can you play a gamecube game from your cd drive?

[tdude51]

hi im kinda new to this stuff...
i was wondering if you could just pop a gamecube game into your cd drive and play it. do you need an emulator, or do you have to rip it into a certain file tipe or something like that? thanks. :D

[Jale]

i was wondering if you could just pop a gamecube game into your cd drive and play it.
No.


do you need an emulator, or do you have to rip it into a certain file tipe or something like that?
Both.