NintendoAge http://nintendoage.com/forum/ -Sqooner Mod Log - Recent GAMECUBE Case Mods and Chip Installation http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=7&threadid=68800 2012-09-23T12:03:21 -05.00 atari2atari 13 Some folks asked to let 'em know if I ever put the orange ICEDCUBE case Gamecube with the QOOB mod-chip in it up for sale . . .
 
Well, I'm selling it!  I've got a new Gamecube project I am starting, so I am going to let this one go!
 
It's posted over here in the Seller's forum, and comes with LOTS of great extras! - -
 
http://www.nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=84291





-a2a
]]> Mod Log - Recent GAMECUBE Case Mods and Chip Installation http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=7&threadid=68800 2012-04-23T14:26:48 -05.00 atari2atari 13 Amazing work, man. ]]> Mod Log - Recent GAMECUBE Case Mods and Chip Installation http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=7&threadid=68800 2012-04-23T00:59:14 -05.00 atari2atari 13 Mod Log - Recent GAMECUBE Case Mods and Chip Installation http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=7&threadid=68800 2012-04-23T00:55:52 -05.00 atari2atari 13 Mod Log - Recent GAMECUBE Case Mods and Chip Installation http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=7&threadid=68800 2012-04-23T00:18:57 -05.00 atari2atari 13 Mod Log - Recent GAMECUBE Case Mods and Chip Installation http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=7&threadid=68800 2012-04-22T23:18:55 -05.00 atari2atari 13
that has a LED to light up ......drools...


Great work on the gamecube mod's
they look very very good! ]]> Mod Log - Recent GAMECUBE Case Mods and Chip Installation http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=7&threadid=68800 2012-04-22T23:13:07 -05.00 atari2atari 13 Mod Log - Recent GAMECUBE Case Mods and Chip Installation http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=7&threadid=68800 2012-04-22T19:59:36 -05.00 atari2atari 13 Originally posted by: theguy1962

Looks great! How much does a mod like this run you?
You might want to sit down . . . the cost is about $400 for each console.  Each.  That total includes the base console that you start modding with, the parts (chips, wire, cases, switches, etc.), international shipping cost, my own personal supplies and then time and labor . . . precious time and labor . . . 

Originally posted by: K.Thrower

Those look great!

The thing I'm most impressed with is that you unstuck and reapplied those labels, especially the paper serial number one. Care to share your methods? I'm guessing a heat source helped in removal, but does the same adhesive work for the reapplication? Awesome work, very detail oriented.

Thank you!  I have been practicing my Label-Fu for years.  I stay in regular shape by slowly and painstakingly peeling off GOODWILL thrift store labels a few times a week from my new purchases . . .

In all seriousness, it is just a SLOW thing. Peel slloooooooooooooow.  Real slow.  Getting that first "critical corner" up so you have purchase to pull on is crucial.  A sharp object, but NOT a razor, can help to get that edge up.  A razor has the possibility to cut the label.  

And then go slow.  Did I mention to go slow?

I do heat it up just a little bit with a lamp, but that's it.  Sometimes the blow dryer can cause the adhesive to stick more, or separate from the label, actually!

Every label on everything is different, too.  You just have to "know" the label and product, I guess.

Luckily, Nintendo used a sort of metallic label for the model number label, and a thick plastic label for the serial number.

Both of those "kept" there adhesion PERFECTLY with a slow peel, and they stuck right back onto the prepared surface of the new cases like, well, like glue!

Originally posted by: nogrules

This fantastic! Great detail. Can you share the sites that you bought the chip and cases from?

I wish it was that simple!

That's just the thing.  With the exception of the XENO chip (which can be had from a few Canadian websites), there literally isn't ANYWERE that has this stuff in stock!

I seriously DID spent over a month tracking the cases and chips down.  I bought one case from a Canadian website.  They took two weeks to even respond (there are a LOT of "dead" websites out there) and it was the absolute last one they had.  There was NO chance of ever getting more.  Ever.  They are done, liqudating, gone.  Even the purchasing was a PayPal "shot in the dark where I was convinced I was going to be placing a claim after nothing ever arrived.

The other case was from a collector who I tracked down through old "dead" website searching, contacting webhosts for old site owners, and tracking forum discussions for hints of names and sources.  That collector who sold it to me (new in box!) was also from Canada.  The QOOB Pro chip was from an independent fellow "emu_kidid" in Australia (the developer of the excellent 'Swiss' BIOS for the GAMECUBE, incidentally, and all-around excellent fellow modder - - Google him up!).

If you find a source for cases . . . let us know.  Start searching, you'll see what I mean.  There's some random place in Spain that a few folks have looked into . . . but the shipping and communication issues seem to be overwhelming . . .

http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?33393-XCM-Icedcube-cases


Sorry - - I truly am!  I think the GAMECUBE has officially gone 'retro' and now we are going to be trading parts and working with what there is left . . . 



Here's an interesting aside, on that topic - - 

This month GAME STOP announced they would no longer be accepting GAMECUBE consoles and games.  I think  that this officially means that we have entered the retro territory for GAMECUBE . . . . !?

(Article clipped from GameInformer)


Long live the 'cube!


-atari2atari

]]> Mod Log - Recent GAMECUBE Case Mods and Chip Installation http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=7&threadid=68800 2012-04-22T19:32:45 -05.00 atari2atari 13 Mod Log - Recent GAMECUBE Case Mods and Chip Installation http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=7&threadid=68800 2012-04-22T19:00:45 -05.00 atari2atari 13