Gamecube Service Disc

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piratesephiroth
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Gamecube Service Disc

Post by piratesephiroth » Fri Aug 02, 2013 6:47 am

For those who don't know it, check it out here.

The big problem with it is that it's made to work only on old Gamecubes (probably Rev. A only), newer ones detect the disc fine but can't boot it (stays forever in the black screen, no messages or warnings). (More discussion here.)

My question is: it's possible to patch it to work in all or at least most Gamecubes...?
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Re: Gamecube Service Disc

Post by Paul.str » Sat Aug 03, 2013 4:24 am

I imagine it would be easy.

The GC probably just detects the title ID of the disc.
If you open it in GC-tool or maybe even a hex editor, you could change the ID and have it boot.

However, that would assume that you have a modchip and you burn all your games.
With the introduction of swiss, hardly anybody uses discs.
I imagine the GC would boot the image no problem via swiss.

As a side note, I wonder if the freeloader would allow the disc to boot.
Does anybody know exactly what the freeloader does?
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Re: Gamecube Service Disc

Post by piratesephiroth » Sun Aug 04, 2013 5:19 am

Well, I tried editing the disc ID and even replacing the bootloader with one from other game, and still Swiss always shows the exception screen while 'checking game' after I try to launch the game.

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SD-Boot stays in the black screen after I try to.boot it.
Runs fine in Dolphin though.

I think they use some other hardware trick..
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Re: Gamecube Service Disc

Post by Apache Thunder » Fri Oct 18, 2013 5:58 pm

It boots on my GameCube. Burned it to a mini-dvd. Shows up with correct icon and banner in menu as well. Don't have the newer DOL-101 cubes though. Perhaps it's those it has trouble booting on.
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Re: Gamecube Service Disc

Post by GizmoTheGreen » Tue Oct 16, 2018 6:41 pm

trying to bood with modern Swiss from burned disc it only gives a long list of .dols to load... it can't fins the default?
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Re: Gamecube Service Disc

Post by emu_kidid » Thu Oct 18, 2018 7:49 am

GizmoTheGreen wrote:
Tue Oct 16, 2018 6:41 pm
trying to bood with modern Swiss from burned disc it only gives a long list of .dols to load... it can't fins the default?
You should be able to just use the top entry and boot that? Can you post a picture?
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Re: Gamecube Service Disc

Post by GizmoTheGreen » Sun Oct 21, 2018 2:38 pm

emu_kidid wrote:
Thu Oct 18, 2018 7:49 am
GizmoTheGreen wrote:
Tue Oct 16, 2018 6:41 pm
trying to bood with modern Swiss from burned disc it only gives a long list of .dols to load... it can't fins the default?
You should be able to just use the top entry and boot that? Can you post a picture?
I went to take pictures just now and I chose the top entry as in "boot the disc". then it startes patching 412 files. once thats done it shows me a huge list of .dol files. now I noticed the "or press b to boot normally" that I didn't see before!
so there is no problem, I think.
I choose to boot from disc because from SD it errors with "failed to find function for patching" on almost every DOL making it take an eternity to finish.
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Re: Gamecube Service Disc

Post by emu_kidid » Tue Oct 23, 2018 8:09 am

That's kind of crap, I should add a warning for this scenario and allow it to just be booted directly without patching by default.
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Re: Gamecube Service Disc

Post by sonic15783 » Tue Apr 30, 2019 1:37 pm

Anything new on this situation? It still patches 412 files when loading from an SD Gecko before letting me choose which dol i want to boot from.
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Re: Gamecube Service Disc

Post by Diego borella » Fri May 15, 2020 6:01 pm

nothing yet, even in revision 0.5 swiss is not able to run the service disk.
and still have 411 patches.
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