@@skilarbabcock With all the jobs he's good at from plumbing to construction I have serious doubts he had time to get a medical degree. If I'm wrong then all I ask is that he shows it to us. The people deserve to know.
I also wanted one when I heard about it back in the day. But then I heard it was Japanese exclusive and didn't sell well so I thought too much of a hassle to import. Well I now wish I'd gone to the hassle back then
I believe the gba had a DVD player before via mobile DVD player that was limited to a luxury automaker. BMW? So this device would be a Nintendo DVD player, possibly the most featured.
Smart guy since he knows he can make $ off of it on his UA-cam channel so that is his value there 💰💰💰💰. The price he bought it for came right back from this upload 🤣😂.
@@ModernVintageGamer Hello mvg. You are currently subjected to the president of Nintendo. What do you have to say for yourself after all of your modding!
"There's an insane amount of screws in this thing." Well, it's a Panasonic... Used to work with disassembling TV's for recycling and on one panasonic model there were over 120 screws... for the *just* the back panel...
Just a note on the styling on the "Q". This was Panasonic's design trademark around the early to mid 2000s, silver and a mirrored front. A lot of Panasonic home theater systems, VCRs, DVD players, and some shelf systems had the same styling cues. So the Q wouldn't look out of place next to alot of Panasonic other AV stuff.
My dad still has his surround system and record/tape/cd player from the time. All still work. It was amazing to see. Still is. The look is slick with his new furniture set.
It was really an early 2000s thing in general too. Remember all her silver S-Classes and and all the silver Japanese Electronics? I think it was to replicate aluminum lol. Some people hate but I honestly love it!
Yeah the brushed aluminum look was a popular trend in home electronics of the early to mid 2000s, but I think that mirrored front was uniquely Panasonic.
"Fairly rare with less than 100k being sold nearly 2 decades ago." Me: Pfft, it wasn't that long ago, it was just.... oh. ...oh. I think I'm gonna cry.
The only way I convinced my mom to get a PS2 for Christmas after it launched was the fact that we could watch DVDs and we hadn't gotten a DVD player yet.
I remember when I was a teen and the Gamecube was coming out. I saved my money to buy the base version at launch. Everyone thought the Panasonic version was nutty because "no one wants all that stuff!" In hindsight, I really want to give Panasonic props for building a "proper" modern console and making everything work with the Gamecube board like they did. The Gamecube should have been a DVD enabled system at lunch IMO.
@@elephystry Clearly he isn't a fan of The Nerd, because if so, he'd have known James states that Richard made the Nintoaster during the Atari Jaguar episode when he mentions sending his Jaguar off to a friend to try and get it fixed.
Musharna mush can’t tell you how many times I’ve fat fingered other buttons due to how clumsily close they are on the joy con to each other. Buying a pro controller should be a first priority imo because while joy cons are still functionally sound in casual play, or even games made with them in mind, I would also like the option for something a little more practical such as the pro controller for the more mechanically demanding one’s, or docked play. Also the joy cons are just a little too fragile for my liking as they tend to wear down quite easily through repetitive use. An example being how the gripping mechanisms on the side of the joy cons tend to stop working as efficiently putting the system itself at risk of sliding out while on the go. Buuuut take my opinion with gain of salt.
I recently saw one of these half disassembled behind the counter at my local game store. The owner described repairing it as the most frustrating thing he’d ever done
I tried to fix one of these before that was damaged in shipping. There was no saving the disk tray, but I got the rest of the system functioning. I WOULD NOT do that again lol
I think this is an appropriate time to tell you: Thank you for doing these Tech Waves. I myself was never really into taking things apart, but I find it fascinating what you do and I always feel like I'm learning something by watching. I hope you had an "easy" time getting this monstrosity back together and keep doing an awesome job!
That looks like a nightmare to take apart lmao. Holy shit, I usually am super comfortable opening all my electronics but I would have a panic attack with that lol.
@@matthewhammond9575 dude this is when dvd players were still quite new. In fact in its day to get it into its from factor was quite a feat. There were no dvd "apps" back then.
Just looked at ebay pricing. Found some for around 400$ in near mint condition from japanese based sellers with a lot of good reviews. Don't know why they go for over a 1000$ in the US.
@@noperopepope oh I misunderstood then. I didn't understand that it came out in the US, too. I thought it was an japanese import. Edit: seems. i didn't miss anything, the Q was a japanese exclusive, so every system including the 1000$ ones have that problem or are those already modded?
I'm happy that yt randomly decided to recommend this video. A "friend" of mine once plugged my Q into 220v and it fcked the system. At the time (7 years ago) tried to change the fuse but couldn't find a replacement and it's been sitting disassembled in a box ever since. Gona try to get a fuse online and put it back together 🤓
When you fix it (assuming you are in North America), don't plug it into 120V. It's designed to run on 100V which Japan uses. 120V won't blow the fuse instantly but it will cause damage over time.
That statement makes no sense. It seems as though you don't understand what vaporware means. Firstly it's not vaporware if it exists. While a 100,000 units isn't a lot in the electronics world that greatly surpasses any criticism as far as it not being available for purchase. Secondly it's a GameCube, so it plays GameCube games. The game keeps not vaporware so why would this be vaporware.
The gamecube was a pretty good system, I still have mine and its been on several deployments over the years without problems. Probably the most solid console of the 2000's in my opinion.
I took apart a 64DD disk and there was a CD inside. The length Nintendo went to to avoid licensing, that's why they cancelled, realised Sony were onto them.
What is the actual fault with this system? If it doesn't power up at all, I would say there's a good chance that somebody might have plugged it into 240V mains by mistake. I bought one as faulty, and the same thing had happened to it. The upper power board is actually the main switched-mode PSU for everything. The lower power board mainly contains the standby transformer, relay, and some linear regulators. The relay on the lower board routes mains through to the upper SMPS. Usually when you first plug in the mains, it won't activate the relay until you press the standby button on the front panel or the remote. Which is good, because if somebody did shove 240 Volts into it, you could get lucky with repairing it, as it often zaps the small standby transformer first. The exact replacement transformer is VERY hard to find, but you can fit a similar one in its place.
I have taken apart a lot of systems. This... I will never touch one of these. Thank you for a great break down of a console a lot of use will never see in person!
I imagine if these things had taken off that a lot of repair centres would have just looked at people coming in with faulty units and them just saying "Nope" or giving inflated prices because of how much of a pain it is to fix.
Last year I was living in Japan and studying at an university in tokyo. I joined a "rock band club", people would basically get together, form temporary bands and play on a few gigs. They had a small room in campus where they would rest, talk and just hang out. And to my surprise they had THAT gem of a console in that room. I still don't know why. Why specifically that model. I asked two of them about it one time and they were trivially like "oh, we just play smash bros on it sometimes" and that's it. If I had to guess I would say one member of the club either donated or lent it. But I never got to see it turned on and being used. No one seemed to know how rare and valuable it is. Although the club was very big and the room was small, also I only went there three or four times so I didn't actually get to talk to more people in the club about it. Maybe someone knew more but i didn't get to talk to them.
Glad I never bought one. Thing is they could have much easier added DVD support by changing the standard GC disc tray and optical transport over all of this. Would have been much cheaper and they would have sold many more.
The key to very complicated repairs is organisation. Don’t ever throw things in a pile or roughly on a specific part of the desk because you will fail pretty hard at putting it back together if you do. Get yourself a parts organiser from iFixit. It’s basically a mousepad-styled magnetic whiteboard and it comes with a pen that you can write down where stuff goes. Take loads of pictures on a tablet (or print them out) and annotate them, and just do things a step at a time. Work in sections and steps, don’t treat it all as one big job because you’ll never get it back together. Hope this helps, from someone who semi-professionally repairs things, not for a living, but because I like doing it. Also I’m a shade tree mechanic. If you think this is bad, try doing an engine replacement on a twin turbo quad cam V6 shoehorned into an engine bay barely the size of a Corolla’s engine bay.
Fun to see, and great that you are playing Star Fox Assult music in the background! One of the best things in that game is the orchestrated soundtrack! :)
This is actually a really neat looking system. Though, uh, I don't really care for their method of construction--they basically brute-forced the architecture of the system, instead of trying to implement an ELEGANT solution. It's literally just a DVD player stacked on top of a Gamecube, with a split power supply... I'm seeing some really cool mods for this system, though. With proper cabling and all that, spread it out and make a super-weird PS2 / GameQube mish-mash? I'd buy it. Y'know, provided it came in a similarly snazzy chrome / metal housing. Maybe a white-top finish?
Don't know if anyone else has mentioned it, but on the PSU board @ 12:00 the white blocks that the black cables go into WILL release. Carefully push on the face of the block where the wires enter, then gently pull back on the wires & they should come out. To reconnect, simply push the bare wires back into the holes on the connector.
NGC was the best console from its era... PS2 was bad as it could be (despite the huge commercial success), XBox was OK and secong to the NGC in terms of power. When people are saying that Nintendo was not able to produce powerful machine... NGC was a powerhouse! Thanks for the video Spawn Wave!
If I’m not mistaken, the GC motherboard, and everything under it is practically the same as a normal GC motherboard. I see a few different outputs which have different things soldered to them. Looks like a ribbon cable or just internal cable where a video out would’ve been on the original. But either way, while a pain to get to, couldn’t you just get that bottom board from an original GameCube and just replace it if that’s the issue. Obviously with the broken rails, there’ll still be work to do, but would that solve that error? I wanna know in case I encounter a decent deal on a Q that may have that error.
What a complete peice of overpriced shit I bet it cant even use a gameboy player add on. Seems like it was created for nerds who like shiney rare expensive worthless dvd player thats built like a computer. I have a Vcr dual Dvd player made by panasonic and i have a 1980s panasonic bicycle both still have all original parts and still work like new. I also have an old 1990s vcr which also still works but it seems the gamecube made by them was a failure in every way possible.
the ultimate nightmare system to open and repair is the Pioneer Laseractive. It is a Laserdisc console and if anyone here has ever fixed a laserdisc then you know the pain. boards over boards over boards and like 100000 screws. It is a nightmare. Panasonic Q is a peace of cake compared to the Laseractive
eon adapter... idk why that thing caught on when the carby is right there. better build quality, no tumors for stability, metal plug, price that isn't absolutely unreasonable??? man i hate eongaming.
I want to see the B-reel footage where, immediately after the outro, he makes one wide sweep with his arm and slides all of that electronic spaghetti right into the trash.
I have seen a Panasonic Q that has a copper color reflective part instead of the chrome one in this video. think it was super rare or a custom one someone made
Don't let this distract you from the fact that Mario is still practicing medicine without a license.
*FBI OPEN UP*
How do you know he doesnt have one?
@@skilarbabcock With all the jobs he's good at from plumbing to construction I have serious doubts he had time to get a medical degree. If I'm wrong then all I ask is that he shows it to us. The people deserve to know.
Move Over Kids! Hey, if Barbie can be pretty much every profession for over 50 years then why not Mario?
Miyamoto has said in an interview that Mario is not a licensed doctor
The Panasonic GameCube looks like a fake console Tv Show prop.
GameSphere, It's Spherical!
It's actually based on the design cues that were standard for Panasonic electronics.
@@aesthetical97 SPHERICAL!
Mmmm. No
I thought it was fake when I first saw it too.
Great looking toaster. I actually wanted one when it was revealed back then. :p
Ah, yes The Brave Little Panasonic Q.
Never herd of it till I got older
I also wanted one when I heard about it back in the day. But then I heard it was Japanese exclusive and didn't sell well so I thought too much of a hassle to import. Well I now wish I'd gone to the hassle back then
Hell I still want one.
thay basicly took a dvd player and a game cube and ducktaped it all together sharing sane dvd drive
Jesus Christ, it's like an electronic lasagna of doom on the inside!
Not for the faint of heart. That is why Jon is our guide.
Wouldn't describe it any better, hahaha
That is a beautifully eloquent description.
A lasagna with layers on all 4 sides too.
only a fatazz would say that
So the Panasonic GameCube is a Nintendo DVD player
Not any more, he took it apart. It's now a pile of parts.
I believe the gba had a DVD player before via mobile DVD player that was limited to a luxury automaker. BMW? So this device would be a Nintendo DVD player, possibly the most featured.
@@Arachmana Yes. There's a dockable DVD Player for cars that have the GBA built-in. But it came much later than the Panasonic Q.
@@Arachmana yeah I think it was in luxury Chrysler vehicles
my wii can be a dvd player
everyone else: yeah im not opening this so it keeps its value
Spawn wave: lets crack this puppy open!
Smart guy since he knows he can make $ off of it on his UA-cam channel so that is his value there 💰💰💰💰. The price he bought it for came right back from this upload 🤣😂.
And it's broken
That's why Jon is the best
It's broken anyway so it's not worth much. If he parted it out, that would be worth more.
It's broken tho
been waiting for this one !
@@stonedsakurastreams7853 hi
@@ModernVintageGamer Hello mvg. You are currently subjected to the president of Nintendo. What do you have to say for yourself after all of your modding!
MVG do you think there is any worth in modding this GameCube version? Also, what if you stuck a Wii disc drive in place of the DVD player?
@@shuntarofurukawa5577 Shuntaro-san, can you release Mother 3 English please?
How can anyone wait for this? this came completely out of left field for me. I didn't know spawn wave had a tv guide!
"There's an insane amount of screws in this thing." Well, it's a Panasonic... Used to work with disassembling TV's for recycling and on one panasonic model there were over 120 screws... for the *just* the back panel...
Better than crappy plastic. Q has solid construction.
@@Nathriel It is a bit gratuitous though.
funny enough their toughbooks are a joy to work on and have no more fasteners than they need.
It's like so big, and looks nothing like a console, reminds me more of a radio, kinda. But it looks kinda nice
given their stuff book laptop lineup thats par for the course, those were at least very solidly built
Just a note on the styling on the "Q". This was Panasonic's design trademark around the early to mid 2000s, silver and a mirrored front. A lot of Panasonic home theater systems, VCRs, DVD players, and some shelf systems had the same styling cues. So the Q wouldn't look out of place next to alot of Panasonic other AV stuff.
I call it the Panasonic GameQbe.
My dad still has his surround system and record/tape/cd player from the time. All still work. It was amazing to see. Still is. The look is slick with his new furniture set.
It was really an early 2000s thing in general too. Remember all her silver S-Classes and and all the silver Japanese Electronics? I think it was to replicate aluminum lol. Some people hate but I honestly love it!
Yeah the brushed aluminum look was a popular trend in home electronics of the early to mid 2000s, but I think that mirrored front was uniquely Panasonic.
I have an old DVD-VCR combo from Samsung with a mirrored front. Kinda tacky to be honest.
"Fairly rare with less than 100k being sold nearly 2 decades ago."
Me: Pfft, it wasn't that long ago, it was just.... oh. ...oh. I think I'm gonna cry.
Seriously. To me the GC is still the "new" Nintendo system
That first time you say "I remember 20 years ago we..." and have the sudden realization that you're now old.
@@KM-je6bf why does this make me feel so old
@@hellishcyberdemon7112 we are.
@@kennethclifford1863 I was an old man when I turned 14 or 16 and realized I genuinely thought of socks as an awesome christmas present.
The only way I convinced my mom to get a PS2 for Christmas after it launched was the fact that we could watch DVDs and we hadn't gotten a DVD player yet.
at the time it was the cheapest DVD player since they were still expensive
@@nickm5419 not the cheapest, but it was a pretty easy sell to go "for an extra $20 you get a cutting edge game system attached to your DVD player"
Fun fact: I still have that PS2
@@jessereset10 but is it phat tho?
@@316whatupz You know it!
The original price of this thing seems like fantastic bargain after seeing the insides
I didnt even know this thing existed.
I always wanted to buy it but its expensive
Same here...first time seeing it
I was familiar with the name, but no idea of what it was either
i only remember it existing, because it fits big dvds instead of the little ones and I think it had the first piracy on gamecube because of it
I did because I'm a major Gamecube fan and I have been for a decade
Good luck trying get the game boy player for this one.
I'm one of the lucky people that has one then.
@@leafysquirrel holy shit howd you get it
@@leafysquirrel I got one as well are they rare?
@@tylerkapteyn5830 very rare
I remember when I was a teen and the Gamecube was coming out. I saved my money to buy the base version at launch. Everyone thought the Panasonic version was nutty because "no one wants all that stuff!" In hindsight, I really want to give Panasonic props for building a "proper" modern console and making everything work with the Gamecube board like they did. The Gamecube should have been a DVD enabled system at lunch IMO.
This essentially predicted the mini-itx case frenzy.
Micro ATX cases at the time looked like this. Exact same layout too.
Lol yup. Just a little PC. It's giving the console peasants anxiety with all those parts crammed in there. 🤣🤣
@@charlieg6913 imagine unironically saying “console peasant”. Fucking cringe.
You know how AVGN made a Nintoaster? it looks like he did it again but with a Gamecube.
😂😂😂😂
AVGN received the nintoaster, the nerd doesnt build shit haha
that dude couldnt build a fucking lego set u think he made that lmao
Richard “Vomitsaw” Daluz made the Nintoaster.
@@elephystry Clearly he isn't a fan of The Nerd, because if so, he'd have known James states that Richard made the Nintoaster during the Atari Jaguar episode when he mentions sending his Jaguar off to a friend to try and get it fixed.
I wish you did a timelapse putting it back together 😉
Just reverse the video.....
Your telling me rgt has one but no procontroller lmfao
August Price Somehow I’m not surprised.
Joy-cons >pro controler
August Price that idiot is a bum
Musharna mush can’t tell you how many times I’ve fat fingered other buttons due to how clumsily close they are on the joy con to each other. Buying a pro controller should be a first priority imo because while joy cons are still functionally sound in casual play, or even games made with them in mind, I would also like the option for something a little more practical such as the pro controller for the more mechanically demanding one’s, or docked play. Also the joy cons are just a little too fragile for my liking as they tend to wear down quite easily through repetitive use. An example being how the gripping mechanisms on the side of the joy cons tend to stop working as efficiently putting the system itself at risk of sliding out while on the go. Buuuut take my opinion with gain of salt.
@August Price
Absolutely not surprised at all.
That's like buying a car without a steering wheel.
All the circuits and motherboards are arranged in 3D.
I recently saw one of these half disassembled behind the counter at my local game store. The owner described repairing it as the most frustrating thing he’d ever done
But seriously I love your videos man! SO informative! I
What about the icedcube gamecube
The Spiderman PS4 box is slightly open on the nearest side to the camera. It's been bugging me so much. Please fix.
Fuck now that's going to bother me.
I tried to fix one of these before that was damaged in shipping. There was no saving the disk tray, but I got the rest of the system functioning. I WOULD NOT do that again lol
rip disk tray
Wonderful, I can't wait for the panasonic switch
I heard they coming out with a new zelda game too.
Panasonic probably had quite enough with video game systems. Maybe a "Lenovo Switch" could be a thing ghough.
@@Stoppskylten TCL Switch, so it can be affordable. lol
A metal switch with metal joycons
No chance of a Panasonic switch but an Nvidia switch/shield can't be completely ruled out
I think this is an appropriate time to tell you: Thank you for doing these Tech Waves.
I myself was never really into taking things apart, but I find it fascinating what you do and I always feel like I'm learning something by watching.
I hope you had an "easy" time getting this monstrosity back together and keep doing an awesome job!
That looks like a nightmare to take apart lmao. Holy shit, I usually am super comfortable opening all my electronics but I would have a panic attack with that lol.
Why did they not work with Nintendo and develop a DVD app?
"What do you call this system?"
- "The Aristocrats!"
cheater00 I call it Frankenstein
@@matthewhammond9575 dude this is when dvd players were still quite new. In fact in its day to get it into its from factor was quite a feat. There were no dvd "apps" back then.
@@aussieguy1012 Yeah, "apps" are a pretty new concept.
Just looked at ebay pricing. Found some for around 400$ in near mint condition from japanese based sellers with a lot of good reviews. Don't know why they go for over a 1000$ in the US.
Import them and sell them.
They're region locked; most people would rather not deal with having to modify them to play US games.
Bet you dont get what you think you'll get
@@noperopepope oh I misunderstood then. I didn't understand that it came out in the US, too. I thought it was an japanese import.
Edit: seems. i didn't miss anything, the Q was a japanese exclusive, so every system including the 1000$ ones have that problem or are those already modded?
Because they are rare duhh
When I read nightmare I needed to click the video.
Seeing the full video and yeah ... agree damn... serious teardown and really fun to watch ! :D
Nintendo wanted to compete with PS2, but it's interesting!!👌🔥
Yes we did. Let's just say it turned out interesting
@@shuntarofurukawa5577 is it really you?
@@JM20282 no. it says on the channel description
I'm happy that yt randomly decided to recommend this video.
A "friend" of mine once plugged my Q into 220v and it fcked the system. At the time (7 years ago) tried to change the fuse but couldn't find a replacement and it's been sitting disassembled in a box ever since.
Gona try to get a fuse online and put it back together 🤓
equinixxx AT LEAST it has a fuse to protect the circuit board
eBay it.
any luck? illl buy ur Q lol
When you fix it (assuming you are in North America), don't plug it into 120V. It's designed to run on 100V which Japan uses. 120V won't blow the fuse instantly but it will cause damage over time.
@@KylesDigitalLab I bought a retroconsole from China, what kind of power adapter would I need? Hope you can help me
The ultimate vaporwave console. Would be a great art piece in my living room.
That statement makes no sense. It seems as though you don't understand what vaporware means. Firstly it's not vaporware if it exists. While a 100,000 units isn't a lot in the electronics world that greatly surpasses any criticism as far as it not being available for purchase. Secondly it's a GameCube, so it plays GameCube games. The game keeps not vaporware so why would this be vaporware.
@@EnlightenedSavage So many words and you couldn't even google what vaporware art/style is.
Looks like a toaster. 🤣🤣
Glad I wasn't the only one getting strong Nintoaster vibes from this.
@@zeeteepippi275 🤣🤣
*looking for comment about “Game Sphere” in comment section*
Finds nothing but disappointment
I honestly thought you was looking at a toaster in the thumbnail. Until I saw the title 😳
The gamecube was a pretty good system, I still have mine and its been on several deployments over the years without problems. Probably the most solid console of the 2000's in my opinion.
Take apart an N64DD
I second this! This is the content I subscribed for.
I took apart a 64DD disk and there was a CD inside. The length Nintendo went to to avoid licensing, that's why they cancelled, realised Sony were onto them.
What is the actual fault with this system?
If it doesn't power up at all, I would say there's a good chance that somebody might have plugged it into 240V mains by mistake.
I bought one as faulty, and the same thing had happened to it.
The upper power board is actually the main switched-mode PSU for everything.
The lower power board mainly contains the standby transformer, relay, and some linear regulators.
The relay on the lower board routes mains through to the upper SMPS.
Usually when you first plug in the mains, it won't activate the relay until you press the standby button on the front panel or the remote.
Which is good, because if somebody did shove 240 Volts into it, you could get lucky with repairing it, as it often zaps the small standby transformer first.
The exact replacement transformer is VERY hard to find, but you can fit a similar one in its place.
I have always wanted and still want one of these since it was released. The way it works is not Odd, or flawed, it's perfect honestly
Should rename it the Panasonic Clusterfuck
13:00 "so you're following along here, right?"
Not at all, my brain hurts. I can't imagine working on this monstrosity.
I have taken apart a lot of systems.
This... I will never touch one of these.
Thank you for a great break down of a console a lot of use will never see in person!
Would you be kind enough to do a video on fixing it and we see it working at the end?
I thought he was going to do that.
He usually did, but I think the damage is to severe this time.
Cool tear down! Never thought I would see the guts of that machine
an example of video that rgt85 cannot do!
You mean a video with no editing errors?
Clearly spawn is a better tuber, but rgt85 is cool to. I like his vids
I'm pretty sure he could take it apart just fine.
@Darth WheeziusOrigami + ADD = unscripted comedy. =)
RGT85 is one of the greatest idiots of the 21st century.
What do you plan on doing with it now? Are going to a follow up video of you fixing it or modding it?
I imagine if these things had taken off that a lot of repair centres would have just looked at people coming in with faulty units and them just saying "Nope" or giving inflated prices because of how much of a pain it is to fix.
Props for using Star Fox Assault music. Fitting for talking about an obscure GameCube
Wow what a mess. So much crap packed on top of each other.
But will it toast my bread, that is the question. ‘ will it blend’ theme song plays
That last shot with the whole thing disasembled tells me everything I need to know about the console
I’m a professional technician and I wouldn’t even bother with this, unless it was a simple repair like the DVD player, forget it.
I'm not a pro but I'd mess with it
@@Vulpine_Cloaker eh honestly when you did this crap every day, you have a lot less tolerance for over engineered stuff like this haha
Last year I was living in Japan and studying at an university in tokyo. I joined a "rock band club", people would basically get together, form temporary bands and play on a few gigs. They had a small room in campus where they would rest, talk and just hang out. And to my surprise they had THAT gem of a console in that room. I still don't know why. Why specifically that model. I asked two of them about it one time and they were trivially like "oh, we just play smash bros on it sometimes" and that's it. If I had to guess I would say one member of the club either donated or lent it. But I never got to see it turned on and being used. No one seemed to know how rare and valuable it is. Although the club was very big and the room was small, also I only went there three or four times so I didn't actually get to talk to more people in the club about it. Maybe someone knew more but i didn't get to talk to them.
Hey I need you to put this back together.
Me: bye bye
this looks like an old stereo / amp 😮👍
Why not fix the broken plastic bit with Flex Tape?
I remember wanting one of these SO BADLY back in the day. I really dug the look of it.
Glad I never bought one. Thing is they could have much easier added DVD support by changing the standard GC disc tray and optical transport over all of this. Would have been much cheaper and they would have sold many more.
18:20 It was at this moment he realized *he fucked up*
He just looks at it worriedly and sighs, knowing he now has to put it back together.
The key to very complicated repairs is organisation. Don’t ever throw things in a pile or roughly on a specific part of the desk because you will fail pretty hard at putting it back together if you do. Get yourself a parts organiser from iFixit. It’s basically a mousepad-styled magnetic whiteboard and it comes with a pen that you can write down where stuff goes. Take loads of pictures on a tablet (or print them out) and annotate them, and just do things a step at a time. Work in sections and steps, don’t treat it all as one big job because you’ll never get it back together.
Hope this helps, from someone who semi-professionally repairs things, not for a living, but because I like doing it. Also I’m a shade tree mechanic. If you think this is bad, try doing an engine replacement on a twin turbo quad cam V6 shoehorned into an engine bay barely the size of a Corolla’s engine bay.
Great video. You should do a video of the GBA consolizer
"The Gamecube Nintendo doesn't want you to know"
Oh man what I wouldn't give to have one of those.
Still have a brand new multi-region DVD/US/JP modded Q that I used like 5 times that I bought from Lik Sang back on 2002.
I did the same, sold mine in about 2006 for more than I paid importing it. Sounds like you did better by keeping it this long!
Fun to see, and great that you are playing Star Fox Assult music in the background! One of the best things in that game is the orchestrated soundtrack! :)
This is actually a really neat looking system. Though, uh, I don't really care for their method of construction--they basically brute-forced the architecture of the system, instead of trying to implement an ELEGANT solution. It's literally just a DVD player stacked on top of a Gamecube, with a split power supply...
I'm seeing some really cool mods for this system, though. With proper cabling and all that, spread it out and make a super-weird PS2 / GameQube mish-mash?
I'd buy it. Y'know, provided it came in a similarly snazzy chrome / metal housing. Maybe a white-top finish?
I feel like Panasonic must have hired the monster who designed the Pioneer LaserActive to design the Q...
Don't know if anyone else has mentioned it, but on the PSU board @ 12:00 the white blocks that the black cables go into WILL release. Carefully push on the face of the block where the wires enter, then gently pull back on the wires & they should come out. To reconnect, simply push the bare wires back into the holes on the connector.
What about a modchip? I remember people years ago talking about Qoob and Xeno chips in the Q
Softmod could work
NGC was the best console from its era... PS2 was bad as it could be (despite the huge commercial success), XBox was OK and secong to the NGC in terms of power. When people are saying that Nintendo was not able to produce powerful machine... NGC was a powerhouse! Thanks for the video Spawn Wave!
I can't even imagine how the manufacturing line for this thing must have been like lol
If I’m not mistaken, the GC motherboard, and everything under it is practically the same as a normal GC motherboard. I see a few different outputs which have different things soldered to them. Looks like a ribbon cable or just internal cable where a video out would’ve been on the original. But either way, while a pain to get to, couldn’t you just get that bottom board from an original GameCube and just replace it if that’s the issue. Obviously with the broken rails, there’ll still be work to do, but would that solve that error? I wanna know in case I encounter a decent deal on a Q that may have that error.
This looks like a crazy piece of hardware
What a complete peice of overpriced shit I bet it cant even use a gameboy player add on. Seems like it was created for nerds who like shiney rare expensive worthless dvd player thats built like a computer. I have a Vcr dual Dvd player made by panasonic and i have a 1980s panasonic bicycle both still have all original parts and still work like new. I also have an old 1990s vcr which also still works but it seems the gamecube made by them was a failure in every way possible.
should've released it here , i would've bought it
the ultimate nightmare system to open and repair is the Pioneer Laseractive. It is a Laserdisc console and if anyone here has ever fixed a laserdisc then you know the pain. boards over boards over boards and like 100000 screws. It is a nightmare. Panasonic Q is a peace of cake compared to the Laseractive
Name a console worse to repair than the GameCube.
Panasonic: the GameCube 😎
Everybody: that’s not how that works-
Panasonic: hold my beer.
Taking things apart, leave it to Spawn Wave to fix it up looking good as new.
eon adapter... idk why that thing caught on when the carby is right there. better build quality, no tumors for stability, metal plug, price that isn't absolutely unreasonable??? man i hate eongaming.
I want to see the B-reel footage where, immediately after the outro, he makes one wide sweep with his arm and slides all of that electronic spaghetti right into the trash.
So rgt85 spends $80 bucks on jerky and a working Panasonic cube, but can't afford a pro controller... weird.
Good luck putting that back together 😂
so it's a cube ps2 made by Nintendo
18:20 the hesitation when he realizes it will never work again
it was followed by lots of quiet sobbing :[
This video was awesome! Please update if you get it working
13:26 when you try to pull out a single spaghetti
easy peasy, try working under a car's dashboard :) would like to see some genius put a bluray player in the Q
Welp, that stinks of feature creep!
"Wouldn't it be cool if we added [generic] feature?!?!"
Playing DVDs wasn't a generic feature back then.
Tried putting a modchip in one of these. Accidentally sucked up a resistor with the solder sucker and that was that
Feels like this wasn't finished. Maybe asking for alot, but wanted to see it get put back and what ever else u need to do.
Did you get it from GaMeStOP perhaps?
Lol
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I always wanted one of these things. They're so cool and not many people know about them.
I am a pretty good videogame console collector and I don't like at all. It just look like a frankeistein system made in a shelf
The Panasonic *_WHAT_* now?
GameCube.
@@Saturn185 I don't get Bond references.
@@Monkeyshaman it's not a reference, the name of this version of the gamecube is panasonic q
@@Saturn185 OMG why?
@@Monkeyshaman i wish i knew
I have seen a Panasonic Q that has a copper color reflective part instead of the chrome one in this video. think it was super rare or a custom one someone made
LMFAO....."OMG this is HORRID to work on!" two sentences later "How dare DIY repair folks charged for replacing a tray band!" O_o
I almost bought one of these back in college
You stole, you mean? Just kidding
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The Panasonic Q GameCube Is An Absolute Nightmare - This Is Why
I would be TERRIFIED to try and put that all back together! You have brass balls! Super interesting!