Gamecube Emulator?

[qalimas]

Yeah well, my sisters just dropped my Gamecube for about the 100th time, and it died >< It won't play any games or anything, and I have a fairly large collection of Gamecube games, and I don't have the money for another Gamecube. Is there any possible way to play these games on the computer? Specifically under Hoary?

[Ridley]

Yeah well, my sisters just dropped my Gamecube for about the 100th time, and it died >< It won't play any games or anything, and I have a fairly large collection of Gamecube games, and I don't have the money for another Gamecube. Is there any possible way to play these games on the computer? Specifically under Hoary?
You're pretty much SOL. Gamecube spins the Mini-disks backwards. It's pretty propritary and no one can emulate them.

[qalimas]

Nintendo is too smart... XD

Thank anyway, I'll go find me a little summer job and buy me a new one

[dolny]

Get a one for me too. Thanks in advance.

[slux]

Well, there are a few cube emulators but they're mostly for helping with homebrew development. The gamecube has a little under 500MHz PowerPC CPU and that can't really be emulated by a modern PC as emulation is *very* resource intensive. (Although I'm very much waiting to see how the Xbox 360 will handle backwards-compatibility as it's not a small feat even if PPC can emulate x86 a little better than vice versa).

The spin direction thing is a myth BTW, I think. Nowadays we even have homebrew stuff that can read a burned disc AFAIK. :)

[stubby]

Perhaps a look at Ebay might help?

[meldroc]

Well, there are a few cube emulators but they're mostly for helping with homebrew development. The gamecube has a little under 500MHz PowerPC CPU and that can't really be emulated by a modern PC as emulation is *very* resource intensive. (Although I'm very much waiting to see how the Xbox 360 will handle backwards-compatibility as it's not a small feat even if PPC can emulate x86 a little better than vice versa).

The spin direction thing is a myth BTW, I think. Nowadays we even have homebrew stuff that can read a burned disc AFAIK. :)
Yeah, what he said. Modern systems, even top of the line systems, don't have enough horsepower to emulate a Gamecube. An 8088 running Pac-man, yes. A 68000 running Neo-Geo stuff, yes. A Gamecube needs too much horsepower. Even if an emulator was available, you'd be playing your games in slow-motion.

[bored2k]

Perhaps a look at Ebay might help?
A gamecube is cheap enough in EBgames.com or any of the stores (used or not).