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#FlippyDrive + dusty desk 🤣 looking forward to this solderless #Gamecube mod

Finally! #FlippyDrive incoming!

#NintendoGamecube #Gamecube #GamecubeMods

Did a cool #mod for my #ninteno #gamecube. I gave it a clear #blue shell and installed a #flippydrive so I can backup and load my game discs. #console #modding #videogames

Now that my #GameCube #FlippyDrive is installed and operational I'm slowly using their backup tool to archive my game collection. There's 42 unique titles, ~40 minutes per archive operation so... see you 28 hours later! 😬

What have they done to my boy? #FlippyDrive installation day! Blog post will follow, especially for the Ethernet adapter which isn't documented officially yet

https://docs.flippydrive.com/installation.html

#GameCube

FlippyDrive modchip and ethernet adapter chip shown connected with a ribbon cable

FlippyDrive modchip shown installed in its bracket, ribbon cable snaked in a gap between the heat shield and disk reader

Platinum GameCube and Game Boy Player completely disassembled on a desk.

Does it look dumb? Yes

Does it work? Yes

Got a flippy drive and designing my own IO plate for the #GameCube for this sd card reader. This is my temporary fix until the plate is done

#nintendo #flippydrive

A picture of the Nintendo GameCube with a PCB hanging out the side with a ribbon cable going back into the GameCube

A picture of a TV showing the cube boot loader menu

#FlippyDrive shipping date delayed a few weeks... still hoping I can get both in time for birthday. Would be fun to do 8-player Double Dash! 👀 #GameCube

Just got my Flippydrive for my Gamecube. Very easy to install. I'm still waiting until I get an SD extender to screw in the 4 Gamebit screws at the bottom of the cube, but outside of that the process of getting this thing installed was really easy and it seems to work well
Still gotta get the SD card set up but when that's done this cube will be unstoppable

Link to flippy: https://www.crowdsupply.com/team-offbroadway/flippydrive

#nintendo #gamecube #consolemodding #flippydrive

A Nintendo Gamecube. The top shell is off, the Disk Drive has been removed, and the Fan/Power button, and Front IO boards are hanging out

A Nintendo Gamecube with the top shell off, Sonic Adventure 2 in the Disk Drive, and a white modchip mounted on the inside connected to a brown ribbon cable coming out of the corner of the metal shielding the Disk Drive is mounted to

A Nintendo Gamecube with the top shell off. The disk drive is inserted, but the Fan/Power board and the Front IO boards hanging out and not attached. A controller, Power Cables, and AV cables are plugged in, and the orange power light on top of the front IO board is on

A Gamecube menu showing an empty screen and empty purple box at the bottom. Text at the top left of the screen shows "cubeboot loader," and large yellow text at the top right reads "BETA TEST - cubeboot rc06"

@flaxless@aus.social thanks so much for the super helpful pointers, esp on the bit about using it while not having to be stuck with JP-region games.

For GameCube, I did find #FlippyDrive which seems like a decent option which would allow me to still play JP CDs + ROMs off of an SD card without the need to solder or perform any mod that couldn't easily be reversed.

Still looking into a similar type of deal for SNES - being able to play off of the original medium (CD/cartridge) and also digital copies of ROMs seems like the perfect balance cos I'd like to avoid hoarding more space than I already am with more games lol.

Stavo guardando questa interessante modifica #FlippyDrive per il #gamecube :

- non richiede saldature 😍
- costa relativamente poco (~50€ compresa spedizione in Italia)
- permette di mantenere il drive ottico
- in futuro potrebbe permettere di collegare dispositivi bluetooth alla console

👀 https://www.timeextension.com/news/2024/08/new-usd38-flippydrive-ode-lets-you-keep-your-gamecubes-optical-drive