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General Gaming / RE:Official "My GameCube is broke thread"
« on: May 27, 2004, 03:51:28 PM »
I have a rather strange problem, or at least I havn't heard of any others similar to it.
A while ago my brother had his friends over and they were playing the GameCube. I suppose one of them got a little too into the game and pulled his controller too far, pulling the GameCube off the small shelf it was rested on, a fall of about 3 1/2 feet. The system supposedly landed on it's front end (I was not there to witness the actual event, so I'm going on what my brother told me happened). The system works fine, it still runs games, there's not even any cosmetic damage (Good 'ole sturdy Nintendo products), however for some reason the 1st Controller Port doesn't read at all. I've tried using different controllers, and even one that was purchased later after the incident, and none of them worked. It's like the 1st port simply died. None of the other ports are effected (I had a nice 3-way SSBMelee match with some friends not too long ago) as well both memory card slots are fine.
At first I didn't think it was too big a deal, seeing as I could just control with the other ports. However, I soon realised that most games I really liked playing (Metroid Prime, F-Zero GX, WindWaker, etc) only read from the 1st port, essentially rendering these games unplayable on my system.
I do not believe that it is under warenty, since the system is 2 or 3 years old, and so I was wondering if maybe anyone here has heard of or experienced a similar problem, and if I need to just go buy a new GameCube, or try and get it fixed.
A while ago my brother had his friends over and they were playing the GameCube. I suppose one of them got a little too into the game and pulled his controller too far, pulling the GameCube off the small shelf it was rested on, a fall of about 3 1/2 feet. The system supposedly landed on it's front end (I was not there to witness the actual event, so I'm going on what my brother told me happened). The system works fine, it still runs games, there's not even any cosmetic damage (Good 'ole sturdy Nintendo products), however for some reason the 1st Controller Port doesn't read at all. I've tried using different controllers, and even one that was purchased later after the incident, and none of them worked. It's like the 1st port simply died. None of the other ports are effected (I had a nice 3-way SSBMelee match with some friends not too long ago) as well both memory card slots are fine.
At first I didn't think it was too big a deal, seeing as I could just control with the other ports. However, I soon realised that most games I really liked playing (Metroid Prime, F-Zero GX, WindWaker, etc) only read from the 1st port, essentially rendering these games unplayable on my system.
I do not believe that it is under warenty, since the system is 2 or 3 years old, and so I was wondering if maybe anyone here has heard of or experienced a similar problem, and if I need to just go buy a new GameCube, or try and get it fixed.
