hi all i have been watching the gc mod development for some time now and am considering buying one of the new mod chips either the Viper GC or the QOOB pro but heres where i get a little scared when the pso/bba trick first came onto the scene i jumped with joy and bought a bba for a stupid amount of money here in aus and paid close to $150AUD for PSO afetr much tweaking and setting everything up (what a headache it was as i have 4 nic's in my main comp) i was dissapointed by the performance of the streaming so my questions are 1. whats the better chip out of viper/Qoob 2. do the games/homebrew run at full speed as if they were oem "gamecube" mini-dvd's no slowdown 3. do most of the iso's out there work??? i got a few from a freind that would not run only about 3/20 i got of him worked on the BBA/PSO method 4. can i make legal backups of the games i won with viper/qoob and is it a no fuss solution once you install the chip and do the laser tweak and put the full size dvd case on as im a bt scared to go out and spend more money ontop of the bba/pso trick and find out it was a waste of money/only a handful of games work thanks all
Well that all depends on if your going to solder it yourself and if you have experience soldering. The Qoob Pro is the better of the chips. Viper on the other hand is much easier to install. 1.Qoob Pro 2.Yes the games run at full speed. Though it also depends on your BIOS. As I have Qoob Pro I had BIOS 1.3a, I had some random DRE but if you just restart they go away, but now that 1.3c BIOS is out I seems to Only get DRE on PAL games. Though the DRE have drasticly reduced. On the note about mini-dvds, Ritek G04's are suposedly the best. But I'm cheap so I use DvD+R from sony. They cost about $1 and work fine. 3.Well I believe all ISO should work on the Qoob Pro. If they didn't its due to bad rip, corrupt ISO, or just bad burning. Video settings may fix games. I have to set my Qoob Pro to PAL or NTSC to play some games. 4.Ya you can, if you own the originals. Well when I got the Qoob Pro there was a small fuss. The installation. I couldnt do it myself so I had to pay some Japanese guy $80 bucks to install it. The chip cost me $55 so I spent $135 CAD. Hope that answers everything.
