GameCube has been hax0red

**Tracer** · 14 Oct 2003, 09:01 PM

I never cared for Nintendo much anyway... but I don't see this as being super easy anyway.

Now Sega... they suck now and it sucks that they suck.

LOL · 14 Oct 2003, 09:16 PM

Originally Posted by Lhadatt

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...

No one cares.

**MechDeus** · 14 Oct 2003, 09:24 PM

I was wondering why I saw a copy of Luigi's Mansion while searching for the House of the Dead movie.

**Lhadatt** · 14 Oct 2003, 09:55 PM

Originally Posted by omfgninjas

No one cares.

Originally Posted by Scourge

Get over it bitch.

**Captain Vegetable** · 14 Oct 2003, 10:06 PM

Interesting thread.

**Chux** · 14 Oct 2003, 10:23 PM

Originally Posted by Tracer

I'd mention that Xbox games are much easier to pirate.

Honestly, it's almost like they wanted you to get free games.

**Diff-chan** · 14 Oct 2003, 10:30 PM

Lhaddatt, no fucking FUD. Fact is you can now p1r8 GameCube games. I dont know what some of you are smoking, but to me it sounds pretty easy and cheap to get a broadband adaptor and a used copy of PSO and set it up to be able to play all the free games you want. Like I said, a lot of you GameCube fanboys are gonna get the BBA anyway to play bullshit faked internet multiplay for Mario Kart.

But with this, you know, no mod chips or anything. Seems pretty easy to me! And it will almost certainly get easier (remember with the DC at first you needed the boot disc, then people start releasing ISOs with the boot shit built-in?).

I know you're soooo paranoid about me posting anti-Nintendo stuff, but hey if you ask me this is game-related news and I dont see any reason why not to post a topic about it.

Shit maybe I'll have to buy a GameCube now.

**Lhadatt** · 14 Oct 2003, 11:06 PM

It's FUD when you post anti-Gamecube stuff in nearly every Gamecube thread.

It still doesn't matter much -- there are a limited number of copies of PSO out there and many people still won't care to do this.