Thanks for the guide. It was helpful. One thing to mention or point out that the instructions here using the save game exploit is specific for SSBM. The SSBM exploit will boot Swiss (as boot.dol) from a SD card in the Gecko. Other game exploits do not allow this. This can allow for use of a smaller memory card if needed. The other save game exploits I have tried (specifically Wind Waker and Twilight Princess) require Swiss (as boot.gci) to be copied to the memory card and will not boot from the SD Card. This requires a larger Memory Card but then does not necessarily require a SDGecko. Once you have Swiss booted. You can load isos and other home brew off of a SD Gecko or a SD2SP2. Also the 2GB SD Card limit that is mentioned in many guides and videos is specific to the Action Replay. The SD Gecko can use larger memory cards. I have a 128GB card that works fine in the SD Gecko.
so if i'm using twilight princess i shouldn't have my sd gecko or sd2sp2 in my gamecube? I been having issues trying to get the game save exploit to work(f-zero gx method but i do own twilight princess). i have tried the twilight princess method and still no luck, it just freezes on the file select screen. i really don't know what i'm doing wrong.
@@SpaghettiJoBayBay You can have your Gecko and sd2sp2 in your Gamecube, but Swiss needs to be on the memory card in Slot A (and named boot.gci) along with the savegame explot file. It cannot be on an SD Card. Basically these exploits are trying to run boot.gci from the memory card and will freeze if it cannot find it. This will not work with the small 59 block memory card as it's too small. Once Swiss is running though, you can load any software from the Gecko, or from the sd2sp2. A Gecko is not even needed in this case (but is good to have). For whatever reason, the SSBM exploit works differently and will try to run Swiss (as boot.dol) from the Gecko and not the memory card.
Oh yeah, I'll be able to do it once the GC Loader arrives AND once I get a GB Player (back in the day I wasn't interested because I hardly had GB games or GBA at all, on GB at best I had Pokemon, and GBA... well, it took me a while to actually get one, but nowdays I'll try to get a GB Player, boot disk is irrelevant for me if it comes or not, and I think I managed to find one that is not very expensive).
Great video! I bought a dol-001 GameCube today, and much to my surprise it does not have a serial port 2. Apparently this was left out from some gamecubes to cut cost.
Awesome tutorial video that covers the various ways to mod the system! For me personnaly I would go the Action Replay route... yes it's more costly but the least complicated as I don't know how to solder and I don't want to keep configuring files as I've had bad experiences with soft modding any consoles in the past! Great video and keep up the good work!
I love coming back to your videos from time to time, 'RG' man. You and MrMario make such amazing content, just as good as MyLifeInGaming's quality, bro.
Man you have no idea how much I appreciate it! I'm excited to get back in the saddle once this month is over and start making content again! I appreciate you visiting the backlog! 🙌🙌🙌
@@RockerGaming haha CRT 😁! That's great you managed to fit all that in one video as I find the resource to boot swiss or gbi pretty low on YT or outdated 😊
@@RockerGaming yes there are quite a few GC over here to say the least but im sure you have a few laying around the house😁 BTW which one do you game on the most? Is it one you have modded to the max?
Öhm a hint. When you place the current Version of swiss on the micro sd card as boot.dol and Boot the swiss DVD it found the file and start the current Version. No need to burn every New version
Hi there. Great tip. I am just getting into Modding the GC, so i have some questions: 1. If a burn swiss on a DVD i will not need the Action Replay DVD right? 2. If i use a burned swiss on DVD can i load ISOs from the SD-Card (max. 2GB) and from the SD2SP2(more then 2GB)?
@@ayebo15 first to read a non nintendo disc the gc needs a chip on it that enable it. Action replay disc doesnt follow that. A xenogc is cheap for reading burned discs. I would buy a chip and a burned swiss disc on aliexpress and you would be under 10€. Gc disc burning is a bit Trick and to get disc for burning is hard these days. Swiss can access any memory card in slot B or the sd2sp2. But it was at a spezifik Version that introduce sd2sp2. And you can switch the source
Still as confused as I was before. Just tell us in simple plain language. Do we need to combine the SD2SP2 with the Memory Card SD Card adapter and the action replay disc or not? This is so confusing. Just this confusion alone makes it worth it to go for the GC Loader method even if it’s expensive.
when i saw the first method i wondered how many people will go the lengths in soldering (not me) then thank goodness there's also solderingless methods lmao (oh wait I dont own a gamecube lmao)
I'm still working on a portable GameCube even though I have a portable Wii, (just something I love about the GameCube). I have two or three WiiKey fusion/WASP DD replacement chips but never understood how Swiss worked until your video. Thanks for the information and the awesome video!! :) PS Where do you get a GC Loader from? That looks pretty awesome!! 😁
Dang dude, sell those wiikey fusions and get a gcloader. Check out Dan (citrus3000psi) over at Black Dog Technology. He has some awesome goodies over there!
I am just getting into Modding the GC, so i have some questions: 1. If a burn swiss on a DVD i will not need the Action Replay DVD right? 2. If i use a burned swiss on DVD can i load ISOs from the SD-Card (max. 2GB) and from the SD2SP2(more then 2GB)?
They are pretty good, at least, I have had good luck with them. I would just recommend you go for the wire install instead of the direct solder method. I know you have the skills no problem, but if its your first time its a bit easier to do it like that. Also, if you can find someone from the states selling them on ebay I would go down that path. The ones from China I recently ordered took 2 months thanks to Covid, lol.
@@RockerGaming I know. Aliexpress stuff is taking longer now. Way longer. Ebay used to cost like under $5 shipped free from the USA last I saw a couple years back. Much thanks.
Is that by chance the copy of Melee that you grew up with? I've got 3 copies of the game, but I only keep finding v1.02. I'm happy because that's the tournament-official version, but there's some really fun stuff I'd like to try with an earlier certain. Anyway, great video! Pretty cool stuff. I don't think I'll ever personally try it, but I am amazed at the possibilities.
It sure is!! Its been a while but as I recall I got it when it pretty much first came out. I was a bit surprised it was not the -0-00 version of the game. Now the case, if I recall, I lost and replaced with this one at some point, but its been 5 or 6 years since I did so I am not 100% sure how that all happened, lol Even if you dont do it, its good to know. There is a couple other things I want to share in this same vein and I think it might make you reconsider :)
6:47. I heard a synth instrumental version of The Gummies Bears theme song is playing in the background. I hope Disney doesn't make a copyright strike against you! ;)
@@alanyt0847 yea there's xbox one homebrew. At the time it was difficult, ps3 and wii was easier. By the time it was reachable without hardware modchips the next generation was out. 360s with cfw are expensive cuz not a whole lot of ppl did it.
The game save xploit was giving me hope of not spending much, till you said i need a wii also for the save transfer 😞. So in reality the cheapest way is to mod chip your gamecube period.
Everyone has a Wii that just gathering dust. Ask your grandma, uncle or somebody. Its the most popular dust gatherer nowadays. And modding a Wii is super easy, just requires an SD card and some files.
Hey man!!! I’ve been looking into this for a long time. Will the memory cards on eBay work? And can you play isos from the SD2SP2?? Thank you so much man.
hi very good video here my very noob question fot the GC scene After installing the Xen8 chip do i need to recalibrate the laser to read my burnd disc? you dont mention anything about that??? but I just read that infomation in other youtube videos
I named it boot.dol, but when the exploit hits - it just goes back to the Gamecube screen for the melee exploit. For the windwaker one, it freezes the screen. Swiss never loads... This is a day one launch NTSC Gamecube. I'm using the 2D2SP2, and feel like it's not making good contact when plugging into serial port 2... Also I tried the newest swiss version, as well as r845 as in your video. Tried 128 GB and 16 GB SD cards - both FAT32. I'm thinking either the 2D2SP2 was broke on arrival, or my gamecube port 2 is broke. I eve soldered a little on the SD2SP2 pads to make them thicker to make contact - no effect. Alright the reason was I had to put "boot.gci" on the memory card along with the exploit .gci file, while having "boot.dol" on the SD card in the SD2SP2. Not sure if I just missed that in the video.
Great video very helpful but I am still confused about 2 things. 1.)do you have to change the .dol file to boot.dol when putting it on the root of the sd2sp2? 2.) How do you get games working on the GC gameboy player through swiss? Sorry if it was already covered.
Hey Scott, thanks for the comment let me do my best to answer: 1 - I assume you're talking about the game save exploit method, correct? 2 - its pretty easy and I get into more detail in this video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-F_RFgqQHRac.html but basically download gameboy interface from the link in the description. Next, please the contents on the root of the sd card and then launch swiss and execute the GBI. You should be all set at that point and able to play GBA games without the need for the OG boot disc.
@@RockerGaming yeah, that answers the game boy question thanks for the help much appreciated. the only other thing was the micro sd card that goes in the sd2sp2, does the .dol file that goes on the root need to be changed to boot.dol or not? I would like to keep my memory card slots open. Thanks again your videos are great.
Ok just confirmed the game save exploit will not not boot off the sd2sp2. You will unfortunately need a memorycard to sd card converter to use the game save exploit or will need a mod chip to boot and the. Load off the sd2sp2.
@@scotterdmann2499 you can actually load swiss off of your memory card if your memory card is large enough to fit the boot.gci file you can find on the github page and then you can load from an sd2sp2 from there
i will never understand why you would ever want the GCLoader, like, why would you ever want to replace your disc drive in it’s entirety with an SD card slot? it just makes no sense to me
Hey, I need help please. I'm burning the disc and my gamecube wont read it, if I turn the gamecube on with the disc inside it gives the "NO DISC" error, if I put it in after it has booted it says it cannot read the disc, normal game discs work.
i'm having zero luck with the save exploit. I have tried two games F-Zero GX and Zelda Twilight Princess and they both crash. I tried naming the dol to boot, i tried without naming the dol to boot, i tried the compressed dol, i tired older versions. i'm just having no luck getting this to work. I have the sd gecko and sd2sp2 and both methods still don't work, i'm not confident in hard modding and the GCLoader is almost never in stock.
So.... say I just wanna play Game Cube games I used to have but cant afford to replace but my Game Cube is a later model without the 3rd port on the bottom and not Digital out on the back .Would the Memory Card Adapter still work?
is there a reason why my memory used or free on the left side of swiss don't update?? it's still showing the same 10gb from my first time trying out the hack
Yes it is, those are just the two I have the most experience with and can safely recommend. Other brands exist and may work and some may work well but I don't use them so it makes it very hard for me to recommend.
@@RockerGaming out of curiosity, do you know much about troubleshooting/repairing gamecubes as well? I ran into an issue with mine that I wasn't aware of before
What i dont understand using the modded wii version is this. When i have opened swiss will i not be able to acess my old save file anymore and cant i swap the sd card back to my wii now ?
im seeing a lot of video resolution options in swiss including hersay on the internet of 1080i being available at some point. could you please explain this to me? i am particularly interested in the 960i resolution.
Can you use swiss with only the Sd2sp2 and xeno mod chip? Because I'd like to be able to transfer data from my english memory card to my JP one without having to format them. I heard that Swiss bypasses the region lock on memory cards.
I'm been wondering, that is it possible to launch Swiss on Wii through it's native SD Card slot, so that there wouldn't be any need for an GameCube SD Card adapter of sorts?
Why not just use Nintendont on Wii? That is actually the better choice as it has been developed out for eons, offers more options like non GC controllers, forced video modes, shrunk/compressed isos and memory card emulation. You can run your games right from the SD or USB (fat32) and if you use on WiiU you can run cube games on the gamepad which looks awesome. SWISS is pretty great as a GC launcher but if you have a wii/wiiu mod it and run Nintendont
so I'm a little confused , do I have to get the action replay (asking cuz 100$ kinda pricey), I'm just looking for a cheap way to get swiss and gbi, if I got say wind waker could I use it to boot into swiss then have swiss save the swiss boot file to the SD card adaptor so I don't have to use wind waker each time if I have a xeno mod chip installed?
is there a discord or something for this channel or someone who knows about controllers I'm a smash player semi-competitive never have gone to a tournament never attended online one either. I am a robin main who has never felt a genuine GameCube controller so I bought one. I got an adapter and got a 35 dollar spice orange Gamecube controller. The thumb stick was pretty beat up but I just planned on replacing it with a battle beaver one. a week later a package came to my house. (my friends were over at the time this was December) when I opened it the thumbstick was trash it felt like someone took a glue stick and rubbed it on it, but that was ok because I had a replacement part. But then I realized that the stick was one of those wobbly sticks that didn't snap back to the center as I expected. I was so upset and just out smash down for a few months. now in like June, my friends started to come over outside and I brought my switch outside because of the virus. Then I remembered oh yeah I still have a crap controller. So I got a battle beaver replacement stick box, and some custom buttons because, why not. Five days later so about yesterday from the time of posting this it arrived. I opened It and of course, there had to be something wrong and there was an extra circuit board attached to potentiometers, and the stick box. I was panicking like oh no here we go again but then I noticed why don't I desotter the replacement part then desotter the broken stick on the controller so I got to work desottered all 10 points on each stick and I gotta say they were. then I tried to pull them out pretty clean for my first time. Then I pulled on it I wiggled it nothing I tried, again and again, nothing not even a wiggle I gave up and just started to put my controller back to whether when idiotic me bumped my finger into the sotter iron lol. anyways I have many questions like is there a clip on the stick box or why is there a circuit board watched to stick on a battle beaver metal housing replacement stick box or did I not desttoer enough I'm so confused should I get a knock off one and take the stick? I swear i have had many failed DIY projects like this and a lot of money wasted I just want one success so if you can help plz reply or something.
All I have been trying to do every since I got this damn SD media Launcher is try to get help with this from start to finish and every video I watch is people who talk about it as if we ALREADY know about this...I NEED HELP like step by step....I am using the Action replay method and you kind of just skipped through it with out explaining AT ALL how to do this.....Dammit man I need help i don't understand NONE OF THIS
@@RockerGaming ok I seen this and I was still lost at first because there is another Swiss updated download which has everything and no dol file but I eventually found a download and I'm trying as we speak...wish me luck. Because all I mainly want to do is to be able to have access to all of my backup gc Roms and The Game Boy interface I already have the GBA everdrive.
Wait can I use this to download pc games, ps2 games & Xbox, GameCube is my only console & I really want to try playing some games that are only available on certain consoles , idc how much work it takes I just need help or a guide? Can u please make one or at least respond to help me
I don't think it's possible to play Xbox, PC, or PS2 games on the GameCube. The GameCube can emulate other consoles though. You would be better off just getting a powerful PC to emulate most consoles but it would be expensive to build unfortunately.
2GB slower cards is a limitation of the Action Replay. The Gecko can use larger memory cards (my 128GB card worked). You can also get the sd2sp2 for a few bucks and use that.
Hi Rocker, I'm currently trying to do the Save game exploit, but unfortunately I only own a Wii U and not a Wii. When I get to the part where you need to insert the SD card with the homebrew apps and the memory card, I'm kinda stuck. As the Wii U doesn't have a port for any memory cards of course. I've tried using an USB and put the micro SD where the homebrew apps are on, then put the 2 GB Transcend SD card for the memory card into the (only) SD card slot in the Wii U. Unfortunately this doesn't work. Do you know of any possible way to still do this exploit with the Wii U? Or is the owning the Wii a must for this?
You are going to have to have a Wii (original model) with the GCMC slots to be able to do the transfer. You can now buy a Swiss prepared card off ebay for about $15 (I got mine recently with and SD2SP2 for $20). The only way to do it directly on the Cube was either thru an old hack that used the network adapter and PSO (I did that about 15 years ago) or if you have an Action Replay or AR Media loader then you can get Swiss up via an SD Gecko.
@@skylargrey5973 Hi, could you kindly give me a link to the person you bought it from on Ebay? Cause I checked and there are a bunch of them and I just want to make sure I'm getting the right one.
Question if anyone can help. I'm trying to do the Save Game exploit. I do have a modded Wii I softmodded way back in 2011/2012. I no longer have the SD card I used to mod it, but do have a new SD card for it. The will still has the homebrew channel on the menu. My question, do I need any files on that SD card for the homebrew channel other than apps? Also the wii is version 4.1 if that matters.
Can this be used to transfer GameCube save files between PC and GameCube? I'm honestly just looking for a method to transfer the save files back and forth lol
You would probably have a better time doing that on a hacked Wii, or flat out getting a separate memory card that was modded to handle microsd cards so that you can transfer the save from the current memory card to the new one that has the microsd card. After you transfer it over to the microsd card, you can then pop it back into your PC to backup your data.
i know this is old, but i have some problems with my gamecube, sometimes it read the swiss burned disc with no problems, sometimes it can't... do you advise to tweak the laser a bit?
Not sure if you've solved this by now, but the XenoGC has an LED to tell you if it's working. Current versions give an orange light and older ones show green. Red light usually means it isn't working properly. If the red light isn't happening you could try burning your own swiss disc if you're not comfy tweaking the laser
