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Just as a quite warning- retrobright will make the plastic of the dreamcast white, but it will also make it more brittle, and it's not a permanent solution. It WILL yellow again, and repeated applications of retrobright will make it more and more brittle.
Fair warning it will also continue yellowing and getting more and more brittle if you do nothing. Plastic doesn't biodegrade, but it does undergo aging in a way that makes it less durable than traditional materials. Wood can be kept from biodegrading, metal can be kept from corroding, but aging plastic just gets more and more brittle and just really wants to become microplastics