• Purpose
• Gamecube
  • SDGecko
    • Requirements
    • Formatting your SD card
      • Windows
      • Linux and Mac
    • Launch
• Navigating Swiss

Swiss aims to be an all-in-one homebrew utility for the Nintendo GameCube.

• GameCube with controller
• Action Replay (Preferably the newest version you can find)
• SD card/Memory Card adaptor (Commonly referred to as SDGecko, but any generic adapter should work)
• SD, SDHC, or SDXC card with <4GB of maximum storage
• A Computer with an SD card slot, a USB SD card adaptor, or some other means of accessing the SD card from your computer
• Software on the computer which can extract 7z compressed archive files, such as 7-Zip.

1. Connect your SD card to your computer.
2. Right click the SD card in File Explorer and select Format.
3. Ensure Capacity is <4GB
4. For File system, select FAT (Default).
5. For Allocation unit size, select 32 kilobytes.
6. Volume Label can be left as is or changed to your liking. I personally set it as GAMECUBE_SD.
7. Leave Quick Format checked.
8. Press Start.

1. Connect your SD card to your computer.
2. Open a terminal, run sudo fdisk -l
3. Take note of the Disk Name and the Device Name, which are fairly similar. They should be something like /dev/mmcblk0 and /dev/mmcblk0pl, respectively.
4. Unmount the SD card by running sudo umount <device-name>. Note the instruction for unmounting does not have an 'n'.
5. Run sudo fdisk <disk-name> to begin formatting the SD card. The fdisk utility will now be running.
6. Type d and hit Enter/Return. This will delete the existing partition.
7. Type n and hit Enter/Return. This will begin the process for creating the new partition.
8. For Partition type, Partition number, First Sector, and Last Sector, hit Enter/Return to use the default values.
9. Type t and hit Enter/Return.
10. Type e and hit Enter/Return.
11. Type w and hit Enter/Return to write to the SD Card and quit.
12. Run sudo mkdosfs -F 16 -n <volume-label> <device-name> to create the file system and rename the volume. I personally use GAMECUBE_SD for <volume-label>.
13. Remove and reinsert the SD card. It should remount, and you should be able to move files to it.

1. Download latest Swiss release and extract its contents.
2. Copy the compressed Swiss DOL file found in the DOL folder to the root of the SD card. It's name will follow the format swiss_r###-compressed.dol
3. If you want Swiss to boot automatically, rename the Swiss DOL file to AUTOEXEC.dol.
4. If you are using an older version of Action Replay, copy the SDLOADER.BIN file from the ActionReplay folder to the root of your SD card.
5. Safely ejected the SD card.
6. Place Action Replay disc into GameCube.
7. Place SD card into the SD Card/Memory Card Adaptor, and place the Adapter into Memory Card a Memory Card slot of the GameCube. It should not matter which slot is used.
8. Power on the GameCube, and you will see the Action Replay boot screen. If you renamed the Swiss DOL file to AUTOEXEC.dol, then from there it should boot directly into the Swiss menu. Otherwise, select the Swiss DOL from the list of files.

If the above steps do not work, try using the non-compressed Swiss DOL file.

• The top heading shows the version number, commit number, and revision number of Swiss.
• The left panes show what device you are using.
• The largest portion is the Swiss fie system, through which you can navigate files and folders. The top of every folder includes a .. option, and selecting this moves you back up a folder.
• The bottom pane, from the left:
  • Device Selection
  • Global Settings, Advanced Settings, and Current Game Settings
  • System Information, Device Info, and Credits
  • Return to top of file system
  • Restart GameCube