Game Cube Discs

[Darth Paris]

My brothe just loves to leave all my XBOX and GC games laying out of the cases. This really pisses me off because when I go to Gamestop to trade in they say, "oh there is a scratch we will have to give you 5 dollars less" even though they sell it for the same damn price. What type of media is a GC disc? Would it be possible to make a copy for my brother to play with so I can just keep the originals in my room?

[gitreel]

It is a mini dvd that holds a little over a gigabyte.

You could copy it to your computer, but you would have to have a minidvd to put the game back on. That might be hard.

Nintendo purposely used this format to protect their investment.

[The village idiot]

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[888888]

Smack your brother until he gets it right. There is no excuse for not being careful with expensive stuff like that. I personally go berserk when somebody so much as touches my DVD-R backup of Johnny English.

[handyguy]

No, you can't copy a GC disk on your PC.

You can put it in your GC & network it to your PC & copy it to a full size dvd. with some,um special software.

[Devanshu]

Dont trade at gamestop. They give you terrible prices for your games. For instance, I went to gamestop to find out how much a couple of my games are worth...

Everything or Nothing: $15
Splinter Cell Pandora tomorrow: $12

Here's what blockbuster gave me:

Everything or Nothing: $22
Splinter Cell Pandora tomorrow: $20

Moral of the story...go to your local BBV. As long as you dont have a HUGE scratch, they wont take any money away from the trade price.

[Darth Paris]

BBV takes used games?

I sthe mini DVD Double Layer?

What program shoul I use?

[DVD_Ripper]

http://www.rima.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=R&Category_Code =DVRMINI

Thanks... we will be getting my oldest boy one for xmas (if he's good... if not coal).... and i was curious if they were backup-able.

[Devanshu]

BBV takes used games?

If your neighborhood BBV doesnt...it soon will. Theyre trying out this program in some test areas...and it's working beautifully over here so I suspect you should see the same results at a BBV close to you.

[handyguy]

At BBV you can return your used games for a full refund within 30 days. I suppose they might not let you do that too often. Why not get a game pass? Play all you want, $20 a month.

Anyway, for the GC if you have PSI@II & the BBA, you can stream games to your GC from your PC....

[Doramius]

Nintendo is good at making their systems difficult to make illegal copies and play. You can burn a mini-DVDr, but you also need a special mod chip and their system isn't set up like Playstations and you need special types of equipment to remove the main IC. They also used software from the Apple/Macintosch systems for excellent graphics and limited availability of software. The best way is to network it with your comp. and save it to your hard drive and get special Apple/Macintosch emulation software for a regular PC to play games. I think that's how it is being done. I'm just relaying how I thought a friend told me he was doing it. Of course he's trashed 2 PS1's, 1 PS2, 1 XBOX, 4 SNES's, 2 NES's, 4 Sega Genesis', 2 Sega Saturns, 1 N64, and a Time Crisis Upright arcade machine. By trial and error he gets his things finished correct and properly, he just tries different methods to see if they work. His main problem early on was his soldering iron and kept burning boards and chips. He got a new iron and has been doing fairly good ever since.

[Invader Bugs]

so is it possible to backup a Gamecube game onto a miniDVD? i have a best buy that has them about 5 minutes away from me, so if it works, i want to.

also, would it need the mod chip? also, why cant you play burnt games without a mod chip?

[handyguy]

There are NO GC modchips.

NO, you can't copy a GC disk on your PC. Where did you get the info that you can back it up to a mini dvd?

You can, however, suck the game out of a GC connected to a PC & then store it however you want, but you cannot play a copy of it in your GC with a mini dvd cause the GC doesn't recognize DVDs....