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

« on: October 17, 2004, 09:11:24 PM »

An update: I tried the method suggested one nintendo.com on how to reset the AC Adapter, and then plugging in one and only one peice at a time. So there are never 2 parts plugged in at once. I found my gimpy controller that just failed me was the only thing that caused the problem, so I put it away. I then set everything up but now my good controller is doing the same thing, even though it was fine during the test, it shuts down power when everything else is hooked up I guess. I might mess with the controller ports. But chances are I'll get my 'Cube repaired or store it for memories and focus on a shiny Nintendo DS.  

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

« on: October 16, 2004, 11:42:03 PM »

Thanks a ton for the response! x3 Sorry for bein' a bit evil in my first few posts, It was just I was expecting all of that and when it actually happened it somehow made me feel worse.

Anyways, I vacuumed my 'Cube with a soft attachment, so dust isn't much of a factor, at least in the regions nearest the side vents.

The whine sounds high-pitched in an electronic sort of way, and comes right out of the 'Cube, so bleh.

I got the 'Cube to work almost 80% of the time I did it by smacking it while holding it by its handle, so the controler ports were facing down, but not straight down, like at an angle (like this angle, but a little steeper: /. Then just leaving it on something to keep it at that steep angle while I played.

But then my controller went out, it had the right-tilt tendancies and now it's totally gone, thus multiplayer got removed.

I read Nintendo.com's troubleshooting page on the GC and tomorrow I'll try resetting the AC Adapater (brick?). But most likelly I'll need to drive 22.4 miles (nifty map service on that site) to a store in OKC to get it repaired. But I heard you got $ off by trading in a 'Cube, no matter the condition. If so, I need to find out where, and it'd be really sweet to trade my busted 'Cube in, and then only pay 65$ for a new 'Cube and get the free game, like the Zelda package with it. Dunno if that's possible, but it'd be cool.

Thanks again for that response!

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

« on: October 16, 2004, 07:43:50 PM »

Lot of good moving my post out of its topic into this thread. It lessened my chances of actually getting help by 90% seeing as how so few people will actually be reading through these posts. People browse topics, they know what they'll find in this one so they won't look in it or try to help.

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

« on: October 16, 2004, 10:04:17 AM »

These forums are great so far... [/sarcasm]

My Cube has been having power problems ever since my gf's nephew opened it in the middle of her playing Viewtiful Joe. When he first did it, it wouldn't turn on until you tried for a minute or two, but now, you click the power button, and the little Orange Light on the top either stays off or comes on for a few seconds before turning off a gain. Generally it just halfway comes on then fades off again. My gf got it to work a few times by messing with the box on the power cord, is that the converter? I got it to work a few times just by smacking the actual Cube. We got 2 hours of 1080: Snowboarding out of smacking the Cube itself, but that was just once and now we can't get it to work anymore. Any clue what the problem is?

(edit: I also started hearing a high-pitched whine comeing from my 'Cube. )

Also, my controller does that annoying right-tilt thing. I fix it by re-plugging it like I would if I activated the system with the joystick tilted.

Btw, I've had the system since the Christmas following launch.

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General Gaming / Power Problems!

« on: October 15, 2004, 08:18:07 PM »

Note: Considering that this board's first page goes back to August, shoving all these topics into one seems stupid. I'm making my topic outside of the stickied one primarily because if anyone else has my problem, they can find an answer just by checking this topic instead of reading through 3 pages of other problems that they don't have.

My Cube has been having power problems ever since my gf's nephew opened it in the middle of her playing Viewtiful Joe. When he first did it, it wouldn't turn on until you tried for a minute or two, but now, you click the power button, and the little Orange Light on the top either stays off or comes on for a few seconds before turning off a gain. Generally it just halfway comes on then fades off again. My gf got it to work a few times by messing with the box on the power cord, is that the converter? I got it to work a few times just by smacking the actual Cube. We got 2 hours of 1080: Snowboarding out of smacking the Cube itself, but that was just once and now we can't get it to work anymore. Any clue what the problem is?

(edit: I also started hearing a high-pitched whine comeing from my 'Cube. )

Also, my controller does that annoying right-tilt thing. I fix it by re-plugging it like I would if I activated the system with the joystick tilted.

Btw, I've had the system since the Christmas following launch.