Homebrew HDD adapter for Gamecube Tutorial

[gtmtnbiker]

Bluechip v9. I bought two and one turned out to be a clone which had different components placed randomly on connections - hence the delays I've been having..

Which website did you buy it from? I see that Eurasia.nu has some for sale for $9.

http://www.eurasia.nu/shop/product_info ... 2d3ac21342

[emu_kidid]

Yeah I bought it from eurasia. I bought two and the two I bought were not the same, one was a clone with different connections, so you have to be careful.

[liquitt]

aaaahhh emu there we go! had quite some time off the internet, including vacation etc. and now i'm back - and find this. awesome!
as i said, i'd gladly be your beta tester....and i'm also looking into building this baby. we'll see!

[liquitt]

btw,

Go to the Xilinx web site and register so you can download their free ISE WebPACK software to program the CPLD

http://www.xilinx.com/products/design_r ... /index.htm

is the now called ISE DesignSuite 12.3 ?

[liquitt]

btw,

Go to the Xilinx web site and register so you can download their free ISE WebPACK software to program the CPLD

http://www.xilinx.com/products/design_r ... /index.htm

is the now called ISE DesignSuite 12.3 ?

nevermind, it says

Download Includes

* ISE WebPACK (Free)

[emu_kidid]

I didn't get the whole 3GB package, just grab the Lab Tools by themselves.

[liquitt]

too late

have to wait for my blue modchips first though

[emu_kidid]

I managed to get it working with my own code, got about 910kb/s from an old 10GB hdd. I'm still yet to develop code for ingame read replacements so I'm not entirely sure how it's looking.

[emu_kidid]

Some further progress (disregard 0.5 version identifier and the GUI, it's all being re-written):




I am going to be away for the next week, but after that I'll implement the ability to actually boot up games.

[liquitt]

nice!

[liquitt]

i'll be using one of these for powering the hdd btw:


no need for a computer power supply and you can switch to usb mode to your computer easily by switching the ide cable

[emu_kidid]

Almost got it working with my code in-game.. speeds are quite nice after I used a newer 7200rpm hdd

[linkerm]

hello my friends very tanks for you answers and sorry for not reply. Thanks to dampro an the others for reply my question about the chips. . Have another question. Is possible upgrade this proyect with a sata interface? The ide hdd is discontinued and is very easy buy a sata hdd. O using and hdd ide-sata adaptor. Other question, what is the maximun capacity of hdd suport? Is unlimited? Or limited? Thanks an excuse me for my poor english.

[emu_kidid]

I have IDE to SATA I will try. Right now it's limited to 137GB but this should soon be fixed.

[linkerm]

thanks so much emu_kidid i have the nice idea to use a 2.5 hdd sata (notebook hdd) 120gb (is very easy to buy) but i not sure may works. Maybe can be tray with a sata to ide adaptor. What do you think bro?

Others: Is the motion video of games displayed correctly? or not? and the loads of games is much better and fast to normal? or not? Elfs and dols can be launch? all gc games are compatible? and last: is the lens works anytime or stop? need a original disc how the sd boot? Thanks

[emu_kidid]

Got it working with my own code, ingame. Cutscene speeds are a bit worse than sd-boot, but there's A LOT of room for improvement which is what I'll be working on over the next week or so. I also plan to add LBA48 support so that there can be up to 2TB hdd's supported.

[liquitt]

i can totally see myself setting up a gamecube RAID

[yamaharacer]

hi
is there any release of the dvd-emulator in near future or is it better to build such a hdd adapter and wait for new sd-boot? what do you mean?

emu kidid how is the statud for a sd-card version that supports this adapter?

[antalpromille]

i finnaly got the one i made working, both the harddrive and the ide-cable was faulty. so now my custom made hdd adapter made to fit inside the external harddrive case works. when do you think we´ll se the new software for the cube?

[liquitt]

photos? <3

[antalpromille]

here is some pictures of the adapter i made. built to fit and replace the usb to ide pcb inside an external hdd closure. the chip itself is on the bottomside of my pcb just to make it fit inside, and its using power from the closure to the harddrive and it also uses the original activity led from the closure. atm its running a beta from emukidid.

i had my own doubts about this since i had alot of problems making it work, but now you can se for your self

greetings from sweden!

[liquitt]

nice! good job!!

[yamaharacer]

dies anyone have shematics for this device? its very difficult to understand how I have to solder anything.

[emu_kidid]

I will have to make a newer guide.. if you follow the first guide, I can help you out along the way.

[yamaharacer]

the main problem is that there is nowhere a partlist with things that I need to build this device.

I think its better when I wait for your new guid. hope that it will be released soon.