Just noticed this browsing eBay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Very-Rare-N...1737157410?pt=Video_Games&hash=item3a9cb42f22 What threw me was the description: "Up for sale in a Nintendo GameCube NR Reader with a retail disc drive. This allows you to play retail games in both US and Japan formats. These units were shipped with a special drive that only reads special NR discs, but I switch the drive out so you can play all games. Very Rare. This particular unit was used at Sega of America during testing of software. Own a piece of History!" From what I understood the drive is the part that determines what it can load - so, in this case, if they've taken out the original NR disc drive and replaced it with a stock one from a retail unit - then am I right in assuming it won't load NR discs anymore?
That's a joke. You're right-the disc drive is the only part of the NR reader that makes it special. Even the IPL versions are the same between retail and NR cubes. What you're buying is a fancy case. He probably put the NR drive in a retail cube and wants to make back the money spent of buying the original NR cube.
