I just got a image of a GameCube v.2.0 boot and I want to test to see if the boot disk will work but there is a problem of copying the game file.
they say that copy all the files from the GC DVD onto your HDD but
my dvd drive and my dvd burner can not read the GC game disc.
How should i copy the GC files?
Any Idea of copying the files or it not possible copy the file.

No it isn't possible to copy the file. GC discs to my knowlege are read backwards so it is impossible for your computer to read them.

ok then, why do they release the boot disk if we can't copy the game file.
It may be true or not but I hear that some group people know how to make the iso of gc game. Does those game release yet?

April 1st has passed.

there also something i want to know. I just make a iso of a GC game. It about 1.3 gig. I use a program to open the ps2 and psx iso image and I can see the file but not GC game iso. Even though I make a iso image of GC game and with out seeing the file will it work.
have anyone try that yet.

actually if they were read from the outside in your pc could possibly still read them but i have heard that is just jibberish

gamecube disks aren't read backwards, the test: open the lid while the disk is spinning. also, how did you create the 1.3gig iso ken_master?

i second that, contrary to popular belief gc disks do not spin nor read backward. the protection is in the barcode.

nope - well yes - there is a SORT of barcode on a GCN disc - a Blank area that would make ANY ordinary DVD drive think the disc is damaged - hold your GCN disc upto the light - now look at the inner data side of the disc - !!!!! See that!!! that round gap all the way around the disc where there should be data? Thats the problem!

cube reads the barcode first off, i've had the top off ;)

can't they invent a modchip which will alter the cube bios into NOT reading the barcode?

As one of the original XBox hackers said, the game cube is not hard to hack, it is just very expensive, perhaps too expensive.

Originally posted by ken_master
there also something i want to know. I just make a iso of a GC game. It about 1.3 gig. I use a program to open the ps2 and psx iso image and I can see the file but not GC game iso. Even though I make a iso image of GC game and with out seeing the file will it work.
have anyone try that yet.

You wouldn't see the iso, you would see the files in the iso. If you did manage to rip it, it's most likely a null image...all junk data to fool you into thinking you have a good iso.

Boot discs are released all the time for almost every system...but 99.5% of the time they are fake. Just some lamers that like making ppl burn a lot of coasters.

yep - clone cd is for CDs NOT Dvds anyway - it wouldnt create a succesfull image even if it did work - BTW it will be a blank ISo as barracuda says - open it up using win hex edit a or compress it with winzip - you see a 1.5Gig file compress down to 50k or somthing

it wonder why it would be expensive - i dunno about the barcode thing

Companies like front fareast must have invested lots of cash back in the days of super magicom and wildcard for the snes and megadrive. People were willing to pay hundreds of pounds to allow them to play backups. I dont think the situation has changed so I dont agree that it could be too expensive.

Datel managed it and they are knocking out the freeloader at less than 20 pounds per copy.

On a side note, those people who have removed the top off their gamecube and seen it reading the barcode, does anyone know if it does it again when you put the game disc in after booting freeloader/ar?

I suppose its possible that the data on the dvd could be encrypted based on the barcode so it would be necessary to read it to run the game.

no - its not encrypted - its just a special type of disc - it IS dvd but there is data missing from the begining of the disc were a normal dvd lens would read first. meaning when you insert it into your pc it sees nothing on the disc. Id fork out a couple of hundred (200) to play GCN backups! i had a windcard 32x and a doctor 64 and they were both great devices - although i dont agree with ripping off Nintendo i do like to have a huge game collection

How do you know its not encrypted?

Mate the so called boot disc you got is clearly a fake, there is currently no way to backup NGC games let alone create a boot disc, have seen many boot discs for the PS2 and not 1 every worked, people just seem to think its funny for you to waste your blanks.

If you guys really want to see what has been done in the GC scene theres a few forums where people talk about it. I figured it'd help you more if you knew how far people were in cracking the gamecube. Now people are workin on booting homemade GOD's(gamecube discs) with a freeloader.

This ones in spanish but its owned by the person who figured out how to boot a homemade GOD with the freeloader(sharker).
Sharkers Website(Spanish) (http://www.gamecubehacker.net)

Theres a forum on ************ where quite a few people talk about advancements in hacking the gamecube and running software on it.

@Destheman24, try and get around the censor filter again and I will ban you. If it is censored then assume it is for a reason and leave it at that.

Yea i'm guessing its censored because it talks about pirating games and modchips, pretty much the same **** that is talked about here.

so they are close to making gc backups?

Not close to making GC backups, close to being able to create homemade GOD's.. They'd need to create a ftp program or an extractor like the Xbox/Dreamcast has so they can read the cds and make copies. The only downside is you'd need to boot your games with a freeloader unless they create a modchip, The freeloader bypasses the Gamecubes media check.

i have got official Nintendo disc analysis software but it doesnt do much on my WIN98 PC. i got it from E donkey. im not too bothered about backups - its emulators and a Divx player i want! id love to play a nes snes megadrive, GBA and maybe N64 on my cube - click the link in my sig (cubeinfo.tk) to read about gamecube disc file structure and the disc info (about the NO DATA IN THE MIDDLE info i was on about) its very interesting - PDF gamecube dev manual is aavaiable for download here

do you plan on trying to crack the cube or something? or wait for some1 to do it and take credit for it? Anyway I saw a addon in development for the cube which is a dvd drive hooked up by one of the ports..

i dont think that will work - that would of been the first idea when the cube came out over a year ago -

the cubeinfo link doesn't work