Gaming equipment/consoles you have broken or messed up.

[music_maniac1965]

I broke my mega CD 1. I used it to much.

WOW, your avatar (that moving outrun thingie) is way cool ! sorry that i am not so orginal, but i took yours. i am just a outrun fan at heart and soul, and this immage reflects my taste of game 8) i hope you dont mind.

now to be ontopic:

just worn out my dreamcast, and bought me a new one. the cd lens whas totally worn out, and would not play crazy taxi properly. if i started playing, the surroundings would dissapear. then the game looks like youre driving trough a glass world where the only things you could see where the pedesterians, the costumers and their signs (dollar sign and that circle around them), and all the cars and things you can drive trough like boxes and newspaper stands. looks weird tough ! and if i stopped, then slowly the scenery would return. but if i would turbo boost my way ouf of the scenery, the cd lens could not keep up, and so the background would dissapear again.

and once while playing tomb raider 1 on psx, i gotten so mad, that i threw the gamepad on the floor, but luckilly i could "slow down" the throwing movement becouse i did not wanted to damage my pad. luckilly it survived the fall.

oh, and one time i lended out a wrestling game (psx game) to a (used to be) friend, and i gotten it back with so much scratches, that i asked him if he used it as a frisbee. i never got me a replacement for that game, so i never wanted to see him again.

[bingowings]

i twisted a PSone controller and snapped it in half after getting cheesed off with Marvel Super Heroes. and with SFII on the Megadrive - i bounced the pad across the room in a fit of rage and mangled the wires.

the d-pad on one of my Xbox controllers doesn't work all too well after using it to play Tony Hawk 3 continously - it's almost dead when you push it to the right.

and years ago, i almost b0rked my c64 after jamming a screwdriver into the cartridge port - don't ask me why, i was young at the time.

[Shotski]

i was asleep and pretty drunk rolled of my bed landed on my gamecube conteoler and broke it.

but i did drop my game boy i got in 1990 in the toilet and it still works

[yosai]

The Elite Space pirate in Metroid prime caused me to throw a wavebird at my sofa so hard it bounced up and hit the ceiling, cracking the PCB and disintegrating the L trigger.

My Atari decided to crash whilst I was in the middle of composing some music losing me a fair bit of work and some lovely drum patterns. Hit the keyboard a little too hard, cracked the PCB under the keys and lost the use of half the keys.

Pilotwings 64 also made me damage a couple of controllers trying to get those perfect scores.

[Jakeway]

WOW, your avatar (that moving outrun thingie) is way cool ! sorry that i am not so orginal, but i took yours. i am just a outrun fan at heart and soul, and this immage reflects my taste of game 8) i hope you dont mind.

make your own bloody avatar ft:

[007]

Some girl was round my house like 4 years ago in my bedroom, she grabbed my phone or something, so I chased after her and caught my leg up in the wires of my PS2.

It just fell to the floor and didn't work. Got a new one though, I told the shop it was already broken.

[jtorry]

Arrrg. I have just blown up my US xbox. Damn fool. Somehow it had become unplugged from the stepdown and I assumed the lose plug was the Australian Xbox lead. Not thinking (as they look the same, twp prongs), I plugged it in to the mains and it made an odd noise and is now dead. I am so not happy right now.

[NeilMcRae]

my mates cat **** on his dreamcast - still worked though.

[Lebowski]

i snaped the dpad on a ps1 pad form playing to much tekken the left part of the dpad totaly snaped away form the rest of the dpad, i took it down to game the bloke behind the counter gave me a funny look and they gave me a new one as it was less than a year old

[jezzace]

I've broken my GC mod switch so many times! The first wasn't my fault, lik-sang sent it to me with a really loose switch attached so went I went to change it it broke off meaning I could only play Jap games. I soldered it back on and it was fine for a bit. But one drunken night, I can't remember what I was doing, but I must've been too rough with it because the next morning the switch was hanging off again. I soldered it back on again with a whole whack of solder. This ain't ever coming off. One year later my sister was too rough with the switch and off it comes. I've soldered it again but I've got a feeling its only a matter of time before it comes off again.

Also the lid on my GC broke. I have no idea why but it was coming up as if the lid was still open so it wasn't attempting to read the discs. I took it fully apart to inspect it and found the sensors for the lid shutting. Its two little switches next to each other at the base of the lid. Well, one of them had broken off and they both have to be switched for it to act as if the lid was closed. So I jammed some little paper on the broken switch so that it was always pressed. And because there are 2 switches it now works as normal with the other switch acting as the open/close sensor! My gc really tries my patients some times...

[Darwock]

And some people said they were indestructible...

[mr_fantazmo]

Arrrg. I have just blown up my US xbox. Damn fool. Somehow it had become unplugged from the stepdown and I assumed the lose plug was the Australian Xbox lead. Not thinking (as they look the same, twp prongs), I plugged it in to the mains and it made an odd noise and is now dead. I am so not happy right now.

Did the same with my Panasonic Q, how ****ing annoying is it?? I still haven't got over it, now i have to pay a fortune to get it fixed!! Bloody different voltage bastard country good for nothin japanese nintendo goddammit ARGHHHH !!!!!!!

Rant over

[Pistol]

Heh. Never really broken anything, but I wonder if this topic can also include tales of abused equipment that somehow, miraculously, refuses to die?

The house I lived in in my second year at Uni came with a TV from the dark ages - really, really old ****. Looked like it was gas powered or something. We reckon the only reason it was there was no-one had been arsed to take it to the tip - but it still worked (kind of). You had to switch it on 10 minutes before you wanted to use it, so it could warm up, before it would display a picture - and then it would spontaneously crap out every so often. We discovered that it could be 'coaxed' back into life by twatting it Made for some interesting interruptions to multiplayer on the N64 and PS1 before we eventually got a TV that worked properly.

[Lebowski]

Heh. Never really broken anything, but I wonder if this topic can also include tales of abused equipment that somehow, miraculously, refuses to die?

The house I lived in in my second year at Uni came with a TV from the dark ages - really, really old ****. Looked like it was gas powered or something. We reckon the only reason it was there was no-one had been arsed to take it to the tip - but it still worked (kind of). You had to switch it on 10 minutes before you wanted to use it, so it could warm up, before it would display a picture - and then it would spontaneously crap out every so often. We discovered that it could be 'coaxed' back into life by twatting it Made for some interesting interruptions to multiplayer on the N64 and PS1 before we eventually got a TV that worked properly.

poor tv proably got abused all its life did you send it to the big tip in the sky by dumping it on the side of a road someware

[amorenod]

Only 5 pads and 1 gd-rom but I perfectly remember how it did happen everytime. I'm a very calm person, but for a few seconds there was an uncontrollable beast inside me. After a minute, I felt very silly.

First casualty, a snes pad. Thrown against the wall when Rick Bruiser beat me again and again in Super Punch Out. Next, two PS pads, the first when playing the very frustrating Destruction Derby and the second because I crashed my ford focus for the Nth time in the same tree, same bend, same course of the australian rally in CMR2.

On 128-bit consoles: 1 dreamcast pad and the Metropolis Street Racer gd-rom, and a ps2 pad in Burnout 2 because I couldn't understand how the first computer car was constantly 11 seconds ahead of me, no matter how well I was driving.

That was 2 years ago, all is well ... for now