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| Tanks Posts: 73/596 |
Well... the guy came... he saw what I wanted... we talked... He showed me how long it would take, how much it would cost, and how impossible it was... I fainted... We played SSBM... He went home leaving me a little pissed... but thats what you get for having crazy dreams... I wonder what I was thinking when I said I would look into make a GCN disk drive. All the reasons why it was impossible were painfully obvious. Well at least I can see how the other guys (the ones now vacationing somewhere in Europe) made theirs when they get back... *SIGH* |
| Tanks Posts: 69/596 |
I'm with you D4S. but I still want to see if it is possible. I tell you what the backup guy said when ai meet with him in a few days. |
| d4s Posts: 72/98 |
i dont think this discussion will go anywhere soon.
the bottom line is: the pso stuff was hot when there werent any modchips around. if you want to rip gc discs nowadays, get a bba and a qoob mod-chip, start it up, connect the cube to your network and save the game to your pc, plain and simple. trying to connect a gc-drive directly to your pc will involve a massive amount of reverse-engineering work (if you or your pals can do it at all which i somehow doubt, to be perfectly honest) and will have little to no advantage over the network method. no need to reinvent the wheel here. |
| Tanks Posts: 65/596 |
It was the XBOX halo disk I saw it and trust me these guys are smart they can do anything. But maybe your right about the pc case thing. I never got to see it run windows. The guys who have the Xbox and PS2 computer are gone on some trip in Europe so I can't get to them. But the back up guy agreed to help me. the only problem is he can only look at it once a week. so it will be a long time until we can ge some results. |
| Sintendo Posts: 3/5 |
Either your friends just showed the PC version of Halo or they just put a PS2 and an Xbox in a PC case.
The Gamecube drive is NOTHING like a normal PC DVD drive. Getting it to work with a PC would require a TON of research and reverse engineering. You also need a device that converts the signals coming from the PC to something what the drive understands and vice versa. You'd also have to write drivers for the drive. In other words, just forget about it and just buy all the equipment. Also, PSO is just one way to run homebrew. There are plenty of others. |
| Tanks Posts: 58/596 |
Don't ask me about it, I already know it is possible because i've seen it done. I just need to contact these guys and see what they can do. I have a strange feeling they are gona' say they are too busy but in that case I do have a back up person to ask. I'll get back to you guys as soon as I find out if they can help. Untill then, I going to get the necessary tools to rip the ISO's mainly PSO and the router. |
| d4s Posts: 71/98 |
dismanteling a console and putting it inside a pc case and connecting a proprietary disk drive to your computer, making it actually work with your OS are two entirely different things.
the gc drive shares very little with normal pc drives. different transfer protocol, different discs, different interface, different file system. i'm not saying its impossible, cause i have a pc here that has a built in famicom disk system drive (just fitted the drive in a slot and connected it to the parallel port, using the fdsloader tool) for copying and rewriting fds disks, but thats like comparing apples and oranges cause the fds drive is just a variant of the well documented, ancient quick-disk format, whereas the gc drive is a proprietary one mainly designed to prevent people from copying or reading out the discs. |
| Tanks Posts: 56/596 |
Originally posted by Kyoufu KawaOriginally posted by Tanks It was more than that like programing and stuff but how should I know, I wasn't there. All I did was play Halo and Spyro on it. I'm just gonna' ask and see if they can help me do it. If not then let's all forget about it. |
| Kyoufu Kawa Posts: 915/1353 |
Originally posted by Tanks  |
| Tanks Posts: 54/596 |
Originally posted by d4sOriginally posted by TanksOriginally posted by Sintendo What's so funny, Some of my friends who are in programing and egineering courses in college have made a super PC that plays XBOX and PS2. all they did was dissmantel an XBOX and PS2 and put its parts in the Computer. I was thinking of getting them to help me make an external disk drive that would let windows read the GC disk. |
| d4s Posts: 70/98 |
Originally posted by TanksOriginally posted by Sintendo hahaha, good one! |
| Kingpin Posts: 423/709 |
Originally posted by TanksOriginally posted by Sintendo Bottom line, without PSO and a router, you cant rip at all. Your better off searching for ISOs to download from somewhere. |
| KeiiChi Kun Posts: 90/190 |
I don't know about that, although the GC can load full size disks if you take of the top. |
| HyperHacker Posts: 2434/5072 |
Hey, speaking of Gamecube ISOs... is it true that the various mod chips available disable the drive's protection to allow loading a DVD by using a debug command in the drive's firmware that was accidentally left enabled, and just modifying the firmware in memory? |
| Tanks Posts: 50/596 |
Originally posted by Sintendo I've got a broken gamecube (nothing wrong with disk drive), maybe I can make a disk drive that can! I'll look into it. |
| Sintendo Posts: 2/5 |
There are no programs to rip Gamecube discs with a regular PC drive. |
| Tanks Posts: 49/596 |
Originally posted by Sintendo Do you need the Pso and BBA and router or is it put in disk drive and rip? |
| KeiiChi Kun Posts: 88/190 |
Is that the DOS one? Because if it is, then I agree with you, it's a lot better than GC-Tool. |
| Sintendo Posts: 1/5 |
That ripper is very outdated. So is the guide someone else posted. Use GCOM 2.4 instead. http://www.tehskeen.com/modules/Downloads/userfile.php?id=808
It rips discs way faster. I ripped plenty of discs with it, and not a single ISO was corrupt. |
| FreeDOS + Posts: 609/1312 |
Originally posted by goatjuggler Ahahaha, I guess there's another reason to not use Windows, ever. |
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