View Full Version : What is Gamecube NPDP?
N 2 Nintendo
10-20-2009, 12:45 PM
I have stumbled upon some gamecube systems that, allow you to use cartridges, instead of discs for gamecube. Used mainly by programmer and/or developers. All these things I already know. but what I don't know is first, what does NPDP stand for. And secondly, how does this thing work? Much appreciation for any facts.
Here's a pic of the system I'm speaking of:
kedawa
10-20-2009, 01:31 PM
no play disc please?
Oobgarm
10-20-2009, 01:35 PM
New Product Development Process?
Some info:
http://assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?p=78710#post78710
N 2 Nintendo
10-20-2009, 02:03 PM
Ah, thank you for info. I did find out that it's a Nintendo Portable Drive Pak.
PentiumMMX
10-20-2009, 06:56 PM
They should have produced Gamecubes in that color instead of Indigo. If there was a version capible of playing game discs, I'd buy one.
Mayhem
10-20-2009, 07:07 PM
The cartridge I believe has a small hard drive inside it, and plugs into the top much like an old school console. I'm still looking for that red unit. I have the sea green NR disc reader.
Icarus Moonsight
10-21-2009, 04:52 AM
That's a neat dev unit. Especially for those of us that are cart fetishists. LOL
I'd think it's desirability took a major hit when the USB HDD Homebrew Channel App for Wii came out. I'd still love to see one of these Frankenstein'd into a GC library in a box.
Did they ever determine the bus for it -- ATA, RAID, SCSI or (knowing Ninty) Custom (EEK!) etc? :hmm:
smork
10-21-2009, 06:00 AM
The cartridge I believe has a small hard drive inside it, and plugs into the top much like an old school console. I'm still looking for that red unit. I have the sea green NR disc reader.
There's one on ebay right now - I was just looking through such stuff today. Super expensive, though - like bidding at $350-ish and reserve not met...