Sometimes I wish the Cube didn't have such a small library of really good titles as now that I've dug it out of retirement it appears that I've completed every single game I could have wished to on the machine. All that's left is to replay old gems or step the quality down a notch and play stuff th...

Tried your theory out with Mario Tennis and the game resumed fine. On a related note, what a boring game it is - personally I don't feel its a patch on Super Tennis on the old SNES and the difficulty level seems quite tame. Probably totally different if you were to play it with friends but as a solo...

I've come across what you're talking about too. Try different burn speeds and you'd be suprised. Also, to test the media and not the burnt data necessarily, try Mario Tennis, start a match and leave it paused for a good 30 minutes. The laser won't try to read any data during that time, but you will...

@kel01 I think you may be right about the NEC chipset. I just burnt Starfox Adventures as @emu_kidid recommend and he's correct. The burn that I did on my NEC plays perfectly with minimum noise from the drive whereas the other copy (burnt on a standard Matshita drive) seems to make the GC labour a h...

If you really want to test the laser out for sync/focus/tracking, try out an Audio Streaming game which has the files positioned badly. PAL Star Fox Adventures comes to mind as it will cache/seek/thrash between streaming audio and cutscenes at times. Perfect, that's exactly what I was looking for. ...

Indeed, conductivity is the key and over time the pads on the back of the buttons lose it.

Just thought I'd share this tip as its a lot easier and cheaper than hunting out new membranes for old school machines like the NES, SNES and Megadrive.

one key thing to remember is that you'll probably have to be pretty pedantic with how the board is positioned in another controller Yes but thankfully the zero point of the Xbox controller is bang on the middle of the Gamecube controller in my totally non technical guesstimation meaning the acceler...

Thanks, that whole transcoding thing sounds like a bit of hoo haa to go through as I don't have an SD setup. I may burn a copy of Eternal Darkness and give it a try as I just want to satisfy my curiosity and see why I've got some games burnt 3 times on different media with cryptic symbols on the dis...

Which games read close to the edge so I can test the quality of my burns/laser?

Thanks

Heres a tip that may help some folk out: The buttons on my controller had became a bit lax of late, taking more and more pressure to register. I opened up the controller, cleaned the black part of the rubber moulding and the circuit board and then took a piece of double sided sticky tape, removed th...

I saw one of these Tilt Board addons for the Xbox 360 and thought how cool it would be to add tilt to Cube. It works by replacing the left analog input with tilt sensitivity instead which I think would be a really cool feature in certain games (ie. Luigis Mansion/F Zero). You can view the install ma...

Signed up just to say thanks for this most excellent post. Muchly appreciated as I couldn't find these disks anywhere these days.

Now to dust off the old Cube...

NintenDragon wrote:A quick FYI for anybody in the UK,