:(..bad thing happened. One more tally in my life, then.

minkster · Post by **minkster** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 9:44 pm

Oh man, I'm sorry to hear gamelver. That must have been a scary experience...I'm glad you and your house is ok. But don't you have your original GCp (the first one you made) or did you sell it? Well, I hope your next portable turns out great

Post by **Gamelver** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 9:51 pm

I used parts from my first GCp to quicken the build time on my second one

....and now, I can't even use any parts from this one to build my next one!

anyway, here are some pics taken with a web cam...

G-force · Post by **G-force** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 9:52 pm

oh man! Actual FIRE

Thats the worst.

Glad to hear you didn't get hurt though! Man.. What if you had been holding it when it set off... Scary.

I know how it feels to lose a portable you spent to much time and work on, since I had my NESp lost/stolen. It, uh, sucks. To say the least. And a GCp is even harder and more expensive to make.

I hope you still want to make another. (And this time make it black?

)

Post by **marshallh** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 9:52 pm

Holy crap, man! Could you at least crack both of the memory cards open to see if the flash RAM chips are still intact?

Post by **Gamelver** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 10:01 pm

well, one is completely burnt to a crisp....my zelda saves were on there, too

.

the other one, the one sticking out in the picture (the zelda one blends in

) is pretty burnt, but it MIGHT still work....if not, then perhaps the ram chip is intact, at least...

oh, and I do have a black GCp, oh candy man G-force!

it's just...uh....not working right now....I don't know why

. It looks fine!

here's what happened (if any care to know

)...I was watching seinfeld, playing some Advance Wars: Dual Strike, when all of a sudden, I hear a kind of hissing noise for a second, and then BOOM!....huge explosion and the GCp still is on fire...I figured the li-poly batteries exploded so I go there and it's still on fire, but only a little.....nothing too bad, so I figure I'll just take out the batteries and perhaps only a few parts got screwed up in the explosion. after a while, the GCp explodes again, though not as big, and I know it's wrecked....the room is starting to get filled with smoke and the fire alarm soon goes off. I take my bedsheet, grab the flaming GCp, and hurl it out my window onto the roof. I then proceed to get some water and douse the GCp, knowing once and for all it's dead. as I'm standing outside, I realize what just happened, and though I was relatively calm throughout all that, I all of a sudden got really angry and disoriented, though that might've been the smoke.....man, what a night

.

bioniclebert · Post by **bioniclebert** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 10:01 pm

HOLY BAJEEBERS!

Man, you gotta keep it in some glass case: "the first portable to explode"
or something like that.

Man that sucks, losing a very expensive portable.

Darth Fett · Post by **Darth Fett** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 10:18 pm

Dang,that sucks.That was one awesome portable

.But look at the bright side....none of you games were in there at the time,right?

Post by **Gamelver** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 10:22 pm

mariokart was.....completely destroyed (ok, so it only got half burnt...but it is ruined).

Darth Fett · Post by **Darth Fett** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 10:25 pm

Wow.Now it Super sucks.

Sorry about your stuff.

Post by **Gamelver** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 10:26 pm

ah, it's ok....at least it can be brought back....

G-force · Post by **G-force** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 10:26 pm

(Missed the pics by a minute)

Holy SH**!!! It's all...burnt and crap! Geez... Thats just awful.
What did your parents say when you told them your GCp exploded? You aren't gonna be stopped from future portable projects will ya?

Post by **Gamelver** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 10:27 pm

no, they felt sorry for me

.

Zzebotes13 · Post by **Zzebotes13** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 10:28 pm

i hope my GCp doen't explode, and yeah, it would be cool to put it in a glass case in a museum.

jeep · Post by **jeep** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 10:29 pm

Holy crap ! Now I'm scared as hell to use Li-Ion in my NESp

. Honestly, that's gotta suck. I now have something writtend in my head for a couple of years.... NEVER OVERCHARGE Li-Poly

Jeep. Good luck with that.

Darth Fett · Post by **Darth Fett** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 10:29 pm

Yah,you could say it was from Atlantis!