WTB: Chipped Gamecube.

I'm looking for a chipped Gamecube, that can run backups. I bought an XENO chip and it came in two pieces. I invested enough money, I might as well get one already chipped. Looking for a DOL-001.

 

I have a few chipped gc's for sale. Not at a computer at the moment, not near the cubes. But I assume that's the model with digital out? Also, where in the world?

 

Yeah the digital out. I'm lightly considering getting another cube modded later (few imports I care about). Novelty value to compare different mod chips first hand, I guess.

 

Yeah, I need one with digital out because I actually have the component cable. So I need one with the digital out.

Also, I've been doing some research on the Gamecube (by no means am I a Gamecube expert) and apparently the DVD is not locked to the motherboard, so I wouldn't mind just getting a DVD board with the XENO chip on it. I could be wrong though.

 

Whats wrong with your board?

Couldnt you just ship it and the chip to someone and have it fitted?

Even to me, that wouldnt cost much

 

Like I said in the OP, the chip came in two pieces, broken in half. So I don't have a working chip. I rather buy one already working. What I mean by that, either a Gamecube/DVD drive with the chip already soldered in.

I don't want to order another chip from the same guy I got it from for obvious reasons. I looked for other sources, can't really find other chips. Might as well get one that's all good to go and working on a Gamecube.

 

I have chips.

 

Well, if you can get the chip, solder it on to a Gamecube/DVD drive compatible for a DOL-001, then I would like to buy one. :thumbsup:

Plus I've read you do good work. Just let me know a price.

 

I do not have any spare drive boards, only complete consoles

That's why I suggested you send me your board, install chip and return it.

Maybe worth weighing the board and see how much the shipping is each way, then we can see if its actually worth doing that way.

 

I'll take a complete Gamecube console chipped. I might not have been to clear about that, but I would have been willing to take a complete Gamecube with chip this whole time. I just meant by that post that I would be willing to take a DVD drive that is already chipped as well, as long as it worked for my Gamecube.

So just let me know how much it would cost for a complete DOL-001 Gamecube chipped with digital out + shipping to the US.

 

Last thing...

The Cubes I have are PAL, which means 50hz...

Long as you are fine with that, I will get a shipping price

 

If it's chipped, it won't really matter right? The console with the chip will play both NTSC and PAL and will display 60Hz with NTSC right?

 

I know you can hold B on some PAL games to select 60hz if the game supports it. So NTSC games should all support it.

I will try testing a NTSC game on one of them to see if it works.

 

I have run NTSC-U backups on my PAL GC. The only think I would be concerned with is the power supply. I know my USA N64 works on a UK power supply, but I'm not sure about a UK GC on a US power supply.

 

Are you 100% sure that the chip is broken in half and that it's not 2 whole xeno chips? I think they're made from a giant PCB and then trimmed/snapped into individual chip boards.

The xeno chip is pretty small and I can't imagine that it would break in half.

 

Well if you took 2 parts of the chip, and put them together, and they looked like this, then I'm pretty sure it's broken in half.

It really is not that hard to tell. It was shipped half way across the world, in a single white envelope, with no bubble wrap. Only protection was the anti-static bag. And it managed to break. How? Not quite sure. Broken. Yes.

 

Y'know, you could always build your own XenoGC chip... The source was released.

http://www.gc-forever.com/wiki/index.php?title=XenoGC_Clone

Has some diagrams, link to the google page with the source, etc.

 

I bought my xenogc's cheaper than the ATmega8L costs to make one.

tho, i do have a bunch of at90usb162's which are same/similar spec. wonder if i can compile it for those

 

Ok, just wanted to make sure that it was really broken. I've gotten the Qoob chip which comes on one board that you break into two pieces to install so the idea of having multiple boards on one PCB exists.

 

I've chipped the DVD portion of things and swapped them between GameCubes before. At the very least mine were interchangeable with the XenoGC installed. Can't speak for any other chip.

The Cube uses 12vdc for input, I've run them off my computer power supply while testing them before without trouble. I'd strongly wager a US power brick would work fine on a UK GameCube.