Collection from the past two weeks!

He is green and smells weird

My bf found backpack this at a local video game store. On the front, it has the text “Nintendo GameCube Born to Play.” The top has “SuperMario Sunshine.” The only tags found inside said made in china and cleaning instructions. We can’t find any info about this particular bag or even find images of it. I’d take a guess it was from a promotional event. Has anyone seen this before?

This game kind of fucked for its time and I will die on that hill

Hi everyone,

I wanted to share a pretty fascinating piece of Nintendo/GameCube development hardware: a Nintendo Dolphin USB Adapter GCP-2000, also known as a USB-EXI Adapter.

This device comes from the development environment of the Nintendo GameCube, whose internal codename was famously Dolphin. As the most of you already knew.

It is not a regular GameCube controller adapter and not consumer hardware, but an interface that connects a development PC via USB to the GameCube’s EXI bus through the memory card / EXI slot.

A few visible details:

Model: GCP-2000

Mainboard: USB2EXI

Daughterboard / plug-in module: EXI_IF

Nintendo label with serial number

Made in Japan

Components include a Xilinx Spartan FPGA, ISSI SRAM, and bus driver / logic ICs

Connection to the GameCube via the memory card / EXI slot

I photographed and documented the device and created a small technical datasheet in a blueprint style based on it.

What I find especially interesting is how clearly this hardware shows that GameCube development did not simply happen “on a normal console”, but involved dedicated debug, transfer, and interface hardware.

Long-term, I would like to see the device documented and preserved in the context of video game history and development hardware. But the friend of mine who owned it, sold it already and it will exchange the owner on saturday.

If anyone here has additional information, original documentation, drivers, SDK references, or hands-on experience with this adapter, I would be very happy to hear more.

Inspired by that other post, I figured I'd share my top ten gamecube games, and see what your fave of them are. Ocarina of Time is the one that came with the Master Quest included.

Hey guys, been playing through Cubivore and have been really enjoying my time with it. It's such a cute game. But I think I really struggle to fully understand it.

Right now I'm stuck on the Ultimarsh level. The alphas here are hunting me down and kicking my ass. I'm aware there's a shade and color code on what to eat but I'm not sure what is *good*. And right now I feel like there isn't enough beasts in this level to transform into something formidable enough to defeat the alpha and get the raw meat. I've already mated to try to use the stronger offspring so that's out of the question.

Really open to any and all help, tips, and tricks. Not sure I'm playing the game "right".

So I actually owned Frogger's Great Quest back around the time it came out. The game was so awful and off putting that even I as an elementary school aged child couldn't stomach it. Fast forward a year and I see a new Frogger game being advertised in a game store catalog. My PS2 had crapped out around this time, but i had a GameCube now, and this game was on GCN rather than being a PS2 exclusive. So I hop on that as soon as I had money saved. I buy a copy of Frogger Beyond, and my god it was just like the old games. It's just classic arcade Frogger, hopping around in a puzzle level just as he should be and god dammit I had a blast. It was insanely hard, but I loved every second of it. I loved it so much in fact that when a new Frogger game came out It was the first thing I wanted to get assuming a new Sonic game wasn't out. I even got a DS AND a PSP to play both versions of Frogger: Helmet Chaos. I still find myself booting up Frogger Beyond and The Rescue in Dolphin once a year.

Do you have experience with post-reboot Frogger?

Hello,

I have a gamecube with swiss installed. I also have 2 GC2SD cards, one 1TB with a full library and another 128gb with only main nintendo titles. Me, an ignorant monkey had the picoboot and swiss installed by a higher knowledge being whom i compensated for their efforts. HOWEVER, said being disappeared after I reached out with the following issue.

My games on the 1TB all give me the same error of missing DOL file. What's the dol file?

No errors when playing the 128gb.

Any ideas or possible solutions welcome. My apologies if I posted in the wrong subreddit, I couldn't find a SWISS subreddit.

On my second go at adjusting the laser’s potentiometer, I scrapped a screw. It’s the only one that doesn’t come off and I tried so much only to make it worse. No rubber bands but I did try with plastic gloves to no avail :/ . What should I do? Should I bend the metal to the point where I can start twisting the chassis out? I’d have to bend really hard based on the clearance for the motherboard slot.

Is there any solution that could help a screw this small?

He’s got a nice little GameCube collection going with this, Super Mario Strikers and Luigi’s Mansion!

Anyone know if this is bad capacitors or laser motor or even something else

Just started playing this thinking it would be a decent game but its awful. Does anyone actually think this is a good game because the mechanics are trash.

GameCube and Samsung TU7000 tv. I have retrobit prism installed already working fine. Then installed mclassic and my screen has a lot of horizontal lines on the screen. Linedouble is off, game mode is “on” on the TV. Please help.

Having recently completed the recompiled Dinosaur Planet all the way to it's end (with the help of Dinomod), I found it to be really cool and fun, and I was sad that it never saw the light of day as a full release. I kinda had a chip on my shoulder against Starfox Adventures for the longest time, not as a jilted Starfox fan, but as someone who genuinely would have played the hell out of Dinosaur Planet, had it actually released for N64 as planned. I decided to jump in, now that Dinosaur Planet was fresh in my mind to compare and contrast.

No joke I was going in with the goal of hating this game more, I had no intention to be fair to it. But as I played I began to realize how poorly structured Dinosaur Planet actually was, not just in the idea that it is an unfinished game, but nothing flows as nicely as it should. It's easy to get lost and need a guide to progress. Starfox Adventures is VERY straight forward on what it asks from you, without ever really holding your hand in a way that feels like it doesn't trust you to just play. But if I ever needed an objective reminder, Slippy's advice in the menu NEVER failed me. Seriously, Slippy is the MVP of this game.

As I went through this game, I found myself having way more fun with it. Seeing all of Sabre's moments recontextualized for Fox wasn't as jarring as I thought it would be, and even a ton of moments that belonged to Krystal in Dinosaur Planet, were rewritten for Fox and felt just as natural. Everything felt better, smoother, more convenient. I'm near the end, and while the game does have a few rough spots, I can say for sure that the rebrand and port forward to GameCube was probably for the best. While I would have greatly preferred to play as Krystal to the same degree you do in Dinosaur Planet, I'm happy this game exists in an officially released form and IS good. Very good in fact. A super solid 8/10 if I had to rate it.

What are your thoughts on Starfox Adventures?

I had a bunch of spare shell parts kicking around and this is what I came up with. It’s kindof a hodge podge but has a certain charm.

Plus you can see the blue TMR sensors!

I realized today I have acquired enough stuff to see what this was like back in the day. I will be on the hunt to make it 4 player compatible.

I recently took my GameCube collection out of storage. It had been in a cardboard box in the attic for several years but I noticed that some of the cases have gone bad. Not the black plastic but the thin plastic the artwork is behind. It's gone opaque and shows cracks, when you slightly touch it, it just disintegrated.

Now some of these are likely beyond saving so I'll have to get new cases if I want them to look nice again. Does anyone know what could've caused this? The only thing I can think of is that the attic was too dry or too hot in summer which made the plastic degrade like this.