Topic: Cheap GC-games in thailand?

[Sqwarts]

Okay shitheads, enough about the dingos =)

I have know done some more research regarding the protectionsytem of the Cube. I know that the discs are burned with a special technique and that the laser reads the discs backwards, BUT, you can buy a modchip for your Cube with a special bios in it which makes the laser able to read the discs both ways. "Backward" and "forward", but since no copied games seems to excist in thailand i just have to go to BKK and go to the big BIG store where all shops are related to electronics and such. There I will find me some cheap MINI-DVD's (since they cost like 10 dollars/disc in sweden) and buy a lot of them and send them home to Sweden by air-mail and then download and burn the games myself!

Haven't had the time to reply before since I've been busy buying clothes, dvd-films and drinking my head of (a bucket with Vodka redbull cost like 7 bucks and lasts for hours). In other words, I've been enjoying my vacation =)

[MysticGohan24]

heh, yeah.... goodluck at that. Mini-Dvd's are not gonna cut it. *sigh* You fail to realize that not only the GC is hard to crack, but the *mini-dvds* aren't the same mini's brought at your store shelves. it's much more complicated.

You can do whatever you want, but good luck getting a gamecube to play burnt games. And you'll have to worry about those Cyborg Ninja assassins Nintendo will be sending after you

[Dasmos]

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Originally posted by: Gamefreak

Hey well Europeans brought dogs over to Australia and they evolved into dingos and wiped out Australia's only two carnivorous mammals, the Tasmanian devil, now only found in the tiny island of Tasmania, and the Tasmanian tiger, which is now extinct. The Tasmanian tiger was not actually a tiger (a tiger could own an entire pack of dogs anyway) but a unique four legged, semi-striped, dog-like mammal which sadly, couldn't compete with the dingo's pack hunting and lost it's food source and died.

What?!?!?!

A Dingo is not an evolved dog (well not a dog evolved from the domestic dog)!!! A dingo is native to Australia and have been bred with domestic dogs by farmers...

The Tasmanian Tiger is extinct (although there are always supposed "sightings" every now and then), although the major reason they are extinct is because of Humans hunting them. I don't beleive that Dingoes out-hunted the tigers in their natural habitat because they are mainly mainland creatures...

[KDR_11k]

I still wonder about your mentality. You want to pirate games but buy DVD movies? I mean, hell, why buy a DVD when you can rent it for a day or two and if necessary (though who would watch a movie twice?) copy it?

[Sqwarts]

Hey, I mean it's not like the dvd's in thailand are originals =)
And since movies has a great value to me (especially films like snatch, lock stock and two smoking barrels, pulp fiction, boondock saints etc.) I get them as decoration for my apartment as well as for entertainment.

And since the dvd movies are cheap here I buy them, and the games are not cheap so I don't buy them. (I would have if they were cheaper than they are but in sweden you have to pay like 35 dollars/game and I am a student so I can't afford that. Actually I did buy SSBM simply because it's the greatest game ever!

But wish me good luck with my GC-hacking, me and my friend will do our best. And I have a cyber ninja alarm so that's okay.  

[MysticGohan24]

heh, it's sad that you would be this naive. Since when 35 dollars is a bad deal for a game? I assume it was new.

I doubt you can hack the GC without great expenses. The only way is the Phantasy Star Online, and that's limited.
remember, if your caught, your good as dead

[KDR_11k]

... 35USD You know what a freaking good deal that would be? Games cost around 70USD everywhere and I expected Sweden to be around or over 80USD (perhaps you did a bad conversion) from the prices I've seen. But maybe Stockholm is much more expensive than the rest of the country...

[Sqwarts]

Well that was the retail version of it, or platinum or whatever it's called. And for a new game it would cost around 70-80 USD (500 swedish crowns, SKR, or more). Because of the low value of the USD it's actually cheaper for us to import games from the US. And I don't know why I said 35 USD, it should be like 42-45 USD, and that's for a platinum version!

[KDR_11k]

Remember, when you import you have to add shipping, sales tax (25% if Google is right?) and duty to the price. Which explains the price difference between Sweden and Germany as Germany has only 16% sales tax.

[BranDonk Kong]

PSO is far from the only way to hack the Gamecube. There's tmbinc's IPL replacement, hacks with the MAX Drive Pro, and of course, the ViperGC Modchip.