@@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.
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.
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
Smart guy since he knows he can make $ off of it on his TH-cam channel so that is his value there 💰💰💰💰. The price he bought it for came right back from this upload 🤣😂.
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.
"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...
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.
"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.
@@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!
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.
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
@@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.
Electrical Engineer about to graduate in a year and your channel is the best! I've kinda learned some hands on experience in electronics with your channel. I want to focus on things like this and you are seriously the best! Thanks for all your uploads!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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! :)
I always really enjoy these videos. Used to love tearing into things like this years ago but don't have the time or energy to focus into it. Love the descriptions of components and what each piece "does" and seeing all the hardware without having to get my hands dirty.
Even though I have little knowledge on the subject matter. I enjoy watching these tear down videos of yours. it's interesting to see how complex these consoles are. And I love hearing the history of the piece that you are working on. Keep up the great work.
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 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.
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.
Thanks man! I have one of these where the band for the drive has fused into a hard shape. Nice to know I only need to get to that top section to change it. I appreciate the teardown!
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 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
Bro, thank you for this video. You touch upon a lot that I wanted to know. Thank you for your patience and dedication! Back when this system was originally released I was very tempted to buy one. I had the money, but the problem was that I already had a standard Gamecube. I thought about selling it, but no one was going to pay me what I paid for it, so I kept it. I was quite annoyed at Nintendo for not having this Q type as the standard Gamecube. Panasonic had to step in and do it for them. I was so mad. Later that month my family purchased a DVD player, and I said screw it. I still have my original Gamecube. And DVD players where I live are either being given away or thrown out.
As someone who has taken apart many systems and had a little training fixing electronics thru vo ed in high school, i can confirm, this is a nightmare to open, let alone fix. All those ribbon cables can easily tear, and fitting them back in can cause you to ruin them. As you said, finding a short through out all those boards looks brutal. I wouldnt touch one of these and ive had training, i cant imagine someone with no training being able to disassemble this without ruining it, and putting it back together again would be an equally brutal experience.
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.
LOVED this video! Been watching your channel for a few months now, usually watching the teardowns passively while doing something else, but I've been swooning over the Q since I was 16 and looking at an import magazine in 2002. Watched this video practically holding my breath to keep focus. I can't tell if that thing is a feat of engineering or an overcomplicated mess haha. Now I'll post much more attention to the teardowns after seeing you walk through A piece of hardware that really interested me and can't wait for the next update on it!
That little power board at the very bottom of the shell contains the dcdc regulators for all the core voltages that the cpu/gpu require to operate. Early gamecubes had a similar if not exact board, but in later revisions regulation was moved onto the main board to reduce complexity and cost.
I remember being a sophomore in high school and buying this thing directly from Japan. When I discovered that it was only capable of reading Japanese region games I some how found a “simple” hack to allow you to switch it back and forth between Japanese and English regions. But in order to carry out this “simple” hack I had to tear my system down to the GameCube motherboard and solder a switch on it. I nearly cried when I saw the mess inside and I can’t believe I had the audacity to take it apart after just getting the thing. I somehow managed to do it all and I still have my working Panasonic Q that plays all region games to this day.
Regarding that broken mounting rail: Assuming it's ABS, I've had a lot of luck repairing broken ABS using Oatey All-Purpose Cement from the plumbing section of most hardware stores. Because it actually dissolves the plastic, the resulting "weld" is very strong.
Great video. You do an amazing job at explaining what you’re doing. That hot mess is waay more than I could deal with. I’m looking forward to a follow up
The rail issue is a huge problem. I collected and sell a lot of the Japanese systems as I would go to Akihabara and Book-offs and would buy these Panasonics whenever I ran into one. I sold them on Ebay and would end up getting complaints from the buyer as they would break during the shipping. (A couple of these were still FACTORY SEALED). It became frustrating because they are not cheap and Ebay will screw you as a seller. I finally refuse to sell them on Ebay. I know for a fact I still have one broken rail unit in the garage somewhere. I probably still have 3 or 4 of them. I have not tested them in over ten years as they are in storage. Cool video and very informative on this unit.
Top quality tech wave video Jon(SW). The Panasonic Gamecube is a really nice looking Machine. Fascinating taking apart of this very cool system and hopefully you can get it all working as normal Jon.
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.
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.
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
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
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 TH-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
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
"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
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!
"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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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
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
The original price of this thing seems like fantastic bargain after seeing the insides
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.
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
All the circuits and motherboards are arranged in 3D.
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.
That last shot with the whole thing disasembled tells me everything I need to know about the console
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.
Electrical Engineer about to graduate in a year and your channel is the best! I've kinda learned some hands on experience in electronics with your channel. I want to focus on things like this and you are seriously the best! Thanks for all your uploads!
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
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.
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.
I remember wanting one of these SO BADLY back in the day. I really dug the look of it.
Cool tear down! Never thought I would see the guts of that machine
I wish you did a timelapse putting it back together 😉
Just reverse the video.....
Props for using Star Fox Assault music. Fitting for talking about an obscure GameCube
13:00 "so you're following along here, right?"
Not at all, my brain hurts. I can't imagine working on this monstrosity.
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.
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.
But seriously I love your videos man! SO informative! I
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.
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
You’re channel is easily the best out there, these other guys are not even close. Keep up the wonderful work, your fans appreciate it!
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! :)
I always really enjoy these videos. Used to love tearing into things like this years ago but don't have the time or energy to focus into it. Love the descriptions of components and what each piece "does" and seeing all the hardware without having to get my hands dirty.
But will it toast my bread, that is the question. ‘ will it blend’ theme song plays
LOVE these types of videos from you. Thanks for sharing Spawn Wave.
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
Even though I have little knowledge on the subject matter.
I enjoy watching these tear down videos of yours.
it's interesting to see how complex these consoles are.
And I love hearing the history of the piece that you are working on.
Keep up the great work.
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
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 honestly thought you was looking at a toaster in the thumbnail. Until I saw the title 😳
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.
What do you plan on doing with it now? Are going to a follow up video of you fixing it or modding it?
just noticed the Star Fox Assault music in the beginning. Love the edition!!! Keep up the beefy work brother!!!!!!!!!
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
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.
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.
Thanks man! I have one of these where the band for the drive has fused into a hard shape. Nice to know I only need to get to that top section to change it. I appreciate the teardown!
Why not fix the broken plastic bit with Flex Tape?
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 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
Bro, thank you for this video. You touch upon a lot that I wanted to know. Thank you for your patience and dedication! Back when this system was originally released I was very tempted to buy one. I had the money, but the problem was that I already had a standard Gamecube. I thought about selling it, but no one was going to pay me what I paid for it, so I kept it. I was quite annoyed at Nintendo for not having this Q type as the standard Gamecube. Panasonic had to step in and do it for them. I was so mad. Later that month my family purchased a DVD player, and I said screw it. I still have my original Gamecube. And DVD players where I live are either being given away or thrown out.
I can't even imagine how the manufacturing line for this thing must have been like lol
Gonna be honest.
I could never do this myself.
I would be afraid of something going wrong.
Kudos for Spawn to do what I could never do.
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.
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!
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.
I watch all your videos many times over, love them! This is one of my favorite! You can definitely tell in your voice that this is a pain in the butt
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
good ol' Fractal Design, trust them to still manufacture that type of fan, bless them.
Hey I need you to put this back together.
Me: bye bye
This man is a wizard. It's so relaxing watching his videos.
I always wanted one of these things. They're so cool and not many people know about them.
I just took apart a regular Gamecube this morning and found it to be quite easy... but I'm not ready to clean the fan on that little boy, oh no!
What about a modchip? I remember people years ago talking about Qoob and Xeno chips in the Q
Softmod could work
As someone who has taken apart many systems and had a little training fixing electronics thru vo ed in high school, i can confirm, this is a nightmare to open, let alone fix. All those ribbon cables can easily tear, and fitting them back in can cause you to ruin them. As you said, finding a short through out all those boards looks brutal. I wouldnt touch one of these and ive had training, i cant imagine someone with no training being able to disassemble this without ruining it, and putting it back together again would be an equally brutal experience.
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.
Great... Thanks for this video. I wanted this for a long time. I hope you'll do a video when your project is done and working.
Great video. You should do a video of the GBA consolizer
LOVED this video! Been watching your channel for a few months now, usually watching the teardowns passively while doing something else, but I've been swooning over the Q since I was 16 and looking at an import magazine in 2002.
Watched this video practically holding my breath to keep focus. I can't tell if that thing is a feat of engineering or an overcomplicated mess haha.
Now I'll post much more attention to the teardowns after seeing you walk through A piece of hardware that really interested me and can't wait for the next update on it!
I feel like Panasonic must have hired the monster who designed the Pioneer LaserActive to design the Q...
Spawn Wave: This is like a nightmare machine to take apart!
Donkey: Cake! Everybody likes cake, cake has layers!
"The Gamecube Nintendo doesn't want you to know"
That little power board at the very bottom of the shell contains the dcdc regulators for all the core voltages that the cpu/gpu require to operate. Early gamecubes had a similar if not exact board, but in later revisions regulation was moved onto the main board to reduce complexity and cost.
18:20 the hesitation when he realizes it will never work again
it was followed by lots of quiet sobbing :[
This is, hands down, my new favorite Video on TH-cam!
This looks like a crazy piece of hardware
I remember being a sophomore in high school and buying this thing directly from Japan. When I discovered that it was only capable of reading Japanese region games I some how found a “simple” hack to allow you to switch it back and forth between Japanese and English regions. But in order to carry out this “simple” hack I had to tear my system down to the GameCube motherboard and solder a switch on it. I nearly cried when I saw the mess inside and I can’t believe I had the audacity to take it apart after just getting the thing. I somehow managed to do it all and I still have my working Panasonic Q that plays all region games to this day.
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.
Tried putting a modchip in one of these. Accidentally sucked up a resistor with the solder sucker and that was that
13:26 when you try to pull out a single spaghetti
Regarding that broken mounting rail: Assuming it's ABS, I've had a lot of luck repairing broken ABS using Oatey All-Purpose Cement from the plumbing section of most hardware stores. Because it actually dissolves the plastic, the resulting "weld" is very strong.
Looks like a toaster. 🤣🤣
Glad I wasn't the only one getting strong Nintoaster vibes from this.
@@zeeteepippi275 🤣🤣
Nice teardown video... btw where can I get them 3d printed DVD trays at? Thanks.
Oh man what I wouldn't give to have one of those.
Anyone know where I could get the 3D model for the rails? (Panasonic Q)
Good luck putting that back together 😂
Great video. You do an amazing job at explaining what you’re doing. That hot mess is waay more than I could deal with. I’m looking forward to a follow up
should've released it here , i would've bought it
The rail issue is a huge problem. I collected and sell a lot of the Japanese systems as I would go to Akihabara and Book-offs and would buy these Panasonics whenever I ran into one. I sold them on Ebay and would end up getting complaints from the buyer as they would break during the shipping. (A couple of these were still FACTORY SEALED). It became frustrating because they are not cheap and Ebay will screw you as a seller. I finally refuse to sell them on Ebay. I know for a fact I still have one broken rail unit in the garage somewhere. I probably still have 3 or 4 of them. I have not tested them in over ten years as they are in storage. Cool video and very informative on this unit.
this looks like an old stereo / amp 😮👍
Top quality tech wave video Jon(SW). The Panasonic Gamecube is a really nice looking Machine. Fascinating taking apart of this very cool system and hopefully you can get it all working as normal Jon.
Wow what a mess. So much crap packed on top of each other.
My OCD just went crazy when you took out the DVD/CD Drive to expose that ribbon hell! 😳