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The homebrew scene for the Nintendo Gamecube is not as active as for other consoles such as the Microsoft Xbox, Nintendo Game Boy Advance or Sony Playstation Portable, mainly due to the lack of rewritable storage and the stringent anti-piracy measures built into the hardware. The executable loader fails to load some programs (notably the remote debugger GCnrd), possibly due to those executables having been programmed with the expectation that the user will run them using the PSO hack or another 'unofficial' method. The utility software sometimes claims that the memory card is corrupted or incorrectly inserted, although removing and reinserting the card solves this. The PC software does not seem to work properly on Windows 2000 (failing to detect that the device has been connected after the first time), but is generally reliable on Windows XP. The Max Drive Pro has some strange quirks. The hardware is completely identical (as is the packaging, in the case of the unit that I purchased - leading to a heated telephone conversation with a Datel salesperson before I opened the packaging and found the correctly-labelled discs). The only difference between the Max Drive and the Max Drive Pro is the inclusion of the executable loader in the Gamecube utility.
#MAX DRIVE PRO GC MANUAL#
The user manual vaguely mentions that this will allow the user to run homebrew games and applications. DOL) files to be loaded from the memory card and run. The second is that it allows unsigned executable (. This feature is advertised in the context of allowing the user to backup their save files, as well as being able to download and trade savegames from the internet. The first is that it allows save data stored to the memory card by Gamecube games to be copied to and from a PC using the supplied cable (a function it has in common with its sister product the Max Drive).
#MAX DRIVE PRO GC DRIVERS#
The package consists of a special 8 megabyte Gamecube memory card, a USB cable, an 80mm CD containing drivers and software for the PC ( Windows only), and an 80mm Gamecube-formatted DVD disc containing the software utility to allow save files and executables stored on the Max Drive memory card to be managed and formatted. The Max Drive Pro is a peripheral for the Nintendo Gamecube manufactured and sold by Datel Electronics (creators of the Action Replay family of console cheat devices).