Twin it with a GCHD Mk-II, and you've got a highly portable device which can hook up to pretty much any modern TV. Another bonus is the ability to load 'patched' games, such as Japanese regional exclusives that have had fan-made translation patches created for them.Īt £99, the GC Loader certainty isn't cheap, but if you have a GameCube in the house with a dead or dying optical drive, it could be the ideal way of saving it from the scrapheap – as well as allowing you to enjoy your library of games for many more years in a much more convenient fashion. This might seem like a relatively minor benefit, but you'd be surprised at how much of a difference it makes. The other really cool thing about GC Loader is the fact that it massively reduces load times as data isn't being pulled from an optical disc, which incurs seek time – it's loaded from much faster solid-state media. It's as easy as plugging in a cartridge, in all honesty. The GameCube's optical drive interfaces with the mainboard via a cartridge-like interface and this is the same connection into which the GC Loader inserts.

However, absolutely no soldering is required and the GC Loader is an easy install the biggest issue is the sheer volume of screws that need to be tackled to remove the optical drive in the first instance. Installing the GC Loader seems like an intimidating business, and might be one of the main things that puts people off investing in the device. You then boot GameCube iso files directly from an SD card, or use the 'Swiss' menu system to give yourself a proper front-end which allows you to select iso files from the SD card and tinker with various other options. GC Loader is the ODE option for Nintendo GameCube console which costs around £100 and totally replaces the disc drive of the console to fit it, you have to physically remove the optical drive, which means the console will no longer be capable of playing games the old-fashioned way.

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