XANDER CAGE
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Just kidding. I'm a fucking idiot and Dragon's Dogma broke my PS3.
I recently purchased a used copy of Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen. I'd been meaning to give the game another shot (I was not a huge fan back when it originally released) and with a long weekend ahead I figured it was as good a time as any to revisit it. I played the game and had a pretty good time! I was warming up to it, at least.
Then, because I had some friends coming over, I wanted to put in Rock Band. I pressed the eject button and was immediately greeted by a horrible grinding sound. The disc was stuck. Initially, I wasn't too worried, because I knew that the PS3 Slim actually has a screw built in under the disc drive that can manually force games out (useful for when consoles are sent in for repairs and such). I flipped the console over and got a screwdriver.
No dice.
Now I was anxious. The game just wouldn't come out, no matter what I tried. Forums suggested holding down the eject button and slowly rotating the console around. Nope. Others suggested tilting the PS3 on its nose and pressing eject. Nope. There was even a Sony help thread filled with people with similar problems who managed to remove stuck discs by putting another disc with tape attached to it into the slot. Nope.
So, here's where I got desperate. My PS3 is old and used. I didn't quite care enough to send the console in for repairs and wait who knows how long. So, I started doing some research on how to take apart a PS3 Slim. It actually seemed really easy - there are screws that hold the "lid" of the console onto the base, and removing those should allow for easy access to the innards. After reading a few articles and watching some videos, I decided, shit, why not. I'm going to bust open this bad boy and get inside the disc drive. Bye bye, warranty sticker! This couldn't possibly backfire!
So, that was my first terrible decision, but it wasn't quite apparent yet. I removed all the screws I needed to, removed the hard drive cover and HDD, and then moved to remove the lid. It should come off easily, right? It did in all the videos!
No, of course not. As soon as I lifted the lid up, something started resisting. The front ridge with the power and eject buttons became warped almost instantly, as if something was holding the front of the lid down and bending. I tried to put the lid back, so I could reconsider my stupid plan.
Oh, no, just kidding, the lid wouldn't go back down without bending at the front in an equally horrifying manner. I was past the point of no fucking return.
I tried to examine what the hell was actually holding the lid so stubbornly to the front of the console. I couldn't find anything online, and as I re-read my instructions, I couldn't find anything I'd missed. I'd removed all the screws. I'd taken the HDD out. What was going on? Well, apparently, some PS3 Slims have a set of star screws running along the lip of the console. One of these screws, on some models, connects to the lid. By pulling the lid up and out from the back, I had essentially yanked a screw up through the lip of the Slim, which was holding onto a now-really-awfully-bent peg. I couldn't put it back down, and I couldn't remove the thing cleanly. This PS3 needed a back-alley Mafia surgery, or it was going to forever look like it had an open suicide door.
So, check it out. Gaze upon my works, ye mighty, and despair:
look at my dope-ass hot rod PS3, accidentally crafted by a grade-A fucking moron.
Behold the lid of the PS3, complete with screw that was forcefully yanked out of this poor console, as well as a split disc drive cover that snapped as I ripped the top off like a big plastic band-aid. By the way, it turns out the disc drive on the PS3 Slim is super blocked off, and there's probably no way I could have gotten in there anyway. All of this plan was for nothing.
But wait! There's more. Guess what happened as soon as I plugged my amputated console back in and fired it up.
No, really, go on, guess.
If you guessed "the fucking Dragon's Dogma disc came out didn't it you absolute fucklord," yes, you're correct! After groaning a bit, the PS3 spat out Dragon's Dogma. I guess I tortured the poor thing into giving me what I wanted. If I had kept on rotating and flipping the PS3 while hammering the eject button, all of this could probably have been avoided.
By the way, besides being a hilarious monument to my dumb ass, this thread is a warning: make sure that any discs you put in your consoles are gunk free! The used copy of Dragon's Dogma I put in my PS3 actually had a ring of goop - presumably from a video store rental sticker or something that had been removed by Gamestop - around the hole.
This is probably what caused this nightmare. I'd go in and have some strong words with the store manager, but at this point 90% of the damage done was my fault, so I think I'm just going to live with my kit-car PS3 and my shame.
I recently purchased a used copy of Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen. I'd been meaning to give the game another shot (I was not a huge fan back when it originally released) and with a long weekend ahead I figured it was as good a time as any to revisit it. I played the game and had a pretty good time! I was warming up to it, at least.
Then, because I had some friends coming over, I wanted to put in Rock Band. I pressed the eject button and was immediately greeted by a horrible grinding sound. The disc was stuck. Initially, I wasn't too worried, because I knew that the PS3 Slim actually has a screw built in under the disc drive that can manually force games out (useful for when consoles are sent in for repairs and such). I flipped the console over and got a screwdriver.
No dice.
Now I was anxious. The game just wouldn't come out, no matter what I tried. Forums suggested holding down the eject button and slowly rotating the console around. Nope. Others suggested tilting the PS3 on its nose and pressing eject. Nope. There was even a Sony help thread filled with people with similar problems who managed to remove stuck discs by putting another disc with tape attached to it into the slot. Nope.
So, here's where I got desperate. My PS3 is old and used. I didn't quite care enough to send the console in for repairs and wait who knows how long. So, I started doing some research on how to take apart a PS3 Slim. It actually seemed really easy - there are screws that hold the "lid" of the console onto the base, and removing those should allow for easy access to the innards. After reading a few articles and watching some videos, I decided, shit, why not. I'm going to bust open this bad boy and get inside the disc drive. Bye bye, warranty sticker! This couldn't possibly backfire!
So, that was my first terrible decision, but it wasn't quite apparent yet. I removed all the screws I needed to, removed the hard drive cover and HDD, and then moved to remove the lid. It should come off easily, right? It did in all the videos!
No, of course not. As soon as I lifted the lid up, something started resisting. The front ridge with the power and eject buttons became warped almost instantly, as if something was holding the front of the lid down and bending. I tried to put the lid back, so I could reconsider my stupid plan.
Oh, no, just kidding, the lid wouldn't go back down without bending at the front in an equally horrifying manner. I was past the point of no fucking return.
I tried to examine what the hell was actually holding the lid so stubbornly to the front of the console. I couldn't find anything online, and as I re-read my instructions, I couldn't find anything I'd missed. I'd removed all the screws. I'd taken the HDD out. What was going on? Well, apparently, some PS3 Slims have a set of star screws running along the lip of the console. One of these screws, on some models, connects to the lid. By pulling the lid up and out from the back, I had essentially yanked a screw up through the lip of the Slim, which was holding onto a now-really-awfully-bent peg. I couldn't put it back down, and I couldn't remove the thing cleanly. This PS3 needed a back-alley Mafia surgery, or it was going to forever look like it had an open suicide door.
So, check it out. Gaze upon my works, ye mighty, and despair:
look at my dope-ass hot rod PS3, accidentally crafted by a grade-A fucking moron.
Behold the lid of the PS3, complete with screw that was forcefully yanked out of this poor console, as well as a split disc drive cover that snapped as I ripped the top off like a big plastic band-aid. By the way, it turns out the disc drive on the PS3 Slim is super blocked off, and there's probably no way I could have gotten in there anyway. All of this plan was for nothing.
But wait! There's more. Guess what happened as soon as I plugged my amputated console back in and fired it up.
No, really, go on, guess.
If you guessed "the fucking Dragon's Dogma disc came out didn't it you absolute fucklord," yes, you're correct! After groaning a bit, the PS3 spat out Dragon's Dogma. I guess I tortured the poor thing into giving me what I wanted. If I had kept on rotating and flipping the PS3 while hammering the eject button, all of this could probably have been avoided.
By the way, besides being a hilarious monument to my dumb ass, this thread is a warning: make sure that any discs you put in your consoles are gunk free! The used copy of Dragon's Dogma I put in my PS3 actually had a ring of goop - presumably from a video store rental sticker or something that had been removed by Gamestop - around the hole.
This is probably what caused this nightmare. I'd go in and have some strong words with the store manager, but at this point 90% of the damage done was my fault, so I think I'm just going to live with my kit-car PS3 and my shame.
