In Germany there is a ban to import animal products etc from outside the EU, but it seems i can just order some WII or Gamecube from Japan and get some free Bugs with it. Interesting.
The word "off" in Japan is a synonym for discount. For example, their version of half-priced books is Book Off. So hard off isn't much of a stretch. Instead of naming it off, hard off would mean very discounted. I even saw a sign for a store named Jack Off. This would be like calling it Jack's discount store.
The "hard" in "hard off" refers to hardware. Japanese shorten the word "hardware" to just "hard" and "software" to just "soft". You can buy stuff like old DVD players, random TV remotes and unknown cables, old PC parts, old home appliances such as microwaves and takoyaki makers, etc.
Its nuts how a junk bin in Japan has so much good quality expensive stuff for a low price- Like... easily fixed stuff just being tossed and sold for 1-3 bucks.
@@SIeipner I'd agree with you if it weren't for thr fact that like none of it is actually broken past a single fault, so I can't imagine what their criteria for unrepairable is.
@@lepidotos The point being that we the western world and the Japanese world live by the same rule. If it doesn''t work, get rid of it. But for the westerners it goes to the garbage bin, while for the Japanese it goes to the cheap broken bin instead, which is much better,
Your write speed is set to aws and if you've not configured it it will default to max wrote speed which will cause issues. Put it 2x and it will probably work.
Your videos inspired me to apply to a local retro games store for a technician job and I actually got it! I’ve been working on GameCubes and 3DS’s for the past two weeks and I’m so excited
Just a tip, to remove stickers, soak them in regular pharmacy alcohol for a minute or two. The alcohol will disolve the adhesive and you'll be able to lift the sticker with no problems. You can even use contact cleaner or 70% alcohol to not damage the plastic. Also to adjust the potentiometer, you absolutely need a tester or you won't be able to read anything and you risk putting a too high/too low value which can burn out the laser.
@@MaximNightFury hm, possibly, but couldn't wd40 also? Of course, test it first. With goo gone, you don't have to soak it for an hour, usually works almost instantly so it doesn't expose to the plastic for very long.
Yeah, I had a similar situation with my 4$ GBA, when the cartridge port was just dirty, and the owner's kid smashed the screen in anger... And the crystal oscillator also fell off the PCB. But after 5 bucks for parts and a few months of frustration about our mail services, I have a beautiful orange handheld!
While it wouldn't have made a great video if you left it at that, I find it hilarious that the GameCube was sold for $3 because of a barely dirty port. We can always rely on Hard Off to do not great in their favor with pricing
my favourite thing about discounted Japanese items is that a dent box which is a minor inconvenience in the west is enough to drop the price of a figure by like 80%
If there is one defining feature of western consumers its that they don't care until AFTER they make the purchase, THEN they complain. The idea that you don't have to buy something if you have an issue with it is genuinely something that got lost somewhere in the past few decades. People would rather just tweet #RightToRepair from their new iPhone 18 pro maxes, then just not buy that unrepairable device and buy a repairable device instead.
I've been using my GC loader for a little over a year now. I LOVE this thing. Pro Tip: Format your SD card in exFat, not Fat32. Solved a huge problem I had with 3/4 of my games not loading.
@@FurryShep On the Switch, that's caused by Nintendo's poor handling of the exFAT file system. It's honestly not the best file system to begin with though lol
If you get the Action Replay Media Launcher, you don't need to replace the disk drive with an emulator. It's just an SD card adapter for the save game card slot. You do need some homebrew software in order to actually launch anything from the SD card though. I think I've got Swiss burned to a mini DVD to load me into a homebrew environment that supports this SD card method.
What gen of gc loader are you using, im on gen 2 and the exfat is the one that causes problems and fat32 works fine, bit there are some games that both have trouble with
I'm actually gonna do this, no joke. In my case, I'm gonna bring back a ton of books and manga, but I might also just pick up some old school gaming stuff, like an n64 and a couple of gameboys
Oh Man, I saw this vid’s community post only about 20 minutes ago. I ended up on your unwinnable Minesweeper video, but suddenly here it is! Edit: I’d love to see a GC Loader video. I’ll never say no to another console modding video from you.
Reminds me of what I've gone through chipping my PS1. Some CDRs work better than others, some drives play better with the media, and some laser mechs read more clearly than others. It really is worth the money to do the SD mod, if you're set on real hardware.
Hah, I went through that headache 20 years ago with my freshly modded PS1. Burn speeds, brands, software, which actual drive you are using to burn with etc.... I recently got out my old PS1 and it had an old game in it from back in the day... When I took it out it brought out some of the drive spindle pieces with it! I did a quick and nasty DIY fix with my oldest kid and got it working again but ran into the same problem with it being super fussy about what it would and wouldn't play. But you know what isn't? A soft modded PS3. That sucker plays everything I've thrown at it, discs I marked as bad burns, skipping cut scenes, skipping music (I'm looking at you Wip3out and Tekken 3) only downside is no beatmania... Until I work out Tonyhax on my PS2 that is!
Well they were never designed to run on burned CDs in the first place, I remember having the same hassles even on my modded PS2. SD mod is the best solution.
I vaguely remember that my cousin made a Record demo with a cd and he came by to try and listen to it with his band at our place, but the only available player was a mini dvd player, he improvised and he trimmed the dvd with a scissor into the size of mini dvd and it worked. He got famous all over the land with that record
I'd definitely be interested in seeing you install the GC Loader. I'll admit the picture you showed with it installed certainly is a strange look for a console. I'm curious if you have any ideas on making it more aesthetically pleasing once installed.
Nintendont is also pretty bad. Spent hours installing and configuring it, only to have mixed results. This was like 5 plus years ago, maybe it’s better now
The CMC thing is a bit tragic. In the 90's and 2000's at the peak of optical media demand there used to be many different disc manufacturing companies such as Taiyo Yuden, Mitsui, TDK making their own discs, etc. with varying levels of quality when it came to burning backups for games, but as time went on CMC Magnetics started buying out most major disc manufacturers, and their discs (along with Ritek, who now manufacture discs for TDK, Memorex, etc.) are known for having very mixed results when burning game backups for old consoles, and are even said to be more prone to stop working and become coasters within a few years of burning. And thus most of the dirt-common cheap CD-Rs and DVD-Rs you can find at walmart or other stores such as imation or verbatim ones will have been manufactured by them. It's only another reason why ODEs and Emulators will only continue to become more important for game preservation, as older good quality discs for burning games onto become increasingly more rare...
Wait, Matt solved a problem the very first try without jumping through 17 different complicated hoops over the span of a few weeks?? I guess just like discs, Matt has also evolved. Also, I'd LOVE to see a GCLoader settup/review from you!
Depending on your GC model, you may be able to get away with an SD2SP adapter which plugs into the serial port on the bottom. Or you can get one of the memory card SD card adapters.
@@t0biascze644 True, tho the menu will remain in japanese. I would just either mod it to ntsc or install a region switch cuz why not, It only seems to be a positive.
@@Strashky I mean does that really matter? Your just skipping past it to get to the game and the memory card. For than sake of usage I would probably just switch it to English permanently
In the future, there’s this stuff called “goo-gone” it gets rid of really hard stuck adhesives and sticker shit. It might not be available locally but I’m sure there’s other stuff that does the same. It smells terrible but works a treat
How did you get that Gamecube through customs with all those dead insects inside it? Aussie and NZ customs shows air all the time here and they're neurotic about anything like that getting through :D But joblots are great for cheap hardware, I got five Orange Japanese gamecubes in one once. Also came with an FM Towns Marty and a 3DO FZ-10.
I bought a lot with 5 ds's 18 dsi's 1 gamecube 7 n64 controllers 2 gamecube controllers (All for repair but thats what im interested in) and a shit load of games i lost count of mostly n64 and gamecube all for 258$ on ebay. (The games alone are like 300$ so i basically got the ds's i wanted for free.) The guy even tossed in a n64 rumble pack with the box for free but sadly someone left battery's in it so i will have to see if that can be fixed. Its rare but you can find quality lots on ebay if you know what your looking for and check daily, Or sometimes hourly if your looking to snag something cheap and you just refresh the search sorted by newly listed.
This world is rapidly passing away and I hope that you repent and take time to change before all out disaster occurs! Belief in messiah alone is not enough to grant you salvation - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36) if you believed in Messiah you would be following His commands as best as you could. If you are not a follower of Messiah I would highly recommend becoming one. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life - Revelation 3:20. Contemplate how the Roman Empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13 over the course of 1260+ years. Revelation 17 confirms that the beast is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years going back to Babylon and before, C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate once you start a relationship with God. Can't get a response from God? Fasting can help increase your perception and prayer can help initiate events. God will ignore you if your prayer does not align with His purpose (James 4:3) or if you are approaching Him when "unclean" (Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 59:2, Micah 3:4). Stop eating food sacrificed to idols (McDonald's, Wendy's etc) stop glorifying yourself on social media or making other images of yourself (Second Commandment), stop gossiping about other people, stop watching obscene content etc. Have a blessed day!
Note: if you get the Action Replay Media Launcher, you don't need to replace the disk drive with an emulator. It's just an SD card adapter for the save game card slot. You do need some homebrew software in order to actually launch anything from the SD card though. I think I've got Swiss burned to a mini DVD to load me into a homebrew environment that supports this SD card method.
There are some types of adhesive that can be softened by using a bit of vegetal oil, like the ones that hold on labels on plastic bottles. It's my last resource, if no other solvent i tried works, usually oil works. The cleanup is pretty easy, just a bit of soap and water and it's done.
I had a similar experience with this wii i found in one of those free bins at a used game store Dirty af but it seemingly works after a good cleaning (only tested the power receiving so far)
GC Loader works great, I've modded 2 Gamecubes with them. No solder no mess and with a 3D printed insert looks almost factory. Look for forward to more vids, keep up the great work!
You don't need a GC Loader or a mod chip or any optical drive emulator, you can just run homebrew through a gamecube memory card mod called swiss and play games off an sd card in the memory card slot lol
You remind me of me, I definitely know the pain of trying to burn games to a disc now and whether or not if they'll work. Earlier this year I went and ordered an A/V cable for my Dreamcast - I had not used my DC since 2006 or so, and severely misplaced the original cable that I still can't find. Anyway, I started looking into used game prices, decided fuck that noise, and opted for burning game images to disc. Found some online resources for fairly better quality CD's than just Verbatim, ordered an entire stack, and then later found out each game's image is missing one or two minor things just to make the image small enough to fit on a CD-R, not only that but I then encountered games with multuple discs, like Shenmue, and one disc is too large still for CD-R's, so I had to try and find larger media CD-R's, tried burning that disc, and it STILL does not work. So, yeah, at some point I will probably mod my DC with GDemu or what ever it's called. I also got into burning PS1 games recently when I looked into jailbreaking my PS3.
I can personally vouch for the GC Loader! As someone who has ZERO soldering skills it's an easy mod and the recent updates to Swiss (Homebrew OS) have really made it the premium way to run games off solid state media for the GC. It's Also worth getting an 3D printed mounting bracket so that the SD card is easily accebiliy. Laser Bear sells them as a kit. Oh yeah and an SD2SP2 too, for additional storage.
Dud you ever adjust the lasers pot to account for the power going to the laser it needs to have more power in order for it to read burned games easier. Its a fairly simple thing u need a phillips head driver and a multimeter. That and patience.
This world is rapidly passing away and I hope that you repent and take time to change before all out disaster occurs! Belief in messiah alone is not enough to grant you salvation - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36) if you believed in Messiah you would be following His commands as best as you could. If you are not a follower of Messiah I would highly recommend becoming one. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life - Revelation 3:20. Contemplate how the Roman Empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13 over the course of 1260+ years. Revelation 17 confirms that the beast is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years going back to Babylon and before, C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate once you start a relationship with God. Can't get a response from God? Fasting can help increase your perception and prayer can help initiate events. God will ignore you if your prayer does not align with His purpose (James 4:3) or if you are approaching Him when "unclean" (Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 59:2, Micah 3:4). Stop eating food sacrificed to idols (McDonald's, Wendy's etc) stop glorifying yourself on social media or making other images of yourself (Second Commandment), stop gossiping about other people, stop watching obscene content etc. Have a blessed day!
For stickers, where the surrounding paint wont peel off anyway, put clear plastic tape down over it, and yank the tape off. repeat as necesary. it will tear the paper off bits at a time, and then will get the glue off.
@@MilkerMurphy lmao that's easier said than done, i've ruined many DVD's doing that and when it does work it'll be an ugly disc that will only work for a little while.
6:57 Your answer lies at the top of that page, getting a pre burnt swiss disc and a SD2SP2 adapter will serve basically the same purpose as a GCloader but for cheap while also keeping the disc drive, it's what i've got goin and it works pretty flawlessly for 95% of games. Also those phillips discs should work, the Gamecube is very picky so you might have to tweak the pot to absolute perfection to get it to read, it took me about an hour to get it dialed in perfectly to read my non brand DVD-R's you could also try a laser from a different gamecube by just swapping the driveboard with the Xeno on it to another disc assembly
The way Hard Off and similar stores work is: They have a category of item called "junk." This is stuff the staff never tested, so they make no claims that it'll work properly. Buyer beware. Often you'll get lucky. But sometimes you won't. I bought a $20 Switch Pro controller, got it home, opened the box, and the left analog was a limp noodle. Opened it up, and the shell around the analog was destroyed. Bye, $20! As for the stickers, ever try Goo Gone? It's citrus magic!
That's a lot more effort than printing a replacement top shell, but it has the advantage that your burned games will work on consoles with the original shell
I almost threw out my Galaxy S8 and bought a new one, because it just stopped charging. Before I did a "one last thing" and cleaned the USB-C port haha, worked for like another 2 years. I am stupid. People are stupid.
Glad I subbed! These videos are great. I'm sure you're getting a ton of different suggestions for removing stickers, but for me lighter fluid works every time. For whatever reason it's really good at loosening adhesive. I've used it to remove old stickers from pre-owned games, and to move stickers from gameboy carts onto new shells. You have to be kind of liberal, but it works super well and dries out nicely.
You should make more gaming console restoration videos Matt. I agree with you, solving the puzzle that comes with each device is the most interesting aspect of the device itself. All the restoration videos now are just the generic hgih speed facebook watch video without narration where the guy just restores the plastic/metal and puts it back together. Your series is truly unique and hopefully the view counts reflect that!
I was happy to be in the first batch of people that got the GCLoader, allowed me to pawn off my full sized DVD gamecube for WAY more than I would get now. Right before the GCLoader those things went loose for around 150 euro for whatever reason. I still remember them being sold about a decade ago for 30 though, but even back then they weren't particularly easy to find.
This world is rapidly passing away and I hope that you repent and take time to change before all out disaster occurs! Belief in messiah alone is not enough to grant you salvation - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36) if you believed in Messiah you would be following His commands as best as you could. If you are not a follower of Messiah I would highly recommend becoming one. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life - Revelation 3:20. Contemplate how the Roman Empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13 over the course of 1260+ years. Revelation 17 confirms that the beast is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years going back to Babylon and before, C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate once you start a relationship with God. Can't get a response from God? Fasting can help increase your perception and prayer can help initiate events. God will ignore you if your prayer does not align with His purpose (James 4:3) or if you are approaching Him when "unclean" (Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 59:2, Micah 3:4). Stop eating food sacrificed to idols (McDonald's, Wendy's etc) stop glorifying yourself on social media or making other images of yourself (Second Commandment), stop gossiping about other people, stop watching obscene content etc. Have a blessed day!
I replaced the top LED of mine with a blue LED, added blue LEDs to the controller ports, a XenoGC modchip which annoyingly has 2 same colour LEDs, and some homebrew software on mini DVD that can load games from an SD card from an Action Replay SD Media Launcher.
I once bought an Atari 2600 system at a garage sale for 50 cents. It worked and game with several games, a couple of joysticks, and a couple of paddle controllers.
A hair dryer on the hottest setting will help with pretty much any old stickers stuck on anything. The hair dryer will heat the clue under the sticker and you can just peel the whole thing off.
A better way to get stickers off is lighter fluid (for Zippo lighters) Though on painted surfaces test it on a hidden spot as it can damage the finish.
The one faded memory card reader door on the right side can be cleaned back to the original colour, I did it to mine , What you do is go to a woman's hair dye supply store, Like Sally Beauty, they sell a bleach gel for hair. What you do is rub it on the door and place it in the sun for a few hours, then take it in, wash it off, dry it, then do it again, repeat this about 3-4 times, And the yellow colour will turn back to the original white.
You'd be surprised how easily people can assume a malfunctioning part of an electronic device is broken, when in reality it's just dirty and in need of a quick cleaning. I know this from experience: I thought the disc reader in my PlayStation 3 was busted for _two years_ until just two weeks ago, when I took some alcohol and two cotton swabs to clean and dry the laser lens. It now works just as well as it did five years ago. It took me three minutes to do. It wasn't broken, it was just dirty. Moral of the story? If something's going wrong with your favorite electronic device, properly clean the defective part before you do anything else.
Idk if it's available where you're at but there's a product called "Goo Gone" in america which is basically just orange oil. Works significantly better than wd40 for stickers, but can dissolve some plastics so you need to do a test swab somewhere.
Hard-Off is called that way because you can buy and sell hardware (hard) at bargain prices (off). It's a bit strange to english-speaking ears but that's wasei-eigo for you.
That SD Card reader for GC sounds interesting. Maybe do a little "challenge" to mod your GB as much as possible, by adding all available mods in one device :D
Working in a kind off thrift store you'd be amazed the amount of working old electronics. The initial thought is: they gave it away because it was broken. No, most people don't know what they have. Even surprisingly recent ones like phones. Surprising things like an old mini pac-man arcade machine seeked today for 600$. Always nice to bring a surprise home.
One solution for the lack of mini-DVDs when you have an open-topped gamecube would be to just use a craft knife or other very sharp point to just cut it off - making the DVD spindle into a makeshift lathe. This is no doubt _extremely_ healthy for the drive assembly and motor, of course.
Miss my GameCube so much. Took it to a friend's for a weekend, then when packing it and bringing it back, it was mysteriously missing once home.. Hm. But nice video! Yours is silver, like mine was, and it brought back the nostalgia of how fun they were.
You aren't misremembering, they used to sell replacement GameCube shells to fit full sized DVDs, in different colours even I believe. I don't remember where though... Either eBay or that big modchip site that got shut down. I've still got a few packs of mini DVDs from my NGC modding plans 15 years ago, then I got my kid a Wii and soft modded it and sold the GameCube and BB adaptor instead... Which has incidentally been serving us fine until just the other day when it decided it no longer wants to read my USB drive, so now I have to work that out.
It might sound a little odd but could you possibly just trim down the cd to a smaller size if you knew what size to trim it down to? In theory it might be fine if you are willing to take a couple of attempts and waste a few decent cds. I could imagine there are multiple ways you could attempt this. Option 1: Use a broken/sacrificial mini-cd to create a outline of the smaller disk on the larger and carefully cut off the excess. Option 2: Find the correct radius of mini-disk. Place a rod of some form in the middle of the larger disk, tie a string with the correct radius as it's length to a sharply tipped rod. After that you should only have to repetitively move the sharply tipped rod around the tool until you have a deep groove. Eventually you will want to remove the outer part of the disc carefully then smooth the edge of the new homebrew mini-disc. Remember this is assuming that you will not need the rest of the disk for data space as the Gamecube cannot utilize that part of the disk.
You are right, Gamecube shells that accommodated a full size DVD did exist back in the day. Nobody makes them now because Gamecube is readily playable on the more common Wii which like you said, doesn't even require discs if you use a USB loader. Your best bet is finding one on the used market. IcedCube and GC Viper were the brands.
This is a fun video! Snarkier than most game system repair RUclipsrs, like if FrameRater started repairing game systems. I put that chip in my GameCube, procured from a Goodwill in southern Arizona. The price? Five dollars. The inside was a sticky brown mess, but it cleaned up perfectly fine. I appreciate Xeno's one and done design, without having to run wires to tiny pads on the GameCube PCB, but yeah, actually having to solder those points is slightly fidgety and imprecise. It's kind of a miracle that it turned out as well as it did.
2 years ago.... Walmart had packs of Memorex Mini DVD’s on clearance for $3.... I bought them all thinking I’d eventually “Need” them.... 2 years later.... I have FINALLY found a use for them.. Thanks 😁
I have a bit of an itch that wasn't scratched, and that was testing both Memory Card slots. Otherwise, good find that only needed a Q-Tip and some cleaning lol.
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In Germany there is a ban to import animal products etc from outside the EU, but it seems i can just order some WII or Gamecube from Japan and get some free Bugs with it. Interesting.
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Just import Cyberpunk. You're guaranteed to get a lot of bugs.
@@MyRegardsToTheDodo lol didn‘t expect that
@@Dan-TechAndMusic wait, Poland is its own country again? We need to invade them again!
@@012345678944107 I see what you did there, You really did polish the whole comment.
The word "off" in Japan is a synonym for discount. For example, their version of half-priced books is Book Off. So hard off isn't much of a stretch. Instead of naming it off, hard off would mean very discounted. I even saw a sign for a store named Jack Off. This would be like calling it Jack's discount store.
Makes sense considering we say “X percent off”
jack what?
The "hard" in "hard off" refers to hardware. Japanese shorten the word "hardware" to just "hard" and "software" to just "soft". You can buy stuff like old DVD players, random TV remotes and unknown cables, old PC parts, old home appliances such as microwaves and takoyaki makers, etc.
@@SukaNekoto Not surprised considering they shorten Personal Computer to Persocom.
@@epicKerBallze Jack has been disabled
Its nuts how a junk bin in Japan has so much good quality expensive stuff for a low price- Like... easily fixed stuff just being tossed and sold for 1-3 bucks.
I swear Japan has to be one of the major contributors to e-waste.
In 2012 I bought a crate from Japan filled with old consoles/games for $100.
@@lepidotos Or japanese people turn their broken shit in to be sold while the western world just throw it in the garbage.
@@SIeipner I'd agree with you if it weren't for thr fact that like none of it is actually broken past a single fault, so I can't imagine what their criteria for unrepairable is.
@@lepidotos The point being that we the western world and the Japanese world live by the same rule. If it doesn''t work, get rid of it. But for the westerners it goes to the garbage bin, while for the Japanese it goes to the cheap broken bin instead, which is much better,
meanwhile in europe: "Remains of a Gamecube, broken and missing components" - 100€
Most people (the mainstream parents) just throw broken devices into the household trash if they’re broken like that.
@@user-10021 My dead grandpa's collection hurt the most...
I love how the fist thing he does after finding out it's not garbage is he mod- chips it.
it ain't a MattKC restoration without a mod-chip.
my hero
You kind of have to, considering it won't play any US or EU games otherwise.
Your write speed is set to aws and if you've not configured it it will default to max wrote speed which will cause issues. Put it 2x and it will probably work.
Engineer
Your videos inspired me to apply to a local retro games store for a technician job and I actually got it! I’ve been working on GameCubes and 3DS’s for the past two weeks and I’m so excited
Hey I'm really happy for you! Congrats!
What a cool job...
do most retro game stores have something like that?
@@brodown64 just ask if they refurbish consoles or buy consoles and if they do they probably have the job
Do you replace the circle pad on 3ds alot?
Just a tip, to remove stickers, soak them in regular pharmacy alcohol for a minute or two. The alcohol will disolve the adhesive and you'll be able to lift the sticker with no problems.
You can even use contact cleaner or 70% alcohol to not damage the plastic.
Also to adjust the potentiometer, you absolutely need a tester or you won't be able to read anything and you risk putting a too high/too low value which can burn out the laser.
this is what i do. I use Isopropyl to take off stiickers
Yeah. Alcohol is better. WD stands for water displacement. They aren't all that appropriate for a task like this.
Or just use goo gone
@@thedopplereffect00 wouldn't goo gone risk damaging the plastic?
@@MaximNightFury hm, possibly, but couldn't wd40 also? Of course, test it first. With goo gone, you don't have to soak it for an hour, usually works almost instantly so it doesn't expose to the plastic for very long.
Yeah, I had a similar situation with my 4$ GBA, when the cartridge port was just dirty, and the owner's kid smashed the screen in anger... And the crystal oscillator also fell off the PCB. But after 5 bucks for parts and a few months of frustration about our mail services, I have a beautiful orange handheld!
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While it wouldn't have made a great video if you left it at that, I find it hilarious that the GameCube was sold for $3 because of a barely dirty port. We can always rely on Hard Off to do not great in their favor with pricing
this video was posted 3 minuets ago... you time traveling?!
@@cvalenx Members can watch early.
@@legomaniac588 Oh ok
@@legomaniac588 wait a second here…for me it says both comments were 2-weeks ago??
@@DrakeDaraitis At most I think he was a couple days early, so we commented on the same week. His should become 3 weeks before the others though.
my favourite thing about discounted Japanese items is that a dent box which is a minor inconvenience in the west is enough to drop the price of a figure by like 80%
If there is one defining feature of western consumers its that they don't care until AFTER they make the purchase, THEN they complain. The idea that you don't have to buy something if you have an issue with it is genuinely something that got lost somewhere in the past few decades. People would rather just tweet #RightToRepair from their new iPhone 18 pro maxes, then just not buy that unrepairable device and buy a repairable device instead.
I've been using my GC loader for a little over a year now. I LOVE this thing. Pro Tip: Format your SD card in exFat, not Fat32. Solved a huge problem I had with 3/4 of my games not loading.
That's funny, cause its usually the other way around. Lol, exFat is usually the thing that causes issues (on the wii and switch).
@@FurryShep On the Switch, that's caused by Nintendo's poor handling of the exFAT file system. It's honestly not the best file system to begin with though lol
it even better now it supports Write.
If you get the Action Replay Media Launcher, you don't need to replace the disk drive with an emulator. It's just an SD card adapter for the save game card slot. You do need some homebrew software in order to actually launch anything from the SD card though. I think I've got Swiss burned to a mini DVD to load me into a homebrew environment that supports this SD card method.
What gen of gc loader are you using, im on gen 2 and the exfat is the one that causes problems and fat32 works fine, bit there are some games that both have trouble with
It looks like flying to Japan with a few empty suitcases will almost pay for itself in the end. 😳
Shut up ur not going to Japan
I'm actually gonna do this, no joke. In my case, I'm gonna bring back a ton of books and manga, but I might also just pick up some old school gaming stuff, like an n64 and a couple of gameboys
@@dLzzzgaming have fun
Customs probably threw him in a cell and forgot
When he got in japan he was watching youtube and typed a mean comment. So he got arrested for cyberbullying
Oh Man, I saw this vid’s community post only about 20 minutes ago. I ended up on your unwinnable Minesweeper video, but suddenly here it is!
Edit: I’d love to see a GC Loader video. I’ll never say no to another console modding video from you.
Reminds me of what I've gone through chipping my PS1. Some CDRs work better than others, some drives play better with the media, and some laser mechs read more clearly than others. It really is worth the money to do the SD mod, if you're set on real hardware.
hello there
Hah, I went through that headache 20 years ago with my freshly modded PS1. Burn speeds, brands, software, which actual drive you are using to burn with etc.... I recently got out my old PS1 and it had an old game in it from back in the day... When I took it out it brought out some of the drive spindle pieces with it!
I did a quick and nasty DIY fix with my oldest kid and got it working again but ran into the same problem with it being super fussy about what it would and wouldn't play. But you know what isn't? A soft modded PS3. That sucker plays everything I've thrown at it, discs I marked as bad burns, skipping cut scenes, skipping music (I'm looking at you Wip3out and Tekken 3) only downside is no beatmania... Until I work out Tonyhax on my PS2 that is!
Well they were never designed to run on burned CDs in the first place, I remember having the same hassles even on my modded PS2. SD mod is the best solution.
I've been waiting for a GC episode for ages. Glad to see it finally come!
I vaguely remember that my cousin made a Record demo with a cd and he came by to try and listen to it with his band at our place, but the only available player was a mini dvd player, he improvised and he trimmed the dvd with a scissor into the size of mini dvd and it worked. He got famous all over the land with that record
That first bit got me pretty good lmao
lol is the demo available anywhere?
It's amazing how many interesting things you can get cheap from Japan.
I'd definitely be interested in seeing you install the GC Loader. I'll admit the picture you showed with it installed certainly is a strange look for a console. I'm curious if you have any ideas on making it more aesthetically pleasing once installed.
With a SD card extension and cheap 3D printed parts to fill in where the drive use to be it looks amazing!
@@smithincanton he’s right. Etsy should have what you’re looking for.
While using a Gamecube to play Gamecube games is the worst way to play Gamecube games in 2021, we are forgetting about it's most feature: The Handle™
It's not called the purple lunch box for nothing
1 day ago but the vid released 14 mins ago?
@@BedfulPro Most likely they are Patreon subscribers.
@@BedfulPro Videos are Early Access on Patreon www.patreon.com/mattkc
Nintendont is also pretty bad. Spent hours installing and configuring it, only to have mixed results. This was like 5 plus years ago, maybe it’s better now
The CMC thing is a bit tragic. In the 90's and 2000's at the peak of optical media demand there used to be many different disc manufacturing companies such as Taiyo Yuden, Mitsui, TDK making their own discs, etc. with varying levels of quality when it came to burning backups for games, but as time went on CMC Magnetics started buying out most major disc manufacturers, and their discs (along with Ritek, who now manufacture discs for TDK, Memorex, etc.) are known for having very mixed results when burning game backups for old consoles, and are even said to be more prone to stop working and become coasters within a few years of burning. And thus most of the dirt-common cheap CD-Rs and DVD-Rs you can find at walmart or other stores such as imation or verbatim ones will have been manufactured by them. It's only another reason why ODEs and Emulators will only continue to become more important for game preservation, as older good quality discs for burning games onto become increasingly more rare...
Wait, Matt solved a problem the very first try without jumping through 17 different complicated hoops over the span of a few weeks??
I guess just like discs, Matt has also evolved.
Also, I'd LOVE to see a GCLoader settup/review from you!
Depending on your GC model, you may be able to get away with an SD2SP adapter which plugs into the serial port on the bottom. Or you can get one of the memory card SD card adapters.
The SD2SP adapter still needs a Xeno chip to work though.
@@lolindirlink True
Do a region mod! You can solder in a switch to go from US to JP just by connecting two points. I did it to mine wayyy back when.
why when the modchip does exactly the same
@@t0biascze644 I dont think a modchip changes the systems region.
@@Strashky Propably no, but it still allows you to play games from other regions
@@t0biascze644 True, tho the menu will remain in japanese. I would just either mod it to ntsc or install a region switch cuz why not, It only seems to be a positive.
@@Strashky I mean does that really matter? Your just skipping past it to get to the game and the memory card. For than sake of usage I would probably just switch it to English permanently
In the future, there’s this stuff called “goo-gone” it gets rid of really hard stuck adhesives and sticker shit. It might not be available locally but I’m sure there’s other stuff that does the same. It smells terrible but works a treat
How did you get that Gamecube through customs with all those dead insects inside it? Aussie and NZ customs shows air all the time here and they're neurotic about anything like that getting through :D
But joblots are great for cheap hardware, I got five Orange Japanese gamecubes in one once. Also came with an FM Towns Marty and a 3DO FZ-10.
Well we all saw how truly neurotic and draconian/tyrannical Australia can be so um not surprised you have problems with customs
I bought a lot with 5 ds's 18 dsi's 1 gamecube 7 n64 controllers 2 gamecube controllers (All for repair but thats what im interested in) and a shit load of games i lost count of mostly n64 and gamecube all for 258$ on ebay. (The games alone are like 300$ so i basically got the ds's i wanted for free.) The guy even tossed in a n64 rumble pack with the box for free but sadly someone left battery's in it so i will have to see if that can be fixed.
Its rare but you can find quality lots on ebay if you know what your looking for and check daily, Or sometimes hourly if your looking to snag something cheap and you just refresh the search sorted by newly listed.
This world is rapidly passing away and I hope that you repent and take time to change before all out disaster occurs! Belief in messiah alone is not enough to grant you salvation - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36) if you believed in Messiah you would be following His commands as best as you could. If you are not a follower of Messiah I would highly recommend becoming one. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life - Revelation 3:20.
Contemplate how the Roman Empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13 over the course of 1260+ years. Revelation 17 confirms that the beast is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years going back to Babylon and before, C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate once you start a relationship with God.
Can't get a response from God? Fasting can help increase your perception and prayer can help initiate events. God will ignore you if your prayer does not align with His purpose (James 4:3) or if you are approaching Him when "unclean" (Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 59:2, Micah 3:4). Stop eating food sacrificed to idols (McDonald's, Wendy's etc) stop glorifying yourself on social media or making other images of yourself (Second Commandment), stop gossiping about other people, stop watching obscene content etc. Have a blessed day!
Ayo, THE Larry Bundy Jr.?
0:29 Wow, real smooth there matt. Well played.
Note: if you get the Action Replay Media Launcher, you don't need to replace the disk drive with an emulator. It's just an SD card adapter for the save game card slot. You do need some homebrew software in order to actually launch anything from the SD card though. I think I've got Swiss burned to a mini DVD to load me into a homebrew environment that supports this SD card method.
Thank you YT Recommended.
There are some types of adhesive that can be softened by using a bit of vegetal oil, like the ones that hold on labels on plastic bottles.
It's my last resource, if no other solvent i tried works, usually oil works. The cleanup is pretty easy, just a bit of soap and water and it's done.
I used The 8 Bit Guys Baking soda trick was what I did on a PS1 to remove the gunk.
Love these videos so much! Planning on going to Japan some day and I’m excited to go to their electronics stores
These videos are the best motivation to get into electronics. Thanks man! can't wait for the GC loader install video.
I had a similar experience with this wii i found in one of those free bins at a used game store
Dirty af but it seemingly works after a good cleaning (only tested the power receiving so far)
GC Loader works great, I've modded 2 Gamecubes with them. No solder no mess and with a 3D printed insert looks almost factory. Look for forward to more vids, keep up the great work!
It's crazy to me how many hidden gems could be in the bargain bins! And yes, I'd love to see a video on the install of the GC loader!
You don't need a GC Loader or a mod chip or any optical drive emulator, you can just run homebrew through a gamecube memory card mod called swiss and play games off an sd card in the memory card slot lol
You remind me of me, I definitely know the pain of trying to burn games to a disc now and whether or not if they'll work. Earlier this year I went and ordered an A/V cable for my Dreamcast - I had not used my DC since 2006 or so, and severely misplaced the original cable that I still can't find. Anyway, I started looking into used game prices, decided fuck that noise, and opted for burning game images to disc. Found some online resources for fairly better quality CD's than just Verbatim, ordered an entire stack, and then later found out each game's image is missing one or two minor things just to make the image small enough to fit on a CD-R, not only that but I then encountered games with multuple discs, like Shenmue, and one disc is too large still for CD-R's, so I had to try and find larger media CD-R's, tried burning that disc, and it STILL does not work.
So, yeah, at some point I will probably mod my DC with GDemu or what ever it's called. I also got into burning PS1 games recently when I looked into jailbreaking my PS3.
I can personally vouch for the GC Loader! As someone who has ZERO soldering skills it's an easy mod and the recent updates to Swiss (Homebrew OS) have really made it the premium way to run games off solid state media for the GC. It's Also worth getting an 3D printed mounting bracket so that the SD card is easily accebiliy. Laser Bear sells them as a kit. Oh yeah and an SD2SP2 too, for additional storage.
I bet you somewhere In the Japanese websphere you can find "Purchasing a ¥300 Xbox from America"
Dud you ever adjust the lasers pot to account for the power going to the laser it needs to have more power in order for it to read burned games easier. Its a fairly simple thing u need a phillips head driver and a multimeter. That and patience.
the moment Shadow The Hedgehog popped up I almost screamed
why the heck do I love this game SEGA remake pls
A Shadow The Hedgehog remake would probably work, I just want a more defined main story path
This world is rapidly passing away and I hope that you repent and take time to change before all out disaster occurs! Belief in messiah alone is not enough to grant you salvation - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36) if you believed in Messiah you would be following His commands as best as you could. If you are not a follower of Messiah I would highly recommend becoming one. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life - Revelation 3:20.
Contemplate how the Roman Empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13 over the course of 1260+ years. Revelation 17 confirms that the beast is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years going back to Babylon and before, C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate once you start a relationship with God.
Can't get a response from God? Fasting can help increase your perception and prayer can help initiate events. God will ignore you if your prayer does not align with His purpose (James 4:3) or if you are approaching Him when "unclean" (Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 59:2, Micah 3:4). Stop eating food sacrificed to idols (McDonald's, Wendy's etc) stop glorifying yourself on social media or making other images of yourself (Second Commandment), stop gossiping about other people, stop watching obscene content etc. Have a blessed day!
For stickers, where the surrounding paint wont peel off anyway, put clear plastic tape down over it, and yank the tape off. repeat as necesary. it will tear the paper off bits at a time, and then will get the glue off.
Sadly replacement shells for GC haven't been a thing for years. Especially full size DVD ones.
Just trim the DVD, why is nobody doing that?!
@@MilkerMurphy lmao that's easier said than done, i've ruined many DVD's doing that and when it does work it'll be an ugly disc that will only work for a little while.
6:55 IcedCube anyone? but those were notoriously difficult to find, even back when it was manufactured
God damn Matt, you're insanely underrated.
6:57 Your answer lies at the top of that page, getting a pre burnt swiss disc and a SD2SP2 adapter will serve basically the same purpose as a GCloader but for cheap while also keeping the disc drive, it's what i've got goin and it works pretty flawlessly for 95% of games.
Also those phillips discs should work, the Gamecube is very picky so you might have to tweak the pot to absolute perfection to get it to read, it took me about an hour to get it dialed in perfectly to read my non brand DVD-R's you could also try a laser from a different gamecube by just swapping the driveboard with the Xeno on it to another disc assembly
Once you get a 3D printer the game completely changes.
The way Hard Off and similar stores work is: They have a category of item called "junk." This is stuff the staff never tested, so they make no claims that it'll work properly. Buyer beware. Often you'll get lucky. But sometimes you won't. I bought a $20 Switch Pro controller, got it home, opened the box, and the left analog was a limp noodle. Opened it up, and the shell around the analog was destroyed. Bye, $20!
As for the stickers, ever try Goo Gone? It's citrus magic!
1:09 future gamecube
Easiest way to get the stickers off is using a blow dryer or heat gun to heat the sticker up then you can easily peel it of in full
wonder if full sized discs can be trimmed to fit the Gamecube? definitely risky but with sort of a lathe setup I'd bet it's doable
That's a lot more effort than printing a replacement top shell, but it has the advantage that your burned games will work on consoles with the original shell
I almost threw out my Galaxy S8 and bought a new one, because it just stopped charging. Before I did a "one last thing" and cleaned the USB-C port haha, worked for like another 2 years. I am stupid. People are stupid.
Japan: Gamecube: Junk bin, busted beyond repair, for 3$ (can be pretty easily repaired)
Usa: Gamecube, like new, 120$ (Is a fucking enigma to repair)
7:20 same as other older media. I bought a Nokia N-Gage a few months ago and it was almost impossible to find an original 256mb MMC Card
Glad I subbed! These videos are great. I'm sure you're getting a ton of different suggestions for removing stickers, but for me lighter fluid works every time. For whatever reason it's really good at loosening adhesive. I've used it to remove old stickers from pre-owned games, and to move stickers from gameboy carts onto new shells. You have to be kind of liberal, but it works super well and dries out nicely.
i love watching you take the patience and care to clean out your electroonics thoroughly...something i have never gotten in the habit of.
Where's that DAMN 4th Chaos Emerald?!
I found you FAKER!
The junk section In the car shops over there is my favouret spot. I have picked up so much stuff from there cheap as that needed super minor repairs.
2:44 was that supposed to be censored?
@@isoceptic you cared enough to respond but tbh I don't care that much either I was just curious since he usually censors swearing
1:34 Now I'm wondering what the rest of the video will be about.
so when can I come over to play shadow the hedgehog??
You should make more gaming console restoration videos Matt. I agree with you, solving the puzzle that comes with each device is the most interesting aspect of the device itself. All the restoration videos now are just the generic hgih speed facebook watch video without narration where the guy just restores the plastic/metal and puts it back together. Your series is truly unique and hopefully the view counts reflect that!
At 0:04 I pushed the like button
I was happy to be in the first batch of people that got the GCLoader, allowed me to pawn off my full sized DVD gamecube for WAY more than I would get now. Right before the GCLoader those things went loose for around 150 euro for whatever reason. I still remember them being sold about a decade ago for 30 though, but even back then they weren't particularly easy to find.
Hey, out of curiosity, what do you mean by "full sized DVD GameCube"?
This world is rapidly passing away and I hope that you repent and take time to change before all out disaster occurs! Belief in messiah alone is not enough to grant you salvation - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36) if you believed in Messiah you would be following His commands as best as you could. If you are not a follower of Messiah I would highly recommend becoming one. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life - Revelation 3:20.
Contemplate how the Roman Empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13 over the course of 1260+ years. Revelation 17 confirms that the beast is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years going back to Babylon and before, C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate once you start a relationship with God.
Can't get a response from God? Fasting can help increase your perception and prayer can help initiate events. God will ignore you if your prayer does not align with His purpose (James 4:3) or if you are approaching Him when "unclean" (Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 59:2, Micah 3:4). Stop eating food sacrificed to idols (McDonald's, Wendy's etc) stop glorifying yourself on social media or making other images of yourself (Second Commandment), stop gossiping about other people, stop watching obscene content etc. Have a blessed day!
I'm always hyped for a new MattKC video. Easiest decision to click on youtube, every time.
I replaced the top LED of mine with a blue LED, added blue LEDs to the controller ports, a XenoGC modchip which annoyingly has 2 same colour LEDs, and some homebrew software on mini DVD that can load games from an SD card from an Action Replay SD Media Launcher.
I once bought an Atari 2600 system at a garage sale for 50 cents. It worked and game with several games, a couple of joysticks, and a couple of paddle controllers.
A hair dryer on the hottest setting will help with pretty much any old stickers stuck on anything. The hair dryer will heat the clue under the sticker and you can just peel the whole thing off.
A better way to get stickers off is lighter fluid (for Zippo lighters) Though on painted surfaces test it on a hidden spot as it can damage the finish.
What I use as well and works perfectly.
0:47 nostalgic just hit me. Missing my childhood
for stickers I'm pretty sure nail polish remover just tears through that stuff and makes any sticker ridiculously easy to remove
The one faded memory card reader door on the right side can be cleaned back to the original colour, I did it to mine , What you do is go to a woman's hair dye supply store, Like Sally Beauty, they sell a bleach gel for hair. What you do is rub it on the door and place it in the sun for a few hours, then take it in, wash it off, dry it, then do it again, repeat this about 3-4 times, And the yellow colour will turn back to the original white.
love you channel! keep up the grind man I'll be here!
2:40 just use hot water, it will 'melt' the glue on the sticker and will be 1000x times easier to remove
if i go to japan i will bring a spare suitcase to fit these cheap consoles
For stickers get a jug of Methyl Hydrate from your hardware or paint store, it melts the adhesive and drys with no residue.
Breaking the permanent sticking charm with WD40. That's more than Filch could probably do.
You'd be surprised how easily people can assume a malfunctioning part of an electronic device is broken, when in reality it's just dirty and in need of a quick cleaning.
I know this from experience: I thought the disc reader in my PlayStation 3 was busted for _two years_ until just two weeks ago, when I took some alcohol and two cotton swabs to clean and dry the laser lens. It now works just as well as it did five years ago. It took me three minutes to do. It wasn't broken, it was just dirty.
Moral of the story? If something's going wrong with your favorite electronic device, properly clean the defective part before you do anything else.
To remove stickers I often use desinfecting liquid, alcohol or nail polish, or sometimes cooking oil
0:21 **hardoff theme starts playing**
5:18 "Aw hell, Shadow...😞"
Not to be that *guy*, but it's "All Hail Shadow."
@@freeuploads4290 lol i think that was the joke i was making but i don't remember exactly
Can't unhear it lol.
Idk if it's available where you're at but there's a product called "Goo Gone" in america which is basically just orange oil. Works significantly better than wd40 for stickers, but can dissolve some plastics so you need to do a test swab somewhere.
Hard-Off is called that way because you can buy and sell hardware (hard) at bargain prices (off). It's a bit strange to english-speaking ears but that's wasei-eigo for you.
Lighter fluid like zippo is best used for getting stickers off, learned this in my previous job.
That SD Card reader for GC sounds interesting. Maybe do a little "challenge" to mod your GB as much as possible, by adding all available mods in one device :D
the GC Loader is definitely worth it man. I held out on buying one for my gamecube but when i installed the hdmi mod i figured id install it also.
Working in a kind off thrift store you'd be amazed the amount of working old electronics. The initial thought is: they gave it away because it was broken.
No, most people don't know what they have. Even surprisingly recent ones like phones.
Surprising things like an old mini pac-man arcade machine seeked today for 600$.
Always nice to bring a surprise home.
One solution for the lack of mini-DVDs when you have an open-topped gamecube would be to just use a craft knife or other very sharp point to just cut it off - making the DVD spindle into a makeshift lathe. This is no doubt _extremely_ healthy for the drive assembly and motor, of course.
A good cleaner is orange oil, you can get it from the cleaning isle of the supermarket. I like the Plant Ark brand, cuts through everything
Miss my GameCube so much. Took it to a friend's for a weekend, then when packing it and bringing it back, it was mysteriously missing once home.. Hm. But nice video! Yours is silver, like mine was, and it brought back the nostalgia of how fun they were.
I never really thought about how many burned discs I had back in the day. now I have none and don´t even have a drive in my pc anymore. times change.
Ignoring the fact that the clock is on 2073
You aren't misremembering, they used to sell replacement GameCube shells to fit full sized DVDs, in different colours even I believe. I don't remember where though... Either eBay or that big modchip site that got shut down. I've still got a few packs of mini DVDs from my NGC modding plans 15 years ago, then I got my kid a Wii and soft modded it and sold the GameCube and BB adaptor instead... Which has incidentally been serving us fine until just the other day when it decided it no longer wants to read my USB drive, so now I have to work that out.
A little blast from a heat gun takes stickers off great. Hair dryer may work as well
It might sound a little odd but could you possibly just trim down the cd to a smaller size if you knew what size to trim it down to? In theory it might be fine if you are willing to take a couple of attempts and waste a few decent cds.
I could imagine there are multiple ways you could attempt this.
Option 1: Use a broken/sacrificial mini-cd to create a outline of the smaller disk on the larger and carefully cut off the excess.
Option 2: Find the correct radius of mini-disk. Place a rod of some form in the middle of the larger disk, tie a string with the correct radius as it's length to a sharply tipped rod. After that you should only have to repetitively move the sharply tipped rod around the tool until you have a deep groove. Eventually you will want to remove the outer part of the disc carefully then smooth the edge of the new homebrew mini-disc.
Remember this is assuming that you will not need the rest of the disk for data space as the Gamecube cannot utilize that part of the disk.
You are right, Gamecube shells that accommodated a full size DVD did exist back in the day. Nobody makes them now because Gamecube is readily playable on the more common Wii which like you said, doesn't even require discs if you use a USB loader. Your best bet is finding one on the used market. IcedCube and GC Viper were the brands.
This is a fun video! Snarkier than most game system repair RUclipsrs, like if FrameRater started repairing game systems.
I put that chip in my GameCube, procured from a Goodwill in southern Arizona. The price? Five dollars. The inside was a sticky brown mess, but it cleaned up perfectly fine. I appreciate Xeno's one and done design, without having to run wires to tiny pads on the GameCube PCB, but yeah, actually having to solder those points is slightly fidgety and imprecise. It's kind of a miracle that it turned out as well as it did.
Also a tip. Best way to remove stickers and its glue is Zippo Lighter fuel (not required official brand, any white brand works fine).
2 years ago....
Walmart had packs of Memorex Mini DVD’s on clearance for $3....
I bought them all thinking I’d eventually “Need” them....
2 years later....
I have FINALLY found a use for them..
Thanks 😁
I have a bit of an itch that wasn't scratched, and that was testing both Memory Card slots. Otherwise, good find that only needed a Q-Tip and some cleaning lol.