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Gamecube is the most underrated console while it was in circulation.

No shit. I mean what console has survived as long as those OG Gamecubes. I have had mine for 20 years and the first issue came up this year. Turns out it’s an easy fix I can do myself and nothing destroying the console itself I can still play while working on this fix.

Also the Gamecube had so many games that were moved from the N64 that and some of the rarest games exist on Gamecube. Sometimes I can’t believe it was ever a flop for them because it was a childhood favorite. I’m so glad I kept mine and tried to take good care of it even when it was in storage for so long.

I don’t think any console today or even back at the time in 99 or early 2000s would last 20 years with kids turning into adults and 5-6 moves without having a console breaking issue.

Ive had 2 PS2’s go down, a PS3 Gen1 break, 3 Xbox 360, and very sadly an OG Xbox that did last from 2005 to 2015, an N64, and my PS4 Slim is getting there for sure. All (except the 64) gotten years (some a decade) after this Gamecube I still have today.

Thank my lucky stars my sister gave it back to me because it is my rock of a console. It should have done so much better than what articles and money say. It’s a very sought after retro console and I’m glad I still have and take care of mine from 2003 when I was a youngin’

Thcdenton ,

I miss my gamecube. That and the ps2 have to be the pinnacle of home console. After those two consoles PCs have reigned supreme.

chitak166 ,

It’s a good thing we can emulate them easily with Dolphin and PCSX2.

Kolanaki , (edited )
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I mean what console has survived as long as those OG Gamecubes.

I still have my OG SNES from when I was a kid and got one the year they came out as a Christmas gift. And Dreamcast. And PS2 (but the slim; I got rid of the fat boy as soon as the slim came out).

rob_t_firefly ,
@rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world avatar

I got rid of the fat boy as soon as the slim came out

Right about now, the funk soul brother…

shasta ,

Like others said, ut was competing with ps2 which had a dvd player. Also, I didn’t actually care for the gamecube games available at release, whereas ps2 had some great options, AND it was backwards compatible with ps1. So right off the bat ps2 had a great bunch of games available, many of which you could get really cheap and used. For kids at the time who were on a budget and buying games with their allowance, ps2 was a far better value at the time. If I had enough money to get but, I absolutely would have.

thethirdobject ,

I thought the Dreamcast earned this title

vivavideri ,

I’m on my 3rd dreamcast but it’s been fine for the last couple decades. My genesis, though, 1991 and still fine. Kicking myself actually, the cartridge port was feisty for EVER but i finally had the guts to really look in there and i tweezed out 30 years of fuzz that had felted down in it.

Staiden ,

For sure. Lots of people knew how awesome game cube was and what it was capable of. Its lacking graphics with extremely well made games. The dreamcast was a powerhouse with VGA out. Barely anyone knew how amazing it was. It could have blown away Sony. Sega really dropped the ball. I wish I had known when it came out.

maniel ,
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I thought it was more powerful than ps2

SlothMama ,

Both the Dreamcast and GameCube are.

thethirdobject ,

The sad thing is I knew at the time, but lack of games and, most of all, the lack of my friends having it, made the dreamcast lose in favour of its contenders.

GunValkyrie ,

The dreamcast is still underrated it seems.

utubas ,

I just grabbed a Wii U and modded it so I can play mostly Gamecube, but also some Wii and Wii U games. So much fun completing Timesplitters, and the occasional Mario Football

SidewaysHighways ,

I like my hacked Wii u. Pretty versatile

CryptidBestiary ,

GameCube was the Nokia of the gaming consoles. Actually, it probably still is.

OpenPassageways ,

Spent so many hours on Smash, Wind Waker, Pikmin, Twilight Princess, RE4 (originally GC exclusive).

Also have that Zelda OOT promo with Master Quest on one disc, as well as the one with various Zelda games on one disc including MM.

Dead_or_Alive ,

Looks at OG Atari 2600 still chugging away on my gaming shelf after almost 40 years and chuckles.

frezik ,

DVD playback was a big issue at the time. Buy a PS2 and you got a built in DVD player. Here’s the 2000 JCPenney Christmas catalog for DVD players:

christmas.musetechnical.com/…/0689

Around $250-$350. The PS2 was introduced that year in North America for $300. So you could get one for about the price of a standalone DVD player. Why wouldn’t you? Nobody cares now, of course, but it was a big thing at the time.

Oh, and the PS2 played all the existing PS1 games. To this day, I still tell people that the PS2 is one of the best deals in retro gaming because of the wide range of titles it can play. Lots of hidden gems to find. Even better if you can score an early model PS3, but they’re harder to find and more expensive than a PS2.

highenergyphysics , (edited )

The early model PS3 had a literal PS2 crammed inside of it for the sole purpose of backwards compatibility which was fascinating. The death of physical media (blu ray) and high price kind of caused it to flop that generation. Look who’s laughing now though!

frezik ,

PS3 still outsold the XB360 globally, barely. 87M vs 85M. That was also the generation Nintendo decided to take its ball and play by itself with the Wii. Microsoft had its own fuckup with the red ring of death. PS3 wasn’t a total flop, though certainly not as dominant as it has been against Microsoft before or since.

Cort , (edited )

Plus the whole ps3 Linux controversy, that likely hurt sales too

Blackmist ,

Doubt it.

Aradina ,
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People commonly think the PS3 was a flop due to very poor performance in the US. Outside of the US, it did way, way better. Then later in the generation when you could get one of the Super Slim models for dirt cheap and the library was so massive, it caught up in sales in the US.

In Australia it cost over a grand on launch, and it still beat out the 360 for a while. Toward the end you could get a super slim and two games from EBGames for like $100.

Cort ,

Not only did the ps2 play all the ps1 games, it made them look better! I remember paying Spyro and Tony hawk on a friend’s ps2 and they looked so much better. That was the factor that made us go with ps2 over GameCube and Xbox og.

NinjaTeensy ,

I had one of those early model PS3s and I loved it. Eventually it died from overheating I think and I got a PS3 Slim to replace it only to discover my PS2 library was now unplayable…

chitak166 ,

A lot of people don’t realize this, but the same thing applied at an even greater scale with PS3’s Blu-Ray player.

At the time, Blu-Ray players cost $1000 while the PS3 launched at $500 or $600. Sony was legit doing everyone a solid, and they got shat on for it.

It’s so sad how the xbox 360 won that gen, considering it was the more expensive console when you factor in paying for 2nd internet. Then it ended up normalizing the trend of 2nd internet, lol.

Needless to say, I stopped buying consoles at the PS4 era. Thank god emulation is great, PC hardware is cheap, and many console exclusives are getting PC releases anyways.

GentlemanLoser ,

PS2 was my first DVD player. First DVD was Braveheart!

Pulptastic ,

The GameCube controller was hot garbage. Weird unfriendly shape, buttons in the wrong spot, my thumbs and index fingers we’re not happy with it. The N64 controllers had durability issues but the layout was spot on.

I also have the same complaints about the switch controllers. The secondary thumb functions (left d pad and right joystick) and primary L/R buttons are not in a good ergonomic place and cause my hands to hurt after a bit of playing.

ieightpi ,

Talk about an unpopular opinion. But hey your entitled to your opinion

erwan ,

I agree with him, and it baffles me that people this day still go out of their way to play Smash Bros on Switch with a GameCube controller instead of the superior Switch Pro Controller.

chitak166 ,

No, it’s pretty popular.

The gamecube controller is a pile of shit. There’s good reason why we don’t make them like that anymore.

cyberpunk007 ,

I loved the controllers

Dudewitbow ,

The gamecube controller and the xbox duke are basically in polar opposite sides of thr spectrum. If you had on the reletively speaking, smaller hands, you liked the gamecube controller and hated the duke. Conversely if you had larger hands, it was usually the reverse.

Situatiom of japanese company built something optimized for the average japanese hand

DerisionConsulting ,

My husband got one of the new xboxes, and I hadn’t touched one since the original Halo/Fable days. I was so disappointed at how tiny the controllers are now.

vivavideri ,

I love the small controllers. They’re so much easier on my joints than anything else, to the point where they’ve given me reaccessibility to my old games via emulator. Can’t do a button masher to save my life any more though.

I wonder, if you’re handy, perhaps you could gut one of the big ol’ XBOX controllers and do a frankenswap.

DerisionConsulting ,

I have the opposite problem that you do, the new smaller controllers make my hands start to cramp up after a couple of minutes on the new ones. It looks like Hyperkin makes a 20th anniversary Duke controller, so if I want to, I could end up just getting that.

I am pretty sure that the new controllers are a better fit for most people, so it’s probably better that they made the switch.

c0mbatbag3l ,
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I’ve always considered every Nintendo control scheme to be garbage and usually people can at least agree that the N64 was trash, but to call it a spot on layout? Damn, what kind of hands do you have? Lol

Pulptastic ,

The button position is not compromised like it is on “normal” shaped controllers. There is one joystick right in the center of thumb ROM, the triggers are where my index finger naturally rests, it’s just nice to use. I don’t need Spiderman hands to hit button combos.

cuchilloc ,

Check out the raspberry pi mods you can do now!

sleepmode ,

My roommate and I stood in line for it, I remember marveling over how well-made it was. They got everything right. Even the little beeps and boops using the OS itself. You don’t really see that anymore.

cyberpunk007 ,

Now it’s ads and garbage all over the screen. Even at that I think ps3 xmb was my favorite console os

Wahots ,
@Wahots@pawb.social avatar

The console and its software were so incredibly well designed. Different era of design. I really miss it. Now everything is filled with bugs and ads.

ofk12 ,
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I still have mine and it works fine too! Great console. I still have an OG Xbox too.

graphite ,

@Jaes wait it was a flop???

orclev , (edited )

Only when compared against the previous console. Part of the problem for Nintendo is that they take a slight loss on console sales expecting to make up for that out of licensing fees from game publishers. In order for the model to be profitable they need to reach a certain sales threshold on games, and in order to do that they need a certain sized player base. If they don’t hit their console sales target their market is too small, they won’t sell enough games, and the per game licensing fee won’t be enough to cover the shortfall for console manufacturing.

By most sane metrics the Gamecube was a decent success. By Nintendo’s internal metrics it was a terrible flop. Nintendo screwed up their own price modeling on the Gamecube so badly they actually worried they might need to declare bankruptcy.

Kecessa ,

And compared to their competitor at the time which was the PS2 which is still the console that sold the most to this day.

NegativeLookBehind ,
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I mean what console has survived as long as those OG Gamecubes

Uhhh the N64, SNES, PS1 to name a few

Shah_of_Iran ,

Yeah, I still have a NES and 2 SNES that work perfectly

Vash63 ,

PS1? Those disc drives were very fragile. Mine didn’t work unless I physically tilted console sideways after like 2 years of use.

frezik , (edited )

SDIO mod is almost mandatory at this point. Not an easy mod, though. Certainly not a first time soldering project. You have to carefully scrape away the protective layer of some very thin traces to expose the copper and solder a fine wire to it.

Still, the quality of life improvement is worth it, even if you don’t download ISOs off the Internet. Vastly reduced loading times and no dealing with scratched discs.

hansl ,

If you’re going to play with SDIO mod you’re better off on a MiSTer, tbh.

Aradina ,
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For the PS1 disc drives, typically the issue is caused by a rubber band that hardens and falls apart over time. It’s a fairly easy replacement. That and greasing the rails.

chitak166 ,

My PS1 died before I got a PS2 :(

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