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Off-Topic => All of all! => Topic started by: Grandy on March 02, 2012, 12:11:13 PM

Title: So, Red Ring of Death
Post by: Grandy on March 02, 2012, 12:11:13 PM
 It just now is dawning on me how pissed I am at this thing.

I now have a R$800 paperweight doorstop. And since it won't even turn on properly so I can open it up, I'm pretty sure at least one of my games is trapped inside it.

There is no propper fixing, so if I want to play ME3, I'll have to pay more R$900 to get a slim.

 Problem is, I don't have R$900, because I already spent R$250 of me munny to subcribe to One Piece manga, so now I am only as presumptuous as I am poor and Irish.


 That makes me want to leave gaming behind and become healthy through running and enjoying life. Barely. But I can't do that because I just had a surgery in my nethers that makes me 50% more like a jewish man, and must rest for a few days.


 So now I am stuck at home, and one of my videogames is broken.

 Thank God I managed to get hold of Devil Survivor 2 and Kirby Return to Dreamland.


 Still, sucks. Bros had warned me about the stairs, but I just wouldn't listen.
Title: Re: Red Ring of Death
Post by: Moosetroop11 on March 02, 2012, 12:39:37 PM
Sucks, man. I also want to play on my 360 but I left me controller at someone else's house :( Not quite as bad as your situation, but up there :p
Title: Re: Red Ring of Death
Post by: Prpl_Mage on March 02, 2012, 02:31:38 PM
I remember when my ps2 decided to die on us. Then we got it fixed. But then we realized that the console started eating up the discs we put in it. they looked a bit like a stracthboard after being played. Sad days when you don't have the console you want to play.

Also, a 360 costs $900? That's like twice the amount it costs over here.

Wait. isn't slim a ps3? I thought only xboxes could get ringdeath
Title: Re: Red Ring of Death
Post by: HobomasterXXX on March 02, 2012, 04:03:19 PM
Slim versions are pretty common things for consoles. There's a slim 360 as well.
Title: Re: Red Ring of Death
Post by: Archem on March 02, 2012, 05:38:48 PM
The new 360? RROD? But Microsoft promised us it wouldn't! Who can I trust now?!

Also, all Xbox 360s sold after a certain date (a few years ago, don't remember how many) have a 3-year warranty that covers Red Rings and some other common error code. You can get the thing repaired for free if you register your console online and request a repair. Then you get a pre-paid shipping label, slap it on a box, put your Xbox in, and send it to them. In a month, it comes back, good as new.

I've had to do this twice. Not a great track record, but my Xbox is still running.
Title: Re: Red Ring of Death
Post by: Cosmos on March 02, 2012, 08:14:34 PM
PS3 gets the "yellow" light of death. I believe the Elite is considered the "slim" version, I think. And my brother had gotten the 360 pro when it first came out. Eventually sold it and got the Elite. So far, his Elite has RROD him about three times...<< And he just calls the company, they send him a box and he ships it back and they fix it for free.

I also have an Elite however, I got mines this past summer so...I have yet to experience the RROD. For now...
Title: Re: Red Ring of Death
Post by: Zerlina on March 02, 2012, 08:33:37 PM
Some guys at a game shop near me made this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fzErSNyJgE
Title: Re: Red Ring of Death
Post by: HobomasterXXX on March 03, 2012, 12:22:48 AM
I've always wondered why gamers are such pushovers with this ****. Like, in any other industry this kind of failure rate would send the company into the red pretty quickly.
Title: Re: Red Ring of Death
Post by: Archem on March 03, 2012, 12:50:26 AM
It's because they've got us by the balls, and they know it. Same thing for how Xbox LIVE can jack up the price of the same service that the competition offers for free, and still be on top.
Title: Re: Red Ring of Death
Post by: SaiKar on March 03, 2012, 09:34:43 PM
Incidentally, it took a lot of obscure cables, but I hooked up my SNES and N64 recently and they both still work.

I've never had a game system die on me. I've had a couple of really, really old Gameboy games have their internal save batteries fail, but that's it.
Title: Re: Red Ring of Death
Post by: Archem on March 04, 2012, 04:55:50 AM
I'm missing a cable for my NES and SNES. Sad times.
Title: Re: Red Ring of Death
Post by: Grandy on March 04, 2012, 04:37:35 PM
The new 360? RROD? But Microsoft promised us it wouldn't! Who can I trust now?!

Also, all Xbox 360s sold after a certain date (a few years ago, don't remember how many) have a 3-year warranty that covers Red Rings and some other common error code. You can get the thing repaired for free if you register your console online and request a repair. Then you get a pre-paid shipping label, slap it on a box, put your Xbox in, and send it to them. In a month, it comes back, good as new.

I've had to do this twice. Not a great track record, but my Xbox is still running.

I can't do that.

I uh... had the console, how can I put it... altered.

I've always wondered why gamers are such pushovers with this ****. Like, in any other industry this kind of failure rate would send the company into the red pretty quickly.

Oh because gamers like to act superior. I remember when it was revealed that bumping into a slim 360 while it played a game would sctatch the disk, all complaints were answered with "only retards would bump into a console, there is nothing wrong with it being sensible like that, learn not to be a clumsy piece of ****, MICROSOFT CAN DO NO WRONG"
Title: Re: Red Ring of Death
Post by: Archem on March 04, 2012, 05:48:56 PM
I can't do that.

I uh... had the console, how can I put it... altered.
You fucked up big time. Don't get your Xbox modded, because the failure rate is high enough that you may end up using that warranty. If you must, just wait for the warranty to expire. And, not that I know anything about the modding done, but that might have exacerbated the RROD issue a little.

Oh because gamers like to act superior. I remember when it was revealed that bumping into a slim 360 while it played a game would sctatch the disk, all complaints were answered with "only retards would bump into a console, there is nothing wrong with it being sensible like that, learn not to be a clumsy piece of ****, MICROSOFT CAN DO NO WRONG"
That problem was actually widely criticized on the standard model. If it exists on the new one, it hasn't been quite as bitched about due to that problem being a norm for the Xbox. I guarantee it applies to the old model, too, as I have a friend with two rather eaten Gears of Wars.
Title: Re: Red Ring of Death
Post by: Prpl_Mage on March 04, 2012, 06:48:42 PM
My consoles survive a long time. The controls however decides to buckle in after some time. Got 3 borken GC controllers laying around. Mostly because of my wavedashing friends. Also the c stick breaks which is annoying in some games but barely noticed in others.
When it comes to the N64 controllers the Z buttons are broken and some buttons are slow. For the PS2 and PS3 the R2 buttons gets supper sensitive and the X button is - how can I put this - soft.

Although most controller problems comes from my sore loser- brother who dislikes controls when things go bad. Although I'm very happy the console or discs weren't thrown around.
Title: Re: Red Ring of Death
Post by: Archem on March 04, 2012, 07:18:34 PM
No controller is worse that my N64 ones. The joysticks are limp noodles.
Title: Re: Red Ring of Death
Post by: Zerlina on March 04, 2012, 08:02:46 PM
Same here. My Genesis is still as good as it was ten years ago.

Mine WOULD be, except that my ex broke mine when we parted ways -__-. Fucken bastard knew how to break my heart...
Title: Re: Red Ring of Death
Post by: Archem on March 04, 2012, 10:22:02 PM
You should have broke his dick.

Wait, maybe that could be interpreted another way...
Title: Re: Red Ring of Death
Post by: A Forgotten Legend on March 06, 2012, 04:16:40 PM
Is there ever a conversation on Charas that doesn't have at least two penis references in it?   Welp, now this one has three...
Title: Re: Red Ring of Death
Post by: Archem on March 06, 2012, 10:14:06 PM
I can't help it. To be fair, we are all members, and all we do is talk about our members.
Title: Re: Red Ring of Death
Post by: Archem on March 06, 2012, 11:38:27 PM
It's probably true, too.
Title: Re: Red Ring of Death
Post by: Grandy on March 15, 2012, 04:07:33 AM
Guess who bought a PeeAssTree?
Title: Re: Red Ring of Death
Post by: Archem on March 15, 2012, 04:20:17 AM
Me?
Title: Re: Red Ring of Death
Post by: Grandy on March 15, 2012, 07:35:27 PM
Me?

...

Yes Archem. You.
Title: Re: Red Ring of Death
Post by: Archem on March 15, 2012, 08:08:56 PM
**** yeah!
Title: Re: Red Ring of Death
Post by: Moosetroop11 on March 16, 2012, 03:17:13 AM
...
Title: Re: Red Ring of Death
Post by: Moosetroop11 on March 16, 2012, 03:17:32 AM
...I GOT IT! It's Grandy!!!
Title: Re: Red Ring of Death
Post by: Grandy on March 17, 2012, 04:41:58 AM
...I GOT IT! It's Grandy!!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=vxkIBEw_K1c#t=9s
Title: Re: Red Ring of Death
Post by: fruckert on March 17, 2012, 07:20:56 PM
Archem, didn't you already have one?

I'll add you after I get out of The Dead Zone.
then we could not play games together because i mostly have single player ****
except for twisted metal
Title: Re: Red Ring of Death
Post by: Archem on March 18, 2012, 12:41:28 AM
Well, yeah, but it's still new enough that I figured it applied.