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

from info i have gathered yes you need the bba , just download your "backups" instead

 

Ok, i just ordered the BROADBAND ADAPTER.


Now i want to know if i need a copy of Phantasy star online too?

 

Thebib62:

If you have the Max Drive Pro with GCOS or a Mod-Chip with GCOS then you do not need Phantasy Star Online.

 

Hello,

Just my two cents about the burning part :
i burned a couple of mini dvdr's (verbatim brand, cmc mag media code) at 1x using imgburn 2.0 with a liteon 1693s and so far so good (one game only is giving me dre's after a couple of mns).

Also, i decided to go for a xenogc instead of a softmod solution.
Now i read that GCOS is better at preventing DRE's.
Therefore i patched gcos1.5 with udolrel so that i can disable my xeno but without much success.
If anybody is willing to try this gcos with his xeno, let me know and i will post it.

to Thebib62 : where did you buy your bba from and how much?

Regards,
Erwan.

 

If you need a BBA, EB/Gamestop sell em for $2.99, Target for $9 & Rhino Games for $12.99

 

2.99? I'll pay you 20$ to ship one to me in Canada! I don't believe they are that cheap, there must be a mistake....

 

@brucedlx,

How many do you want? I was at EB Games the other day and they had 3-4 on the shelf. PM me if you are serious. It is the least I can do for what you have done for all of us.

Thanks again for getting everything in line. lol. I found the printables on meritline.com, I don't know if you can order from there but you can at least look at them. lol.

[bold]/meritline.stores.yahoo.net/ritek-ridata-4x-mini-dvd-r-white-inkjet-printable.html[/bold]

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edit: I don't know why the link is not working but you can go to www.meritline.com and follow from there.

 

yea i tried it with a replacement top it worked but i rather use hard modding but good tut bruce i will remember it in my sig to show to people in need

 

To erwanl:

i bought mine on amazon.com, for 39$ (United States).


And to brucedlx:

yes it's true, eb is selling a BBA for 2.99 but it's backordered, which means it will take a very long time to get in stock and to ship to your house.

 

Yea, backordered online, but u can use the store locator to search GS/EB's within 200 miles. Unforunately the only one closest to me is over 70 miles away.

 

thats not far wat 70 min well for me cause i like to speed lol

 

Went to save my pokemon Colliseum game to my Max memory card and now I can't find the dol file to be able to load copies? I thought could use this as a memory card as well as for loading? If theres something special have to do please let me know. Couldn't even get the sav file off my memory card when hooking it to my pc for some odd reason. Any help is appreciated. Got a spare mem card in the meantime but if can use this for both sav and loading would be nice. Thanks.

 

max drive pro memcards are not that great for actual saving games contrary to what I posted at the start. After a while, they die down and the gamecube stops recognizing them and you can only use them to boot games. I also just switch memory cards as soon as I'm done swapping discs.

 

Hey

Thanks for the quick reply. Yeah, while emailing you I started doing the same thing just in case that is the advice you were gonna give me anyway. Then started going through the other threads and see what anyone had to say bout it. So transferring the dol file to another memory card would allow me to do the loading of copies to? Cause that hardware error please reinsert is starting to get on my nerves, only had to do it 10 times and thats only with 3 games. Thanks for the great guide, just to bad they hadn't created a better piece of hardware. Viper315

 

yea sure if you want to copy the .dol onto another memory card that will work too and you can use it for saving simultaneously as well.

 

Okay, great. I'll do that if it keeps up. Also wanted to mention, when I first got my GC and everything was getting that unable to recognize media error, its not the media am using it was the pot. I tried those 3 games on another GC unit and worked perfectly fine, so just switched em. So most likely those that are having that issue it is there pot needs readjusting and not a bad burn. I helped a friend readjust the pot on his when he bought his GC and installed an actual modchip, it wasn't to bad to do just if could help it wanted to not have to bother just in case something were to go wrong. Again thanks for the fast responses and have a great day/night. Viper315

 

ok i got my max drive pro did the pot (06 drive from 335 to 195 using ritek g04 traxdata's) now the gc says my memory card is corrupt (common i know) , how will i transfer the dols to another card? , will formatting kill it or do the trick after i put the dols back on it? (gcos etc) please help

 

my MDPro says corrupt when I play games as well, it only works when loading it w/ the MDPro. To be honest, I've thought about formatting it through the gamecube but I was afraid of what may happen, and it may break some kind of file system needed to transfer files from PC-> MDPro. So, I just replace the MDPro card with a normal memcard when I'm done the swap since I'm up beside the gamecube anyways. If you test this out and it works, then let us know! But if you do it and it breaks something don't say I didn't warn you.

 

Was told its not good to swap memory cards when the system is on, so I copied the MDP system file and the .d0l file to the memory card Ive been using to save my games and it works just as if you were using the MDP. Only drawback is not being to hook it to your pc to back up your saves on there. Could always copy the game sav files to the MDP every so often and hook it to the pc and back em up, that is if can get it to work. Figured be so much less hassle and less changes of breaking my machine by switching memory cards. Thanks bruce and everyone else that showed me how. Viper315

 

is mk : deception known for dre's ?? i lowered my pot to 144 (is that ok?) from 195 to try to solve the problem , or would it maybe be the game/burn?

cheers for all the help btw