Question: What can I do if I have a modified GameCube?
Answer: In general, the GameCube is more limited in terms of what it can do than the other two systems. You can technically use it to copy the data from a GameCube disc to your PC, and then stream that data to your GameCube without the original disc in the system. If you’re low and too cheap to support the gaming industry, you can also download other people’s copies of games and play those as well. More honourable uses would be to play import games, which are often the wrong region-codes to play on North American systems. Probably the greatest single reason anyone would ever modify a system, though, has to do with emulation software, and the GameCube is very limited in its support of this. Currently, a modded GameCube is only capable of playing a select few Gameboy Advance games by using emulation software developed by Nintendo somewhere along the line. While a system that can emulate all the old NES and SuperNES ROMS is probably one of the coolest toys a geek can have, the GameCube just isn’t the system for it.
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