TUTORIAL: How to play backups w/o mod chip, only Max Drive Pro Memcard

brucedlx: How old is your gamecube?

 

if u look a mere 3 posts up you will see that I said it is about 3 years old

 

any other bios for max drive pro besides gcos 1.5??? i think thats my only choice... just dunno what to use!

 

It's possible but not supported by this tutorial (Cuz I've never used anything but myself )

 

Any bios you can find in .dol format should work. I have not tried any others since GCOS works like a charm for me but I have read that NinjaShell, GCOM, Ananconda, and others should work as well. Chack out the download section at tehskeen.com.

 

hi, can someone send me the GcoS and the Wiped GCM Fixer, the sites that are on the page are not longer working, thanks

 

i thought ninjashell and all those you could only use if u had a specific mod chip... im only using MDP... are you sure?

 

brucedlx: Is that about when it first came out? 3 years ago?

 

who knows? use google for such a question dude!_!

 

No, I'm not sure. As I said above, MDP with GCOS works great for me. When doing research on playing backups I ran across evidence of using other BIOS files with MDP as long as there are in .dol format. Why don't you just try it. As I said, MDP with GCOS works fine for me. I have no plans to test others for you. Let us know how it goes.

 

brucedlx: It was released in the US(you live in the US right?)in 2002, so if you mean three years from now then you purchesed your a year after me. Wonder if it will make a difference I'd hate to buy it and not be able to use it, can anyone think of anything else you can use it for?

 

Is there another peripheral we can use besides Max pro?? Codejunkies is a horrible company and I would like to go with something else. Anyone know of another softmod other than having your cube hooked up to a pc the whole time or usingg janky quality products like the max pro drive?

 

Will a 2-disc backup like Resident Evil 4 work with Max Drive Pro. I've read that softmods don't work with 2-disc titles. Is Max Drive Pro different?

 

can you burn games online for free? can you tell me what site to go to burn gc games?

 

Jack, you have to own the game to make a backup of it

 

tried so many different bios... but to no avail! im dying over here and feel that i wasted so much money since it doesnt work!

 

I went the soft mod route but it gets real old to swap out discs everytime you want to play a game and having to deal with cheap quality memory card that gets corrupted all the time is a real hassle as well. I just sold my gamcube on ebay for 70 bucks and sold the max pro drive for 50 bucks and just went with a premodded NEW gamecube from OTB Mods for about 160 shipped! No worries about adjusting any lasers either, they guarantee their work for 30 days. And they shipped within 24 hours of my order date. You can also send them your cube and they will install and ship for free for about 60 bucks which is only 10 more than buying the max pro drive itself and waiting forever to get it. Code junkers are based in UK and are always out of stock and they have terrible customer service. They are almost impossible to get ahold of over the phone. OTB can also install you a custom box so you can play full size dvds but I didn't get that service since I have a boat load of minis. Just something for you guys to think about if you want to play backups hassle free

 

A while ago Mr- Cube wrote how to use action replay with GcoS 1.5 and you needed

Could someone tell me were to get d0lz3.0, Darkakuma/softdev action replay patches. And if Action replay 108 is just an iso of AR.
If you cant post links here then email me at markman219@gmail.com
or pm me...

 

bruce, first of all, thanks for this guide, i just ordered my MDP and ritedek disks. i have a couple questions though. when i am burning a game, they have to be in an .iso form right? the reason im asking is because i have a macintosh, and so far the games i have downloaded, um for my "backing up" , have all been .rar and so i need to uncompress them. anyways, this is a lot harder for a macintosh boy, than a windows, so i have to use my bro's computer at his house to put the gcos ont he memory card.

also with these games that i downloaded, sometime they have like 10 different files in them, so what do i do with all these different files?

number 3, how do you use emulators on your gamecube? i read all the pages, all 11, and i got some lil bit of info on emulators, but im not sure what it meant. any help would be great. thanks again.

 

msickler:

Yes, the games should be in .iso format when u burn them. If you get a .gcm file which is less than 1.3GB in size, run the Wiped GCM Fixer (I'm not sure if this is mac compatible sry) and then rename it to .iso and burn away w/ Nero.

The 10 different files are probably just archive splits, i.e. ___.part01.rar + ____.part02.rar etc. these all hold 1 .iso file. If your different files aren't .rar, .r__, .ace, .c__ or .001, .002 etc, post them here

So far, NES and SNES can be Emulated perfectly on the Gamecube. For NES I'm not too sure (I use dreamcast for this purpose plus I don't play too much NES anyways) but for SNES it's as ez as putting 1 file in the root dir and all ur roms in a folder and burning the DVD. Ofcourse it's not exactly so simple, but check out these sites for more info:

NES: http://gcemu.dcemu.co.uk/fceultragc.shtml
SNES: http://gcemu.dcemu.co.uk/snes9xgx.shtml

GBA and N64 emulation are also possible but they are not as good as the NES/SNES. Most GBA games will run, but u can't just dump ur games into a folder you have to convert them 1 by 1. N64 is the same, but only a handful of games work and u need the Zelda Gamecube ISO to use it (some guys managed to hack it so you can use N64 games other than Ocarina of Time etc. on the gamecube). For more info:

GBA: http://gcemu.dcemu.co.uk/gbaemuplus.shtml
N64: http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/1/163215

Good Luck and don't hesitate to ask any more questions!