Viper GC, primer modchip para GameCube

Hanimal escribió:Que puta pena me dais los piratillas de tres al cuarto...

Juaner escribió:por cierto, ¿que es el BBA? ¿el adaptador de red? (lo digo porque lo unico que me cuadra con las siglas es broadband adapter )

D@NO escribió:les ha costao...

chips que cargan backups los hay pero no la forma de grabarlos.

este chip supuestamente era el que venia en actel, pero los backups....

txeriff escribió:ya era hora de que sacaran algo. lo que pasa que nintendo nunca tiene tantos 'adeptos' como los puede tener sony. si la ps2 hubiera sido como la gc ya abrian sacado lo que sea para poder echar mano de backups. pero bueno al fin llego algo....
ahora quedaria conectar un lector dvd normal externo o asi para leer dvds, ya que por lo que se los mini dvds de la gc no son de la misma densidad que los normales....

desde maxconsole escribió:I hereby announce that i'll release an improved version of my already-existing IPL emulation stuff this year.

I have nothing to do with the Viper-GC stuff (heck, i didn't even knew until today that such a thing exists).

My IPL replacement will have the following features:

- Boot from network (BBA) in seconds
- Boot from original DVD disc (regionfree, but of course a NTSC cube still can't properly display PAL and vice versa)
- Boot from SD card
- Boot from Memory card
- Boot to original IPL (trivial, really)
- (simple) Serial debug interface! (what i always missed)

It will have 4MB Flash, so you can flash multiple loaders if you like and switch between them.

It can be reflashed either using a parallel adapter or a serial cable (i haven't decided yet, currently both works but serial is slow, but a standard interface), AND it can be flashed directly from the cube! (the other option is simply a recovery mode, which you won't need unless you really mess around).

And it will have some special features which i don't want to announce now. They will be a special surprise

Ok, this all wouldn't be worth a message as it might sound fucking commercial, BUT the best thing comes last:

it's completely FREE! All software will be open sourced, all schematics will be available, all VHDL sources too, and the tools to compile/synthesize will be availabe as well (at least in an evaluation version)!

I hope to get the material costs to about $10, depending on how much i have to pay for the PCBs and CPLDs.
The two prototypes i built were at about $20, but prototype PCBs are always expensive and i bought the CPLDs at reichelt, which are very expensive as well.

I want this project to become a community project, where everybody might help.

I want to help anybody who isn't able to produce the PCBs (or solder them) by himself by producing some board or even pre-mod some GCs, without taking (much) money for this.

We might establish something like they did on the xbox: volunteers mod your gamecubes without taking (much) money.

In this context I want to announce that i'll be holding a lecture at the 21c3 in berlin, germany at the end of this year. I will talk about "hacking the gamecube" in general, and another well known person will talk about gc-linux. If you have time and/or money, please come and laugh about my english pronounciation.


Honestly: I'm not really the guy of big announcements, as i don't like to announce something before it's really working and final, but hey, it's about to be final.

Oh, and i hereby claim to have had the "first modchip for the gamecube" (uh no, that's not true. another guy i know of has made such a thing before, yes before i even started to look at the gamecube. however, i'm pretty sure he didn't has anything todo with the viper stuff, but he was first), however i would never dare to call my work a "modchip", as a modchip is there to play pirated games.
So this isn't a modchip, but the viper gc isn't either.

Please do not ask me questions about this before 21c3. Meet me there and ask me there, but please don't email me until.

desde el forum de ps2ownz escribió:jurassicplanet

1. Will the Viper GC allow one to extract data from retail gamecube discs in the gamecube cd drive? For dumping gcms and such onto a PC hard-drive.

2. Will the Viper GC allow one to play copied retail gamecube discs from burned mini DVD-R or DVD+R discs? Is there any brand of mini DVD blank media discs in particular which is recommended for use in the gamecube or should any brand work? Is there a special technique or method which needs to be used in taking a downloaded gcm file and burning it to a mini DVD disc? I've already been burning gcms files to mini DVD discs by simply renaming the file extension from gcm to iso, then mounting the iso to a virtual cd disc drive using Daemon Tools, then using Nero to perform a simple Copy Disc command to copy the data from the virtual drive to the actual mini DVD disc.

3. As I understand it, a special gamecube bios will be released with this mod chip yes? Will it essentially be a hacked version of the original gamecube bios with the same graphics and interface and such with no major visible differences between the original and the hacked version?

4. Will there be gamecube consoles available for sale which already have the mod chip installed, tested, and working? Will pre-modded consoles be available in all the retail gamecube console colors; i.e. indigo, platinum, and black? Will the pre-modded consoles have both digital and analog audio/video OR just analog audio/video?



Administrator

1. There is an easier way than this that will be shared in the future right here perhaps...

2. It will, but only with a 3rd party BiOS as I stated earlier in this thread.

3. That is correct, however, like most modern mod devices it won't come with the "special" BiOS for LEGAL reasons... end-users will grab it on the net like the TOXiC releases and similar stuff.

4. It's too early to say at the moment, but I'd say most likely the answer is YES.

PakomeT escribió:
emmm... tu opinion vale como cualquier otra, pero no se en que te basas para decir que esta desfasada o que las otras dos le dan mil vueltas... a nivel de que? de graficos? de diseño? de catalogo de juegos buenos? de precio? ya me diras...

En mi caso solo conozco a 4 personas que tengan la play2, otras 3 que tengan la gamecube y ninguna que tenga la xbox.

Yo prefiero gastarme 50€ en un juego original que 240€ en un chip de dudosa utilidad hasta ahora y que vete a saber si para cuando lo amortice ya habra salido la siguiente consola . Además que yo tambien soy de los que les encanta el placer de gastarse un dinero en un juego que al llegar a casa van a abrirlo, leer un manual (si, me los leo antes de jugar), meter la cajita con las demas en la estanteria y ponerse a jugar al juego con el pensamiento de haber invertido bien el dinero en algo de mi agrado o no. Pero grabarse un juego en un dvd y ponerse a jugar asi... y te agrade o no te agrade meterlo en una bobina junto a 500 más... no le veo la afición videoconsolera a eso.

aixx... que tiempos los de la SNES y MegaDrive que te comprabas 2 juegos al año y estabas la mar de entusiasmado con ellos y te los pasabas una y otra vez hasta que podias conseguir otro para tu cumpleaños o navidad...

En fin, el chip este en cuestion me parece interesante y util siempre que permita el uso de juegos NTSC (jap o usa) en consolas PAL sin necesidad de tener un ordenador cerca, si carga o no backups me va a ser indiferente pues en el dudoso caso que me lo pusiera no haria uso de esa funcion, me encantan los juegos originales. Un saludo!

Zippo escribió:ps2 destaca x la facilidad de piratearla

N015E escribió:[flipa] OMFG! ! ! . Sin ganas de echarle el guante a esta maravilla. Ahora a ver el precio (me da a mi que caro).