GameCube Piracy & Hacking

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  • čas přidán 25. 05. 2021
  • In this video, Did You Know Gaming takes a look at the Nintendo GameCube, how the system was hard to crack, and how piracy and hacking evolved over the console's life.
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    Video Editing by Owen Flaherty
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    sea.ign.com/nintendo/163692/n...
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    • How One Company Beat N...
    wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.ph...
    • GameCube Softmod - Run...
    www.gc-forever.com/wiki/index...
    nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2...
    www.gc-forever.com/wiki/index...
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    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin...)
    jamchamb.net/2018/07/11/anima...
    kotaku.com/someone-discovered...
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Komentáře • 841

  • @DidYouKnowGamin
    @DidYouKnowGamin  Před 3 lety +1818

    Correction at 1:41 "500 British Pounds" should have been "500 Thousand British Pounds."

  • @bhgameman
    @bhgameman Před 3 lety +644

    "These marks have to be burned onto the disc using a special laser." *cue footage of Link running for his fucking life from a laser*

    • @larshmallows
      @larshmallows Před 3 lety +7

      Wow 😂

    • @BBWahoo
      @BBWahoo Před 3 lety +22

      the guardians burn disc links confirmed

    • @GabePuratekuta
      @GabePuratekuta Před 3 lety

      Link? Or Link's grandma?

    • @mattwo7
      @mattwo7 Před 3 lety

      @@GabePuratekuta Kairi's grandma from Kingdom Hearts, obviously.

    • @mattwo7
      @mattwo7 Před 3 lety +3

      @@BBWahoo Guardian disc burning is ancient secret Sheikah technology.

  • @Lucas-db2jq
    @Lucas-db2jq Před 3 lety +360

    "Gamecube Piracy"
    *plays Tetra's pirate crew theme*
    Well played. Well played.

    • @majamystic256
      @majamystic256 Před 3 lety +3

      I just started playing Wind Waker recently

    • @voliol8070
      @voliol8070 Před 3 lety +5

      "Has to be burned with a very special laser"
      *shows link dodging a light beam*
      edit: and all the Paper Mario TTYD footage shown is from the Pirate's Grotto

    • @plhector
      @plhector Před 3 lety

      @@majamystic256 Hopefully you enjoy it

    • @sonicthehedgehog23145
      @sonicthehedgehog23145 Před 3 lety

      @@voliol8070 wha-why-how?????????????????????????????????????????????????

    • @leftistbeat
      @leftistbeat Před 3 lety +1

      The last track was from the Pirate Dream board in Mario Party 5

  • @RomansDowntime
    @RomansDowntime Před 3 lety +409

    Theres not enough appreciation for the gamecube’s travel handle.

    • @Non-disjunction
      @Non-disjunction Před 3 lety +14

      I never used it

    • @MasterArchfiend
      @MasterArchfiend Před 3 lety +10

      Only bothered with it when trying to pack the thing for a move. Honestly I moved one enough to want to snap the handle off just to make it easier to fit in a box.

    • @gothicspoon
      @gothicspoon Před 3 lety +6

      @@MasterArchfiend I feel ya. They had the perfect design for a console that could easily be packed in a box, but decided to add that one detail that messed it all up.
      It's not really a problem, but such an annoying little design choice lol

    • @adamspeiser6449
      @adamspeiser6449 Před 3 lety +5

      That handle was amazing. The true on the go home console. Too bad you could not play it on the go, but the handle made picking it up more convenient.

    • @MasterArchfiend
      @MasterArchfiend Před 3 lety +8

      @@gothicspoon If the handle was just easy to remove or collapsible like a metal lunchbox, then my only complaint would be not getting to enjoy it enough.

  • @Lymington214
    @Lymington214 Před 3 lety +135

    I like how all the music tracks chosen for this video are pirate themed.

  • @michaelfritz5816
    @michaelfritz5816 Před 3 lety +381

    Giant community "garage" sale. That is what we call a flea market

  • @SoshiTheYoshi
    @SoshiTheYoshi Před 3 lety +209

    Honestly, I just want Nintendo to release the Mario Kart arcade games in a collection. Especially since the only official way of playing them is by getting a giant arcade machine

    • @megamix5403
      @megamix5403 Před 3 lety +4

      Probably not happening for the same reason SEGA not wanting Mario in their Sonic All Stars racing.

    • @gatorssbm
      @gatorssbm Před 3 lety +6

      Well Ive heard theres a way with a homebrewed Wii via Nintendont, I havent done it myself but its the most accessible way to do so

    • @user-hk5fo1nm9h
      @user-hk5fo1nm9h Před 3 lety

      Is there a non official way?

    • @SoshiTheYoshi
      @SoshiTheYoshi Před 3 lety +1

      @@gatorssbm I’ve done it, and it’s how I’m able to play the first two arcade games on my Wii

    • @DespyCL
      @DespyCL Před 3 lety

      bruh arent you from 64ios streams

  • @KerrangR
    @KerrangR Před 3 lety +88

    There is another fork of Dolphin called "PrimeHack" made to let you play the Metroid Prime Trilogy with mouse and keyboard like your average FPS (your camera moves while the reticle and aimpoint stays at the middle of the screen). Also other features like instant Visor/Beam swapping and obviously being able to play at higher resolutions if your computer can handle them.

    • @420malbania4
      @420malbania4 Před 3 lety +8

      Yup, and it's the best thing ever. You can also adjust the FOV too.
      Feels like a real PC port of my favorite games. Only thing I can't do is play them at 144 fps. Yet.

    • @user-hk5fo1nm9h
      @user-hk5fo1nm9h Před 3 lety +7

      Damn. Modders are awesome. DolphinVR let’s you play it like Half Life Alyx.

    • @matteste
      @matteste Před 3 lety +4

      Damn, thanks for the info. The prime games were always a little clunky to work with. This should really help.

    • @findantu
      @findantu Před 3 lety

      you sir have made me a happy panda.

    • @anueutsuho7425
      @anueutsuho7425 Před 3 lety

      I still can't find a decent iso for it that doesn't softlock Dolphin when I try to run it.

  • @WowSuchGaming
    @WowSuchGaming Před 3 lety +305

    1:16 so basically every GameCube game today?

    • @sonicshoes9299
      @sonicshoes9299 Před 3 lety +13

      My man knows the definition of overrated

    • @BruceLeon83
      @BruceLeon83 Před 3 lety +7

      No kidding. Ridiculous prices now. 😑

    • @Yohan99999
      @Yohan99999 Před 2 lety

      The gide ment lower than the msrp rather then 2 to 3x higher but yeah

    • @ookipuki
      @ookipuki Před 2 lety

      LOL!

    • @ookipuki
      @ookipuki Před 2 lety

      I sold like over 40 games system, memory cards, 2-3 controllers to those scanners at blockbuster when I was a kid for $80. I had all the incredibly expensive games too, at least 5 of them 😭 im so maaadddd! Just so I could get the NINTENDO DS with NO game! 🤣 I had to sell the old to get the new. :(

  • @otaking3582
    @otaking3582 Před 3 lety +186

    *Everyone else:* "I'm pretty sure 2005 £500 isn't worth 2021 $1,000,000"
    *Me:* "Isn't a garage sale involving lots of sellers just called a flea market?"

    • @jennybean9065
      @jennybean9065 Před 3 lety +4

      A flea market is something else in the UK

    • @otaking3582
      @otaking3582 Před 3 lety +8

      @@jennybean9065 You mean it's a place where people buy fleas?

    • @dalebrook27
      @dalebrook27 Před 3 lety +17

      @@otaking3582 No. Its named a carboot sale here. Stop applying American terminology to everything.

    • @Budisgud69
      @Budisgud69 Před 3 lety +3

      Haha I was thinking when he said that? 😂 no way is that correct maybe he meant £500,000

    • @otaking3582
      @otaking3582 Před 3 lety +13

      @@dalebrook27 If you're trying to explain to Americans what a carboot sale is, a flea market is the closest equivalent (certainly closer than saying "garage sale with multiple sellers")

  • @gabe2254
    @gabe2254 Před 3 lety +32

    2:43
    They have to be written with a laser
    Shows Link running away from a laser

  • @NormalBoots
    @NormalBoots Před 3 lety +403

    So if I hack my GameCube do I also get to look like how Mario does in the thumbnail?

    • @skunksecond
      @skunksecond Před 3 lety +13

      Yes.

    • @larshmallows
      @larshmallows Před 3 lety +6

      Nah you need to play Mario Kart Tour for that :)

    • @SebastianTheGreat
      @SebastianTheGreat Před 3 lety +6

      Get all the blue coins in a VERY specific order

    • @tablesaltarchives712
      @tablesaltarchives712 Před 3 lety +3

      oh look it's my favorite channel as shown in the end card, did you know food
      love you guys

    • @gyroge9
      @gyroge9 Před 3 lety +3

      you actually can, you can install practice codes for sunshine that include mario with sunglasses everywhere without dark screen

  • @nastybedazzler
    @nastybedazzler Před 3 lety +36

    Very good timing on this video. I recently dusted off my old Gamecube and have begun buying parts to mod it and install an SD card that can run games directly from the console.
    I've had to purchase everything again from controllers, power cable, to the tv hook ups but I'm excited to finally play some old Gamecube games again as it might be my favorite console ever.

    • @edromes30
      @edromes30 Před 3 lety +1

      Get a sd2sp and a gc loader and your set.

    • @wolfiemuse
      @wolfiemuse Před 9 měsíci

      Hey, how easy was it to mod the GC? In particular I’m dying to play PSO 1&2 which was shown in the video

    • @nastybedazzler
      @nastybedazzler Před 9 měsíci

      @@wolfiemuse Man it was years ago at this point and my memory is a little hazy, but if I recall correctly it's as simple as taking out a few screws and plugging in a GC Loader, then plugging in a board into the bottom port with the games on it. I don't think there was any soldering required for this one.
      Maybe someone else could clarify some points on this but if I remember correctly it's one of the easier mods to do. Hopefully that was somewhat helpful lol. Good luck!

    • @wolfiemuse
      @wolfiemuse Před 9 měsíci

      @@nastybedazzler I appreciate it! I need to learn how to solder anyway so if it needs it, whatever. Lol.

  • @DaleB1004
    @DaleB1004 Před 3 lety +5

    Thank you so much for covering my article! You guys are one of the big reasons I became a gaming journalist, so thank you thank you thank you! Long live Did You Know Gaming!!!!!!

  • @pepsiforbread1416
    @pepsiforbread1416 Před 3 lety +20

    As a person living in South East Asia, I can confirm that piracy is rampant here

    • @dabigdee3401
      @dabigdee3401 Před 3 lety +6

      Rylando Restacruz I was wondering. So he answered my curiousness

    • @ankaplanka
      @ankaplanka Před 3 lety +6

      @Rylando Restacruz If people were only allowed to share their story if someone asked, then we would barely have any information out here. You can't ask anything about something you have never heard of in the first place. (unless you tell someone what you do know and then ask them to tell you something you aren't aware of already)

    • @kizen6664
      @kizen6664 Před 3 lety +1

      @@ankaplanka lmaooo 😂 seriously tho

  • @iLife64
    @iLife64 Před 3 lety +42

    I’m surprised you didn’t choose MVG to do the voiceover

  • @BraKahan
    @BraKahan Před 3 lety +8

    Playing Phantasy Star Online on my Gamecube back in 2004 was such a huge part of my childhood, first console live game before Halo 2 a year or 2 later. PSO was LEGENDARY. My friends and I still play it on my Gamecube decades later. The graphics and gameplay didn't age well, but the nostalgia is unbeatable

    • @wolfiemuse
      @wolfiemuse Před 9 měsíci

      The game is incredible and I want to go back and play it. Have wanted to for a number of years.

  • @bigotis9042
    @bigotis9042 Před 3 lety +516

    I like how 99% of the comments are about how 500 pounds equates to 1000000 dollars

    • @fartz666
      @fartz666 Před 3 lety +30

      My wife weighs 500 pounds, where can I trade her for $1000000?

    • @bigotis9042
      @bigotis9042 Před 3 lety +1

      @@fartz666 lmao

    • @markymark443
      @markymark443 Před 3 lety +10

      I thought I was crazy and the only one that noticed that. My guess is they meant 500 *THOUSAND* (or half a million) British pounds. That would make sense with inflation given it was just 16 years ago

    • @bobfat3879
      @bobfat3879 Před 3 lety

      All of their uploads are supposedly disseminating facts, to get such a simple fact wrong raises countless questions.

    • @goofybutserious4807
      @goofybutserious4807 Před 3 lety

      That's 100,000 in comma!

  • @Macca
    @Macca Před 3 lety +459

    YO MY FRIEND EDITED THIS AND I AM SO PROUD OF HIM.

    • @pompshuffle562
      @pompshuffle562 Před 3 lety +19

      Good for you, although you might want to tell him about the goof at 1:48

    • @exodusn2233
      @exodusn2233 Před 3 lety +23

      @@pompshuffle562
      Ah that’s the fault of the script writer I’d say, not the editor

    • @SiglHD
      @SiglHD Před 3 lety +16

      Get ya own accomplishments

    • @McQuiznos
      @McQuiznos Před 3 lety +1

      I’m proud of him too

    • @SHADOWLUGIA10193
      @SHADOWLUGIA10193 Před 3 lety

      Yooo my friend did too!

  • @JAMllostthegame
    @JAMllostthegame Před 3 lety +6

    Just an addendum to the Slippi launcher for Melee, it doesn't add just any online matchmaking, it's rollback netcode matchmaking (which is considered better than delay-based netcode as seen in most other fighters such as Smash Ultimate). And the whole thing is optimized for this that it runs much smoother than most games would otherwise. Also the footage used for Melee isn't exactly the one used for rollback netplay. It actually has its own custom UI changes such as prompts on how to start matching with another player on the character select screen and usernames by the character percent and stock icons in-game.

  • @jasondomican1991
    @jasondomican1991 Před 3 lety +8

    This video is genuinely alot of fun and very informative, thank you everyone who made it!

  • @brandonsimoncini
    @brandonsimoncini Před 3 lety +22

    0:49 The only reason the Wii sold well was also because of it being a Wii Sports machine for many families; the game sales weren’t exactly bad, but could have done better for the caliber of games released

    • @TheMexicanLynx
      @TheMexicanLynx Před 3 lety +13

      That's true mainly in the first world.
      Over here in latinoamerica, the Wii and 360 sold well thanks to ease of piracy. I still remember those Internet Cafes with hacked 360's you could for an hour play on for a fee and had basically every game released up to that point.

    • @ZombieBarioth
      @ZombieBarioth Před 3 lety

      That's not entirely true, the issue with the Wii was that it largely became a Nintendo box. Its the system that kicked off that stigma.

  • @wompstopm123
    @wompstopm123 Před 3 lety +83

    im so glad that dolphin exists so i dont have to do any of this shit

    • @user-hk5fo1nm9h
      @user-hk5fo1nm9h Před 3 lety +16

      Seriously. Don’t let the Nintendo trolls hear you or they’ll riot.

    • @Gadget-Walkmen
      @Gadget-Walkmen Před 3 lety +9

      I don’t emulate consoles like ever but I don’t blame you since a lot of this stuff is hard to get!

    • @JJMomoida
      @JJMomoida Před 3 lety +9

      @@Gadget-Walkmen Right? I haven't used an emulator in years (think the last time I used one was to play Megaman Battle Network 3) but I can absolutely see why people make and use these things. I also believe preserving games is important! Sometimes a developer will re-release, remake, or remaster a game, but obviously this isn't always the case.

    • @sternengesang5264
      @sternengesang5264 Před 3 lety +7

      Sometimes, you just want to play a Fire Emblem game on the Gamecube, but aren't a gardcore collector willing to dish out hundreds of dollars. It's perfectly reasonable to do that, especially when it has not been officially re-released.

    • @ducksareurlords3782
      @ducksareurlords3782 Před 2 lety

      I haven't used unofficial emulation because I don't like it.

  • @nitinanku
    @nitinanku Před 3 lety +303

    500 pounds isn’t even close to 2000 dollars, let alone a million

    • @NotoriousCIB
      @NotoriousCIB Před 3 lety +81

      They probably meant 500,000, but that caught my ear as well.

    • @xJC4Rx
      @xJC4Rx Před 3 lety +24

      ^This
      I thought this was confusing too, but 500k makes sense.

    • @thetoongrump9801
      @thetoongrump9801 Před 3 lety +7

      Yeah that sounded weird to me too. Probably just a script goof up or something

    • @Lordoflemons
      @Lordoflemons Před 3 lety +1

      Was going to make a similar call out that strange value bump

    • @iamzsdawgy
      @iamzsdawgy Před 3 lety +13

      he said over 500 pounds so he's not wrong.

  • @joshuahowell6827
    @joshuahowell6827 Před 3 lety +41

    As much as I would love to buy physical GameCube discs, it's a lot easier to just pirate the games and play them on the GameCube through Swiss. Physical GameCube discs are only going to increase in value as time goes on due to the high demand and low supply.

    • @JorgeGomez-hx5uu
      @JorgeGomez-hx5uu Před 3 lety +8

      Yeah good choice on your part. Especially since Nintendo ain’t re releasing them. Those scumbags. They were a better company in the 90s-early 2000s then dipped.

    • @bradlieone
      @bradlieone Před 3 lety +4

      I started game collecting like 3 or 4 years ago and the gamecube games are among the worse to collect for sure. High ass prices that arent gonna get any lower and Nintendo for some odd reason refuses to rerelease certain games. Look how long it took for Super Mario Sunshine to get a rerelease. Fuck what they say about emulation, I cant spend 100$+ right now to play Paper Mario 1000 year door

    • @JorgeGomez-hx5uu
      @JorgeGomez-hx5uu Před 3 lety +2

      @@bradlieone exactly. I’m perfectly happy emulating it on my laptop. Fuck that

    • @fablecio
      @fablecio Před 3 lety +6

      There's nothing wrong with pirating old Nintendo games when they aren't available to buy from Nintendo

    • @ke692
      @ke692 Před 2 lety

      how do you do that? whats swiss?

  • @RikuoTanaka
    @RikuoTanaka Před 3 lety +5

    I'm from South East Asia, and I can confirm that majority of the people here play pirated games on Nintendo Systems.
    I have seen multiple friends having Nintendo DS using R4 cards, and back when my dad bought the Wii it came with homebrew to play copied games pre-installed. Nowadays I think people just play free games on Android/iOS.

    • @gjergjaurelius9798
      @gjergjaurelius9798 Před 3 lety

      Funny. I'm from south east Europe and we do the same!🤯🤣💯🇲🇪

  • @elesfinter9753
    @elesfinter9753 Před 3 lety +5

    2:42 I see what you did there, sneaky editor

  • @I.rod.2022
    @I.rod.2022 Před 3 lety +36

    Holy crap. Kudos to this moders. They’re so talented.

  • @Level1Sword
    @Level1Sword Před 3 lety +50

    It's lousy that the GameCube had such lackluster widescreen support. The only game I own that supports it correctly is Soul Calibur II, whereas Resident Evil 4 only does anoramic and Twilight Princess could have had it just like the Wii version, but Nintendo chose to leave it out. SMH...

    • @looeegee
      @looeegee Před 3 lety +3

      Gamecube is best played on standard 4:3 Crt TVs, the image looks far better and has much less lag than on modern widescreen TVs. After all when the Gamecube was released those Crt TVs were the norm.

    • @pokemonduck
      @pokemonduck Před 3 lety +2

      @@TheRealBatabii of course not, hence why it wasn't a feature in the GC

    • @Level1Sword
      @Level1Sword Před 3 lety +1

      I guess I'm in the minority, because I've had the component cables since the mid-2000s (which aren't necessary for widescreen) and going back to the GameCube with a modern TV is kinda weird because just about everything on it is in 4:3. Point is, it was doable on the GameCube, but developers for the most part just didn't do it.

    • @koffing2073
      @koffing2073 Před 2 lety

      @@looeegee gamecube is best played with Dolphin

    • @looeegee
      @looeegee Před 2 lety

      @@koffing2073 No it isn't, it has bugs and slow downs from time to time, even though some games might look really good in Hi res and widescreen you're still better off playing gcn with a real GameCube or Wii

  • @goldmemberpb
    @goldmemberpb Před 3 lety +3

    It sucks that emulators and modded scenes just allows you to enhance the games and its experience way more but they are still seen as morally dubious. The fact that gamecube sales were low because they were so difficult to mod initially says it all. Without piracy, so many games would be lost to the sands of time. In 10 years, I imagine Dolphin emulators would be the only way to enjoy any gamecube games. Nintendo seems just hellbent on never re-releasing any GC games.

  • @Arcademan09
    @Arcademan09 Před 3 lety +22

    Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free,
    You are a pirate!

  • @Tobias2
    @Tobias2 Před 3 lety +49

    Will there be a video on wii u hacking?
    Its such an underrated console

    • @Swooplind
      @Swooplind Před 3 lety +6

      Its the best console out there for Emulation lol

    • @carrotmaster8521
      @carrotmaster8521 Před 3 lety

      @@Swooplind unless you want it portable, the 3ds is great for something that sits in your pocket, runs games well up to ps1

    • @pokemonduck
      @pokemonduck Před 3 lety +1

      @@carrotmaster8521 the New 3DS cannot run most PS1 games perfectly and unfortunately most non-3DS games on the system look like ass because of scaling issues. The Vita is the ultimate portable emulation machine, but the Switch will surpass it I'm sure.

  • @JesusRamirez44
    @JesusRamirez44 Před 3 lety +14

    Surprised there was no mention of GCLoader ODE

    • @flaminashes4693
      @flaminashes4693 Před 3 lety +1

      That thing is amazing.

    • @somebonehead
      @somebonehead Před 3 lety

      @@flaminashes4693 Genuine question, why do people prefer the GCLoader over the SD-to-SP?

  • @ganjam0n
    @ganjam0n Před 3 lety +13

    a modded wii is a good alternative to play your gamecube games these days, i wish i had the gpu power for dolphin.

  • @Sameeer_Saker
    @Sameeer_Saker Před 3 lety +2

    I rarely seen people who pirate games just because they felt like it, almost everyone who pirates wouldn't be able to buy any games in official ways. The most common story is: they are introduced to gaming by piracy, and then buy merch or the real games when they can.
    I doubt the games industry would be nearly as big today if there were no illegal copies in humble families or regions with no official releases.

  • @asgth6147
    @asgth6147 Před 3 lety +49

    I have a slight feeling this might get re-uploaded with the whole 500 quid being 1 000 000 dollars.

  • @JJMomoida
    @JJMomoida Před 3 lety +8

    I know jack about how any of the modding is done, but the things that these modders are able to do are crazy interesting nonetheless.

    • @Mageman17
      @Mageman17 Před 3 lety +3

      I also have to applaud the Dolphin dev team. I think out of the three consoles of the era, GameCube emulation is leaps and bounds ahead of the PS2 (the clock speed harmony between it's modules was and maybe still is a nightmare) and the OG Xbox (haven't kept up the the Xbox lately, all I know is one attempt at Xbox emulation is rewriting the game files to be Windows executable files).

  • @RockerGaming
    @RockerGaming Před 3 lety +1

    Yo guys great video and thanks for providing credit for my video clips!! BIG FAN ❤

  • @abrahamavila6406
    @abrahamavila6406 Před 3 lety +3

    Its amazing to me that there is still people hard at work tinkering and modding software as well as hardware to achieve feats that we could only dream of back in the day 😶

  • @oetproductions8101
    @oetproductions8101 Před 3 lety +83

    This one better do well or CZcams is gonna get it.

    • @NicJohnson
      @NicJohnson Před 3 lety +2

      18k in 2 hours seems to be on pace

    • @MyDecade
      @MyDecade Před 3 lety +20

      Only clicked the video so their feelings don’t get hurt again

    • @oetproductions8101
      @oetproductions8101 Před 3 lety

      @@MyDecade actually same hahahahah

    • @NintenDub
      @NintenDub Před 3 lety +1

      By who.you?

    • @Detective_L
      @Detective_L Před 3 lety +3

      Please don’t give them ideas to post another conspiracy video

  • @garsedj
    @garsedj Před 3 lety +4

    Well, it's true that piracy made me buy a gba last month!
    Piracy on the wii was phenomenal, it was so easy to play all the gamecube games i missed

  • @toasturhztoastbunz896
    @toasturhztoastbunz896 Před 3 lety +27

    **talks about Piracy**
    **plays the pirate theme from Wind Waker**
    I see what you did there. 😏

  • @erik3371
    @erik3371 Před 3 lety +2

    It was very fun to mess around with the GCM loaders from Starcube, Eurasia and Paradox (The PSO and Animal Crossing loaders were awesome!) and when the modchips later arrived everyone was like "thats it???" think the first Xeno had like 4 soldering points and then you had to get your hand on mini DVDs! That was fun, and later there came replacement top shells to replace the standard one. Swiss, with emu_kidid at the helm has really flourished long after the Gamecube wasn't in the spotlight.

  • @PersonIV
    @PersonIV Před 3 lety

    I like your guys' videos, as I'm a big Nintendo fan myself, but I wish you guys would do more Sony and MS related content.

  • @EZOnTheEyes
    @EZOnTheEyes Před 3 lety +97

    "500 British pounds, or equal to over One Million USD adjusted for inflation"
    Think the math might be a LIIIIL off guys

  • @snoopii2507
    @snoopii2507 Před 3 lety +133

    “500 British pounds, which adjusted for inflation is one million US dollars”... wut

    • @iamzsdawgy
      @iamzsdawgy Před 3 lety +11

      OVER 500 british pounds smh

    • @liquidscreamisnomore
      @liquidscreamisnomore Před 3 lety +16

      I didn't even notice he said 500 instead of 500,000 until I started looking at comments. The captions said 500,000 and was clearly an error.

  • @BodiesandBricks
    @BodiesandBricks Před 3 lety +16

    How SWISS cheesed the Gamecube...

  • @mutecitymusic
    @mutecitymusic Před 3 lety +1

    Love the pirate themed game tracks in the background haha

  • @thetoongrump9801
    @thetoongrump9801 Před 3 lety +7

    I don’t know what half the words in this episode meant, but I was kept pretty entertained the whole way through

  • @lorenzoricci4551
    @lorenzoricci4551 Před 3 lety +4

    Thank you Fizzy, Slippi is the best thing ever

  • @SuiteLifeofDioBrando
    @SuiteLifeofDioBrando Před 3 lety +44

    I love the dolphin emulator!

  • @StarzyKK
    @StarzyKK Před 3 lety +14

    It's so interesting. The fans mod and tinker with hard/software, making it better than Nintendo ever intended it to be, while Nintendo moves on and never looks back. It's sad though, because Nintendo only seems to look back in cease and desist anger when someone's trying to replay their old games via emulator, or simply listen to the music from their older games on YT.

    • @markfuston2714
      @markfuston2714 Před 3 lety +4

      It's crazy. Like, I have two Switches. One is completely stock, one has CFW. And the CFW Switch can do so much more, like remotely streaming games from my PC or unlocking the console for handheld.

    • @eye1dry138
      @eye1dry138 Před 2 lety +1

      @@markfuston2714 do you use Atmosphere?

  • @emmettturner9452
    @emmettturner9452 Před 2 lety +1

    That very first factoid was just… wrong. I was running GameCube games without the original disc in 2003… 3 years before the Wii. It started with using Phantasy Star Online to load Animal Crossing and other games and chips like TMBINC’s IPL replacement for Linux. It then moved on to the ViperGC with Cobra BIOS (IPL mod) followed by Anaconda DOL (extracted Cobra) installed on a memory card and executed with Samson’s AR Loader (bootstraps from memory card using an Action Replay). From there, we got competing IPL mods like Qoob SX and Pro, then drive chips like XenoGC, then Compact Flash/IDE optical drive emulator like Crazy Nation’s design. Eventually we got loader discs like Datel’s SD Media Launcher which is what we were already doing with Action Replay anyway. Later in the Wii’s life the GameCube got adapted Wii ODEs like WASP followed by today’s options like SP2SP2, GCLoader, and NickDisc + drive mod.
    One way you know that premise was incorrect is because the Wii’s early piracy was largely enabled by WiiKey and Cyclone, which were essentially identical to XenoGC (Atmel chip). Obviously, Xeno GC was available on GC before Wii existed. Piracy was low for the same reason sales were low in regions where piracy doesn’t factor as much: It was low because fewer people were interested in it. It really is that simple. Pirates often make the opposite claim in order to justify or rationalize what they do. Don’t fall for it.
    As for Datel, they actually paid Panasonic for the tech to produce GC discs and used a header from NHL Hitz 2003 so that Nintendo would have to block a real game to block theirs. Nintendo eventually DID block Hitz ‘03 on the Wii after Datel started selling Freeloaders and SD Media Launcher for it.
    SD memory card adapters were not “custom.” Most were just cheap third-party copies of Nintendo’s official SD card adapter that they developed with Panasonic and sold in Japan (mostly for Animal Crossing).
    I was there in the scene.

  • @SlickOnTop
    @SlickOnTop Před 3 lety +3

    This was a really informative video

  • @Maddok3d
    @Maddok3d Před 3 lety +2

    Great informative video! If Nintendo won't adequately preserve their old games for future generations, what choice do we have other than to learn to do it ourselves! :)

  • @Crazy4Daisy
    @Crazy4Daisy Před 3 lety +25

    1:26 how did you get over a million? The most I can get the price up was 1,000$.

  • @animeguy364
    @animeguy364 Před 3 lety +2

    The adapter is pretty expensive now too. I love PSO I'd love to stream it sometime again too!

  • @myboy_
    @myboy_ Před 3 lety

    Great seeing the Fizzi shout-out!

  • @MasterArchfiend
    @MasterArchfiend Před 3 lety +4

    I love watching these videos in part because I've dreamed of making games, but never had the time or tech to do more than fill a few notebooks.

  • @dukesnipes64
    @dukesnipes64 Před 3 lety +1

    This was such a great video. Thank you for introducing me to some of these add-ons and mods.

  • @VitasVarnas
    @VitasVarnas Před 3 lety

    Later issues of Cube magazine included bonus GameCube discs by Datel which featured samples of Action Replay codes and Freeloader for specific games.

  • @ookipuki
    @ookipuki Před 2 lety +2

    I can't stop rewinding the first 10 seconds of this 🤣🤣

  • @he_was_a_skater_dog
    @he_was_a_skater_dog Před 3 lety +11

    Regarding the poor performance of the console in some regions, it could also have to do with the fact that Nintendo doesn't manufacture their games locally as often as other companies. Nintendo consoles are a rarity here in Brazil ever since the N64 generation because all the manufacturing happens overseas, so both consoles and games are insanely expensive compared to Xbox and Playstation products, which have always been manufactured here.

    • @user-hk5fo1nm9h
      @user-hk5fo1nm9h Před 3 lety +2

      TekToy to the rescue

    • @ChromaLuke
      @ChromaLuke Před 3 lety +1

      Up until the Switch, Nintendo consoles have been a rarity or in some cases never even existed in Malaysia. Most people have never even heard of Nintendo, let alone their games or consoles, in most parts of Malaysia until very recently in the past 4 or 5 years. Heck, you'd find more Kinects than a Wii or 3DS in most game stores even now. You can even still find unopened PS2s and Xbox 360s still on sale for cheaper prices.

    • @ricmagus
      @ricmagus Před 3 lety

      @@user-hk5fo1nm9h tec toy (with "C", not "K") only sell (up to this day) Sega related stuff. the only company who represented Nintendo, here in Brazil, was "Gradiente" (back in the 90's), and they never did a good job, to begin with.

    • @user-hk5fo1nm9h
      @user-hk5fo1nm9h Před 3 lety

      @@ricmagus Do they sell Dreamcasts?

  • @Chazwhick
    @Chazwhick Před 3 lety

    I never thought I'd hear about Staffordshire in a Did you know gaming video.

  • @KitoBallard
    @KitoBallard Před 3 lety +1

    Did you know that a Home Brewed Gamecube app called "GCars-CS" or "Gamecube Action Replay Simulator - Controller Simulator" allowed multiplayer games such as Smash Bros Melee to be played Online? Using Pso's back door, loading GCARS-CS with the "Action Replay" codes for the game you're playing online (Smash, Soul Calibur 2, a few others) with 1 person being the host while the other connects via a non-connected second controller.

  • @Creee
    @Creee Před 3 lety +15

    Did you just say £500 would be $1,000,000 today? Uhh....

  • @RoChocovid
    @RoChocovid Před 3 lety

    With how ridiculous Gamecube prices are nowadays with both hardware and software a video like this comes at exactly the right time.

  • @xvazquez2
    @xvazquez2 Před 2 lety

    I really like those retro stories!

  • @Superboologan1
    @Superboologan1 Před 3 lety +12

    Ngl, I had to rewind the 500 British pounds bit to make sure I'd heard it right

  • @WaldyTV
    @WaldyTV Před 3 lety +2

    Damn, the pound used to be strong 1:40

  • @reniclas2483
    @reniclas2483 Před 3 lety +3

    I'm watching this while I'm installing a Xeno GC modchip on my childhood gamecube lol

  • @mollymay4846
    @mollymay4846 Před 3 lety

    As someone from Staffordshire, I've never heard any from abroad pronounce it correctly. I'm quite impressed! 😄😄

  • @FireHawkX
    @FireHawkX Před 3 lety +5

    Crazy that when you look at the data, piracy have actually HELPED consoles... the most pirated consoles have pretty much always been the most popular... :)

  • @TheGameCreator13
    @TheGameCreator13 Před 3 lety

    It's always interesting what kind of clever solutions companies try to come up with to combat piracy. It will eventually fall but that doesn't make it less fun or interesting to hear what they tried and how effective it was. But more so for older consoles like the PS2(?) using a wavy disc pattern + Disc Reader to make the disc's hard to replicate. Modern consoles however I find a little less interesting since its mostly just obnoxiously tough coding (There are still some interesting examples though)

  • @sugaryhull9688
    @sugaryhull9688 Před 3 lety +4

    We need ModernVintageGamer to narrate these topics

  • @frankmoolah
    @frankmoolah Před 3 lety

    Wished this video had released over a yr ago that way it would've saved me time researching how to mod/hack my GC I bought at a pawn shop the yr prior.

  • @marscaleb
    @marscaleb Před 3 lety

    3:50 Ooh, is that a limited edition model I hadn't seen before?
    ...Wait, it has the Metroid Prime 4 logo on it...
    I see, it is a version from THE FUTURE!!!

  • @java7583
    @java7583 Před 3 lety +1

    I remember the first time I tried to use a gamecube ISO, my wii disc drive had just broken and I figured it'd be like booting up a ROM. Eventually added homebrew and just made it run discless lol.

  • @clippygoat
    @clippygoat Před 3 lety

    As a southeast Asian, I never saw anyone own a GameCube rather than my classmate. I remember he brought his GameCube to play Melee and I became the prince of melee in my school. He even thanked me for unlocking Roy and Marth since he hadn't touched melee for 15 years.

  • @ducktail4068
    @ducktail4068 Před 3 lety +18

    I love piracy and hacking for old games that are no longer sold.

    • @wooooooooods
      @wooooooooods Před 3 lety +3

      nO YoUrE a ThIeF ThAtS illEGaL
      -Nintendo

    • @FlipNdip579
      @FlipNdip579 Před 3 lety +2

      @@wooooooooods I know you're being sarcastic but you're not wrong. It is stealing. You hurt companies like Gamestop and anybody that wants to sell their old games. There's no real justification for this. (Maybe if the games are out of market?)

    • @MHinds15
      @MHinds15 Před 3 lety +9

      @@FlipNdip579 Majority of olds games are sold on places like eBay, where the only person you’re hurting is big Gazza who is trying to sell a 30 year old game for 100 quid. Piracy is fine when it comes to overpriced decade old games, or games that are in short supply.

    • @wooooooooods
      @wooooooooods Před 3 lety +4

      @@FlipNdip579 If the company that made the game is currently making $0 off of it, then it becomes OK. As long as they make money off the game, piracy is out the window.
      Disclaimer: opiniom

    • @FlipNdip579
      @FlipNdip579 Před 3 lety

      @@MHinds15 Well, an issue that arises with that are ports. 3d all stars and persona 4 those both are a decade old and have had ports to newer consoles because there was high demand for them.

  • @jordanfabianlevano2781

    I just had a game for my gamecube, the ICE age 2 game, then i got a gc loader for my gamecube, so now a have all the games that i always wanted to play back then when i was a kid.

  • @bobcharlotte8724
    @bobcharlotte8724 Před 3 lety +1

    Is paper mario playing natively on a GC in this video? Looks absolutely stunning.

  • @Mud-Brain
    @Mud-Brain Před 2 lety

    seeing that decked out PSO character just made me wanna boot my gamecube back up and grind for the Sealed J-Sword, accomplish what childhood me never could

  • @65Reidlos
    @65Reidlos Před 3 lety +6

    Piracy has never hindered the sales of anything enough to warrent the fear of piracy as a company

  • @historiadelaciencia6860

    I love how the theme is about the pirates in Wind Waker.

  • @Fomortiis100
    @Fomortiis100 Před 3 lety +34

    "despite piracy being something that largely harms a game console's sales"
    lmao yeah the DS was totally destroyed by all that piracy, right?

    • @kamatariedgar3603
      @kamatariedgar3603 Před 3 lety +4

      And Ps2, and Wii, and OG Xbox, and...

    • @krispy1968
      @krispy1968 Před 3 lety +7

      You watched the video right?

    • @briantaylorcloe7725
      @briantaylorcloe7725 Před 3 lety +2

      @@krispy1968 this @JabroniToni seems to have stopped the video in mid-sentence right at that moment!

  • @JacksMelancholy
    @JacksMelancholy Před 3 lety +1

    Hold up. £500 in 2005 is over a million American dollars today?
    ...Not sure I buy that, but hey, I’m too lazy to check for myself.
    Anywho, thanks for always making swell videos! Love you guys.

    • @JacksMelancholy
      @JacksMelancholy Před 3 lety

      Ah, and I’ve just noticed your correction.
      Thank you kindly!

  • @prikrylproductions6495

    This video has got me genuinely interested in console modding

  • @Matt_Villines
    @Matt_Villines Před 3 lety

    “Harms a consoles sales” while cutting to ship sails. Either very clever or very good timing.

  • @DavidDrury90
    @DavidDrury90 Před 3 lety +7

    500 £ is worth over a million us? Think you might have had a slip there :)

    • @ARMTOAST
      @ARMTOAST Před 3 lety

      uhh they said OVER 500 pounds...i don’t see the problem here ; )

  • @palamation3080
    @palamation3080 Před 3 lety

    Did I just see Boktai and Boktai 2 in an actual video? It’s sad how much joy that brings me

  • @lol-fq9kc
    @lol-fq9kc Před 3 lety

    as someone who lives in SEA piracy is very rampant to where you could literally just go to a mall where 1 store sells the legitimate copy of game and few stores down you'll see the pirated version with some even outright displaying in front of the store and some of these stores that sell legitimate copies of games offer to hack your system and for a set price of course, and will even offer to put games that are probably pirated or ripped from their own shelves or maybe just downloaded off the internet on the hacked console for set price and nothing is really been done about it, at least in the country where i live. its hilarious to see people pay for pirated games that some pirated retailer just downloaded of the internet and burned it to a cd

  • @DarkLordPikachu
    @DarkLordPikachu Před 3 lety +11

    500GBP in the 2000s = over 1 million in USD today? What? Am i misunderstanding or did they misspeak

    • @Sunny659
      @Sunny659 Před 3 lety +1

      Yeah that ain't right lmao

    • @chompythebeast
      @chompythebeast Před 3 lety +2

      Think they meant 500,000, which would come out to about one million USD after inflation and conversion

    • @Taniks_at_the_Disco
      @Taniks_at_the_Disco Před 3 lety

      Just did the calculations. 500 GBP in 2005 is about $960 us dollars in 2021

  • @makogp747
    @makogp747 Před 3 lety +1

    YO DOLPHIN TRIFORCE??? Damn I've wanted to get back to those old arcade games again, i should try it out

  • @c-domination
    @c-domination Před 3 lety +8

    Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me
    *dolphin noises*

  • @funstuffonthenet5573
    @funstuffonthenet5573 Před 3 lety

    Pso loader cant be overstated. One of the more interesting exploits I have ever seen.

  • @noside.foxhound
    @noside.foxhound Před 3 lety

    This is fantastic! I love it!

  • @SkydreamPony
    @SkydreamPony Před 3 lety +26

    £500 adjusted for inflation worth a million dollars today? I think your maths might be a little off

    • @DonutTPOTer
      @DonutTPOTer Před 3 lety +1

      math* doesn't matter if you're British, American, Australian or otherwise, maths is largely incorrect in this situation

    • @thetroybone
      @thetroybone Před 3 lety +2

      @@DonutTPOTer No its how we refer to a shortened version of the plural word "Mathematics", like how you might say "stats" instead of "statistics"

  • @uglinus
    @uglinus Před 3 lety +24

    Wow, I didn't know that 500 british pounds from 2005 is worth over 1 million USD in 2021!

    • @t3hOutlaw
      @t3hOutlaw Před 3 lety +5

      They worded that part so poorly. Pretty sure it was a mistake.

    • @abcdefg98765
      @abcdefg98765 Před 3 lety +1

      Yeah, Biden ruined our economy.

    • @xion38
      @xion38 Před 3 lety

      @@t3hOutlaw or a joke

    • @pompshuffle562
      @pompshuffle562 Před 3 lety +2

      @@xion38 That did not seem like a joke

    • @otaking3582
      @otaking3582 Před 3 lety

      Reminds me of the JPY to USD jokes in Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged

  • @CoachLazy
    @CoachLazy Před 3 lety

    did anyone else get super uneasy at the picture of all those people in close proximity at 1:36 lmao