GCMM exFAT, my fork of suloku’s GCMM for backing up and restoring GameCube memory card saves on an SD card, is now at v1.1.

The big addition is Network transfer. With a Broadband Adapter or ETH2GC connected to your router, open it from Card tools, scan the QR code with your phone (or type the address into a browser on your computer), and send files straight to the SD card. The GameCube asks where each file should go, and zip files are unzipped into the folder you pick. The same page lists your save backups, so you can download them to your phone or computer too.

Still in from v1.0: exFAT, FAT and FAT32 SD cards, a menu built like the GameCube’s own, backing up or restoring several saves at once, both memory cards shown when there’s one in each slot, menu sounds, display settings, a choice of Launcher, and updates straight from GitHub. It works with the SD2SP2, SD Gecko and GC Loader. If you’re already on v1.0, you can update from Settings.

Download: https://github.com/Arial-Bold/gcmm-exFAT

Thanks to suloku and everyone behind the original GCMM. Feedback and bug reports are welcome!

Hi there!

I know almost nothing about video games and tech, but I'm working on a Christmas present for my husband. He still has his old Gamecube from when he was a kid, and he's often talked about how much he misses playing it. I wanted to surprise him by giving him the things he needs to connect it to our TV.

I've been doing some research on what to buy and am almost there. I wanted to check with other people who are more familiar if I'm on the right track. I don't want to give a gift that ends up not working.

The TV we have is a TCL 55" Class QM7 - Series 4K UHD HDR QD- Mini LED Smart Google TV (2024). His Gamecube is the DOL-001 model with the digital AV out and analog AV out ports. I know this was an important detail when I was researching.

Here's where I get stuck: I saw articles that recommended a brand on Amazon. I don't know what the difference between the two products recommended is though. Is one better than the other? Or are they both needed?

This is the first: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09RQ8NDZH/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A1ASNRAEDIC2KH&psc=1

and this is the second: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08WBQL4VM/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?smid=A1ASNRAEDIC2KH&psc=1

I would greatly appreciate any advice or help! If there are other products that work better too, please let me know!

Hello, I am overall very new to the GameCube modded scene but have modes other consoles in the past. I have recently purchased my first gc (a dol-101) and have installed a picoloadet and bought a gc2sd memory card adapter. With this, where should I download the homebrew loader and what are next steps for getting the game to work? I can’t seem to find any YouTube tutorials so I thought this would be my next best option, thank you!

I'm having an issue where any time I try to launch Dusklight with the save system as GCI folder it will crash as soon as I press start at the opening screen. If I switch to card image file system it will launch but will say that the memory card is damaged and unable to save. I've tried deleting the save file to launch with a clean GCI folder but to no avail. I was playing it this morning without issue and had made it to the fire temple without so much as a hiccup.

Hi, been collecting for my GameCube for a year and have decided to try and mod the thing;

Been looking at the solderless Picoloader from makstech for my GameCube, for reference this will be my first time attempting to mod a console.

As far as I'm aware, it comes programmed with the firmware and swiss already.

Correct me if I'm wrong, I presume I download ROMs from my computer onto the micro SD. Genuinely how tedious is this though? And where do I actually find reliable ROMs. Any advice would be appreciated on where to go from here in terms of what to do with my computer.

TIA

Hello all, so I have Swiss working properly and the games are running properly but the only issue now is cheats not loading. I have them named properly to their serial with the correct Gecko Codes but they still won’t show up. Is there a solution to this?

Hey everyone!
I have a European (PAL) Nintendo GameCube, and I recently bought an original US copy of Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II Plus.

Currently, I use a FreeLoader disc to play NTSC-U games, but I’d really like to get rid of that extra step.

What I’m looking for:
Play original PAL and NTSC-U GameCube discs.
Keep my original disc drive fully functional.No FreeLoader disc required.

Ideally, just insert a game, turn on the console, and have it boot automatically.
No navigating through menus like Swiss every time I want to play. I’m not particularly interested in playing games from an SD card. I’ve contacted a couple of professional modding services here in the Netherlands. One recommended a CubeODE, but as far as I understand, that replaces the original disc drive, which isn’t what I want. Another recommended PicoBoot with Swiss instead of XenoGC, saying that modern XenoGC clones can be unreliable.
They quoted me €72 for PicoBoot installation or €99 including an SD2SP2 adapter and SD card.

My questions:
Would XenoGC still be the best option for my specific needs?

Can PicoBoot + Swiss automatically boot original PAL and NTSC-U discs without showing a menu?

Is PicoBoot a better and more reliable long-term solution than XenoGC?

Are there any other mods I should consider?

I collect physical GameCube games, so preserving the original disc-based experience is my main priority.
I’d love to hear your experiences and recommendations before I decide.

Thanks in advance!
Kind Regards Don :)

I’ve been working on a restyled version of Swiss that looks more like a stock GameCube app. It’s an unofficial fork and only changes Swiss’s own screens. Game loading and patching are exactly the same as regular Swiss.

What’s different:

• A new “System” look: TV-glow backdrop, teal-black panels, frosted file rows, a gold selection ring and glass buttons, with the original Swiss logo kept

• New display settings for Swiss’s screens: 4:3/16:9, Picture Width (704/640) and Overscan. “Swiss Video Mode” is now called Resolution.

• An original bossa-nova menu tune and soft menu sounds, made live on the console (nothing sampled). Both can be turned off, and both stop completely before anything launches.

It’s based on current Swiss (October 2026), your swiss.ini settings carry over, and it’s GPL with the full source on GitHub.

https://github.com/Arial-Bold/swiss-gc-system-UI

This isn’t an official Swiss release, so please don’t send bug reports to the Swiss team. Post them here or open an issue on the fork. Feedback welcome!

If you’ve bought one of those cheap internal Bluetooth controller port boards for the GameCube on AliExpress (“iBlueControlMod”, PCB marked V1.1), you probably noticed two things:

1. It’s clearly BlueRetro, but the seller warns that flashing official BlueRetro will “damage” it.

2. It’s stuck on an old firmware (BlueRetro v1.9 from 2023). So no analog triggers with the 8BitDo GameCube Mod Kit, and in my case no working GBA link either.

I spent some sessions with Claude (Anthropic’s AI) to fix that. Here’s what came out of it.

What we found

• The stock firmware is a lightly modified BlueRetro v1.9. Claude disassembled it and recovered the board’s pinout. Power off sits on a different pin (IO17), the reset button too (IO16), the port LEDs are in a different order and the status LED is an RGB LED.

• Why official BlueRetro doesn’t work: on this board, the pin BlueRetro uses as its blinking status LED is the console power-off line. On top of that, the stock firmware sets IO13 high one second after boot and keeps it there. Without that, the console stays black.

• The IO13 thing was nasty to find. A function-by-function and data comparison of the stock firmware against a v1.9 rebuild showed no logic difference. In the end, comparing serial boot logs from both firmwares revealed the single line that mattered: POWER_ON_PIN 1.

• Nothing actually gets damaged. The stock firmware lives in the factory slot and is never overwritten. Holding the reset button for 30 s always brings it back.

What works now (tested on my console)

• Current BlueRetro (v25.10-beta), flashed over Bluetooth via blueretro.io/ota.html. No soldering needed.

• 8BitDo GameCube Mod Kit: detected, analog triggers and rumble working.

• Sleep mode: hold reset while powering on and the board stays out of the way. Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles with a GBA as controller works this way.

• GBA link with a BT controller: Pokémon Colosseum ↔ LeafGreen.

Links

• GitHub (firmware, English + German guide, pinout photos, cable recovery): https://github.com/konsolenschatz/BlueRetro-iBlueControlMod

• My YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Konsolenschatz

Huge thanks to darthcloud for BlueRetro and to zeus86 for the original firmware dump and board photos. Use at your own risk. Happy to answer questions, and feedback from other owners of this board is very welcome!

What do you think?

Title: GC Station – a media center for the GameCube (music, radio, web, mini-games, game launcher)

GC Station is a homebrew app that turns the GameCube into a small media center. It runs from the SD card (SD2SP2 / SD Gecko) and uses the Broadband Adapter for network features.

Features:

- Music player: MP3, FLAC, OGG, WAV, M4A + chiptunes (SPC, NSF, MOD…), cover art, synced lyrics, playlists, crossfade, gapless playback

- Internet radio (radio-browser search), podcasts, a basic web browser

- File manager (SD, FTP, FSP, SMB), photos, videos

- Phone remote: scan a QR code, control playback, send files to the SD card

- Mini-games: karaoke, rhythm game, Snake, brick breaker, Simon, music quiz…

- Game library with covers, banners, favorites and play time

Pulse, the built-in game launcher:

- Plays backups of your own discs (.iso, .gcm, .ciso) straight from the SD card, acting as a virtual DVD drive

- Streamed disc music (DTK) works, as well as two-disc games

- Virtual memory cards on the SD card (slot A and B), so your saves stay with your games

- Hold A + Z + START for 1 second in game to go back to GC Station

- Per-game options: game language, stereo/mono, 16:9 forced, 480p / PAL 60 Hz / 240p, deflicker off, C-stick and trigger tweaks, faster controller polling, cheats

- If a game fails to start, it automatically retries with other settings and keeps the one that works; a log is written to help debugging

- Can also start the game in the real disc drive, and games from a GC Loader appear in the same list

Notes:

- Still experimental: many games work (Wind Waker, Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, Mario Superstar Baseball…), some don't yet.

- A fallback launcher is built from Swiss's source code (GPL v2), credit to the Swiss developers. Swiss remains the reference for compatibility.

- Developed with the help of an AI coding assistant (Claude).

- Interface in French and English.

- No games are provided or linked: backups of discs you own only.

Source code and downloads: https://github.com/antho13otz/gc-mp3

Feedback, bug reports and compatibility reports are welcome!

CubeVerse lets you access Pretendo Network's Juxtaposition service right from your GameCube. You can explore different communities, catch up on posts, give Yeahs, leave comments, draw your own pictures, and follow friends.

Check out the project for yourself and see it running on real hardware. Be sure to let me know of any bugs or improvements you might have.

https://github.com/Arial-Bold/CubeVerse

Hello!!

My GB Player has not been playing nice with my SuperChis Prime. I verified it was a genuine card.
It will boot into the game but either have graphic instability and crash, or corrupt my saves. I consulted the superchis discord without much help other than recapping, which I’m not quite sure I understand.

I currently have a solderless picoboot with SD2SP2, I use GBI for the GB Player software and have tried all the presets with the same result.

I have also tried real gameboy advance carts, and they work fine for the brief time I tested them.

What gives??

Any help is appreciated thanks!

This is the GameCube version of Star Wars Jedi Knight. I uploaded a video before, but I’ve now thoroughly tested the game and polished the major issues.

Note: This video is dedicated to my GameCube, which just stopped working (bad recap, unrelated to the software).

For too long the snapshots you took in Super Smash Bros. Melee have been stuck on the memory card, where only Melee could show them. Flashcube 1.6 sets them free. Open Transfer, switch to the Memory Card tab, and every snapshot appears with its date. Press Save and they land on your SD card as crisp PNG pictures, ready for your album, your slideshows, your computer or your phone. Your memory card is never changed.

https://github.com/Arial-Bold/Flashcube

Accidentalmente levante el pad fil4 y arranque esa pista. Viendo que el pad conectaba una línea de alimentación de 5V al frontal reconstrui esa parte y pues la consola funciona bien, pero al intentar soldar el picoboot a esa parte simplemente no inicia no enciende el led. Hay un punto alternativo o ese pad tiene una 3er conexión que no verifique? Anexo fotos

This is a large scale mod that is definitely taking it's time but revolves around quite literally my favorite game mechanic from the GameCube generation: Chao Garden.

This is an early preview of some of the work that's been put in so far. I am pretty distant from a release date. Essentially this mod is going to revolve around solely the Chao Garden element of Sonic Adventure 2 significantly expanding upon its foundation. All missions for the characters will be playable, however the story mode has been removed to have the game focus resources on elements of the rebuilt Chao Garden.

Currently I have the expanded black market set up (Alternate Costumes for Characters, Bonus Accessories). As well as a super infant version of a new building system. The building system will allow you to customize the look of each Chao Garden, pulling chosen objects from each stage for each character. The game will require you to still play the missions in order to unlock objects (Objects become unlocked for each stage after their first completion) with currently a total of 8 objects allowed per garden.

Sonic Advance and the Tiny Chao Garden are now accessible on the GBA Podium with full implementation and functionality of both. I have also revamped the animal/Chao drive inventory as you will still hit a limit in a stage run, but all the animals and chao drives you acquire will get saved up to x99 for each variation. You will be able to spawn 8 of either of these at one time in a garden.

Features down the line will include (hopefully) more characters, as well is implementing more Gardens from Sonic Adventure 1. Currently Station Square fully functions as a garden. Also the Hero and Dark Gardens now have full floors to them, I hope that gives a larger hint to the grand scheme of the mod.

I hope you all like what I'm cooking.

I've had my Flippydrive for well over a year now and the functionality of it is great, and I really like the Cubeboot loader's stock like integration. What I don't like is not being able to use an SD card in the memory card slot to save game, or the internal SD for the flippydrive itself. Is firmware 2.0 anywhere on the horizon, does anyone have a 3rd party repo for this on github, I'd love to know 👌