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).
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!
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.
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 😊
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.
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)?
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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?
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.
@@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?
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!
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 ?
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?
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.
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.
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
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.
Sorry for being blunt and TL:DW; just there is no softmod for NGC correct? My first one without component that my friend lent me it forever kicked the bucket, stopped reading so I purchased a-already Xeno'd one
I would take a look at the video, there are multiple soft mod solutions without the need for a hard mod. Having said that, hard mod is the easier, IMO.
@@RockerGaming Yikes, idn't this enlightment! l0l aside from joking, sure wish there exist a class, that can start+practice soldering on value-less gizmos! Many cheers to your input for me!! Stay safe =}
@@mistamontiel00 that is exactly how I started, I just tested on broken electronics until I figured out how to solder well. Takes a bit of practice, but its worth it to figure it all out!
@@RockerGaming I've been doing Swiss boot disc with the SD>memory card Gecko, but now it suffers to read it eek! Then I thought is SD2SP2 alone the be-all? My Swiss use-case is jus forcing 480p since my VGA monitor refuses 480i (my unit is black, I unhook everything I *might* have a Serial Port 2) and cheats save managing EDIT: How can I forget and to boot the durn GB Player ISO cuz I ain't forking on that chit lolll
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 :)
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.
Have no sd2sp2 port. If I get the memory card adapter do I need to sd cards? One 2gb to boot Swiss n the other to swap out to have software. I have xeno chip installed but no way to test or boot swiss lol.
If you already I have a xeno installed I would go with the first method where you burn a swiss dvd boot disc and then all you need is a single SD card, load it up, and memory card to sd card converter and you're all set!
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 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.
Do you really need an SD at all for the save game exploit? I used GCMM and a regular USB drive to transfer the exploit save file to the memory card, so I boot up to the GBi instantly using Wind Waker. I never used Swiss before, but wouldn't the result be the same?
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 ruclips.net/video/F_RFgqQHRac/видео.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
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
Does anyone know if the EU action replay will work on a US or Canadian GC I can't find a US action replay very well online and seem to only find the EU version
The save game exploit works only to the point where a game notices that it's a save file when i try to load the game or with mario sunshine PAL save exploit just start the game with 50Hz mode it always freezes/crashes but doesnt boot into swiss. What am i doing wrong??
I'm not much help as I've never tried that exploit. Do you happen to have any of the other games you can use the game save exploit for? Also might want to double check the install instructions to make sure its the same as melee
Do i need only the boot.dol on SDgecko and the save on the real memory card and it *should* work? UPDATE: Yep now got it working. Had to put the boot.GCI into the memory card with GCMM This has been hell. There's almost no guide at all that tells you what to do every single guide expects you to understand everything beforehand.
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
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.
Hey RockerGaming, i have a quick question about GC Controller modding. I want to extend a gamecube controller's length, as my Wii is too far away for the default cable length. I have some extenders from amazon but I want it to be one seamless wire (paracorded of course). Would it be as simple as splicing the cables together and heat shrinking, or is there something i'm missing? Can't seem to find anything about this.
What youre proposing would work, but I'd make sure you paracord with 750 paracord as you will need a larger paracord to accommodate the extra bulk. Id also, if you can, stagger you solder joints so they don't bunchbup in the same place. Finally id cap the total length of the cable at sub 15 feet, maybe even 12 feet.
RockerGaming thank you so much for the advice! gonna be a nice lil project for sure! thank you for the amazing content as well, it’s super high quality :)
Not sure if you care any more but I actually have an old Action replay as well and just went thru a bunch of searching and trial and error and actually got it working where you can boot Swiss either right from the GCMC or the SD2SP2/Gecko. You will have to have a modded wii to do it but I have all the .dol and .gci files you need to make it happen and it works great. You Boot AR, Start Game, Open/Close lid and SWISS boots in seconds. I have files to make it work with Gecko or SD2SP2 and large SD cards. The only issue is you have to use an actual Nintendo brand MC but if you boot SWISS from the SD card you can use a 59 block GCMC for the AR boot card. I found no one else that had done this with AR/Swiss (probably no one cared) but I was sort of on a personal mission to figure it out and lucked out by finding a .zip with some old tools used to get CGOS (launcher before swiss) booted and made some tweaks off that to get Swiss to load from the MC (or any .dol really). If you want to mess with it let me know and I can easily email a .zip file with everything you need.
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
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
Whats the point to the PC engine? On the gamecube Ever thought od ripping & burning Action replay to boot swiss to not have an outdated version of Swiss??
Its kinda one of those things where you do it because you can i guess 🤣 Yes and actually you can do it with any of these methods. I didn't get into it in this video but it might have been a good idea to cover it in a future video!
Is it possible to use an sdsp2 to launch swiss using the game save file hack? I want to run game backups but i dont want to purchase both an sd gecko and an sdsp2
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 then load off the sd2sp2.
@@RockerGaming i did some digging of my own and found that you can use a boot.gci of swiss and put it on the same memory card as the game save exploit and i got it running on my gamecube with f zero gx so now i just need to get the sd2sp2 to boot my game backups
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! ;)
This is where I got stuck too. It seems like it depends on which save game exploit you are using. SSBM can boot Swiss from the SD card. The other games I tried (Wind Waker and Twilight Princess), Swiss has to be on the memory card.
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 think my cat liked this video. He sat in my lap and just watched with me. He's never done it before.
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.
Using the gcloader with the better gameboy player software and having a ez flash is literally the end game for me its perfection
no doubt about it! GCLoader is fantastic!
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).
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 dont disagree with you at all AR is pretty easy to set-up and get running! Thank you sir!
@@RockerGaming sadly now it is impossible to find one
@@feimberg I managed to find myself one it was $60 I think
@@dylanconnelly9845 whered you find it? 😱
@@switchfoot19802000 ebay but it was a few years ago
Hey man I love your vids I recently got it into GameCube modding and actually I have an SD 2 SP2 coming today that I ordered from you:)
Yo thanks homie! GC modding is a ton of fun and hopefully this video will help you out!
I using but no have diference , sd adapter, Sd2sp2... GC loader Rules
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.
I'm still learning from the GC excellent video with all that info 🙌🏼
glad to hear it, there is still more to revel here, but it will have to be in another video, lol. Excited to show more!
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! 🙌🙌🙌
Super informative video!! I use action replay for swiss and GBI, and hacked saved for simple GBI boot up! You covered everything 😊
glad to hear it! very nice, GBI alone makes it all worth it! Are you playing on a crt or HDTV? I know you're a CRT kinda guy!
@@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 😊
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.
As soon as I heard "swiss", swiss cheese is the first thing that comes to mind.
haha, the tag line is the swiss army knife of GC homebrew, but I actually had the same thought as you, lol
@@RockerGaming its cheese, what do you expect?
@@RockerGaming legit thought the same thing. Swiss Army knife.
Always fun to watch and learn from your videos, thanks for the upload!
Great video always wondered how the save exploit worked. Great information
Glad to hear it! I dont see many people talking about that one! If you have everything needed its really easy to pull off!
a new RockerGaming video
What a great time to be alive!
Dude i appreciate that so much! Once daycare opens back up I'll be a man on fire with these, only 1 more month 😂
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)?
Can't wait to see what you can do to an Old Worn Down Wii and Bring it New Life
I need to get on that here soon. I have an ideal candidate here at my house too!
@@RockerGaming Awesome! Can't wait to see you in Action
Its not that hard to hack a Wii
Awesome video dude, really informative
Thank you 🙌🙌🙌
Does the Gamecube require a CD when launching swiss/roms? Or is the GCLoader the only CDless setup?
Been hecka busy. It's nice to catch up on your videos!
I appreciate you getting caught up, its much appreciated!
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.
Im not a technical person so i may buy action replay disc since im a physical fan
If I was to make a brand new game for GameCube, could I play it through these methods?
Awesome...thanks again for the great video!
No problem dude, I appreciate the DM as well!!
Loved the video! Thanks Rocker
Thanks Jack, I really appreciate that!!
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
Does the iso file include IGR or I have to make my own iso renaming swiss.dol to boot.dol & igr.dol then burn it?
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.
action replay is not seeing my memcard
You’re amazing dude!!
Please make a Golden Captain Falcon Controller 😭 Just seeing what that would look like would be like a dream come true.
I can only have the SD to memory card am I only allowed to get the 2GB memory card? I already have the xeno installed.
I've got to say your christmas colored gamecube is stunning.
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.
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
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?
I have a swiss on my Gamecube but don't know where to go to download the game files? Whats sites do people us?
Everywhere I see people talking about xeno, but what about qoob? Does it work the same way?
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.
I have yet to try this on my game cube but i really want to do the xeno chip mod now thanks for the guide man🙏🙏🙏
No worries dude, you should make it happen for sure! You are swimming in GC's in Japan, NGL, you have me very jelly!!
@@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?
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!
@@RockerGaming Yeah, that's what I was thinking too. And will do, thanks for letting me know!! Keep up the great work, really love your videos!! 🙂
@@Maverick7r cheers dude!
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 ?
Is action replay and free loader the same thing?
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?
Do I just take the emulator applications and drag them onto the SD card?
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.
Hello! Love your work. I was wondering what cable stripper you use. I see it in your videos but cannot find it anywhere! thanks!
Here tou go! www.amazon.com/dp/B0823K2TNK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_pCAdFbRKDWD8B
What is the spaceship side scroller at 28 seconds in?
Shame the prices for Action Replay discs on eBay are crazy. I chose to go the Wind Waker route though so it should be ok.
Does the GameCube support 1024GB/1TB micro SD card?
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.
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
I need help I don’t know what site to go to get the games to go on swiss
Awesome tut. Need to do a mod one day. And now you made this, I know where to go when I get the hardware! Are the clone Xeno chips on eBay any good?
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.
Does it work with SD larger than 2 GB? It doesn't allow me to put SD higher than that
Im havin an issue where when I try to launch a game it says invalid or corrupt file
So much info!! How do even format to fat16? .
Do I put the boot.iso into the root?
I heard somewhere that metroid prime works for save game exploit is that true?
Sorry for being blunt and TL:DW; just there is no softmod for NGC correct? My first one without component that my friend lent me it forever kicked the bucket, stopped reading so I purchased a-already Xeno'd one
I would take a look at the video, there are multiple soft mod solutions without the need for a hard mod. Having said that, hard mod is the easier, IMO.
@@RockerGaming Yikes, idn't this enlightment! l0l aside from joking, sure wish there exist a class, that can start+practice soldering on value-less gizmos!
Many cheers to your input for me!! Stay safe =}
@@mistamontiel00 that is exactly how I started, I just tested on broken electronics until I figured out how to solder well. Takes a bit of practice, but its worth it to figure it all out!
@@RockerGaming I've been doing Swiss boot disc with the SD>memory card Gecko, but now it suffers to read it eek! Then I thought is SD2SP2 alone the be-all? My Swiss use-case is jus forcing 480p since my VGA monitor refuses 480i (my unit is black, I unhook everything I *might* have a Serial Port 2) and cheats save managing EDIT: How can I forget and to boot the durn GB Player ISO cuz I ain't forking on that chit lolll
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 :)
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.
First of all, LOVE the Gummy Bears Remix. That goes without saying, I love the tutorial. Most of questions about Swiss, you answered and demonstrated.
Heck yeah dude, gotta love the Gummi bears!!! Such an under rated classic!
@RocketGaming what can I use to emulate n64 games on my GameCube? Thank you
Have no sd2sp2 port. If I get the memory card adapter do I need to sd cards? One 2gb to boot Swiss n the other to swap out to have software. I have xeno chip installed but no way to test or boot swiss lol.
If you already I have a xeno installed I would go with the first method where you burn a swiss dvd boot disc and then all you need is a single SD card, load it up, and memory card to sd card converter and you're all set!
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.
@RockerGaming so if im using a gamesave exploit and a gamcube sd carder is that all you need dont need the SD2SP2 ?
SD2SP2 is not required if you have the SD to memory card adapter.
Is this useful on Dolphin?
Can you player multiplayer on Swiss?
I have a Swiss loading GameCube, but where do you download the Sega games from? Also love the videos and some of these mods you do 🤯
I would recommend doing some good searches and you should be able to find it. I believe I have the emulator linked in the description.
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.
Is the method with using a homebrew wii possible using a SD2SP2 instead of the memory card to sd converter?
No, sp2 is only for games. It can't read the other files correctly.
Do you really need an SD at all for the save game exploit? I used GCMM and a regular USB drive to transfer the exploit save file to the memory card, so I boot up to the GBi instantly using Wind Waker. I never used Swiss before, but wouldn't the result be the same?
Result would be the same sd card or USB drive to transfer the save file exploit via gcmm will yield the same result.
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 ruclips.net/video/F_RFgqQHRac/видео.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
@@flop2120 This helped me thank you, running sp2sd -
go into swiss folder > GCI
put the boot.gci on your memory card with GCMM on ur wii.
ayy love your vids
Thanks buddy! First to comment too!!
Is there a particular reason you go with Philips or Ridata brand dvd-r for the boot disc? Is it possible to use a different brand disc?
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
How do people get the actual games I never understand
Does it work with wavebird
Does anyone know if the EU action replay will work on a US or Canadian GC I can't find a US action replay very well online and seem to only find the EU version
The save game exploit works only to the point where a game notices that it's a save file when i try to load the game or with mario sunshine PAL save exploit just start the game with 50Hz mode it always freezes/crashes but doesnt boot into swiss. What am i doing wrong??
I'm not much help as I've never tried that exploit. Do you happen to have any of the other games you can use the game save exploit for? Also might want to double check the install instructions to make sure its the same as melee
@@RockerGaming I have splinter cell pandora tomorrow. The game finds the save but when i load it the game just freezes.
Do i need only the boot.dol on SDgecko and the save on the real memory card and it *should* work?
UPDATE: Yep now got it working. Had to put the boot.GCI into the memory card with GCMM
This has been hell. There's almost no guide at all that tells you what to do every single guide expects you to understand everything beforehand.
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
hi any change you can send me a copy of the disk please ive tried a few time and it does not work
I have a xeno GC mod. But it doesn’t have the other av input. I would love to have a hdmi mod. But I’ve been seeing the hyper hdmi cord.
im a bit confused. with the game save method, how do you get an sd card bigger than 2 gb to keep games on?
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.
So when you downloaded the zip and burned the iso, how do you use the rest of the files which are in de zip? Great vid bye the way!
you dont need any of the other files in the zip folder, just the one that corresponds to how you intend to launch swiss.
Hey RockerGaming, i have a quick question about GC Controller modding. I want to extend a gamecube controller's length, as my Wii is too far away for the default cable length. I have some extenders from amazon but I want it to be one seamless wire (paracorded of course). Would it be as simple as splicing the cables together and heat shrinking, or is there something i'm missing? Can't seem to find anything about this.
What youre proposing would work, but I'd make sure you paracord with 750 paracord as you will need a larger paracord to accommodate the extra bulk. Id also, if you can, stagger you solder joints so they don't bunchbup in the same place. Finally id cap the total length of the cable at sub 15 feet, maybe even 12 feet.
RockerGaming thank you so much for the advice! gonna be a nice lil project for sure! thank you for the amazing content as well, it’s super high quality :)
Cheers dude and best of luck! Really appreciate that!
i have the older 1.14 version of the action replay, cant get anything to work. advice?
Not sure if you care any more but I actually have an old Action replay as well and just went thru a bunch of searching and trial and error and actually got it working where you can boot Swiss either right from the GCMC or the SD2SP2/Gecko. You will have to have a modded wii to do it but I have all the .dol and .gci files you need to make it happen and it works great. You Boot AR, Start Game, Open/Close lid and SWISS boots in seconds. I have files to make it work with Gecko or SD2SP2 and large SD cards. The only issue is you have to use an actual Nintendo brand MC but if you boot SWISS from the SD card you can use a 59 block GCMC for the AR boot card. I found no one else that had done this with AR/Swiss (probably no one cared) but I was sort of on a personal mission to figure it out and lucked out by finding a .zip with some old tools used to get CGOS (launcher before swiss) booted and made some tweaks off that to get Swiss to load from the MC (or any .dol really). If you want to mess with it let me know and I can easily email a .zip file with everything you need.
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
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
Hey, I was wondering what the link to the NES HomeBrew was? If you could attach it in a comment or something that would be awesome!
Left my old GameCube to Wii Because very hard install homebrews update and buy acessories adapter card memory
Whats the point to the PC engine? On the gamecube
Ever thought od ripping & burning Action replay to boot swiss to not have an outdated version of Swiss??
Its kinda one of those things where you do it because you can i guess 🤣
Yes and actually you can do it with any of these methods. I didn't get into it in this video but it might have been a good idea to cover it in a future video!
@@RockerGamingi still gotta figure out how to take the contents a CD or a Mini-Dvd-R & burn it into a Blank Disc
Thank you so much!
Is it possible to use an sdsp2 to launch swiss using the game save file hack? I want to run game backups but i dont want to purchase both an sd gecko and an sdsp2
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 then load off the sd2sp2.
@@RockerGaming i did some digging of my own and found that you can use a boot.gci of swiss and put it on the same memory card as the game save exploit and i got it running on my gamecube with f zero gx so now i just need to get the sd2sp2 to boot my game backups
What game is at 0:29 I’ve been trying to find that game from my childhood for years but can’t remember the name of it
Its gradius 3 for the snes. Highly recommend it, its one of my favorites!
If you use the xeno mod chip, does it matter what region of the SWISS ISO you use?
Likely not, but I cant say I have tested.
@@RockerGaming It does not matter which Swiss iso you use. Just as a heads up.
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! ;)
I hope not too, but that version is sooooo good!!
@@RockerGaming Indeed! And thanks for you ever-so-informative videos about GameCube hacking/homebrew!
Does GC Loader + Swiss enable multi-region play?
Yes it does, console will be region free!
Need some help as I cant get this working for me
where are you stuck?
@@RockerGaming I figured it out. I had to create a exploitable Gamecube Memory Card with Swiss on it.
This is where I got stuck too. It seems like it depends on which save game exploit you are using. SSBM can boot Swiss from the SD card. The other games I tried (Wind Waker and Twilight Princess), Swiss has to be on the memory card.
Can you add swiss to your memory card using GCMM?
Can I use exFat SD or does it have to be in FAT32?
Has to be fat32
@@RockerGaming I tested it and with the LATEST Swiss, exFat works. I am using a 128mb SD TeamGroup brand.
Great video by the way.
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)
haha, thats why we need to list out all the options! You technically dont have to solder!!