Correction at 1:41 "500 British Pounds" should have been "500 Thousand British Pounds."

"Gamecube Piracy" *plays Tetra's pirate crew theme* Well played. Well played.

"These marks have to be burned onto the disc using a special laser." *cue footage of Link running for his fucking life from a laser*

1:16 so basically every GameCube game today?

There is another fork of Dolphin called "PrimeHack" made to let you play the Metroid Prime Trilogy with mouse and keyboard like your average FPS (your camera moves while the reticle and aimpoint stays at the middle of the screen). Also other features like instant Visor/Beam swapping and obviously being able to play at higher resolutions if your computer can handle them.

2:43 They have to be written with a laser Shows Link running away from a laser

Theres not enough appreciation for the gamecube’s travel handle.

Very good timing on this video. I recently dusted off my old Gamecube and have begun buying parts to mod it and install an SD card that can run games directly from the console. I've had to purchase everything again from controllers, power cable, to the tv hook ups but I'm excited to finally play some old Gamecube games again as it might be my favorite console ever.

500GBP in the 2000s = over 1 million in USD today? What? Am i misunderstanding or did they misspeak

So if I hack my GameCube do I also get to look like how Mario does in the thumbnail?

I like how all the music tracks chosen for this video are pirate themed.

I rarely seen people who pirate games just because they felt like it, almost everyone who pirates wouldn't be able to buy any games in official ways. The most common story is: they are introduced to gaming by piracy, and then buy merch or the real games when they can. I doubt the games industry would be nearly as big today if there were no illegal copies in humble families or regions with no official releases.

YO MY FRIEND EDITED THIS AND I AM SO PROUD OF HIM.

I’m surprised you didn’t choose MVG to do the voiceover

Holy crap. Kudos to this moders. They’re so talented.

Yo guys great video and thanks for providing credit for my video clips!! BIG FAN ❤

As a person living in South East Asia, I can confirm that piracy is rampant here

Honestly, I just want Nintendo to release the Mario Kart arcade games in a collection. Especially since the only official way of playing them is by getting a giant arcade machine

Thank you so much for covering my article! You guys are one of the big reasons I became a gaming journalist, so thank you thank you thank you! Long live Did You Know Gaming!!!!!!

Giant community "garage" sale. That is what we call a flea market

I never thought I'd hear about Staffordshire in a Did you know gaming video.

This video is genuinely alot of fun and very informative, thank you everyone who made it!

Love the pirate themed game tracks in the background haha

I love how the theme is about the pirates in Wind Waker.

0:49 The only reason the Wii sold well was also because of it being a Wii Sports machine for many families; the game sales weren’t exactly bad, but could have done better for the caliber of games released

seeing that decked out PSO character just made me wanna boot my gamecube back up and grind for the Sealed J-Sword, accomplish what childhood me never could

I don’t know what half the words in this episode meant, but I was kept pretty entertained the whole way through

It sucks that emulators and modded scenes just allows you to enhance the games and its experience way more but they are still seen as morally dubious. The fact that gamecube sales were low because they were so difficult to mod initially says it all. Without piracy, so many games would be lost to the sands of time. In 10 years, I imagine Dolphin emulators would be the only way to enjoy any gamecube games. Nintendo seems just hellbent on never re-releasing any GC games.

Playing Phantasy Star Online on my Gamecube back in 2004 was such a huge part of my childhood, first console live game before Halo 2 a year or 2 later. PSO was LEGENDARY. My friends and I still play it on my Gamecube decades later. The graphics and gameplay didn't age well, but the nostalgia is unbeatable

That very first factoid was just… wrong. I was running GameCube games without the original disc in 2003… 3 years before the Wii. It started with using Phantasy Star Online to load Animal Crossing and other games and chips like TMBINC’s IPL replacement for Linux. It then moved on to the ViperGC with Cobra BIOS (IPL mod) followed by Anaconda DOL (extracted Cobra) installed on a memory card and executed with Samson’s AR Loader (bootstraps from memory card using an Action Replay). From there, we got competing IPL mods like Qoob SX and Pro, then drive chips like XenoGC, then Compact Flash/IDE optical drive emulator like Crazy Nation’s design. Eventually we got loader discs like Datel’s SD Media Launcher which is what we were already doing with Action Replay anyway. Later in the Wii’s life the GameCube got adapted Wii ODEs like WASP followed by today’s options like SP2SP2, GCLoader, and NickDisc + drive mod. One way you know that premise was incorrect is because the Wii’s early piracy was largely enabled by WiiKey and Cyclone, which were essentially identical to XenoGC (Atmel chip). Obviously, Xeno GC was available on GC before Wii existed. Piracy was low for the same reason sales were low in regions where piracy doesn’t factor as much: It was low because fewer people were interested in it. It really is that simple. Pirates often make the opposite claim in order to justify or rationalize what they do. Don’t fall for it. As for Datel, they actually paid Panasonic for the tech to produce GC discs and used a header from NHL Hitz 2003 so that Nintendo would have to block a real game to block theirs. Nintendo eventually DID block Hitz ‘03 on the Wii after Datel started selling Freeloaders and SD Media Launcher for it. SD memory card adapters were not “custom.” Most were just cheap third-party copies of Nintendo’s official SD card adapter that they developed with Panasonic and sold in Japan (mostly for Animal Crossing). I was there in the scene.

Did you just say £500 would be $1,000,000 today? Uhh....

Just an addendum to the Slippi launcher for Melee, it doesn't add just any online matchmaking, it's rollback netcode matchmaking (which is considered better than delay-based netcode as seen in most other fighters such as Smash Ultimate). And the whole thing is optimized for this that it runs much smoother than most games would otherwise. Also the footage used for Melee isn't exactly the one used for rollback netplay. It actually has its own custom UI changes such as prompts on how to start matching with another player on the character select screen and usernames by the character percent and stock icons in-game.

Over 500 British Pounds, or over $1,000,000

1:15 GameCube games would have been so cute if they came in Mini DVD cases.

0:01 Intro is back

I can't stop rewinding the first 10 seconds of this 🤣🤣

I'm from South East Asia, and I can confirm that majority of the people here play pirated games on Nintendo Systems. I have seen multiple friends having Nintendo DS using R4 cards, and back when my dad bought the Wii it came with homebrew to play copied games pre-installed. Nowadays I think people just play free games on Android/iOS.

As a southeast Asian, I never saw anyone own a GameCube rather than my classmate. I remember he brought his GameCube to play Melee and I became the prince of melee in my school. He even thanked me for unlocking Roy and Marth since he hadn't touched melee for 15 years.

It's lousy that the GameCube had such lackluster widescreen support. The only game I own that supports it correctly is Soul Calibur II, whereas Resident Evil 4 only does anoramic and Twilight Princess could have had it just like the Wii version, but Nintendo chose to leave it out. SMH...

Sad you didn’t mention the GC-Loader

Surprised there was no mention of GCLoader ODE

*Everyone else:* "I'm pretty sure 2005 £500 isn't worth 2021 $1,000,000" *Me:* "Isn't a garage sale involving lots of sellers just called a flea market?"

500 British Pounds = 1,000,000 US Dollars? Britain confirmed as Zimbabwe

3:50 Ooh, is that a limited edition model I hadn't seen before? ...Wait, it has the Metroid Prime 4 logo on it... I see, it is a version from THE FUTURE!!!

Thank you Fizzy, Slippi is the best thing ever

as someone who lives in SEA piracy is very rampant to where you could literally just go to a mall where 1 store sells the legitimate copy of game and few stores down you'll see the pirated version with some even outright displaying in front of the store and some of these stores that sell legitimate copies of games offer to hack your system and for a set price of course, and will even offer to put games that are probably pirated or ripped from their own shelves or maybe just downloaded off the internet on the hacked console for set price and nothing is really been done about it, at least in the country where i live. its hilarious to see people pay for pirated games that some pirated retailer just downloaded of the internet and burned it to a cd

2:42 I see what you did there, sneaky editor

Welp, from were i come there were chips for the gamecube, and there where whole market streets filled with games being sold for something like 10 cents. Didn't know people modded the actual gamecube to support actual dvds instead of the mini dvds, cuz all they sold on the market was those mini dvds.

I like how 99% of the comments are about how 500 pounds equates to 1000000 dollars

did anyone else get super uneasy at the picture of all those people in close proximity at 1:36 lmao

in brazil the taxes on games are absurd and the playtation 2 was so popular because of its library and cheap pirated games i didn't even know the original xbox and gamecube existed until the play 4 and xbox one era

8:34 lets goo where is the melee gang at

And no mention of the GCLoader. I'm a tad disappointed

Damn, the pound used to be strong 1:40

Did you know that a Home Brewed Gamecube app called "GCars-CS" or "Gamecube Action Replay Simulator - Controller Simulator" allowed multiplayer games such as Smash Bros Melee to be played Online? Using Pso's back door, loading GCARS-CS with the "Action Replay" codes for the game you're playing online (Smash, Soul Calibur 2, a few others) with 1 person being the host while the other connects via a non-connected second controller.

1:26 how did you get over a million? The most I can get the price up was 1,000$.

I really like those retro stories!

500 pounds in 2005 is over $1M USD??

How SWISS cheesed the Gamecube...

Praise be to Fizzy, delivered justice to Melee fans.

"At a car boot sale, which is like a communal garage sale." Americans call those "Flea Markets." Yes, often "sketchy" goods are sold at those for cheap, including the aforementioned games/videos/etc.

piracy doesn't = a lost sale it = a potential future sale

Oh so maybe that's why the discs were so small.

How the hell did the pound conversion get through without the narrator pissing himself with laughter?

0:27 this led Nintendo to not open official branch for SEA market till this day... Maxsoft is just distributors

I cannot believe that that £500 line made it into the video

1:16 *cries in meele*

1:44 damn they had 3 whole copies of melee?

500 pounds isn’t even close to 2000 dollars, let alone a million

FINALLY ANOTHER GOOD VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

£500 is over $1000000 today? Damn, I knew inflation was bad, but I didn't think it was this bad.

I know jack about how any of the modding is done, but the things that these modders are able to do are crazy interesting nonetheless.

Piracy warning screen intensifies

1:17 “unrealistic price points”… Who gonna tell them😂

With how ridiculous Gamecube prices are nowadays with both hardware and software a video like this comes at exactly the right time.

Ngl I had a plug on every game cube game imaginable. They actually had the mini disc and I didn’t ask any questions 😂

I finally get why they only used Chapter 5 footage from The Thousand-Year Door, lol

This VO sounds like Tomar, I legitimately thought it was him

This was a really informative video

Can confirm, being a child in Southeast Asia during the early 2000s, you either had a PS1, PS2 or a knockoff console. No one cared about the Xbox as it was a new name, and yea, I guess now I know why no game stores brought in the Gamecube.

Its amazing to me that there is still people hard at work tinkering and modding software as well as hardware to achieve feats that we could only dream of back in the day 😶

I’ve never heard of a carboot sale. The brits have some strange names for things.

Talking about the triforce chip reminds me of something from the terminator lol

Great seeing the Fizzi shout-out!

It was very fun to mess around with the GCM loaders from Starcube, Eurasia and Paradox (The PSO and Animal Crossing loaders were awesome!) and when the modchips later arrived everyone was like "thats it???" think the first Xeno had like 4 soldering points and then you had to get your hand on mini DVDs! That was fun, and later there came replacement top shells to replace the standard one. Swiss, with emu_kidid at the helm has really flourished long after the Gamecube wasn't in the spotlight.

a modded wii is a good alternative to play your gamecube games these days, i wish i had the gpu power for dolphin.

Ha! I live just on the border and work in Staffordshire! Never thought my little county would get a mention! Pro tip for the English “shire” counties, don’t ask, but we just pronounce it “sher” . So instead of Stafford-shy-er it’s Stafford-sher. Or some just shorten them so Staffordshire becomes Staffs, Derbyshire becomes Derby, Hampshire becomes Hamps etc

I think you have overestimated the value of £500

I love watching these videos in part because I've dreamed of making games, but never had the time or tech to do more than fill a few notebooks.

Wow, I didn't know that 500 british pounds from 2005 is worth over 1 million USD in 2021!

2:42 Not that special laser

I'm not trying to sound like I'm rule, and not possibly the exception, but I got into both Monster Hunter and Fire Emblem through downloading ROMs. And nowadays, I buy just about everything related to them more than anything else

We need ModernVintageGamer to narrate these topics

I love piracy and hacking for old games that are no longer sold.

I remember goingbover to some kids house in elementary school and his bro had a hacked gamecube with so many burned games the bookshelf in his bedroom was filled to the brim, i remember loking at the bokshelf thinking "do this many gamecube games even actually exist?"

Like the melee shoutout

Why does he talk about Swiss like he's trying to sell it to us...? It's a weird tonal shift in that part.

This one better do well or KZfaq is gonna get it.

SD2SP2 sounds like a Star Wars robot.

Anyone else just zone out and realize they missed a ton of info? ^^;