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 Is the disc format proprietary? I thought it was a standard 8 cm mini-dvd, like the ones they sold for camcorders
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@Hearth physically it's the size of a dvd but im pretty sure the format differs. iirc it's something to do with encryption that involves a YAG-laser burst cutting area engraved into the disk

@typhlosion i think that's just the copy protection that a modded console would ignore anyway
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@Hearth i mean ideally you wouldn't need a modded console to play a homebrew game you bought a disc for

@typhlosion @Hearth yeah there's a reason the dreamcast tends to receive more of these in comparison

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