After playing with the Xbox awhile, I think it’s time to move on. Now, I’m not saying I don’t enjoy my xbox, but the whole “modding” fun of it has definitely worn off. Now it’s time to move onto a new challenge: the Gamecube.
The gamecube is more of a challenge for a number of different reasons. First of all, there’s no built in NIC, you have to go purchase the broadband adapter (bba). Secondly, the bba is limited to speads of 27Mbps. Thirdly, there’s no harddrive that can have software loaded onto it. And finally, in order to get into the gamecube you have to own Phantasy Star Online 1 & 2 (pso), which is a very hard game to find.
Now, to get this to work, you load up PSO, and then on the pc you load up the streaming software (psoload, or psul). Then, you attempt to connect to one of sega’s online servers, but you actually put your pc’s ip address as the server ip. That way, pso is fooled into thinking it should be getting data from your pc. Now, the pc software streams the game image to your gamecube. Sounds easy enough in theory, but it’s definitely hit or miss right now. What also makes it difficult is that there is practically no community what-so-ever that keeps software updated, or tries new things. It’s as if when 2004 came around, all developement stopped.
What makes this even more funny is that I don’t even have a gamecube yet. I’m working with Aaron Binford and his newly acquired gamecube to all the testing and whatnot. So far we’ve had great success, but we’re stuck on a couple of games, notably Luigi’s Mansion, which is a game both of us want. I’ll keep everyone updated because I know YOU want to know 🙂