Don't you hate the Mysterious piece of scotch tape?

You ever buy something online, from a flea market, or some friend gives you a system or a cartridge....and there's a mysterious piece of scotch tape wrapped around it....and you're afraid to open it?

Yeah, like that Power Supply you wouldn't dare open or touch...yet it looks jerry-rigged by SCOTCH brand tape...or Duct Tape...

If it's on a cartridge of a game you've been looking for, then the scenario gets a little more unpleasent for you.

Like today, I found a copy of Virtua Fighter 32X. I peeled off the tape (curiousity did kill the cat)....and it's the plastic that broke off. (The screws are in place, but the entire back of the cartridge has been removed by force or abuse it looks like.

Yet I wish people wouldn't try to HIDE the problem by using a piece of tape...

Kind of reminds me when I used to work at GameCrazy and GameStop. You always have that one customer who wants to trade in a NES, SNES, Genesis system....and some of the controllers and power supplies have tape all over them. Like it was part of a 1st graders arts and craft show..

Good ol electrical tape has saved me many a controller cord.

However, with damage to the actual controller, system, or game, I think you're gonna need more than tape. :lol

Here's a funny thing I work catering airplanes and you never see mechanics walkin' around without a big ol' roll of duct tape. Anything inside the plane broken just wrap it in tape, good as new. :lol :lol Luckily I've never seen them trying to use it "outside" of the plane.

Yeah that is annoying. I personally have yet to have the oppertunity to open up something that has tape on it and get the wonderful surprise of having the cart crumble in my hands.

Tommy V said:

Here's a funny thing I work catering airplanes and you never see mechanics walkin' around without a big ol' roll of duct tape. Anything inside the plane broken just wrap it in tape, good as new. :lol :lol Luckily I've never seen them trying to use it "outside" of the plane.

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My father-in-law works as an airplane mechanic. Another mechanic that works with him was caught one day gluing the heads of fasteners back onto the studs in which they were busted off of in the first place. He was torquing a panel down, and had the torque set too high. The heads were snapping off. Instead of stopping at the first one and seeing what the problem was, he proceeded to bust the heads off of every fastener. Instead of pulling them out and doing them over, he decided to get soem glue. I believe he now works somewhere where there is no glue in the building.

freakin tape, ruining MegaDrives life!

man... more than that.... I hate the elecrical tape.

AT LEAST scotch comes off nicely... electrical leaves a sticky slime behind that is nearly impossible to get rid of.... makes me unhappy :lol

†B†V† :hat

Bluevoodu said:

man... more than that.... I hate the elecrical tape.

AT LEAST scotch comes off nicely... electrical leaves a sticky slime behind that is nearly impossible to get rid of.... makes me unhappy :lol

†B†V† :hat

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WD40 works charms. Or a bit of rubbing alcohol or nail polish remover and a Q-tip. And a but of patience of course!!