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« on: January 22, 2004, 06:43:15 AM »
In order to get a Gamecube to boot anything from a memcard, you'd likely need a custom BIOS, which would require a mod chip. I think a more reasonable solution, as someone above posted, is to boot from a disc and put your dynamic data on a memcard. In order to do this, of course, you need to be able to burn Gamecube discs, which is probably difficult to do without using a dev kit from Nintendo and therefore being subject to their licensing.
I have read that the Gamecube's disc drive is pretty much a standard DVD drive, and that all the logic for reading Nintendo's proprietary disc format is in the firmware. If someone could figure out how to flash the firmware, you might be able to get a Gamecube to read standard mini-DVD discs. That would simplify things greatly, though you'd probably no longer be able to run games on your cube.
I predict that all of these things will eventually be done. The reason, at least on the surface, is so that people can make homebrew games using free tools. Piracy is, of course, always an underlying motivation.
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