What Are Your Biggest Pet Peaves With Console Hardware?

Post by **dudex77** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 4:32 pm

I've had a ps2 for about 4 years and it has yet to give me a DRE the only person I've met who has ever gotten DREs on their PS2 was just because it was one of the original (faulty) batch. My main problem has got to be the loud GDROM drive in the Dreamcast and having to blow or lick cartridge pins. By the way the cartridge problem is easily solved by rubbing alcohol on the pins with a cotton swap for awhile.

Post by **elph** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 5:06 pm

dudex77 wrote:My main problem has got to be the loud GDROM drive in the Dreamcast and having to blow or lick cartridge pins.

lick?

lick?

Now that is what I call dedication.

Post by **selfdestroyer** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 6:32 pm

To many crappy 3rd-party controllers and accessories that are thin plastic and break easy. I think they just saturate the market with crap.

Post by **Perseid** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 6:39 pm

Mozgus wrote:
Perseid wrote:
Mozgus wrote:The fan on DC is pretty quiet compared to 360 at least. Maybe yours is drying up and need to be oiled.

Maybe my biggest one is DREs. They were by far the biggest reason why I largely ignored PS2. Seeing my friends so miserable over the years when DREs start popping up in a game with no way to recover from it and no way to even save. They were so random, with no permanent fixes.
I am on my second PS2. My first PS2 I had for probably 3 years and never had a DRE(disc read error) until the day it suddenly died. My new PS2, which is modded, never gives me DREs even on backups.

Perhaps your friends weren't keeping good care of their discs because the PS2 is not very tolerant of scratches and fingerprints. But it doesn't just randomly spit disc errors unless the hardware is dying.
You wouldn't be on your 2nd PS2 if it was a good system. My friends dont lock their hardware away in a safe but they dont trash them either. And yes, I've seen PS2s give DREs countless times on seemingly perfect discs. Your one experience does not compare to the multiple experiences I've witnessed.

Funny thing is, I recently gave Halo 2 another chance on single player at a guy's house and it gave a DRE as well. I just laughed, got up, and walked away.

Don't misunderstand. I fully realize that PS2s are pieces of crap that blow their lasers if you sneeze too hard. That why I got a modchip in fact. If I had to buy a new PS2 I was going to mod it in an effort to stick it to Sony as best I can. BUT random DREs are not one of the many bad things I've seen a PS2 do, either my own or my friends'. But maybe we're just lucky.

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A pet peeve for me is inexcusably large save sizes. This was especially bad on the Dreamcast, but is the case for all of the systems with no hard drives. No, Madden, you cannot have all 8 MB of my memory card and I don't care if you ARE giving me full team rosters. It's 8 frickin' megs. Compress something.

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Another trick for corroded pins is a flathead eraser. The kind you used in grade school. You can sometimes erase the corrosion right off as if it were pencil graphite. Just make sure you get all the rubbery bits off before you put it in something.

Post by **GSZX1337** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 7:15 pm

I hated the GBA's screen. Too damn dark.

That sums up how I feel about that damn thing.

Post by **racketboy** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 7:27 pm

lol -- I remember that comic
It was about that time I was looking to get an Afterburner mod.
I actually put money down to get on the waiting list for an install and never heard back from the person again....

Post by **Majors** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 7:38 pm

I hate systems that have region locks or insanely hard to get arround them. 1st gen mod's for PS2 killed me and a couple of systems.

Post by **GSZX1337** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 7:59 pm

Majors wrote:I hate systems that have region locks or insanely hard to get arround them. 1st gen mod's for PS2 killed me and a couple of systems.

Ugh, I hate those as well. I never got the point of Region Locks, why can't I play a Japanese game on a PAL console?

Post by **opethfan** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:13 pm

My GD-ROM needs an oil. It screeches and whines too much. Anyone got a tut?

Oh, and I hate short controller cords. Controller cords period actually. And small memory cards.

Post by **The Apprentice** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 9:43 pm

1. Price gouging from game companies ($25 for a Dualshock 2? Really?)
2. Poorly built 3rd party equipment (ASTROPAD??!?)
3. Poorly built 1ST party equipment (Why do you think I know the price of the freakin' dualshock?)
4. Difficulty of online for most systems (What? My Wifi dropped my Wii AGAIN?)
5. Hardware dropping (What the... where did the XBOX section go?)
6. Hardware rerelease (My DS is now known as the "fat" model, my Playstation known as X...)