Pre-Hacked GameCube (No Soldering!) | Picoboot Mod From Hand Held Legend

[@retro-junkie5741]

Back in the day, we modded the GameCube to be region free. without a modchip. It was cake. We installed a switch drilled in the side. Click it, boom plays USA game, click again plays all imports. Took 2 wires a switch and a 1 minute soldering job. Done. WE sold dozens of these mods. $35 flat rate price. It will still work today!

[@joshuathompson2404]

Can I just say...Being a long time fan, and seeing the AMAZING entertainment content you have on your servers (anime, tv, movies, games, etc...), I would do horrible, terrible things if it earned me copy privileges. Your collection is beyond heroic, sir, and I love you for it.

[@Bloodrocutioner]

Damn that N64 was cool but this GameCube was awesome! The price is a little steep I will say but I like that there is a company out there doing this. Brings me back to the Super Smash Bros Melee days, good times.

[@FranBunnyFFXII]

I just prefer to Emulate if I'm gonna play games like that. There's just not enough benefit from trying to do things via a console anymore. I actually have recently played one of my favorite Gamecube games a few days ago, StarFox Assault. I've been getting back into emulator games and will be getting that turtle beach pivot controller because I have burned out of online games and want to replay lots of games from my childhood and young days. That pivot controller and getting some N64 controllers for my PC has really made playing old games a desire again. Once I get that Pivot Controller Im gonna play through my N64 and SNES Library again and play my favorite PS2 and Gamecube games again. I am excited to play oldschool games again.

[@NyteStalker89]

Rogue squadron 2 and 3 are my peak childhood memories on my GameCube

[@HexEssence]

I just got done setting up EmulationStation Desktop Edition (portable) with RetroArch as backend. I have almost 1TB of ROMs and ISOs, and I can emulate anything and everything. It's fucking SICK. All inside 1 folder that I can easily move and drop on any PC ever. I'm doing my part preserving gaming history :) I would like to have even more complete catalogs, but I just don't have the disk space for it :( For Gamecube, F-Zero GX is where it's at. Oh, and SSX 3. I've been playing these 2 games all week. Peak Gamecube. I would've said Metroid Prime too, but Remastered came out on Switch, so I'm playing that too on Ryujinx (through EmulationStation still.) I feel like I'm back in 2004, getting high and playing at my friend's house ALL summer long. It's been quite the nostalgia trip. I throw some shaders on top of the emulation to mimic a curved CRT TV screen, and the results are incredible. It works amazingly for games with sprites, for example Castlevania: Symphony of the Night on PSX, which I'm playing for the first time now. It can even do some of the rainbow chromatic aberrations inherent to CRT's. The creator's called Sonkun, and you can apply those shaders to all emulators, so I use it on NES, SNES, PSX, you name it, the real "retro" consoles. It mimics very well a real CRT TV. Nothing beats the real thing, I suppose, but being able to have my entire emulation done on PC and with the convenience of being able to play retro games with simulated fidelity, while still being able to up internal resolution to 6x, or 4K for Switch games, is just too convenient. Actually bumping up Breath of the Wild from a 720p 30fps game, to a 4K 165fps game, changed everything. Emulation is the freakin' best.

[@FreddyDreams]

Ive been using es-de for about a year now and recently moved to RetroBat which I find better, but it would be personal choice depemding on the person. Now you need to learn about all the compression stuff. Dolphin the emulator itself has a build in compression tool and my wii games compresseed them from around 120 gig to around 65 gig. Wii U emulator Cemu also has a build in compression tool. And for old cd based consoles like PS1, PS2, Saturn, Dreamcast there's a tool that you can convert & compress the roms to a single chd file which is great for Emulation Station and Retrobat

[@GiSWiG]

I have soldering experience, PicoBoot is easy. The trick is getting the newer faster SD2SP2 2.0. The original adapters read slower. My GameCubes have the SD2SP2 PRO (or POR as it is misspelled on the PCB). When using a GB Player the SD2SP2 PRO allows side access to the card. The current SD2SP2 PRO is only the older slower one. I have two Flippy Drive Deluxe kits coming but as of now, they won't be to me until April.

[@Gale_Force_Raceway]

Modded our Wii, runs awesome!!! Even runs a handful (small) PS1 games too!

[@IND4GR0V3]

I have a gamecube sitting to the left of my desk connected to a dell w1900 tv/monitor via S video, audio routed via line nn to my Soundblaster Audigy RX soundcard to have the games audio running through my headset currently playing metroid prime, i also use the gameboy player attachment on occasion.

[@Born_Stellar]

I might buy one just to play F Zero GT. such an amazing game, too bad nintendo didn't continue releasing them.

[@MC_DesmondSparrs]

jail broken Wii with full GameCube backwards comparability is my recommendation. Well, if you have a PC or even an android phone, emulators IMHO is the optimal way to enjoy old classics. I haven't played my Wii in many years how.

[@Michael.Hunt.14-52]

Been playing mine a ton. Internal hdmi with picoboot

[@kpcenti]

What song is the bgm?

[@SrtRacerBoy]

Wrong mod, its all about flippy drive now. Still solderless. WAY better OS options And probably want a pluto hdmi mod also.

[@teksyndicate]

I don't know... I the interface is nice, but I play the games, not interfaces. I know picoboot uses patching, but it is effectively the same when you're playing. Flippy will be interesting with the ethernet mod (or once wifi allows you to send isos to the unit), but having to take apart your GC to update the SD card is annoying. I much prefer using the micro sd adapter. As for HDMI, I use a CRT, but others might want that.

[@barley342]

Monkey Ball 2...mic drop

[@teksyndicate]

I've never been so frustrated... but I love it.

[@MotownBatman]

I got the PICO-Boot with teh flat ribbon last year when they came out, I was Gifted a busted GC I finally got around 9 months later, to Gutt he System Detail & Install the Flat Ribbon I have Crazy high Anxiety & ADHD @ 41yrs., I was Scared S2!7Less, but Did it no Problem with Soilder skills from 20 years ago lol

[@eggi.2108]

250 for picoboot? a used gamecube costs about 30 bucks and you can get a pico for 5....

[@elboregojhb]

M.2 Loader came out

[@teksyndicate]

I don't think I need more than this

[@banishedprivateer]

Too expensive for my taste, would rather just run emulators on PC.

[@Born_Stellar]

sadly emulators aren't perfect for everything. I really like F-zero X but it tends to chug on some levels on emulators.