Tallest system? Taller than the genesis 32X on top of genesis model 1 on top of sega cd ver 1? With sonic and knuckles attached to another sonic cartridge? Whew. Now I'm hard for what nintendon't.
I really hope these cartridges with old unreleased/beta games are found, even GC version of games that were only released for XBox, PS2 could be in these! The world needs to know!
I have one for sale on ebay, if you want to go and check it out. Im just in the process of listing an NPDP and a Dolphin. Im skint and need to get rid of my collectables :(
Declan Duff Man I would love to have one in my possession, would go great with my Gamcube collection (at 80 games from the full set!) but these things go for a lot and I can't afford it :(
I'm glad there are people who collect stuff like this and keep hold of it for posterity. It's really interesting stuff to see. Also hope you can find out if there's anything left of the data from that harddrive/cartridge thing.
Cool video. Thank you for continuing to share the rare and obscure hardware you come across. It would be great if you could interview some of the developers that used some of this hardware. Would be nice to hear their perspective and insider info. Keep up the great work!
Is _this_ unit even more of a tower when it comes to size than say... the MegaDrive1 with MegaCD1, 32X, Sonic & Knuckles and Sonic3 attached to it? I know that sounds ridiculous but that's just another monstrosity of what gaming consoles can look like. For one reason or another I like this variant of the Dolphin prototype though. Possibly because I'm a huge fan of the GameCube with its design... it's just so unique and special in its own ways.
I distinctly remember when the name "project dolphin" was first bandied about, that day everyone was excited at school talking about it. Awesome stuff.
The larger unit is a dev kit. The smaller unit is a test kit (it's what QA would use for testing after a build was delivered by a developer). Devs would do initial testing (boot check, etc.) and then QA would receive the build for testing. Test kits are significantly less expensive than dev kits (and lack fewer features).
Really awesome Tony. There's also one that reads special GCN Disks that is a turqouise green color, called the NR reader. I've seen those in the past but have never seen the NPDP reader, cool find! Hopefully you can get your hands on more NPDP disks!
Hard4Games those seem to be more readily available on eBay and the like. Im a huge fan of this NPDP reader, never knew it existed until your instagram post.
I would say that came out closer to the GameCube launch. I worked as a qa tester while the Wii u was coming out and we had some dev kits that were gold and giant and looked nothing like a Wii u and then a few months before the actual console was released we got the dev kit that looked much more like a final Wii u. So basically what you said sounds all correct to me. They likely made the others before the design was finalized. And that one likely came out after they had finalized and therefore likely a few months before the actual GameCube release. Awesome video man!!
I know its an old video, but as some one who's worked in the industry and knows a bit about hardware things (haven't worked with the Dolphin though)... A good explanation could be development test systems, during development on a day, we may create 5 to 10 different builds of a game, maybe a thing didn't work out as we thought it would, or maybe some artist finished something and we need to test it, as such, we often have 2 different systems to work with. We have the development system, which we use to build the actual game, the NPDP GBOX is used to compile the game's code for game cube systems and quick testing, which is the reason it has a serial port, it goes to the computer to communicate with it. The NPDP reader on the other hand would probably be used by the QA department, having multiple boxes that are close to the final system there with those slot makes it easy to make a lot of copies of the game at once and put them in there for the testers to play with the game and give feedback, rather than having to print a lot of plastic disks each time and throw them away... At least, that's my 2 cents having worked with a few devkits before.
This comes years late, but I once visited a friend who worked at Nintendo of Europe in Frankfurt a.M., Germany and he showed me around the testing facilities. They had a testing room and on each table there was an NPDP Reader plus TV. I think at the time they were testing Baten Kaitos, but I didn't see them in action. They had NR Readers in other places of the office, too. My understanding is they needed to quickly iterate through new builds of the game as they came from japan after finding bugs/giving feedback and the NPDP Reader + Gang Writer combo was the quickest/most effective way for them to do that.
The NPDP reader must've been made sometime between late August to early December 2000, when the GameCube's technical specifications were first revealed
I am so sad, ever since I was young, I remember searching TH-cam on this topic, we find a reader, finally, and there is nothing to be found. No Super Mario Sunshine prototype, no Mario 128 prototype, no betas of any game on it. Thank you for finding this though!
I read somewhere an extremely long time ago that the GameCube was actually capable of 3D, and an LCD screen was made for it that could cope with the output of the 3D needed ... but that technology was ridiculously expensive in those days, so no one ever really knew about it. I'd like to see a video done on that. Thanks.
They currently have a set of the two development units and cartridge at the Video Game Museum in Sheffield, was interesting to see them there as I don't think I would have ever seen them in person otherwise
That was a cool device I never knew existed. Great overview! I remember seeing in Official PlayStation Magazine back in the mid-90's of a dev unit for the PlayStation. It looked similar to the original PlayStation, but was a dark charcoal color, maybe all black? It would be awesome if you did a retrospective on that dev unit! Again! Long time fan! What a great series Tony! :)
That was most likely the Net Yaroze which was comercially available so ppl could have a go at making games then upload them to a site. They are to be found on the demo discs from OPSM. Check out the Yaroze game Blitter Boy. Actual industry dev systems are a really nice blue colour btw
I've only ever seen one in person, the red one. I was at an anime convention back in 2022, and one of the game vendors had one in the box sitting on their back shelf. The red one. According to the vendor, they found it in the storage room of a school. No idea why one would be there of all places, but that's what he told me. I'd have to check the archive recording, but they had it priced at either $1,200 or $2,000.
Guarantee that this is closer to final production or is final product development kit sent out to devs to make sure everything works in the field without doing a running update on software. I’m sure if you opened a production shell and this it would be 95% similar.
I feel like you have become the video game developer super sleuth. You're not a part of their club, but you're always attempting to find out their secrets. As the new Sherlock Holmes, you seem to find another piece to the puzzle, yet the secret league of developers are always one step ahead of you. One day, the mysteries of the 64DD and the Dolphin will be solved. Keep up the fight!
I came across your videos from watching MetalJesus as im intrigued by things of this nature. Great stuff, enjoyed your Ura Zelda videos. Keep the archaeology strong and looking forward to more discoveries as time goes on (hopefully). Again, great stuff!
Heads up Tony! You need a different style for your thumbnails! The red bar on the bottom makes it look as if we have already watched it. Dont want you to miss out on views!
Oh no! I had designed that before YT implemented their own red bar. I changed it for this thumbnail and will change it moving forward. Don't want people to be confused. Thank you!!!! :)
As a developer myself, I understand why they did not swap to discs. IT would take longer to burn and re-burn a disk every time to copy data from the development builds onto the console and you would only be able to store one game, as for the NPDP you can store up to 4 games and since you may have already been developing your game on one of those large cartridges it would be a hassle to have to buy a bunch of discs rather than just use your pre-existing NPDP units, this also allows developers to swap between the Large NPDP dev unit and the large Gamecube like NPDP dev unit (In cases such as your game worked fine on the old Devkit and crap on the New one because of hardware changes, this allows developers to test and find out why), And by keeping the NPDP this is allowing you to not only make use of one but both dev units saving the business another grand or even more having to buy another devkit. But hey maybe its just me that looks at it that way.
Its crazy to see that red console again. I was a game tester for Nintendo and worked on Twilight Princess. We had the red consoles. I am assuming its red just to designate that its a dev unit. I appreciate this video. Its awesome to see that again.
Interesting. It's similar to the GC Loader we have today. BTW, technically, the eject button doesn't interface with the optical drive, it only unlocks the drive door hatch. Had a close look at mine, recently, when adding some white lithium grease.
I was introduced to and sold the mcdonalds worker-brand-only DSI, a handheld with a specially made case encasing the electronics that few know anything about, let alone me. compounding learning anything more about it is difficult because the text when its on is in Japanese, and I don't have a regular dsi to compare it in any way to. also, the cartridge is missing which is just as rare and is said to be password locked..
Are the outputs still like a regular GC on the back or are their special IO ports on the back like in the other GDEV unit or is it just a launch model GCN with a special thing on the top?
The ports are exactly the same. Now that you mention it, I should have shown them in the video. I guess since they weren't anything different I didn't think about it. Thanks for the question! - Tony
I don't know exactly how these work, but if they're like a normal hdd, you might be able to recover wiped data depending on how thorough the method they used to wipe the disk was.
Yep, I remember reading about Dolphin in Nintendo Power magazine. It was a codename for their secret project they used to hype up fans that something new would be in development. Really wish they kept it as a cartidge system. I had to pay to get my Gamecube laser lens fixed this year, and it still clicks and clacks like popcorn when reading a disk. The memory cartidges I have to swap out for games gets really confusing too when you have lots of games saved on random cartidges.
just imagine, if they released the gamecube like this instead of with optical discs, so many old gamecubes would still be working/playable today without needing to be refurbed.
I didn't even know that existed! By the time I seen a GC Dev unit in person, it was just a regular Gamecube with a special disk in it (As far as I could tell, anyway).
Great video, man! Seriously, very good and straightforward coverage for all kinds of audience to understand and appreciate. GJ. Now, I wonder how they transferred their compiled programs into that cartridge? I just wonder if more hardware was required just for that. It was also interesting to see the lack of a PAL region switch. Which made me wonder whether a PAL GC has a different graphics card or not (or something equivalent).
I'm just guessing that before releasing the actual Gamecube console, maybe it's for testing the final form of Gamecube and test it out how it will be. Maybe it could possible to glitch out on the final form of the Gamecube Console, instead of see, hear, or discover in NPDP Nintendo Dolphin G dev unit.
Where can I find more info on dev systems and the like? It amazes me that you're able to obtain these different systems and odd pieces for your collection.
I can help but think that the NPD was pseudo proof of concept for what modders would later build as the Wiki fusion/ Wasp Fusion. I love my GC with a Wasp Fusion.
it a 3rd party developers console they where made after the release of the gamecube they did not have cd readers because the devs would give the cartridge to nintendo and once they decided they liked the games they would put it onto the disc that would prevent people from making games without permission
this is really cool, hope you find something interesting on an npdp disk. also why the hell wasn't there a Gamecube released in that color? looks great
Gamecube was my First system I actually bought games for. I had a snes genesis and n64 but i had very little games. But the Gamecube was my first big system, not to mention it was when i was getting EGM and Nintendo Power Magazines so i was really learning about games and into em much more. make mes want to go and buy the panasonic gc and a bunch of rare versions like this. but ik that would be very expensive
I think it would be interesting to hear about why the emulation community gave up on trying to emulate the XBox Classic. A lot of game history preservation has come from emulation and roms, and that whole chapter could be missing in the future.
Did you ever try disc recovery tools on the drive ? If they formatted the drive, it could be recovered as long as it was not 0'ed out or overwritten.. it would be interesting if there was old games on there..
This red model is probably the one who was made when Nintendo had the cartridge system still in mind. I can suppose the minidisc system was a latter idea. After all the N64 was the previous console, and the main limit was the carts' memory capacity... so why use a minidvd instead of a full dvd?
I used to have the original xbox developer files for writing and signing games to their dev console. I might still have them, but i didn't know what to do with it.
Kids these days don't know the insane HYPE that was Project Dolphin. Consoles have advanced so much that honestly things are kinda expected. Plus it is so much easier to get the latest news and rumors on upcoming consoles. But Project Dolphin was on some Mission Impossible/Indepedence Day level shit. Kids selling government secrets! Interdimensional Read Only Memory!! Time Travel!! The Grandfather Paradox! Schroedinger's catsup!Human sacrifice! Dogs and Cats living together! Mass Hysteria!!! Then we got the Game Cube and it was like "Oh. That's cool too. Wanna play Smash Bros?"
I remember using the NPDP reader when I worked at Nintendo game testing Wind Waker, so it was out by then.
That's awesome! Any more info you'd be able to divulge regarding the system? My email is hard4games@gmail.com
Joe Tennies interesting to see someone who actually worked for Nintendo here
5 years late, but i saw a comment from a gamecube ''dev'' saying it was for burning the cartridges
That is insanely cool! Why was there no red GameCube released it looks great.
There's also a really nice green NR Disk GameCube reader - all the devs got the cool colors! lol -Tony
i have seen images online for a brown T-dev unit as well
www.retrocollect.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3502
Whoa! Never even heard of this thing before, I'll have to check it out! -Tony
Red, green, brown... Seems like every color has some sort of obscure GameCube version. Trying to collect them all Tony?
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Tallest system? Taller than the genesis 32X on top of genesis model 1 on top of sega cd ver 1? With sonic and knuckles attached to another sonic cartridge?
Whew. Now I'm hard for what nintendon't.
With a game genie in between the 32x and the sonic carts.
Aziz, Light! you forgot a game genie
Just reviving this comment to bring the actual deal on video (With the Game Genie there as well indeed):
th-cam.com/video/Y55ZBT_UcmU/w-d-xo.html
He said the tallest system he's seen. Not ever.
What about the game genie?
This is so interesting to see basically a gamecube that takes cartridges lol
this explains the Dolphin Emulator
yes, that's where the name comes from
ikr always wondered where that came from
NocturnalLeo ;v
you should have already fuckin known the codename was dolphin, it's a very widely known fact.
If you read the bottom of a gamecube it says dolphin
I really hope these cartridges with old unreleased/beta games are found, even GC version of games that were only released for XBox, PS2 could be in these! The world needs to know!
I have one for sale on ebay, if you want to go and check it out.
Im just in the process of listing an NPDP and a Dolphin. Im skint and need to get rid of my collectables :(
Declan Duff Man I would love to have one in my possession, would go great with my Gamcube collection (at 80 games from the full set!) but these things go for a lot and I can't afford it :(
I'm glad there are people who collect stuff like this and keep hold of it for posterity. It's really interesting stuff to see. Also hope you can find out if there's anything left of the data from that harddrive/cartridge thing.
Cool video. Thank you for continuing to share the rare and obscure hardware you come across. It would be great if you could interview some of the developers that used some of this hardware. Would be nice to hear their perspective and insider info. Keep up the great work!
I know you're mainly a Nintendo guy but I've always found the Net Yaroze and PS1 debugging/Development consoles to be really interesting.
I'll check it out!
Brayden Fath Oh yeah, they're pretty neat. Caddicarus did a pretty good video about them.
I've got some PS1 demo disks with net yaroze games on them, some of them are actually pretty good. Was there ever a compilation disc?
Why? They're fairly common since they're just demo discs that were given away on the cover of playstation magazine
They're all available online already
Love the paintjob on it. I wish I owned a real GCN that color.
All the dev colors were interesting muted colors. I like them thought! :)
The only thing I can think of that comes close to that color is the Japanese Gundam Char's Custom GameCube. That one is red too.
@@paulrippcord506 Knew I saw it somewhere!
Is _this_ unit even more of a tower when it comes to size than say... the MegaDrive1 with MegaCD1, 32X, Sonic & Knuckles and Sonic3 attached to it?
I know that sounds ridiculous but that's just another monstrosity of what gaming consoles can look like.
For one reason or another I like this variant of the Dolphin prototype though.
Possibly because I'm a huge fan of the GameCube with its design... it's just so unique and special in its own ways.
I distinctly remember when the name "project dolphin" was first bandied about, that day everyone was excited at school talking about it. Awesome stuff.
sharing the rare item unit alone is priceless .....
The larger unit is a dev kit. The smaller unit is a test kit (it's what QA would use for testing after a build was delivered by a developer). Devs would do initial testing (boot check, etc.) and then QA would receive the build for testing. Test kits are significantly less expensive than dev kits (and lack fewer features).
Really awesome Tony. There's also one that reads special GCN Disks that is a turqouise green color, called the NR reader. I've seen those in the past but have never seen the NPDP reader, cool find! Hopefully you can get your hands on more NPDP disks!
I hope one of those NR Readers is next! :)
Hard4Games those seem to be more readily available on eBay and the like. Im a huge fan of this NPDP reader, never knew it existed until your instagram post.
I would say that came out closer to the GameCube launch. I worked as a qa tester while the Wii u was coming out and we had some dev kits that were gold and giant and looked nothing like a Wii u and then a few months before the actual console was released we got the dev kit that looked much more like a final Wii u. So basically what you said sounds all correct to me. They likely made the others before the design was finalized. And that one likely came out after they had finalized and therefore likely a few months before the actual GameCube release. Awesome video man!!
I fucking read the title as "RAPE! Nintendo Dolphin"
an orcat lol me too
*BlackFire* yeah
a lotta boys did buy the gamecube
I did not expect you here
A friend had a green gamecube that would play copies from mini-dvd's which I assume was for beta testing onward. that was pretty cool.
*THE NPDP LOOKS LIKE A FUCKIN' SMOKESTACK!*
+Super Sophisticated haha it does doesn't it?
I know its an old video, but as some one who's worked in the industry and knows a bit about hardware things (haven't worked with the Dolphin though)...
A good explanation could be development test systems, during development on a day, we may create 5 to 10 different builds of a game, maybe a thing didn't work out as we thought it would, or maybe some artist finished something and we need to test it, as such, we often have 2 different systems to work with.
We have the development system, which we use to build the actual game, the NPDP GBOX is used to compile the game's code for game cube systems and quick testing, which is the reason it has a serial port, it goes to the computer to communicate with it. The NPDP reader on the other hand would probably be used by the QA department, having multiple boxes that are close to the final system there with those slot makes it easy to make a lot of copies of the game at once and put them in there for the testers to play with the game and give feedback, rather than having to print a lot of plastic disks each time and throw them away...
At least, that's my 2 cents having worked with a few devkits before.
This comes years late, but I once visited a friend who worked at Nintendo of Europe in Frankfurt a.M., Germany and he showed me around the testing facilities. They had a testing room and on each table there was an NPDP Reader plus TV. I think at the time they were testing Baten Kaitos, but I didn't see them in action. They had NR Readers in other places of the office, too. My understanding is they needed to quickly iterate through new builds of the game as they came from japan after finding bugs/giving feedback and the NPDP Reader + Gang Writer combo was the quickest/most effective way for them to do that.
The NPDP reader must've been made sometime between late August to early December 2000, when the GameCube's technical specifications were first revealed
I am so sad, ever since I was young, I remember searching TH-cam on this topic, we find a reader, finally, and there is nothing to be found. No Super Mario Sunshine prototype, no Mario 128 prototype, no betas of any game on it. Thank you for finding this though!
I read somewhere an extremely long time ago that the GameCube was actually capable of 3D, and an LCD screen was made for it that could cope with the output of the 3D needed ... but that technology was ridiculously expensive in those days, so no one ever really knew about it. I'd like to see a video done on that.
Thanks.
Tallest system?
Microsoft: Hold my beer.
Presenting Xbox Series X.
Really cool :D
Luigi Blood!!!!! :)
They currently have a set of the two development units and cartridge at the Video Game Museum in Sheffield, was interesting to see them there as I don't think I would have ever seen them in person otherwise
The smaller G dev unit is used for bug testing and Q/A staff.
That was a cool device I never knew existed. Great overview! I remember seeing in Official PlayStation Magazine back in the mid-90's of a dev unit for the PlayStation. It looked similar to the original PlayStation, but was a dark charcoal color, maybe all black? It would be awesome if you did a retrospective on that dev unit! Again! Long time fan! What a great series Tony! :)
That was most likely the Net Yaroze which was comercially available so ppl could have a go at making games then upload them to a site. They are to be found on the demo discs from OPSM. Check out the Yaroze game Blitter Boy.
Actual industry dev systems are a really nice blue colour btw
I've only ever seen one in person, the red one. I was at an anime convention back in 2022, and one of the game vendors had one in the box sitting on their back shelf. The red one. According to the vendor, they found it in the storage room of a school. No idea why one would be there of all places, but that's what he told me. I'd have to check the archive recording, but they had it priced at either $1,200 or $2,000.
I love this series. The GameCube was the only console I had as a kid, so this is incredible.
Thank you for watching! Hopefully we can keep finding fun rarities to showcase! :) - Tony
2:29 Damn looks like a detonator for some wired TNT or something.
Guarantee that this is closer to final production or is final product development kit sent out to devs to make sure everything works in the field without doing a running update on software. I’m sure if you opened a production shell and this it would be 95% similar.
nintendo never made a red GameCube :OO
lemonlime It's up to three times faster!
The red one has 50 more horsepower.
They did though superclassicvideogames.com/gcgundam.jpg
Been Exposed, so I Deleted My Account. can you buy these and what is name.
bob legura Gundam Char's GameCube
I feel like you have become the video game developer super sleuth. You're not a part of their club, but you're always attempting to find out their secrets. As the new Sherlock Holmes, you seem to find another piece to the puzzle, yet the secret league of developers are always one step ahead of you. One day, the mysteries of the 64DD and the Dolphin will be solved. Keep up the fight!
Haha, I loved this comment! Thank you! I will keep fighting the good fight. -Tony
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Very cool. I love the color.
Wow i had no idea this even existed, i am astonished right now. Its truly beautiful!
I came across your videos from watching MetalJesus as im intrigued by things of this nature. Great stuff, enjoyed your Ura Zelda videos. Keep the archaeology strong and looking forward to more discoveries as time goes on (hopefully). Again, great stuff!
Heads up Tony! You need a different style for your thumbnails! The red bar on the bottom makes it look as if we have already watched it. Dont want you to miss out on views!
Oh no! I had designed that before YT implemented their own red bar. I changed it for this thumbnail and will change it moving forward. Don't want people to be confused. Thank you!!!! :)
Happy to help!
Im so happy Tony that at least some of your vids get the attention they deserve. Hope u made some decent money from it.
+Toe Jam I appreciate it! :)
That is really cool.
I'd like to see one on the original Xbox development system.
I'd like to see that too and a Dreamcast Dev system.
Xbox is pretty similar to a PC so I'd imagine that an xbox dev wouldn't be that special.
So cool. Love when you guys get/find weird shit like this.
That pun was most-certainly intended. :P
As a developer myself, I understand why they did not swap to discs. IT would take longer to burn and re-burn a disk every time to copy data from the development builds onto the console and you would only be able to store one game, as for the NPDP you can store up to 4 games and since you may have already been developing your game on one of those large cartridges it would be a hassle to have to buy a bunch of discs rather than just use your pre-existing NPDP units, this also allows developers to swap between the Large NPDP dev unit and the large Gamecube like NPDP dev unit (In cases such as your game worked fine on the old Devkit and crap on the New one because of hardware changes, this allows developers to test and find out why), And by keeping the NPDP this is allowing you to not only make use of one but both dev units saving the business another grand or even more having to buy another devkit.
But hey maybe its just me that looks at it that way.
Its crazy to see that red console again. I was a game tester for Nintendo and worked on Twilight Princess.
We had the red consoles. I am assuming its red just to designate that its a dev unit.
I appreciate this video. Its awesome to see that again.
Ryan! I'd love to talk to you about the dev unit if you have time! Any information you'd be willing to/able to share. hard4games@gmail.com
Interesting. It's similar to the GC Loader we have today. BTW, technically, the eject button doesn't interface with the optical drive, it only unlocks the drive door hatch. Had a close look at mine, recently, when adding some white lithium grease.
lotta BOYS bought THE GAMECUBE
Lotta Boys!!!!!
Tony, you're so handsome and respectful. You deserve to find every beta and alpha out there. can't wait to see what other awesome devs you find!
I just came across your channel, WHAT THE HELL IS THIS MUTANT!!? I love it though, and your stuffs fascinating dude.
From what I read some developers simply modified commodity GameCubes to test their stuff prior to releasing it.
I was introduced to and sold the mcdonalds worker-brand-only DSI, a handheld with a specially made case encasing the electronics that few know anything about, let alone me. compounding learning anything more about it is difficult because the text when its on is in Japanese, and I don't have a regular dsi to compare it in any way to. also, the cartridge is missing which is just as rare and is said to be password locked..
this is crazy, also, at least unlike a certain other retro youtuber, when you say RARE! it's actually rare. ;)
Are the outputs still like a regular GC on the back or are their special IO ports on the back like in the other GDEV unit or is it just a launch model GCN with a special thing on the top?
The ports are exactly the same. Now that you mention it, I should have shown them in the video. I guess since they weren't anything different I didn't think about it. Thanks for the question! - Tony
Hard4Games No problem! Been with y'all since your early 64DD stuff, keep up the good work!
I don't know exactly how these work, but if they're like a normal hdd, you might be able to recover wiped data depending on how thorough the method they used to wipe the disk was.
Yep, I remember reading about Dolphin in Nintendo Power magazine. It was a codename for their secret project they used to hype up fans that something new would be in development. Really wish they kept it as a cartidge system. I had to pay to get my Gamecube laser lens fixed this year, and it still clicks and clacks like popcorn when reading a disk. The memory cartidges I have to swap out for games gets really confusing too when you have lots of games saved on random cartidges.
SpongeBob: That Name Is A Bad Word! Patrick: (Says The Dolphin Sound) SpongeBob: YOU SAID THE BAD WORD!!
Good video Tony. nice quality.
just imagine, if they released the gamecube like this instead of with optical discs, so many old gamecubes would still be working/playable today without needing to be refurbed.
I love the format of your videos! Just one tip, maybe don't transition back to the couch so suddenly or so often.
I didn't even know that existed! By the time I seen a GC Dev unit in person, it was just a regular Gamecube with a special disk in it (As far as I could tell, anyway).
Just a couple days ago, I wondered why I wasn't subscribed to this channel. After I did, I wondered why my life wasn't boring before I subscribed...
This is a very cool video! Nintendo has some mystery history I love to discover.
Tony: “This is the tallest system I have ever seen”
Xbox series x: “Hold my beer”
Haha
better than the toilet ps5
@@erwinamanciosilva7693 bruh xbox gayyyy
Me: worlds first pc
why does this channel not have more subscribers
So interesting, there's people out there that could tell you everything about that system if only they'd speak about it!
Great video, man! Seriously, very good and straightforward coverage for all kinds of audience to understand and appreciate. GJ.
Now, I wonder how they transferred their compiled programs into that cartridge? I just wonder if more hardware was required just for that. It was also interesting to see the lack of a PAL region switch. Which made me wonder whether a PAL GC has a different graphics card or not (or something equivalent).
The Winecube.
*This Is The Best Stand Ever.*
*Nothing Beats This Glorious Stand.*
*However, it cannot move unless propelled.*
I'm just guessing that before releasing the actual Gamecube console, maybe it's for testing the final form of Gamecube and test it out how it will be.
Maybe it could possible to glitch out on the final form of the Gamecube Console, instead of see, hear, or discover in NPDP Nintendo Dolphin G dev unit.
Where can I find more info on dev systems and the like? It amazes me that you're able to obtain these different systems and odd pieces for your collection.
I can help but think that the NPD was pseudo proof of concept for what modders would later build as the Wiki fusion/ Wasp Fusion. I love my GC with a Wasp Fusion.
Dude your videos are awesome only thing i dislike is the background music with the guy singing opera lol you use it a lot!
Npdp sounds like an acronym for "Nintendo project dolphin".
0:52 or how the Wii and Wii U Codenames were Cafe and Revolution
2:16 if the GC and SNES had an overgrown child
I would love a gamecube in that color scheme!
Looks like something out of Katamari
it a 3rd party developers console they where made after the release of the gamecube they did not have cd readers because the devs would give the cartridge to nintendo and once they decided they liked the games they would put it onto the disc that would prevent people from making games without permission
Question: If you were to put in a memory card, does it read the data on there?
this is really cool, hope you find something interesting on an npdp disk.
also why the hell wasn't there a Gamecube released in that color? looks great
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2000: gaming of the future
I love GameCube and I'm so glad this exists
this is pretty cool, and just in time for the 15th anniversary of GC!
Gamecube was my First system I actually bought games for. I had a snes genesis and n64 but i had very little games. But the Gamecube was my first big system, not to mention it was when i was getting EGM and Nintendo Power Magazines so i was really learning about games and into em much more. make mes want to go and buy the panasonic gc and a bunch of rare versions like this. but ik that would be very expensive
Never thought I'd see a crimson gamecube
that larger one looks interesting too.
I think it would be interesting to hear about why the emulation community gave up on trying to emulate the XBox Classic. A lot of game history preservation has come from emulation and roms, and that whole chapter could be missing in the future.
Did you ever try disc recovery tools on the drive ? If they formatted the drive, it could be recovered as long as it was not 0'ed out or overwritten..
it would be interesting if there was old games on there..
i think u need a special adapter to read the npdp cartridge look on assembler games channel
Funny how the HDD enclosure looks was made into a dolphin shape
I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE THAT COLOUR.
This red model is probably the one who was made when Nintendo had the cartridge system still in mind. I can suppose the minidisc system was a latter idea. After all the N64 was the previous console, and the main limit was the carts' memory capacity... so why use a minidvd instead of a full dvd?
I wonder if there is any content regarding what was supposed to be the third game in the Oracle games.
I used to have the original xbox developer files for writing and signing games to their dev console. I might still have them, but i didn't know what to do with it.
This is a impressive find. I wonder how many of these NPDP reader GameCubes exist.
You could make an educated guess based on the number of companies that have released gamecube games at some point. XD
KuraIthys But how many are still around, intact? Nintendo and those companies could have scrapped/recycled most of these dev kits.
Kids these days don't know the insane HYPE that was Project Dolphin. Consoles have advanced so much that honestly things are kinda expected. Plus it is so much easier to get the latest news and rumors on upcoming consoles.
But Project Dolphin was on some Mission Impossible/Indepedence Day level shit. Kids selling government secrets!
Interdimensional Read Only Memory!! Time Travel!! The Grandfather Paradox! Schroedinger's catsup!Human sacrifice! Dogs and Cats living together! Mass Hysteria!!!
Then we got the Game Cube and it was like
"Oh. That's cool too. Wanna play Smash Bros?"
This makes me wonder if they didnt find the mini disks format would of nintendo went for cartilages for the gamecube
OPEN IT PLEEAAAASE I want to see the motherboard, and what the disk reader looks like
Awesome little unit.
I loved the Gamecube. Underrated console.
agreeed, so many great titles, too
Would be great to learn more about the Katana and Naomi hardware/ dev units. Any chance you would be able to cover something like this in the future?
I've had my eye on various Katan's over the years. I think it'll happen one day, not sure when though.