What would you send to silicon hell?

You know the drill, you buy a new electrical item (usually to replace an old one) and it turns out to be a pile of crap!

These devices belong in silicon hell, so what items would you send there?

For me it would be the Fuji s9900 camera and the Samsung pixon 8 phone.

Don't tell me there's no such place as silicon heaven/he'll either, because if there wasn't, then where would all the calculators go?

Calculators just die Vermi. They just die

Joycon controllers.

Winckle wrote:Joycon controllers.

I tend to agree, Winckle. From the start I thought they were okay... but, as time went on, I found that - for me personally - they became more and more uncomfortable; cramping my hands and being a bit fiddly. I haven't experienced any of the drift issues that others have but, even so, I switched to Hori Split Pad Pros just before Christmas and I wouldn't want to go back.

Jenuall wrote:Calculators just die Vermi. They just die

jawa_ wrote:
Winckle wrote:Joycon controllers.

I tend to agree, Winckle. From the start I thought they were okay... but, as time went on, I found that - for me personally - they became more and more uncomfortable; cramping my hands and being a bit fiddly. I haven't experienced any of the drift issues that others have but, even so, I switched to Hori Split Pad Pros just before Christmas and I wouldn't want to go back.

They don't feel comfortable and I've had to replace the joystick on my blue one, my wife's red joycon, and her friends set.

Luckily the fault is so common that the part is available very cheaply on Amazon or eBay.

Another item i'd add is the PS1 i owned, i wouldn't send all PS1's as generally it was a decent console, it's just mine was defective af, and wouldn't even work unless you put it on it's side.

Vermilion wrote:Another item i'd add is the PS1 i owned, i wouldn't send all PS1's as generally it was a decent console, it's just mine was defective af, and wouldn't even work unless you put it on it's side.

Man, yeah, I recall doing that with my original PlayStation. I believe it was due to a part of the drive mechanism being made out of plastic and they replaced it with a metal part in later versions. I found the revised PSone model to be a lot more reliable.

Vermilion wrote:Another item i'd add is the PS1 i owned, i wouldn't send all PS1's as generally it was a decent console, it's just mine was defective af, and wouldn't even work unless you put it on it's side.

Mine had to be completely upside down before it would work. strawberry float knows how I worked that out in the days before I had the internet.

Moggy wrote:
Vermilion wrote:Another item i'd add is the PS1 i owned, i wouldn't send all PS1's as generally it was a decent console, it's just mine was defective af, and wouldn't even work unless you put it on it's side.

Mine had to be completely upside down before it would work. strawberry float knows how I worked that out in the days before I had the internet.

I think i read about it somewhere, might have been a games mag, might have been a newspaper, either way, i did eventually work out how to get the damn thing to work.

Spent many, many hours playing F1 97 and the PS1 Final Fantasy games with the console on it's side.

The Sega 32X.

It was just stupidly unreliable, I had to get it replaced twice in the first month of getting it, then it broke again a week later but by that point the shop it was from (can't remember now) was refusing to replace or refund them.

Sega Master system controllers with the mini joystick in the middle. Both mine died within months of buying the console. They sent me new ones, no more mini joystick.

Mommy wrote:Sega Master system controllers with the mini joystick in the middle. Both mine died within months of buying the console. They sent me new ones, no more mini joystick.

The d-pads fell off both of my controllers, I had to use my thumb to push the contacts for ages before I could afford to buy a cheap 3rd party one (I was 12 and had to save my pocket money to get a new one), never did get a new official one as I got a Megadrive the following year and discovered the MD controller could work with the Master System.

The Macbook Air I bought in 2010. My brother was a big Apple fan and, after coming into a bit of money and getting a bit tired of Windows thought I'd give The MBA a chance. Worst mistake I ever made. I don't like MacOS but that's fine, that's more personal taste. The issue I had was hardware related. The track pad malfunctioned twice and got it fixed twice at the Apple store. It kept overheating during the most basic of tasks so back to the Apple store I went. I wasn't doing anything particularly taxing, word processing, listening to music, watching videos. This went on for a while and in the end I just gave up. Based on that experience I've never bought myself an Apple product since.

Tapwave Zodiac

I was really excited to get this and remember it was quite expensive, what a massive let down, it hardly had any games you could get and it seemed to fail pretty much straight away, I had spyhunter, doom and duke nukem and that was it

Ironhide wrote:The Sega 32X.

It was just stupidly unreliable, I had to get it replaced twice in the first month of getting it, then it broke again a week later but by that point the shop it was from (can't remember now) was refusing to replace or refund them.

You take that back!

Phones with camera notches

PostRe: What would you send to silicon hell? by KK » Mon Feb 27, 2023 11:59 am

Vermilion wrote:
Moggy wrote:
Vermilion wrote:Another item i'd add is the PS1 i owned, i wouldn't send all PS1's as generally it was a decent console, it's just mine was defective af, and wouldn't even work unless you put it on it's side.

Mine had to be completely upside down before it would work. strawberry float knows how I worked that out in the days before I had the internet.

I think i read about it somewhere, might have been a games mag, might have been a newspaper, either way, i did eventually work out how to get the damn thing to work.

Spent many, many hours playing F1 97 and the PS1 Final Fantasy games with the console on it's side.

At least in those days Sony would hand you another one at the door.

I found the PS1 very prone to scratching the discs. Nothing extreme, but they all seemed to end up with hairline scratches no matter how delicate you were with them. Maybe it had something to do with them being black, I dunno. I think I even managed to scratch a few using those OFFICIAL PLAYSTATION DISC WET WIPES.

There's a router we used to provide to customers at my work like 10 years ago - 2wire 2700 I think it was. God that thing was trash and had a common fault where the power supply would fail and cause the power light to just flash red. It had a VoIP phone port right beside the ADSL port as well and a lot of customers would plug their ADSL cable into the wrong one and wonder why it wasn't working, I don't necessarily blame them the thing was poorly labelled.

If I could retrospectively remove that piece of crap from existence and replace it with something more robust I might have less grey hair on my head today.

Victor Mildew wrote:
Ironhide wrote:The Sega 32X.

It was just stupidly unreliable, I had to get it replaced twice in the first month of getting it, then it broke again a week later but by that point the shop it was from (can't remember now) was refusing to replace or refund them.

You take that back!

Don't get me wrong, I really liked Virtua Racing Deluxe and Doom (even though it was a very bare bones port) but it was just so unreliable and janky.

Didn't prevent me from getting a Saturn either.

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