Discovering an unreleased GameCube Internet Browser
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- čas přidán 2. 10. 2021
- I tried to obtain a rare japanese GameCube demo disc and show it to you all.
But I ended up buying the wrong one. And actually discovering something I definitely wasn't expecting to find on a demo disc.
Many thanks to ConnorRentz for the documentation about these discs.
www.deviantart.com/connorrent...
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similar story: one time i put a bagel in my game cube and the same sorta thing happened haha crazy world right
try using a pretzel next time
@@f4micom what is a bretzel???
hi veronica
@@unlikelyvee Bretzel means Bretzel. Simple as.
(I know she meant pretzel)
Yeah it was an autocorrect error.
I will fire my autocorrect now for doing such an unforgivable mistake.
if anyone's wondering what it means at 0:24, she says
"私は日本語があまり話せないので、
コンピューターが翻訳してくれました。"
which means "I don't speak much Japanese, my PC translated it"
and dw about your accent f4mi, it's fine ;)
I know this is gonna sound kinda racist, but, she kinda sounded Japanese with her accent. Now that I think about she sounds like my old therapist that was from Mexico… that still wouldn’t explain the PAL GameCube though..
@@OversteerAllDay I'm pretty sure she's Italian
Honestly from a technical standpoint a web browser is what makes the most sense for this kind of program, not only from a cost/time prospective but also from a features prospective. Also to recover the full browser out of it i think some complex reverse engieneering needs to be put into this, it can be as easy modifiy a few bytes here and there to enable unused code pieces. But i think that it's very likely that the code to run all the browser features was left entirely out of the disk, so in that case either a new browser must be created from scratch or an existing some (able to run on gc level hw) must be ported
In an ideal world, I am watching this video from my GameCube
Links would be a good candidate for this. I think it was ported to the Vita.
I actually am assuming this is the same browser used in the gamecube version of Fantasy Star Online, right? It's got to be!
gotta look into this, sounds like a promising lead
PSO actually uses a different browser, NetFront. So the GameCube had two different web browsers.
@@buttered_toast This is most niche browser war
@@SeanCMonahan agreed
Yeaahh... PSO, the first way to hack a Gamecube 😁
Perfect when you could use you PC as a server 4 GC games 😛
this is a very entertaining and well-paced video for such a small channel.
Thank you! I'm trying to do my best ^^
@@f4micom You're doing well! :)
PSO's web browser is interesting, as it's a completely different kind of browser. If you look in the files there's an INI file that has a few settings, with options for using a real keyboard, setting the background color, the homepage, and even enabling Javascript and plugins! I haven't personally tried tweaking it though, since the game encrypts what webpages you can go on in the memory card it seems. The browser was only supposed to be used for purchasing a Hunter's License, AKA the sub.
The PSO browser simply works with keyboards. I used mine while setting up IP/DNS settings etc. all the time.
Super cool about JS though! Had no idea that was theoretically possible👍🏻
I want the you are an idiot virus to run natively on pso/gcn
Okay but this is a pretty cool thing to find out by absolute accident if you haven't bought the wrong disc you might have never found this out
Just binged all your content, loving this weird niche deep dive info!
I never knew this. Learning so much stuff from leaks and randomly from this. I truly wonder how different things would be if stuff like this actually came out and wasn't shelved to the dark corners of the interwebs
The GameCube is too old for any new Information at this point and forward to be considered a “leak”
3:12 That image of Hamtaro is the Japanese cover of Hamtaro Ham-Ham Heartbreak, which was released on the GBA around the same time (2002-2003).
Fun fact: one of the producers of Hamtaro Ham-Ham Heartbreak is Shigeru Miyamoto, though the game was not developed by Nintendo.
Fami. Hopefully you recovered from your accident and it doesn't sound like you haven't missed a beat. This is a neat find the presentation is kewwwwwl.
yeah that was two months ago and i didn't break any bones or anything, did some x-rays and CT scans and everything seems to be in order ^^
There's an "encyclopedia" program for the GameBoy Advance called Pocket Professor Kwik Notes Vol. 1 that does something similar to this. It uses a html-like system to encode all its pages and link them together. It also occasionally uses it to embed images of a custom format.
Just came across your channel... Absolutely love how your videos have sporadic meming, but it's not over the top, and it's still very informational!! Great work!
Hello fellow Nintendo Gamecube Soft e-Catalog 2003 Spring disk owner!! I just saw your video through a Reddit post and was like "I OWN THAT DISK!!" I'm so glad you're mentioning ConnorRentz's article on it, I also referred to their article when I dumped the disk over on the Internet Archive - if anyone else wants to check out the demo disk contents as well. Uh I dunno if I should link it because spam filter but it's there I promise.
Just one correction: this disk came with RUNE 2 (known as Lost Kingdoms 2 overseas), Pokemon Box, AND Family Stadium 2003. The info can be found going through the Wayback Machine on Nintendo's Japanese website. Also funny story I also didn't mean to get this disk (I wanted a CIB copy of RUNE 2's demo OTL) but, it was so neat to learn about the browser within so it was all worth it.
I just stumbled on this video, which led to me marathoning a ton of your other videos... These are great! I'm shocked you don't have more subscribers.
Great video! Always love dives into obscure video game history stuff.
Awesome video!
I'm so glad your channel popped up in my yt recommendations.
underrated channel, currently binging a bunch of your vids :D
I'm so glad I hit the bell button. I binged your whole channel when I found it two weeks ago and been excited for more
Love your way of making content. So nerdy, so fun. I never subscribe to anyone but you deserve it.
Wow I stumbled upon this and now I'm gonna watch all your videos, as they are exatcly my niche. Keep doing the good Work!
Had no idea about this at all! Super neat video!
And you've gained another sub!
Cool content, in regards to actually making the browser, it would probably require rebuilding the source from a rip like this via reverse engineering, then expanding.
Major theme there would be that whoever takes on the task would need at least the Gamecube's development software, though I presume it could be done with some of the homebrew tools too.
Always look forward to your videos! Keep it up.
Love your videos! I love learning about niche Nintendo stuff!
i like your sense of humor and editing 👍
subscribed.
I just discovered your channel and I loved it! The subject is very interesting and the jokes are very funny! 1+ subscriber!
amazing video outro and youve gained a sub ! great vid
Hamtaro GameCube confirmed you love to see it
As a frequent used of the Nintendo DSi Browser, I give this video my seal of approval
I admire your editing so much fami great video.
2:07 Ahahaha I hadn't heard about the Wii Opera browser error messages. Between this and the Wii Startup Disc, i am SO here for stories that the Wii was just a gamecube with a wifi adapter stapled to the bottom and duct-taped with a piece of lined notebook paper with "Wii" written on it in sharpie.
I just discovered this gem, thank you very much for your content.
Another neat video as always bro!
Your videos are a joy to watch. Love the humour. You Rock.
amazing video. Funny, well written, and entertaining. I'm just mad it took this long for CZcams to recommend it.
I love f4mi's videos and I also love how she keeps swearing even though she knows she'll have to quack all her swears. don't quacking change, f4mi
What a neat find! It's weird how nobody knows about this :o
Also I look forward to the video on the GBA emulator 😌
you got me subscribe with this video !
also, i felt so nostalgic watching it !
I feel blessed to have found your channel
Love these vids been binging them lately
Understandable, have a nice day.
(2:52) I find it interesting that you didn't resize your Safari window to mimic the viewport of the hidden Web browser you were talking about, as responsive Web design didn't exist in the 2000s.
Great accent , great information , I love the Comedy. Keep it up !
Personal story about 2:17, I had a Wii modchipped as a kid since I was living in Malaysia at the time and wanted to play a game I had gotten visiting Australia. The system settings had broken exactly like that. Didn't scare me at all, just infuriated me when I had found it cos I knew I would not be getting that console online
yay a unqiue in depth retro gaming channel I can binge on
If you looked at the back of the packaging for one of these things, it has a disclaimer that says something along the lines of “This Broadband adapter alone won’t connect you to the internet!” Like if they were planning on releasing a web browser that could, since it also advertised needing a online-ready game beforehand.
Hahah I loved this video! Informative and funny too
Awesome video! :)
The Wii menu uses Opera?
You Just blew my mind
Reminds me of how back in windows 95-XP the file explorer was integrated with internet explorer
The Wii interface run in a browser?! What a wild concept lol
I was impressed too! By the way, you would be amazed by the fact that many modern games run UI on HTML files using web-browser based technologies such as Coherent Gameface.
@@gioel4 it would be funny to see modders/hackers doing crazy shit like browsing the web though the UI of some game lol
This channel is so underrated
new favorite content creator
I love how in the pinned comment, she said Bretzel at first, and people thought it was wrong, but here in germany where the pretzel is invented it actually is spelled that way lmao
A little add on! Sega actually made a very basic one for pso ep 1 and 2. It’s hidden in network setting and advertisement but it’s there. It just wasn’t made by Nintendo! It’s similar to how the ps5 has one, u just can’t access it unless under certain conditions or needs in a piece of software. Like needing it to sign into services like Spotify to pay.
Many like to make fun of Nintendo and online functions.
But if you look at things since the NES or rather the Famicom, you will notice that the addons for internet use were already released back then.
The only problem is that the stuff, which was actually quite good at the time, never made it outside of Japan
man theses videos are too good for only 2.24k subs. seriously
Gurl I just found out your channel and I love it. I live in Japan and I'm also into collecting some niche stuff, if you ever need something from here hit me up, be glad to help you.
the "Need help" fucking got me lmao
Great video, did never know you could even hook game cube to broadband internet
You think you could share this demo disc? I realy like this early 2000s design and sadly its hard to find on live internet, it seams it got preserved offline on this discs and other magazine discs
BTW: your english accent is interesting its perfecly understandable and it allows you to get a point acros, but am not sure where would I put you, at first I thought you are from japan since you could pronounce all this letters so well but then I thought maybe you are from Switzerland (you showed Mediasat watermark on your 5000 game video) but not sure which part (maybe italian because of mediasat)
Ok got caried away sorry but would love that dump of q demo disc if possible :)
She's back!
Wohoo I got them!! Thanks so much
electron wasn't the first web browser to be implemented into every app, opera was first.
New subscriber here. Love the accent.
If I had to guess regardless of whether they were planning on a GameCube browser they made one for developers and or beta testers of the demo discs.
Never heard of that, that’s interesting!
3:22 I'm gonna subscribe 3 more times to you (dunno how yet, imma figure it out) just because of the F-91W - and the joke lol
proof ive been subbed since 33.3k (this is for the future
Id love to see a video about your process of buying from japan, I want to buy a gameboy player for my gamecube but I dunno where or how to buy from Japan.
Greetings from South America.
Giuro ero un botto sorpreso già dalla copertina del video dato che sapevo già che quello fosse il browser del Dreamcast e wow sta roba è assurda
that moment when gamecube has a more easily accessible web browser than the switch does -_-
This is a good channel
Criminally underrated.
0:27 My 556 Day Duolingo Streak was actually useful for something
Nintendo hiring the same guys who did it first for Sega...this happens a lot more than I realize.
5:49 the stock footage has a MacBook Pro that uses the ISO Russian keyboard layout
Can you post the contents of the disc somewhere? If there were html files then web devs (like myself) should be able to edit the files and just see what happens
we failed the Dreamcast, not the other way around.
is your DAMN GameCube CONNECTED to the INTERNET yet?
4:03 - SegaNet having a quoted endorsement from Fred Durst, lead -whiner- singer of Limp Bizkit, is about as 1999 as you can get. lol
I'm not surprised that the demo discs are HTML-based. Many game demo discs for PC also used HTML front-end. Around that time, at least in the US, there was a demand for HTML programming as more and more companies were finally pushing to have an online presence. If you weren't fluent in HTML, you couldn't even get a job repairing home computers because they wanted someone who could also design/maintain a website. Also, in the late-90s, HTML was often called "the programming language of the future." 🤣 HTML was easy enough to write, since you could use literally any text editor on any platform, and your code was saved as a text file, for easy transport via floppy discs, tape backup, or dialup internet.
stumbled upon your channel and it's so cool
take a subscribe :D
> I'm a broke student
> Uses a Mac
Hah. Htop and cmatrix are favourites of mine for "Hackerman terminal output" as well.
This video's Weed Mario count: 1
Total count so far: 8
will there be a part two to this? :)
Okay I really want to see someone to surf the internet on the GC
when anyone says "but first, we need to" i instantyl get pancake2012 flashbacks
is that normal
I recently discovered that the garrys mod main menu is also a web browser
I wonder if it’s possible to replace the HTMLs with different ones.
gaming cube
Did you try this with the GameCube keyboard assuming you have one?
I unfortunately do not own one, but I might try to do that using Dolphin emulator (assuming it can emulate the ASCII keyboard)
This Blew my mind! I InstaSubbed you.
Those discs come with JPN Pokemon box
I want to, unironically, know what that song is from at 4:00 where she cuts to the dreamcast. Sounds familiar.
now I hope someone can rewrite this gamecube browser
And just when I thought I knew every small tech thing about the PS2 a learn about a internet disc. Very informative and entertaining.
Hey it's possible, we live in an era where you can order pizza on a Wii in the year of our Lord 2023
imagine flash games on gamecube browser
4:41 blue dreamcast controller in a red dreamcast..
pretty cool but I doubt it would work with most websites if hacked to access the internet
prob doesn't have support for tls2 so nearly all pages would just not load
tls2 has crippled older devices internet capabilities
Woo