jmjustin6 Posted October 29, 2017 Report Share Posted October 29, 2017 Alright i need some help here. I git this Japanese gamecube from a local collector. I took it home and realized there is a switch underneath it. I can only imagine it is a region switch? But again im not sure. So i turned it on with an American game in it and this red box came up (i guess it says not compatible). I turned it off and hit the switch and the red box still came up. I then hit the switch while the system was on and still nothing. Anyone have a clue? Thanks yall Atari 5200 Guy and The Professor 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari 5200 Guy Posted October 30, 2017 Report Share Posted October 30, 2017 It this the error message? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari 5200 Guy Posted October 30, 2017 Report Share Posted October 30, 2017 Nope...doesn't match. I'm trying! Just a step of elimination...take a q-tip and some kind of gentle cleaner (alcohol works) and clean the lens on the drive. See what that does? I'm doing as much research as I can to try and find out what that message says. jmjustin6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari 5200 Guy Posted October 30, 2017 Report Share Posted October 30, 2017 Ok...did a translation. This: ディスクを読み取れませんでした。詳細については、任天堂のゲームキューブの取扱説明書をお読みください。 Translates to: The disc could not be read. Please read the Nintendo GameCube Instruction Booklet for more information. If you remove the words "Nintendo GameCube" from the English error message that USA models can display you end up with: ディスクを読み取れませんでした。 詳細は取扱説明書をご確認ください。 ...and that looks about like the message you are getting. So your GameCube possibly can't read discs for some reason. You might want to try to either find someone not afraid to take it apart or if you feel comfortable doing it yourself take it apart and see what was done. It is very possible someone did the mod and did not do it correctly. Either that or it is a region switch that supports PAL instead of our NTSC standard. I hope that helps. I will see if I can dig more information up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari 5200 Guy Posted October 30, 2017 Report Share Posted October 30, 2017 Maybe find and try one Japanese GC game. jmjustin6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmjustin6 Posted October 31, 2017 Author Report Share Posted October 31, 2017 Maybe find and try one Japanese GC game. Yep.thats what im doing now. Im gonna buy a Japanese game off ebay and see what happens. Thank you by the way! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari 5200 Guy Posted November 6, 2017 Report Share Posted November 6, 2017 OK. Dumb question. Have you tried cleaning the lens? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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