Well I swapped the laser from my other Cube into it, so I have a nice (if a little gouged) green GameCube on my desk. I ripped the daughterboard out of the NR reader and my other cube, interswapped them a million times, every possible combination, but yeah, the daughterboard is the thing thats gone, everything else is perfectly fine. Still, as is with the mantra of this forum, yes, my NR reader *can* play retail games! (just not NR games lol) I am not that bothered, it was only a tenner, and I am glad virtualalan and asnozz didn't decide to battle me on the auction. Oh well, the hunt continues! (once I have some more cash...)
You might try a disc from a different region. It's always possible that the board inside is NTSC/US. -hl718
I thought of that, but only have PAL NR disks. Odd thing though, when I stick a retail game in, the disk spins around for a bit then gives the "no disk" error, yet with an NR disk, the laser tracks back and forth for a bit, but the disk does not spin... Also, at no point does the NR reader give that little "chirp" noise like a retail cube does.
Well there you go! You know what? we should write up some of this stuff, there's not a lot of useful information around about NR readers.
I would have done if I could have found it :angry ;-) I have some NTSC disks if you want to see about borrowing in the future?
Bloody good thing you didn't! I would love to take you up on the offer, but I do not see it working, so it's better we don't send anything valuable like NR's through our "great" postal service unless necessary. I might have found another cheap NR reader, but am loathed to buy it as I have a suspicion there are a glut of busted PAL NR readers doing the rounds.
