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Gamecube Guts

Posted by michael on from the pg-13 dept.

CamelTrader writes: "I was runnin around the net looking for info on dreamcast controller hacks and I found this sweet site that exposes the guts of a gamecube. The pics are here. Take a gander at the rest of the GamesX site if you are into hardware hacking, its very cool."

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  1. Glad someone has the guts ! by Anton+Anatopopov · · Score: 3, Informative
    Whenever a new piece of hardware comes out, there is always one pioneering hacker who takes the risk, and opens the damn thing up to find out whats inside.

    Long live this spirit of investigation. It is what true hacking (as opposed to cracking) is all about.

    Whenever I buy a PC, the first thing I do, before I even plug it in, is take the case apart and have a look inside. Am I the only one who does this ? I doubt it :-)

  2. Re:The only worry is about pirate games... by Aztech · · Score: 5, Informative

    Remember these 'wee' discs are not the same as the 8mm mini CD's you find now and then, they are truly weird custom 5mm DVD's which I doubt you'll ever find on the market unless some factory in China does a major haul. They are also double-layered, none of the DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD+RW drives handle double-layered discs of any kind.

    I doubt the GC could play games from CDR, given the fact it doesn't read Redbook audio discs this probably indicates it doesn't read CD's at all.

    Also... did you see the custom authentication strips on the innerside of the disc, try and get your DVD-R to burn those!

  3. Re:Hacks maybe? by timbloid · · Score: 3, Informative
    And again, LikSang come up trumps with a GameCube/N64 VGA adaptor, which allows you to:
    • Connect your Game Cube or Nintendo64 console to a VGA monitor for a much brighter display
    • Auto switching between TV game or PC connection (you can connect your PC and GC/N64 at the same time)
    • Automatic PAL/NTSC detection
    • Outputs: Speaker, VGA, AV Multi Out
    • Inputs: VGA, AV Multi, Sound card
  4. Re:mirror requested by gabebear · · Score: 2, Informative

    someone already posted this but messed up the URL. Google's text cache is at http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:UPJqyYJnstg:w ww.gamesx.com/misctech/gamecube.htm+&hl=en

  5. Re:XBox by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Sorry dude, the XBox isn't just a nVidia card and a PIII. You can't just install Windows 2000 on it and hack away. Contrary to what many believe it is more than a PC-in-a-box. Just because your PC has a GeForce3 and a 1.0 GHz CPU doesn't mean that it would even come close to the XBox in performance.. The XBox squeezes an incredible amount of performance out of the system components.

    Microsoft also implemented some satanic certification mechanism thingy that prevents retail consoles from playing compiled/developer versions of games. You would require a developer console plus the developer SDK/license (several thousand dollars, and joe shmoe can't go to microsoft and get one with a handful of cash). Then you gotta send your final product to MS for them to embed some digital certificate mojo and burn it onto custom DVDs (binaries cannot be run from the internal HD except on devkits).

    I don't think that the XBox would be any easier to hack than the GameCube. Of course, that won't keep people from trying.

    I'm not saying that the XBox rules all.. Just trying to point out that it is just like the other consoles and not a PC in a perty box. On a side note: It doesn't have as much 'general-purpose' power as the PS2, but the texturing capabilities make up for that.

    I'm not an expert... just reading slashdot, taking a break from programming on an XBox devkit ;-).