Well, i did it... Bought a friggin Cube

riva16 · Post by **riva16** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 3:49 pm

Hey everyone. I just bought a refurbished Gamecube, platinum, my favorite of all the colrs, and bought Metal Gear solid Twin snakes along with it! With an official Nintendo Memory Card. Paid $122 for all of it. Anyway! Name every mod oyu can think of for Gamecube. I wanna kep the platinum color, but change the LED, install a LED fan in the side if possible, haven't opened the system up yet and seen how it works... Modchip? Region switch? Light up the logo? what else can be done. I want my Cube looking sweet as the color! Would a white LED look cooler witht he the platinum than blue?

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 5:06 pm

Region switch seems easier than Master System 50/60Hz mod. Clear the jewl, light it up, LED fan?

Alexvrb · Post by **Alexvrb** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 7:30 pm

If you hit it with a flamethrower ever so briefly, I think that'd add a really cool effect.

Disheveled DrFreeze · Post by **Disheveled DrFreeze** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 5:43 am

well err, not much left for me to contribute but here i go:

- build some leds in the underside, maybe use the expansionbays?
- controller port leds, to indicate when a controller / mem card is inserted
- disc acces indicator led
- rumble activated leds on the controller

and for the led color, i would suggest blue

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 8:50 am

Blue LED's with the "Platinum" colour would look sweet

riva16 · Post by **riva16** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 9:06 am

I gotta admit, I though Gamecube sucked, but now, this little thing kicks ass! I need a few more games though. I got hooked on Twin Snakes last night. Over halfway through the game in my first sitting. Anyway, blue LED sounds good for the power LED, but white seems to fit the color of the console. I don't need a region switch. I dunno. I might just leave it alone. Well, for now. I always keave something brand new aone for a while. I left my DC alone for a long time after I got my first one. Now look at it!

Disheveled DrFreeze · Tue Dec 28, 2004 10:58 am

dude, if you have friends who also like to play games, get super smash bros melee and a few more controllers, best multiplayer game ever !!!!!!

oh, and while your at it:
- timesplitters 2
- f-zero Gx
- mario kart DD

to name a few

riva16 · Post by **riva16** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 11:49 am

I'm looking for other kind sof games. I'm going for Zelda Windwaker, Metroid Prime, Resident Evil, Final Fantasy.

dcmodder · Post by **dcmodder** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 2:37 pm

lol if u have to have a cube do this to it at least

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 2:47 pm

Those fan grills are 60p-?2 at Ebuyer.co.uk/.com

The ones i've bought from there are great

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 3:07 pm

riva16 wrote:I'm looking for other kind sof games. I'm going for Zelda Windwaker, Metroid Prime, Resident Evil, Final Fantasy.

Get pikmin. It owns.

riva16 · Post by **riva16** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 9:51 pm

I heard about that game. Whats it about? And BTW, that cube is tight looking. I'm gonna get a LED fan, and new grill for the fan, light upt he cover logo, and put LEDs behind each cotnroller port.

Wagh · Post by **Wagh** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 2:07 am

chip it and then make a new tray for regular sized dvd-rs

DCPepperoni · Post by **DCPepperoni** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 2:25 am

get paper mario...

the version for n64 is awesome... so the cubes must be even better

ninja · Post by **ninja** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 4:30 am

Idea's:

Put a LED Fan on the vents for better airflow, color match to the power led

Add a Disc Activity LED

Controller Port LED's

Mem-Card LED

Mem-Card Access LED

LED's To illuminate where the disc goes.

50/60 hz switch

Lid switch

Window to view CD, also highlights the LED's, maybe throw in a window etching.

One Thought: CCFL's

Watercooling

Buy an ethernet adapter and hardwire it into the back of the cube, this would require a lot of soldering

riva16 · Post by **riva16** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 9:24 am

How do you do the disc and mem card acces LEDs? Are there actually guides on this?

ninja · Post by **ninja** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 2:24 am

riva16 wrote:How do you do the disc and mem card acces LEDs? Are there actually guides on this?

There are no guides that im aware of, but it shouldnt be to hard with a few resistors and a few relays.

Disheveled DrFreeze · Post by **Disheveled DrFreeze** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 6:07 am

there are tuts for disc acces leds for other machines, i think they just tap into the power for the drive motors or something, be carefull though that you dont ask to much power for the led and fry the board

and as for mem acces, youve got me, maybe use a relay to switch power when one of the data channels is activated, but adding load to a data channel might fuck up the data transmission

ninja · Post by **ninja** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 6:16 pm

Thats why you dont actually request a lot of power, use a small relay so that when any amount of current is passed through it, it will then draw power from the PSU, and then pass that power to the LED. The current you would draw from the data channel would be miniscule enough so that the data transfer shouldnt become corrupted.

bizzle · Post by **bizzle** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 12:35 pm

I got a Platinum Gamecube the other day. Lucky Nintendo seems to be stupid and not put any security seals on it, so if I screw up soldering anything it in it I'll just return it. Does anyone know what voltage the LED is? I want to replace that ugly orange thing. BTW, it's really easy to make a gamebit screw driver (needed to open the thing) with a pen.