GCNET: GameCube Network Adapter for Memory Card Slot
Recently, NeoStormer announced a new product named GCNET, which is compatible with all GameCube models that have a memory card slot. This innovative device aims to revive online and LAN gaming experiences on your original GameCube hardware.
- Plug-and-play solution: No internal modification required for installation.
- Broadband Adapter emulation: Allows enjoying online gaming without the authentic Broadband Adapter, at a lower cost.
- 10BASE-T Ethernet connectivity
Compatible Games: GCNET supports a range of titles, including classics like 1080° Avalanche, Homeland, Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū 10, Kirby Air Ride, Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II and its Plus version, and Phantasy Star Online Episode III: C.A.R.D. Revolution.
Pre-orders are soon to open, with a limited stock available.
How do you feel about the resurgence of online functionality on classic consoles like GameCube through such innovative solutions?
I… Dont know why this exists.
Ive been aware of a few ethernet projects for gamecube and none of them makes sense to me.
All of them use a custom chip/interface and require special code in software.
On top of that, none of them have merged the code into libogc (the open source gamecube homebrew library i help maintain ).
If i were to make a project like this, i’d use a mcu ( pi zero? ) together with a ethernet controller. The mcu would expose the same interface the official bba would, so even games could use it out of the box.
I even made a pcb design for extrems so he had the pcb pinouts just like the official bba to work sonething out of.But hey, what do i know, right?
Could you use this with SWISS and play games using retroNAS?
No, for that you still need a real broadband adapter.
