Buy your Gamecubes, GC piracy has begun

Matlock said:
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:lol
 
Hollywood said:
Their all pains in the ass, but this one even more so since you can't actually have the discs to play inside the system. You don't have a format to go into the system, with ps2 and xbox once its modded, you just put in burned games. You need a whole seperate drive and connection to do it on GC.

Why do you need a whole nother drive? The first post says it loads mini DVDR's, but you have to have an original game too. Can you explain your post.
 
Sorry.. but playing bootlets on a ps2 is effortless now..

With a HD loader, and a PC, that equals 0 effort..

Just dl the game, and copy it to the Hard drive..

it's that simple..
 
So I'm just curious as to how the innards of consoles work....why can't there be like a "boot disc" that lets you put it in, then swap it out with the game? Why do you have to open the console and screw with stuff? What is a mod chip doing?
 
usually a console has an on board bios witch contains info about what it is allowed to boot and what not.
a modchip bypasses that bios chip (it is installed in such a way that the console reads the modchip instead of the consoles bios chip)
that way the modder can tell the console what it can boot (unsigned code)

with the gamecube its a different story tho, and i honnestly cant explain how they pulled this off, if it is indeed real.
 
Looking at those pictures makes me wonder:

Do the latest rev GameCubes have the second serial port (on the bottom)?
 
Neo_ZX said:
Isn't the GC disc hole a different size than normal media?
no... seriously, where do all of these weird gamecube rumors come form? they don't spin backwards, they are standard "small" sized discs, they dont read from the outside in, they just have a really good, accurate encryption method.
 
The thing is that all the die hards who WANT to pirate GC games have already been doing so, and the casual consumer won't bother.

I am confused as to how posts that essentially say "Nifty keen! I will go pirate video games now" don't violate the TOS.
 
ImNotLikeThem said:
no... seriously, where do all of these weird gamecube rumors come form? they don't spin backwards, they are standard "small" sized discs, they dont read from the outside in, they just have a really good, accurate encryption method.
Indeed
 
The Real GC Scene Speaks Out Concerning ViperGC
Apparently the recently announced gamecube modchip has stirred some controversy due to its development. Many sources have complained that this is not much more than a rip of tmbinc's original hardware work. Now tmbinc has spoken out concering some new development coming out before the end of the year, in effect disclosing all information on how to make your own viper-like hardware in order to keep commercial proliferation of the scene away.

From all of the staff at ps2-scene.org we want to publically say we are fully behind the work of tmbinc and those that contribute to the GC scene with no commercial aspirations.

You can read the entire thread concerning the ViperGc and tmbinc's work Here

we have also added some links to dextrose forums and gcdev into our gamecube section.

http://www.ps2newz.net/forums/showthread.php?t=29358

the original thread http://www.dextrose.com/_forum/showthread.php?&threadid=10349
 
Gamefreax confirms...

Cobra Bios confirmed to work ( 17.12.2004 )

We had the chance to test the Cobra Bios finally and we can now confirm that it really works. We first tested it with an ISO of Zelda the four swords on a Datatrack Mini DVD-R which didnt work, then we went one step further and burned the same ISO to a normal size Verbatim DVD-R in 4x Speed and tested it after taking off the complete lid of the Gamecube. This one works just perfect. We'll set up a small movie in a few minutes for all you who can't wait to see their own mod working :-)
 
The folks at that ps2 board and dextrose oughta be impressed when that video goes up. Provided its no hoax.

Whats exactly involved though here? I get the impression this might be harder than a PS2/Xbox mod.

Other Mini-DVDR media may work. Removing the lid would make it an unpopular mod... I'm sure there will be ways of making it work. There are forms of DVDR that will be hell to get working on PS2 and Xbox mods as well. As long as its reading some form of DVDR media, that's the thing.

You know what I'd love to see come out of this? A homebrew improved front end for the GBA player, with Super Eagle/2xSAI type engines... and it'd be a stretch, but multiplayer support?
 
ImNotLikeThem said:
no... seriously, where do all of these weird gamecube rumors come form? they don't spin backwards, they are standard "small" sized discs, they dont read from the outside in, they just have a really good, accurate encryption method.


They do read from the outside in, read the hardware faqs on IGN or google it. The gamecube disc technology are suppose to be based off of DVD though. I am guessing that the bios tells the GC to read the DVD-R/mini-dvdr to read from the inside out(that traditional drives do).
 
In regards to DVD-R media :

³ After a few tests here is what we think:
³
³ - For DVD-R, most media are working, except some cheap no-names. On
³ some drives only the best media is working really fine.
³
³ - BUT FOR MINI-DVD-R it's more tricky. We tested the following brand:
³ SONY DVD-R 1.4GB handycam: doesn't work
³ TDK DVD-R 1.4GB scratchproof: doesn't work
³ MAXELL DVD-R 1.4GB: sometime boots, but then loose sync
³ DATAWRITE DVD-R 1.4GB: on some drives it works 100% like the
³ best DVD-R, but on some other drives it just can't sync
³ (when it does its working perfectly)
³
³ In fact, we have some idea on how to improve the compatibility with
³ bad media in our next BIOS. For now we really suggest you to find
³ a good full-size DVD-R media, and get the opinion of other users.
³
 
Society said:
So you have to take the case off the GCN AND mod it to work?

Congrats to them for the tech, however I do not see this being popular at all.
i said this a few years ago, back when people were still speculating...

how long do you think it will take someone to set up a HK assembly line for widemouth GCN lids?
 
If you read my post above, I don't think it sounds like people will have to resort to removing or changing the lid for the gamecube.
 
This will probably boost GC sales ... by about 10%. If they ever get it to work with mini-dvds without swapping. Have been working 3 years on this now? That's some dedication.
 
The Faceless Master said:
yah but 8CM media costs more
Which would you rather? spend a few extra $$ on these mini-dvdr's or to hack off the top of your console so that you can use regular size dvds?
 
The Faceless Master said:
i'd rather just buy games...
Next thing you know, you'll be telling us you'd rather not have a Zelda game where Ganon kills Zelda and Link is burning with generic rage.
 
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