MayhemUK wrote:No, but impossible currently. Besides obviously needing the mini CDRs to burn on, you'll need a burner that does the disc from the outside inwards (because that's how the Gamecube laser reads things). That was just another of Nintendo's little tricks to try and reduce possible piracy. So far I've only heard of copied discs on standard (ie. Q) size...
Interesting - but perhaps - couldn't Unity itself just read the MP3s when it needs to? Or is it just hard-wired into the drive? I didn't know that about the 'Cube. Interesting. That could be a huge problem in my little fantasy world of a VLM-3 throbbing away to my own music...
dtj wrote:How far-fetched is it to pop a CDR in your Gamecube? Boot Unity, start the VLM, open your GC and drop in a CDR... far-fetched?
No, but impossible currently. Besides obviously needing the mini CDRs to burn on, you'll need a burner that does the disc from the outside inwards (because that's how the Gamecube laser reads things). That was just another of Nintendo's little tricks to try and reduce possible piracy. So far I've only heard of copied discs on standard (ie. Q) size...
Unless they've actually fiddled the hardware, it's probably just the case that the boot loader is instructed to read the disk starting from the last track.
If you need to load the game into memory first, before reading audio from a CD, I suspect the control of the disk can be managed by the game, allowing it to expect and manage a standard format 'pocket CD'.
Even if the hardware is modified, it could manage it once the game developer has his code running.
Rambozo wrote:The Panasonic Q thing was a hoax. The Gamecube has not been cracked.
The Gamecube laser is completely incapable of reading CD-Rs or RWs, it will only read the proprietary disc format that official GCN games use. Gamecube has not been hacked and likely will never be until someone figures out how to remove the drive and get it to read from a standard DVD drive instead.
Well that sucks.
It was my understanding that it was a standard multi-read laser - not some pricey proprietary piece of hardware.
IIRC, the nintendo GC GD-ROM drive is pretty standard, but theres some proprietory firmware to stop disks other than GD-ROMs from playing (via sub-layer disk IDs??).
also, GD-ROMs are supposed (allegedly) to be encrypted on disk and decrypted in memory.
of course, could be completely wrong...
JonR.
"you are the angel of death and I am the deadmans son..."
M wrote: Pant-wetting stuff! And does anyone else share my enthusiasm for the Cube´s controller - it just sort of feels "right", you know? Methinks Unity has the perfect home!
Anyway, (belated) congratulations all round!
Yeah! The cube controller is the best gamepad I've ever used. All others seem kludgy after using it for a while!
while I think it is wrong to scan the magazine before it is even released
Perhaps, but then it's not going to stop anyone buying the mag. Hell, at least I'll know what I'm looking for when I go to the newsagents
Damn cool covers though. Can just imagine those who are not wise to the ways of the Yak picking that up and thinking "what the f......"
hey, classy keyboard sty!
Yea, that's one of those Apple "mega-mega-white-thing" keyboards that they started shipping with iMacs about a week after I bought mine. Baaastards....
I knew Edge had a thing for Jeff and his games (G++ preview, Yak interview, AMC retrospective, interview in retro, big Nuon feature et al.....just in the last 6 months or so!) so I was expecting perhaps a 1 or 2 page preview.
Won't have any trouble finding that in the Shops eh
was going to say, "Snakey, if you have trouble figuring out which one has the yak announcement in, find the one with the fecking huge llama on the front"
hmmmm, it can't get over here any sooner......
JonR
"you are the angel of death and I am the deadmans son..."
One would think that you could stream music off of a second piece of hardware (like a PC) using the Broadband adaptor. I don't know how much extra programming it would require to do though. Isn't there a hard drive out for GC yet?
Thats a kewl idea - and it could open the doors to multiplayer Unity/VLM goodness in the bargain That'd kick ass, especially if everyone was using the same music. Llamasoft clubbing in the comfort of your own front room anyone?
Pant-wetting stuff! And does anyone else share my enthusiasm for the Cube´s controller - it just sort of feels "right", you know? Methinks Unity has the perfect home! 
Anyway, (belated) congratulations all round! 
