The GameCube is Nintendo's first standalone disc-based console, and a total of 640 games were released in North America (the last being Madden NFL '08 on August 14, 2007) for the said console.

Sadly, the odd disc format, lack of DVD playback (a DVD-compatible model was released by Panasonic, but it was quickly discontinued before it could make it to the west due to its high price compared to just buying a regular GameCube and DVD player separately), and "kiddy" perception of the console hurt its ability to build a healthy library of third-party exclusives, but it still contains an array of fantastic first-party titles and the occasional third-party exclusive.

While the GameCube itself may have died young, its incredibly forward-thinking architecture lives on: the Wii is essentially a GameCube with faster clock speeds from an internal standpoint.

Copyright String

There's a copyright string header in the IPL ROM. ArtX was the company that developed the GameCube's GPU. They were bought out by ATI in 2000.

(C) 1999-2001 Nintendo.  All rights reserved.(C) 1999 ArtX Inc.  All rights reserved.

Main Menu

The main menu ambiance may sound relatively toneless, but speed it up by 19×...and there's the Famicom Disk System's startup fanfare.

Nintendo 64 Support?

The SDK has strings that reference all of the known Nintendo 64 peripherals, including obscure ones such as the keyboard and mouse from the Nintendo 64DD. Chunks of text containing these strings can be found as leftover in various games, including Wario World, while GameCube Service Disc v1.0/03 can detect N64 controllers.

Familiar Reflection

If the soft reflections on the GameCube startup animation and menu look strangely familiar to you in a very Nintendo way, that's because the texture file is the same one used in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask for the Nintendo 64 logo and shiny items.

Ocarina of Time/Majora's Mask	GameCube Menu

Alternate Music

If you hold Z on one or four controllers while turning on the GameCube, the music that plays during the logo animation will be different.

Development-Related Text

Jac/AI/Heap::

OSAlloc

Jac/Alloc2:: Request SIZE %d

Jac/AI/Init::

MONO-MIX

MONO(W)-MIX

ArAlloc:: %x %x %x

/audiorom.img

Jac/ARAM/DVD:: audiorom.img

Jac/ARAM/DVD:: audiorom.img(サイズ %xh bytes)

Jac/ARAM/Init:: ARAMDMA

Jac/ARAM/Init:: ARAM

DSPSync:: SendMiss

UPDATE-DAC

Miss Send AudioSync

Jac/Thread/Proc::

Jac/thread/DSPSync::

Jac/Thread/Init::

Jac/Thread/Init:: —–

Message Full

Jac/NEOS:: NEOS

Jac/NEOS::

/audiorom.img

Jac/NEOS:: CPU

Jac/NEOS:: audiorom.img

Jac/NEOS::CPU

NEOS THREAD

DSP-MAIN

SFR-UPDATE

Jac/DVDT::DVDThread Paused!

Jac/DVDT::DVDThread UnPaused!

Jac/DVDT::DVD

Jac/DVDT::

Jac/DVDT::DVD.¨ARAM ([%s] %d bytes)

Jac/DVDT::          Finish (%d msec)

Jac/DVDT :: Registered file %s, (No.%d ID.%d )

Jac/DVDT :: Cannot find file to regist %s

SUPERDMA

FastCopy

SLOWCOPY

DSPInit(): MXIC Boot failed

DSP Err:not received mail (to DSP) is remained

DSP Err:not received mail (from DSP) is remained

Error: DSP now in framework

Parameter Input : %8x

PARAM[%d] = %x[h]

Output Buffer : %8x

DECODE BEFORE[%d] = %x[h]

DECODE AFTER[%d] = %x[h]

Do CARD Task

CARD Task Finish

Do AGB Task

AGB Task Finish

Audio Error:: DSP_SECURITY_CALLBACK is NULL

dsp_cardunlock.c

Failed assertion 0 <= chan && chan < 2

Rel.Jc (%x) Have DSPch  %x

DSPch Sign/Stat/CB is %x, %x, %x

Error: No Member

ROOTJC Error

ROOTJC Error2

Jcs %x : Allocate %d Channels

PHY. %x Log->phy. %x

Log. %x phy->log. %x

Log->phy->log  %x

Cut

DSPSTOP (JC= %x)

-->call %8x

Jesus/DrvIF/CommonCB:: Error: Cut

--------FORCESTOP

(PHY.%x ) (JC =%x)

Jesus/DrvIF/Callback::

Jesus/DRVINT:

FINISH

Error:

UPDATECALL

NULL

(JC %x)

Jesus/DrvIF/Stop::

----------------

-----------------:

Jesus/DrvIF/Play::

Jesus/DrvIF::

relwait

Ch%dINIT %d:CUR %x

Jesus/DSP-Interface::

Jesus/DspIF::

Bad INST Program Change %d

Bad PERC Program Change %d

Janus/BankDrv:: Warning: No Key-Map

Janus/BankDrv:: Warning:Velocity-Map (%d is Upper %d)

Error: No V-Map Error

Error: NULL Command Pointer (cmd. %x )

SEQP %x  Access Offset %d

Jam/Seq :: Error Note %d

Jam/main :: r-noteoff error

Jam/seq :: Sequence Error occerd

I try to continue

##########Error:: Track %d ‚

Jam/setup:: Error : Cannot back sequence structure %x

Jam/Setup::RootSeq

Jam/Setup:: Error : RootSeq

(DeAlloc)

Parent_Relation %d

Error:: No FAT Memory

Jam/Seq::ROOT

Jam/Seq::SEQP

StartSeq:

Jam/Track/Init/Warn::

(%s) ofs %d size %d

Janus/BANK/Init:: Virtual

Janus/BANK/Init::

Janus/Wave/Init::

iplrom.com

Test::DVD Bank&Wave Read

----

---------

Reset-ReEntry

Remain Chan. %d

ipl_0.aw

Inf

NaN

BS2 ERROR >>> SHOULD NEVER REACH HERE

appLoaderLength

0x%x

appLoaderFunc1

0x%x

Apploader Initialized

Addr [0x%x] length [0x%x] offset [0x%x]

/opening.bnr

BS2Mach.c

BS2 ERROR >>> Banner buffer address is not set

BS2 ERROR >>> Banner buffer length (0x%08x) is not enough

BS2 ERROR >>> UNKNOWN STATE

DEMOInit: invalid TV format

not support field rendering

gMRbuild.c

ERROR: This renderer ONLY supports J3DBinary1.5

gMRshape.c

ERROR: This renderer doesn't support Enveloped Model

Unused Text

Present at 0x7FFC6 in the IPL ROM is some text likely used to test the Game Play section of the menu.

pokemon kingin

2000

@NINTENDO

The new PokeMon Stadium!!!

"pokemon kingin" refers to Pokémon Gold and Silver.

Revisional Differences

v1.0	v1.1

The rotating cubes and "PRESS START" in the Game Play section of the menu were changed from pink to purple in later versions of the system's menu.

Memory Card 2043

The system supports up to 2043 block memory cards. However, Memory Card 1019 is the largest capacity Nintendo officially released.
Some games have text referencing the scrapped Memory Card 2043, and there were development tools that could use 2043 blocks. This isn't a total loss, as many third-parties have released unofficial 2043 block cards.