Topic: Broken Gcn...plan

[Bobthecow2357]

My GCN has the same problem as many other gamecubes. The disc drive....has burned out and after about an hour I get the game disc could not be read message and loose everything I have in PSO! But I came up with a plan where I wouldnt have to go and send my gamecube to Nintendo and pay 80 bucks and have them fix it. I would trade in my GCN at my local gamestop, then get 30 dollars and with that 30 and the 60 I get for my traded in GCN I can buy a used gamecube. What are your thoughts on this? Do you think it will work?

[PIAC]

and whos' to say the used cube wont do the same thing in a few months? also i doubt gamestop wont check to see that your cube is fully functional before giving you your money..

also have you not read the many stories of people with broken cubes sending to them to nintendo who will repair/replace free of charge AND give an extended warrenty?

[SuperLink666]

Yes just get Nintendo to fix it. It is really easy just don't be lazy.. they fixed mine all free of charge no questions and it has a huge chip of plastic smash off the back. Plus i've had it since launch and now have a LATE 2004 warranty incase it breaks.. again which i hope not.

[Infernal Monkey]

Go find a smaller, less known gaming shop that lets you trade crap in. Heh, back when PS2 had launched here, my friend went to a pissy little crap shop "High Tech World" and traded in a broken, modded PlayStation, and a broken Game Boy. They didn't check either, and gave him $80 store credit towards a PS2

[Gohan_Chaos]

Hey SuperLink, My Gamecube has the same problem. How do you send the GC in for free? When I called them they wanted to charge me 75 bucks since they checked the serial # and my warranty expired. Could you help me out? thanks

[SuperLink666]

I just told them the truth. The guy on the phone was cool enough to extend the warranty until March 2004. I only took the cube to the repair center 2 months after because I was just going to buy a new one.  

[Epitaph]

I don't know how so many people have problems with their gamecubes. Do you all play like 24/7. No seriously ive had absolutely no problem with mine. If you check the internet you can see some people drage the cube behind their car for a good distance then put a game in it and it runs to their amazement. Although afterword they take a sledgehamer to it and then fire.(they don't like the cube) But whatever its to proove my point, if someone can drag the cube behind their car how can people have so many problems with it? You must play like non stop.

[Gohan_Chaos]

Not exactly, I'm not a REAL hard-core fiend,anyways who'd be dumb enough to put a gamecube on a car and drag it around while its on, that's just crazy!, anyways thanks for your help SuperLink666,, and note its that damn fan on my cube

[joeamis]

double post...due to the forum not responding, sorry

[joeamis]

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Originally posted by: Infernal Monkey
Go find a smaller, less known gaming shop that lets you trade crap in. Heh, back when PS2 had launched here, my friend went to a pissy little crap shop "High Tech World" and traded in a broken, modded PlayStation, and a broken Game Boy. They didn't check either, and gave him $80 store credit towards a PS2

you know like every used games store, takes down the serial #s on the machines,
so he should be more careful.  I've heard of people selling consoles that don't work,
getting away with it, only to received a phonecall and/or letter in the mail months-year later stating they
now owe the store all the money they had recieved.

i saw the video of those losers destroying a gamecube, they couldn't believe when the gamecube still worked which just made them look stupid.  i mean nintendo is quality, my neighbor's mom ran over his nes game with the car, and it still worked... it was faxanadu and the whole plastic casing was destroyed but it ran fine throughout the entire game.
btw i've never had 1 problem with my GC  

[Mak]

My Gamecube was purchased when the system launched and I recieved it as a present for Christmas 2001.  A year later, about a week before Christmas 2002, my Gamecube got the disc read error, the lens or whatever seemed to have died. I think its life might have been cut short from the Harry Potter rental my sister rented that probably had plenty of scratches on it, plus, wherever you go in Harry Potter, there was a 15sec loading screen so that must have helped kill the system. I called up Nintendo and explained the situation, and I told them that I had never had a problem before and that just after a month after the warrenty expired it stopped working, so the lady extended my warranty about 2 months so I got it repaired for free. I sent the GC to the local repair place and had them ship it out and a replacement was sent to me about a month later.

(Also, since this was a week before Christmas that my Gamecube died and I was getting Metroid Prime for Christmas I was in a panic, how awful for me to not have a Nintendo system to play a much anticipated game on! Luckily I got a 2nd Gamecube because of some special deal at Best Buy with a Computer purchase, so Christmas was saved!)


I've always taken great care of all my video game stuff, so I've never put chains around my Gamecube's handle and tied to my car and driven around like a maniac or anything like that It just must have had to do with the early GC models.

[AgentSeven]

I actually don't think this guy ever even owned a gamecube....

But that's just my opinion, and as you know, I am this forums resident trouble maker

[joeamis]

if that was the case, i'd say bob you're nothing but a cow
waiting to be slaughtered i might add  

[PIAC]

you fight like a dairy farmer!

how apropriate you fight like a cow!

couldn't help my self ^_^

[Ryujin]

Hmm, I've had my GC since the Christmas immediately afterr launch and it's fine.  But I do have a problem....

My wavebird has stopped working...  I'd turn it off then on and the on light wouldn't turn on, when I pushed on the back where the batteries were located it turned on.  Eventually it wouldn't turn on at all, so I naturally assumed I just needed new batteries.  But I put new batteries in AND... nothing happened.  Still doesn't work...

Any suggestions?  Any way to get my money back or fix it 6 months or a year after I purchased and with no casing or receipt?