History and Development of the GameCube - 1997 - 2004

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Enjoy a look into the development history and release of the Nintendo GameCube, from the early days as the N2000, to the Dolphin, and finally release in 2001 as the Game Cube!

References:
GameCube Launch History - Dolphins Tale



1997
Nintendo starts talks with CagEnt for next console

M2 dev interview:
http://www.3do.cdinteractive.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=13

M2 history:
https://real3do.uk/m2/

Sold to Panasonic:
https://real3do.uk/3do-press-releases/3do-signs-agreement-with-matsushita-for-m2-technology/

Tim Van Hook Blog post
https://kidscreen.com/2013/11/12/the-plumbers-apprentice/


Gamecube launch day Japan footage:
   • (17/18) Planet GameCube Japanese Expe...  


Panasonic's divisions formed in April of 1996 by the Matsushita Electric

1998
Nintendo start working with ArtX on N2000

M2 demonstration disc -    • "3DO M2 Demonstration Demo Release" -...  

ArtX / SGI news story
https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/artx-ousting-mips-from-nintendo/


1999
IGN announcement of N2000
https://www.ign.com/articles/1999/03/13/its-alive-3

Gaming Historian Panasonic Q video:
   • Panasonic Q: The Ultimate Nintendo Ga...  

Gamecube LCD screen video footage:
   • Shigeru Miyamoto - Unseen/Extended 20...  

Beta controller and dev kits:
https://gccontrollerlibrary.com/controllers/prototype-gamecube-controllers/



2000 - GC Dev news:
https://archive.org/details/nintendo-gamecube-development-news-vol-1

Spaceworld

2001 - Dev CD’s:
https://x.com/forestillusion/status/1471426358848811008

Launch games:
https://www.gamegrin.com/articles/gamecube-launch-titles/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

2004 - IQUE leaked documents
https://x.com/RetroReversing/status/1421829947409195009

https://frds.github.io/ique-gamecube/

Portable gamecube Gigaleak document - https://x.com/toruzz/status/1301198144013824000

Dolphin story

https://gwern.net/doc/technology/2014-rogers-adolphinstalethestoryofgamecube.html

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