I just received Soul Calibur 2 for my Gamecube (together with two Hori GC Soul Calibur arcade sticks...). I have an early Japanese GC with the mod switch so it plays US games too - and for the past 5 months, I've only been playing US games. I bought this modded GC one year ago here in The Netherlands.
So I switched the mod switch to the JPN position, turn the power on and... it wouldn't recognize the disk. Powering down, switching to US and US games run fine. Then trying to run SC II in US mode gives the same disk not recognized error. Trying to run another JPN GC game (Luigi's Mansion) also did not work anymore, where in the past it would...
So, apparantly, I've somehow managed to disable the ability to play Japanese games on a Japanese Gamecube... I once read somewhere that flipping the mod switch while powered on will damage the unit, but I have not done this - at least not on purpose/that I noticed.
Anybody familiar with this phenomenon? I'd love to play SC II, but I hope I don't need a new GC for it (though I'm very much tempted by the Panasonic Gamecube Q). Do you think freeloader will save my day? Will freeloader still support 480p output?
So I switched the mod switch to the JPN position, turn the power on and... it wouldn't recognize the disk. Powering down, switching to US and US games run fine. Then trying to run SC II in US mode gives the same disk not recognized error. Trying to run another JPN GC game (Luigi's Mansion) also did not work anymore, where in the past it would...
So, apparantly, I've somehow managed to disable the ability to play Japanese games on a Japanese Gamecube... I once read somewhere that flipping the mod switch while powered on will damage the unit, but I have not done this - at least not on purpose/that I noticed.
Anybody familiar with this phenomenon? I'd love to play SC II, but I hope I don't need a new GC for it (though I'm very much tempted by the Panasonic Gamecube Q). Do you think freeloader will save my day? Will freeloader still support 480p output?