The Full Qoob Review

[Sonic-Iso]

Its finally here a full review of the qoob chip.

When you open the package it contains 5 objects.
1 FFC cable
1 qoob chip
1 USB A to USB B cable
1 Plug in wire adapter
1 qoob case sticker

http://www.pxn-os.com/public/sonic/IMG_0393.jpg

Here is a close up of the chip.

http://www.pxn-os.com/public/sonic/IMG_0408.jpg

Bye Bye ViperGC

http://www.pxn-os.com/public/sonic/IMG_0410.jpg

Hellooooooo Nurse (I mean qoob)

http://www.pxn-os.com/public/sonic/IMG_0411.jpg

Installation was a breeze...If you can install the ViperGC
mod into your console than this install is a easy one. If
not than i reccomend you get some major help. :)


http://www.pxn-os.com/public/sonic/IMG_0418.jpg

The wiring provided with the qoob is just perfect enough to
mount the unit in your console.

http://www.pxn-os.com/public/sonic/IMG_0421.jpg

One thing i liked about this chip is the fact you do not
have to turn on your console in order to flash it. All you
have to do is plug in the USB cable and viola WindowsXP
will even see the chip as a qoob chip.

http://www.pxn-os.com/public/sonic/IMG_0422.jpg

You must be asking your self "Well wtf is the FFC cable for?"
Well my friends unlike the viper programmer the qoob programmer
is much more compact and easy to store. This is it being external,
but you can store it in the serial bay once your done doing what
you have to do.

http://www.pxn-os.com/public/sonic/IMG_0423.jpg

The cool LED to ensure your qoob is fully functioning.

http://www.pxn-os.com/public/sonic/IMG_0424.jpg

qoob sticker... it kind of reminds me of those AMD or Pentium
stickers HAH.

http://www.pxn-os.com/public/sonic/IMG_0425.jpg

Here is what you will see once the GameCube loads up.

http://www.pxn-os.com/public/sonic/qoob.jpg

On a side note please use the RC5 bios of 1.0 for the qoob
for it is the most up to date bios.

As far as no-swap that works flawlessly.
The audio-stream fix works great too Dread vs. Death had
some issues with the viper but works fine on qoob.

Another beauty about the qoob are the 15 extra banks on the chip.

"What are they for?" you may ask. Well you can throw DOL and ELF
files onto the qoob and run them off of the chip rather than wasting
dvd-rs.

That will conclude this review.

Thanks to the qoob team for making such a awsome mod.

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No one else has permission.

[Nick101181]

where did you order your qoob from and how much? I like the idea of storing dols on the chip itself instead of using dvd-rs. Can you send dols to the chip thru usb, or is the usb connection just for flashing. also is it possible to save game saves on any of those extra chips on the board?

[Sonic-Iso]

yeah you send through usb

[DarkAkuma]

Nice. The qoob is looking alot better then i thought it was going to be. Hell, im haveing a hard time finding something bad about it. Lets see... um... i got it!

Wtf? They to cheap to put a better LED in their, like blue? Blue LEDs in a cube are nice and styleish. Green is just cheap! =p

Kidding aside, its a nice chip. And nice review.

Oh yea, last pic link has the wrong extention. Should be...

http://www.pxn-os.com/public/sonic/qoob.jpg

[Xboxmodder999]

Yeah, I think that I will be purchasing one of these to install in my second gamecube. The Viper GC is staying in my first cube though.

[Stan64]

You set it in front of the air-hole? I know that cubes are easily overheated. >_<

[Lazycus]

Originally posted by Stan64
You set it in front of the air-hole? I know that cubes are easily overheated. >_<

The USB portion of the board breaks away from the main board so it doesn't block anything.

http://www.qoobchip.com/images/diagrams/gcdis/_gcdis_10.jpg

[SigmaX6]

now the real question is can u isntall both viper and qoob on the same gc? via pwr switch or something.dont ask why i just would like to know how

[Xboxmodder999]

You could, it would kinda be a pain in the ass though.

[xisko]

One thing, The soldering where the black cable of viper gc is united. In the photos of qoobchip this soldering doesn't appear. I have install the viper gc and i want install the viper now. The qoobchip works with this soldering?


Thanks

[Xboxmodder999]

Originally posted by xisko
One thing, The soldering where the black cable of viper gc is united. In the photos of qoobchip this soldering doesn't appear. I have install the viper gc and i want install the viper now. The qoobchip works with this soldering?


Thanks

Some gamecubes have those soldered together, and others don't. The Viper works regardless of wether that is soldered together or not, so I'm guessing the Qoob is the same way.