PAL Gamecube?

[Liquid Neon]

I know this is a PS2 place, but i thought i woudl check anyway:

Does anyone know if a PAL Gamecube can play Imports/Copied DVD games?

I have a DVD burner, i THINK it can write the small dvd's (like 8-Inch or whatever they are)

There is a product calle Freeloader coming out by Datel (the people who make Action Replay/Gameshark), it allows the playing of Imports on any Gamecube, anyone know if it will allow copies to be played?

If not, any other way?

[Elucifer]

where do you find blank mini-dvd's... i thought that was the whole point of nintendo using the mini-dvd thing, so that people couldn't copy the games. I reckon if you could find blank mini-dvd's u'd be fairly sweet.

Maybe the freeloader thing u'r talking about is aimed at the Panasonic Q instead??

El

[Joe Mama]

I have seen mini DVDs somewhere... It might have been when I was snatched up by aliens and taken to Area 51. Man.. I know I have seen the Minidvds... But as far as the chip for PAL consoles. I just remember the chip for playing JAP imports on NTSC consoles. PAL consoles... Hmmmmm where is Lik-Sang when you need em??
-Me

[BigGanja]

Free loader IS REAL and it is for ANY cube NTSC/PAL Q or Nintendo, I dunno if it would work with copies though my guess is that it wouldn't, BUT however if you wanna play backups i have heard that someone is currently making a workaround for this, Dont ask WHO WHERE i dunno i just heard it from quite a reliable source !!

It involves using one of the expansion Bays @ the bottom of the cube and hacking a standard DVD drive to run on the cube instead of the Toploading drive, sounds expensive though to me !!!!?!

[necrolop]

mini dvds have nothing to do with y its not hacked.

[AgentX]

Originally posted by necrolop
mini dvds have nothing to do with y its not hacked.

Its cause the DVDs have data starting from the outside going in, nintendos copy protection is based more on hardware obscurity, as far as I kno there have been no reports of pirating GC games