Full Guide to Gamecube Backup/Booting

Well I just did what the document said about putting the computer in a in a DMZ. The IP address that you assign the DNS server to. but you could do the port foward thing but if you have the phenox loader you can adjust the ports to what you want anyway so your call. but if you have alot of troube getting it goign remeber if you get it to save and games are not loading its a good change its that speed setting on your NIC. I'm sure there would be away to make it work with out doing that but your delay settings would have to be played with alot. now what I found to work for me because my router won't let me force port speeds or anything. on my NIC it lets me choose like Auto Neg and like a speed setting. so I have like 4 Auto setting I can use for my NIC or I can force the speed but some router won't with force speed so I use the auto and 10 half. my Nic is on board on my mother board I have a AMD with a MSI motherboard.

 

Biz, are you saying that you got PSO+ edition to work?

 

no but I'm deffinatly sure I could if I setup my own DNS server and pointed it back to my computer and did all the steps that I listed out. I don't think it would be any great benifit making PSO Plus work either because of all the work needed to make it work. I still think sega forces the speed down to 10 meg half anyway so it really would not be a great benifit. If for some reason I'm wrong I guess I could get it working. and try to post some what simple steps to make it work. But I don't think the average users here would not really understand what I was doing to make it work. If you know somthing about setting up DNS servers and such and you really want to get your PSO plus edition working I could work with someone I guess and help them get it going. But you will need to setup your own DNS server and make pointers in that server that will redirect what sega wants to go to. I think the best way and easyest it finding out how to modifiy that ARmax save file so it will work with PSO Plus edition. I don't know I guess I'll try messing with it next week and let ya all know but I think its going to be quite a pain to ake it work and all you are going to save in money is about 5 to 15 dollars and I don't think anyone will gain anything other than some people might learn some information about DNS servers and what they do.

 

you could try to capture packets from the gamecube to find the address? or at least the ip of the server?

if we can get that, then it'd be real easy to do. then all you'd have to do is give your computer the ip of the sega server.

just use a cross over cable, and capture packets from the gamecube directly.


weeeee... heh

 

well I don't think you could ever do it with a crosse over cable because it does a DNS request to a sega server. so you would have to runa DNS server to point it back to your computer. if it just went to a cerntaint IP then it would be easy to fix thats for sure. thats why using a cross over cable I think won't work at all. but technaily you could like setup a lan with a hub and run a DNS server and make all the entrys point back to your computer that might work.and I wouldn't need a snifffer to figure out what address its going to just running a DNS server on my computer and pointing the cube to my computer can tell me that because I just check the log file for what server it queryed for.

 

Just an idea. Has anyone tried using an "external" dynamic DNS Server (for example, dyndsn.org or zoneedit.com). Can the the gamecbue network settings accept Nameserver "letters" (mr69ways.homeip.net) or on just Namserver "numbers (151.196.x.x), then in the router forward the request on the port to your computer running PSOload?

 

you know the Idea of using a external DNS server won't work because PSO plus does make a call to an outside sega server. So thats why you have to run your own DNS server to trick the cube to point back to your computer. if it went to a public IP all you would have to do is assign your computer with that IP and disconnect it from the web. but it doesn't. it uses a URL.

 

I understand now. By running your own DNS Server you get to determine what the name of the DNS server is (i.e. sega.net).

By the way what port(s) does PSO+ use.

 

so as far as what I make from reading, if I am using PSO 1&2 "PLUS" version with out a router, I am stuck between a Sh!t and a Fart, and wasted 35 bucks?

 

I don't believe anyone has got it to work with a Router either

 

kilt: just buy [ http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/product/223852.asp ]phantasy star online I & II.
sell ebgames back your shitty one, you'll probably be out $20... but what else are you gonna do?

cloud 69: once i get pso I & II from ebgames, by selling back plus, i'll let you know. I'm 99% confident that it'll work with a router.

Biz-quik: try to use some punctionation and spacing, my friend.... your posts are really difficult to read and understand


peace,

matt

 

Hey all

Exactly WHAT format is Gamecube games?

My CD/DVD writer/reader comes up with a message saying that it is not a disc that the computer can read.

 

Original Out of stock at EB. Besides I am determined to get this to work.

Mik3h, maybe this thread can help you out. http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/5/110093#656463

 

It's not out of stock at EB.

 

Im new to gamecube backup games, in the info for my pikmin 2 iso it says that it requires save hack to save. Since i cant find anything useful about any "save hack" in phoenix latest software my question is: How do i use "save hack"?

 

i bought the original for $25 from EB games, and didn't return the plus yet... so i don't have a buy back price for it.

but, regardless, the original version of PSO I & II worked fine.

still haven't gotten the chance to rip or serve/stream any games.


I'm gonna compare phoenix and paradox. and I will figure out exactly how to get them to work with a router without dangerously putting your server in the DMZ. If you're gonna do that, just buy a switch; and make all the sh*tty people that your downloading torrents from that want to port sniff you happy. (that was sarcasm)

 

bigflavor said:

Bigflavor, I have a dedicated computer I put together just for the gamecube, so I am not worried about screwing anything up. it is a old p3 800 with almost 400mb ram and old geforce 1 card and a realtek nic, nothing speacial, just old crap sitting around but I am sure that it is good enough just for the purpose of making backup of my own store bought games. I am not really into downloading torrents of riped iso's, and I am willing to use my pc as a kind of guinnie pig for tests to try to get this going, I am getting pso 1&2 original from ebay and I would like to play with the plus version and maybe pso 3. I am just lacking in knowledge on how to do so. I am willing to do this because with two young children, I have had to rebuy way to many games, I could have bought a ps2 with hdd with the amount of games I had to rebuy.

 

Well I spent some time on this for a bit. and I've blown 2 Gamecubes and I have 2 in parts and 1 fully functional. but from what I can tell the only way to hack this thing is with some sort of mod chip that will override the current GameCube DVD drives firmware. I did take the firmware out of one of the units and did download it to .bin but to be honest I really don't know much about firmwares. I think costas or what ever his name is. Has it right with 21 wires going to the firmware. you might get it down lower but if you want full to fully take over that firmware you will need about 11 wires to over take the firmware. And I think there has to be some other form of copy protections other than the DVD drives firmware so I'll have to keep digging. but I'm talking to another guy who is a really good in firmwares and I'll see if he can help me make a modifid version of this firmware to not seak the stamped disc. and also see if he can find that barcode search in there too. I'm pretty sure its in there. If not its going to be very simular to a PS2 chip where it has to inject a barcode singnal to the Proc. which in turn you would have to steel that barcode off a working game and burn that to a chip and program a routine to send it. I'm hoping we can just hack this all in the dvd's firmware but I think thats going to be just luck.

It looks like nintendo did a good job on protecting this unit. And if a mod chip was to come out. it would get sued because its going to require copywrite code burned into the chip. the only way someone could leagley get around it would be be a publisher and write a game and then sell that barcode to a chip maker. Nintendos was smart with this unit.

 

All you need to know about firmware is that it is like a kind of driver for hardware. The firmware gets written to the units memory, firmware is usually released to make something function better, or differently... in this case the disk drive.

 

ok hi everyone

i live in australia and have a gamecube like most or all of you. in the year i have had my gamecube i have hardly ever played it because i cant copy the games. i know at the start of this thread you have a guide but in australia we dont have the broadband adapters and i have no idea what phantasy star online is.
any help would be appreciated.
thanks, RubixCube