Nintendo GameCube Green NR Reader - Rare Variants - Adam Koralik
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- It's Adam Koralik here and today we're discussing one of the oddball limited versions of the Nintendo GameCube. Well, sort of. This is actually a GameCube NR Reader, a piece of development kit hardware. Originally used to allow developers to test their games with use of special Nintendo approved DVD-Rs.
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The NR Reader was most useful for testing your game's behavior when running off of optical media (closest to a real-world scenario). Other GameCube development hardware, namely the NPDP-GDEV and SN-TDEV, used optical disc drive emulation to communicate with a PC holding your game's rom.
Edit: The device in SP2 is the SN Systems ProDG Devlink. It provided a USB interface to stream content to and from a GCN and a PC.
Also the Wii RVT-R Reader can play any region NR disc.
Are you speaking from personal experience? Having to constantly re-order Nintendo's proprietary mini-discs seems like a good reason not to develop games for the damn thing.
@@VicariousReality Nope, I just know a few things from reading online.
Jesus Christ, no wonder most game companies stopped developing Gamecube games by the mid-2000's; imagine working on a title only to run out of those stupid NR discs and having to wait weeks on end for Nintendo to send you more, all because they wanted to control developers at all costs, regardless of the heavy inconvenience yielded via wasted time. So much valuable dev time could've been saved, and possibly even the console itself, by simply letting devs use regular burnable mini-DVD-Rs available at their local electronics retailer.
Considering the NR Reader and stock GameCube have the add-on slots on the bottom, I have to wonder if there were add-ons that only work on the NR Reader that haven't been seen by the public. 🤔
Awesome varient. Love gamecube and didn't know this existed. Great video.
US and Japan use variants of NTSC so they could use same board, while europe run on PAL which is diffrent
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I wonder what was up with console makers making their dev kits green or I guess teal. Very interesting.
You should do a video series on all dev kit components from this and other eras. Even though I love the 6th gen, as a developer myself, I can't imagine wanting to make games for the Gamecube after seeing just how much proprietary crap I would need compared to other consoles.
Thank you Sunshine for lending these to Adam. So insane they are the same color, found by same guy, same area 😂
Fascinating mate!
Very cool I love these oddball variants, also how many times are you going to dust off the top of that GameCube lol
Great video Matt!
Thank you sunshine.
Don't retail GC games spin in the opposite direction from burned DVD-Rs? I specificly remember when using a GC modded with a Qoob Pro it would spin burned discs in the opposite direction.
Spin, no. But they read from the outside of the disc towards the center as I recall.
You wanna really mess with people? Take the NR reader and a stock Gamecube and swap their disc drives! Bonus points if the stock unmodded console you're swapping with is one of the DOL-101 revisions and it doesn't even have the Digital A/V out port
it's always cool to see videos on these development units! yeah don't see the need to mod it since it doesn't run retail games anyway, a stock gamecube would be much cheaper to get a hold of.
You could by replacing the disk reader for a retail one :)
Even if it made the GameCube cost $250-350 at launch, it would've definitely sold a shit ton better if it had a DVD player and used DVDs for games.
That was literally the source of all their problems : it was the only reason they couldn't get certain games like the GTAs for example, and if GameCube HAD the GTAs, plus a DVD player, the PS2 wouldn't have been special.
Looking at how Nintendo's luck changed seemingly overnight when they went from the Wii U to the Switch, why couldn't the same thing happen when they transitioned from N64 to GameCube?
Dude. Both GTA3 and Vice City came out on CD's on PC. So the size of the disc isn't the ONLY thing that prevented GTA from becoming available on GC.
I think people are forgetting how dominating Sony was going into the PS2 era. I don’t think any other console would have a chance to really compete with the follow up to the PlayStation
@@ELEKTROSKANSENThe GameCube is more powerful than the PS2
I would imagine this NR Reader nonsense also played a substantial part in the Gamecube's failure. Imagine working on a title only to run out of those stupid NR discs and having to wait weeks on end for Nintendo to send you more, all because they wanted to control developers at all costs, regardless of the heavy inconvenience yielded via wasted time. So much valuable dev time could've been saved, and possibly even the console itself, by simply letting devs use regular burnable mini-DVD-Rs available at their local electronics retailer.
I want it solely for the color!
Have you found all the gb exclusives? Please please when you do, please do a video like you did with the wiiu, i loved it i net many of us did... Anyhow this was very interesting, many thanks. Also wierd, most of dev kits have twice the memory capacity and a debug port in order to run software after compilation... Via your dev computer 🤔
Game Boy exclusives? I'm not trying to get a full set of that.
Well yeah, because game console manufacturers can't release more powerful versions of their console due to it not being cost-effective.
It's necessary for dev kits because stress testing and optimization is a standard part of game development: You see just how much you can reasonably accomplish before finishing the compilation process and/or trimming features, content, effects down while also optimizing the game's code.
What consoles should I get a region free mod done to?
You may want to narrow that question down to which ones you have first.
@@AdamKoralik I've got it done on my N64, I just sent in my GameCube to Powrup Gaming, I ordered a boot disc for my Dreamcast. I'm thinking about getting it done to my ceramic white Japanese PS2 to work around compatibility issues on a jailbroken PS3 slim and I'm not willing to give up my white PS2.
@@mr.noneofyourbusiness4176 Making a PS2 region free is a pain, but a mod chip or whatever could handle it.
I also forgot to mention I'm thinking about getting it done to my original Xbox, and Xbox 360, and I'm also thinking about jailbreaking my Wii U to be region free.
@@AdamKoralik Okay, thank you, I'm also planning to sell my Japanese Dreamcast to help save up for the RetroTink 4k. I'm also planning to sell my RetroTink 5x after I get the RetroTink 4k.
Did Sega make debug units for the Dreamcast? I think I'd collect one of those :) Anyways yea what a rare thing to see, thanks.
Not exactly, they basically just made boot discs so any retail units could act as one.
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Just like the PS1, that is a really cool color, though. Why would they waste such a great color on such an oddly specific, machine?
Nice shell, I wonder how much time will pass until China will provide a replacement shell of that color. Joking and color aside, there is no point in having one of these nowadays if you're just a gamer. A standard GameCube is way more cheaper to get a hold of, and pretty easy to mod. Dev kits are nice to look at, but there's no reason for someone to spend a ridiculous amount of money on such a unit today. Unless it's a museum or a collector with very deep pockets.
Ikaruga, cool game. Hard as balls though
A green GameCube awesome! Too bad it requires special discs to work.
no wonder why the european "indie scene" (or shovelware?) of gc developers never took off like the ps2 one.
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this weird german right here is also wondering what kind of weird gamecube this is :D
Cool color, too bad the system itself is kind of useless
Nintendo politics is fascinating
LAME! You'd think they'd at least have made those discs rewritable for devs...
Oh ffs