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Homebrew GameCube Coding Tools Released

Posted by simoniker on from the pso-and-007-go-straight-to-back-of-class dept.

EGSonikku writes "Costis has released his PSOLoad (for Win32) tool, which takes advantage of an exploit in the GameCube game Phantasy Star Online to upload and run code on a totally unmodified GameCube. A demo is included, and you can build your own GameCube binaries using Torlus' GCC build." Although it still has the potential for misuse, this could have more positive ramifications than trying to copy existing games.

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  1. Actually by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This has potential to be used legitimately, but will probably be used mostly to trade and download games off the internet.

    GCN discs are so small its hard to scratch them. I work in a game store, see tons of used gcn discs a day, and only a handful were scratched. Why doesn't everyone quit lying and just admit that they really want to steal games?

    1. Re:Actually by alph0ns3 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      It's not for "backup" only, you might want to run linux or emulators on your gamecube... That's what I do most of the time on my dreamcast...

  2. Re:Hmmm... by Iscariot_ · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How is this in any way inappropriate? Believe it or not, but the ability to develop for a console without an SDK is a good thing. Plus, I OWN the hardware, I can do with it what I want as long as I don't take someone elses software illegally. These guys aren't selling any illegal software, or hardware. There's nothing wrong with it.

    Being anti-warez is cool, but being anti-hack well that's.... that's like being anti-slashdot! :)

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