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| Acmlm's Board - I2 Archive - General Gaming - System durabilites! |
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interdpth Rex Level: 36 Posts: 507/527 EXP: 294398 For next: 13712 Since: 03-20-04 Since last post: 10 days Last activity: 31 days |
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| All right now, I made $200 in a week by betting my DS can survive a 6 foot drop and a PSP cannot. This DS has survived every drop while still playing the game  What I want to hear, is your durability stories, or why your system was not durable. So let the stories go! My DS so far, has been Dropped in a pool twice. Fallen and stepped on during DDR in an arcade Dropped from 6 feet several times Now tell your System Durability stories! |
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Yoronosuku Bullet Bill YORO 4 GOD Level: 32 Posts: 333/502 EXP: 194954 For next: 11488 Since: 01-06-05 From: hailing from Oyamazaki, Kyoto Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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Nintendo has and will always have the most durable systems ever. They just will  CD-I is also pretty durable. . . I use it to prop up my futon  |
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Surlent サーレント Level: 49  Posts: 1006/1077 EXP: 863920 For next: 19963 Since: 03-15-04 From: Tower of Lezard Valeth Since last post: 16 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| The most stable accessory for a console I ever used is the old classic NES pad. I was young, a real hothead, since I got my NES with Super Mario Bros. and - obviously - die maaaany times, I cursed something like "That's a bug! It's is IMPOSSIBLE to beat that "§$%&" castle 6-4!!!eleven" and threw my poor pads down on the carpet - there were something like "scars" in the carpets, but the two NES pads never broke due to that Other than that I pay attention to stuff like this, since you grew and got more mature (at least I think that  ), I never would even dare to try the crash test with an expensive NGC or PS2 pad  .(edited by Surlent on 08-26-05 06:23 AM) |
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Cruel Justice XD Level: 55  Posts: 1165/1384 EXP: 1253266 For next: 60923 Since: 03-20-04 From: Darkwoods Penetentiary Since last post: 11 hours Last activity: 7 hours |
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| I used to do the same thing to NES controllers. I sometimes bit my controllers as a kid. I swung those around and hit the walls in the basement. There were holes big enough to put tennis balls in them, but the controllers never broke. | |||
fabio Chuck Level: 45  Posts: 966/1479 EXP: 629903 For next: 30261 Since: 07-02-05 From: Somewhere in Texas Since last post: 7 hours Last activity: 7 hours |
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| Only damage I did to my DS was drop it on the floor. Same thing happened to my GBA, GBC, and GB. | |||
Tamarin Calanis We exist. Earth exists. The universe exists. Do we really need to know why? Level: 59 Posts: 763/1802 EXP: 1672751 For next: 377 Since: 07-12-04 From: The gas station on the corner... Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 5 hours |
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Well, I dropped my GBC on a wooden walkway in the rain. My Pokemon Red game was ejected (and I was playing!  ), but lal that was lost was my progress since the last save, and my GBC was fine. I no longer have this GBC, having gotten a GBA since then...My SNES has had various drinks spilled in and near it, with no problems... well, for a while. Unfortunately, it got to where tapping it would make a game freeze. Having three - now four - pets means that, well... yeah, it's likely to be knocked around a bit. |
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Ran-chan Moldorm eek, when are they going to stop growing... Level: 143  Posts: 11218/12781 EXP: 35293588 For next: 538220 Since: 03-15-04 From: Nerima District, Tokyo - Japan Since last post: 12 hours Last activity: 12 hours |
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Originally posted by Surlent I didn´t hit or throw my controllers. I hit the NES itself...many times. And with force. And it still works but not as good as it did back then. |
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alte Hexe Star Mario I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night Alive as you and me "But Joe you're ten years dead!" "I never died" said he "I never died!" said he Level: 99  Posts: 5204/5458 EXP: 9854489 For next: 145511 Since: 03-15-04 From: ... Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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My NES and SNES work to this day. And I was a strong kid with major anger issues.  My N64 hiccoughs occasionally. But it got destroyed like a trillion times. My X-Box burnt out. My SP got stolen. It no longer works, it just crapped out one day. My GBA's screen burnt out (within a week). I got a second one. That screen too died. I got my money back after that. My broken Playstation...It's a broke Playstation My GBC works beautifully. My iBook can withstand a shotgun blast. |
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Keitaro Iron Knuckle ウラシマ ケイタロウ Level: 54 Posts: 1274/1342 EXP: 1201569 For next: 32301 Since: 03-15-04 From: Hinata, Japan Since last post: 2 days Last activity: 2 days |
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| N64 is almost entirely dead...someone broke off the little plastic notches on the side so dust and crap keeps coming in. despite this, it STILL works 100%, it just dosnt always turn on right away. I'm plannning on using black ducktape to patch up the sides. I've also dropped a GBA SP from various heigts and on to various surfaces without so much as the game hanging up. I'd say Nintendo won in the durability department. | |||
Bella Ludwig Von Koopa You're Gonna Love Me Level: 76  Posts: 1927/2962 EXP: 3891483 For next: 114577 Since: 03-29-04 From: Groovy Way Since last post: 8 min. Last activity: 6 min. |
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| My Playstation is..broken. I don't know, it just doesn't play regular PSX games..this isn't the PS2. My PS2..well..my sister says that my baby sister was throwing around pillows and just messing around, one hit it when the tray was out and now when you press the button to make it go back in it just..kinda tweaks and goes right in. It still works . This is my 2nd PS2, my first one..I don't even know what happened to it. The laser light thingy or something went out. I had it for a few years (I got it a year after it came out) and about 2 years ago I had to buy a new one.Back when I had Sega Genisis..that was pretty durable. People would trip over the wires and it'd fall off the desk thing or table with the game in it. After it'd have a technical difficulty but then would work fine any time after. That was way back when and I don't have that anymore. I haven't had any handheld gaming thing but I want to get a DS |
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ZombieMushroom Red Cheep-cheep Level: 18  Posts: 49/212 EXP: 25764 For next: 4133 Since: 08-24-05 Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 2 days |
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| GC 1#: Dropped a few times, then the controllers were inresponsive. GC 2#: Dropped a bit, still works. SP: I think i dropped it once. Works fine. GB: Lost the battery holder. Keyboard: dropped 1 foot about 80-120 times, missing a few keys |
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Ronin Bot Level: 20  Posts: 69/267 EXP: 37090 For next: 5349 Since: 08-22-05 Since last post: 10 days Last activity: 4 days |
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| I dont think I ever had any problems with my NES (besides it just sometimes not working at all), same with SNES, but my N64 controllers have been thrown around a LOT, thanks to my brother messing up a MK64 Time Trial run. Of course, the one we've used forever has a control stick that's not as responsive as the others, but we lucked out and got 4 before that ever happened. GC controllers, can't quite say the same. The first controller it came with was thrown around just a little bit compared to the N64 ones, but the C stick got messed up very quickly (within about a year). Somehow I think it fixed itself though, but we got the Wavebirds a little longer. And a little after that, the battery case came off one of the Wavebirds, and just kinda... disappeared I guess. Of course I never play my Gamecube anymore, so... (edited by Ronin on 08-27-05 07:55 PM) |
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Snika Boo Level: 44  Posts: 480/916 EXP: 600678 For next: 10607 Since: 07-21-04 From: Freezing Cold Alaska! Since last post: 2 days Last activity: 2 days |
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| I remember I was playing with my GameBoy Advance (the original, not SP) and I was really starting to get into Mario Kart. Next thing I knew, when I was making a sharp turn, the GameBoy went flying through the air and landed on my hard tiled floor. It probably bounced off a wall or two because I was in a small camper. Not even a scratch! My game did get restarted, however. Nintendo knows that people of all ages will be playing with their products, so they probably make them super durable incase of a two year old getting a hold of one. |
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Bella Ludwig Von Koopa You're Gonna Love Me Level: 76 Posts: 1970/2962 EXP: 3891483 For next: 114577 Since: 03-29-04 From: Groovy Way Since last post: 8 min. Last activity: 6 min. |
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| My PS2 controlers..weird how sometimes the circle button feels like it's sticking but still works fine. We've thrown that around a few times and my friend does the same with her PS2 controlers so I guess they're pretty durable. When you one of the controlers you can kind of hear stuff inside shaking around ..it works just fine though |
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fabio Chuck Level: 45 Posts: 998/1479 EXP: 629903 For next: 30261 Since: 07-02-05 From: Somewhere in Texas Since last post: 7 hours Last activity: 7 hours |
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| I almost forgot, on my GBC after awhile the down button would not work anymore and I had to press it very hard to move dad on games like LoZ. Has that happened to anyone before? | |||
KawaiiImoto-e Hammer Brother Level: 49 Posts: 966/1068 EXP: 852917 For next: 30966 Since: 03-15-04 From: In my own little complicated dreamworld Since last post: 16 days Last activity: 4 days |
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| I had once a defective NES-Pad (Yea, it really exists). My late SP was the least durable Nintendo System I had, and I blame it on the Headphones adapter, as it had a loos connection after some weeks of using (I never had any Disc- or Walkmans, so I listened to my GBA), and I get quite angry with loose connections, so my SP had to suffer. After a year, it broke, the crystal inside got loose and sometimes the SP didn't run, and the other times only on half the speed. I gave my SP to Martin Korth, and he fixed it. All my other Systems, Nintendo and non Nintendo work as on the first day. (Except one N64 pad and there are some issues on the 4th Controller Port on my GameCube, as this cube is used on quite a lot of Parties and Anime Conventions). |
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 6602/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Oh, the stories I could tell about those old Game Boys. Or rather, Game Bricks. Big, bulky, and tougher than your average tank. Nintendo systems are incredibly durable but seem to wear out fast.  I mean, my SNES (the oldest system I didn't sell, though I DID buy another NES later) still works, but the cartridges are loose and as such it takes a lot of fiddling to get it to boot, and save files always get erased. Just touching the cart crashes it. N64 is getting like that too.  The old N64 I had just plain died, I think a capacitor blew or something. And my Gamecube works great but its eject button is sticky.GBA and DS both still work like new though. |
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Snika Boo Level: 44 Posts: 490/916 EXP: 600678 For next: 10607 Since: 07-21-04 From: Freezing Cold Alaska! Since last post: 2 days Last activity: 2 days |
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| I suppose there is only so much a system can take before it dies. My friends GameCube has this problem where the top of it won't shut after you load a disk. This probably came from countless times of slamming the lid shut. That is why I try to be careful with my systems to the point of being ridiculous (ex. using a Q-Tip instead of a stylus with my DS). | |||
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 6626/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Yeah, the sticky button is apparently a common problem. But you can just poke at it with your finger, or sit a book on top. |
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RanusApe Micro-Goomba Level: 6 Posts: 1/17 EXP: 576 For next: 331 Since: 08-26-05 Since last post: 1 day Last activity: 1 day |
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| n64 controls get destroyed pretty fast if you own mario party droped my psp a few times, still alive and kicking. |
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