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Re: Replacing XenoShell With Swiss?

Post by novenary » Mon Sep 04, 2017 7:16 am

Without upgrading the hardware (pushing the cost of the modchip much higher than what you find xenos for nowadays) that'd be pretty hard, the flash in the atmega8 is way too small to fit an interesting payload, even iplboot.
It might be possible to write a tiny bootstrap that works similarly to the action replay hack, and you could use a raspberry pi, but I don't have mine hooked up to my GC anymore as I have a qoob pro.
I have attached an experimental rpi build for you to try, I have no idea whether it works or not, but it's worth checking out. If it does, I'll set up a proper infrastructure for building xenopie firmwares. Note that this will currently only work with the original raspberry pi A/B/A+/B+ and zero/zero w, as I've never updated it for the newer SoCs on the pi 2 and 3.
Either way it's probably easier to burn one Swiss DVD and then use the boot.dol feature for updates.
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Re: Replacing XenoShell With Swiss?

Post by novenary » Mon Sep 04, 2017 7:16 pm

As long as it uses libogc, it's not gonna fit, even compressed. That's why I said something like the Action Replay SDload bootstrap would have to be written (a new one as the AR version only supports non HC cards afaik, or updating that to have actual support). The atmega8 has 8KB of flash, and the 328 which is almost a drop-in replacement has 32 which is already much more comfortable to work with. Like I said though, it's not really worth the effort, as you only need to burn one Swiss DVD. There is no benefit other than saving money (pennies) on a mini DVD.
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Re: Replacing XenoShell With Swiss?

Post by novenary » Mon Sep 04, 2017 10:59 pm

Dude, do you even read what I'm writing? I said it twice already, you only need to burn one swiss dvd, then you can put any future update as boot.dol on your SD card and it will pick it up.
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