Gamecube - Playing the ISOs, RGB, 240p, digital video and more!! Mega thread

Was the GB player hardware based or did it use software emulation?

norton9478 said:

Was the GB player hardware based or did it use software emulation?

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Hardware based, whole contents of a GBA are in there IIRC

Yet gimped with a software key to make it work. Look how much that GB Player disc costs up on ebay vs the player itself, it's sickening. It's a legit GBA without the audio/visual output built into it, it uses the GC as a passthrough to the TV.

I pity the fool who uses GB Player without the new GBI frontend

DanAdamKOF said:

I pity the fool who uses GB Player without the new GBI frontend

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+1, got a GBA player without the disc on ebay a few months ago and saved a shitload of money. GBI is the way to go.

How much should I spend on a GBA player? Someone is selling one for $100.

NGCDFreak said:

How much should I spend on a GBA player? Someone is selling one for $100.

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$20 shipped. Seriously.

unless it has the disc, then $60 shipped at most.
But, seriously, the disc isn't worth it.

Without the disc you have to chip the system though, right?

Jibbajaba said:

Without the disc you have to chip the system though, right?

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No, then you can get an Action Replay and run software off an SD card via mem card adapter.

Why do I have to keep answering these questions

ki_atsushi said:

No, then you can get an Action Replay and run software off an SD card via mem card adapter.

Why do I have to keep answering these questions

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Cuz now you the Cubemaster.

I've been out the GC scene for a while too. Amazing what's come up. I still rock my Qoob Pro modded GC every now and then.

Yeah just giving my boy jibbs shit

But yeah, everyone should know of the magic that is GBI. Especially if you just bought an Everdrive for GBA.

I posted awhile back that I was taking the plunge on a PAL Gamecube. NeoDogg asked me if I could let him know how things went, so I figured I'd share with everyone.

I bought a loose PAL Gamecube from an eBay auction. I wasn't expecting much besides a console in gamer's condition (slightly yellowed, scratched and chipped, and missing a missing port cover), which is exactly what I got. But this Cube has to be one of the filthiest things I ever bought from eBay. Not only was it dirty on the outside, but the fan and intake vent were completely caked over in a combination of dust, dirt, and pet hair. I had to completely take the thing apart and scrub it down to get all the funk out.

It was also packed in a flimsy box, and padded with three bubble mailers and a wad of shrink wrap. The package looked like the eBay Global Shipping Department played a few rounds of soccer with it before sending it on. Thankfully Nintendo made these for children to bash each other over the head with lunchbox style, so it survived the trip over the pond.

After cleaning it works great and I've been having fun playing around with it. I already had controllers, Gameboy Player, RGB cable, etc - and it runs just fine using the power supply from my US region Gamecube.

I didn't mod it since I don't trust my soldering skills. Instead my old Freeloader disc boots up just fine, and I use that to run my US region SD Media Launcher. From there I can boot the Gameboy Interface program. I've been using the ULL version to display at 240p on my PVM and it looks absolutely fantastic. I have one of RetroZone's old SNES to Gamecube controller adapters too which I like much better then using the GC controller. (I remember seeing those Hori digital controllers for $5 a pop at a anime convention years ago. Wish I had bought some now.)

I haven't experimented with playing any GC games in RGB yet, but the GBA stuff is crazy awesome with Gameboy Interface. I'm glad I kept all my GC gear in the back of the closet. If you don't already own the Freeloader and Media Launcher discs though, modding would certainly be a much cheaper (and more convenient) way to go.

Ive got an extra JP GBA startup disc if anyone needs

ki_atsushi said:

Yeah just giving my boy jibbs shit

But yeah, everyone should know of the magic that is GBI. Especially if you just bought an Everdrive for GBA.

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Wish I would have known about this before I sold all my gamecube gear including the 2 gamecube players I purchased from Game Stop with discs for like $10 each.

Guess I'll have to stick with my GBA to play gba games.

Westcb said:

I just did this recently and glad you started this thread. So far I got a pal cube, put in the xeno chip (7 bucks off eBay). I got this initially to prepare my body for the GBA ever drive that should be coming this week :-) after dicking around with the GameCube I burned a mini DVD but then read about the SD adapter to mem card. I loaded the Homebrew gameboy player after burning the boot disc called Swiss. With that utility I have successfully ran everything I tried so far* at 240p. I used a 8 gig mini sdhc mem card formatted at fat32 and had no issue so far. Not sure how big of a card you can use? If I don't use Swiss then my cube outputs what I'm guessing is 480i or 576i to my rgb monitor. Image looks blurry unless I force a progressive resolution. I had a GameCube but finished college and was working when it was released so missed a lot of games (I only owned like wind waker, pikmin, fzero and metroid prime). I'm going back now checking out the Hudson collection games, luigi mansion, paper Mario, pikmin 2, viewtiful Joe, and that Nintendo puzzle compilation. So far I'm having a blast and although I got a modded Wii somewhere I never used it outside of just some emulation so I didn't even think to boot GC games on it.
There may be better methods for all of this as I just started messing with it a couple weeks ago butt so far I'm loving having another system to run on this monitor with scart. For me this seemed like the best way to run my GBA cartridges and getting to check out games I missed has just been a very nice bonus. I was a huge fan of wave bird controllers BITD so was great to use one again , so glad I hung onto this old GC stuff :-) look forward to learning more about what all it can do and is it possible to by pass the disc drive completely and just boot Swiss off the memcard reader if you have a chip?

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So you're using a PAL cube with RGB/SCART to a PVM in the USA?

The Xeno chip is needed for this? Once that's installed, is there any weirdness that gets in the way of popping in a USA retail disk and playing? Opening the disc tray, swapping discs, additional menus, etc.?

2050-Z said:

So you're using a PAL cube with RGB/SCART to a PVM in the USA?



The Xeno chip is needed for this? Once that's installed, is there any weirdness that gets in the way of popping in a USA retail disk and playing? Opening the disc tray, swapping discs, additional menus, etc.?

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I'm running it on a ikegami, and yeah it boots NTSC disks that I own just fine I only have tried about 5 or 6 retail NTSC games though. The rest I have just booted off a SD card without a disc. You only get additional menus etc if you boot into Swiss.

Very cool. I'm absolutely going to pick up a PAL cube then.

That'll give me a single Nintendo Multi Out > RGB SCART cable for NES, SNES, N64, and GameCube.

Then Wii + Component for GCN 480p games + Wii. I guess I'll need to pick up a second RGB/Component card for my PVM-14L5 to truly complete the plugged-in setup...

Well, I'm resurrecting this thread because I've gotten back into real Gamecube stuff in the past week or so. I got the Sex Lord's Gamecube stuff which included a GBA Everdrive, Action Replay and SD Memory Card adapter. In the meantime, I fished out my old Gamecube and svideo cable and installed a Xeno GC mod chip into it, ordered some mini DVD-Rs, and started experimenting.

The Xeno install was a pain in the ass, but not for the reasons you might think. It's only a few solder points, not very difficult, but according to the online tutorials the way you bench test it is to check the LEDs on the chip. What's supposed to happen is when you boot the cube it has a red light, it turns off, then switches to green or orange. Mine stayed red, so I redid the install like 6 times, wondering what I was doing wrong. Finally, I just threw in a burn I made of F-Zero GX and it loaded up the first time, even though the LED was still red. I tweaked the laser pot a bit and it works great now.

Also, the hype for Gameboy Interface is real. The ULL version doesn't work with my TV, but the LL works great. 240p greatness on my CRT, it looks fantastic on s-video. My original GBP disc is totally going up on ebay soon. I've been playing one of the Fire Emblem games, and other than the fact that it's not full screen it looks like a lost SNES game. The colors are so much better on the TV now.

Then I got Ki's memory card stuff in yesterday. Functionally there isn't any difference between using a DVD-R with Swiss and GBI on it and using the Action Replay and memory card adapter, but using the AR is probably more reliable since the cube laser can be picky about reading DVD-Rs.

Also, the GBA Everdrive totally shits all over any GBA flash cart I've ever used. Anyone need an EZ Flash 4?

GohanX said:

Well, I'm resurrecting this thread because I've gotten back into real Gamecube stuff in the past week or so. I got the Sex Lord's Gamecube stuff which included a GBA Everdrive, Action Replay and SD Memory Card adapter. In the meantime, I fished out my old Gamecube and svideo cable and installed a Xeno GC mod chip into it, ordered some mini DVD-Rs, and started experimenting.

The Xeno install was a pain in the ass, but not for the reasons you might think. It's only a few solder points, not very difficult, but according to the online tutorials the way you bench test it is to check the LEDs on the chip. What's supposed to happen is when you boot the cube it has a red light, it turns off, then switches to green or orange. Mine stayed red, so I redid the install like 6 times, wondering what I was doing wrong. Finally, I just threw in a burn I made of F-Zero GX and it loaded up the first time, even though the LED was still red. I tweaked the laser pot a bit and it works great now.

Also, the hype for Gameboy Interface is real. The ULL version doesn't work with my TV, but the LL works great. 240p greatness on my CRT, it looks fantastic on s-video. My original GBP disc is totally going up on ebay soon. I've been playing one of the Fire Emblem games, and other than the fact that it's not full screen it looks like a lost SNES game. The colors are so much better on the TV now.

Then I got Ki's memory card stuff in yesterday. Functionally there isn't any difference between using a DVD-R with Swiss and GBI on it and using the Action Replay and memory card adapter, but using the AR is probably more reliable since the cube laser can be picky about reading DVD-Rs.

Also, the GBA Everdrive totally shits all over any GBA flash cart I've ever used. Anyone need an EZ Flash 4?

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We must consummate this relationship, F-0 was my first GC cd-r too...also red light district:

http://www.neo-geo.com/forums/showthread.php?268234-GC-Xeno-chip-install

I never had to adjust my laser on either chip install.

Damn, I wish I had seen that thread before! I spent all night redoing that stupid install lol. I might throw another one into Ki's cube just because I can.

Laser adjustment seems to be random, without adjusting my cube would boot the game just fine but would give disc read errors after five minutes. I checked the pot with my multimeter and it was actually way out of spec anyway, it's a wonder that real games worked on it at all.

Sounds like more trouble than it's worth. I'll stick with Dolphin.

Well if I were sane I'd just be using the Wii for all this stuff.

Good thing I'm not sane.

I got the Raphnet SNES to Gamecube controller adapter today, and I'm using the wireless 8bitdo SNES controller with it. Awwwww yeah nigga!

The button layout isn't great by default but you can reconfigure with GBI so it's nearly perfect.

You have me itching to get this same setup going Gohan!