Gamecube Mod

[Mozgus]

Foundmy.com shipped to the USA last time I used them. Not sure what their rating is, but I've never had a problem dealing with them.

You got lucky

http://www.resellerratings.com/store/Foundmy

[Mozgus]

mod-chip.com is under new ownership now. No idea if they can be trusted, but they suddenly have a lot of chips in stock the the old owner did not, including all the main Gamecube ones. So I ordered a XenoGC. Supposed to be a pretty easy install, no wires. We'll see how this goes. All I want to do is burn a few hard to find games onto mini-DVD-Rs and have them work.

[selfdestroyer]

I have the Viper Extreme in my Black GC.. the only thing I had to do was a Laser Pot adjustment with a multimeter to read burns better. I use Sony HandyCam DVD-R and I have burned about 30 games with no issues. Just wanted to share my experience in case anyone cares.

[gtmtnbiker]

mod-chip.com is under new ownership now. No idea if they can be trusted, but they suddenly have a lot of chips in stock the the old owner did not, including all the main Gamecube ones. So I ordered a XenoGC. Supposed to be a pretty easy install, no wires. We'll see how this goes. All I want to do is burn a few hard to find games onto mini-DVD-Rs and have them work.

I bought a Viper GC chip from them (mod-chip.com) about 2 months ago. No issues. It seems that the company is registered in the US. Virgin Islands and shipped from Bulgaria or some similar eastern bloc country.

I found the Cobra bios (I used 2.1) to be terrible for trying to read my backup discs. I put GCOS on the flash memory and used that to boot my discs. The cobra Bios does have some nice features such as being able to read/rip discs via USB and to read/write your GC memory card.

[gtmtnbiker]

Does anyone have anything to say about the Xeno chip? I've seen that one installed with wires, and even straight onto the board... Seems easy enough...

I know several folks who have the Xeno GC chip. It's cheap and it works great for using your backup discs. I plan to order a few of them myself to mod the 5 cubes that I have and resell them.

To do the no-wire install is tricky. If you're not good at soldering, you're better off using wires to connect the chip.

[Ramatut4001]

Can you do anything else interesting with a modded cube besides read backups?

[Niode]

Boot the limited amount of homebrew available for the system. Um... Depending on the chip you can transfer retail games over USB or ethernet if you have the ethernet adaptor.