GameCube Game Preservation With The SD2SP2
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- Take a look at what I went through in order to backup my GameCube games using an SD2SP2. Spoiler: it was really easy!
I've already got my GCN games backed up on my Wii but that means having to play them on the Wii. The picture quality isn't as good as what I get from the GameCube, especially with the digital HDMI adapter installed. I'd rather play my games on that, which is what lead me to trying out the SD2SP2.
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Fun fact! You can set up in-game resets in Swiss. Put a copy of Swiss on your SD2SP2's memory card, call it igr.dol, and change the in-game reset global setting to igr.dol. You can close your current game and return to Swiss by pressing B + R + Z + D-Pad Down, without having to powercycle the console!
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Nice video.
My advice for WiiU is to use it for only WiiU exclusive games only.
It can be tempting to make it the "Ultimate Nintendo Console" and cram every WiiU, Wii, and GameCube game on there in addition to all the Wii Homebrew and emulators... But the truth is that the GameCube has better video output than the WiiU for GC games, not to mention controller ports.. And the Wii is cheap and easy to modify and is the best home for Wii-related content.
I have my WiiU modified to just have the handful of WiiU exclusive titles that haven't been (or can't be) brought to the Switch. Kinda a raw deal for the console that had so much potential...
As for the Xbox..
Take an Xbox, add a 2TB HDD, XBMC4Gamers, an XBOX to HDMI solution (like a modified Wii2HDMI adapter), an OGX360 & your 360 controller of choice... And you've got yourself one hell of a console...
Thanks for the tips! I'm about halfway with both of them at the moment (both soft modded). I just need to get the games on them... oh, and the bigger HDD for the Xbox of course.
And is Bob your Uncle?
Is this in-game reset useable for swiss 0.4 also ? Thank you
This is absolutely mental, the mere fact that people just come out with all of these mod chips, utilizing the serial port 2 which was never used officially, saving people thousands upon thousands of dollars and they'll be about to play the GameCube library for free with an SD card. This community really is fantastic.
I prefer to call it, wallet preservation heheheheh
Yeah mario kart double dash is too pricey
@@somecallmesean_ It’s a shame, honestly. I found this game at Half Price Books for only $18. Nintendo is sitting on a goldmine right now.
This video alone assisted me,and aye,I'm subscribed to ya now
This is awesome, I just bought a GameCube just so I can stop using my Wii for GameCube games. Plus it's one of the only ways to play GBA games on my TV.
I will have to look into this looks definitely worthwhile. Hey almost 1k, good going 😁👍🏻
You're not far off yourself mate, nice work! Keep going 😎
This is exactly what I did with my GameCube collection and I’m glad I did. I also bought an action replay disc at retail
Retail? You mean either eBay or you bought something like 20 years ago.
With all these hardware loaders retro collecting is about collecting working consoles in great shape.
I just got a modded GameCube that came w/ one of these as well. Very neat to have a digital library on a console from the early 2000s
the HDMI adapter for the gamecube is a really good, I do want to try the GCDual HDMI soon on my Gamecube
NEVERMIND YOU ADDRESS IT IN THE VIDEO HAHA //Not sure if you care or not, but, just an FYI, your swiss is quite a few versions out of date. You're on 813, most recent revision is 1086 as of this comment, released May 6 2021. 813 is Mar 12, 2020, so, a year a couple months out of date. Been a decent amount of fixes too since then. You can grab the new one on their github.//
Also, thanks for the video on the PS2 HDD stuff, helped me get mine setup, much appreciated!
Great work as always buddy. Looks like I'll have to invest in one of these.
G.
Great video. Thanks for the info!
I think you are my Euro doppelganger of me.
I had faster results with Cleanrip on my Wii.
9 minutes for 1 game dump a piece including Redump DAT verification.
It's a great option if you already own a homebrewed Wii plus you can install game saves to boot Swiss from a memory card if you prefer.
That's good to know. The Wii disc drive must clearly be faster than the GameCube's.
@@TheMultiGenGamer DVD was pretty new when the GameCube came out, so they were probably limited to a 1x drive (approx. one megabyte per second). The Wii probably has a 2x or 4x drive in it.
Going to order a kit that has a modchip to make my US console a region-free console and archive games from other countries to it. There might or is a way to put your game saves from the GameCube memory card to the SD2SP2's card and load them from there, but I'll do a bit more research on that.
Thank you very much!
I did all of the steps in the video, but for some reason, the process falls short of success just as I'm about to actually play my backups. Swiss seems to be loading them, but then, as soon as it does, all it shows me is a green screen. Forever. Can anyone give me any tips? Is there something I'm doing wrong?
I dont get certain games to work on wii like metroid prime GC. I will now try this instead ❤
How did you get Swiss on the Gamecube though? You kinda gloss over that. Can you put Swiss directly on the SD card and it will autoload?
Swiss is on the SD Media Launcher plugged into the 2nd port. It boots using the accompanying Action Replay disc.
Great job man! I’m gonna do this mod to my cube 😊
Do you need Swiss to play the games?
You need a way to access the games on the card. Swiss is the way to do that. There may be other file management .dols but Swiss is the only one I know about.
I put my sd2p2 in the wrong way and turned on my GameCube and it turned on for one second and shut off and now it doesn’t turn on at all am I screwed ????
Do loading disc should stay in console all the time, or after console starts and Swiss loads it's better to take it out (maybe better for lens no to rotate loading disc all the time)?
im getting one of these for homebrew and emulation. i prefer to play gamecube games still off of disk.
Nice! Which homebrew ya popping on there?
Great video, I just bought the SD2SP2 chip and a 64 GB microSD card for my backed up games. My GameCube was never modded (I don't really do a whole lot of modding) and its lens has pretty much bit the dust. I was planning to use my modded Wii to back up my GameCube games, then transfer them over to the microSD. You'd need to have some way to boot up Swiss as well, right? Hopefully I'm interpreting it all correctly - thanks for your help!
Cheers mate! I use the SD Media Launcher to launch Swiss on my GameCube but that uses the Action Replay disc to load from it. I think outside the GCLoader you'd need a working drive in your GameCube to boot into Swiss (without installing a modchip).
Though if anyone knows another way, let us know.
@@TheMultiGenGamer Hey thanks for the response! My GameCube runs discs for a little while, then it would tell me that an error has occurred. That happened while I was playing Sonic Adventure 2. I used to have Action Replay but I think it broke. I may have to think this through more...you can back up GC games and load them on a softmodded Wii, right? Because that's what I have and I don't have a problem with using it.
Aye you can do that on a Wii (I did with mine) but I don't know if the backups can be copied from a Wii to the SD2SP2's memory card. Could be worth a shot. I only prefer using the GCN itself because I get a better picture from it.
@@TheMultiGenGamer Okay good to know, thanks! I did see a video that shows how to back up your GC games on a Wii, as well as playing them without the discs. May have to fix my GC's lens somehow, though I'm not too confident in dealing with the console's internals. lol
Anyone know if I’m able to remove the chip to add more games later ?
Just came upon this, 8 months late 😀. Very informative! I am trying to do this as well. Do you know of a definitive video or blog out there that explains this end to end? Specifically the action replay -> Swiss -> SDSP2. I will have all 3 pieces of the puzzle. It’s the first part I am a little unclear about. There is a video out there, but the guy goes so fast, I can’t keep up.
I've got a video talking about HDMI on the GameCube which might be helpful. That talks about the Action Replay and Swiss too 👍
Love your vids!!!!!!!!!
going through same process of putting away my discs in storage, would like this but can already play my gc games on my wii u. but for the price id be dumb not to lol
Unfortunately I've not found a board yet thick enough to make consistent contact in the port, and I've bought four thus far. It's really hit and miss with any of the four as to when they'll work or not - sometimes they do and sometimes they don't. They all work great if one puts a layer of solder on the pads and makes them fit appropriately. Why can't someone just pull their head out of their Fing ass and do this originally? So stupid.
what memory card is that and do you need that action replay CD ?
SD Media Launcher and yes for this setup it's needed. They're both bundled together.
www.codejunkies.com/Products/SD-Media-Launcher__EF000580V.aspx
So you were able to just backup the games with only the SD2SP2, not the other memory card loader (from the GC Memory card slot)?
Well you still need to launch swiss and the sd media launcher is the easiest to setup + it's soft modding
@@Axel-1999 ah. Does that have to be done with the memory card loader? Unfortunately I can’t find them anywhere anymore
@@Bcdeano you can also boot it with a swiss disk or a mod chip but the sd launcher is the cheapest and safest alternative
I backed up all my physical Wii U games to an external hard drive when I softmoded my system.
Unfortunately,
I checked my discs and...
All of them were suffering early disc rot and those were store bought, brand new, in mint condition.
Nintendo really has piss-poor manufacturing for their optical media. I would strongly advise against collecting Wii U games for this reason alone.
Hey! Amazing video, very informative! Just one question: would I need an action replay to be able to boot the games? (And if not, would a cheap alternative like SD GC Memory Card work just the same as the media launcher you have?) Thank you in advance!
I can't speak for the SD GC Memory Card, but for the setup I demonstrated in the video an Action Reply is required. It comes bundled with the SD Media Launcher I use. The Action Replay just stays in the disc drive to make Swiss launch automatically from the Media Launcher.
As far as i know you would need a xeno for booting a back up disc for booting swiss from a sd gc memory card , but a i don't know more
Any file to get gba adapter working without disk? Mine was lost years ago during a Move should of kept it in my gc..
Who the hell would want that lag best bet is to just mod chip it and fix it
Just got my modded from someone else. Am I able to remove the micro sd chip to add more games later or is it a one and done ?
about save game, it will save into sd card? or it will save into gamecube card?
Do you need the action replay disc at all? Or is it just Swiss on the memory card SD?
With this setup the Action Replay disc is still used. Since all the games are on the SD2SP2, the disc stays in the drive all the time.
Do you gotta rip ur games from cleanrip or can u just throw the game files onto the sdcard via pc then load into the sd-sp2
i have 3 game cubes all 3 has mod chips but that chip that i just perchast looking at this video dose not fit it dosent have a slot for it
So I could just get sd2sp2 and play anything from my backed up games and homebrew without any other accessories required? I'm asking this because when I asked that on gc reddit I got genuanly confused
My biggest question is, if I play something like Pokémon Coliseum, can I transfer Pokémon from that game onto my gameboy game? Or visa-verse?
Yes
Hola gracias por subir videos de este tipo de material Que memoria SD soporta el sp2sd2 de capacidad maxima?
I believe it's 2tb
(creo que es de 2tb)
I got my GameCube modded like this . But my question is am I able to remove the sd card to add more games or is it a one and done thing ?
Sure you can. You can either add more with the GCN itself or take the SD card out and do it on a PC instead.
I would've prefered this item however my GC did not have the SD2 port so i had instead opted for the gcloader.
What if I don't have a slot to put the GC Swiss Loader V2 or the SD2SP2? Can I not do this mod?
This would only work with Model 1 GameCubes, ones with the SP2 slot.
So this method doesn’t require a mod chip installed in the Gamecube itself? I’m just confused as to how, because every listing I see of these says that a mod chip is required. Does the Action Replay bypass the need for a mod chip?
That's right. The action replay loads Swiss from the SD Media launcher and, from there, you can get to the Micro SD card in the SD2SP2. No mod chip required.
Did you have to use a physical game disc to launch the mod?
What method of Swiss did you use?
Can this adapter work without the action replay disk? Can swiss boot straight from the sd card? I have 3 gamecubes, but only one currently has a working disk reader. I would love to get them working again without having to change the disk drive. It doesn't look hard but i am not familiar with using a soldering iron and removing antistatic dots. I ordered a umd drive for my psp once and had to return it because i didn't know 1)about the antistatic dot, 2) that it needed to be removed for it to work and 3) how to remove it.
You'd need a way to tell the GCN to boot from that SD card, so your options are a mod chip or a GC Loader... but with the latter you wouldn't need that adapter anyway. The optical drive is easy enough to replace without soldering. iFixit has a step-by-step guide on how to do it.
@@TheMultiGenGamer would i not have to remove an antistatic dot? Do gamecube disk drives get shipped without an antistatic dot?
Do I need to mod a GameCube or use a disc to boot swiss or do I just need the Sd2sp2 and nothing else when I install the stuff?
I've had a look and not found anything that suggests Swiss can be booted from the SD2SP2 alone (at time of writing; may change in the future). I use the SD Media Launcher with an Action Replay disc to boot Swiss. Means I never have to change discs unless I'm backing another one up.
how is that Kaico HDMI adapter I've heard a few conflicting things on Amazon reviews
It's great! I did a video on that too.
I have one as well. It’s worked quite well for me. Pretty much all GC-Video based devices get you roughly the same video quality.
I wish this was available for ps2
why woud i want this if i need a sd to mem card that can do the same thing?
The SD to memory card only supports non-SDHC micro SD cards; 2Gb or less. It's there to be the main way into Swiss or for any other homebrew software like the GB Interface. You could fit one game on one of those cards, but that's it.
Is there a sd2sp2 that I can get for my GameCube if my GameCube only has a serial port 1 port?
At the moment your best bet might be the GCLoader which replaces your main drive. However someone is working on an m.2 adapter which will use serial port 1. Not sure when that'll be available though.
@@TheMultiGenGamer what is an m.2 adapter and where can I find these m.2 adapters when they’re ready to be put on sale?
How do you download games please help me?
Hello. Excellent video mate. When I am in Swiss it doesn't show the sd2sp2 option. Any idea? I've tried 2 separate micro sd cards in it? Thanks
I hear that not all SD2SP2s are made equally. Try checking that it's sitting properly in the port (not wobbling around). If it's loose, try adding a little solder to the pads to make it sit in the port a bit tighter. Ensure your SD card is formatted to FAT32 and that the SD2SP2 is inserted the right way. If those fail, it might be a duff one. Luckily they're pretty cheap and you can grab a second one. I've had no issues with the one I bought from Amazon 👍
@@TheMultiGenGamer thanks for the quick reply. It's much appreciated. It does wobble around in the port. I don't have access to a soldering iron. What are the pads? The 4 strips that insert into the port? Sorry could you also tell me which seller you purchased from on amazon? Sorry for all the questions. It's frustrating 😔
Ahh ok if you don't have a soldering iron, don't worry. The original red one I got isn't available at the moment but here's a link to the green version. Both the same, just different colours: amzn.to/3KbuABJ
@@TheMultiGenGamer thanks mate. I have just ordered. The one I have been trying was £3.50 on ebay. There is wobble from left to right etc with the adapter in the port. I'm guessing the pads on both sides need to be tight to the connections in the port? Just read on a forum there now someone saying they added solder to the pads like you have said and the gamecube was able to detect the adapter right away.
I did format the micro sd card to fat 32. I just copied the iso files straight to the card. Didn't create any folders etc. Is that fine?
Wait so I can just use a SD2SP2 adapter?
I just saw it on aliexpress but it came with a xeno chip, so I do not need to hardmod then?
what else do I need besides the SD2SP2 adapter? a boot disc? a SD gecko or clone ?
can you boot swiss directly from the SD2SP2 adapter or does it need to boot from a boot disc or the SD to GC memory card adapter ?
With an SD2SP2 you don't need to hardmod to run your game backups. You will need a way of gaining access to it via Swiss though. In my case, I use an Action Replay disc which then loads Swiss from the Media Loader card (they were bundled together). I just keep the disc in the GameCube and, a few seconds later, I'm in the Swiss menu where I can load any game from my catalogue from a micro-SD card via the SD2SP2.
@@TheMultiGenGamer right ,that makes more sense, those AR devices are really expensive now, funny I always wished I had one but instead somehow I wound up with 3 unopened DS lite AR's
I was also so pissed I had those and not the GC version especially when the SD gecko came out , but the other day after taking another look at GC modding and rechecking a box of old gaming accessories in my closet to make sure I didn't have one
I saw that I had 3 AR' s for DS lite instead ,all new and sealed, decided to check Ebay and my jaw dropped
buy it now was $320 !
glad I never had the GC one now because I would have opened it if I did and also these are somehow worth more now, that wasn't the case before as best I can remember.
Anyways my best option for the GC then is
either to write a hacked sav file to my memory card with a modded wii and
GC memory manager , and then I can boot swiss from either a SD gecko clone or a the SD2SP2 right?
or I can buy one of those kits from aliexpress that comes with a xeno chip, a SD2SP2 and a boot disc, (which I assume or at least hope is a pressed disc and not a burned disc so that it will read without doing a POT mod,)I assume I don't need a SD gecko if I have a game with a hacked sav memory card and a SD2SP2
but I might pick one up anyway
xeno seems like an easy enough install but if it wont read the included boot disc without a POT mod then I rather go the hacked game sav route, as the POT mod looks like a PITA
I can't speak for the hacked save file approach but if it gets you into Swiss then it'd definitely be worth trying. I wouldn't recommend getting an SD2SP2 from AliExpress though. Someone else in these comments has had problems getting theirs working from there. See if you can get one from Amazon 👍
@@TheMultiGenGamer oh really I was not worried abut the SD2SP@ board I was worried that the boot disc is burned and not pressed and that I would need to mod the POT o read the darker colored disc surface , so which method did this person use to boot do you know? I wonder if he got one of those boot discs and a xeno or if he is using another method that doesn't require the Chinese boot disc and xeno
the SD2SP2 board seems simple enough
do you need an SD Memory Card to boot swiss?
Either the SD Media Launcher + Action Replay disc, or the GCLoader. Not sure if the latter requires a mod chip or not.
@@TheMultiGenGamer how do i boot Swiss with a Mem Card Launcher so i can access the Memory Card Manager to restore Save data that was corrupted?
Do you need a xeno chip or to use the sd2sp2
Depends on your setup. If using a GCLoader, then maybe? When using the SD Media Launcher with Action Replay - like I am - then no.
Whats that memory card called to use swiss etc?
SD Media Launcher
is there no way to use the gamecube serial port 1?
I take it you're asking because you have a GameCube that doesn't have the second serial port. As far as I know the first port was only ever used for the broadband and dialup adapters. If support to do this in the first port is possible, it would mean you couldn't have a broadband adapter installed at the same time.
I tried to download Swiss & GBI into an SD card & a Micro SD card, & It doesn’t work for me. I formatted them to Fat32 (because my computer wouldn’t let me format it to Fat16) & it doesn’t work. I tried copying the DOL files to the SD cards & it still didn’t work. Can you please help me out?
Is this using an SD2SP2? It may just be that the board is duff and needs replacing. Not knowing where you bought it, I'd advise avoiding places like aliExpress or Wish for this kind of thing.
Edit: I'm also assuming you have a means of booting to Swiss like an SD Media Launcher or a Swiss memory card.
@@TheMultiGenGamer I figured it all out now. I formated my SD card to FAT instead of ExFat or Fat32 & it finally worked on my GameCube SD card adapter.
@@TheMultiGenGamer Just curious, what kind of SD cards do you use for your memory card adapter & SD2SP2?
Can someone please explain the difference between SD2SP2 and GC loader???
They're fairly similar as they both let you run ROMs off SD cards. The difference is that the GC Loader physically replaces the optical drive in the GameCube, whereas the SD2SP2 uses an otherwise unused serial/expansion port, allowing you to keep the original optical drive so you can still use discs.
Can you sell me a fully loaded SD card with games for my GameCube ?
Are the Xbox and Wii U videos almost ready?
Not yet. I'm about half way through sorting them both out. Next step is to get the right storage for them 👍
this video is a bit misleading dont you also need a modchip soldering inside
Not for this, no. Already using the sd media launcher to get into swiss and it takes care of everything else from there.
it's really for piracy
so i just wasted money
You make this sound far too complicated for the average person.
BADDDDD
I've already chipped my GameCube with the direct to board chip. i just bought a kit that has the chip the sd2sp and disk with swiss. I've already got my games backed up onto mini DVDs. i got all my iOSs from a site which was so much faster. i have 2 game cubes so I'm going to chip the other when the kit turns up
do you have to do any soldering or modding to the GameCube to use the sd2sp2?
Nope. None at all.
@@TheMultiGenGamer Kind of new to this but wanted to ask you if the SD2SP2 can launch swill + action replay ? (no mods) . I have the original gamecube (pal) and im curently using swiss with the sd memory card in order to force 480p on my pal games. All good except 1 game and that is Odama. Game works but the problem is the microfone.
So I basically have in memory slot 1 the original memory card with saved game form long ago, in memory slot 2 the sd card(and using the action replay to load swiss). Im starting the original disc game in forced 480p. When the game starts it asks me for the Microphone. So I remove the sd card with swiss from slot B and plug in the Microphone BUT its not recognized. I suspect that slot B still remembers the sd card with swiss !?
I did the opposite than, microfone in slot B and sd card in slot a, the game loads in 480p and it says there is no memory card or save to find. I remove the sd card from slot A and insert the gamecube memory card and its not loaded/ not recognized because slot A probably still remembers the sd card?
If i dont use swiss and just start the pal game in 480i with the Microphone and original memory card all works but obviously its not in 480p.
So someone in a forum told me that probably using a SD2SP2 could fix the problem as the 2 memory card slots will be free. So, can i just put swiss on a SD2SP2 and launch it with action replay than ?
Cheers
@@TheMultiGenGamer one last question what disc should get or buy to be able to load the sd card from the sd2sp2? and where can I buy the disc?