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Maybe your games run well off SD, if this is the case, you won't have to switch discs, just have to backup your games on the SD in a SD Gecko or WiiSD.
I understand now why you want a modchip, but if you can't get one to work, hope the SD backup will do just fine.

Sounds like there is some confusion about if the Qoob and Viper chips work on the Q. I know for a fact that at least Qoob Pro works. Because I've seen it in action.
I was dealing with a guy that were selling his Q a while back. I went over to his place to have a look. And his Q booted into the Qoob menu. It was a Qoob Pro running bios 1.3C.
He popped in a burned regular sized DVD game and it ran flawlessly. Unfortunately we couldn't agree on the price so I ended up buying from another guy some time later.

Qoob SX works fine with the Q, this is one I had back in 2014: https://imgur.com/a/Dj9LRFv

Hi guys,

It's been awhile. I was originally on the quest to try and get my Panasonic Qs mod chipped almost 5 years ago, and still haven't been able to, despite wanting to badly.

I can confirm that the XenoGC does not work, I have tried many times, which is unfortunate. However upon stumbling on this (as you can see I still want my Q modded) a new development came to mind.

If it's claimed that the XenoGC can only recognise the 3 drives from standard GameCubes, in theory, if one was to inject the Panasonic drive into the code/bios for it to recognise, will it then work??

Maybe this is possible with a WODE or something similar that would take place between the MB and the optical drive.

Undead Sega wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 15, 2019 2:01 am

If it's claimed that the XenoGC can only recognise the 3 drives from standard GameCubes, in theory, if one was to inject the Panasonic drive into the code/bios for it to recognise, will it then work??

Where did you read this claim?

emu_kidid wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 12, 2019 10:14 pm

To set the modchip facts straight:

XenoGC only supports patching the 3 standard drive firmwares found in retail GameCubes. The Q is slightly different. You can see in the source of the XenoGC that it supports only the 3 [04, 06, 08]: XenoGC's QLite Main.asm.c

libOGC supports the 3 standard drives and the Q with its patches, meaning Swiss can read backups from the Panasonic Q DVD drive: libOGC's dvd.c

This perhaps?

Did I say something wrong??

Undead Sega wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 20, 2019 3:32 pm

Did I say something wrong??

Absolutely not. It was a technically perfect comment. I never had a look at those sources and it was very interesting for me. In theory should be possibile to create a Q-compatible update for the Xeno but I'm not a programmer, sadly.

BTW I found a WIP version of the xeno firmware with the possibility of load a .dol from the memory card. Are there udate on that? Does it work?

count.zero wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 23, 2019 7:49 am

BTW I found a WIP version of the xeno firmware with the possibility of load a .dol from the memory card. Are there udate on that? Does it work?

It works mostly but you'll need a disc in the drive anyway so at that point, you might as well load a DVD-R with Swiss or something. It just replaces the Credits menu / Multi-game selector with a expanded version of the multi-game selector with a very crude DOL loader.

emu_kidid wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 24, 2019 3:45 am

count.zero wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 23, 2019 7:49 am

BTW I found a WIP version of the xeno firmware with the possibility of load a .dol from the memory card. Are there udate on that? Does it work?

It works mostly but you'll need a disc in the drive anyway so at that point, you might as well load a DVD-R with Swiss or something. It just replaces the Credits menu / Multi-game selector with a expanded version of the multi-game selector with a very crude DOL loader.

If it works with a printed disk it's still better because the laser is going to be stressed less that reading a dvd-r. It's a great feature! But I assume there is no way to make it work without a disk, am I right?

count.zero wrote: ↑

Tue May 14, 2019 3:29 pm

emu_kidid wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 24, 2019 3:45 am

count.zero wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 23, 2019 7:49 am

BTW I found a WIP version of the xeno firmware with the possibility of load a .dol from the memory card. Are there udate on that? Does it work?

It works mostly but you'll need a disc in the drive anyway so at that point, you might as well load a DVD-R with Swiss or something. It just replaces the Credits menu / Multi-game selector with a expanded version of the multi-game selector with a very crude DOL loader.

If it works with a printed disk it's still better because the laser is going to be stressed less that reading a dvd-r. It's a great feature! But I assume there is no way to make it work without a disk, am I right?

Not without a lot more logic + memory on the Xeno. You would need to trick the drive into thinking a disc has been inserted and then return enough data to simulate a homebrew disc. At that point you might as well have written a drive emulator (which 2 people seem to be in the midst of doing now anyway).