GCN Easy way to hack a GameCube?

[Deleted User]

I have a GameCube and I'd Ike to use it, but I don't know of any simple hacks for the GC. Heck, do they even exist? Would it be possible to somehow run games via a HDD connected to GameCube?

I know, there's always the "GameCube Slim" though I'd like to try it on an actual GC.

 

[zfreeman]

"WiSD" + Action Replay (2007?) + non-SDHC SD card.

 

[Mark McDonut]

There's some stuff you can do, but a lot of it requires either the action replay disc with a wiikey adapter (which is just a memory card adapter for gamecube you can plug an SD card into) or a copy of smash bros and a modded savefile with the same adapter. Getting backups to run correctly is a royal pain in the ass, the few launcher apps available like swiss or gcos are picky about SD cards over 2GB, so if you're running a 1.2gb gc backup, it's one at a time and the down-ported apps from the wii homeberew versions like vbagx, hugo, fceux, and genplusgx run ok, but again you need a specific directory structure, and depending on how many roms you want to throw on there you run out of that 2gb upper limit pretty quick again.

You can swap in a larger SD card once you boot to your homebrew launcher, but you're pretty much swapping stuff back and forth whereas with a wii you can run from ~32GB SD or ~500GB usb disk or a wiiu, with a ~128GB SD card without needing to boot something off a 2 gb SD card first.

So again, you CAN do it, but I more or less did it years ago because it's what a I had to work with, now I prefer to use a wii or a wii u running nintendont.

 

[Deleted User]

There's some stuff you can do, but a lot of it requires either the action replay disc with a wiikey adapter (which is just a memory card adapter for gamecube you can plug an SD card into) or a copy of smash bros and a modded savefile with the same adapter. Getting backups to run correctly is a royal pain in the ass, the few launcher apps available like swiss or gcos are picky about SD cards over 2GB, so if you're running a 1.2gb gc backup, it's one at a time and the down-ported apps from the wii homeberew versions like vbagx, hugo, fceux, and genplusgx run ok, but again you need a specific directory structure, and depending on how many roms you want to throw on there you run out of that 2gb upper limit pretty quick again.

You can swap in a larger SD card once you boot to your homebrew launcher, but you're pretty much swapping stuff back and forth whereas with a wii you can run from ~32GB SD or ~500GB usb disk or a wiiu, with a ~128GB SD card without needing to boot something off a 2 gb SD card first.

So again, you CAN do it, but I more or less did it years ago because it's what a I had to work with, now I prefer to use a wii or a wii u running nintendont.

Oh, man, that's a shame. I guess I'll just use my Wii then.

Is getting a GC chipped somewhat cheaper now, like, ballpark number?

 

[Shadow#1]

I have a GameCube and I'd Ike to use it, but I don't know of any simple hacks for the GC. Heck, do they even exist? Would it be possible to somehow run games via a HDD connected to GameCube?

I know, there's always the "GameCube Slim" though I'd like to try it on an actual GC.

WTF is a "GameCube Slim" ?

 

[Shadow#1]

Oh, man, that's a shame. I guess I'll just use my Wii then.

Is getting a GC chipped somewhat cheaper now, like, ballpark number?

$2-5

 

[Kwyjor]

Is getting a GC chipped somewhat cheaper now, like, ballpark number?

Even if you get it chipped, I don't think there's an elegant way to pry the casing apart so that it can use full-size discs.

 

[izy]

WTF is a "GameCube Slim" ?

The wii

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Even if you get it chipped, I don't think there's an elegant way to pry the casing apart so that it can use full-size discs.

There are shell replacements

 

[Shadow#1]

Even if you get it chipped, I don't think there's an elegant way to pry the casing apart so that it can use full-size discs.

Disc burning is of the past get one the new solderless dive replacements and go SD

 

[Clydefrosch]

You probably want this but it's far from easy


The easy way, yes, is using the wii/u

 

[RHOPKINS13]

You can use a Wii to install a savegame exploit on a Gamecube memory card, and that's the easiest way I know of to use homebrew on a stock GC. As far as playing backups though, I don't think there's any way of using a hard drive that doesn't have compatibility issues. For now, a modded Wii seems to be the better way of playing Gamecube backups.

 

[KleinesSinchen]

For the most part a Wii (RVL-001 model with GC controller and Memory Card connectors) can do pretty much everything a GC can do. The most important advantage of a GC is the ability to use the Game Boy Player.

Swiss has become very good at using SD cards connected to the EXI-bus (either Memory Card slots or SD2SP2). Depending on the method you choose to load Swiss this can be tedious or easy. [GC-Forever] Booting Homebrew. I've had no issues with latest Swiss versions – currently using an exFAT formatted 64GB SD. Loading times are comparable to the disc drive and cutscenes seem to be working now. The 2GB limitation comes from the Datel software; the switching back and forth between SD and SD(HC|XC) is not needed when using other easily/cheaply available entrypoints (Save exploits, XenoGC and Swiss on DVD-R)

You probably want this but it's far from easy

A full optical drive emulator (GC Loader) is arguably the best method bypassing the need for the aging laser altogether. Since the new version eliminates the previously required soldering it is not hard to install. Only downside is that it is more expensive than other methods (but you get more for your money, too)