How to get casing off a GC

alight1992 · Post by **alight1992** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 2:17 pm

Hi i am going to make a GCp and i was having trouble removing the plastic exterior for the game cube. can any one give me advice i am beging

Post by **gannon** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 2:24 pm

buy a 4.5mm security bit to open it

Post by **Gamelver** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 2:24 pm

well, you've got three choices....
you can either just buy this and just simply unscrew the case off....

you can dremel/drill the screws in half...

or, you can take a pen (must be hard plastic), melt the tip, and stick into the screw hole....then, once the pen's hardened, you should be able to unscrew the screws if the plastic is hard enough and you did everything right

so, which one shall it be?!?

Post by **bicostp** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 2:31 pm

http://www.portablesofdoom.org/screws.php

^here's a page with info on how to remove the Nintendo GameBit (as they're officially called) screws. Also check the "How to remove Nintendo Screws, a tutorial" sticky in the SNES section. (yes, I know, "wrong system", but AFAIK the screws are the same, and you can always apply those techniques to any security screws.

Check eBay for "nintendo screwdriver", there's usually a few on there.

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 8:24 pm

I can never get the melty pen method to work, can someone describe it in detail?

Post by **marshallh** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 7:52 am

Well, it doesn't work. I got it to remove 1 screw, but it stripped before I got the others out. The best way I've found is to use some thin copper tubing and file out sections of it with a chainsaw file.

Post by **Gamelver** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 7:55 am

actually, the pen method DOES work...you just have to have a lot of pens

.....as I said before, the ones with hard plastic work best...I used one for all 4 screws before

XPCportables · Post by **XPCportables** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 10:27 am

I drilled out the plastic so that it was big enough to fit a nut driver in there and they came out fine.