Booting homebrew

There are several methods available to successfully boot homebrew on unmodified and modified Gamecubes. These methods include using a special bootdisc and memory card device, a loophole within an official Gamecube game title, a traditional modchip or a drive replacement modchip.

Unmodified Gamecube

Game Save Exploits

These require a memory card to place the hacked save game and a boot.dol converted to .gci format. Swiss is distributed as a bootable GCI.

• Animal Crossing
• BMX XXX
• F-Zero GX
• James Bond 007: Agent Under Fire
• The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
• The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
• Pokémon Colosseum
• Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness
• Super Smash Bros. Melee
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow

Other

• Samson's AR loader

Hard to set up, can be annoying to load homebrew, but great if you have the materials to set it up.

• Swiss AR loader

Requires previously formatted card ready for use with AR (Action Replay).

• Datel's Maxdrive Pro

Uses a region free bootdisc to load hombrew from included memory card device.

• Datel's SD Media Launcher

Offers out of the box homebrew support - always need the disc to boot it up. Comes with a flimsy SDGecko!

• PSOload

Requires an original copy of Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II and a Broadband Adapter.

Modified Gamecube

• XenoGC or DuoQ drivechip

Quick for booting backups and homebrew with a bootable disk of SDLoad or Swiss.

• Viper GC IPL Replacement

Quick to boot backups and homebrew with SDLoad installed as plugin.

• Viper GC Extreme IPL Replacement

Very quick to boot backups and homebrew with Swiss on flash.

• Qoob SX / Qoob Pro IPL Replacement

Very quick to boot backups and homebrew with SDLoad / Swiss on flash.

• Wiikey Fusion / WASP Fusion / WODE drive replacement

Quick to boot backups and homebrew with Swiss.iso and SDGecko.

Very quick to boot backups and homebrew with Swiss as initial ISO for WiiKey Fusion / WASP Fusion or initial ISO for WODE.