FenrirWolf said:From what I've been told, it's because GCN games don't go through IOS to access the hardware, they can talk directly to the disc drive, memory card slot, controller, etc. MIOS loads the main.dol upon startup but doesn't have a say in what goes on with the hardware after that. You can't patch it to redirect DI commands from the disc drive to USB since it's not involved in the process at all, unlike Wii games and IOS.
carbonyle said:this kind of thread should not exist anymore: each time i log on GBAtemp I saw a new topic like this one.... for fuck sake there is a search engine
I don't think a SDGecko is the best way, WODE (and others newest modchip like sunkey drive or something like that (and the other ugly one wich is an extended microSD slot) are better alternative
smf said:FenrirWolf said:From what I've been told, it's because GCN games don't go through IOS to access the hardware, they can talk directly to the disc drive, memory card slot, controller, etc. MIOS loads the main.dol upon startup but doesn't have a say in what goes on with the hardware after that. You can't patch it to redirect DI commands from the disc drive to USB since it's not involved in the process at all, unlike Wii games and IOS.
That is true, however it's not the end of the story.
If it were then streaming games over a broadband adapter and loading them from a sdgecko wouldn't be possible.
You can scan memory for DI accesses and patch them. So as long as you can get PPC to communicate with starlet in GC mode, then it's perfectly doable.
Redirecting controllers and memory cards would also be technically possible in the same way.
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lol'd.Pyrofyr said:Of course it can be done, people on GBATemp love saying something can't be done if it hasn't been done. I mean go ahead and look at GBA eventually being emulated on DS. Everyone with their "CANT BE DONE!!", well NeoGeo shouldn't have technically been able to be emulated on DS either, but it WAS.
WODE doesn't whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?!WiiPower said:carbonyle said:this kind of thread should not exist anymore: each time i log on GBAtemp I saw a new topic like this one.... for fuck sake there is a search engine
I don't think a SDGecko is the best way, WODE (and others newest modchip like sunkey drive or something like that (and the other ugly one wich is an extended microSD slot) are better alternative
WODE doesn't play the the audio streams, so it's not a very good alternative. And the 3x speed the wii runs backup discs at is the same speed GC games are played.