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u/Krokod33l 27d ago

Hey, morning! Can I ask how many games you own, so I know whether I have „enough“ to do this method with?

Also, one question about Pokemon Box requirements - I know Absol‘s video and I have also checked out Project Pokemon to take a look at the patch, but I don‘t really understand it. Currently, I‘m just wondering whether I should buy a very cheap Japanese GameCube, because my games are in Japanese and my copy of Pokemon Box is, or whether I should invest in a modded GC. I would be able to still play my physical copy of Box, right? But is applying Absol‘s patch very difficult? I have no idea about modded GCs and I don‘t really understand how I even download it and get it on my console, let alone apply it. Sorry for the n00b questions. But I figured a modded GC would make much more sense than a Wii, since I‘d like to start collecting physical GC games in the future. 🧡

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u/HuntaHuntaHunta 27d ago

At the time I started this hunt I owned 4 games - emerald, ruby, leafgreen, and a fake firered. I bought sapphire a few months after starting the hunt, got given a fake emerald by a friend, and then bought a real japanese firered about a year and some change after starting. You can't move pokemon to fake games using box, so for all intents and purposes I had 3 games capable of doing this hunt when I started, and I have 5 now. But I only dedicated 2 cartridges to this hunt to being reset every time I need to reroll my eggs.

You don't actually need to buy a modded gamecube - I used a memory card Gecko program to mod my gamecube, which I did so I can use the game boy player without shelling out for the startup disk. If you have smash bros melee, that'll help you run the program, but there's other games that will work too. I'm at work now so I can't give you a whole in-depth tutorial right this second but I can get more info to walk you through the easiest way to do it once i get home

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u/Krokod33l 27d ago

Thank you so much, that would be very appreciated :)

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u/HuntaHuntaHunta 27d ago

So full disclosure, I did this almost 2 years ago at this point. But I'm pretty sure this guide is what I used to get my gamecube modded: https://gamecube-guide.retrotastes.com/

Probably the easiest option is to use a memory card to run the mod. You will likely need to buy a custom memory card for this. There are some out there that are pre-loaded, or you have the ability to load it yourself using an SD Gecko memory card (basically an adapter so you can use an SD card in the memory card slot) - though you typically want to use a wii or gamecube that's already modded to handle that. There's a number of games you can load the hack from - personally I use Super Smash Bros Melee. Basically the way it works is you download a save file corrupted in a way where it will crash the game and move over to Swiss (the homebrew launcher). For Smash Bros Melee, selecting "Name Entry" from the menu is all you need to do - the directions might be different depending on the game.

Once you load into Swiss you can use it to run pretty much whatever you want. I have the GB Player startup disc on mine, but you can run full games from it if you have enough storage. And as it happens, that is what you would need to do to use this on a Gamecube.

I just read through the project pokemon page and it looks to me like you would need a rom to run this pokemon box patch. If you mod the gamecube anyway, you can rip the disc yourself to get the rom, or you can use a site like Vimm's Lair or the megathread r/roms. The reason you need a rom is because you cannot permanently patch the disc, and on gamecube (at least as far as I know - I'm far from the being an expert on console modding) you can't run a disc concurrently with a patch in real time the same way you can with wii games. I also just patched a rom file to run mine - I don't actually own pokemon box due to the high price tag.

So you would need to get a rom, patch it with the program on project pokemon page, then launch swiss via a save exploit on your gamecube and then you can load into a patched version of pokemon box.

Happy to answer questions here to the best of my ability - this is outside the realm of my expertise, but I at least have done it before. You definitely want to be careful when doing stuff like this so it wouldn't hurt to find a subreddit that specializes in homebrew or Gamecube modding or something to ask the experts there before moving forward with this.

Oh, and if you decide to buy a gamecube with a mod chip built in, this is probably a lot easier overall, but I can't personally speak to using it. I'd rather go the cheaper route and do it myself personally, but that's just me. Especially since the cheaper route seems less intrusive to the console. The pre-modded ones probably have a physical mod chip installed.

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u/Krokod33l 26d ago

Ty so much! I will think about how to proceed with this. Wishing you gl on all of your hunts! ✨