You can now sign up to be notified when the Flippydrive will be available for pre-order. The Flippydrive is an optical drive emulator for the GameCube. It can be installed without any soldering and can be used with or without the original drive. The best thing about it? It will only cost $38!
Here is a quick overview of the features
Loads disk images via:
- uSD card (1TB+ supported)
- Experimental WiFi loading
- 16MB internal flash
- Ethernet (future add-on module)
Other major features include:
- No-solder install
- Use with or without OEM drive
- 2.8x-10x faster than all EXI devices (SD2SP2, BBA, any memory card/SP1/SP2 device, etc.) in non-WiFi mode
- Real drive interface, no software hacks required
- One-button disk passthrough
- OTA software updates
- Rescue USB port for brick recovery
- No disk drives are scrapped to make this mod
- Stock-like menu using Cubeboot (pre-installed)
You can sign up to be notified when pre-orders are available on the homepage at https://flippydrive.com/.