Gamecube *finally* Cracked

Krug · **Posted:** Tue Dec 14, 2004 12:20 pm **Post subject:**

Unlucky about the memory card - I heard a few reports about this happening to people with the new loaders. Iwas just thinking yesterday about putting all my PSO saves on a spare memory card I have somewhere so my main card doesn't get mangled, don't really want to lose all my saves!

I finished the Resident Evil demo yesterday too - see what you mean about the controls, I must have brought up the map like 20 times by pressing start instead of Y for the items screen

And did you see the chainsaw guy that everyone is talking about? Only I think I must have missed him because I thought I would've remembered that. Looks like I'm gonna have to play it again tonight :roll:

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spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Tue Dec 14, 2004 5:54 pm **Post subject:**

Krug wrote:

Unlucky about the memory card - I heard a few reports about this happening to people with the new loaders. Iwas just thinking yesterday about putting all my PSO saves on a spare memory card I have somewhere so my main card doesn't get mangled, don't really want to lose all my saves!

All my saves are fine (zelda, erm zelda again and mario kart :lol:

), its just dodgy saving the PSO saves to it. It saves, then it says network info corrupted. I just bought another one anyway, the one i got was free.

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I finished the Resident Evil demo yesterday too - see what you mean about the controls, I must have brought up the map like 20 times by pressing start instead of Y for the items screen

hehe... I kept doin the same

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And did you see the chainsaw guy that everyone is talking about? Only I think I must have missed him because I thought I would've remembered that. Looks like I'm gonna have to play it again tonight :roll:

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You think they'd roll out any of the decent bad guys for a demo? Definitely wouldn't have been in there, and he wasn't

Krug · **Posted:** Wed Dec 15, 2004 1:34 am **Post subject:**

spudthedestroyer wrote:

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And did you see the chainsaw guy that everyone is talking about? Only I think I must have missed him because I thought I would've remembered that. Looks like I'm gonna have to play it again tonight :roll:

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You think they'd roll out any of the decent bad guys for a demo? Definitely wouldn't have been in there, and he wasn't

Well people on GC-Compat seem to have fought a chainsaw guy:

Epak wrote:

Damn this is awesome, headshots and that chainsaw dude, DAMN AWESOME!!!

bobino24 wrote:

Well if you find the demo too hard, edit the config.txt file and change the value of [NODEATH] to ON and you're gonna be invincible. But watch out for that guy with the chainsaw because he can still cut your head.

ScudHall wrote:

This demo rocks...I had few goes last night and the chainsaw man killed me. I am gonna get him and also gonna buy the the game when its out, I only miss the zombies, you can get the villagers after you having sex with someones daughter too so too real for my taste.

So where the hell is that chainsaw guy!!

Did you know about editing the config.txt file by the way?

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Wed Dec 15, 2004 1:59 am **Post subject:**

nope, but the demo was easy... I take it then he appears when you just hang around. The end of the demo seemed to be triggered when I walked near the church, so maybe you need to just hang back. Run out of ammo pretty damn fast :lol:

Shame the bodies disappear too

PC_Arcade · **Posted:** Thu Dec 16, 2004 9:39 am **Post subject:**

mmm, I seem to be having trouble uploading the .dol files.
It's a bit 50/50 as to whether it will upload or just freeze. If it DOES upload then all is fine, but it sometimes doesn't work, anyone any ideas as to why?

Krug · **Posted:** Thu Dec 16, 2004 1:22 pm **Post subject:**

Hmm strange, never had any problems uploading them. Tell us more about your set-up and maybe I can help. But doubt it

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Thu Dec 16, 2004 11:52 pm **Post subject:**

A bit of good news.

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The guys over at Gamefreax managed to test the Cobra Bios With the Viper GC , and can confirm it really does what it says!

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We had the chance to test the Cobra Bios finally and we can now confirm that it really works. We first tested it with a scene-release from ISOSPHERE: Zelda the four swords on a Datatrack Mini DVD-R which didnt work, then we went one step furhter and burned the same ISO to a normal size Verbatim DVD-R in 4x Speed and tested it after taking off the complete lid of the Gamecube. This one works just perfect. We'll set up a small movie in a few minutes for all you who can't wait to see their own mod working :-)

http://www.maxconsole.com/?newsid=3131
http://www.gamefreax.de/cgi-bin/gf_site/news.pl?lang=UK
http://forums.maxconsole.com/showthread ... genumber=2

Krug · **Posted:** Fri Dec 17, 2004 11:01 am **Post subject:**

Wow :-o

I hope this is true!!

Apparently this video shows it:
http://www.putfile.com/videos/35017093737.avi

Not had chance to watch it but ppl on Dextrose say it's dark :lol:

Krug · **Posted:** Sun Dec 19, 2004 1:53 am **Post subject:**

spudthedestroyer wrote:

nope, but the demo was easy... I take it then he appears when you just hang around. The end of the demo seemed to be triggered when I walked near the church, so maybe you need to just hang back. Run out of ammo pretty damn fast :lol:

Shame the bodies disappear too

I just played the demo again, and this time I played a little bit more than I did before, and I found the chainsaw guy. Instead of rushing in and killing all the people in the village, I went into some of the buildings, first the church tower with the ladder in it, then another building where you push some drawers behind the door. Go upstairs in there and you find the shotgun, waste some fuckers, and if you can survive, you will see chainsaw guy with bag on his head just in time for him to cane your head off. :twisted:

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Sun Dec 19, 2004 5:27 am **Post subject:**

cool, but unfortunately my memory card is a bit of a shit box, so I'm waiting on a new one from lik-sang. Should arrive monday or so.

When I played it, I just wasted everything.... there infinite bad guys right? Well i was blowing the crap out of people, by the cow, then I was blowing the crap out of everything... ran out of bullets, ran away like a little girl (d0c) then I found some bullets... the guys smashed in the windows, blew the crap out of them, ran outside and up the ladder, where they started fire bombing me... ran back out, blew the crap out of some peckers on the roof, then went towards the church and the demo ended.

By this act of piracy I'm mighterly impressed... I may actually buy a game for the GCN

Krug · **Posted:** Sun Dec 19, 2004 2:59 pm **Post subject:**

yeah i think there is just endless bad guys, i just tried to explore more this time.

and you sure you're gonna buy that game? maybe you should put that money towards a viper :wink:

but it shows how effective demos can be, nintendo should do more :cry:

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Sun Dec 19, 2004 9:15 pm **Post subject:**

nope if a games good I'll buy it. RE4 and Zelda are obvious buys next year.

d0c · **Posted:** Sun Dec 19, 2004 9:49 pm **Post subject:**

spudthedestroyer wrote:

A bit of good news.

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The guys over at Gamefreax managed to test the Cobra Bios With the Viper GC , and can confirm it really does what it says!

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We had the chance to test the Cobra Bios finally and we can now confirm that it really works. We first tested it with a scene-release from ISOSPHERE: Zelda the four swords on a Datatrack Mini DVD-R which didnt work, then we went one step furhter and burned the same ISO to a normal size Verbatim DVD-R in 4x Speed and tested it after taking off the complete lid of the Gamecube. This one works just perfect. We'll set up a small movie in a few minutes for all you who can't wait to see their own mod working :-)

http://www.maxconsole.com/?newsid=3131
http://www.gamefreax.de/cgi-bin/gf_site/news.pl?lang=UK
http://forums.maxconsole.com/showthread ... genumber=2

nice news

search for *Vipergc Cobra Bios 02.zip* on emule and you will find the bios...

how is the mod chip attached to the gc?? is there any how to do it txt out there??

d0c · **Posted:** Sun Dec 19, 2004 10:45 pm **Post subject:**

here is the nfo....

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 ?                                                                          ?
 ?                        - COBRA FOR VIPER GC V0.2 -                       ?
 ?                        (Proof Of Concept Version)                        ?
 ?                                                                          ?
 ?                          15th of december, 2004                          ?
 ?                                                                          ?
 ?                                                                          ?
 ?  You didn't expect it to be true, right? Well, guess what... it IS!      ?
 ?  As of today, no need for PSO anymore, you can boot your code directly   ?
 ?  from the GC drive using DVD-R or Mini-DVD-R! This also includes the     ?
 ?  ability to boot your backups.                                           ?
 ?                                                                          ?
 ?  So what do you need exactly ?                                           ?
 ?     - A Viper GC chip                                                    ?
 ?     - This very flash file                                               ?
 ?     - Some Compatible Media and a DVD- burner                            ?
 ?                                                                          ?
 ?  In fact, we wanted to release the first version of our Viper BIOS       ?
 ?  around Xmas time, but it appears that some fucker leaked a -PRE-ALPHA-  ?
 ?  version two days ago together with a screenshot (fuck you Vincenzo),    ?
 ?  together with a screencap. We decided to release a proof-of-concept     ?
 ?  version as soon as possible so that people can stop spreading rumor     ?
 ?  about it (and DON'T USE the pre-alpha as it has some major bugs).       ?
 ?  We feel it's totally natural that most people did doubt it was true,    ?
 ?  as most of them have been waiting for such a solution for years! So     ?
 ?  now those people can try the thing for REAL :-).                        ?
 ?                                                                          ?
 ?  USER MANUAL                                                             ?
 ?                                                                          ?
 ?   - Flash the Viper GC with this BIOS then remove the parallel port      ?
 ?     connector from the programmer (well, their manual says so)           ?
 ?                                                                          ?
 ?   - Turn on your GC with an ORIGINAL DISC in the drive.                  ? 
 ?     If there's no Title Screen coming, but the original BIOS instead     ?
 ?     it's probably that you messed up your viper install:-)               ?
 ?     Check that it's clean (and no wires crossing each other etc...)      ?
 ?     If you have a black screen coming, it's probably because you have    ?
 ?     some wierd BIOS we don't support (and don't know about) yet.         ?
 ?                                                                          ?
 ?   - While turning on your GC:                                            ?
 ?        - Hold X if you want to boot Original BIOS instead                ?
 ?        - Hold Y if you want to boot Original BIOS with region-free hack  ?
 ?        - Don't hold any button if you want to run DVD-R :-)              ?
 ?                                                                          ?
 ?   -  "PLEASE WAIT" should appear. then "SWAP DISC NOW!" and the GC       ?
 ?      disc is stopped (and laser off). As soon as you see the disc is     ?
 ?      slowing down it's safe to remove the original disc and put your     ?
 ?      DVD-R instead. After a few seconds the drive will start to spin     ?
 ?      again and disc will boot (if you didn't have enough time to do the  ?
 ?      swap trick, turn off the GC and try again)                          ?
 ?                                                                          ?
 ?   - Remove the top of your GC if you want to use full-size DVD-R         ?
 ?                                                                          ?
 ?  THE MEDIA                                                               ?
 ?                                                                          ?
 ?  The GC drive only eats DVD-R, MINI-DVD-R and single-layer silver DVD,   ?
 ?  it doesn't work with + media or DL at all.                              ?
 ?  But, like Xbox thomson drive, it is very "sensitive" to the brand of    ?
 ?  media you're using. Some are working better than others, some even      ?
 ?  NOT AT ALL! So better check what media other users recommend.           ?
 ?                                                                          ?
 ?  After a few tests here is what we think:                                ?
 ?                                                                          ?
 ?  - For DVD-R, most media are working, except some cheap no-names. On     ?
 ?    some drives only the best media is working really fine.               ?
 ?                                                                          ?
 ?  - BUT FOR MINI-DVD-R it's more tricky. We tested the following brand:   ?
 ?        SONY DVD-R 1.4GB handycam: doesn't work                           ?
 ?        TDK DVD-R 1.4GB scratchproof: doesn't work                        ?
 ?        MAXELL DVD-R 1.4GB: sometime boots, but then loose sync           ?
 ?        DATAWRITE DVD-R 1.4GB: on some drives it works 100% like the      ?
 ?              best DVD-R, but on some other drives it just can't sync     ?
 ?              (when it does its working perfectly)                        ?
 ?                                                                          ?
 ?  In fact, we have some idea on how to improve the compatibility with     ?
 ?  bad media in our next BIOS. For now we really suggest you to find       ?
 ?  a good full-size DVD-R media, and get the opinion of other users.       ?
 ?                                                                          ?
 ?  You don't need to encrypt the disc or use a special burner firmware     ?
 ?  to write the disc. Just burn your ISO/GCM (we use Nero).                ?
 ?                                                                          ?
 ?  Maybe different burners will lead to different results too, for now we  ?
 ?  just tried a cheap NEC burner.                                          ?
 ?                                                                          ?
 ?                                                                          ?
 ?  TROOBLESHOOTING                                                         ?
 ?                                                                          ?
 ?  REMEMBER, THIS IS A PROOF-OF-CONCEPT-VERSION !                          ?
 ?  There are probably lots of bugs we need to fix including:               ?
 ?                                                                          ?
 ?  - Sometime the "SWAP DISC" message doesn't appear (or disc doesn't      ?
 ?    slow down/laser is still on). If this happen to you just turn off     ?
 ?    your GC and try again (ok, this is clearly our fault :-)              ?
 ?                                                                          ?
 ?  - If sometimes after you swapped a disc there is a sync problem with    ?
 ?    the DVD-R and origial BIOS is not loading, then try again. If this    ?
 ?    happen very often, then you need a better media.                      ?
 ?                                                                          ?
 ?  - If the drive becomes idle for a couple of minutes, depending on the   ?
 ?    media you're using it might loose sync, and hang. This is also a      ?
 ?    bug of ours we will track. For now, if this happens to you, avoid     ?
 ?    "PAUSE MODE" in games.                                                ?
 ?                                                                          ?
 ?  - Audio Streaming doesn't work. So, the games/programs using the        ?
 ?    special streaming commands will work, but instead of a nice MUSIC     ?
 ?    you'll hear annoying NOISE :-). We'll have a look at those issues as  ?
 ?    well !                                                                ?
 ?                                                                          ?
 ?  - Doesn't work with multi-discs games yet                               ?
 ?                                                                          ?
 ?  REMEMBER, THIS IS A PROOF-OF-CONCEPT-VERSION ! All those problem        ?
 ?  could be fixed in a next update, except for media maybe (if someone     ?
 ?  wants to try laser tweaking we'd be interested by the results!)         ?
 ?                                                                          ?
 ?  Note that on screen there's a two digit number corresponding to your    ?
 ?  GC version (right after the Cobra Version). Here are the current        ?
 ?  versions we support: 14,16,18,24,26,28,34,36,38,44,46,48. If you have   ?
 ?  another version, then we don't know about it yet...                     ?
 ?                                                                          ?
 ?  IF YOU MAKE BACKUPS, DON'T USE ANY "WIPE" TOOLS TO SAVE SPACE. Unless   ?
 ?  you know it's REALLY working. Most of thoses tools only work because    ?
 ?  the current pso loaders patch libraries routines to emulate DVD. But    ?
 ?  on REAL HARDWARE, each file/fst has to be aligned on a 4-byte boundary! ?
 ?  Else nothing will work. Audio Files (for audio streaming) even need     ?
 ?  to be aligned on a 32kb-boundary ! So forget current "WIPE" tools until ?
 ?  they are fixed.                                                         ?
 ?                                                                          ?
 ?  THE FUTURE                                                              ?
 ?                                                                          ?
 ?  Apart from fixing the current bugs, we have plans to make a (better     ?
 ?  looking) real GUI, and some other surprises :-)                         ?
 ?                                                                          ?
 ?  For coders it's a bit(!) annoying to burn DVD-R for each test. We'll    ?
 ?  try to work on a better solution (either using BBA or viper debug       ?
 ?  IO)                                                                     ?
 ?                                                                          ?
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 ?  Special thanks to E*Flash for his help, and RoM for the early units.    ?
 ?                                                                          ?
 ?  You are free to redistribute this package as long as it's not changed,  ?
 ?  patched, ported, or whatever.                                           ?
 ?                                                                          ?
 ?  Our code is free of any copyrighted code from third party.              ?
 ?  It is also free of any GPL licensed code, we have strong respect for    ?
 ?  other people's hard work. We only ask you to show similar respect       ?
 ?  toward our work. To put it in other words, if you are in the "right"    ?
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 ?  That's it for this NFO, hope we didn't missed some important point.     ?
 ?                                                                          ?
 ?  Have a nice day :-)                                                     ?
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Krug · **Posted:** Mon Dec 20, 2004 3:16 pm **Post subject:**

I found a diagram on one site somewhere (Maxconsole, PS2ownz, can't remember, look around) but apparently it's only four wires to solder.

PC_Arcade · **Posted:** Mon Dec 20, 2004 3:18 pm **Post subject:**

Sod that, I can't solder for shit :lol:

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Mon Dec 20, 2004 7:51 pm **Post subject:**

yeah but how much are gamecubes? 5p? 6p? :lol:

PC_Arcade · **Posted:** Wed Dec 22, 2004 9:19 am **Post subject:**

Has anyone tried or, more importantly, got working the ISOripper?

I want to "backup" my original games to sell them and I can't

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Wed Dec 22, 2004 9:22 am **Post subject:**

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I want to "backup" my original games to sell them

Piracy is bad.... m'kay!

I'm sure you meant, you want to make "backups" of your originals before you sell them... right? :lol:

Anyways, no I haven't. I've not tried, but can't load up to test until a new memory card comes since I'm pissed off trying to get the thing to stay uncorrupted

PC_Arcade · **Posted:** Wed Dec 22, 2004 9:29 am **Post subject:**

That's pants, if you get the fucking thing working, let me know how :evil:

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