Burning Gamecube games Yet?

[Anubis]

Hey all has anyone figured out how to back up the gamecube games yet?
Is there a way to Rip the data game files from the disc to your hard drive with a firewire or modem cables like as they do with Ripping Dreamcast games?
Just wondering so don't bite my head off.
Thanks guys.

[Saurgrist]

Nope, plus there aren't any mini DVDs that you can burn anyway.... at least I don't think so...

[Colt .45]

Nintendo made the gamecube completly pirate free, i dont think u will evre be able to tamper with it in anyway.



Cheers,COLT

[Nosolution44]

if u wanted to pirate, gc was probably the worst choice

[Colt .45]

however someone, somewhere, will find a way, you can gurantee that



Cheers,COLT

[Nosolution44]

yea, but most likely u'll have to buy expen$ive custom mini discs

[Inquisitor]

They say you can use normal DVD disks to make a back-up of any GC game, but when you want to use them you have to remove the lid on top of the GC to fit the normal size disks in. sounds like a waste of time but I don't own a GC :)

I'll try and find the URL

[Colt .45]

that simply cannot be possible, you CANNOT fit any other disk other than gamecube disks in the console, it is impossible...






CHeers,COLT

[Bambi]

That's why he said you would remove the top of the console. You should read it again.

[ldoodle]

There will be a way with the Panasonic Cube (GC with DVD support) as it takes normal sized discs as well as GC game discs.

I suppose you could rip the games to DVD-R the same way you would a PS2 game.

But thinking about it, the normal GC spins the discs backwards, right. So the PGC has to have some sort or detection system, that, well, er, detects which type of media is inserted (DVD or GC game) and sets the laser to spin the correct way (backwards for GC, normal for DVD).

So even if you ripped to a DVD-R, the PGC may well still recognize the disc as DVD format, rather than GC format, thus preventing the game from running.

It's all very complicated, but as Colt .45 said; someone, somewhere, will find a way/...

I have also heard that it can be done by removing the lid of the GC, but looking at mine, it doesn't look at all possbile. I may be wrong, but that's just my opinion/...

[CyBeR XxX]

i heard that in japan people r selling gc games on mini dvdr..

[CyBeR XxX]

http://xbox-scene.fxp.info/index.php?act=ST&f=5&t=4496

[Anonymous]

yer blank mini dvdr r out there i saw some hong kong

[nehkid]

It would be a smart move against piracy if they don't follow the footsteps of PS2 and XBox. If they choose to release a kit to play DVDs on the GC then they just opened themselves for a blow. If that did happen, hackers will figure out a way to rip data of the GC games and then burn them onto DVDs and with that DVD kit that GC release you can play burnt games. Then again I don't htink that's likely cause Nintendo's new approach is to focus on games whereas Sony and Microsoft look for an entire entertainment package.

[CyBeR XxX]

well they already have dude there's a panasonic gc that playback dvds http://www.lik-sang.com/image.php?category=0&products_id=1575&img=panasonic-gamecube

[Jedi Master]

well i read this.....

http://www.planetgamecube.com/news.cfm?action=item&id=2848

pressed GC games.For the Panasonic Q

[CyBeR XxX]

i think that's some april ****

[Jedi Master]

fair enough.

[WorlWydeHusla]

ya gc was teh worst choice for piraters

[Aman]

well, it COULD happen, you would have to get minidisks somehow onto ur comp or maybe a minidisk player for it to work tho... i think the thing is that no priaters HAVE the gamecube because it is a system based for the little ones... I think that if a modder like Lik-Sang actually WANTED to go through the trouble and effort to get a working modchip or simmilar thing for the gamecube, and then a burning solution for the pirated games, I bet it could happen. But I doubt it will because it is just not a system anyone WANTS to pirate. Yah, I mean, "Hey guys! Guess what! After all that trouble, I finally found Super Mario Sunshine!!! LETS REJOICE! YAAAAAY!!!" - You see? What kind of an idiot would do/say that?!

Hehe just a thought :p

[likuid snake]

lemme say 1 thing and one thing only:

I own a GC and I can say it is NOT *don't bypass the censor please*. B4 I owned it I thought the same thing, kiddiecube. Well its not.

RE
Eternal Darkness
Starfox
FF(coming soon)
mario cart(dont deny it mario cart is the *blah*)
and many others to come

so think what you want, it will happen when its time to happen.

Watch the foul language, and DON'T bypass the censors!

-Spy

[sasmflop]

If you think pirating GC is possible you are deluding yourself. Thats the whole reason Nintendo went with the proprietary mini DVD to begin with.

[drbesty]

someones made a modchip for the gamedoorstop ahem i mean cube;) 70 wires tho, i aint installin it meself i can tell ya. we'll see eh kids:>

[CyBeR XxX]

ok a mod but it's really hard to copy the games. i have a friend a jap friend n he has a panasonic gc n some member of his family sends him gc games (backups) seems to be that some ppl r already selling games on the streets. i'll love to know how they do it. ;(

[ezekiel2k3]

Yes you can buy mini-dvd's, That hold up to 1.4gb of data. At least you can here in the US. There main purpose is for the new digital camcorder's that can record to mini-dvd's.

I seen the case hack one time on lik-sang.com, It was a short video were a guy removed the casing of the gamecube and placed a regular sized dvd on it's spinner and powered it on.

That would work if we only knew how to rip the game's.

[Saurgrist]

Personally, I wouldn't want to burn GC games, because it rips the companies off way too much. Look what happened to Sega with the Dreamcast.

[Caredhel]

The time you spend trying to hack a GC will take you as long as the next system to come out.

[Saurgrist]

Yeah, that too. :D

[CyBeR XxX]

i heard that there r iso already on the web to download but how to burn them. man nintendo ppl r so intelligent. their games r almost incopyble. look what happened to xbox, they tried to make their games so incopibles that r the easiest games to ahem backup. u don't even need a pc the xbox does it for u with a tool named xbcopy (a software for xbox) n it copys the games the hdd then u can run it from there. n the loading times r way faster.

[Jedi Master]

sorry Saurgrist,cant agree,...companies are ripping us off,not the other way around.£40 odd for a game that last 5mins your having a laugh.

Plus maxwell are ment to be bringing out mini dvdrs next year around feb or march time that hold 1.4gb.

http://www.dvd-recordable.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=164&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

[Saurgrist]

Yeah they do rip us off price wise, but if we don't spend any money toward their products, they will go out of business and will not make any games for the systems. So I guess you really can't win can you?

[the_guy32]

There are billions of humans in this world, now out of all of these people I can assuredly promise you that someone is pirtaying gamecube games. And if one person knows then someone else does, eventualy its gonna get on the internet no matter what. I can promise you that there is a site that tell you how to burn a GC game. Its a matter of how deticated you are to finding it of course. So if your really want to save money then just start searching with every search engine you can think of and you will eventualy find working info. I have been using computers longer than I can remember and it is extremely rare theres something I can't find. Im not saying its easy or even cheap, but its possible with dedication.

That was my first post here so I felt I would make it long, boring, and full of crap :-)

Check the language

-Spy

[Puppet Master]

I've seen a few sites on how to burn gamecube games. not sure if they'll work though. I still think it's impossible.

[the_guy32]

I still think it's impossible.

Buddy let me tell you something. Nothing is impossible.

[Puppet Master]

Yeah, guess your right.
btw, Linux does not break Windows.:greencool

[spankovit]

Been some threads in this forum regarding the "burning of gc games" before.
Let me just clear up a few points regarding gc isos etc.
Gamecube games are perfectly burnable on both dvd-r and also on mini dvd-r, however these dvds are simply no use whatsoever as the gamecube has a special format mini dvd-r that actually reads the dvd-r backwards, now I don't mean it reads from the outer side to the inner side, what I mean is that the cube reads the dvd the disk in reverse from inside to out, hence dvd writers are physically incapable of writing such disks.
Final note gamecube games are ripped and used through using a gamecube wired to a pc through the network ports on both computers, this allows ripping and also playing of gamecube isos, has something to do with phantasy star online. If you want more info then try a google search :D
also if you really want a gcube back up machine then try lik sang, they got one for a reasonable price as well.

[spankovit]

Don't post such vulgarities

-Spy

[G WIkky]

*BLAH!*

No need to be vulgar

-Spy

[Gehenna]

G WIkky why remove the cover of the GC? To do the multi-region mod?

[G WIkky]

G WIkky why remove the cover of the GC? To do the multi-region mod?

Remove the cover in order to play normal sized DVDs in it.
Otherwise you need not remove it, like if you may have some mini-DVDs

[Xander]

:sword: What I find REALLY funny bout the whole "take off the cover to play full size dvd discs" is that its IMPOSSIBLE. Open your gc's lid. Look at the laser. It will ONLY move across the width of a gc disc. No more. No less. So because of this the gc could not read to the extent of 1.4 gb on a DVDR cos they're single layered - thus they take up more room on the disc (ie the width) so the gamecube (oh reverened one.......) could not play them. :sword:

[Dr.MAD]

To Everybody:

I deleted 2 posts containing links to warez, and info about downloading GC Game Images.
I had to edit several posts because of more links to warez-like sites and because of THE VULGAR, AGGRESSIVE AND INSULTING LANGUAGE!!

shortly said: one more vulgar word, or foul word, and I'll close this thread.
Idem ditto if I see one more link or info about downloading full GC game images and ripping them.

You have been warned.

You like the Gamecube? Support it's makers, and buy the games.

[newbie]

I regestered just for this subject, so i will probably always be a " newbie " hence the name...


I was just wondering, because the games are burnt backwards, but still from the inside out, why not reverse the connections on the spendal motor? Its a DC motor, so just reversing the polarity should cause it to spin backwards. I believe that if someone would be willing to do that to a dvd burner, and purchase some mini dvd's we would find that it is possible to burn them :)


Just a thought.

EDIT:

Thought a little more, it probably wouldnt work. Because the lazer would cross the track. The best analogy i can think of is trying to put a left threaded bolt in a right threaded hole.

I guess the only way we will know is if someone tries it.

[Sofa_King]

however these dvds are simply no use whatsoever as the gamecube has a special format mini dvd-r that actually reads the dvd-r backwards, now I don't mean it reads from the outer side to the inner side, what I mean is that the cube reads the dvd the disk in reverse from inside to out, hence dvd writers are physically incapable of writing such disks.


Just a thought, probly a stupid one, but couldn't you write a program to read the ISO byte by byte and the write it back in the opposite order?

[sHaDoW-KiLLa]

Just a thought, probly a stupid one, but couldn't you write a program to read the ISO byte by byte and the write it back in the opposite order?

I don't see why that wouldn't work. Seems totally logical that reversing the data like that would work, I was reading the post myself about to respond with that very same thought, but looks like I don't have to cuz you got it :D. Good thinkin, we'll see what some people say.

[Kamu]

Ok I was thinking about this. My brother just bought a GC.. idiot..

What say if you removed the lazer + cd tray completely off it and bought a portable dvd player find out how the GC connects to the dvd reader and see if you can connect it to the portable one, because Im pretty sure the GC would reverse the data again, so its going in the correct way.. (easyier to work with.. duh)
I suppose Data is Data, regardless of how its read.

[konga]

:banana: I think this might work...I saw it on LimeWire...don't know if it would work or not. :banana:

BURNING X-BOX & GAMECUBE GAMES USEING CDRWIN :urpleyes :urpleyes :urpleyes
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1) Insert your original in your CD-ROM.
2) Open CDRW in (or any other image extractor) to make an iso image of the game
on your hard disc. Click on 'Extract Disc/Tracks/Sectors'
3) Here are the settings which work for me (!):
Disc Image/Cue sheet
File-Format: Automatic
Reading-Options:
RAW, CD+G, CD-TEXT and MCN/USRC all Unchecked
Error Recovery: Ignore
Jitter Correction: Auto
Subcode Analyses: Fixed
Data-Speed: MAX
Read Retry Count: 10
Audio Speed: MAX
Subcode Threshold: 900
There are a lot of reports, that Raw reading also works, but I had problems with it enabled.
4) Click on 'Start'
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RECORDING TO A DISC
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1) Install Fireburner

2) Double click on the Cue File For The Game
3) Right Click And select burn To CD
That’s all there is record DAO, and you can try to burn it fast I burnt them at 2X
Using PNY Black Diamond CDR'

[Kamu]

:banana: I think this might work...I saw it on LimeWire...don't know if it would work or not. :banana:

I cant seem to find anything on google about a PNY Black Diamond CDR' that size.

[patm95]

Anybody try this? I don't see how you could use a cdr. Those small ones only hold like 150 meg I thought.

[Gehenna]

I thought it was clear that GC cannot read regular consumer CDs or DVDs. If that doc as true I think there would actually be a GC scene, at least more than what it is now.

Aslo @patm95 there are mini-DVDrs that hold 1.5GB or something close to that.

[FantasyGhost]

I don't follow much on the GC, but here's some info. They are working on some tool...

http://www.ps2newz.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=16333&perpage=15&pagenumber=1

http://www.gcdemos.com/index.php

[Colicab]

Ok this isnt gonna happen and that document is absolute bs. do you not think when we were first told how to backup gc games that it would not have been known that the gc was reading the discs in a diff way? as i sure think it would have been known about, thus all the networking to get round it, whats basically being asked here is if anyone has found another way that involves burning the isos. The thing is folk have been at this since the Gc was released, and still no luck.

To clarify there is NO KNOWN way to backup and make a working GC game for use on another GC.

The method involving removing the lid is bs also, this worked for Panasonic Q`s where its been reported that in Japan there are already backup discs of Gc games that run on the Q basically as it comes with a standard dvd drive for movie playback and thus can read normal burnt dvd iso discs.

But put bluntly although its not impossible, if anyone wants to to burn gc games to there gc then your in for a wait, MINI DVD-R`s DO NOT WORK, I REPEAT DO NOT WORK!. If anyone here wants to join the ongoing team of folk out there on the net trying to figure out the Gc and this backing up issue then i suggest you get ready cause these guys have been at it a while, many are skilled programmers etc with untold knowledge int his stuff and even there not having luck

[0rg@$/\/\!<]

Ey colicab...

someone told me a few days ago that he has burned gc gamez. He said a friend of him downloaded the games and ordered special cd's in Belgium (im from holland). After that he burned them and he could read them in the gc. He didn't modded or chipped or how do you cal that, he just read the thing

Although I must say I haven't seen it myself..

[Dr.MAD]

2nd Warning: no support for Warez, downloaded games, piracy or all that crap!!
DON'T ask people on these forums to contact you in order to give you links or help for downloading full games!

WE DON'T SUPPORT ILLEGAL STUFF!!!

[Colicab]

Ey colicab...

someone told me a few days ago that he has burned gc gamez. He said a friend of him downloaded the games and ordered special cd's in Belgium (im from holland). After that he burned them and he could read them in the gc. He didn't modded or chipped or how do you cal that, he just read the thing

Although I must say I haven't seen it myself..

Just so you know , but if you serach about on this site you,ll find about 10+ posts sayin my firend has managed it, but ive not seen it or he wont share the info.

If you dload the iso from the net then chances are they were ripped via a lan connection to the gc, at present there is NO WAY to re-burn these isos due to encryption and disc structure, neither of which can be read or even detected via network transfer from the gc so as i say...


Theres No Way To directly Burn Gamecube Discs

[tsukasa]

when i put a gamecube disk in my dvd rw drive it thinks its a music file...

[DobStyle]

you cannot burn but you can backup. i will not post how to do this on here.

its essentially the same as using gamespy's tunnel service for the xbox.

your pc acts as a server, thats all i will say on here.

you however cannot burn GC images etc. nintendo went to great strides to prevent people from doing so by creating their own medium.

i hope i am breaking no rules with this post.

[Dreddy]

GUESS WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?!? Nintendo has created a NEW SYSTEM... better than the gamecube... it has mp3 player, dvd player, cd player, and it still plays the same 'type' of disk the gamecube plays... They have been working to make it pirate proof for abou thalf a year now.. they are finally done... it will be out in half a year! WHo knows, mabey we'll master the gamecube pirates by then huh?

[Xander]

Does anyone else think that his topic has been worn out?!?

I think it's time that we gave this a rest...

[Fatso666]

hmm, im going to hong kong soon, and as you kno, piracy is a big thnig there, ill have a look whilst im there (this christmas) and report back, ill have my mum be the translator for my questions seeing as i aint that great at chinese
off topic: another great reason why the GC is better then the PS2 and Xbox, its harder to pirate! but parasonic had to let piraters have a chance at pirating, reminds me of this lame ad, "Piracy fuels terriosy" or something like that

[andys utils]

or of your in the uk, you can get all your mini dvdrs here if theyll work

http://www.blankdiscshop.co.uk/acatalog/FOR_8cm_DVD_R___MINUS___CLICK_HERE.html

[sacrifise8]

dudes i cant beleave yew cant burn discs for the gc i mean i wanted 2 so bad but i guess im just gonna have 2 deal with it!

[sacrifise8]

hey i heard on here that the game cube discs are backwards from regular dvds, isnt there some burning room that can burn duscs in rewind????

[gligamesh]

hey i heard on here that the game cube discs are backwards from regular dvds, isnt there some burning room that can burn duscs in rewind????

I had to create an account on these forums just to say that is probably the stupidest thing I have ever heard.

[Je333]

I belive it is absolutly imposible to place normal size dvds into a gamecube
or at least a pal gamecube

[Je333]

dudes i cant beleave yew cant burn discs for the gc i mean i wanted 2 so bad but i guess im just gonna have 2 deal with it!I still think it may be posible to burn a gamecube game on to a mini dvd disc