Zig's SNES Repros

[fastbilly1]

I emailed him. He is based out of Poland, so I wont expect an answer until tomorrow at the earliest. If he says go Ill add your changes ziggy.

[Ziggy]

Thanks. That would be great if you could do this.

Something else that would be helpful if you changed, the collum called "ROM type." Since every game has a mask ROM, it's pointless to specify "ROM only." And since there's a dedicated SRAM collum, it's again pointless to specify "ROM and SRAM". Instead that collum should be called "special chip" and have "n/a" for most games, save for the few that have a special chip (SA-1, S-DD1, etc).

[fastbilly1]

He still hasnt got back to me, but I emailed you Mark 1 - I wont distribute it past you until I get a yay or nay.

[Ziggy]

Awesome! Let me look through it and see.

[fastbilly1]

Some of the chip data I need to go back and fix manually, but thats what I get for using cut rate processes...

[Ziggy]

I think it'd be ten time faster to go through and fix an entire collum or two than to type that entire thing out my hand.

[fastbilly1]

If it is less than 50 fixes, itll take me longer to code it than to do it manually.

[Troglodyte]

Hi there, I'm new to these boards. I just want to say fantastic job to Zig on the quality of the reproductions he has done. I am curious as to the method you are using to remove the old sticker as I have some old NES games I have acquired with labels that are pretty bad. A number of the back label caution stickers in my NES collection are in pretty bad shape as well, and I'd like to either make or find a reproduction of them. (The only site I know about that has the front label scans / box scans is http://thecoverproject.net

I suppose that would work OK for creating the labels, but I am actually more concerned about the back labels as many in my collection are damaged due to stickers being placed over them. Furthermore only two or three NES games in my collection have labels poor enough to consider replacing.

Also, I did read through this post, and I apologize if I missed it, but I didn't notice a description of how Zig removed the original labels. Any tips / methods would be appreciated. Also, I am possibly interested in a Starfox 2 cart if he is still making them. Also, I am uncertain if he requires a donor cart (i.e. Stunt Race F.X.) to be shipped to him, and if it would change the asking price.

Thanks very much for any related info.

[Hobie-wan]

A hair dryer on low heat will help get stickers to come loose. Just go really slow and most will hold together. Then you can clean up leftovers and residue with alcohol on cotton swabs or paper towel. I know I say this all the time, but electrical contact cleaner works even better, but I doubt you already have some of that.

[Ziggy]

Truth be told, I HATE removing labels. It's such a pain in the ass. It's not even like it takes a long time, or is that hard, I just don't like doing it. Anyways, I usually use a box cutter blade at an almost 0 degree angle to start getting it off. I'll dunk a Q-Tip in some Goo-Gone and apply it to the label, then again use the blade to remove more of the label. Be careful using Goo-Gone though. I was using Goo-Gone Extreme which will actually eat away at the plastic, it's alright if you use just a little carefully. I'm not sure if just regular Goo-Gone (not Extreme) will eat up the plastic or not, I've never used it.