Random: Modder Guts A Nintendo GameCube And Turns It Into A Modern Gaming PC

I've recently discovered that a gamecube can be modded to play back up copys of games using a gamecube SD card adapter and an action replay disc so i may toy around with that soon. Loved that little box of gaming Joy! People said it was lame compared to PS2 but i knew better! Bought mine at launch and stayed up all night playing Luigi's mansion and star wars rogue leader! Good times!

If you can fit a gaming PC into an NES shell, you might as well take my money now.

How about you use emulators on your PC and keep playing all the games you like. There's even Gamecube like controller for PC. It's funny how people turn their hardware into other hardware. Well they have skills that's for sure. I wouldn't go all that trouble. Well each his own

Hope that Cube was dead
I'm fine with people modding working hardware in to other working hardware ( ie a portable n64 )
But a working Cube ?

That's one step too far for me.

Well as it's a modern gaming pc it's still able to run gamecube games. Best of both worlds

Would not give up all those wonderful 'Cube games just to play PC games, and Dolphin's "not quite there yet" in terms of serious playing. Plus native GBA support is always nice.

I'd much rather have a Gamecube to be honest, much better games than Fortnite and Far Cry 5 for a start

@carlos82 Fortnite and Far Cry 5 aren't the only games on PC

@carlos82
There are much better games than Fortnite and Far Cry 5 on PC as well

@shaneoh @sanderev are you meaning to tell me that the 3 games Nintendolife mentioned aren't the only PC games available? Well I never

I like the GameCube Ashtray better.

That's darn right sacrilege.

Lock him up.

@gcunit

You would say that with that name of yours. ^.~

I once toyed with doing this, however the GameCube is still a piece of hardware that I believe puts modern consoles (and PCs) to shame. It's loading times alone urinate on Wii U/Xbox and Switch loads and some of my all time favourite games are on the machine. Hopefully the New boxes actually load quickly instead of taking us back to pre ZX spectrum and Atari ST times like the current machines have. Embarrassing.

@KitsuneNight That's where the name comes from. Back. In. The. Day my brother!

DIY is something to always see happen. Buy why not make it a modern N64 upgrade instead of putting a PC inside a N64. But one must ask for all this was it worth it? It's not a N64 anymore but a PC also if you noticed his PC was already in it's own small box and taking it to put into a N64 leaves me wondering was it worth it?? Emulating is one thing but to put a PC into a N64 doesn't do it justice.

@WaffleKnight it'd probably be easier because a NES has a bigger foot print than a GameCube

@gcunit

Sadly my Cube is a Wii
It's perfectly functional , but not really the same.

I can see that it’s an interesting idea but the question is why?

They have talent but I’ve never been a fan on the silver gamecube. Black or even orange would have been nice colors to pick.

If anyone has a laptop or pc,download Ishiiruka Dolphin emulator.Its capable of running GameCube and Wii games at 50-70 FPS.Seriously it’s legit and it’s free download.

it's capable of running titles like Fortnite and Counter-Strike Global Offense in full 1080p, while games like Far Cry 5 are cut back to about 25 fps. This makes no sense. Is it 25fps @1080p?

@WaffleKnight of course you could. There’s more room in a nes

@SwitchForce you mean Gamecube right? No N64's here but I doubt there would be the space in an N64 to fit a PC in because of the lack of vertical height.

@Zenszulu

You could with a NUC
Or a LattePanda or other single board or micro motherboard computers.

Like this one.
It looks promising.
https://youtu.be/-nQxIjqm-FA

Look! A Nintendo console that doesn’t play Nintendo games!

Oh... yeah... that’s nice I suppose.

@WaffleKnight I am sure it has been done.
I KNOW that years ago I saw someone put some kind of mini PC board into a Windows (the OS software) retail box. Like XP or Vista or something around that era. I'm guessing it was about the same size as usual PC game boxes up to the mid 2000s.

in 2008 I put a mini itx / atom-ion in a NES case... the raddest media center I ever own.

But that wasn't a gaming pc by FAR.

Kudos !!

@gcunit

The fact that people describe GameCube as "back in the day" just serves as a reminder to me that I'm slowly dying...

God how did I get so old...

@Zeldafan79 It's even easier with a Wii (also with GC backup discs).

It'd be great if someone made one that booted straight to Dolphin and could still used the disc drive so you could play original games except it rendered them all in 4K 60fps.

@Zeldafan79 ir just mod a wii. It is easier and backing up games is easy. I had to mod my wii because the disk drive had issues

@KitsuneNight why does it matter? It's his not yours. Bit what I hate is when competitive smash players smash their gamecube controllers

@AlienX what do you mean? Dolphin runs at perfect speed and better? Have you ever used Dolphin? And if so when was the last time?

@carlos82 bruh the pc has better games then that plus all gamecube games lol

@gcunit and how? Does it affect you? No? That's what I thought

@MrGawain emulators are a thing. Just saying

@Frontiersmann bruh I grew up with the gamecube and wii and I'm 17 you're not that old

@PickledKong64 the last time I used dolphin it didn't run all Gamecube games perfectly, Rouge Leader for example was a mess. I'd still much rather have a Gamecube than a mediocre gaming PC

@PickledKong64 I really doubt you will agree but here goes: Just because you haven't experienced problems doesn't mean dolphin is perfect, far from it, dolphin doesn't have perfect compatibility, and it just so happens to have problems with one of my favorite GC games, it's... playable at best.

Dolphin's enhancements are "just not enough" to enjoy playing a game where performance is better on the real thing, waaay better.

Anyway, in the context of this article, I doubt you'll find a PC that can fit on a GC and also run dolphin with enhancements, without speed issues, which is the point I was making in the original comment.

@PickledKong64

Cause it's a working Cube taken out of the game.
And there are only so many of the buggers, the less there are the more expensive they wil become.
And the Cube is already bloody expensive as is.

Granted the Wii can play Cube games but its not exactly the same.

@KitsuneNight I guess so but it was a broken one. Personally I'm okay with the wii but I guess I see your point.

@AlienX then just say that lol

@PickledKong64 It's not my problem if people don't have experience with dolphin. The message could not be clearer.

@AlienX bruh of you literally talk to anyone who's used dolphin most ppl say ot
Its beyond good. You seriously r the 1dt person who has said otherwise. You must have a crap pc

@PickledKong64 then read my comments again, because I never said dolphin wasn't good.

And no, my PC can run The Last Story, upscaled, at near full speed, one of the harder games to emulate just fyi. It's a crappy experience but still impressive.

@carlos82 Rouge Leader?

@ThanosReXXX 😂😂😂, yeah it was the special edition. So much better than Rogue Leader 😉😂

@carlos82 I'm glad you can take a joke. It's so typical though, how this particular misnomer keeps coming back every now and then. It's the gift that keeps on giving...

@KitsuneNight Watch the vid. Broken off ebay.

Very cool to watch through, he was very descriptive. Very talented. Funny that people are upset, hahaha. I love the Gamecube!

@KitsuneNight Weird way of looking at it, because the older the hardware, the more rare it'll be in working condition.

@KitsuneNight AgrEED, my dude.

Great now it’s just a generic emulation box hopefully he didn’t threw away the original Nintendo psu, motherboard and drive and sold it to someone that needs it. Nothing beats the original hardware, oem, apart of gaming history, no lag, supports discs, peripherals and will not go out of date like many of these emulator boxes. Also these Gamecubes are no longer being made and continue to become more rare and expensive and we will not see an accurate Analogue like clone of these for a very long time due to its complexity.