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Swiss Boot Memory Cards and Game Save Hacks a la GCMM
https://GCHomebrew.com/gamesave-exploits/
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Q&A: Where does Swiss go? #7

Closed coolaj86 closed 3 years ago

coolaj86 commented 3 years ago

I’m a first time GameCube purchaser, with mine arriving a few days after this email. I want to get into homebrew because let’s be honest, that’s probably the easiest way to play something like Pokémon Colosseum on original hardware these days.

I was watching your video on saved game exploits and this answered a lot of my questions concerning the method, but I’m still a little confused. My GCN is a 001, so she has the serial port for sd2sp2. I was going to put a micro sd containing Swiss, game isos and a game boy advance emulator in there. My question is this: do I need to have Swiss in a regular SD card in an adaptor in the second memory card slot instead? The GameCube would look like this:

Slot A: hacked memory card Slot B: empty Disc Drive: generic Tom Clancy game Serial port 2: sd2sp2 board with a micro SD holding Swiss, some isos/other misc stuff

As such, should it instead be: Slot A: hacked memory card Slot B: Regular SD card with an adaptor, holding Swiss Disc Drive: generic Tom Clancy game Serial port 2: sd2sp2 board with a micro SD holding some isos/other misc stuff

I’m about 90% sure it should be the later. If it’s possible, could you clarify this for me? I can’t seem to find anything online, most likely due to how I’m articulating the question.

Either will work, but you don't actually need Swiss on the SD at all.

Swiss will come pre-installed on the hacked gamesave card itself. So you can put Swiss on the SD card to load a newer version manually, or use GCMM to update the hacked gamesave card, but the card itself is what contains the version of Swiss that will auto-boot.

Does that answer your question?

heatheatcold commented 3 years ago

Have you started your hacked memory card store? If you haven’t and you don’t mind, could you point me in the direction of an ebay seller who sells them instead?

coolaj86 commented 3 years ago

I've got an email saying that the first batch of 100 cards will be here on Thursday.

If you can wait until then, then you can send me the game title and ID (ex: GLZE-0-00) and I can make the card and send you a payment request via PayPal or Venmo and ship it out.

If not, then just search "GameCube Swiss Boot Card" on ebay and do a little sifting and you should find someone who will be willing to make a card for your game, if it isn't in their list - expect to pay $20 ~ $30 for a custom card.

The $17.99 cards are pre-fabs from a store that buys and programs them by the hundreds at a time for a variety of purposes - such as 100% game saves and such - so they don't make enough per each to do custom deals.

heatheatcold commented 3 years ago

I totally can! Is it alright if I order one of the recommended games on your website before Thursday though?

coolaj86 commented 3 years ago

Yeah.

I don't have any plans to sell the game discs, but feel free to use the Ebay and Amazon affiliate links on gchomebrew.com. That would be awesome.