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I get a little grumpy when it comes to video game ignorance. My apologies.
I know that wikipedia is not an authoritative source. And that is why I tried to provide evidence by proxy that Gamecube discs use DVD-ROM media. I'll try to make it a little simpler:
A DVD-ROM cannot be read in a CD-ROM drive. A DVD uses a shorter wavelength to read bits off of the disc, so a CD-ROM drive cannot physically detect any information on a DVD.
How can the Gamecube play burned DVD-Rs without any modifications to the physical optical drive unless its just a (gasp) DVD-ROM drive?
And if it is a DVD-ROM drive, it follows that Gamecube games are DVD-ROMs.
The Gamecube mod chips seem to be fairly simple to install (connect four wires), and allows you you to load custom bios software onto the Gamecube to disable copy protection so it can play unauthorized DVDs.
I do believe Nintendo did state that Gamecube games are more difficult to pirate than Playstation 2 games. They added more protections (like leaving the first sector of the DVD blank and reading the data backwards), but that doesn't change the fact that it is still a DVD technology. The Xbox does something similar (by spinning the discs backwards).
So I'm not sure how Gamecube games are more proprietary, and how that would equal greater costs.
I know that wikipedia is not an authoritative source. And that is why I tried to provide evidence by proxy that Gamecube discs use DVD-ROM media. I'll try to make it a little simpler:
A DVD-ROM cannot be read in a CD-ROM drive. A DVD uses a shorter wavelength to read bits off of the disc, so a CD-ROM drive cannot physically detect any information on a DVD.
How can the Gamecube play burned DVD-Rs without any modifications to the physical optical drive unless its just a (gasp) DVD-ROM drive?
And if it is a DVD-ROM drive, it follows that Gamecube games are DVD-ROMs.
The Gamecube mod chips seem to be fairly simple to install (connect four wires), and allows you you to load custom bios software onto the Gamecube to disable copy protection so it can play unauthorized DVDs.
I do believe Nintendo did state that Gamecube games are more difficult to pirate than Playstation 2 games. They added more protections (like leaving the first sector of the DVD blank and reading the data backwards), but that doesn't change the fact that it is still a DVD technology. The Xbox does something similar (by spinning the discs backwards).
So I'm not sure how Gamecube games are more proprietary, and how that would equal greater costs.
