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by simlevesque 587 days ago
GameCube hacks are becoming really popular. There's the newly released FlippyDrive which allows booting games from a sd card without soldering or removing the disk drive.

I'm a huge Mario Kart: Double Dash! fan and there's many fan made tracks and fan made roms which includes more tracks and kart.
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jchw 587 days ago
On that note, Picoboot is also amazing. I've set up Picoboot on multiple GameCubes and even a Triforce (an arcade machine platform which has a DOL-001 mainboard strapped into it.) It does require a bit of soldering, and if you want to power the Pico properly instead of abusing the 3.3V pins, that requires a bit more care. But, it's not very many pins to solder, so as long as you are careful not to burn anything it's actually quite approachable for beginners.

(I never bothered with powering any of them from 5V so far and it has been fine so I'm guessing it's usually OK. I have plenty of backup Picos in case one of them gets blown up.)

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bfors 586 days ago
Are folks generally using CRTs or is it common to use a newer upscaling approach?
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simlevesque 582 days ago
The first american GameCube (DOL-001) has a port that can be used to output in 720i. With that port you can use a device like the popular Carby or any device that uses the GCVideo software. You could make your own.

For upscaling there's Prism HD, a more expensive device

https://insurrectionindustries.com/product/carby-v2/ https://github.com/ikorb/gcvideo https://retro-bit.com/prism-hd/

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