jbogart1973 said:
Wiisel said:
Yeah WODE has to be the best option on the market at the moment for none disc loading of GC It may pay to wait for the WODE Elite or Lite depending on your needs or alternatively SUN-HD and Flatzii are comming.
As a mod and a WODE user tho I should say get a WODE lol
I want to play my GC game roms but i dont want this WODE thing (no disc backups) on my 4.3 wii but if im understanding u right ur saying there is no app or emulator of any kind out there that will do that ?
And any one know why u can play other roms games like atari 2600 coleco etc,.... but not GC Games?
Easy there with the necrobumping, man. You never know what kind of outdated info you may dig up.
At the time that was written (little over a year ago), that was correct. New wii's shipped (and still ship) with drives that don't read backup discs, and wode WAS the only viable option. For a while, there was talk about Crediar working on DIOS MIOS, which was a software only solution...but the project got scrapped not long after it was proven to be not impossible (in truth, however, it was just too complex).
...but since then, there is a new way: it's called swiss. But before I tell more about that, I have to answer your other question:
these games are emulated. This means that the application pretty much creates the exact same structure as the original platform. The process of doing that, however, requires a much more powerfull machine than the original machine was. Two or three times as powerfull is no exception, and even then, things aren't always as smooth. It also depends on the architecture of the machine you DO have. The PSP, for example, isn't that more powerfull than a PSX, but because the hardware is so similar, it can be emulated more easily.
The gamecube, obviously, was quite a powerfull machine. Not as powerfull as the wii, but any "full emulation" would cause even the simplest of games to slow down to a crawl. As such, the only way to get gamecube games to work on the first place is to use the similar architecture and alter that to have the exact same structure as the original platform.
And the gamecube didn't have USB ports. As such, they simply cannot be found. It's the same reason why you can't use wiimotes or classic controllers (the gamecube didn't have bluetooth modules).
So...with nothing but the original gear of the gamecube available, what CAN you do? Simply put: use the gear that the gamecube had. And that's what swiss does: it uses an SD gecko, plugged in a GC memory slot, to load the games from an SD card.
swiss is actually gamecube homebrew. But it works on the wii just as well. provided you have an SD gecko (which costs as low as 5 bucks at certain places). For info, check the tutorial section: there's at least one good guide about it.
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