That'd be a reason to buy it. Costumize. That's one of GC weakest links, no DVD. Would a regular sized disc fit in it, since the discs are so small?
So I looked up on this. There's a new mod chip being worked out by the same fellas that did the PS2 one and supposedly it will enable loading of home brewed DVDs.
You can hack GC to take linux, or you can develop on it with a lot of different libraries but I'm just not interested in that these days.
the only way to get stuff to run on it (AFAIK) is through the net port and a copy of Fantasy Star Online. I don't remember the details, and I don't really have time for this anymore. I'm busy hacking my townhouse.
yeah the PSO loader, theres like back door using the ethernet adapter or something, bah not interested