Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-32552529-20170712051218

The following has been archived from a now abandoned website dedicated to fixing Nintendo related consoles, founded in 1998 by a person whos information has been mysteriously withheld. Its last known uptime was on December 15, 2015.

Trying to do much else besides browsing the forums is impossible, because the rest of the site has been locked up.

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November 28, 2015 - Saturday, 4:48 PM CT

User "toypop" starts a thread to get some help fixing his old Nintendo GameCube which has been collecting dust in the attic for 8 years. Just recently has it been refusing to boot up properly. A moderator tries to figure out what could be wrong with it.

toypop: Hello, I've found a Gamecube rotting my attic for god knows how long... Its been playing just fine till now, some strange red error screen keeps coming up with weird, creepy ambient music and I have no idea how to fix it. Can anybody assist me with this? :(

Forum Moderator: The ambient music you must be hearing is probably the fan inside the system. Also, what type of error screen? Im gonna need more than a summary if you want me to fix this.

toypop: *presumably an image of the error, but the link has expired.*

Forum Moderator: This seems easy, have you taken apart the console and inspected the motherboard? It's probably just loose RAM or Memory.

toypop: Yeah, nothing loose or out of place, just minor dust particles...

Forum Moderator: Hmm, never had this happen to my consoles. Re-assemble it and try booting it up now, let me know if anythings changed.

Fifteen minutes later, toypop comes back at 5:23 PM.

toypop: Same thing as before :( but i've actually found something new. I pressed B after the first error screen and the console hanged on the same screen for 2 minutes, screen goes dark and the ambience stops, only to spit out another error! >:(

this time, its a black box surrounded with a grey border giving me the same crap about "shutting down to prevent damage to the system's internals" or something like that... And there was two options. A to shut down, and B to keep running.

Forum Moderator: I've... never heard of this happening to anyone, this is beginning to get weird. Keep pressing onwards.

toypop: More hangtime onscreen, and more silence and a black screen. This time, it stayed quiet for an extra minute before flashing red in a random order.

It gives me one more warning, more threatening than the last. And the options seemed off for a serious matter like this. I pressed B and it prompts me with quite an ominous statement...

"DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE RISKS"

At this moment I put my controller down and went to shut it off. Must've accidently pressed B while doing so, Because the volume of the creepy ambience stuff jumped. And I swore I saw the words "DEAD" in bold, red letters appear in the bottom right corner.

1 minute of silence, and a crude drawing of a man with Japanese lettering above his head. On the right, theres this thing with "GBA 2003" in the middle. Link to the Past's file select music is playing through my speaker. I've tried to reset the console but It always brings me back here.

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The forum ends here, the moderator never replied to toypop's final post. A video that toypop presumably captured of this all in action can be found here.

 