Nintendo GameCube emulation

**icepir8** · January 27th, 2002, 11:41

Here is a poll for you.

Would you contribute money to pay for a GameCube to be disected so that it could be emulated?

**Zero** · January 27th, 2002, 15:17

Hell yeah !!!!!!

**Remote** · January 27th, 2002, 17:02

Some moral aspects of emulating a new system exists but considering the time it has taken to reach the beginning of Dreamcast emulation I do not expect the GameCube running on other hardware anytime soon. However I would be willing to pay a small amount of cash, but not through services similar to PayPal, to you for disassembling a GC.

Too bad, the internet boom has passed, a couple of years earlier you could have set up a few ad accounts and let us go frenzy.

**2fast4u** · January 27th, 2002, 21:50

yes i do

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btw: this is my post #100!

**CpU MasteR** · January 28th, 2002, 12:24

icepir8, The Answer is Obvious... F*CK YEAH! Just like PJ64, I would donate money for a GC Emulator...

**Quvack** · January 28th, 2002, 17:06

Difficult Question...

I mean it'll take ages to RE all the information you need from the GC to be even able to think about an emulator for the system, so I dont think seeing an emulator anytime soon will be a problem... and i think it'd be amazing to see an emulator eventually come out for it.. but if the system is to be emulated, it means that all of the anti-piracy schemes would have to be cracked, which would open the gates up for piracy, and we've seen what thats done before, just look at the Dreamcast

If the protection on the GC is cracked by anyone related to the emu scene, Nintendo will go nuts at the whole emulation scene again, and well I doubt it'll be pretty

..... and emulating and creating "backups" for emulation so early is just wrong, the systems just a baby really.

So to sum it up, i'd love to eventually see emulators for the system come out, but not for many years... it would be excellent to have documentation available to people about all of the necessary information on the system, but it needs to be done carefully.

And to answer the question if I would pay for the system to be RE'd? um... im not sure really :p

**icepir8** · January 28th, 2002, 20:15

Originally posted by Quvack
Difficult Question...

I mean it'll take ages to RE all the information you need from the GC to be even able to think about an emulator for the system, so I dont think seeing an emulator anytime soon will be a problem... and i think it'd be amazing to see an emulator eventually come out for it.. but if the system is to be emulated, it means that all of the anti-piracy schemes would have to be cracked, which would open the gates up for piracy, and we've seen what thats done before, just look at the Dreamcast

Yes, It won't be easy and it will require a good PC to emulate it. It will take some time for the necessary hardware to be available to support emulation of the GameCube. Ahh… but the challenge!

Originally posted by Quvack
If the protection on the GC is cracked by anyone related to the emu scene, Nintendo will go nuts at the whole emulation scene again, and well I doubt it'll be pretty ..... and emulating and creating "backups" for emulation so early is just wrong, the systems just a baby really.

This maybe true. But the rebel in me feels that even if the GameCube was emulated tomorrow, It wouldn't really hurt Nintendo. Nintendo doesn't make money on the system itself, but on the licenses it has with the game developers. If you could put a GameCube disk into your PC and play the game it would acually help Nintendo. (assuming that this was a purchased disk and not a bootleg one.)

Originally posted by Quvack
So to sum it up, i'd love to eventually see emulators for the system come out, but not for many years... it would be excellent to have documentation available to people about all of the necessary information on the system, but it needs to be done carefully.

Yes, lets get started now.

Originally posted by Quvack
And to answer the question if I would pay for the system to be RE'd? um... im not sure really :p

I understand your position. This is a "moral decision. You must do as you feel is right.devil:

ps: If enough people are in favor of supporting this I will consider starting on it. I would also feel the the info could be used for "hobby programers" to develope software/games/demos for the GameCube.

pss: I can remember when Japan was the bootleg game source. Any game made by US developers could be bought as Japanese "Knock Off" with in a month of the US release. LOL

Cya,

Icepir8

**CpU MasteR** · January 29th, 2002, 10:05

Hell, I would like to help.. I anyway I can... I am With you on this GC Emu...

***Martin*** · January 29th, 2002, 10:38

Icepir8: Let's keep this project underground for a while, aye?

**Zero** · January 30th, 2002, 02:22

I would also like to help with the "GC Project"

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