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

« on: August 20, 2004, 06:51:56 AM »

Well, I found a friend who had the bitpiece I needed, and opened the Cube up, and it was pretty clean for the most part. So it wasn't dust... I read that the Cube will shut itself off automatically if there's too much dust clogging the system, so that may be the case for the rest of you, but not for myself. We put it back together, and it still does the same thing: just the fan runs. I don't want to pay shipping and the like to have it sent out and fixed. However, Gamestop, I found out, can take your old (even broken) Gamecube, and sell you another used one for 65. The guy wouldn't answer me on whether it was refurbished or not.. but still. I also heard from an online friend that the Toys R Us near him is selling the Zelda bundle for 50 bucks, though it doesn't say anything like that on the toysrus.com site.

Bleh... I'm leaving for school in 6 days,  3 states away, and I still don't have my Gamecube back

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

« on: August 02, 2004, 06:36:30 AM »

My Gamecube finally died yesterday afternoon just randomly, and I was kinda odded out by it. I've been busy for the past week doing stuff before I head off for college, so my Cube hasn't been getting as much play as it used to. I've actually been playing a lot of Paper Mario on the N64 when I had the time to play games. So maybe the Cube got jealous?

But yesterday, my sister wanted to play a game, and so I set it all up for her, and when I turned the system on, nothing happened. The light never came on, and there was no image or sound from the TV; nothing. I messed around with the cables, checking them kinda compulsively, and turned it on again. The fan went on, so it WAS getting power, and it wasn't the AV Cables. So, while it was on, I popped the top, and I could see the laser fine, but the disc was not spinning. I searched around online, and figured it needed to be cleaned, so I got a vacuum and some q-tips and went mad cleaning the fan and the vent on the side. Still won't work. I peeked inside the rightside vent, and saw that there was still a lot of dust clogging the little holes inside. I can't open it, however, because I don't have the little screwdrive bitpiece with the six sides. I've found one online for 6 bucks, but the shipping is around 30 bucks more!!

I'm still looking to see if I can get one from a friend (since a lot of PCs use similar screws), or maybe Gamestop has one. But, otherwise, my Cube is out of comission for a while. My warranty ran out years ago (I got the Cube the day after Christmas in '01), and I really don't want to shell out 70 bucks for Nintendo to fix it, or send it to some company I've never dealt business with before (like these NCS guys). If it's something I can do myself, I really really wanna do it myself, and not have to spend cash having someone else do it. I'm cheap, and I need my GCN back in working condition as soon as possible.

So, do you guys have any insight? help? suggestions? I'd really appreciate your assistance. Thanks in advance, for me AND my little purple cube

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Nintendo Gaming / GB Zeldas connection to Wind Waker...? *possible spoilers for LA, WW, Oracles*

« on: August 19, 2003, 08:11:51 AM »

I've always thought the Oracle games took place after Majora, but then I realized that made no sense and placed them after LttP. I mean, at the end when you beat both of them together, you see Link go off on the boat from Awakening. But I swear... when I beat Wind Waker, it just reminded me of Awakening so much. I forgot about the Oracle games (I don't consider them canon sometimes, since Capcom made them, but they really should be counted anyways. It's not like they're those poor CD-i games), and just imagined Link going off in the KoRL and crashing on Koholint during a storm, like Awakening, assuming Nintendo just hadn't had the KoRL designed at the time they made Awakening.

But then again... he has the Triforce at the beginning of the Oracle games, which are obviously previous to Awakening. And many people consider those as taking place after LttP, since Link clearly has the Triforce at the end of that game. BUT what if Link recovered the Triforce at the end of Wind Waker 2 and was sent to Holodrum and Labrynna to look for the new Hyrule? They have a lot in common with OoT's Hyrule, and it's possible the Triforce was guiding him to possible solutions to the "find your new home" dilemna. Just tossing it out there...