Sigh.. dude, don't take this the wrong way, but what would be the point? Seriously. To pirate games? "Just because you can"?
The Gamecube (1) has no hard drive and (2) cannot play regular CDs or DVDs. It was designed to play disc-based games, and ALL it can do is exactly that-- play games it loads into memory from a disc.
Even if you broke whatever BIOS, signing mechanisms, and CD authentication procedures the Nintendo Gamecube has, you still need to find out a way to (1) write GameCube discs (2) attach a CD/DVD-rom drive or (3) attach a hard drive to do anything other than its intended purpose.
At least the XBOX on Linux project has some decent goals-slash-legal uses, such as installing Linux on its hard drive, DVD/DivX/etc. playback, serving webpages, emulating MAME, and otherwise behaving as a PC of sorts.
Not all copyright protection is bad-- it's just companies like Microsoft that use it as a tool to keep people from making full use of their legitimately owned hardware. I seriously don't think people hack the XBox just because they can or because they want to pirate games, but because they have a real passion toward resisting the totalitarian restrictions Microsoft has put on the Xbox. "A 8GB hard drive for preloading and saving a few games? I don't think so."
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Sigh.. dude, don't take this the wrong way, but what would be the point? Seriously. To pirate games? "Just because you can"?
The Gamecube (1) has no hard drive and (2) cannot play regular CDs or DVDs. It was designed to play disc-based games, and ALL it can do is exactly that-- play games it loads into memory from a disc.
Even if you broke whatever BIOS, signing mechanisms, and CD authentication procedures the Nintendo Gamecube has, you still need to find out a way to (1) write GameCube discs (2) attach a CD/DVD-rom drive or (3) attach a hard drive to do anything other than its intended purpose.
At least the XBOX on Linux project has some decent goals-slash-legal uses, such as installing Linux on its hard drive, DVD/DivX/etc. playback, serving webpages, emulating MAME, and otherwise behaving as a PC of sorts.
Not all copyright protection is bad-- it's just companies like Microsoft that use it as a tool to keep people from making full use of their legitimately owned hardware. I seriously don't think people hack the XBox just because they can or because they want to pirate games, but because they have a real passion toward resisting the totalitarian restrictions Microsoft has put on the Xbox. "A 8GB hard drive for preloading and saving a few games? I don't think so."