Nintendo's faultiest console?

It's funny, Nintendo's been here the longest with the least hardware problems, but which of Nintendo's 5 consoles had the most problems? As far as I know, they were all very reliable products. There are still NESs that roam the planet that work perfectly. :shock:

I've never experienced any problems with Nintendo consoles/handhelds I have. I have SNES, N64, GC, GBC, GBA, DS, and never had one problem with any one of them.

Dunno about the faultiest one they've made, but they're certainly reliable when it comes to making their consoles last the distance.

My NES requires 10 blowing sessions and maybe a hundred springing action before it works.

Blinking white and black screen 4tl!

N64, 'cause of its shape.

N64 for me. Its the only console other than my PS2 to die.

After a month of owning it, it just conked out. Customer Service was great though, they gave me a new one at the time.

As for the PS2, I got one of those bad laser ones, that had the cheapo one in it, ended up buying a new one since it broke at the time the price dropped to 180.

My NES requires 10 blowing sessions and maybe a hundred springing action before it works.

Blinking white and black screen 4tl!

NobuoMusicMaker

I had open one of my carts up to experiment on it. (The game was called dragon Warrior....) I decided to change the battery inside the carts and see if it would work then because I got tired of blowing, getting alcohol pads to wipe inside the cart , and constantly pushing in and out of the system until it works. It actually worked alot better than it used too. I would recommend you to do that if you ever get tired of constantly blowing the cart over and over again...

The NES with its (not-so) ZIF cart socket. I am sure that everyone in this forum has given a NES "blow-job" at one point or another.skektek

Not sure. But I would assume the NES. To this day, I still have to blow into my NES just to get a game working. Other than that, it works fine.

And all my Nintendo systems (no Wii for me) are flawlessly working.

Bit of a shot in the dark but I'd have to go with the Wii since Nintendo's pretty new when it comes to online so I expect problems with updates for some people. Plus there's also people who've *gasp* had their Wii die on them, VGobbsesser being one that I know of.

The NES, SNES, and N64 were annoying with all the blowing, but worked and the Gamecube can take a bit of a beating.

Miss understood...

Nintendo 64.

The Virtual boy.Nerkcon

Wanted to say this too. The virtual boy has never worked, so i'd think it wins by default.

id Say the Wii so far -- my NES, SNES, N64, GC all work still. -- i've already had to exchange my Wii twice. Haziqonfire

Wow that's very unheard of and unfortunate. :(

The NES with its (not-so) ZIF cart socket. I am sure that everyone in this forum has given a NES "blow-job" at one point or another.skektek

LOL, how's nostalgic. Brought back a lot of fun memories.

[QUOTE="NobuoMusicMaker"]

My NES requires 10 blowing sessions and maybe a hundred springing action before it works.

Blinking white and black screen 4tl!

tocool340

I had open one of my carts up to experiment on it. (The game was called dragon Warrior....) I decided to change the battery inside the carts and see if it would work then because I got tired of blowing, getting alcohol pads to wipe inside the cart , and constantly pushing in and out of the system until it works. It actually worked alot better than it used too. I would recommend you to do that if you ever get tired of constantly blowing the cart over and over again...

A much better fix is to replace the 72pin connector all together-thats what I did-you can get them online and its a pretty easy task. I did that and mine works like almost new

It's funny, Nintendo's been here the longest with the least hardware problems, but which of Nintendo's 5 consoles had the most problems? As far as I know, they were all very reliable products. There are still NESs that roam the planet that work perfectly. :shock:

DA_B0MB

:lol: you hit the nail on the head with your own post, the NES was by far the faultiest. With having to blow the cartridge all the time, and put them up and down over and over again, it was rediculous, and by far the most problems I personally have ever had with a console.

Next for me was the PS1 with having to turn it upside down so it did not overheat.

thats about it from my experience with video game consoles. No 360 red lights ( yet ) and no Wii or PS3 failures here.

[QUOTE="Haziqonfire"]id Say the Wii so far -- my NES, SNES, N64, GC all work still. -- i've already had to exchange my Wii twice. DA_B0MB

Wow that's very unheard of and unfortunate. :(

yepp -- it sucks. the first one got hot from WC24, fried the GPU -- second one was messed up right when Ninty sent it to me, the disc drive started making louddd noises.

new one is fine :) -- plus they give you a new warrenty with the wii (1 year)

The original design of the NES is the most problematic gaming machine ever created, as far as I know. Mine still works, but it's definitely not in perfect condition, considering the amount of blowing and banging (:oops: ) I have to do to it just to get Dr. Mario to work (or any other game).

It's a solid machine, but it was horribly designed.

Probably the n64.Harden_hawk

N64 is Nintendo's most reliable console.

[QUOTE="Nerkcon"]The Virtual boy.KungfuKitten

Wanted to say this too. The virtual boy has never worked, so i'd think it wins by default.

The Virtual Boy is quite reliable, actually. The only problem is that the screens may have a vertical line of broken pixels in one of the two screens.

THe Wii is probably the least durable and might be the faultiest. N64 was pretty bad too though. THeir Handhelds (up until the light) could survive a freakin nuke.nintendofreak_2

Agreed on the handheld front. My original GBA has been through the equivalent of 14 1/2 8.0 earthquakes and its still chuggin along just fine (if I ever needed to turn it on, which I no longer need to do thanks to my DS Phat, another brick)

[QUOTE="DA_B0MB"]

It's funny, Nintendo's been here the longest with the least hardware problems, but which of Nintendo's 5 consoles had the most problems? As far as I know, they were all very reliable products. There are still NESs that roam the planet that work perfectly. :shock:

shaggymcp

:lol: you hit the nail on the head with your own post, the NES was by far the faultiest. With having to blow the cartridge all the time, and put them up and down over and over again, it was rediculous, and by far the most problems I personally have ever had with a console.

Next for me was the PS1 with having to turn it upside down so it did not overheat.

thats about it from my experience with video game consoles. No 360 red lights ( yet ) and no Wii or PS3 failures here.

People are complaining about the same things. It's not the consoles it was the cartrages that were problematic. I'm talking about freezing and things like that.

For me it's probably the GCN... it freezes from time to time so it was good I got rid of it to help my Wii fund.

My Nintendo 64 and my brother's GB Color though, had a faulty problem because I spilt milk on them. :oops: