Software questions

[smudgecat123]

Hi everyone, I have been reading up on as much as i can for the past few days on gc forever and mod retro trying to get an idea of how to build a good gc portable.

So far it seems that the software side of it is the most difficult and confusing.

I have a few questions
Is it possible to just load swiss from an sd gecko when you boot up a gamecube and if so, what is the advantage in booting it from a wiikey fusion?
Is it possible to make an sd gecko by simply cutting away most of the memory card board and simply ensuring that the sd card contact points are in contact with the correct points on the memory card board? (from a post about putting tape inside a memory card case to ensure they're touching)
When swiss is booted from an sd gecko or wiikey fusion, can it boot an emulator stored on the same sd card that swiss is stored on and can it then access an n64 rom or gba rom from that same sd card or can it only access them from another input on the console?

[emu_kidid]

1. You can't load swiss directly from a SD Gecko without anything else. The SDGecko is merely a pass-thru adapter to allow the pins of a SD card to connect to a memory card port. Software that knows about the SD Card must be running first in order to utilise it, aka unsigned code or homebrew, see here: http://www.gc-forever.com/wiki/index.ph ... g_Homebrew

2. Yes you can make a SDGecko yourself: http://www.gc-forever.com/wiki/index.php?title=SDGecko

3. Yes, Swiss can boot emulators and then from that same SD card the emulator can then load ROMs, etc.

[smudgecat123]

Okay thanks emukidid by the way, just out of interest, what language did you use to write swiss, and what program did you use to compile it in?

[emu_kidid]

It's written in C with a tiny bit of Assembly. It should compile with devkitppc/msys on windows.