Cheese's GC durability test.SPOLIERS: 56k dies itt.

Disclaimer: both 'cubes had broken disc drives beforehand.
Test 1 (platinum): snow storm.
Before:

During:

After:




Test 2 (both): uber-fast RC car
Here's a picture of the implement of destruction.

Its name is Lightening. It is one of (if not the) fastest car ever made by RadioShack. Its top speed is around 25 mph, and it has no trouble getting there.
I bet you're thinking right now "The one without the screws is dead meat." That's where you'd be wrong.

1 broken mem card holder, one ripped off controller board, and several pieces of plastic later. Here it is, working almost like new. No repairs were made other than putting the case on. This thing was repeatedly slammed up against the curb as well as being hit by the car.
Now, for the rest of the aftermath.

Indigo 'cube in pieces. As many of them as I could find, anyways.

Piss poor close-up of the squished part of the mem-card reader. Probably happened when I got stuck on top of it and was spinn9ing the wheels trying to get off.

As predicted, the platinum 'cube was better off, but not without its share of scars.

Piss poor picture of massive scuff on the bottom. Looks worse in person.
Round 2:

As you can plainly see, the disc drive has been ripped out along with part of the skin and memory card reader.

Proof the other 'cube still works after the same test.

Parts.
Test 3(indigo only): Frozen


The purple 'cube ruined my steering shiznit! Thats no good!

So I froze it.
Test 4 (platinum only): Thrown in the air.








Test5 (platinum only): dropping stuff on the 'cube


In this image you can see the laser still lights up.


Test 6 (indigo only): thawing out the 'cube via hammers, hot water, the other 'cube, weights, etc.


Amazingly, the indigo 'cube still works.

It lives!

I'm probably going to die from something like this.

Electrocution waiting to happen.

Mmm, rust.

Look ma! No fan!

No s-video or upscaling for me.

Parts.

Broken and untested shit. Contents: the GCs, parts from them, a broken PSX from Goodwill, a Zip drive, and 4 7800s.
I've also left them outside during a mini-dust-storm and submerged them in hot water multiple times.

 

Gamecubes are made of diamonds.:dance:

 

I have always been amazed by the durability of the GC units. It also helps that the firmware is not dependant on the optical drive even being connected

 

I finally killed them today. The indigo is an easy fix (from what I can tell it's just a broken connection, nothing that a piece of metal wouldn't solve), dunno whats up with the platinum. Will post pictures later.

 

Damn!

 

Funny. Also ironic, considering both had broken drives from the start.

 

Rofl, the only thing thats going to exist after a big nuclear war is cockaroaches and Gamecubes.

 

Test 7 (both): throwing it in the air (x7 for the platinum), dropping a weight on it, and running it over with an RC monster truck.














Tear down of the platinum:

 

you probably could have pot tweaked the laser in about 10 min and fixed both units and traded them or something I have done it many times to fix dead cubes and it always works for me >_<

 

But I already had a working 'cube. And I would've probably broke something. Besides, this was much more fun.

 

Dude how could you miss the fireworks stress test?

 

Fireworks=illegal in the state of Texas, belive it or not.

 

Wait what?? with all those guns and fireworks are banned? WTF?

 

Well, at least in my city anyways. They're legal in at least one city here according to the news this morning.

 

I still think the N64 is far more durable than the GC .

 

Give me a half-broken N64 and I'll be willing to test that theory.

 

The GC is the most durable console I have came across

 

Main problem in these kind of test, I especially remember comparisons with gamecube/ps2/xbox in shocks or something is that GameCube got an external AC, when it's inside PS2/Xbox. When power part is external, you almost won : anyway, your console gonna turn on and load it's bios, even if controls, optical drive or any other part is not going to work, since juice is getting in. So to check real durability, you should have did the test with the AC unit too... And i'm sure it would have not passed first .

 

It would've passed the first test easy. That power brick isn't exactrly fragile.:110:

 

Not very sure of that about shock tests