GameCube has been hax0red

**dog$** · 14 Oct 2003, 02:01 PM

From here... I found this interesting.

SUPPORTED

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DOL-GAFE-USA A Animal Crossing ~1 min. initial load.
Game loads into RAM. No more
loading after title screen.
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DOL-GAEJ-JAP A Animal Crossing E+ ~2 min. initial load.
Game loads into RAM. No more
loading after title screen.
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DOL-GLMP-EUR B Luigi's Mansion ~2 min. initial load.
Intro sound pops/stutters.
<2 sec. load between doors.

UNSUPPORTED...

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DOL-GFZJ-JAP B F-Zero GX ~2 min. initial load.
DOL-GFZE-USA B F-Zero GX Short loading times in-game.
Minor audio pops/stutters in-game.
<15 sec. load for menus.
Reports memory card as full but
does not freeze.
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DOL-GWRP-EUR B Wave Race: Blue Storm ~1 min. initial load.
Short loading times in-game.
Audio pops/stutters in-game.
Recommend remove memory card.
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DOL-GSWE-USA B Rogue Leader ~5 min. initial load.
Recommend remove memory card.
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DOL-GMDE-USA A Madden NFL 2002 ~2 min. initial load.
Choppy FMV/graphics in-game.
Recommend remove memory card.
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DOL-GSAP-EUR B Starfox Adventures ~1 min. initial load.
Choppy FMV/audio cut-scenes.
Recommend remove memory card.
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DOL-GDMP-EUR B Disney's Magical Mirror ~1 min. initial load.
starring Mickey Mouse Short loading times in-game.
Minor audio pops/stutters in intro.
Minor audio/graphics pops in-game.
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DOL-GRHE-USA B Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havok ~3 min. initial load.
Choppy FMV/audio/graphics in-game.
Recommend remove memory card.
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DOL-????-USA B Skies of Arcadia ~1 min. initial load.
Short loading times in-game.
Choppy FMV/intro.
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DOL-GTSE-USA B TimeSplitters 2 ~1 min. initial load.
~30 seconds for each load screen.
Reports memory card as corrupt
but does not freeze.
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Hope this formatting doesn't suck...

**Lhadatt** · 14 Oct 2003, 02:12 PM

While DiffX is happily playing Syt3m W4RZ 2003 with his daily quota of anti-Gamecube FUD, I must point out the following:

- Given the GC's install base, continued growth and software sales, the system is nowhere near the Dreamcast in lack of momentum.
- Nintendo will not drop the console until 2005 -- if they were, we'd know about it already.
- Dreamcast lasted 18 months or so. Gamecube is now over the two-year mark and still selling.
- The big failure of the Dreamcast was software sales. Sega couldn't sustain any consistant software sales because of the PS2's introduction to the market and their small user base -- they had under 6 million units installed worldwide. Nintendo has, at last count (not including the price drop), about 9.5 million installed.

The important bit:
- Dreamcast games were easy to pirate because every unit made before September 2001 had a hole in its BIOS code that allowed it to run CD-Rs. Once the hackers found that and found out how to make them boot, the gig was up.
- Hackers have found no such exploit in the Gamecube to date.
- If people are going to pirate, they want an easy way to play pirated games. The Gamecube is designed to not read standard DVDs, period. The game discs are psuedo-DVDs -- they have the characteristics of the DVD format, but they have special marking on them that prevents hackers from copying the discs. The GC's reading mechanism is also programmed to ignore any DVD-Rs, RWs, etc. Anything that is burned or does not have the special markings that cannot be reproduced without a commercial DVD press cannot be played.
- To successfully hack the Gamecube to a level the masses will adopt, a stand-alone drive kit would have to be made available at a reasonable price. This would include a specialized cable for connecting the drive to the GC, a drive and power supply for the drive, plus a customized BIOS that would have to take precidence over the GC's own BIOS (by rewriting, wiring around the original, etc.). This is simply not feasible right now for a price most people will pay.

It is possible to hack the GC, but not to a point that impacts Nintendo's sales. By the time they figure it out, I doubt it will have any impact whatsoever.

EDIT: By the way, this hack requires PSO. It's not like you just load the exploit on your PC and then your GC is suddenly open to playing anything out there...

**johnk_** · 14 Oct 2003, 02:27 PM

meh.. all you need is PSO, a BBA, and an ethernet cable..

a lot of people already have those things.

i'm not saying GC is teh d00med, but expect to see sales and bids for PSO shoot up quite a bit over the next few weeks.