Doctorwho

I've seen pictures of people doing this. And they sell decals and such online. But has anyone here painted their system/s?

Has anyone done something like flames or a character and not just a color?

PixyJunket

I've installed blue LEDs into my Saturn, Dreamcast, and Gamecube.. (and my friends 8-bit Nintendo, I'da done it to mine but I have the top-loader which is sans LED).

Doctorwho

Do you just mean you changed the tiny red light to a tiny blue light? Did you add subwoofers too?

menaz

Those Soul Calibur ones are SWEET. I think painting the systems is generally a bad idea, especially now that they have those removal decals, no need to risk ruining your system and dropping its value.

funkyryno

I've painted my computer cases before.

zero

Care to share how ya did it? Ive been wanting to change the LED in my Cube to red.

PixyJunket

Do you know how to solder? Really it was just a matter or opening the 'Cube, removing the c.board the LED is on.. burn the crappy dull orange LED off, and affix the blue one. You need to make sure you have the right size LED, the little one, harder to find in blue but Fry's has everything.

zero

I dont soder but I have a friend that does, and Im sure he'd want to do the same to his Cube, although his is platinum so the blue would kick @$$ on his. Thanks for the info, and why is your PSX on its side?

PixyJunket

Ask GizmoDVD!

Gizmo

WHY is it on its side? Because its an awesome piece of hardware! Its really the latest craze with Playstation 1 and 2 fans. Ive been thinking about doing it with my Xbox and Gamecube...but there really is no need.

Back on subject...
Who was it that painted there cube to look like an original NES? THAT was awesome!

Also, didn't the European Dreamcast's come with a blue LED? I remember a certain version did...

PixyJunket

Aww.. not that answer I was hoping for.

I'd like to see that Cube, any pics? We made an old NES look like a PS2.. blue LED, spray painted it black and run it on it's side.. I'll need to take teh pics.

I don't remember any DCs with blue LEDs.. it doesn't look good anyway because of the white shell.

SpaceBoy

I dont' have the pics of the cube that looked like the old school nes, however I do remember reading on another site the guy who submitted the pics, did it with photoshop, it wasn't actually done. It was sorta a what if Nintendo released an anniversary model type thing. It was sweet. though...

UAIOE

I put a blue LED in my Sega Genesis and painted the little red part about the LED blue. I was also going to paint it silver but that plan backfired

Oh well, at least i can play Japanese games on it.

discostu1337

My friend tricked out his xbox...I should post some pics. He plopped a 160GB HD in it, a HD activity light, mod with switch, red LED, and painted the entire thing red with some white parts. Looks pretty neat.

nickdawgy

Google is your friend

http://www.gaming-age.com/news/2002/7/9-29

milo bloom

I actually used to put the stickers from fruit on my systems. My N64 still has a few.

Ergyu

Possibly because of read errors. The older PS1s had a problem with reading discs in old age, and for some reason it helped when the system was turned on it's side. Kinda funny, but I had to do it with mine at the end also.

milo bloom

This is from hazy memory, as ours never did this, but I seem to recall what happend was there was a set of gears, or a gear in some sort of track that moved the laser to read the disc, and it would wear out one side of the gears over time. When flipped over, gravity would force it to use the other, unused, set of gear teeth.

IIRC that is.

menaz

Almost correct milo. A part did wear out, and when that happened, that laser would no longer be aligned, so at some points, it would be lower than it should be. Turning it on its side or putting it upside down, cause the laser to come as close to the disc as possible, making it work again.