FS: Stinky Megadrive II ***SOLD!!***

[eightbit]

Yep, you read that right.

 

I have a Japanese Megadrive II that works great, looks great, comes with two original 6-button controllers, PSU and AV cable.

 

But, it stinks. Like, old basement stink. The kind of stink that was literally giving me a headache and the console had to be moved to the garage.

 

I had this happen with an old leather C64 dust cover and I actually got the smell out by storing it in a big ziplock bag with a box of baking soda for a few weeks. I was planning on doing that with this machine (it'll have to be torn down I would think), but I just don't have the time for it.

 

I can take pictures, but it is exactly as described and currently sitting in my garage.

 

 

$40 shipped and you can have it. It's actually quite a nice console. Looks good and works perfectly. Too bad it stinks!

 

***SOLD***

Edited November 4 by eightbit

[Jess Ragan]

I've heard putting stinky game consoles into a baggie with a handful of fabric softener sheets will do the trick.

[SoundGammon]

Try mouth wash! I had a cooler that had a lot of musty smell and I put in a cup of mouth wash and a cup of hot water, closed the lid and swished it around a bit, and smell was gone!

[+Biff Burgertime]

Reminds me of when I used to flip Wiis into bundles, so I was always looking for console-only deals. There was an eBay listing I kept encountering for at least 2 years, sitting there unsold. Its condition description was something like "Wii console only, works great but there's tons of dead bugs inside."

 

I don't blame my fellow eBay buyers... there's no chance I'm touching a console full of dead bugs, with possibly eggs that'll spread the infestation to my home. Stink, though? I might take a chance on that. I restored plenty of those consoles you could tell were from smoking households, though some were more stubborn than others...

 

What's up with that, anyway? I was a pack-a-day smoker for over 15 years, but I hated smoking inside - that just made to harder to breathe, and made indoors smells like shit. If for some reason I couldn't go out for a smoke, I'd wait until I could, and I had no other choice I'd stick my head out the window. Sheesh people.

 

Basement stink is toughest of all smells though, good luck to you and the buyer.

[Tanooki]

My current upgrade of a color monitor, this GE 14" (up from the 9 I had) had this smell, not pot but some distinctly unique smoker or incense style smell to it and it was bad inside and out.  I scrubbed the hell out of the thing until the paper towels didn't take something off the inside/outside of the frame on there.  That killed a lot, but at that rate having it on more than 10min when it warmed stank enough I was like ...eh.  Did some reading and despite some pretty wow when you read the can warnings OZIUM seemed to be something of merit.  I hosed the outside down, the inside of the shell down, and then just sprayed the shit out of the components and left it off until it dried which really wasn't that long.  The stank was gone largely on the first blast, it was replaced by the product smell which isn't bad, different, but not bad at all.  A good hour or so of use leaving it on it started to bake a bit more, so I wash-rinse-repeated it.  That did the trick, but now when it does heat up it smells like fresh Ozium which compared I can very live with that vs coming into the proximity of the thing and going...wtf is that.

 

Maybe de-shelling the megastank ii and spraying the hell out of the entire thing heavily and stuffing it into a tied off trash bag to let it baste in that stink killer might do it some good.  Can is cheap I think like $5 or a few over, but not $10.

[eightbit]

I have tried a ton of things over the years. Fabric softeners and so on. Not that I have had a ton of systems with the "basement smell", but I have encountered a few.

 

I am certain however that baking soda with the parts in ziplocks will do the trick. It just takes time. I purchased a new old stock leather C64 cover that smelled WAY worse than this Megadrive and while it visually looked brand new the smell was horrendous. I literally poured half a box if baking soda in a large ziplock with the cover and sealed it shut. On warm days I put it out in the backyard. I left it in that bag for about two weeks and top my amazement when I took it out and dusted off the baking soda the smell was completely gone. I really thought it had no hope.

 

That cover is on the C64 right next to me as I type. I performed the above around a year ago and the smell never returned. It smells like faux leather and that's it

 

I might do this if nobody bites, but I just have too many other projects and things going on right now.

[Osgeld]

I have pretty strong congestion going on but its not THAT stinky... but it is strange, cross in between musty old basement and something sour smelling, any way im going to pop in a couple games to see whats up then its getting taken apart. I already cleaned the kitchen sink so tomorrow all the plastic bits can sit in some hot soapy water with a tiny splash of bleach, and the boards can soak in a small bucket of 99% isopropanol should knock it out

 

Thanks again 

[eightbit]

54 minutes ago, Osgeld said:

I have pretty strong congestion going on but its not THAT stinky... but it is strange, cross in between musty old basement and something sour smelling, any way im going to pop in a couple games to see whats up then its getting taken apart. I already cleaned the kitchen sink so tomorrow all the plastic bits can sit in some hot soapy water with a tiny splash of bleach, and the boards can soak in a small bucket of 99% isopropanol should knock it out

 

Thanks again 

 

No worries, enjoy. It really wasn't THAT stinky, but for some reason my nose is extra sensitive to that musty smell...I just couldn't take it! Otherwise however the system and controllers work as expected.

Edited November 10 by eightbit

[Osgeld]

yea I had to stop myself from playing road rash 2 and move along taking it all apart so it can get its bath tomorrow 

 

I checked the caps on the motherboard they are all though hole rubicon's so I'm not going to bother with redoing that. There's a 1uf surface mount cap in the controllers ill replace ( I have about a billion of those in ceramic form)  but other than washing the stank off its a sold unit

 

I haven't decided if I want to put a region switch on it, it plays my games, but my games are mostly older titles its the newer ones that seem to care (sometimes) 

Edited November 10 by Osgeld

[+Gemintronic]

[eightbit]

1 hour ago, Osgeld said:

I haven't decided if I want to put a region switch on it, it plays my games, but my games are mostly older titles its the newer ones that seem to care (sometimes) 

 

Earlier games will work, but later US games will complain. You can do the mod, get a MegaKey, or just use an Everdrive (or clone). But, I know you already know this stuff

[eightbit]

1 hour ago, Gemintronic said:

 

And this should be framed for all eternity!

 

[Osgeld]

17 minutes ago, eightbit said:

 

Earlier games will work, but later US games will complain. You can do the mod, get a MegaKey, or just use an Everdrive (or clone). But, I know you already know this stuff

yea I can also solder 4 wires to a switch, already entertaining adding SVIDEO , its a sickness I swear get something nice wanna drill a hole in it ... its how I ended up with my RGB modded Intellivision II. Got it for free (unmodded) and a stack of games from a buddy who was helping his parents clear house as they move off to retirement condo bliss. Never even gave the Int one single poo in my mind but here we are an Int 2 sitting on my shelf of shame, has a crayola king RGB mod in it, havent turned it on in like a year heh 

 

For what its worth I already have a model 1 genesis with a physical switch region mod and a switchable 10Mhz overclock option, so this one is either bath and send it back out to the community, or turn it into a project while I debate which one of the 2 systems I have gets hooked up to the shelf and my 19 inch toshiba flat CRT I bought in 2001 heh 

Edited November 10 by Osgeld

[Osgeld]

K I gave it a bath, that helped, then I put it in the sink and used about a half a bottle of clorox bathroom cleaner, the foam from that instantly turned brown and after soaking for about an hour when rinsing it off with hot sink water, the rinse water was coming off brown then clear 🤢

 

as far as I can tell that got 99% of the stank off it, so now I know what to use on the cords lol 

[schnuth]

This sounds like some old fashioned stinky trouble!

 

 

 

[Osgeld]

heh this is the results of the av cable 

 

top paper towel is generic Windex and rubbing alcohol mixed , its pretty damn clean

 

bottom paper towel is the bleach bathroom cleaner 

 

 

should have been wearing gloves during this, now my fingernails smell of bleach bathroom cleaner and mild, but old Kimchi 

Edited November 11 by Osgeld

[Tanooki]

Sure it's the cleaning that brought on the kimchi smell.   Hell of a clean up.  I did a pretty deap tear down, clean up, de-funk, de-rust(metal cage) of one of those same ones but US model a little over a month ago.  It didn't smell like crap, but the towels were fairly similar.  In the end I also threw a scratch remover meant for cars by turtle wax at it as it has some chemistry to re-fill up to moderate sized scratches disappearing the things and it was dramatically prettier in the end too.

[Trinity]

The last toaster I bought on E bay smelled like baby stuff. 

 I was bored and I Googled the sellers address and it hit with some realty site with indoor and outdoor pictures. And in the basement were the crib, toys and all the other baby things. I could not see the toaster in the picture, but I bet it was somewhere nearby for a few years in storage. lol

Aside from the "baby" smell the toaster was the best one I've scored so far.

Edited November 11 by Trinity

[eightbit]

This stinky Megadrive was a Mercari Japan purchase. I had extra Mercari cash and figured I'd pick it up as REAL Megadrive 2 consoles are pretty rare believe it or not. The reason I emphasize "real" is because I believe at this point there are more bootlegs of the system out there than real ones. There's a really convincing one floating around online in a Sega box and all.