• Dettweiler@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    32 minutes ago

    I got that once. Called tech support and they recommended putting a vacuum hose against the cooling fan for about a minute. Did that, and everything started working again!

      • Sal@lemmy.world
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        21 hours ago

        Gamers when they see this: 😨

        People with electronics experience when they see this: 🤑

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          21 hours ago

          With the exception of the wii u, pretty much all of my consoles were ones that I bought as “defective”. Most of the time a good clean was all that was needed. Sometimes I had to replace one part or the other. The worst was a 3DS XL with a broken hinge that needed a full teardown just to remove that one plastic part.

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    17 hours ago

    If you’ve got a bad disk drive, don’t assume it’s worthless - the homebrew scene has made incredible strides recently, and now you can play your backups from an internal solid state drive, or even from your memory card! There’s also SD adapters for memory cards, giving pretty much unlimited space. I haven’t used my disk drive in years.

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    20 hours ago

    Disk cleaners saved and killed so many of my games. Having a grimy, fingered little brother is always fun.

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      I had a ps2 demo disc with some games like Star Wars Battlefront on it. I played it and I enjoyed it. Then the unspeakable happened…

      My memory card was wiped. I received a warning weeks later that the demo disc has a bug that deletes memory cards when you play it. Like wtf is that about? I was playing a game and got pretty far but it erased my file. I don’t even remember what game it was.

      Anyway that is my spooky memory card story.

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    20 hours ago

    I mainly got used games as a kid so I saw this screen far too much…

    Also probably why I ran into a bunch of glitches, my earliest memories of playing racing games involved a lot of driving “off the map” before a new area loaded in. which sometimes it wouldn’t and just crash after a while. >.>