Answering a ton of questions as a video is waaaaay better. Not everyone is going to go through the comments looking for answers to their questions. Videos are just that much more palatable.
Adam Koralik in 2020: "Hey everyone, today we'll discuss various modifications for the Nintendo GameCube, a console I really enjoy". Adam Koralik in 2010: "The GameCube is good for The Twin Snakes and not much else, except the handle lol."
Adam Koralik The commenter who originally said some games didn’t work was either trying to load games via SDGecko or SD2SP2 on specifically GameCube hardware. GameCube hardware lacks a high bandwidth data port like the Wii and Wii U’s SD card slot making the only options to load from a solid state like an SD card before drive replacements the relatively low bandwidth serial ports. This is why the commenter was not getting audio from Crazy Taxi as that games music relies on audio streaming which simply requires too high of a bandwidth to function via the GameCubes serial ports, so it’s disabled. The alternative option to load GC games on Wii and Wii U, Nintendont, uses the same principle of drive emulation, except with software instead of hardware making the hamburger comparison somewhat incorrect. Nintendont has nearly 100% compatability and objectively equates to GameCube ODE options. Some other unclear things to address from the video: 1. Nintendont supports cheats to the same capabilities as Swiss. 2. While Swiss can technically run on the Wii (not sure about Wii U) it is difficult to set up and is obsolete due to Nintendont 3. The game boy player is like Super Gameboy in that it houses a full GBA processor on it making it fully superior to the Wii’s options for GBA playback. The Wii U’s GBA Virtual Console emulation is debatably on par, but I still personally give it to the GBA player personally
Memory cards can be corrupted because there are two different file systems for Japanese and US, with both being defined via different character sets. When you format a card it wil lformat based on the region of the console formatting the card. The issue occurs when a game makes assumptions that it will be writing to a Memory card that is formatted to the correct region. It will write for example invalid filenames, which will be seen as memory card corruption (That and the entire layout is different to account for the wider character set of the japanese format, so it will more or less write data incorrectly even ignoring the wrong character set). Some games will detect the memory card being the wrong region and stop you, but many do not. This works the other way around as well- a Japan-region card can be corrupted by US and PAL games.
I had all the issues that you've said about using Swiss. The swiss save file on the memory card corrupting and the Japanese corrupting USA save files. From default the Swiss saves the settings file on the GC Memory Card A Slot. You will need to change this in settings (B) button and choose settings file save to and uncheck Memory Card A to SP2SD or another destination. I bought an SP2SD and its really worth spending £4 to make sure that it doesn't save to memory card. But if you're not bothered with it you can just save to SP2SD without a card and it won't save a settings file to the Memory Card. Thanks for a well needed tips video for GCLoader PNP newbies like me and the cheats files are very helpful!
It's great to see the extremes, whether we feel they're attainable or not. It leads us to informed decisions on what we want to do. We never know how far we will eventually take it. I never would have guessed I would own a Mega Sg a couple of years ago. But I'm glad I was educated by the outstanding RUclips game collecting community.
Oh and just to add, if it helps you Adam, I REALLY like videos like this - not only do offer some nitty gritty advice from an actual user of consoles and devices, but providing updates based on your own experience is something I greatly love. For myself, I have loads of consoles and computers because I've never sold anything since the early 1980s, and I still use them all to varying degrees. Ofttimes I'll pick up a new device or something I see knocking around on sale, and try it out. And sadly, these things are sometimes so few and far between you just can't find any meaningful data on the internet. SO keep it up, please!
Another advantage of using the SD2SP2 with a GCLoader is being able to emulate memory cards. It makes two 2k block memory cards for each region and switches them automatically. No worrying about friends picking Japanese games and wiping your memory cards on accident. Swiss also fixes the games that did have trouble with the 1k block memory cards. You can also enable "Boot through ipl" and hold down A as the game is loading. That'll take you to the bios so you can insert a real memory card into slot B and copy all of your saves over to the emulated one. Swiss is so amazing man.
That looks like a Pluto HDMI board inside the cube. Look into the GCDual mod. My NTSC console outputs SCART from analog port and still has mini HDMI port above digital port :) Thanks for this information though. I just assembled a GCDual/GCLoader cube and this saved me lot of time researching
I never realised that Japanese games did this memory card corruption. I've got quite a few Japanese gamecube games I've picked up over the years but never really played them much (I'm British and I use an action Replay to region free load). So I'm immensely thankful you brought this up, Adam, because that would have been a frustrating learning experience for me in the future.
The thing about SD gecko not running music at all or choppy has to do with Memory card slot having limited bandwidth. Oh man it feels so weird, having entered the GC modding scene like 9 years ago and now coming back to all this wonders of SD2SP2, optical drive emulation (that was known back then, just the chips were rare and expensive), native hmdi out and more ! Great work !
Doshin the Giant wasn't released in North America due to a stupid publishing agreement between Nintendo and Atlus which was localizing Cubivore for NA. Cubivore and Doshin were set to release near the same date and both were niche titles, so Nintendo gave Doshin to Pal and Cubivore to NA in order to hedge it's bets. I love Cubivore, but Pal got the better end of the deal in my opinion and Cubivore ended up flopping here. I guess Nintendo just didn't have enough faith in the West's taste for the weird, so they decided to split the market (also, i love Atlus, but they really did us a disservice on this one). Both are such unique games, it's great that more will get to experience them now. Thanks again for responding to my question. (For those who don't know of Doshin the Giant, check it out, it's a one of kind God game by Kazutoshi Iida, game designer of Aquanaut's Holiday (Ps1) and Tail of the Sun (Ps1) (also amazing).
Very insightful video. So I've always been a day 1 JP Cube owner and thats what I had to do back in the day even till today. I had a memory card dedicated to US stuff and one dedicated to JP Games. I found it funny that yours also has a switch. I installed a switch in mine when I learned i can play US games w/o having to buy another Cube. I know this is re-hash for most but its how it was done back then. Pre-wii and everything else.
On my PC the Gamecube files say 1.35 GB, close enough. I was confused when people said the Animal Crossing GC version wasn't much bigger than the N64 original version. I had guessed it was because of dummy files, but I wasn't sure.
That is weird. MY Animal Crossing GC rom is the smallest out of all the games by a large margin. Mine are zipped which compresses them, maybe your rom has a bunch of junk dummy data. AC is smallest at 14 megabyes while Star Wars Rogue Squadron II is the largest at 1235 megabytes, average is something like Custom Robo at 635 megabytes. AC is so small in comparison to every other game.
Yes, this follow up video was awesome and provided so much additional clarification. Just learning more about the Japanese gamecube saving issue made it completely worthwhile.
Nice. :) I started downloading Gamecube games onto my phone recently as it's the only practical way right now. And some how I'm able to use the Sega Genesis USB controller, some issues with this but you can make it work if you don't own a blutooth controller.
Yeah I wiped some of my oldest game saves when trying to play Dream mix TV. Didn't realize I need to keep it in North American mode until after the fact.
Dan from Black Dog just gave me a notification that he shipped the GC Loader I pre-ordered a long time ago. I don't even know if I'll install it once I get it immediately - the OEM disc drive still works, at least it still boots the Gameboy Player disc, which is what I mostly use my GC for anyways. In the months of everybody self-isolating, I installed the Dolphin-emu on my laptop and with the GC-style USB gamepad controller, find that I'm mostly content using that for actual Gamecube and some WiiWare titles
Great video Adam! I see a lot of comments going over the benefits of using the SD2SP2, and I was wondering if you can make a video going over how that one works, and maybe even discuss how both of them can work in tandem, as I have seen some comments basically say that they can work together to solve the memory card issues. You explain things pretty well, so maybe you can shed some light on the issue for us regular people.
They are very cheap. I’m happy I got mine. I was originally sad I purchased it when I heard of the PNP version of the GCLoader, but it seems that it will still have a use after all.
I'm a "play game on 'original' hardware" guy myself, but I wanted to point something out which you might find interesting. A stock Wii outputs significantly higher quality video when set to 4:3 mode. I don't have a Gamecube to compare it with, but I'm willing to bet the quality is identical, and most comparisons likely just left the Wii in 16:9 mode. I pretty much only play my Wii in 4:3 mode now, going so far as patching 4:3 support in 16:9 only games back in via Ocarina cheat codes. Only a few of titles are problematic when doing this, but if you use USBLoaderGX, you can set it so those will forcibly open in 16:9 (even when loading through the disc) leaving you with crisp 4:3 everywhere else.
@@AdamKoralik Has anyone ever done a good video comparison *with* the 4:3 mode? I searched even a couple of months back and all I ever saw was the 16:9 mode, which looks like trash by comparison.
@@AdamKoralik Oh, I see. Thanks. It's a real shock how much cleaner the Wii looks in 4:3 (especially in Line2X mode on the OSSC). Genuinely makes me believe the Wii was never designed with 16:9 in mind, and it was tacked on at the end.
OK, so... I've been watching GameCube modding videos for the last five hours and I'm asking myself how feasible it would be to make the console even smaller! Making use of the ode and the HDMI mod, and using the mostly empty space at the bottom of the case to fit in the Gameboy Player PVC inside, and using some extenders to get relocate the SD card inlet to a more convenient place. Also making use of the fact that you can make your own MiniSD-Adapter, you just have to connect some pins together, so you can get rid of the more bulky memory card connectors. Even upgrading the fan for a smaller, more powerful 40 mm noctua fan should help making it smaller while keeping it's cooling capabilities. I need to sleep...
what I think imported games have issues corrupting memory cards when you place these savegames with your current savegames is similar to how Windows pre 7 didnt support asian characters out of the box, so if you had some file written in katakana or hiragana, or even opened a japanese website for example, it would show a bunch of square boxes, you had to install asian language support to write and read files that use asian characters. There is a possibility that the US bios didnt had asian characters so when the console searched for the files inside the card, it wouldnt know what to do with files that were named after non existant characters and it thinks it is corrupted. With the Wii and its games it doesnt happen. I dont know if it still corrupts GameCube memory cards, but if you play a Wii game out of region it displays fine, I think it only ignores the save caption that appears on the popup screen that appears the "Save, Transfer and Delete" buttons.
Hey Adam, ended up getting an RGH Xbox 360 (trinity) after your video on it with 4tb of internal hard drives modded in. Was able to back up all my games and my delisted games now are backed upped too. Thanks for the idea.
I will say that I wish I had the modded Gamecube experience but with me it all comes down to price and convenience. Wii's are dirt cheap, soft-modding them is also dirt cheap only needing an SD card to do it, and you can attach big hard drives to them. Having 2 libraries of games on a single 500GB HD is fantastic. Yes I do concede that the Wii is inferior because you don't have Gameboy Player support but I'm happy without that. Video options on Wii are cheaper, the cheapest HDMI/Component option for Gamecube is $70 with some going upwards of $150. A Wii2HDMI (it's not great but it works fine especially with an mClassic) is $20 on Amazon. But yes, the modded Gamecube experience is arguably better.
Legendary compiling the cheat sheets for us. The new little monitor was great for the video too. Its unfortunate to have to explain how video quality is just clearer on a GameCube vs a Wii or Wii U. The cost difference is basically down to the GC's output cost. Component. Hdmi. Whatever. Will set you back at least 50 bucks. And cheapo Wii component cables are definitely above composite, with the Wii U's hdmi probably about even. The price line seems to sit around 150 dollars to determine what works for you. Above it. GC. Below. A Wii of some kind.
i’ve been using wii u since its my most convenient option for playing on an hdtv since its already set up and i dont have to buy anything extra. also the controller selection is pretty good. i can use gc controllers with the adapter, the wii u pro controller/gamepad (including seeing the game on the gamepad), the switch pro controller with the HID to VPAD homebrew for wii u, and i assume wii controllers too (not that i would ever want to for gamecube games). Anyways i’m down for more followup videos if u feel like doing more
Hey Adam. Great follow up. To add to my comment about the SD2SP2 on your last video on this, aside from using it for in game resets I also have Swiss save its settings on the small SD card inserted into the SD2SP2. Maybe pick up one from Dan, it's real cheap.
Once money frees up for me a bit more and I get more experience with a soldering iron, I'm totally gonna get a GC loader and that HDMI mod, this looks cool as hell, the modded wii cost me 30 bucks all told with the sd card, usb stick and some crappy component cables that are better than the composite out and a wii I had lying around. And I've had a blast but I am a gamecube fanatic and I'd love to have an actual gamecube under my TV again with all these mods
@@AdamKoralik oh, sorry I watched the video while eating lunch, I didn't hear that part, thats actually really cool I'll probably get that mod soon then
Thanks for these videos man my gamecube disk drive somehow stopped working after I let it sit for 4 years and I got the GC loader to basically revive the console Just a heads up I think the sd2sp2 could actually solve a lot of memory corruption issues if people decide to get one of those with an SD card. You can use it as a "virtual" memory card I don't think the chances of corruption are that high since it's a fat32 sd card being emulated as a gamecube memory card
Adam Koralik thank you for making the video. You are such a working horse. I am also getting my gc loader soon. Since the Dreamcast is the favorite console of all time. Have you gotten a naomi system with either the compact flash or the piforce setup. You pretty much have most consoles with a multi card. Have you gotten any cps2, STV, Taito F3, MVS, ... multicards? The naomi is awesome since it has a lot of games and you can also play atomiswave games. I think once you upload some of those arcade videos, those arcade boards and systems prices will skyrocket.
I loved that video personally loved this video, although I don't think i would ever buy a GameCube, i thought this was essential since you showcase whats on the market and whats possible... And all the options available which is amazing only short 3-4 years ago there was absolute nothing. Really looking to see a sumup of whats possible on the dreamcast hell, even on the ps2 that for some reason was neglected from the ode secene and hdmi mods... Tl;dr i liked it like i liked the gen recaps, because you make everything clear and simple and above all intersting. Thanks!
Sd2sp2 addresses the save file situation. Also the GameCube doesn’t corrupt memory cards, they are incompatible between Japanese and Western save formats.
Hey Adam thanks for your video. Your make my evenings so much more enjoyable with your videos plus its great that your so interactive with your viewers. I just wanted to pose a question to you. Your big against digital only but are happy with sd card versions of consoles. Basically the console is a way if playing emulation unless I'm wrong and in theory could be played on pc for example. I get the whole console mod showcase but surely its the same thing isnt it? If you buy a ps2 game on ps4 for example isnt that an emulation?
@@AdamKoralik once again reply! I would argue it's just a gamecube shell unless I'm mistaken. To be honest I wish I hadn't posted that comment as I now look at it as negative and all I want in your community is positivity. I'm trying to keep my mis guided opinions to myself but its hard. Any way keep doing what your doing pal.
Nothing about your comment is negative. The difference is the PS4 is just running software tricking the PS2 game into thinking it's running on a PS2. The GameCube isn't tricking anything, it's a GameCube game running on GameCube hardware.
I'm very late but in swiss settings you can have the sd card emulate a memory card and you will only need a mem card for games with audio streaming. The save file will be saved to the sd card and not be corrupted
I know that the speed running community prefers playing discs on the Wii because it's more stable. Like when they run Metroid Prime, some of the things they do can crash a GameCube but work perfectly on a Wii. I still prefer to play on a 'Cube, thats just a counter point in the spirit of fairness
@@AdamKoralik OK. Just checking, never liked the way linedoubling looked on interlaced content. For whatever reason with PAL stuff, the PS2 and Wii gave some games the option of running at 480p for progressive rather than 576p. I'll never understand why. 576p is lower framerate than 480p, but has the superior resolution.
I bought a modded Wii for $40. It has it's issues. Not the fault of the software mods, just that I don't know how the modder got it to work. It's like buying a custom modded car. No service manual when something needs service. It's best to learn how to do a fresh install. I also own a GC video adapter. I bought these things because at the time they were affordable. I don't use them as much, but I'm glad I own them because I'm a gamer and collector.
I like follow up videos, it gives us a bit more of insight on what you think after a regular use. That said, i would love to have a GC Loader, currently using a SD Reader/SD Gecko/Whatever you want to call it and im frankly afraid my kids are going to break it (they like touching my consoles, already broke a PS1 memory card).
I enjoyed this follow up. Just like the rest of your videos. Just wondering, if I went the GameCube/fancy burger place method, how big of a memory card would I need to have just the entire North America game library?
Are gamecubes still cheap to pick up? Because i kinda want to get into retro gaming and im not sure wether i should get into the OG Xbox or Gamecube first. Any advice were to start?
Thank you very much Adam. Since I couldn't save anything I pretty much shelved it until maybe a patch; but you solved the issue. Now I can play my library. Only issue now is I can reset but it doesn't reset the system or to the menu. It only resets the game. I tried both the reset and igr.dol options. Any suggestions?
Did it actually work for you? As I understand it the in game reset option doesn't work with the GCLoader yet. I'm guessing a future Swiss update will fix this. The guys who works on the software apparently saw this video and are aware of the memory card thing. Maybe that'll get patched too. So as of now, I think you have to just turn the console off and on.
In MyLifeInGaming's episode on GameCube they state and show the unnoticeable difference between Wii and GC component. You are saying that the video quality of the GC is much better, is that only for HDMI?
No, it's via component. Screenshots exist all over proving it. Google it. The difference may not be a big deal to a lot of people though, I freely admit that.
Hi Adam thanks for the new video. I'm sorry to ask an unrelated question. Jurassic park is my favorite story. Like you with BTTF. The telltale game appears to be impossible to find on PS3. Is there a way I can play this on a Sony product? Ty!! Ps also wondered how you felt about RUclipsrs in our age demographic somehow still not caring that physical is going away. Jim sterlings attitude to it is so annoying! Have a good one man. Thanks.
@@AdamKoralik its rather hard to find information on it! Thanks for your reply I'll definitely check the movie video out someday soon (wanted to save spoilers incase I ever find it myself)
love to have all my systems modded but no one wants to do it and willing to pay but people i think are hesitant due too perhaps legal issues i guess its worthed being a videogame vlogger
I seriously doubt there's any reason why it's legal issues. There will always be plenty of repair shops or homegrown repairers that will do such things. The so-called legal takedowns are tiny in the extreme, and there's usually other reasons for them too. It's far more likely that nobody puts it out there, due to them not thinking there's a market, or maybe they just aren't aware. Admittedly I'm in Britain, where things could well be different, but every time one of my consoles gets a fault that I can't fix, I can easily find a place that will fix them, and I don't even bother to check if they advertise such things. If they do electronics repair of ANY kind, I'll ring them. I simply ask them "hey, I've got this console and I know what's gone wrong and it just needs this work doing and I can even send you the parts, can you do it?" I always get plenty of people who will do it. So maybe you just aren't looking at things the right way. Also, don't be afraid to send things through the mail - obviously size and weight can be a factor, but I'm housebound so everything I get repaired is mail order. I don't have any choice in the matter.
I'd like a little comparison between the 3 consoles on the same game. I personally felt the controls never felt right with GameCube games on a Wii U even with the GameCube controller adapter. Sticks over sensitive, very noticeable in racing games.
video quality on GameCube wins, at least when using the Digital AV port Nintendont gives me an image with some color bleeding and overall softness in Wii U color accuracy on the Wii is better than Wii U, but analog video noise from the Wii2HDMI adapter could not be 100% prevented
Wii can also do forced 480P for gamecube games using the program Nintendon't. All GC games can be run from a cheap external hard drive formatted to Fat32. File sizes for the GC games doesn't matter on the wii.
One of the most underrated systems ever in my book. People fondly go over the N64 but there's far more flaws with that than the Gamecube (namely that awful controller, and the framerate especially when using the RAM expansion), so I truly don't get the accolades it gets. The gamecube did suffer from being a third choice to the PS2 and the new Xbox, and there's some holes in certain games - especially racing games (but then Nintendo have always been light on them), but there's quite a few exclusives that are truly fabulous and almost all hardly get a mention these days. I'm glad titles like Eternal Darkness are growing more in popularity.
biggest upside to GameCube over Wii is the GB Player. with GBI and the OSSC its the sharpest those games can possibly look. The GC loader is indeed an FPGA that does in fact 'trick' the gamecube, (ODE=optical drive emulator. emulator=tricking) but its not like that effectively means anything. I honestly still dont get the switch. wouldnt it be absolutely unnecessary if you just had a US console and Swiss? it sounds like with your new memory card workaround you dont need it at all anymore?
i recommend renaming the gameboy interface dol's so it's easier to understand which one does what, this is what mine are like: Game Boy Interface Standard Edition.dol Game Boy Interface Speedrunning Edition.dol Game Boy Interface High-Fidelity Edition.dol
Do all the games work well? I'm currently using Action Replay to boot Swiss via the SD2SP2 serial port 2 SD adapter that is like a Gecko and I have problems getting Soul Calibur 2 and Metroid Prime to work. Metroid Prime doesn't work at all and Soul Calibur has issues related to the beginning fmv. All other games I play work fine tho. Just wondering if the GCLoader has edge cases like this.
So does the custom game boy player software come with the option to use the super game boy palletes on the original gb games? I'd like a way to play my actual copies of red and blue with the SGB pallete
I came looking for the gameboy interface info, you still didn't talk about it LOL Pretty interesting stuff as I'm looking for a gamecube setup, I'm going with the MK2 GCHD. and possibly an M cable, but my main drive is the GB, GBC, GBA functionality ATM. Gamecube may come second as a happy accident haha.
Super interesting. I was glued to the screen. So let me try this one for laughs: "Why are u doing this? You can play all of these games on a pc" You really get these replies? Poor soul. I guess you have to resist commenting on those comments. It's almost like flame-bait. So a memory card for Japanese games And a memory card for US/EU games Got it! Thanks for this video, I had a great time watching it!
I learned to never even mention PC emulation. But you do still get the occasional "LOL use a pc fag" type of shit though. Though the more mature version is "I just use Dolphin on my PC in 4K :P" which is like...harmless...but still douchey. I think the smartest guys realize all of this isn't done to say "daaaaah, there's no way to use it on a computer". The guys who feel the need to point out that emulators exist are the guys who truly don't get the point of the video what so ever.
Adam, Loving your videos brother always do, a man after my own heart n all, do you have a sega master system 2 European? I don't know how I'd get hold of you other than comments but I'll end up throwing it away, it's just collecting dust and to be perfectly honest with you it would have a better home? Let us know!? 🤔🙂 (Edit) Just a passing thought m8, worth asking.
@@AdamKoralik yes my friend I could send you some pics of games and console if that helps! With Alex the Kid built in. If not no worries Adam I just thought Id ask, Id rather it have a home of love than dust lol.
I also have a UK Dreamcast thats collecting dust with Shenmue 1 and 2 in case, Adam if your interested I sent you a tweet, get back when you can dude. Hope you and family are all well with the current events and hope to continue this soon.
@@AdamKoralik I fully understand that dude and respect that, you have said this in your other videos I know 🙂 but its been collecting dust for so many yrs and I'll just end up throwing it out, if you have a better home for it or even a friend, its better than collecting dust here brother. Its up to you and no I don't feel like I HAVE to send it you I just know it'll have a better resting place. (If you will)
Honestly, just separate the memory cards. Have one for japanese saves only, and 2 others for US and PAL respective. Because mixing different region saves will always cause issues. Also wanted to add that gamecube games run better on a wii using nintendon't. Runs em in a "wii mode" using it's full hardware potential.
Oh one more question. What amount of games do you place in each folder for your SD CARD? Because I put a ton and it takes up to 10 seconds to load the directory.
@@AdamKoralik gotcha. Ty for fast reply. Once again really appreciate this huge breakdown and information. I haven't used GCLoader beyond 1 hour yet :)
When using the GCLoader, do you need a digital copy of Action Replay on there to get to Swiss or can you get into Swiss (to use GBI etc) directly from the GCLoader menu?
I have recently acquired a GC with the Hdmi installed. For whatever reason, when playing Metroid Prime Echoes, the first cutscene of the planet and Samus entering the planet has crackling audio issues. The issue persists if I use my actual game disk or through the backup on Swiss. Any idea what might cause that?
How dare you attack Franklin: A Birthday Surprise! I mean, it's his birthday damn it, he doesn't deserve to be insulted on his big day. Very odd that this game came out only in Europe, though, given the franchise is from North America, I think.
This is one of the things that has always amazed me since the dawn of video games - regional releases. I've been lucky in that I've been around since the birth of games, as I was born in the sixties, but it never fails to amaze me whenever I see some releases and just cannot fathom the reasoning. As far as Franklin goes, I can absolutely say he is not known here in Britain, which is the largest EU sales region, and I doubt there's much call in pockets of European countries. If I had to guess, maybe Germany, as they had a lot of forces bases after WW2, so there's crossover, but even then, that doesn't explain why US didn't get it. Truly weird.
I gotta ask, is there an ODE solution for the PS2 Slim? My wife wants a solution that would be simpler than loading a Free McBoot onto a Fat PS2 and keeps both memory card slots open for regular use. For any other mod fun I'll just rewatch a Voultar video.
Not that I'm aware of. ODEs, off the top of my head, that exist are Dreamcast, Saturn, GameCube, and 3DO (oddly enough). There's sort of a Sega CD one, and kind of a PS1 unit. But then we're starting to just get into other backdoors to the same concept. But a full on ODE, just a handful. I think a Neo Geo CD one was being worked on, I know an Xbox 360 one was, but that was cancelled.
@@AdamKoralik well maybe someone should consider the concept. It shouldn't be too crazy to put one in the slim version of thr PS2. The crazy would be with the fat version. Now excuse me while I check again to see if the guy behind the GBA Consolizer has considered my PSP Consolizer idea.
So heres a question. HD Retrovision component cables for SNES will work on a PAL region GC but not US or Japan. If theres a region mod in the GC and it's set to PAL, would the component cables work then?
@@AdamKoralik Alright so I just got my gcloader all set up and I tested it and everything is fine! No corruptions! I region patched all my japanese games to US some were Nkit, some full ISOs and they are all saved together on one memory card no corruptions! Not sure what else I could do to stress test though
I’d you’d ever like to review a Wii dual install, I do have a working one. It was done about 6 months ago at the time of this comment. I’d be happy to send it your way temporarily for review
It isn't that Gamecube memory card are prone to corruption. It's that they are region-locked and they always see an out-of-region card as "corrupted." Because SWISS lets you boot Japanese games with the wrong BIOS, they will often let you save to a US-formatted memory card but how they react to other out-of-region saves is unpredictable. So, yeah, just keep two sets of memory cards and flip the region switch when playing Japanese games. Easy!
@@AdamKoralik Reworded it all. :) Anyway, the only time I saw legit memory card corruption on a GameCube was with those crappy 3rd party ones that use compression, but I do remember crapping my pants at the title screen to Eternal Darkness when the game pulled a Sanity Effect on me outside of gameplay! That's right: the game lied to me saying that my memory card was corrupted and was being erased. I was so relieved when the screen went white and the Sanity Effect reset!
Answering a ton of questions as a video is waaaaay better. Not everyone is going to go through the comments looking for answers to their questions. Videos are just that much more palatable.
Adam Koralik in 2020: "Hey everyone, today we'll discuss various modifications for the Nintendo GameCube, a console I really enjoy".
Adam Koralik in 2010: "The GameCube is good for The Twin Snakes and not much else, except the handle lol."
The 2010 statement still applies bro 😂
@@andree1991 Then you need better taste in gaming friend.
GameCube still best console 😂. Today's games just don't cut it
I used to like the gamecube, thought it was alright. Now I love it to death and appreciate it on a whole new level!
Adam Koralik The commenter who originally said some games didn’t work was either trying to load games via SDGecko or SD2SP2 on specifically GameCube hardware. GameCube hardware lacks a high bandwidth data port like the Wii and Wii U’s SD card slot making the only options to load from a solid state like an SD card before drive replacements the relatively low bandwidth serial ports. This is why the commenter was not getting audio from Crazy Taxi as that games music relies on audio streaming which simply requires too high of a bandwidth to function via the GameCubes serial ports, so it’s disabled. The alternative option to load GC games on Wii and Wii U, Nintendont, uses the same principle of drive emulation, except with software instead of hardware making the hamburger comparison somewhat incorrect. Nintendont has nearly 100% compatability and objectively equates to GameCube ODE options. Some other unclear things to address from the video: 1. Nintendont supports cheats to the same capabilities as Swiss. 2. While Swiss can technically run on the Wii (not sure about Wii U) it is difficult to set up and is obsolete due to Nintendont 3. The game boy player is like Super Gameboy in that it houses a full GBA processor on it making it fully superior to the Wii’s options for GBA playback. The Wii U’s GBA Virtual Console emulation is debatably on par, but I still personally give it to the GBA player personally
Memory cards can be corrupted because there are two different file systems for Japanese and US, with both being defined via different character sets. When you format a card it wil lformat based on the region of the console formatting the card. The issue occurs when a game makes assumptions that it will be writing to a Memory card that is formatted to the correct region. It will write for example invalid filenames, which will be seen as memory card corruption (That and the entire layout is different to account for the wider character set of the japanese format, so it will more or less write data incorrectly even ignoring the wrong character set). Some games will detect the memory card being the wrong region and stop you, but many do not. This works the other way around as well- a Japan-region card can be corrupted by US and PAL games.
I love your videos on the GameCube. Every time you put one out I learn something new. Thank you sir.
I had all the issues that you've said about using Swiss. The swiss save file on the memory card corrupting and the Japanese corrupting USA save files. From default the Swiss saves the settings file on the GC Memory Card A Slot. You will need to change this in settings (B) button and choose settings file save to and uncheck Memory Card A to SP2SD or another destination. I bought an SP2SD and its really worth spending £4 to make sure that it doesn't save to memory card. But if you're not bothered with it you can just save to SP2SD without a card and it won't save a settings file to the Memory Card. Thanks for a well needed tips video for GCLoader PNP newbies like me and the cheats files are very helpful!
It's great to see the extremes, whether we feel they're attainable or not. It leads us to informed decisions on what we want to do. We never know how far we will eventually take it. I never would have guessed I would own a Mega Sg a couple of years ago. But I'm glad I was educated by the outstanding RUclips game collecting community.
Oh and just to add, if it helps you Adam, I REALLY like videos like this - not only do offer some nitty gritty advice from an actual user of consoles and devices, but providing updates based on your own experience is something I greatly love.
For myself, I have loads of consoles and computers because I've never sold anything since the early 1980s, and I still use them all to varying degrees. Ofttimes I'll pick up a new device or something I see knocking around on sale, and try it out. And sadly, these things are sometimes so few and far between you just can't find any meaningful data on the internet.
SO keep it up, please!
Any video you can make/upload will always be a watch from me, so I say go ahead, and do more of these!
NKIT is a pretty awesome tool for shrinking GameCube ISOs. It still leaves the ISOs playable and you restore the ISO back to original.
Another advantage of using the SD2SP2 with a GCLoader is being able to emulate memory cards. It makes two 2k block memory cards for each region and switches them automatically. No worrying about friends picking Japanese games and wiping your memory cards on accident. Swiss also fixes the games that did have trouble with the 1k block memory cards. You can also enable "Boot through ipl" and hold down A as the game is loading. That'll take you to the bios so you can insert a real memory card into slot B and copy all of your saves over to the emulated one. Swiss is so amazing man.
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Thanks for the shoutout adam! Love this video! The GCLoader has been awesome so far!
That looks like a Pluto HDMI board inside the cube.
Look into the GCDual mod. My NTSC console outputs SCART from analog port and still has mini HDMI port above digital port :)
Thanks for this information though. I just assembled a GCDual/GCLoader cube and this saved me lot of time researching
I thought I was the only one who called Windex (Windolene in other parts of the world) on a q tip Koralik style.
I never realised that Japanese games did this memory card corruption. I've got quite a few Japanese gamecube games I've picked up over the years but never really played them much (I'm British and I use an action Replay to region free load). So I'm immensely thankful you brought this up, Adam, because that would have been a frustrating learning experience for me in the future.
Wow, I don't normally catch these two minutes after upload.
The thing about SD gecko not running music at all or choppy has to do with Memory card slot having limited bandwidth. Oh man it feels so weird, having entered the GC modding scene like 9 years ago and now coming back to all this wonders of SD2SP2, optical drive emulation (that was known back then, just the chips were rare and expensive), native hmdi out and more ! Great work !
Doshin the Giant wasn't released in North America due to a stupid publishing agreement between Nintendo and Atlus which was localizing Cubivore for NA. Cubivore and Doshin were set to release near the same date and both were niche titles, so Nintendo gave Doshin to Pal and Cubivore to NA in order to hedge it's bets. I love Cubivore, but Pal got the better end of the deal in my opinion and Cubivore ended up flopping here. I guess Nintendo just didn't have enough faith in the West's taste for the weird, so they decided to split the market (also, i love Atlus, but they really did us a disservice on this one). Both are such unique games, it's great that more will get to experience them now. Thanks again for responding to my question. (For those who don't know of Doshin the Giant, check it out, it's a one of kind God game by Kazutoshi Iida, game designer of Aquanaut's Holiday (Ps1) and Tail of the Sun (Ps1) (also amazing).
I am 100% on board with you rambling more. You always make great content and have great Opinions!
Thanks for the cheat files. I been looking all over for this.
Very insightful video. So I've always been a day 1 JP Cube owner and thats what I had to do back in the day even till today. I had a memory card dedicated to US stuff and one dedicated to JP Games. I found it funny that yours also has a switch. I installed a switch in mine when I learned i can play US games w/o having to buy another Cube. I know this is re-hash for most but its how it was done back then. Pre-wii and everything else.
On my PC the Gamecube files say 1.35 GB, close enough. I was confused when people said the Animal Crossing GC version wasn't much bigger than the N64 original version. I had guessed it was because of dummy files, but I wasn't sure.
That is weird. MY Animal Crossing GC rom is the smallest out of all the games by a large margin. Mine are zipped which compresses them, maybe your rom has a bunch of junk dummy data. AC is smallest at 14 megabyes while Star Wars Rogue Squadron II is the largest at 1235 megabytes, average is something like Custom Robo at 635 megabytes. AC is so small in comparison to every other game.
Yes, this follow up video was awesome and provided so much additional clarification. Just learning more about the Japanese gamecube saving issue made it completely worthwhile.
I love these type of videos, Adam. Keep it up. The little tips you drop here and there have helped me so much. Thank you.
Glad you chatted about what we talked about on Twitter! :) Love the GCLoader.
Feel free to make more videos like this, I'll always be subscribed for the long rambly videos lmao
Thanks man! I was looking for that cheats file you mentioned in the last video!
Nice. :) I started downloading Gamecube games onto my phone recently as it's the only practical way right now. And some how I'm able to use the Sega Genesis USB controller, some issues with this but you can make it work if you don't own a blutooth controller.
i love that the gamecube has also some sort of softmodding and homebrew support. pd: if you look my profile image that's my actual gamecube
Mine is in the mail! Super excited . I've got a Wii dual modded wii but I really like my orange cube with the gba player
Yeah I wiped some of my oldest game saves when trying to play Dream mix TV. Didn't realize I need to keep it in North American mode until after the fact.
: Places hand to screen. :
Dan from Black Dog just gave me a notification that he shipped the GC Loader I pre-ordered a long time ago. I don't even know if I'll install it once I get it immediately - the OEM disc drive still works, at least it still boots the Gameboy Player disc, which is what I mostly use my GC for anyways. In the months of everybody self-isolating, I installed the Dolphin-emu on my laptop and with the GC-style USB gamepad controller, find that I'm mostly content using that for actual Gamecube and some WiiWare titles
Well done video, Adam. Glad that cheat package is working well for you.
Great video Adam! I see a lot of comments going over the benefits of using the SD2SP2, and I was wondering if you can make a video going over how that one works, and maybe even discuss how both of them can work in tandem, as I have seen some comments basically say that they can work together to solve the memory card issues. You explain things pretty well, so maybe you can shed some light on the issue for us regular people.
I would if I had it. :/
They are very cheap. I’m happy I got mine. I was originally sad I purchased it when I heard of the PNP version of the GCLoader, but it seems that it will still have a use after all.
I'm a "play game on 'original' hardware" guy myself, but I wanted to point something out which you might find interesting. A stock Wii outputs significantly higher quality video when set to 4:3 mode. I don't have a Gamecube to compare it with, but I'm willing to bet the quality is identical, and most comparisons likely just left the Wii in 16:9 mode. I pretty much only play my Wii in 4:3 mode now, going so far as patching 4:3 support in 16:9 only games back in via Ocarina cheat codes. Only a few of titles are problematic when doing this, but if you use USBLoaderGX, you can set it so those will forcibly open in 16:9 (even when loading through the disc) leaving you with crisp 4:3 everywhere else.
The quality is not identical, this has been proven repeatedly. Just Google it.
@@AdamKoralik Has anyone ever done a good video comparison *with* the 4:3 mode? I searched even a couple of months back and all I ever saw was the 16:9 mode, which looks like trash by comparison.
I did at some point. Though the setup would be very different now. I wouldn't have run it in 16:9 as the GameCube games don't support 16:9.
@@AdamKoralik Oh, I see. Thanks. It's a real shock how much cleaner the Wii looks in 4:3 (especially in Line2X mode on the OSSC). Genuinely makes me believe the Wii was never designed with 16:9 in mind, and it was tacked on at the end.
The gamecube should have gotten more credit sure it didn't have that many M rated games but it was a lot of fun to play.
i still have more fun out of my game cube then I do with my Wii/wiiu and switch.
The only games I played on my Wii were GameCube/ Virtual Console titles.
OK, so... I've been watching GameCube modding videos for the last five hours and I'm asking myself how feasible it would be to make the console even smaller! Making use of the ode and the HDMI mod, and using the mostly empty space at the bottom of the case to fit in the Gameboy Player PVC inside, and using some extenders to get relocate the SD card inlet to a more convenient place. Also making use of the fact that you can make your own MiniSD-Adapter, you just have to connect some pins together, so you can get rid of the more bulky memory card connectors. Even upgrading the fan for a smaller, more powerful 40 mm noctua fan should help making it smaller while keeping it's cooling capabilities.
I need to sleep...
what I think imported games have issues corrupting memory cards when you place these savegames with your current savegames is similar to how Windows pre 7 didnt support asian characters out of the box, so if you had some file written in katakana or hiragana, or even opened a japanese website for example, it would show a bunch of square boxes, you had to install asian language support to write and read files that use asian characters. There is a possibility that the US bios didnt had asian characters so when the console searched for the files inside the card, it wouldnt know what to do with files that were named after non existant characters and it thinks it is corrupted.
With the Wii and its games it doesnt happen. I dont know if it still corrupts GameCube memory cards, but if you play a Wii game out of region it displays fine, I think it only ignores the save caption that appears on the popup screen that appears the "Save, Transfer and Delete" buttons.
Hey Adam, ended up getting an RGH Xbox 360 (trinity) after your video on it with 4tb of internal hard drives modded in. Was able to back up all my games and my delisted games now are backed upped too. Thanks for the idea.
I will say that I wish I had the modded Gamecube experience but with me it all comes down to price and convenience. Wii's are dirt cheap, soft-modding them is also dirt cheap only needing an SD card to do it, and you can attach big hard drives to them. Having 2 libraries of games on a single 500GB HD is fantastic. Yes I do concede that the Wii is inferior because you don't have Gameboy Player support but I'm happy without that. Video options on Wii are cheaper, the cheapest HDMI/Component option for Gamecube is $70 with some going upwards of $150. A Wii2HDMI (it's not great but it works fine especially with an mClassic) is $20 on Amazon. But yes, the modded Gamecube experience is arguably better.
Legendary compiling the cheat sheets for us. The new little monitor was great for the video too. Its unfortunate to have to explain how video quality is just clearer on a GameCube vs a Wii or Wii U. The cost difference is basically down to the GC's output cost. Component. Hdmi. Whatever. Will set you back at least 50 bucks. And cheapo Wii component cables are definitely above composite, with the Wii U's hdmi probably about even. The price line seems to sit around 150 dollars to determine what works for you. Above it. GC. Below. A Wii of some kind.
i dont even have a gamecube but i still watched. great vid as always adam
i’ve been using wii u since its my most convenient option for playing on an hdtv since its already set up and i dont have to buy anything extra. also the controller selection is pretty good. i can use gc controllers with the adapter, the wii u pro controller/gamepad (including seeing the game on the gamepad), the switch pro controller with the HID to VPAD homebrew for wii u, and i assume wii controllers too (not that i would ever want to for gamecube games). Anyways i’m down for more followup videos if u feel like doing more
You should do more follow up videos, this one was pretty informative
Hey Adam. Great follow up. To add to my comment about the SD2SP2 on your last video on this, aside from using it for in game resets I also have Swiss save its settings on the small SD card inserted into the SD2SP2. Maybe pick up one from Dan, it's real cheap.
Oh and thank you for the cheat file.
You forgot to say “hit that notification bell”
Once money frees up for me a bit more and I get more experience with a soldering iron, I'm totally gonna get a GC loader and that HDMI mod, this looks cool as hell, the modded wii cost me 30 bucks all told with the sd card, usb stick and some crappy component cables that are better than the composite out and a wii I had lying around. And I've had a blast but I am a gamecube fanatic and I'd love to have an actual gamecube under my TV again with all these mods
If it helps, the GCLoader PNP version is well...Plug N Play.
But yes, the HDMI board needs soldering.
@@AdamKoralik oh, sorry I watched the video while eating lunch, I didn't hear that part, thats actually really cool I'll probably get that mod soon then
Burger analogies are the best analogies. 10/10.
Thanks for these videos man my gamecube disk drive somehow stopped working after I let it sit for 4 years and I got the GC loader to basically revive the console
Just a heads up I think the sd2sp2 could actually solve a lot of memory corruption issues if people decide to get one of those with an SD card. You can use it as a "virtual" memory card I don't think the chances of corruption are that high since it's a fat32 sd card being emulated as a gamecube memory card
Adam you are nuts. You really gotta have everything.
Thanks?
Adam Koralik thank you for making the video. You are such a working horse. I am also getting my gc loader soon. Since the Dreamcast is the favorite console of all time. Have you gotten a naomi system with either the compact flash or the piforce setup. You pretty much have most consoles with a multi card. Have you gotten any cps2, STV, Taito F3, MVS, ... multicards? The naomi is awesome since it has a lot of games and you can also play atomiswave games. I think once you upload some of those arcade videos, those arcade boards and systems prices will skyrocket.
I loved that video personally loved this video, although I don't think i would ever buy a GameCube, i thought this was essential since you showcase whats on the market and whats possible... And all the options available which is amazing only short 3-4 years ago there was absolute nothing. Really looking to see a sumup of whats possible on the dreamcast hell, even on the ps2 that for some reason was neglected from the ode secene and hdmi mods... Tl;dr i liked it like i liked the gen recaps, because you make everything clear and simple and above all intersting. Thanks!
Sd2sp2 addresses the save file situation. Also the GameCube doesn’t corrupt memory cards, they are incompatible between Japanese and Western save formats.
Hey Adam thanks for your video. Your make my evenings so much more enjoyable with your videos plus its great that your so interactive with your viewers. I just wanted to pose a question to you. Your big against digital only but are happy with sd card versions of consoles. Basically the console is a way if playing emulation unless I'm wrong and in theory could be played on pc for example. I get the whole console mod showcase but surely its the same thing isnt it? If you buy a ps2 game on ps4 for example isnt that an emulation?
Well, PS2 on PS4 is emulation, yes.
But GameCube on..GameCube is not emulation.
@@AdamKoralik once again reply! I would argue it's just a gamecube shell unless I'm mistaken. To be honest I wish I hadn't posted that comment as I now look at it as negative and all I want in your community is positivity. I'm trying to keep my mis guided opinions to myself but its hard. Any way keep doing what your doing pal.
Nothing about your comment is negative.
The difference is the PS4 is just running software tricking the PS2 game into thinking it's running on a PS2.
The GameCube isn't tricking anything, it's a GameCube game running on GameCube hardware.
I'm very late but in swiss settings you can have the sd card emulate a memory card and you will only need a mem card for games with audio streaming. The save file will be saved to the sd card and not be corrupted
I know that the speed running community prefers playing discs on the Wii because it's more stable. Like when they run Metroid Prime, some of the things they do can crash a GameCube but work perfectly on a Wii. I still prefer to play on a 'Cube, thats just a counter point in the spirit of fairness
6:32 With PAL games, do they run at 480p or 576p with this Swiss hack? Is it native progressive scanning or just that linedoubled crap?
I've got the 576i games running at, what appears to be, native 480p. As in, it's not obviously line doubled.
@@AdamKoralik OK. Just checking, never liked the way linedoubling looked on interlaced content. For whatever reason with PAL stuff, the PS2 and Wii gave some games the option of running at 480p for progressive rather than 576p. I'll never understand why. 576p is lower framerate than 480p, but has the superior resolution.
I bought a modded Wii for $40. It has it's issues. Not the fault of the software mods, just that I don't know how the modder got it to work. It's like buying a custom modded car. No service manual when something needs service.
It's best to learn how to do a fresh install. I also own a GC video adapter. I bought these things because at the time they were affordable. I don't use them as much, but I'm glad I own them because I'm a gamer and collector.
I like follow up videos, it gives us a bit more of insight on what you think after a regular use. That said, i would love to have a GC Loader, currently using a SD Reader/SD Gecko/Whatever you want to call it and im frankly afraid my kids are going to break it (they like touching my consoles, already broke a PS1 memory card).
Give the kids the hacked Wii, keep the Cube for yourself.
I enjoyed this follow up. Just like the rest of your videos. Just wondering, if I went the GameCube/fancy burger place method, how big of a memory card would I need to have just the entire North America game library?
Would you shrink the ISOs first or leave them at the default 1.36 GB?
@@AdamKoralik Probably shrink the ISOs since I don't need the extra files on there. But whatever works.
Are gamecubes still cheap to pick up? Because i kinda want to get into retro gaming and im not sure wether i should get into the OG Xbox or Gamecube first. Any advice were to start?
Unfortunately, not really. A few years ago they were like $5 all day. Now...not so much.
@@AdamKoralik thats unfortunate then well maybe i find a cheap one at some point
They're still super cheap in Japan, but then getting them here (I'm guessing you're an American) is where the expense comes in.
@@AdamKoralik yeah its worse im German so i would need to fettle with getting it to work here
If it helps, maybe get one with a broken disc drive. If you're going to put the GCLoader in there, it doesn't need to be able to read them.
Thank you very much Adam. Since I couldn't save anything I pretty much shelved it until maybe a patch; but you solved the issue. Now I can play my library. Only issue now is I can reset but it doesn't reset the system or to the menu. It only resets the game. I tried both the reset and igr.dol options. Any suggestions?
Did it actually work for you?
As I understand it the in game reset option doesn't work with the GCLoader yet. I'm guessing a future Swiss update will fix this.
The guys who works on the software apparently saw this video and are aware of the memory card thing. Maybe that'll get patched too.
So as of now, I think you have to just turn the console off and on.
In MyLifeInGaming's episode on GameCube they state and show the unnoticeable difference between Wii and GC component. You are saying that the video quality of the GC is much better, is that only for HDMI?
No, it's via component. Screenshots exist all over proving it. Google it.
The difference may not be a big deal to a lot of people though, I freely admit that.
Hi Adam thanks for the new video. I'm sorry to ask an unrelated question. Jurassic park is my favorite story. Like you with BTTF. The telltale game appears to be impossible to find on PS3. Is there a way I can play this on a Sony product? Ty!!
Ps also wondered how you felt about RUclipsrs in our age demographic somehow still not caring that physical is going away. Jim sterlings attitude to it is so annoying! Have a good one man. Thanks.
Did you watch my Jurassic Park video?
Was that game even released on PS3?
I care, but I accept it.
@@AdamKoralik its rather hard to find information on it! Thanks for your reply I'll definitely check the movie video out someday soon (wanted to save spoilers incase I ever find it myself)
love to have all my systems modded but no one wants to do it and willing to pay but people i think are hesitant due too perhaps legal issues i guess its worthed being a videogame vlogger
What ones are you trying to get moded?
I seriously doubt there's any reason why it's legal issues. There will always be plenty of repair shops or homegrown repairers that will do such things. The so-called legal takedowns are tiny in the extreme, and there's usually other reasons for them too.
It's far more likely that nobody puts it out there, due to them not thinking there's a market, or maybe they just aren't aware.
Admittedly I'm in Britain, where things could well be different, but every time one of my consoles gets a fault that I can't fix, I can easily find a place that will fix them, and I don't even bother to check if they advertise such things. If they do electronics repair of ANY kind, I'll ring them. I simply ask them "hey, I've got this console and I know what's gone wrong and it just needs this work doing and I can even send you the parts, can you do it?" I always get plenty of people who will do it.
So maybe you just aren't looking at things the right way.
Also, don't be afraid to send things through the mail - obviously size and weight can be a factor, but I'm housebound so everything I get repaired is mail order. I don't have any choice in the matter.
Adam, completely off topic, but I’m passing through Chicago on a road trip soon. What’s the best place to get Chicago style pizza?
Lou Malnati's is my favorite.
Giordano's, Pizano's, and Panino's are good.
Uno and Duo, as well as Gino's East are okay.
Nancy's is garbage.
Adam Koralik thanks! I trust real people instead of, say, Yelp. You’re the only person I know of that lives there lol
what dreamcast game would you recommend ?
Like, just one game?
@@AdamKoralik a bunch, a few, anything if you can ?
I'd like a little comparison between the 3 consoles on the same game. I personally felt the controls never felt right with GameCube games on a Wii U even with the GameCube controller adapter. Sticks over sensitive, very noticeable in racing games.
video quality on GameCube wins, at least when using the Digital AV port
Nintendont gives me an image with some color bleeding and overall softness in Wii U
color accuracy on the Wii is better than Wii U, but analog video noise from the Wii2HDMI adapter could not be 100% prevented
Great video. You should do a video about running games off of an internal hard drive on a phat PS2 as well.
I thought about it, but honestly, that's not my ideal way to go.
Wii can also do forced 480P for gamecube games using the program Nintendon't. All GC games can be run from a cheap external hard drive formatted to Fat32. File sizes for the GC games doesn't matter on the wii.
They don't matter on the GCLoader either.
@@AdamKoralik nice!
The GameCube is a wonderful system, I can understand if you prefer it over the Wii/U.
One of the most underrated systems ever in my book. People fondly go over the N64 but there's far more flaws with that than the Gamecube (namely that awful controller, and the framerate especially when using the RAM expansion), so I truly don't get the accolades it gets.
The gamecube did suffer from being a third choice to the PS2 and the new Xbox, and there's some holes in certain games - especially racing games (but then Nintendo have always been light on them), but there's quite a few exclusives that are truly fabulous and almost all hardly get a mention these days.
I'm glad titles like Eternal Darkness are growing more in popularity.
Adam Koralik is the story of a Chad that had the balls to create his own channel, and be successful.
...wut
@@AdamKoralik Distance yourself from Boardgames and gaming society lol, just kidding brother.
I didnt know you or rockergaming were from chicago, thats cool to hear
12:36 Please show us this. I'm interested in what it displays
biggest upside to GameCube over Wii is the GB Player. with GBI and the OSSC its the sharpest those games can possibly look. The GC loader is indeed an FPGA that does in fact 'trick' the gamecube, (ODE=optical drive emulator. emulator=tricking) but its not like that effectively means anything.
I honestly still dont get the switch. wouldnt it be absolutely unnecessary if you just had a US console and Swiss? it sounds like with your new memory card workaround you dont need it at all anymore?
If you had a US console and Swiss, yes.
If you have a Japanese console you want to force into a US console...necessary.
i recommend renaming the gameboy interface dol's so it's easier to understand which one does what, this is what mine are like:
Game Boy Interface Standard Edition.dol
Game Boy Interface Speedrunning Edition.dol
Game Boy Interface High-Fidelity Edition.dol
WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME THIS THING I FORGOT TO ASK YOU ABOUT?!? : Cries. :
@@AdamKoralik errr, pretty sure i did mention it to you in discord hahahaha
YOUR MISTAKE IS ASSUMING I REMEMBERED!
@@AdamKoralik you have a good point there :D
Do all the games work well? I'm currently using Action Replay to boot Swiss via the SD2SP2 serial port 2 SD adapter that is like a Gecko and I have problems getting Soul Calibur 2 and Metroid Prime to work. Metroid Prime doesn't work at all and Soul Calibur has issues related to the beginning fmv. All other games I play work fine tho. Just wondering if the GCLoader has edge cases like this.
I haven't had any issues, that's why I cited that Crazy Taxi example.
@@AdamKoralik Nice, thanks for all the info and I'm stoked for these to be in stock again!
Hey Adam, have you ever thought about doing a video on consoles that your opinion has changed on over time?
GameCube is probably the only one that would be interesting to be honest.
So does the custom game boy player software come with the option to use the super game boy palletes on the original gb games? I'd like a way to play my actual copies of red and blue with the SGB pallete
I don't recall off hang, Google it. There's lots of information out there.
it's cool maybe oneday
I came looking for the gameboy interface info, you still didn't talk about it LOL
Pretty interesting stuff as I'm looking for a gamecube setup, I'm going with the MK2 GCHD. and possibly an M cable, but my main drive is the GB, GBC, GBA functionality ATM. Gamecube may come second as a happy accident haha.
Super interesting. I was glued to the screen. So let me try this one for laughs:
"Why are u doing this? You can play all of these games on a pc"
You really get these replies? Poor soul. I guess you have to resist commenting on those comments. It's almost like flame-bait.
So
a memory card for Japanese games
And
a memory card for US/EU games
Got it! Thanks for this video, I had a great time watching it!
I learned to never even mention PC emulation. But you do still get the occasional "LOL use a pc fag" type of shit though.
Though the more mature version is "I just use Dolphin on my PC in 4K :P" which is like...harmless...but still douchey.
I think the smartest guys realize all of this isn't done to say "daaaaah, there's no way to use it on a computer". The guys who feel the need to point out that emulators exist are the guys who truly don't get the point of the video what so ever.
@@AdamKoralik Lol, but just know many of us really appreciate your content.
Adam, Loving your videos brother always do, a man after my own heart n all, do you have a sega master system 2 European?
I don't know how I'd get hold of you other than comments but I'll end up throwing it away, it's just collecting dust and to be perfectly honest with you it would have a better home?
Let us know!? 🤔🙂
(Edit) Just a passing thought m8, worth asking.
The black one?
@@AdamKoralik yes my friend I could send you some pics of games and console if that helps!
With Alex the Kid built in.
If not no worries Adam I just thought Id ask, Id rather it have a home of love than dust lol.
I also have a UK Dreamcast thats collecting dust with Shenmue 1 and 2 in case, Adam if your interested I sent you a tweet, get back when you can dude. Hope you and family are all well with the current events and hope to continue this soon.
Hey dude, thanks for that. You don't have to send me stuff though.
@@AdamKoralik I fully understand that dude and respect that, you have said this in your other videos I know 🙂 but its been collecting dust for so many yrs and I'll just end up throwing it out, if you have a better home for it or even a friend, its better than collecting dust here brother. Its up to you and no I don't feel like I HAVE to send it you I just know it'll have a better resting place. (If you will)
Honestly, just separate the memory cards. Have one for japanese saves only, and 2 others for US and PAL respective. Because mixing different region saves will always cause issues. Also wanted to add that gamecube games run better on a wii using nintendon't. Runs em in a "wii mode" using it's full hardware potential.
If you say so.
Oh one more question. What amount of games do you place in each folder for your SD CARD? Because I put a ton and it takes up to 10 seconds to load the directory.
Probably like 50 per page on average.
@@AdamKoralik gotcha. Ty for fast reply.
Once again really appreciate this huge breakdown and information. I haven't used GCLoader beyond 1 hour yet :)
Do this type of stuff again. Also since you’re into video quality have you ever gotten into crts?
Nah, I don't really want giant old TVs around to be honest.
@@NintenDub if koralik doesnt have a CRT then it must not be a viable option lol. This dude is hungry for best video quality
When using the GCLoader, do you need a digital copy of Action Replay on there to get to Swiss or can you get into Swiss (to use GBI etc) directly from the GCLoader menu?
Action Replay is not needed for anything. Swiss is its own iso.
@@AdamKoralik Well I'm sold. I want one as soon as they become available again.
I have recently acquired a GC with the Hdmi installed. For whatever reason, when playing Metroid Prime Echoes, the first cutscene of the planet and Samus entering the planet has crackling audio issues. The issue persists if I use my actual game disk or through the backup on Swiss. Any idea what might cause that?
Hm, I don't know. I'm not familiar enough with that game.
How dare you attack Franklin: A Birthday Surprise! I mean, it's his birthday damn it, he doesn't deserve to be insulted on his big day.
Very odd that this game came out only in Europe, though, given the franchise is from North America, I think.
This is one of the things that has always amazed me since the dawn of video games - regional releases. I've been lucky in that I've been around since the birth of games, as I was born in the sixties, but it never fails to amaze me whenever I see some releases and just cannot fathom the reasoning.
As far as Franklin goes, I can absolutely say he is not known here in Britain, which is the largest EU sales region, and I doubt there's much call in pockets of European countries. If I had to guess, maybe Germany, as they had a lot of forces bases after WW2, so there's crossover, but even then, that doesn't explain why US didn't get it.
Truly weird.
so if you have save on the memory card from before the GCloader and only use NA game you shouldn't have an issue right?
At the time I made this, yes. Swiss has been updated since, I don't know what changes might have been made.
@@AdamKoralik Thanks i just ordered my GCLoader a few days ago waiting on it to arrive and getting things ready and doing some research on it
I just installed picoboot and am using sd2sp2 but I can't get the cheats working
i just set it where the save for settings just goes to my sd memory card adaptor not my memory card.
cool video tech talk adam
I gotta ask, is there an ODE solution for the PS2 Slim? My wife wants a solution that would be simpler than loading a Free McBoot onto a Fat PS2 and keeps both memory card slots open for regular use. For any other mod fun I'll just rewatch a Voultar video.
Not that I'm aware of. ODEs, off the top of my head, that exist are Dreamcast, Saturn, GameCube, and 3DO (oddly enough). There's sort of a Sega CD one, and kind of a PS1 unit. But then we're starting to just get into other backdoors to the same concept. But a full on ODE, just a handful.
I think a Neo Geo CD one was being worked on, I know an Xbox 360 one was, but that was cancelled.
@@AdamKoralik well maybe someone should consider the concept. It shouldn't be too crazy to put one in the slim version of thr PS2. The crazy would be with the fat version. Now excuse me while I check again to see if the guy behind the GBA Consolizer has considered my PSP Consolizer idea.
Winrare? What’s that, no idea if they added this but try to save your swiss settings to the sd card
WinRAR is software for a PC that allows you to compress and uncompress files for digital distribution.
So heres a question. HD Retrovision component cables for SNES will work on a PAL region GC but not US or Japan. If theres a region mod in the GC and it's set to PAL, would the component cables work then?
No. It's not a matter of region coding, it's the hardware.
@@AdamKoralik damn, there goes my idea for cheap component solution lol
@@RichRetr0 Even if that worked, it wouldn't be the same, it would be a 480i analog RGB signal.
Have you tried region patching the Japanese? Do you know if that would fix the problem?
Can't say I have.
@@AdamKoralik Alright so I just got my gcloader all set up and I tested it and everything is fine! No corruptions! I region patched all my japanese games to US some were Nkit, some full ISOs and they are all saved together on one memory card no corruptions! Not sure what else I could do to stress test though
I’d you’d ever like to review a Wii dual install, I do have a working one. It was done about 6 months ago at the time of this comment. I’d be happy to send it your way temporarily for review
Thanks dude, I MIGHT take you up on that at some point. But right now I'm so back logged I have no idea when I'd get to it.
Just a small teaser 😉
It isn't that Gamecube memory card are prone to corruption. It's that they are region-locked and they always see an out-of-region card as "corrupted." Because SWISS lets you boot Japanese games with the wrong BIOS, they will often let you save to a US-formatted memory card but how they react to other out-of-region saves is unpredictable.
So, yeah, just keep two sets of memory cards and flip the region switch when playing Japanese games. Easy!
That was essentially the explanation I gave. :P
@@AdamKoralik Reworded it all. :)
Anyway, the only time I saw legit memory card corruption on a GameCube was with those crappy 3rd party ones that use compression, but I do remember crapping my pants at the title screen to Eternal Darkness when the game pulled a Sanity Effect on me outside of gameplay! That's right: the game lied to me saying that my memory card was corrupted and was being erased. I was so relieved when the screen went white and the Sanity Effect reset!
What about GC Loader vs emulators like dolphin on a new PC? I currently play via dolphin but am toying with getting a GC and doing the GC loader PNP.
I don't use emulators so I can't say.