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General Gaming / RE:Official "My GameCube is broke thread"

« on: July 18, 2004, 06:37:40 PM »

Mine has been sort of broken for about 3 weeks now and I'm just now getting round to finding out why.  I say sort of because it works when I sit around messing with it and talking nice to it(i.e., screaming curses while restraining the urge to shake and kick sense into it) for a bit.  Even then, loading times are very slow, I've noticed that sometimes the audio begins playing a few seconds before the accompanying video, when trying to view the cinematics audio sometimes skips and the video freezes/framerate slows considerably.  The longest I've gotten it to run is a little over an hour.  I've been getting both the 'cannot read gamedisc' and the general 'there has been an error' messages.

If I wouldn't have gotten it to actually play a game, I would have happily dropped it off the roof onto the sidewalk to watch it get smashed.

Any possible suggestions, aside from sending it to Nintendo for repair or buying a new one?  I'm no longer under warranty so paying $70+ for repairs is really pointless when I can have a new one to break on me for about the same price.

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General Gaming / RE:FIX your game cube READ DISK ERROR problem (Repair Guide Inside Post)

« on: July 17, 2004, 12:14:47 PM »

I found that holding teh Cube in your lap and tilting it back while using your thumbnails to lift the cd spindle out works quite easily, although you mind how much force you're using and what you're doing so the spindle won't fly off or you accidentally knock the laser about or something.  As for how common it is for the clips to break and cause the read error, I cannot say.  Mine were intact.  Which means I hafta kick Nintendo now.  

From the number of people having this problem and the hell it's given me, I'm begining to think that it's not worth getting professionally repaired or replacing it if I cannot repair it myself.  Was worth the shot, anyway.