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Yes, the betas will be the only ones painted.

enso- want to coop on the art? I do vector, you do pixel art?

Still diggin' this album, and the first two tracks are so perfect together.

Feryl- welcome to the conservative opinion club!

Big picture update:

The cartridge case prep setup. I got chemicals and cases and all kinds of crazyness going on.

Another view. And yes, that's an old HDD shell used to hold screws.

A cleaned case, label removed, and ready for painting.

More chemicals, more carts. That Goo Gone works really well, but not quite as well as I'd like. I eventually tried a different method which worked better.

Here are some case backs, with blue masking tape to preserve the original gold warning label on the back during cleaning and painting.

Large piles of USB and NES controller cabling, waiting to get hacked.

The beta labels.

I set a beta label on top of my failed painted cart from before, so you can get an idea of the colors. The betas will probably not have gold after all, since it doesn't look so good. I don't have a picture of it, but the labels look much better on a plain white cart.

For those who would like to know how I managed getting the labels off, here is the method I settled on. It seems to do the least amount of damage to the plastic while removing the label in the easiest fashion possible.

I fill a glass baking dish with water, and place the cart shells inside to soak for a good long while. Then I come back, peel off as much wet label as possible, and soak again. That gets all the pesky laminate and paper off. Then, douse the carts with rubbing alcohol, which will dissolve the remaining layer of glue, and rub all the glue off while still wet. Reapply alcohol as needed to dissolve and remove all glue. You then need to rinse in water to remove all the alcohol. Avoid keeping the carts wet with alcohol too much, as it "crazes" the plastic.

The reason I did it this way is because the Goo Gone wasn't working well enough unless I used a ton of it, and I would wait as long as I would have to soaking in water. Plus, water is cheaper than Goo Gone. Also, soaking in rubbing alcohol is very effective, but also really destroys the plastic, so don't do it.

And we have a very very fine set of custom-tailored clothes to sell you, which only the most intelligent of people can see.

That reddish star-glow thing looks like it's from Starfox. Is it from starfox?

Yeah, you should harvest some SMD resistors if you can. It's fall, nearly harvesting season, so get in the spirit and go component harvesting soon.