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"Wearing out..."

This mainly applys to those who have had there cube since last year (lucky Americans), so does your stick wear out?
I know the N64 one did this, just wondering if the cube does as well?

i've had my gamecube since march , and there are no visible or physical wear on the stick , and ive been using it alot , and all my mates have aswell. But what i do find is that they sticks discolour very easily. My sister was playing with my wavebird , and i think she was eating at the same time, when i came to play with it , it was bright yellow ! I tried to clean it off but it wouldn't budge ! Now ive got a bright yellow stick , that i might swap for one of my more cleaner sticks on my wired controls.

i did that with my pads aswell. There was a load of white stuff (no not that kind of white stuff) around the stick , so i took one apart , cleaned it out and it worked a bit better. The i decided to go a bit further with my other white stuff filled control, and decided to take apart the box that holds the joystick. Lets just say , my control never work again :)

I only have one Official N64 Controller and the stick on that has worn-out after repetative use during the last 5 years or so.

I found that I could move it around a little more freely again after I took the thing apart and cleaned out the area around the Analogue Stick.
It may not make it brand new, but it did a fairly decent job.


I don't know why but i've got this feeling that the GC pad's sticks won't wear-out so easily for some reason....
Maybe it's cuz there's none of that powdery stuff leaking out?

Tiltawhirl wrote:
> I've had my N64 for five years, i had all 3 Mario Party games and
> played them a hell of a lot and none of my sticks are even close to
> wearing out.

You've got to be kidding, right?

After just a few days of borrowing Mario Party there was a noticable effect on the sticks. And they eventually wore down anyway.

They usually lasted atleast a year though.

My GC stick has broken, not completely but it's sunk about .5cm into the handset. I have to pull it out!

"Perhaps we were a little... heavy handed?"--Elvis
Who me? I don't think so. What games have I played heaps...
Mario 64. Goldeneye. Pefect Dark. I.S.S 64.
Hang on I'll be hear all night...

while were on the subject of N64 pads, i picked up a pre owned one, in great condition for £2, yes thats £2 from Romford Market today, ...............which was nice

D.J Cat wrote:
> I don't know?
> I don't move it at unnessesary times or anything. Maybe you need to
> play your 64 more?... :P

Maybe your heavy handed! We have to save his N64 from anymore torture!!

I don't know?
I don't move it at unnessesary times or anything. Maybe you need to play your 64 more?... :P

Your sticks ran out?

Jeebus, what do you do with them to make them do this?

I've had my N64 for five years, i had all 3 Mario Party games and played them a hell of a lot and none of my sticks are even close to wearing out.

Tell me, have you lot go sausage fingers or something?