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Inside The Nintendo GameCube

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the probing-luigis-innards dept.

Mortin writes "Icrontic.com has ripped apart a Nintendo GameCube. They document the entire procedure with a myriad of pictures. It's neat to see how clearly the Xbox and GameCube differ in respect to physical hardware." Luigi's mansion looks cool. The Star Wars game wasn't very fun. But the cube is so tiny, it's cute!

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  1. A couple [2] of links... by hyyx · · Score: 5, Informative

    The link is already slashdotted. I couldn't find a cache on Google. Here is an alternative link to another gutting of the Gamecube. All this Gamecube gutting reminds me of Ben Heckendorn's next project at VCSp to make the Gamecube into a portable... watch for it.

  2. Re:ATI's driver history by WhyCause · · Score: 5, Informative
    ATI did NOT design the graphics chip in the GameCube.

    The chip was designed by a company called ArtX, which was purchased by ATI prior to the mass production of the GameCube. I believe that ATI kept most of the employee base from ArtX, and let them run with it through final production. I wouldn't be surprised if it came out that ATI bought ArtX just so they could say "see, we make console GPUs too," to nVidia. A lot of this is from an interview with one of the head engineers on the Flipper chip that I read on IGN, but I can't find now.

    Having an ATI GPU doesn't give me worm and fuzzies

    I, for one, am very glad that you don't have worms ;)

  3. Gee, you don't say. by nobodyman · · Score: 5, Informative
    Maybe it's because Nintendo released 750,000 gamecubes and Microsoft only released 350,000 Xbox units? So, when you consider that both consoles sold out, your factoid amounts to exactly jack shit.

    As long as they both sold out, it's pretty hard to guage which has greater demand at this point, so stop spreading your Microsoft-bashing FUD.