The (Dead?) Gamecube > IDE mod...

I would definitely love to hear about it.

 

Bookmarked this thread too ^_^

 

i would buy one adapter too if you sell them

 

Isn't that just a software issue? mIOS is responsible for slowing down the CPU and locking out all the extra Wii stuff - just patch that to grant access to whatever you need.

 

Looks like Crediar is responding to questions about his Starfox Assault POC. Send your questions to him via Twitter.

https://twitter.com/BroadOn

 

Wasn't planning to create boards to sell as it is not my design or software. I don't think it would be cool to profit off of someone else's work like that but I am willing to post my work as I build it out to help others. If I do end up designing my own version of the board I will happily release anything I develop to others.

Putting together final parts list for an order over the weekend.

 

Ah right, is it based on CN's version?
How are you getting a one-off fabricated? Years ago I asked about getting something done and the places I tried weren't interested unless it was a run of at least 100 =/

 

and how would you interpret the USB access over EXI bus in GC mode? I don't follow, as I m not aware of any method of loading "modern" wii devices when in GC mode. If it was as easy as you suggest people would have already tried it perhaps with universally successful results. To this day, if you search google you ll come next to zip about loading GC games off a USB HDD.

The mios cuts out access to the usb ports completely

you can try this though:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTPq6J5eVds

 

I've got a DVD->SD prototype sitting here which will boot a .GCM from sector X on the SD card. It's a full DVD replacement not a pass-thru but it's still in development. It will add a SATA port in the future, but development has been on and off for 2-3 years.

The Wii can play back GC Games from HDD using the WODE but it doesn't support Audio streaming titles such as Wave Race, Ikaruga, etc.

Edit: The adapter I have is the continuation of this adapter you can see here: http://nintendo-scene.com/827

 

Ah, was it you that made the one in the pictures or is that someone else's?

 

I posted this link earlier in the thread.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT-4RofyV9I

It is from the Wii homebrew developer crediar.

 

colour me extremely excited, is this universal for all games? I have a TON of GC games I hate lugging around so I don't play them all that often

 

Crediar made a nice posting with lots of info on how he was able to do GameCube iso loading in Wii mode. See the posting here at this url
http://rvlution.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=396

 

I think I have actually discovered what going insane feels like.
My cyclone III development kit arrived today and in traditional chinese fashion the CD has the altera software on it with various cracks and whatnot.

Opened the software and I haven't got a bloody CLUE what to do, the help files on the CD are all in chinese and unusable to me, and the tutorial in the quartus II software expects you to already have a solid-base knowledge of Electrical Engineering... Heh, this really was the wrong thing to pick...!

 

Um, you learn digital logic THEN learn how to use programmable logic THEN get some solid experience THEN plan ambitious projects lol

Quartus is actually pretty easy to use, just start a new schematics based design, grab the constraints file that came with your board, wire something up and test it out. For a sanity check just wire a switch or button to a LED (assuming your board has them).

 

My board has the perhiphery addon with everything on it.
Thing is, I didn't get a constraints file. I got a CD (half the things on the CD have square blocks in the name which is because I don't have the chinese fonts I guess) with some weird stuff on it. The quartus II on it (a cracked copy) didn't work so I went and got the web starter edition of version 9.1!
And yeh lightning struck very close to here the other day and destroyed all NICs that were being used and I've not actually tested to see if my development board has been damaged (was plugged into my PC that froze at the time) so I'll have a check of that later.

Any idea of where I could grab this constraints file or what the file extension is?

 

Xilinx tools use .ucf for constraints

In Quartus you open the Pin Assignments tool and enter in the pins for your signals there.

There should be a PDF or text file with a long list of the assignments and what they are.

 

You can also look for a QSF file (which might have a blank/sample project all ready to use).

 

I've found some samples on the CD of each individual part on the periphery board (VGA, keys, IR, PS2, etc.) with samples in VHDL and Verilog... Seeing as I know neither of those languages I opened the LCD sample and messed about in both and they are both hideious languages! Horrible. VHDL is just terrible, the whole array whereby you have to assign value to it longly like name(index) = value; is daft. Verilog looked promising but has some invisible defines that I can't see anywhere so I've given up with it.

There are ucLinux files too, which interest me the most but I've no idea how to use it? Got the prebuilt .flash (2.8MB?) onto the onboard flash chip, downloaded the SOF file to it over JTag but it won't allow me to connect with Nios2-terminal for some reason (no UART session or something?) and just has a messed up letter on the LED8 lights...

So yeh not the best purchase! But I'll have to try and learn!

 

just use google translate and see if you can sort it from there