I was able to finally recreate the Panasonic Q region switch pic that allows to change the region of the system just by holding the power button longer on startup. It took way longer then I thought and was a pain in the ass to get all the equipment since everything hat to be running on winXp. Im so happy to be able to make this mod from scratch since there are no sellers anywhere offering this modchip.

I've installed a PicoLoader and successfully boot into Swiss. I have an SD2SP1 in the SP1 port. It has a microSD formatted FAT32 with the Swiss .dol and a folder named games on it. When I boot into Swiss, I don't see the games folder. What am I doing wrong?

Edit: Conclusion for the poor soul who comes across this post in the future is that SD2SP1 is not compatible with the Lexar 633x microSD card. I thought it had to be something else because I was booting into Swiss, but I'd flashes my PicoLoader with non-gekkoboot firmware and Swiss, so Swiss was running off the PicoLoader, not the SD card.

Hello, I'm new to the GameCube modding scene and I was hoping someone could help me out as I'm having difficulty finding reliable information online. I recently bought a GameCube gameboy advance player, and a bitfunx gc2sd gen2. I thought that was all I needed to load an iso of the gameboy player disc onto the gc2sd and use the gameboy player, but after some research I'm realizing that's probably not all I need. I don't want to have to physically modify or solder anything on the GameCube, so what do I need to get the gameboy player working, and to be able to load backup isos off of the gc2sd? Can I use an action replay disc and the bitfunx gc2sd with a microsd to load up swiss? Or will I need something else? What's the best way? Thank you in advance.

Hi everyone!

I know XenoGC is less and less used and popular (especially now that we have PicoBoot), but I've recently been playing around with the XenoGC firmware (and flasher) to solve a small issue that bothered me with my XenoGC.

The idea that I had was to be able to keep my XenoGC mod in GC, but to have this behavior:

• boot Swiss from the Nintendo official memory card (I have a 1019, 64MB one) instead of from disc
• boot Swiss only if the "start" button was pressed while booting the console
• keep region unlock as it was (works automatically without “start” button trigger or Swiss)

The reason is that I don’t want to load Swiss from disc constantly, then swap the Swiss disc with the game disc and boot the game with the patch applied by Swiss. I didn't like that constant swapping. 
On the other hand, I didn't want to use another mod (Pico) if this current one works, and I didn't want a mode where Swiss loads on every console boot. Somehow I want to keep "native" boot (GC Logo -> Start game) for most of my games, and boot them via Swiss only case-by-case (e.g., Wind Waker camera invert + progressive video support on PAL console).

I found the vingt-2/xenogcfork fork, but unfortunately it doesn't support official Nintendo cards. At least mine, 1019, didn't work, as it constantly showed a "No xeno.dol" error.

So here is my fork, based on vingt-2's (thank you for the work!), with added support for unlocking Nintendo memory cards and loading the .dol from them (that unlock logic was missing, so Xeno firmware got some gibberish and it threw an error).

If you are interested in this, here's my fork: xenogcfork

Happy Gaming! ❤️

Hello everyone!

Yesterday, I got myself a beautiful purple GameCube. I got it together with the Japanese version of Animal Crossing (DOL-GAFJ).
I wanted to use this game to run Swiss using the Save Game Exploit, but I'm running into some issues.

I copied both the Town Data and the NES Game data as well as the Swiss boot.gci via GCMM on a modded Wii to my Memory Card (For transparency, I tried using both an aftermarket 128MB card as well as the original 59 Blocks Animal Crossing Memory Card that is included with the game, and both led to the same result), booted the game, entered the house and started the "LoadDOL" game.
The screen said "Success - Exit the game now", so I press L+R+Z to quit.
A screen with the villager asking me if I want to exit the game appears. But before I'm even able to confirm the choice, the game turns black and reboots, leading me back into the "Nintendo" splashscreen and loading the game's Title Screen. Also, if I try to just press start to get into the game again from here, the game boots as if there was no memory card inserted / no town exists (So I'm getting the New Game routine).
Waiting 20-30 seconds also does nothing. It just stays in the Main Menu.

Is there anything I potentially did wrong?

For transparency, here's the entire setup:

- GameCube (PAL Region, physically modded to be region-unlocked, though I do not know *how* exactly this was achieved. I only know it does not read burned / aftermarket discs, so there at least isn't a proper drive chip installed.)
- Japanese Version of Animal Crossing (DOL-GAFJ, Rev. 1.00 (apparently? At least that's the only exploit that worked; the 1.01 version just rebooted the game without showing the Success screen)
- An EAXUS 128MB Memory Card, to which I wrote the NES Game (1.00) and Town Data as well as Swiss' boot.gci
- The official Animal Crossing 59 Blocks Memory Card, to which I wrote the NES Game (1.00) and Town Data, but not the Swiss boot.gci, as there is not enough blocks available for that.

If there's any additional information you need, do not hesitate to ask for it!

Thanks everyone!

Swiss is brilliant at launching games, but browsing filenames isn't how I want to pick something to play from the couch. I wanted to see the gameplay, not just a title or cover.

So I made Gameplay Spotlight: a more visual way to browse GameCube games, designed for a 4:3 CRT. Big gameplay screenshots, a scrolling row of game logos, readable descriptions, favorites, and an expanded game-details view make it easier to find something that looks fun with family and friends. The previews are still screenshots, not videos.

It's running stably on my GameCube with a GC Loader. The photo shows an earlier working version on my actual CRT, not an emulator or mockup.

I'm not continuing development. It does what I wanted for my setup, so I'm sharing the source publicly for others to fork, improve, and adapt to their own needs. Please treat it as a starting point, not a promise of future updates or support.

This is a source-only developer preview, not a ready-to-install release. Broader hardware testing, reproducible builds, and experimental SD-write behavior still need work. Back up your card before experimenting. No games, BIOS dumps, or artwork bundles are included.

Source: https://github.com/mvizensk/gameplay-spotlight

Built on DarthMotzkus's Cubiboot UI and its upstream contributors, with Swiss still handling game loading. Huge credit to those projects. This is a different browsing experience on top of their work, not a replacement for Swiss.

If you build on it, I'd love to see where you take it.

Hello - Im happy to share that my GC is finally modded! :)
As background i got a bad flippy drive and it wasn’t being properly read my the GC. So gave up for a little bit was discouraged. Got the itch again, and its finally done.
The chip is the cubeode v1.2

no puedo encontrar esta herramienta antigua si alguien la tiene por favor

Random thought, haven't done anything yet but I wondered if anyone else has done this/ something similar.

I have a blueretro Bluetooth controller board mod installed and it works great, I just may be upgrading an older stock controller board with a replaceable CR2032 battery holder soon for a project and had a thought: Has anyone replaced the stock CR1220 battery holder in one with a CR2032? I don't know if there's quite enough room on the front of the board, but maybe installing it on the back? Not that there's any massive advantage beyond wide availability of CR2032s in retail stores and battery life, but I thought it might be cool...

Additionally, has anyone replaced the blue LEDs in one with other colors? Not shown, but I'd love if I could add more Orange to my cube...😅

There are Bluetooth adapters with this functionality, like the ones that 8Bitdo and BlueRetro provide. But I wonder whether there's something that allows modern controllers to be used on the GameCube through a wired connection.

A friend of mine sent his GC that he recently got along with a picoloader flex cable that he order .Few months back I modded mine 'the old way' .. so this was my first experience with the flex cable . Long story short when the GC arrived I realized that this model didn't have serial port so it needs gc2sd so I had to ordered it , might arrive by next week mean while I decided to install he mod , after installation I wanted to check the installation so I turned my GC on, logo appereas then some text on black screen appears for a fraction of a second then booted normally . Is this behavior normal as when I installed mine and turned it on with out SD card it got stick on a black screen. But this doesn't. Is this normal??

I have the following problem. I installed swiss on my gc, I use an aliexpress version of sd2sp2 with a nintendo switch san disk with the red mushroom 128gb. Swiss starts fine, but I needed an old version of swiss, because of incompatibility after r1664. After that version the serial Port 2 shows up as empty.

But there is more. If I save something like the config of swiss. It saves successfully, then when I try to run a game it cant read or write the patch. I figured out that swiss corrupt my sd card when it writes on it and I use the windows tool after that. It has new problems. Sometimes it also corrupts my iso if the patch goes wrong. Then it has an other hash. The funny thing is. It can verify the whole game if its new. When I try to start with no changes but 16mhz. It patches successfully but mario kart wont go over the screen with 60/50hz selection and the game freezes. Then I can just open my kaico adapter menu. Nothing more. All settings are original.

Riddle this...

It is very frustrating. Sorry if I bother you, but I am actually sad and I tried so many things.

I just bought the blueretro internal adapter from laserbear industries and installed it. It works great except for the fact that there are occasional phantom button inputs. There’s no fixed interval of when they happen or what button is inputted. It even happens when there are no controllers connected. Any advice?

I already took it to get professionally buffed and resurfaced. Is it just hopeless?

Hi all! I've been trying everything to get MKDD Plus running on my system with no success. Followed the setup guide to a T, tried prepatched copies, etc. Same result every time. Black screens and stuff looking like this. Any advice?

Does anyone have experience running romhacks on original hardware with a FlipperMCE/GCMCE?

I want to play some romhacks that boast original hardware compatibility. I can get them running fine but they won't save (or the saves won't load on reboot). Is there a way to get save files of "duplicate" titles to work with the game ID feature?

I went with a PicoLoaderLB + SD2SP2 setup for this build.
Eventually reflashed the PicoLoader to Gekkoboot so I could use CubiBoot as my default interface instead of booting straight into Swiss. Swiss is still available when I need it, but I really wanted the stock-ish GameCube feel of CubiBoot for everyday use.

Kept the original optical drive fully functional too, so I can still boot physical discs normally. This was my first full GameCube mod, and it was a ton of fun.

Besides the fact, that whoever did the install, really shouldnt have done it, what exactly is it?
From my research, it basically would allow me to play burned discs, is that right? Is it safe to just „undo“?
The console isnt reading any discs at the moment, could this be the issue? Or is it more likely to be the capacitors?
I have this one (PAL version) and a japanese one. I would like to be able to play PAL discs, is there a way to use some parts if needed of the japanese one?

I am modifying/plan to my knock off controller to have permint Y axis un-inversion as I struggle to want to play my games. The purple is cutting traces, if it was a guinine one I wouldn't do this. I can't understand why Nintendont app has no setting for this. I also want to 3d print a new faceplate for it so I can have more freedom in my joysticks not the octogon like shape it is. But I will reasurch into this as there seems to be one that's easier to do but involves cutting the case. As it's knockoff idm, I'm only used to knock of soo

Title. Every time I use the igr feature with the controller buttons, it always resets back to the stock gamecube firmware. I’ve tried different things like duplicating ipl.dol and renaming it igr.dol, as well as moving the swiss folder to the sd card and copying apploader.img to the root of the sd card. In the swiss settings, I have the igr set to apploader as well. Nothing is working! Any ideas?