Topic: anyway to "MOD" a gamecube?

[corwin]

FIRST OFF ALL: with "mod" I DON'T MEAN a way too play illegal copy's of games....pretty impossible anyway with the unique medium the gamecube uses.... just to make a point: I have no intention to do anything illegal.
***altough......your warenty is lost as soon as you open up your console!****

A friend of mine has a mod-XBOX, runs linux on it and can do his mail on it.
I think that's sooooo cool. The linux installation is done through a security leak.  (in the save process)
As far as I know this is not illegal, since you own the thing, so you can do with it whatever you want.

Does anyone know anything about a cube-mod?
and ARE these activities in fact, legal?

cheers!

[Rambozo]

I'm sorry but the Gamecube does not have a hard drive onto which to install such things.  It plays games off the disc....because...you know...it's a GAME machine. You can run linux and stuff on your PC, I assume you bought a gamecube for GAMES.

[Strell]

Modding is, by all defenitions, essentially illegal.  Why?  Because game companies assume you'll use it to play illegally burned games.  So in a hypothetical situation, if you got caught with a modded system, you really can't use "I wasn't going to play illegal games on it! I swear!" as a valid defense.  

The record industry of America can assume that anyone with a file-sharing service and/or mp3's is violating copyrighted music laws, even if you've only ripped mp3's from the CDs you own.  And since possession is (approximately) 9/10nths of the law, you'd be screwed if they actually came after you.

Point is that the companies assume you will do something illegal, and by having the tools to DO something illegal, you're a valid target to have legal action taken against you.

So point is that you'd be screwed if Nintendo actually came after you.

Now let's not be silly - not ALL things you do to your system are illegal.  Afterburner, Console Colors, etc., cosmetic changes don't count.  Screwing around with the innards of your machine is where the legalities start to trickle in.  Your friend with the Linux-Box?  He can't play with Microsoft's Live! service.  Why?  Because they are scared he'd hack it to peices and release viruses on the servers.  He probably WON'T, but that doesn't mean MIcrosoft won't take the precaution.  (Of course, this is what happens when you put unnecessary crap in a console, such as a hard drive.)

So keep all that in mind.

But as Rambo said, there's nothing you could do with a modded cube.  Last time I checked it doesn't have a hard drive, it's laser doesn't read pressed CDs (meaning you couldn't burn something and run it), and even then you'd need emulators for software and/or a way to install an OS.

So you can't do crap.  This thread kinda reminds me of the "Make a GC Candy dish" idea....

[corwin]

I own a gamecube for the games.
But when I watched my friend starting linux on the xbox.....man, that was weird!
(he doesn't own any game, he just likes to hack stuff...)

my point is, that it might nog be such a bad idea to have an OS on a console!
(by the way....XBOX was fast too! it loaded linux in no time!)

gamecube has no hard drive... indeed.
but the mem-card is writable, and pretty fast too.
but way too expensive for larger amounts of data storage.

offcourse an OS on a console will probably never hapen, it makes the console less-user friendly, bu the idea appeals to me.  

[Strell]

See, the funny thing is, they have consoles with OS's on them.

They are called computers.

Chances are you are using one right now to post here.

[RickPowers]

You can mod a GameCube to play import titles.  That's all.