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New GameCube Network Loader Runs Homebrew Games
Posted by
timothy
on Mon Oct 13, 2003 05:43 PM
from the little-holes dept.
from the little-holes dept.
An anonymous reader submits: "Cube Hacker is reporting that a new network loader has been released which allows you to execute retail code by exploiting a known bug in Sega's online game, Phantasy Star Online. Obviously piracy is not condoned but this certainly opens the door for future home-brew development! Linux on GameCube anyone?" Update: 10/13 23:33 GMT by S : Previous update removed, due to it only referencing retail titles.
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Not explained well... (Score:3)
(http://waz6.net/)
Re:Not explained well... (Score:5, Informative)
(http://mhawk.home.gowebway.com/Lark.html | Last Journal: Wednesday January 28 2004, @02:04PM)
Until now. Now these guys have hacked the GameCube broadband adapter. These adapters are hard to find, and currently the only game that supprots them is Phantasy Star Online (although the new version of Mario Cart coming soon will support it, and they should make more broadband adapters available for that). So now, you can load a game over the GameCube broadband adapter.
Those GameCube discs you previously could rip to your computer, now you can load them to your GameCube over the broadband adapter. That opens the door for piracy pretty wide. It also opens the door for you to load just about any code you want to the GameCube, hence the remarks about a Linux version for the console. So now it is possible to play pirated games our custom software on the cube. It is still a pretty involved and difficult process, involving hard-to-find hardware and requiring a lot of technical know-how, but it is possible.
Re:Not explained well... (Score:4, Informative)
(http://mhawk.home.gowebway.com/Lark.html | Last Journal: Wednesday January 28 2004, @02:04PM)
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid
Maxconsole (Score:5, Informative)
(Last Journal: Sunday October 12 2003, @08:59AM)
Slashdotted already! (Score:1, Offtopic)
(http://www.ermacstudios.org/)
Take THAT! all you RTFA folks
Could someone translate what this does? (Score:2)
(http://rideontwo.com/)
Ummm... (Score:2)
(http://www.tyrdium.com/)
The loader obviously doesn't cover something.... (Score:1)
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: themeheader() in
No! (Score:3, Interesting)
(Last Journal: Wednesday September 08 2004, @11:02AM)
For the love of god, no. Can't we have a (modern) console that just stays as a gaming machine?
If you want an everything-box that can run Linux, go buy a PS2, Xbox, or just a cheap computer, but leave the Cube. It's designed to be for gaming and gaming only.
I guess that sounds incredibly jealous, narrow-minded, or fanboyish of me, but that's my gut reaction upon seeing this story.
Maxconsole more helpful (Score:3, Informative)
(Last Journal: Sunday October 12 2003, @08:59AM)
Ha! (Score:1)
Linux on GameCube? I THINK NOT!
Sorry, but the princess is in another castle (Score:2, Insightful)
Site Down? (Score:1)
(http://www.ionpanel.org/)
The article forgot to mention (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.madcowworld.com/)
Here's the software to do it (Score:4, Informative)
(http://www.lotterycheck.co.uk/)
slashdoted (Score:2)
I wonder if Nintendo submitted this link to
This is cool and all... (Score:1)
(http://humancow.cjb.net/)
For running bigger home-brewed stuff and emulators, not pirated GameCube games, I mean. Yeah. I'm definitely not talking about pirated games.
Gamecube viruses? (Score:2, Interesting)
(http://www.crfh.net/ | Last Journal: Tuesday November 14 2006, @02:47PM)
Any bets on how long it'll be until the first ones show up?
Invocation of the DMCA in.... (Score:1)
(http://houseofrassle.blogspot.com/)
/. strikes again (Score:1)
Have fun burning (Score:1)
It is NOT a mini cd-r, or dvd-r. It is a mini dvd burned backwards, inside instead of the outside, a regular DVVD burner will not work.
Maxconsole Tutorial (Score:1)
(Last Journal: Sunday October 12 2003, @08:59AM)
Hebrew? (Score:3, Funny)
(http://waldo.jaquith.org/ | Last Journal: Wednesday January 16 2002, @01:20AM)
Oh. Homebrew. D'oh.
-Waldo Jaquith
Panasonic Gamecube? (Score:2)
old news (Score:2)
(http://www.catering-connection.com/)
wheres the news?
Useless for games? (Score:2)
What's the point of playing a hacked game if you can't save your progress?
...Runs Hebrew Games??? (Score:2)
(http://analogkid.net/)
Whew! (Score:2)
(http://www.beelerspace.com/)
I would like to take this opportunity... (Score:1)
(http://www.briancable.com/)
Re:Why GNU/Linux on gamecube if you already have . (Score:1)
(http://slashdot.org/)
Re:Give it up for the coward! (Score:1)
(http://lazyadmin.sourceforge.net/)
ACLoader 1.1 now plays more GCISOs
Unregistered User writes "WIth the first to produce a tool that plays a real gamecube game (if you call a N64 port real). Eurasia released Animal Crossing loader 1.0. WHile this was cool, seemed a bit limiting.
Well, now Eurasia presents Animal Crossing Loader 1.1 which allows you to play the following confirmed games:
Animal Crossing
Luigi's Mansion
F-Zero GX
Wave Race: Blue Storm
Rogue Leader
Madden NFL 2002
Starfox Adcentures
Disney's Magical Mirror
Raman 3
SKies of Arcadia
TimeSplitters 2
It is suggested that you remove the memory card during play as it is known to freeze the game. Also, sound issues and load times will be appearent.
CyKiller"
Re:Copy Protection (Score:1)
(http://www.jerkcity.com/)
Re: Because ... (Score:1)
(http://www.eff.net/)
Re:Copy Protection (Score:1)
(http://www.axante.net/)
Re:Copy Protection (Score:2, Informative)
(http://notes.twinwork.net/ | Last Journal: Monday November 11 2002, @03:04PM)
I thought it spun normally, but instead the laser reads from outside to inside and not inside to outside?
Re:Why GNU/Linux on gamecube if you already have . (Score:1)
Gamecube: $99
X-Box: $149
See my point?
Re:Why GNU/Linux on gamecube if you already have . (Score:4, Insightful)
Gamecube: $99 X-Box: $149
See my point?
Not really, no. I have both an XBOX and GameCube and they are both great gaming machines, but the XBOX is for obvious reasons the XBOX is a much better PC-replacement for running alternate OSes like Linux. The GameCube may be cheaper, but because of its design (the memory system, CPU, etc) it would make a crappy general purpose Linux box.
Re:Copy Protection (Score:1)
I own a gamecube. I just popped open the lid and checked. The disc spins clockwise. I don't know if that is what you define to be "the wrong way around"...
Re:Copy Protection [this is irrevalent] (Score:1)
Pretty crazy heh?
Re:Why GNU/Linux on gamecube if you already have . (Score:2)
(http://snogglethorpe.googlepages.com/home)
3 words (Score:2)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Raul654)
Re:Copy Protection (Score:4, Informative)
The entire point of the system being discussed here is that it bypasses any need for using the special GameCube formatted discs. The system in question uses an exploit someone found in Phantasy Star Online (a networkable GameCube game) to download executable code over a network. Someone exploited this to make a loader which will stream in game data over a network from some other system, such as a PC. The only disc that will be in your GameCube is an original copy of Phantasy Star Online, everything else will be streamed in from the other networked system, whether it be a Linux distro or warezed GameCube games.
Re:Why GNU/Linux on gamecube if you already have . (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Seriously... (Score:2)
These people chose hacking the Gamecube. Not my thing, exactly, but I'm sure it's entertaining as hell to them.
Re:Seriously... (Score:2, Interesting)
(Last Journal: Sunday November 11, @09:31AM)
The various mobs have their hands in street level piracy (silvers, bootlegs) up to their elbows. The top warez groups get huge "donations" in exchange for 0-day access to new cracks and releases.
Re:Copy Protection (Score:2)
(http://slashdot.org/)
Article is /. but one thing worthy of note is that the copy protection on Gamecube also involves spinning the CD the wrong way round. To make a Linux distro you are going to need a very special CD burner
Rus
Or you could take your Gamecube to Australia! :)
Re:Trolling.....But Come on people think about it! (Score:1)
(http://www.eff.net/)
Re:hrm (Score:1)
(http://www.eff.net/)
You got the copy protection scheme all wrong (Score:5, Informative)
There's a special debugging Gamecube which can read burned games, it's called the NReader, and you can only get it from Nintendo if you are a) a developer b) an important gaming news house.
The catch is, this NReader can't read retail discs, it can only play those burned specially for beta testing or magazine reviews.
Also, the PSO loader works by tricking PSO into loading special code by resolving the DNS of the Sega PSO server to your own PC. Then you have access to the GCN. Animal Crossing is a port of the same N64 game, so it fits on the GCN's memory without having to read the disc more than once, that's why it's completely playable.
The situation is far from the "retail games pirated!" outcry.
Seriously... (Score:1, Flamebait)
Re:Seriously... (Score:1)
(http://notb4dinner.8bit.co.uk/)
Re:Similar to GBA Loader...? (Score:2)
Re:Copy Protection (Score:2)
Not quite. Rather than writing data to the discs normally from the inside to the outside of the disc, Nintendo does it vice-versa and write the data to the disks from the outside in. Therefore the data is written to (and read from) the disk backwards. But the disk itself spins the normal way around.
Re:Seriously... (Score:1)
(http://www.teamcrack.com/)
Re:Copy Protection (Score:2)
(http://slashdot.org/)
No, it doesn't. Can we please put this false piece of info to rest. Open up a GC the next time a disk is in there and you'll see it is spinning in the exact same direction as all the other disk based media, clockwise.