. There can't be a shortage of these things is there?
Nowadays consoles are held together with so much superglue not even the OEM could work on it.
You sir are a video game angel. This was a badass system. It was just slightly ahead and slightly behind the times and i think thats unique if nothing else. I played the hell out of it regardless. Is this what you do for a living?
Sega Creamcast..
how many watts has the uv-lights? Thanks.
Nice! Next video pls ps2👍
Wow...I never thought I'd see a Dreamcast game so bad. I'd rather play Super Magnetic Neo than that lol.