GC modchip released to public + bios can boot dvd-r!

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Post by MKE »

with most modchip's that are coming out, they dont come flashed with any bios that will circumvent any copy/anti piracy measures, to keep them completely legal...

but getting the bios is easy enough anyway.

and as you can see by the pic's, you flash them with the parallel port.
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i mean they are 2 dif drives right?
Nope. The Gamecube's drive is actually a DVD drive. However, it's not (normally) compatible with regular DVDs, and regular DVD drives can't read Gamecube discs.

The Gamecube discs, like Xbox DVDs, are written from the outside in (normal DVDs are written from the inside out). They also use the "barcode" layer, and encryption. The barcode (which is part of the DVD spec) isn't actually a barcode, but it's an additional part of the disc which can hold a decryption key. The data on the disc in encrypted, so can not be read unless you know the decryption key. The Gamecube's drive can read the barcode, does so, and uses the key to decrypt the data, so the Gamecube doesn't even know that the disc was encrypted. A normal PC DVD drive can not read these barcodes, and a normal PC DVD writer can not write these barcodes. A Gamecube DVD drive will not read a DVD unless the barcode is present.

Very simple, very effective. That's the same way that the original DivX discs (not the MPEG-4 video codec - the DVD format) worked, and they have never been successfully decrypted.

Now, because all the decryption is done in the Gamecube's DVD reader, it should be impossible to get the drive to read a normal DVD, even if you have complete control over the Gamecube. The PS1 CD reader works the same way - it will refuse to even read a disc if it doesn't contain some data which can not be written by a CD-R drive. The PS2 DVD reader works the same way. Both PS1 and PS2 modchips work by modifying the data coming from the DVD reader, so the signal appears to be present, even if it's not.

On the Gamecube, it's not so simple. If you trick the drive into thinking that the barcode is present, it will still try to decrypt an unencrypted disc, and fail. If you try adding a known barcode into the data stream, there will be no way to tell a DVD from a Gamecube disc, and Gamecube discs will stop working. If you try to bypass the decryption, Gamecube discs will stop working.

I really doubt that this thing can actually read DVDs.
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i get what your sayin, and i kinda doubt it too, but... with what ive read, basically what it does is (and this is kinda rough, im tired and dont feel like finding it and quoting it, maybe later) takes the data the dvd drive is reading before it's decrypted, and then send's it to the pin of the chip where teh decrypted data would normally go, so it's basically skipping the not needed decryption process...and that's how you can still boot normal gc games, you hold a button to enable the bypass, and hold another one to disable the decryption bypass....

at least that's the way i remember reading it....
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From what I'm readin from the NFO file, I wish they would have made it so pressing nothing would boot normally instead of holding x. X should be for DVD-R mode and Y shoul be region free. Either that or it should always boot region free. Anyway I hope that this project is true and I hope that the price of the chip comes down. $69.99 seems quiet expensive.....
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The chip certainly does exist. There have been several people working on similar devices. Basically, they inject custom code into the Gamecube when the 'cube boots up (normally, it reads it's BIOS from ROM, and decompresses / decrypts it to RAM), allowing you to run whatever you like one there. That has been done before.

However, what it doesn't let you do is modify the way the DVD drive works. The drive is not under any kind of software control. That's why I doubt that this thing would actually work.
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Lyris wrote: The reason is because this lets me play imported games. For a large group of people, this is the case - not all mod chipping is due to piracy.

But can't you do a region mod with just a switch and some wire?


On second hand I think that was only for two regions, though.
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someoneElse wrote:
Lyris wrote: The reason is because this lets me play imported games. For a large group of people, this is the case - not all mod chipping is due to piracy.

But can't you do a region mod with just a switch and some wire?


On second hand I think that was only for two regions, though.
That switch only dealt with US/Jap regions.
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i know youve all seen the videos before, but here's the one that shows the process for this bios/modchip combination.

http://www.ps2ownz.com/forums/attachmen ... entid=3587
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Lame, can't view it for 5 days.
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Xylene wrote:Lame, can't view it for 5 days.
if anyone can host the rar file, or want's it i can email it to you...
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I can host it having a 100mbit server for free has its advantages ya know?
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Hot damn it works! I'll seriously consider picking one of these up when the price drops. Like I said earlier, $69.99 is too high of a price just to play some homebrew or emus.
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Post by arcticfeather »

If this allowed the gamecube to play all imports without the problems with freeloader it could be very tempting, not interested in it booting back-ups though.

I have a PAL Gamecube btw, so there is no region switch for it :(
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Congratulations to Nintendo for proving that you can protect a game console very well. This is just the first hardware hack and it means it even take some time before it becomes easy for the "mass" to bother with it. Now you need to make a difficult modifications and open up the GC to let it read normal sized DVD-r. Because it doesn't read most brands mini DVD-r. When it becomes easier to hack the GC the console will be at is end of it's economical lifespan. So the hardware protection just holded long enough. Sony and Microsoft can learn from that.
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I dont think they can :P.
Also their have been exploits for god knows how long for the gamecube(but yes first hardware hack)
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Post by gamedudex2 »

well i just wonder if someone will make modified gc cases so they can fit dvds without it being opened up like in the video. also the emulation homebrew scene can grow better on the gc. and plus now we only need ahard drive which can be used to store files and even for virtual memory to help along after people max the cubes limitations
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The case probaly hell you could mae one your self,the harddrive.......
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