gekkoboot (formerly iplboot)
Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2022 10:37 am
I realized that there wasn't an official forum thread for iplboot, let's fix that.
iplboot is a minimal, but reasonably featureful bootloader for the GameCube. It is meant to be used as the BIOS on most IPL replacement modchips, or as a chainloader for savegame exploits.
iplboot currently supports the Qoob and ViperGC families, ships with PicoBoot by default, and boot.gci files are provided for savegame exploit users. It can load homebrew from SD card (memory card adapter or SD2SP2) and USB Gecko.
Detailed usage instructions, source code and binaries are available on GitHub.
I've just published r8, which brings the binary size back in check and restores support for ViperGC and Qoob SX, both of which have less flash than their higher end counterparts, which makes them harder to support. Testing would be appreciated as I don't have access to a GC that can run homebrew currently.
iplboot is a minimal, but reasonably featureful bootloader for the GameCube. It is meant to be used as the BIOS on most IPL replacement modchips, or as a chainloader for savegame exploits.
iplboot currently supports the Qoob and ViperGC families, ships with PicoBoot by default, and boot.gci files are provided for savegame exploit users. It can load homebrew from SD card (memory card adapter or SD2SP2) and USB Gecko.
Detailed usage instructions, source code and binaries are available on GitHub.
I've just published r8, which brings the binary size back in check and restores support for ViperGC and Qoob SX, both of which have less flash than their higher end counterparts, which makes them harder to support. Testing would be appreciated as I don't have access to a GC that can run homebrew currently.