Gamebox Systems just released a custom SD card lid designed specifically for Citrus3000Psi‘s SD2SP2. The lid will cover the serial port’s space in its entirety leaving a tiny opening for accessing the micro-SD card. The lid, which comes in different colors, is offered as a kit, including the SD2SP2 itself and is priced at ~17$. […]
If you’re a fan of the extremely limited handful of GameCube games with online and local network functionality, today is your lucky day. Swiss, a homebrew utility that extends and enhances the functionality of the GameCube platform, will have Broadband Adapter (BBA) emulation support implemented in its upcoming releases. Although Nintendo clearly prioritized developing local […]
WebHDX, the creator of PicoBoot, is currently working on a new device that will allow you to connect a M.2 form-factor SATA SSD (not to be confused with an NVMe) to a Nintendo Gamecube’s Serial Port 1 (SP1). This device will essentially function the same as a SD2SP2 or SD Gecko device in that it […]
WebHDX has just made his PicoBoot modchip available to the public. PicoBoot is an IPL replacement modchip for the Nintendo Gamecube which, at its core, utilizes a Raspberry Pi Pico. It allows you to bypass the Gamecube’s bios and boot directly into any homebrew application, such as Swiss, upon powering the console on. HERE IT […]
Castlemania Games is now selling a Gamecube memory card that also doubles as an exploit device. A SD reader is still required to boot homebrew, however the combination of this memory card, the reader and an original copy of Windwaker, Twilight Princess, or Paper Mario will allow you to launch Swiss on a completely unmodified […]
Two enthusiast developed projects on the GameCube—GC Loader and Swiss—have released important updates over the last month that work together to enable exciting new functionality for fans of the lil’ purple lunchbox. GC Loader—an optical drive emulator developed by Daniel Kraak—is a modification that replaces the GameCube’s built in disc drive with an SD card […]
A failed attempt to clone the GCLoader has resulted in someone trying to sell off fake units they’re calling the “GCLoader Lite” that DO NOT WORK. Normally I wouldn’t post a link to something like this in fear of accidentally promoting clones, but I wanted to make sure even people with questionable morals who’d support […]
If you’re at all interested in exploring unofficial software on the GameCube, you probably already know about Swiss: a home-brew utility that can allow the GameCube to do things like bypass software region restrictions, sharpen its video output, or even load software from SD card adapters. Now, as of version r963, developer Extrems has also implemented […]
GCLoader, a GameCube ODE made by Daniel Kraak and Dan Kunz, received a new firmware update today that improves audio streaming performance. Attentive readers may have seen that audio streaming was also addressed in a previous firmware update, v1.1.1, but that update was pulled because it functionally bricked certain revisions of GCLoaders by causing Disc Read […]
The Swiss team has been hard at work as usual, implementing even more options, bugfixes and features into the latest few revisions from r836 to present (currently r856). One of the major updates is new streaming audio emulation, that will allow audio from many previously incompatible games to work fine when launched from SD cards […]
