the other day i was thinking about the idea of gamecube homebrew. i wonder if it'll ever become a thing. i suppose it's hard to test on the real hardware without somewhat invasive modding since the disc format is proprietary... which would also make physical game releases almost impossible...
@typhlosion gamecube homebrew is extremely a thing, there are plenty of popular games (including melee) with exploits that let you launch software from special memory card files and hardmods that can do basically anything up to and including replacing the disc drive entirely
the reason wii homebrew was so big so fast was that it's basically a funny gamecube, and so it benefitted from a healthy gamecube homebrew scene. a lot of wii homebrew (GCMM comes to mind) is one project with the wii and the gamecube as supported compilation targets
@typhlosion ohhhh i gotcha
fully standalone and physical might be a ways off? not sure, i'm not that close to that kind of scene. but i have at least heard of smaller games (like, really small, game jam kinda games) being released in a format that you can load the same way you load backups
@monorail (granted that might be just cos im not looking in the right places)