The "GC Loader" #GameCube

Modded gc can play all disc via Swiss

The GC loader will load games pretty much flawlessly.

The Pico boot mods and using the other slots for an SD don’t run the games as well. It’s not bad by a long shot; but it’s not 100%.

The best compromise between keeping the disc drive and using an SD card is the M2 loader, however, unsure if that is commercially available yet.

Serious question, why hard mod a gamecube when you can soft mod a wii and get a wii too, even better soft mod a wiiu wii mode

Wanted one of these but a modded Wii covers everything so I went that route instead.

Pretty sure you can unlock the region lock, saw a video showing how easy it is

I currently have 2 Gamecubes, and the DVD drives on both of them shit the bed. I need a GC Loader to put into just ONE of my Gamecubes. Seriously. It'd be a big upgrade, and I need to find a high capacity SD card to store my entire Gamecube library. Otherwise it's just space taken up on my external hard drive... And yes, I am also considering getting a new one for the additional storage!

How do I transfer my game cube games to an SD card? Is where this video should've started.

How much does this cost compared to just getting a switch

Friends of those who don’t know what it said it said calendar, and options had to be set

What’s better than the GC loader ?

Dont know man removing the disk drive just make it feel like you are running the game on a emulator rather than the real thing

No one told him he could keep the disc drive still

But where can I buy one

The mod to make it read english disks is pretty easy.

At that point you just have the shell of it and it’s just another Emulator console right?

U can remove region lock

“they wouldn’t work without modding,” he says while explaining about why he modded his console

All you have to do to region swap is solder a couple joints.

Thanks for justifying. Now we can all forgive you. I’ve spoken to HR, you’re clear to go back to work.

region locks should be illegalized

The picoboot method takes five wires to solder to the motherboard and to a raspberry pico, a simple chip based of raspberry pi but only 1"x2". You also get to keep your disc drive and can even back up your discs to the SDcard using the modded GameCube. This job won't take a fancy soldering station, easily done with a cheap one. See if a friend of yours knows how to solder. This mod will run you ~$30 and you get to keep your drive. BTW, don't rub your thumb across your laser. A band name q-tip that is tightly wound, no frays, rubbing alcohol, and a light touch fixes most read problems. My gamecube is the orange Japanese model, switched to US region by a small bead of solder, has the picoboot, 512GB SD card, internal HDMI and can use bluetooth controllers like a switch pro controller, XBOX and PS5. All that did run be about $200 but it was worth it to me. If you're not too picky, get a Wii U and gamecube controller adapter. You'll need to download games because the Wii U can't read GC discs, more like Nintendo disabled the ability to do so. The modding is all software, no soldering and so easy to do. You also have HDMI on the Wii U so it will work on 4K TVs w/o issues. See! The Wii U is a great console now!

"Better mod's out now?" Really? A soderless mod thats plug in and play? Can anyone tell me what is better that doesn't require sodering?

Then just, fix the laser, and un-region lock it.

I just use the Windwaker exploit combined with an SD2SP2. Super easy and most importantly there is no modding to the actual console required so you can return it to stock condition at any time.

...but you modded it anyways..

Would be easier if you just replaced the disc reader

Where to get that card reader in the disk drive?

Booooh! you molested your gamecube by sd mod

Can’t wait if they change SD to M.2

Who cares it’s you’re console you’re just taking care of the disk reader from damage and found a better alternative

I need this mod my gamecube stopped reading disk a couple months back

Were you hoping nobody would notice that those are two different consoles?

Honestly bought a Japanese game cube just so I can get cheaper games that you don’t need to understand Japanese to play. Like double dash, melee, Mario parties, that sorta thing.

Basicly not "Why I removed my disk drive" instead "Why I modded my gamecube".

Hmmmm... the 2nd one seems like user error on your part.

Nice

So I just learned that there's actually like a region setting solder point, they're all region locked but you can change what region it's set to by simply soldering the new point and desoldering the existing point

So the GC Loader makes the Gamecube region free?

It looks weird and cool at the same time

I prefer GC Loader because doesn't need soldering. Also the SD card slot of the GC Loader loads faster than the SD Geko. Not all gamecubes has access to SD2Card slot. But the GC Loader is always Out of Stock.

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