Full Guide to Gamecube Backup/Booting

Hey ..Er sorry man...im gettin totally lost... i went through most of the forum and im still lost...!
I just wanna mod my gamecube but donnu where to start...
can someone just give me a FAQ or a link to one on how to..
like what i need, like the mod viper gc, and softwares...and how to copy the game ..and how to make it work.
just need the first step man.!
THAnks
if u can email me the details at quocxn@hotmail.com
PLEaSe!!
sorry again

 

Can someone tell me where to get these action replay cards cheap in europe and is that all i need to play my backups? Any help would be great!

 

Icemonkey, I know the dude whose sig pic, u stole hes a member on this runescape forum im on...lol

 

Alright so I heard about the PSO thing and immediately went out and bought PSO 1&2, the bba adapter, and downloaded all the necessary software. Got the crossover cable, installed a second NIC to my pc come to find that the damn thing still wont connect, the PSUL program says that its serving the DNS information to the GC then the connection fails and PSO tells me that the server maybe under maintenance and that the connection failed...

Im running Windows XP Pro, and a crossover cable to a second nic with IP settings 192.168.1.100 and subnet 255.255.255.0 with nothing for gateway or DNS...

GC settings are as follows:
IP 192.168.1.32
Subnet 255.255.255.0
Gateway 192.168.1.100
DNS 192.168.1.100
DNS2 BLANK.

still cant get it to connect, its pingable right up until the connection failed... then I found out i have version 1&2 Plus! of PSO. Does this matter and if not, what is going on? I've been fighting with this for three days and am very frustrated.

PLEASE HELP!

 

Can I also use Phantasy star online episode 3 to boot games?

 

I have successfuly backed up 12 of my gc games. But I'm having problems with one game only. Starfox Assault. I've burnt three different copies of this and none of them work correctly. One almost works, just before the game is loading up the level to begin playing, the machine stops and the nintendo dirty blah blah message appears. My resident evil 4 backups are my latest of the games that are out there, that work 100% Does this game require a patch of somekind? Am I burning this wrong? I'm using the latest nero, I burn it as an .iso I finalize the disc, and I burn it at 2x speed. Any suggestions, ideas, will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

 

Joffee
"GC settings are as follows:
IP 192.168.1.32
Subnet 255.255.255.0
Gateway 192.168.1.100
DNS 192.168.1.100
DNS2 BLANK.

still cant get it to connect, its pingable right up until the connection failed... then I found out i have version 1&2 Plus! of PSO. Does this matter and if not, what is going on? I've been fighting with this for three days and am very frustrated."

Yes it is a matter!
PSO1&2 Plus fusks you up!
Go ebay and buy original one.

 

guys common stop swaring, your not cool.

 

ok here i go
all i want to do is copy/extract to play metroid prime 2 echoes on my pc. i have the original and want to learn how to put the games onto my pc so i can play them through emulators... without needing to connect my gamecube up cos i dont have a connector or that online game i have nero and CDRWIN both cd/dvd copying software can you give a full explanaition contact me via email: chip_moh@hotmail.com - msn, email... or pm me or reply on thread whichever.

edit. i'm currently trying to figure this out by myself cos i aint a lazy freeloader so if i do works this out i will post it here cos i know this will be a big help to everyone

 

roadkille:

thanks for your help i thought it had to be the plus version, i also remember reading something that somewhere on the forum. thanks... ill see if i can get an original version.

p.s. all my settings were right then, just my pso version.

nice to know im not an idiot

 

The emulators that i have try don't work very well like 10 fpm and are not playable on a p4 3gighz 512ram 128 video card and to rip the games you need a bba to hook your gamecube to your pc.Your drive won't read the disk it will read and copy backup disks

 

does anybody have any advice for using a wireless-g 802.11 router? I was using a standard wired router and gamecube was connecting fine, but just recently switched to a linksys wireless router with four ethernet ports, so that I could still connect the gamecube in my living room, havin my computer in another room, they still communicate, but upon loading games and some dol's (namely the memory card back utility ctr-gcs) it will freeze after a moment, didn't know if someone else has run acoss this problem and has any insight on the settings to use

 

Could someone please explain to me the swap trick? I bought a max drive pro and when I try to boot a backup disc with Gcos it detects the reigon wrongly (JPN every time) and after that just hangs to a black screen. I am not sure if I have burnt the iso image correctly either. I have gcn files that are not 1.4GB in size. Do I need to replace the junk data? and if so what tool do I use? I am a diehard 'N' fanboy and if you could give me the right help it would make my year.

 

Hey, I read around some more and found that my laser potential may be too high. I don't want to wait for a gamebit to ship so my question is this...what is the bic pen method of opening the star screws on the cube. Or alternatively, what store in australia can I get a gamebit?

 

at first i didnt think the bic method worked. but a little bit of stupidy makes you think about alot of things. i thought about it bah anyway

1. buy a big as5 bag of bic pens, your gunna waste a few
2. take out the innerds of the pen
3. take the end of the pen and heat it up (no so it catches on fire my god!)
4. quickly press and hold firmly with as little movment as possible and the more more perfectly it is on the bit the better
5. let it cool and harden (ive heard that some people dip the end in cold water to make sure its even harder with less waiting
6. use is like a screw driver, and push down on it fairly hard i find that it prevents the screws from striping the mold as much.
7. repeat till all the screws are out
8. to save time later find screws that can take the place of those gay screws.

 

Thanx dude,
the method you outline worked a treat

 

BTW, anyone know an Aussie online store to buy ritek media?

 

Hi, can anyone guide on how to create backups? Assuming that i have rip the original gcm into my hardisk and rename it to .iso, the next step should be burning the .iso file using nero(create data disk).
My question here is, can i just copy it to a DVD and play it direct using my modded GC(Viper GC) or i can only do it using a mini-DVDr?
Next is, if normal DVD could just work fine, what type of DVD can and cannot be used? DVD-R? DVD+R? DVD+RW?

Thks for any help rendered.

 

Goodies package I just threw together. I'm planning on changing it a bit in the near future but here is what I have now. This is the best software for the job I think and soon I'm going to include the emulators for snes and genesis. It also includes a small tutorial which I'm still working on. hope this helps some.

http://69.14.154.69:7595/

 

Hello there,

I habe a problem: I just bought a GC and I don't have any tools for it, but I want to backup some Files O...

What do I need for this? I read the How-To and the last site, but there are 30 others left and it would be nice if you can tell me if there are any news, you know: other tools (except this new package - thx ...) or better ways to copy the game.

And what do I need?

- a GC with Memory Card and a Controller
- a PC with LAN, etc.
- a 1.4GB DVD
- the game I want to copy
- Phantasy Star Online 1+2
- Gamecube Broadband Adapter
- the tools package

Thx, Alectus.

Btw.: I'm from Germany, that explains my english ^^'...