#131196 - meshounah - Tue Jun 12, 2007 3:23 am
hello i own a gamecube and i would like to run homebrews. However i really don't want to use Phantasy Star online. so my question is: can i install a modchip and then just burn roms to a mini-cd and presto?
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#131197 - tepples - Tue Jun 12, 2007 3:54 am
You don't need to solder in a mod chip. All you need is an SD loader. A boot disc fits in the drive, and an SD adapter fits in SLOT-A.
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#131198 - meshounah - Tue Jun 12, 2007 4:05 am
oh ok cool. then whats the point of mod chips?
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#131205 - Fatnickc - Tue Jun 12, 2007 7:36 am
A common point of modchips is to allow foreign games to be played without the use of a Freeloader.
#131214 - Lynx - Tue Jun 12, 2007 1:42 pm
I'd guess they were around prior to boot CDs? Just like saying, "what's the point of a PassMe?"
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#131227 - meshounah - Tue Jun 12, 2007 4:52 pm
oh kool thanks
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#131287 - meshounah - Wed Jun 13, 2007 7:32 pm
another question is gamecube linux stalled(gc-linux.org) as there seems to be no activity on the site?
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#132933 - elyk1212 - Sun Jul 01, 2007 10:30 pm
Biggest point of modchips.... cheap. Got XenoGC for $10, DuoQ was the same. Easy to install too (except Xeno was a bad solution, not a hard install just odd. no wires = strange).
Those SD loaders, I don't know what they go for these days, but when I checked they were a bit expensive.
#133143 - tepples - Tue Jul 03, 2007 8:12 pm
If you have to buy soldering equipment and/or learn to solder, and all your users have to do the same, then your time might be worth the price of an SD loader.
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#133155 - elyk1212 - Tue Jul 03, 2007 9:18 pm
Yes, true true, and more so on the lines of reusable development environment.
I want to get a 2gb Flash card I can develop GC games on. I have to look into how to do that. Beats wasting discs. Does SD loader have some kind of solution for this (large card, etc)?
#133218 - Lynx - Wed Jul 04, 2007 5:29 am
| tepples wrote: |
| If you have to buy soldering equipment and/or learn to solder, and all your users have to do the same, then your time might be worth the price of an SD loader. |
WHAT? How about the price of the unit when you F* it up? I first dabbled in this stuff to import Guitar Freaks for the PS1.. What a learning experience. Buy a $10 mod chip, wreck a $100 PS1.. Nice.. next time, I bought the $20 or $30 Plug mod instead.. and I have an associates in electronics and have worked for PCB manufactures and assemblers. So, it's not just soldering skills that you need.. You also need to know what the hell you are doing.
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#133271 - elyk1212 - Wed Jul 04, 2007 9:51 pm
Yeah... I have a finishing up my BS in Computer engineering (it is a combo of Electrical engineering and Comp Sci) and am starting my masters in CS this semester... we never learned the basics of Tech soldering etc in school, only design and engineering stuff. But I never had too much trouble with the soldering stuff or chips. Except a few burns and irritations.
The secret, LOADS OF NON ROSIN FLUX and a microscope or magnifying device :)
Seriously, dude, flux rocks. You can easily attach wires with one little touch. No biggie. The prob with Playstations are those small ribbon cables (PS2, not so much ps1) and other crap like that. Those get old and the holders and cables crack.
Good news, GameCube has nothing like that :) It is one of the easiest systems to mod I have ever encountered. Except, you have to find tune your potentiometer on the laser, but that is just trial and error, also easy. Also, gamecubes can be purchased used for $30 or less on eBay etc. Not bad. But I can totally understand not wanting to, based on that chance of screwing up.
Also, I could use a LARGE CAPACITY reusable flash solution for programming. That would really be cool! :)
#134985 - calcprogrammer1 - Thu Jul 19, 2007 12:56 am
I'm looking into getting an SD Loader for my GC...I have a Wii now so I thought I might as well use my GC for homebrew or something useful. I'd like to run gc-linux on it or a media center of some sort. The thing I'm concerned with is, is there any sites that actually have GC homebrew? The only thing I've found is gc-linux, which looks like it's been dead for quite some time.
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#135046 - elyk1212 - Thu Jul 19, 2007 7:16 pm
"The only thing I've found is gc-linux, which looks like it's been dead for quite some time."
There is the sister site for homebrew.. dun dun dunnnnn.... http://www.gcdev.com/ Click on upper right hand side graphic that reads "discussion form", not all links work.
You can lean a lot from that site. I am going to start a GC project with SD Gecko when I am done with my GBA game. I looked into that solution after my last post (and it looks like a great solution to use with my $10 mod chip and action pro/ SDLoad). There are great references on gcdev etc. There is a good library, libgc or something to that effect. It is referenced a lot on that site. You get it with the DevkitPro ->DevkitPPC package, from what I gather.
EDIT: Oh yeah, the library is called: Libogc
I just remembered
#135468 - calcprogrammer1 - Mon Jul 23, 2007 7:00 pm
I've seen a lot of GC homebrew stating it requires the broadband adapter because it streams from the PC. Is there any newer homebrew that runs entirely on the Cube, reading files from the SD? I was wondering if there was any kind of media player for the Cube that could play files off the SD (and the network too, if available, it may be some time before I get either the broadband or the SD launcher, but I won't be getting them at the same time).
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#135484 - elyk1212 - Mon Jul 23, 2007 9:44 pm
| calcprogrammer1 wrote: |
| I've seen a lot of GC homebrew stating it requires the broadband adapter because it streams from the PC. Is there any newer homebrew that runs entirely on the Cube, reading files from the SD? I was wondering if there was any kind of media player for the Cube that could play files off the SD (and the network too, if available, it may be some time before I get either the broadband or the SD launcher, but I won't be getting them at the same time). |
I think there is a whole article (google for this) on how to set up Action replay to load applications from SD card. You just enter a specific code in to action replay for fetching the instruction from SD (this is on the article I was talking about). There is no need to stream from broadband. I think that is just another option to load, and perhaps save time transferring the DOL to and from SD, or making a disc. You just use devkitPPC, compile to DOL, transfer to SD, and use action replay.
Anyway, some old homebrew may be referencing the old way of loading "Phantasy star Online with Broadband". I guess it would depend on what the application was doing, as far as needing the broadband.
Anyone?
#135485 - calcprogrammer1 - Mon Jul 23, 2007 10:06 pm
I know you can load DOL's from the SD card...I'm not looking at the AR method, I'm looking at the Datel SD Media Launcher, it has a CD that loads a program and it has a GC SD card adapter, it boots DOL's automatically. I'm just wondering how much software out there is able to run from the SD, a lot of it appears to be built for the old PSOload methods and broadband streaming.
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