Proof of Concept - GC Iso Loader on Wii (Starfox Assault)

[gtmtnbiker]

Crediar just posted some Q&A on how he was able to accomplish gamecube iso loading on the Wii. See the complete post here at this url: http://rvlution.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=396

Hello guys and welcome to the DIOS MIOS Q&A, but first a small disclamer;
It is not allowed to rehost, edit, or modifiy this post in any way, it was originally posted on http://RVLution.net.
If you are reading this elsewhere it might be modified or outdated!

And now I want to explain how DIOS MIOS roughly works.

First of all let’s look at MIOS and what it does.
MIOS is made up of two parts a heavily modified IOS and a GAMECUBE IPL.
The IOS part just does minimal hardware setup and creates a power button handler.
Then it tells the GAMECUBE IPL to start and finally ends in an endless loop.

The GAMECUBE IPL applies patches to certain games and then loads them.
And that’s is all MIOS does.
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[gtmtnbiker]

Crediar posted his release plans for the GC loader http://rvlution.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=404

July private-alpha (private as in me)
Aug closed-beta (previous donaters)
Sep open-beta (you!)

[fastbilly1]

Awesome, I cant wait.

[CRTGAMER]

What I want is for somebody to make a Hard Drive hack for the GC. I want to just fit a tiny 2.5" Hard Drive in my GC, get the battery add-on that plugs into an expansion port, a Gamecube travel screen, than make a strap so I could carry it in around, hands-free, in front of me. Should that happen, I would never be able to get anything done, ever.

I really hope a Gamecube HDD loader is released. It would be nice to play multi disc games without having to pop them out of the drive. It would also be nice to be able to select games from a menu instead of thumbing through a stack of GC game boxes instead.

THIS. A step up from the SD Boot arrangement.
HDAdvance/HDLoader best thing that ever happened to the PS2
Gamecube hard drive maybe through serial port as in PS2 fat? PS2 slim USB port too slow.

EDIT
This is interesting.

http://cube.ign.com/articles/100/100463p1.html


http://www.thegamingrevolution.com/foru ... php?t=3044


http://forums.nintendo-scene.com/index.php?topic=1322.0

[gtmtnbiker]

Check this thread out of in emu_kidid's gc forums:

http://www.gc-forever.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=159&f=15&sid=d6cc5ef5f28ffab356ad01d6f6519962

Homebrew HDD adapter for Gamecube
A fellow Gamecube enthusiast has created a DIY HDD (IDE only) adapter for the EXI bus on the Nintendo Gamecube!

It's a simple device, but something the GC could definitely use .. I know I'd love to see some GC-Linux support for this thing
Best part of all is that once he gets around to it, instructions on how everyone can build one from a few parts easily found (even certain old PS2 modchips can be modified to do the job - it's that easy) will be released.

Click here to see pictures!

It's been tested so far with a unofficial modified SD-Boot 0.3, and the speed is quite good in games. I haven't built one nor know how to yet, but I'd say it probably reads at about 1mb/s from the HDD, which is not bad considering the code isn't very optimized. Regardless, I'll add in support for the adapter in the next version of SD-Boot (working title) which is coming up nicely.

Note, the HDD adapter is not a DVD replacement, and as such, cannot be used to play backups. The author has simply modified an older version of SD-Boot to add in support, so the compatibility with backups would only be as good as the software (0.3 wasn't too great).