First Mod Chip For GameCube

Cuber writes "The first modification chip for Nintendo's GameCube console has been announced. It will allow users to boot homebrew applications, loaders and BIOS'. Until now hackers where using an exploit in the game Phantasy Star Online and a broadband adapter to be able to load homebrew software like GC-Linux over a network connection but now they'll be able to run code directly from flash memory. The mod chip will require to solder only 4 wires and while the device comes empty it's not impossible to think 3rd party loaders will come that allow you to boot copied games."

I think...

[laughingcoyote]

it's not impossible to think 3rd party loaders will come that allow you to boot copied games."

I believe that you meant "impossible not to think."

Thanks...

[SpiffyMarc]

Well, we could've just quietly assumed that it would be capable of running copied games, and celebrated it for its ability to run homebrewed software and Linux... but no, we had to go and give it that aire of illegitimacy.

Thanks, poster!

Anatomy lesson

[alexo]

> Never bite the hand that created you

I don't know about you, but most of us were created by a different body part.

Re:Phantasy Star Online

[Anonymous Coward]

It's Episode III.

Phfffft! I only like the orginal series.

This just goes to show

[Punboy]

How much more disappointed XBox users were in their console than Gamecube users. Obviously Gamecube owners, until now, were satisfied with they got, whereas XBox users almost immediately started trying to tinker with it and make mods. :-D

Re:Anatomy lesson

[WIAKywbfatw]

Unless, of course, you were an IVF conception, in which case hand is entirely appropriate.

real professoinal

[digitalgimpus]

a nice personal touch making the press photo's of circuitry on someone's bedspread.

Just like Intel :-D

Re:Anatomy lesson

[mj_1903]

...and I wouldn't go around biting that either. :)

Re:what took so long?

[Jaysyn]

Wow, someone doesn't know much about the Dreamcast do they?

Jaysyn

Re:possibilities..

[Lucractius]

Now this is something id like to see... Ive got more damnable copies of OSX to myself than ill ever use and no urge to go buy hardware to run them on... so getting my gamecube to use my OSX copy sounds wonderful

Re:getting it backwards

[valdean]

It's not a myth--down here in Australia it spins backwards. Just like the water in the toilets.

Re:what took so long?

[the grace of R'hllor]

New GC games: $40-$50, normally.
New PS2 games: $40-$50, normally
New Xbox games: $40-$50, normally

I'm sorry, which bizarro world do you live in where something that sells for the exact same price is "usually $5 more expensive" than its counterparts?

Exactly. They are, in fact, about $40-$50 more expensive than its counterparts.

Re:Obligatory Comment

[FinestLittleSpace]

Fuck off.