Two enthusiast developed projects on the GameCube—GC Loader and Swiss—have released important updates over the last month that work together to enable exciting new functionality for fans of the lil’ purple lunchbox. GC Loader—an optical drive emulator developed by Daniel Kraak—is a modification that replaces the GameCube’s built in disc drive with an SD card […]
If you’re at all interested in exploring unofficial software on the GameCube, you probably already know about Swiss: a home-brew utility that can allow the GameCube to do things like bypass software region restrictions, sharpen its video output, or even load software from SD card adapters. Now, as of version r963, developer Extrems has also implemented […]
For the past couple of months, the team behind Swiss, the brilliant Gamecube essential toolkit, has been hard at work custom tailoring their firmware to provide a smooth experience for the console’s power users, especially adopters of SD-card based solutions. They also added a ton of new features, fixed bugs and improved compatibility even further […]
The Swiss team of Extrems and emukidid just released a significant update for the now-indispensable Gamecube tool. This time around Extrems focused on fixing games that showed to be troublesome on previous versions of Swiss, especially when running off an SD card (New adopters of Citrus 3000psi‘s SD2SP2 should hugely benefit from this update) . […]
The Gamecube homebrew software Swiss has had another long list of updates! Any Swiss user booting from SD should definitely upgrade, but any DVDr user should check the update list below and see if the changes effect them. To be honest, I always just upgrade – There’s always so many amazing improvements, I don’t even […]
This Swiss team just posted another release, focusing on specific game enhancements and adding the ability to launch the Game Boy Player startup disc from an SD card. Of course, no one with SD launch access would want to use the GBP disc over the Game Boy Interface software, however being able to launch GBP […]
The Swiss team has been hard at work adding an even longer list of features to the already amazing software! While there are a lot of notable changes in these last revisions, the one that really stands out to me is the ability to disable dithering for blending operations, which amplified a lot of noise […]
Update: One more: https://github.com/emukidid/swiss-gc/releases The Swiss team has been hard at work updating their software, with three four updates in the previous weeks! For anyone unfamiliar with the software, the most common use is for launching games with forced video modes, such as forcing a 480i game to run in 480p. Swiss can be used with […]
