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General and Gaming => Classic Video Games => Topic started by: Cartagia on February 25, 2018, 09:24:20 am
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I ask because my third one just went out two weeks ago. I wanted to play through a couple of games in back log and my 360 Slim got the blinking Red Light of death.
This is the third 360 I have had die on me. My original base model went out via a red ring.
My second had the faulty disc drive that I repaired myself, but eventually went down to red ring as well.
I feel like most consoles would have died out completely if they had this many technical problems, but I guess the fact that the PS3 was so prohibitively expensive in the beginning and the Wii just didn't have most of the AAA titles the 360 was the only option despite the hardware defaults.
Fortunately this did give me an excuse to buy an X-Box One, but the two games I was really wanting to play on the 360 are not on the backwards compatibility list (Brutal Legend and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3).
It's doubly irritating because I have literally never had any other console die on me.
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I've had my xbox 360 since 2007-8 and it's still working.
Definitely getting to it's end tho because it often doesn't want to read the discs so i have to punch (im not kidding it's the only way it will work lol) the system a few times to make it work.
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Three Xbox 360 for me and three more for my 2 boys 5 to red ring 1 for disc drive but all were covered under extended warranty have to say Microsoft made it a pleasurable experience dealing with them. 2 ps3 shit the bed not under warranty of course,at least microsoft realized that thay screwed up and stood behind their product.
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Two
I bought an Elite when they first came out in 2007 or so and it worked fine for about a year, and then the disc drive stopped reading games and I ended up replacing it. Then 6-months later it went RRoD on me and I was so pissed I ended up selling it for parts and wouldn't own another 360 until 2015 when I bought a used Slim off Craigslist. That Slim is still kicking, but to be fair I barely play my 360.
The console I've actually gone through the most has been the PS2. As much as I adore the PS2 and its amazing library of games, the console is super unreliable. I've geen through 2 fat models and 3 slims since it came out, all of them gradually be unable to read discs until they just couldn't do it at all anymore. My current slim is currently in the midst of this as it struggles to read PS1 games and purple bottom PS2 games. It'll probably have to be replaced within the next year or so.
I've also been through two Dreamcasts as one of them stopped reading discs.
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I'm on my 2nd.
Technically the first one still worked okay, it's just that you HAD to have a disc in the drive or the tray wouldn't want to come out. I was afraid I might lose a game for good one day if it decided to never open again, so I replaced it on the cheap.
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I'm always afraid to say this, out of fear of tempting fate, but- my original 360 is working just fine. I've never had an issue with it.
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I've owned 3 360s. A Halo 3 Edition, a Halo Reach Edition, and a 10-year-old one that was pried from a demo kiosk when the store I worked at got rid of the demo units after a planogram change.
The only one that ever had a problem was the Halo 3 one, which E74'd on me. However that was under warranty, so I was able to get it fixed for free (unfortunately the casing got chipped a but in transit). The main reason I upgraded to the Halo Reach one was the storage capacity, as 20 GB was no longer anywhere near enough, and for the price difference between a new hard drive and a new, limited edition console with an even bigger hard drive, it was worth it for the complete upgrade.
The kiosk console, which was an original 2005 model, never broke down once in its years of operation, and was eventually gifted to some of my cousins after being reformatted. In fact, the only component of the Kiosk that ever broke was the monitor, whose backlight burned out after about 6-7 years and needed replacement.
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I've only lost one. The disk drive went out on it while I was on a vacation, sometime around 2009/2010, so I just bought one of the Arcade editions to replace it since I just had to swap the HDD. Never had an issue since. Sure, I haven't played it much in a few years, but I usually get the hankering for some Guitar Hero and so I keep it around for that.
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Zero.
I'm just now experiencing the 360 generation via XB1 backward compatibility. Lotsa good games I missed!
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My brother had one. It red-ringed with pretty minimal play time, and it was an elite. We never got another one.
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I got my 1st in Oct 2010, I'm on my 2nd now. The 1st one still works, but the disc drive is shot. I used to use it for my digital arcade titles, until it presented me with the RROD (The RROD wasn't actually my console dying, it was my aftermarket Hard Drive dying) The console still works fine outside of the disc drive, but I moved my games to an external HD and use it with my console #2. Console #2 runs a little slow sometimes, but still gets the job done. I have a 3rd still in the box ready for when #2 goes.
That said, I'm on my 4th Xbox One (3 faulty disc drives within 1 year with the original model, finally gave up and bought a slim, which had been great).
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I'm on my first Xbox360. I currently own 1 Xbox360 slim but I am afraid to play or get attached to it because of hearing so many stories of others getting the red ring of death.
However my PS3 250 gig model Super Slim was bought used in 2015 and with it's case torn, I only had to fix it once because of the limit switch, it broke off and that switch is what triggers the entire Blu Ray rom deck to move and light up
I got my Xbox360 barly used from my little sister. But
I always hesitated actually buying an Xbox360 after I heard some shop owners in the Taylor Trade Center told me it was a crap system.
they told me that some people call the Xbox360 the Xbox 3 shitty and told me never to get one of them.
My little sister sold her entire video game collection to me last year including her xbox360 console and games with 4 other barely used consoles for $300
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Still playing my Gamecube
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Still playing my Gamecube
I've had my old Gamecube get hot and freeze a couple times even with the fan working but I was playing it in a hot summer without AC. but overall the Gamecube is a great console :)
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I'm always afraid to say this, out of fear of tempting fate, but- my original 360 is working just fine. I've never had an issue with it.
This.
The only problem I encountered with my Xbox 360 Arcade Edition is the disc drive getting occasionally stuck. Although I've been through 4 controllers. Since I played fighting games a lot in 2010-2016 on the system the d-pad wore down, not like they were great to begin with. Fortunately I transitioned permanently using a arcade stick for fighters.
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one. The original xbox 360 I got when it FIRST came out is still working.
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2. 1 RRoD and 1 E85 error.
Both covered under warranty and replaced at no cost. Now I have a Gears of War 3 Slim and a plain white Slim.
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I’m on my second one.
The first lasted a little while, but got the RROD while I was playing Half-Life 2. Sent it to Microsoft and they replaced it for free.
What’s so funny to me is in the meantime, I received Batman Arkham Asylum for Christmas and started playing it immediately after I got the new 360. I got to the point where Scarecrow starts screwing with your head by making the game mess up, and it was so soon after my last 360 crapped out I thought it was doing it again. Then the game restarted with Joker driving Batman to the Asylum...
I’ll never forget that moment. Holy crap, I’ve never had a game mess with me like that, it was great :D
One of the reasons B:AA is one of my favorite games ever.
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I went through 4. I had a launch 20gb version. Then, I sent that back in because of the red ring of death.
Number 2 RRD'd on me.
Number 3 was an Arcade version that I could snap my hard drive on. The disc tray on that one quit. I had to roll every game out manually with a paper clip.
Number 4 was the Star Wars version. It's still going strong. I'm hoping it's better built.
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I have the same one from 2008, still going strong(although with minimal use).
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I've had the same Xbox 360 since 2007ish, an original white one. Never had a problem with it and I used to live on the thing. The only time it's ever red ringed was when I had a dodgy USB plugged in and it worked fine after I took it out.
I don't know if I'm extremely lucky or a vocal minority are extremely unlucky.
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Three, One ring of death, one instant over heat, and one failed disc drive.
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My first got the red ring of death like 1 month after launch, waiting at game crazy with my older brother who was infuriated because we had been dooped on a protection plan because they couldn't replace a console that they didn't have in stock in the first place. So we had to wait for microsoft to ship one from california and repair the one I sent and it was truly a circus.
Fast forward a year later, the repaired one breaks yet again. This time out of the game crazy warranty, yet another 3-4 week wait as it's sent to california for xbox to deal with.
Get it back, have it modded with a nice blue see through case that completely destorys it's warranty but I think the warranty expired by than anyway.
1 year later, open tray error. Wouldn't read games. Bring it to a game repair shop in my local area. 20 bucks and they fix the error. back on my way.
Just 4 years ago. Red ring of death. I managed to fix it myself by cleaning this little rod that moves the eye under the metal sheild of the disc tray. I put a tiny bit of WD-40 and wiped down the rod to make sure it moves fluently.
And finally last month, it will no longer read games with any repair and I no longer want to bring it to the repair shop due to the cheapness of the upgraded slim versions of the console and next gen dominating my play time anyway.
So with all those said, like 6-7 lol. :). It was quite simply the most laughable poorly made console of all time. I hate to say it. I do love the console and it's library of games but man was it independant in my experiences. :D.
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It was quite simply the most laughable poorly made console of all time. I hate to say it. I do love the console and it's library of games but man was it independant in my experiences. :D.
Yeah, its really a shame the production quality was so hit and miss, because the library is truly phenomenal - and that is also why I am so annoyed that I had yet another one die one me. I was using it as my 360 AND my X-Box, so I had two consoles die for the price of one.
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I’m on my second one.
The first lasted a little while, but got the RROD while I was playing Half-Life 2. Sent it to Microsoft and they replaced it for free.
What’s so funny to me is in the meantime, I received Batman Arkham Asylum for Christmas and started playing it immediately after I got the new 360. I got to the point where Scarecrow starts screwing with your head by making the game mess up, and it was so soon after my last 360 crapped out I thought it was doing it again. Then the game restarted with Joker driving Batman to the Asylum...
I’ll never forget that moment. Holy crap, I’ve never had a game mess with me like that, it was great :D
One of the reasons B:AA is one of my favorite games ever.
I thought my Xbox was crapping out during that scene as well. I think I restarted the system before realizing what was happening :D
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I’m on my second one.
The first lasted a little while, but got the RROD while I was playing Half-Life 2. Sent it to Microsoft and they replaced it for free.
What’s so funny to me is in the meantime, I received Batman Arkham Asylum for Christmas and started playing it immediately after I got the new 360. I got to the point where Scarecrow starts screwing with your head by making the game mess up, and it was so soon after my last 360 crapped out I thought it was doing it again. Then the game restarted with Joker driving Batman to the Asylum...
I’ll never forget that moment. Holy crap, I’ve never had a game mess with me like that, it was great :D
One of the reasons B:AA is one of my favorite games ever.
I thought my Xbox was crapping out during that scene as well. I think I restarted the system before realizing what was happening :D
I was actually in the process of getting out of my chair to go mess with the console when the Batmobile scene started up. Good thing my 360 wasn’t closer to my chair, or I might have restarted it too :D
What made it so cool was that afterwards, I realized Batman walked through some gas and started coughing just before the screen crapped out, and I felt like I should have figured out what was going on. But it was done so well I didn’t think about it until after I had already been duped :D
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2 for me...
I bought my first one in 2006... had the red ring few months later, I sent it to Microsoft to fix it and they did... it worked for a few more months.
I waited they finally produce a console without any problems, bought it again, now been working for the last 10 years without issue.