Are Gamecube Games Burnable?
 

Can I buy mini-cd's if I have a cd burning tray that will hold them and burn Gamecube games? Always wondered about this.

No. They are mini-DVDs anyway.

In order to play copies of Gamecube games (including being able to make your own) you'll need:

1) Gamecube Broadband Adapter
2) Router
3) Ethernet cable
4) At least 1.5GB per GC game.
5) A modchip such as the Qoob Pro (my personal recommendation)
6) The program NGCDEV installed onto the Qoob Pro
7) The hacked Qoob Pro BIOS


Install the modchip onto the cube. Flash the chip via USB to have the hacked BIOS and also install NGCDEV onto the chip. Plug in the broadband adapter into the GC. Boot the cube and go into the Qoob Pro menu, choose programs and load up NGCDEV. Follow its instructions to prep the game up. You'll download your game from your computer via the router (and ethernet cables) and you'll now have an ISO. Burn it via Nero onto mini-DVDs* and you're good to go.



*You can burn onto full size DVDs if you take off the original case top and either leave it off or get a specially designed case top.

See! EASY AS THAT! You can also get full Viper kits and disassemble your Gamecube to allow full size DVDs to fit into it. Oh boy it's real easy everyone does it.

Jesus H. Christ. Fuck that.

I read your original post about your experiences with this way back when. Remind me, how much should the overall cost be, if I include a custom case?

Probably more than the money you would save on future Gamecube releases.

Wow, thank you. This response really just made my day. ='D

Okay a few questions though for VG who is an expert on this.

How well does the modded GC play official games?
What is the compatibility of a modded GC and burned games? Do most work? Any try and true cases that just will not work?
And how many times did you attempt this before you got it to work?

Assuming you do things right, $60 for the chip, $30 for the case. And $15-20 if you get the broadband adapter to do your own ripping.

1. Perfectly fine.
2. I've only had a couple bad instances, but they were torrented ISOs so they were probably shitty rips. Everything I've ripped myself has been fine and dandy.
3. I screwed up 2 GC motherboards, which wasn't bad actually given I've never done soldering on something that small. I used to do soldering on joints for musical instruments, which is 15-30x the area to work with.

If you have a DOL-101 GC, soldering will be harder given that most chips require you to solder on BOTH sides of the motherboard.

Apparently you can flash the GC BIOS through Phantasy Star Online through a glitch in the game's programming.

And after that, play burned games just fine.

would you have a link to this method?

Basically, it's not even worth it. GC has like 15 good games total anyway, minus the games you actually have interest in. Now multiply this by $10 per used game at your local EBGamestop and you have a weeks worth of flipping burgers.

ie don't waste your time.

IIRC, you need the broadband adapter and can put ISOs on your Hard Drive of your PC.

Google around for a PSO Gamecube broadband hack

Yeah but due to lag with the transfer a lot of games are either laggy especially when it comes to audio or they just don't work at all. You're better off just buying the damn games.

Leave the pirating to the XBOX and PS consoles. Get the fun stuff there will actually helping Nintendo earn the well-deserved money.

:cow:

True.

You can pick up all the best titles on the Gamecube for under $100 US, unless you're wanting imports like the Bleach/Narutard titles.

Oh man, never buying a GC now. Fuck this shit.

...You're never buying a Gamecube because it's too hard to pirate games? Doesn't anybody in this place have a fucking job?

Truthfully, I already own a GC, but I hold a theory that how hard a console is to pirate for often affects how easily people buy one. PS1 was far easier to mod and play copied games on than the Saturn or N64. Similarly, a lot of people are already talking about modding the 360 and even PS3. Everyone hated carts because they were more expensive than CDs and also difficult to copy.

I might get into this when i can get a new system for $50.

Mainly because my brother FUBARed his games.

A factor, but not the defining one. By far. The average Joe looking to play some FIFA or MADDEN probably doesn't even know what modding is. Brand name and advertising help Sony sell consoles.

False. The saturn from what I've been reading looks like a fricken EASY solder job. # of wires? TWO. And somebody managed to loop the one around back onto the chip, so there's only 1 solder joint on the Saturn. I'll be attempting this later. (The modchip apparantly only applies to a 21-pin saturn.)

That's because every man and his dog went to psxmod.com and learned how to soldier modchips into PS1 systems. I remember the girl who did mine, she was wearing jeans and a bra. She was happy as larry, and even invited me into her room to test burned games out on it. Kinky.

I'm not sure if the PS2 is difficult to mod, but I must say that the Dreamcast's mod is simply by far the easiest to do. All you do is, uh, buy a Dreamcast. Most of the games don't even require a boot disc as they're generally already self booting. Gamecube's 28 step process sounds by far the most problematic, but there's always freeloaders.

I didn't do my PS2, but the GC required 6 solder joints for me. One of them was a total pain in the ass because you're doing it on some gold colored circle. Not even a real joint.

And I need to get a Dreamcast to add to my console collection.

They sell pirated GC games in asia and they work just fine on modded GC's.