Discovering an unreleased GameCube Internet Browser 

similar story: one time i put a bagel in my game cube and the same sorta thing happened haha crazy world right

if anyone's wondering what it means at 0:24, she says "私は日本語があまり話せないので、 コンピューターが翻訳してくれました。" which means "I don't speak much Japanese, my PC translated it" and dw about your accent f4mi, it's fine ;)

Honestly from a technical standpoint a web browser is what makes the most sense for this kind of program, not only from a cost/time prospective but also from a features prospective. Also to recover the full browser out of it i think some complex reverse engieneering needs to be put into this, it can be as easy modifiy a few bytes here and there to enable unused code pieces. But i think that it's very likely that the code to run all the browser features was left entirely out of the disk, so in that case either a new browser must be created from scratch or an existing some (able to run on gc level hw) must be ported

this is a very entertaining and well-paced video for such a small channel.

3:12 That image of Hamtaro is the Japanese cover of Hamtaro Ham-Ham Heartbreak, which was released on the GBA around the same time (2002-2003). Fun fact: one of the producers of Hamtaro Ham-Ham Heartbreak is Shigeru Miyamoto, though the game was not developed by Nintendo.

PSO's web browser is interesting, as it's a completely different kind of browser. If you look in the files there's an INI file that has a few settings, with options for using a real keyboard, setting the background color, the homepage, and even enabling Javascript and plugins! I haven't personally tried tweaking it though, since the game encrypts what webpages you can go on in the memory card it seems. The browser was only supposed to be used for purchasing a Hunter's License, AKA the sub.

I actually am assuming this is the same browser used in the gamecube version of Fantasy Star Online, right? It's got to be!

Okay but this is a pretty cool thing to find out by absolute accident if you haven't bought the wrong disc you might have never found this out

There's an "encyclopedia" program for the GameBoy Advance called Pocket Professor Kwik Notes Vol. 1 that does something similar to this. It uses a html-like system to encode all its pages and link them together. It also occasionally uses it to embed images of a custom format.

Just binged all your content, loving this weird niche deep dive info!

Fami. Hopefully you recovered from your accident and it doesn't sound like you haven't missed a beat. This is a neat find the presentation is kewwwwwl.

I never knew this. Learning so much stuff from leaks and randomly from this. I truly wonder how different things would be if stuff like this actually came out and wasn't shelved to the dark corners of the interwebs

underrated channel, currently binging a bunch of your vids :D

I know I’m not the first to say it. That Hamtaro image is a gameboy advance box art for the “Ham Ham Heart Break” game. It’s the third game in that series of Hamtaro games, and the west only ever got the 2nd and 3rd entries. Although Pal regions got another entry in the series, I can’t easily find the Japanese names for these games. Funnily enough, the Nintendo of Japan website still has a page for that game. It came out in May 2002. Nintendo published a bunch of those. Perhaps it was meant to be a part of the trailers or previews on the disc but they decided not to include it.

I just stumbled on this video, which led to me marathoning a ton of your other videos... These are great! I'm shocked you don't have more subscribers.

Hello fellow Nintendo Gamecube Soft e-Catalog 2003 Spring disk owner!! I just saw your video through a Reddit post and was like "I OWN THAT DISK!!" I'm so glad you're mentioning ConnorRentz's article on it, I also referred to their article when I dumped the disk over on the Internet Archive - if anyone else wants to check out the demo disk contents as well. Uh I dunno if I should link it because spam filter but it's there I promise. Just one correction: this disk came with RUNE 2 (known as Lost Kingdoms 2 overseas), Pokemon Box, AND Family Stadium 2003. The info can be found going through the Wayback Machine on Nintendo's Japanese website. Also funny story I also didn't mean to get this disk (I wanted a CIB copy of RUNE 2's demo OTL) but, it was so neat to learn about the browser within so it was all worth it.

Just came across your channel... Absolutely love how your videos have sporadic meming, but it's not over the top, and it's still very informational!! Great work!

And just when I thought I knew every small tech thing about the PS2 a learn about a internet disc. Very informative and entertaining.

I just discovered this gem, thank you very much for your content.

Awesome video! I'm so glad your channel popped up in my yt recommendations.

Hamtaro GameCube confirmed you love to see it As a frequent used of the Nintendo DSi Browser, I give this video my seal of approval

And you've gained another sub! Cool content, in regards to actually making the browser, it would probably require rebuilding the source from a rip like this via reverse engineering, then expanding. Major theme there would be that whoever takes on the task would need at least the Gamecube's development software, though I presume it could be done with some of the homebrew tools too.

2:07 Ahahaha I hadn't heard about the Wii Opera browser error messages. Between this and the Wii Startup Disc, i am SO here for stories that the Wii was just a gamecube with a wifi adapter stapled to the bottom and duct-taped with a piece of lined notebook paper with "Wii" written on it in sharpie.

Great video! Always love dives into obscure video game history stuff.

Had no idea about this at all! Super neat video!

I'm so glad I hit the bell button. I binged your whole channel when I found it two weeks ago and been excited for more

Wow I stumbled upon this and now I'm gonna watch all your videos, as they are exatcly my niche. Keep doing the good Work!

amazing video outro and youve gained a sub ! great vid

i like your sense of humor and editing 👍 subscribed.

I love f4mi's videos and I also love how she keeps swearing even though she knows she'll have to quack all her swears. don't quacking change, f4mi

Personal story about 2:17, I had a Wii modchipped as a kid since I was living in Malaysia at the time and wanted to play a game I had gotten visiting Australia. The system settings had broken exactly like that. Didn't scare me at all, just infuriated me when I had found it cos I knew I would not be getting that console online

Love your way of making content. So nerdy, so fun. I never subscribe to anyone but you deserve it.

Love your videos! I love learning about niche Nintendo stuff!

Always look forward to your videos! Keep it up.

I just discovered your channel and I loved it! The subject is very interesting and the jokes are very funny! 1+ subscriber!

I admire your editing so much fami great video.

(2:52) I find it interesting that you didn't resize your Safari window to mimic the viewport of the hidden Web browser you were talking about, as responsive Web design didn't exist in the 2000s.

What a neat find! It's weird how nobody knows about this :o Also I look forward to the video on the GBA emulator 😌

amazing video. Funny, well written, and entertaining. I'm just mad it took this long for RU-vid to recommend it.

I feel blessed to have found your channel

If you looked at the back of the packaging for one of these things, it has a disclaimer that says something along the lines of “This Broadband adapter alone won’t connect you to the internet!” Like if they were planning on releasing a web browser that could, since it also advertised needing a online-ready game beforehand.

is your DAMN GameCube CONNECTED to the INTERNET yet?

yay a unqiue in depth retro gaming channel I can binge on

A little add on! Sega actually made a very basic one for pso ep 1 and 2. It’s hidden in network setting and advertisement but it’s there. It just wasn’t made by Nintendo! It’s similar to how the ps5 has one, u just can’t access it unless under certain conditions or needs in a piece of software. Like needing it to sign into services like Spotify to pay.

I love how in the pinned comment, she said Bretzel at first, and people thought it was wrong, but here in germany where the pretzel is invented it actually is spelled that way lmao

Your videos are a joy to watch. Love the humour. You Rock.

Great accent , great information , I love the Comedy. Keep it up !

Understandable, have a nice day.

Another neat video as always bro!

Many like to make fun of Nintendo and online functions. But if you look at things since the NES or rather the Famicom, you will notice that the addons for internet use were already released back then. The only problem is that the stuff, which was actually quite good at the time, never made it outside of Japan

you got me subscribe with this video ! also, i felt so nostalgic watching it !

The Wii interface run in a browser?! What a wild concept lol

electron wasn't the first web browser to be implemented into every app, opera was first.

I really love your accent! Sounds so relaxing

The Wii menu uses Opera? You Just blew my mind

If I had to guess regardless of whether they were planning on a GameCube browser they made one for developers and or beta testers of the demo discs.

Great video, did never know you could even hook game cube to broadband internet You think you could share this demo disc? I realy like this early 2000s design and sadly its hard to find on live internet, it seams it got preserved offline on this discs and other magazine discs BTW: your english accent is interesting its perfecly understandable and it allows you to get a point acros, but am not sure where would I put you, at first I thought you are from japan since you could pronounce all this letters so well but then I thought maybe you are from Switzerland (you showed Mediasat watermark on your 5000 game video) but not sure which part (maybe italian because of mediasat) Ok got caried away sorry but would love that dump of q demo disc if possible :)

Didn't expect the Cristina D'avena moment at 3:10 AHAHAH

> I'm a broke student > Uses a Mac

Love these vids been binging them lately

that moment when gamecube has a more easily accessible web browser than the switch does -_-

Hahah I loved this video! Informative and funny too

5:49 the stock footage has a MacBook Pro that uses the ISO Russian keyboard layout

man theses videos are too good for only 2.24k subs. seriously

3:22 I'm gonna subscribe 3 more times to you (dunno how yet, imma figure it out) just because of the F-91W - and the joke lol

Gurl I just found out your channel and I love it. I live in Japan and I'm also into collecting some niche stuff, if you ever need something from here hit me up, be glad to help you.

This channel is so underrated

Can you post the contents of the disc somewhere? If there were html files then web devs (like myself) should be able to edit the files and just see what happens

0:27 My 556 Day Duolingo Streak was actually useful for something

proof ive been subbed since 33.3k (this is for the future

Id love to see a video about your process of buying from japan, I want to buy a gameboy player for my gamecube but I dunno where or how to buy from Japan. Greetings from South America.

the "Need help" fucking got me lmao

Nintendo hiring the same guys who did it first for Sega...this happens a lot more than I realize.

Giuro ero un botto sorpreso già dalla copertina del video dato che sapevo già che quello fosse il browser del Dreamcast e wow sta roba è assurda

4:03 - SegaNet having a quoted endorsement from Fred Durst, lead -whiner- singer of Limp Bizkit, is about as 1999 as you can get. lol I'm not surprised that the demo discs are HTML-based. Many game demo discs for PC also used HTML front-end. Around that time, at least in the US, there was a demand for HTML programming as more and more companies were finally pushing to have an online presence. If you weren't fluent in HTML, you couldn't even get a job repairing home computers because they wanted someone who could also design/maintain a website. Also, in the late-90s, HTML was often called "the programming language of the future." 🤣 HTML was easy enough to write, since you could use literally any text editor on any platform, and your code was saved as a text file, for easy transport via floppy discs, tape backup, or dialup internet.

Awesome video! :)

Never heard of that, that’s interesting!

Hah. Htop and cmatrix are favourites of mine for "Hackerman terminal output" as well.

new favorite content creator

New subscriber here. Love the accent.

Criminally underrated.

Those discs come with JPN Pokemon box

She's back!

I wonder if it’s possible to replace the HTMLs with different ones.

4:41 blue dreamcast controller in a red dreamcast..

when anyone says "but first, we need to" i instantyl get pancake2012 flashbacks is that normal

imagine flash games on gamecube browser

I recently discovered that the garrys mod main menu is also a web browser

Okay I really want to see someone to surf the internet on the GC

nine-eleven?

pretty cool but I doubt it would work with most websites if hacked to access the internet prob doesn't have support for tls2 so nearly all pages would just not load tls2 has crippled older devices internet capabilities

Wohoo I got them!! Thanks so much

I think its probably just leftovers from them reusing their old assets

stumbled upon your channel and it's so cool take a subscribe :D

TIL that westerner accents pretty much all sound the same in Japanese. 外国人によってアメリカ人や少しのアジア人からだけの日本語話しを聞いたことあるんから、考えなかった

now I hope someone can rewrite this gamecube browser

Hey it's possible, we live in an era where you can order pizza on a Wii in the year of our Lord 2023

aye did you by any chance rip the iso to uhh, internet archive, since this stuff is rare and could become lost media

This is a good channel

3:23 i live in the casio That's funny 5:55 Seriously, this is funny