GC modchipped AT LAST.

[Guden Oden]

I saw this blurb on W2S, but here's the real link: GC programmable modchip!

Great news! Too bad tho it connects through the G-D parallel port... Damn, can't they fix a USB interface instead? Blehh, don't want to hack up such a huge hole in my GC case! Oh well. Guess I'll have to wait for an updated version then.

 

[Bohdy]

You can just use PSO instead if you don't want to open the thing, as I have been for quite some time now.

Its great for running Snes games and Mame roms in gc-linux but you are aware that this modchip won't let you run burned games or anything, right? If you want to do that you are stuck with streaming them.

All this chip does is make code loading easier.

 

[Guden Oden]

The PSO bug is clumsy and cumbersome. A modchip would be a much better way to transfer code to the machine.

I'm not interested in pirated games (how would I burn a pirate GOD anyway?), I want a neat little Linux terminal or somesuch. Too bad the GC has no harddrive, PS2 is a lot more practical in that respect.

Are there any modchips for PS2 that allows a more general linux to be run on it? Sony's own is not only rediculously expensive, it blocks access to certain hardware too.

 

[Cryect]

Really not sure of any benefit this has over the Max Drive Pro .

 

[VNZ]

Are there any modchips for PS2 that allows a more general linux to be run on it? Sony's own is not only rediculously expensive, it blocks access to certain hardware too.

Some work was done on something dubbed "The Great Experiment" (http://cvs.ps2dev.org/TGE/), but I haven't heard anything about it for a good while. Now that PS2 homebrewing has matured somewhat (with HDD and USB access for instance) perhaps it's time someone took up work on Linux again.

 

[thop]

It still doesn't run any discs. Anyone launching his computer to play GC games is insane.

 

[PC-Engine]

It still doesn't run any discs. Anyone launching his computer to play GC games is insane.

 

[Phil]

Guden:

I think the IOP is the only hardware blocked by the OS. Memorycard access (which was also blocked) can be secured by patching the kernel.

It is pricey though - especially because you have to buy it with the keyboard, the mouse, the VGA cable and the harddrive. Just the software would be so much more convinient, especially because you can use any harddrive with it and any USB keyboard/mouse. :?

 

[Guden Oden]

It still doesn't run any discs. Anyone launching his computer to play GC games is insane.

Of course it runs discs - any GC runs discs. What you probably mean is it doesn't run PIRATED discs, but as there is no way to burn them in the first place it doesn't matter anyway that you can't run them.

 

[Cryect]

Hmmm I bet if a group wanted to they could make DVD-R's that have the GCN encryption key stamped on them that could be used with normal DVD-R burners.

Not sure how well that would go over though selling a DVD-R thats principle use is burning GCN games though

 

[hey69]

more or less confirmed.
a solution with mini dvdr support. coming in the next weeks

 

[Cryect]

Curious is that in relation with whats his name who did the first PS2 modchip?

I remember reading about his stuff and seeing how he had a GCN running DVD-R's with homebrew items only problem at the time was he had over hundred wires connected to the GCN and was beginning to go through wire reduction or something.