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

Do yourself a favour and dont waste your money on this, I followed everything on the tutorial and tried ritek and sony discs nothing works I have two gamecubes and tried both I have spent over £50.00 on this, I am not impressed.

 

Well, I already bought the Max Drive Pro already and I might as well try to get to work. But, I cannot get it past the setting up 06 Drive. I set the region right, but, it's still not to getting past that part.

 

jedite1: i have an 06 drive too,
it could be a bad burn, bad files, bad download of the game. either way, retry. get different games and try them. not every game will work for you. i have 20 backup games, and 3 of them dont work. also, you may want to keep hitting the retry button, on some of my games it takes more then one try the gcos to boot it. what version of gcos are you using? so far 1.5 is the best for me.

it could also be your burner, and trust me you have not wasted your money. just keep trying. and ask more questions.

also tell me more about how you burned it.

it needs to be burned as an image.

.iso is the format used

 

I have a Lite On DVD RW that I use for my burner, and I have Fujifilm DVD-R for my recordables. I'm using GcOS V 1.5, but, I have a question, shouldn't the GcOS boot legit games as well? Because I tried to boot legit games from the GcOS and it froze also.

 

I burned it as an iso file with nero in a pioneer dvd burner which didnt work I then tried it in a lite on dvd burner which didnt work either I then proceeded to try a nec dvd burner no success I tried with imgburn that didnt work. I have tried these on 3 different games still no joy so far today I have wasted 15 discs.

 

soo.... it probably is my burner, cuase it will read sometimes, i'll try on my buddies super computer, mines a peice of shiza,that restarts on it's own from time to time.
i'll let you guys know.
i'm burning mine 2x speed on ritek media with nero 7
and they media isn't recognized error with an 04 drive, but the media sometimes works if you turn the gamecube upside down ;0
but then sometimes it hangs at loading and then asks you to shut off cuase there's a problem with the disc. blah!

 

Dutchs,
I read earlier in this topic that sometimes it works better if you burn the games faster. Someone said that games worked when burned at 4x but not when burned at 2x. You should try different speeds.

 

i actually can't burn any faster on my shatty lite on drive, that's actually been pretty good to me, sorry lite on drive.. i hope it doesn't read this.

 

Well I got my Max Drive Pro Yesterday (Which is only 10 days after I ordered it, without that expensive express shipping) and it works great. The only small problem which doesnt really bother me at all is sometimes the card isnt detected by the gamecube properly. They way I ensure this doesnt happen is boot the cube without any disc in it and make sure the card is detected on the mem card screen. If it isnt all I have to do is pull it out and insert is once or twice. Then just insert the disc and boot the max drive software. My Max Drive Pro was just labeled Max Drive on the outside packaging and on the device itself. Both discs were marked Max Drive pro though. Out of the 20 backups I have burned 19 of them work perfectly. The only game that hasnt worked so far is Phantasy Star Online Episode 3 CARD Revolution. Does anyone else have a problem booting that game? I am using GCOS(PSO) 1.5 Final with a Model 08 Drive (Black cube). Just incase everyone wanted to know, I am using Ritek g04 mini dvds, Nero 6, Panasonic/Mashita DVD-Ram drive and burning at 4x every time. All of my games have been NTSC USA except for a couple japanese games. Notable games include Paper Mario 1000 Year door, Mario Kart Double Dash, NBA Street V3 (playing basketball with mario & co) Luigi's Mansion, Zelda Collectors disc (full version not ripped), Dream Mix TV (JAP), and many more. Just as a side note for anyone having problems all of the games I have burned were scene releases that were already over 1.3gb and didnt need to be fixed. A couple needed to be renamed from gcm to iso. I hope my information helps some people. Thanks brucedlx this works better then I imagined it would.

 

This tutorial is very well done...good job brucedlx. I have followed all the directions in the tutorial and everything works up to Step 13. When I try to load the GCoS 1.5(PSO).dol file from my memory card my Max Drive Pro screen looks like the picture in Step 12 asside from the game saves. When I press start on the GCoS 1.5(PSO).dol file all I get is a black screen and no GCoS menu like the tutorial says I should get in Step 13. So I haven't even been able to test my backups because GCoS won't even load for me. If anyone could help with this or anyone with a similar problem could provide some info it would be greatly appreciated.

 

i got my gamecube disc now and everything works up to the point of me puttin a disc in.....i dont have any blank mini dvd;s but no worry, tonite two 10 packs were ordered from the egg. so they're on their way.

the thing boots up loads the gcos and i can goto all the menu options n stuff, hmm, i should play with the ripper, i have a broadband adapter too, crossover cable the works for all that stuff when you used to load them from the pc to cube...never really was fast enough to 'stream' the games

 

Cool, glad to see you got it quite a bit quicker this time. Make sure to let us know if everything works once those mini-dvds arrive.

 

I've noticed somethng about some people ordering a larger replacement case for their cube, so that it can read regular size DVDs. Can this be done in conjunction with this loader? Would I need a mod chip or a new laser component of any kind?

I am very curious about all this...

 

handsom, I beleive that should work.

zztone, you are unclear. Firstly do you realise that you have to choose "burn image" not create a data DVD and copy the Iso into it?

 

sooo.. burning the images on a better computer helped out as now discs work more often but jeez. my cube stinks, my buddies pays my copies fine. mine i have to turn upsaide down and and randomly there are read errors. shiz tank.
but yeah, his is a 04 as welll, i find that odd. the difference between ours. i'mma get a new cube.

 

Anyone: You can use this device in general as action replay correct?

 

dutchs,
Some gamecubes read discs better then others. Sometimes different burners burn gamecube games better. All of this is quite weird and pretty random.

Bakuryu42,
The Max Drive pro can be used to transfer saves from a computer to the memory card and load dol files on the cube. I am not sure what an action replay does.

 

gm14zero: an action replay is like a gameshark



Bakuryu42: you have to own an action replay. max drive pro allows you to update your code list, without having to manually type them in.

 

how do i check what drive my gamecube is?

 

So I have to get both, meh what ever I have two gamecubes now to try it on heh.

I think this was addressed already, but when I click on the link to the product the pictures shows one disk and it has DEV 3 on it along with Max Drive Pro at the bottom, is this the right one or what?