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
@monorail sorry - i guess i meant "a thing" in the sense that e.g. nes or dreamcast homebrew are a thing, with fully standalone homebrew games still being made and sometimes physically released to this day. i'm not aware of such projects for the gamecube
