Soft-Mod Tutorial: How to play backups with only SD Media Launcher + Extra Info

ah cool. man, like i'm totally stuck on just the snes emu right now haha, it's HECKA tight. But i don't think that there is any way to load gcms from a card... :/ only if you burn them to discs.

 

sd boot does the job but i cant get it working. i don't know how big your card is but i know it'll hold a n64 rom. could you inject super mario 64 and boot it wit sd boot? i gota kno if its just me or somthin else.

 

ok, i get what you're sayin... but my card is only 500 MB.

 

hey do any of you know what media not reconized means?because gcos 1.5 is giving me the error.i know its not the ritek G04'S or the burner because i tried a dsic on my friends and it worked but then the second time it didnt...so do you guys think since that shows up i have to adjust the laser?because i think its because of that and also my gamecube using ninjashell gives the black screen of death so i guess i need to adjust the pot

but i wonder..my friends GC said disc read error and the first time i tried it(on gcos public beta)it worked...hmmmm i guess BOTH need laser adjusting

but anyways can one of you find out what that means?

THANKS
wiifreak1

 

does that answer your question wiifreak?

 

yes it does and now i know its my laser

 

OK MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH... for me at least. I found this site - http://www.rombomb.webs.com - signed up and downloaded a couple Gamecube ROMS (shrunk .gcms, like from 100MB-200MB). First I downloaded Crazy Taxi (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=32LQ3145), opened it with SDBoot, and noticed in the "info" that its a PAL region, thus its display on my TV was super jittery and screwed up. then, i downloaded Link-4 Swords Adventures (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=M9AQS8H0), saw that's its a NTSC region and when I booted it up it ran perfectly. I mean, no glitches or anything--like the real thing.

I'll let you know if any others work for me.

 

ok. now im straight pissed. can you give me a tut on how to load it? (and tell me exactly what you did cause all the other readmes just don't work for me.)

 

I just run SDBoot (sd-boot-0.4b7-A.dol) from my SD Card, then the menu screen shows up and recognizes my card in Slot A. The menu screen shows a folder i made called "GCGAMES" and lists the "link" .gcm game file I put in there (it's only 257MB because it's shrunk). Then I just select it and choose "boot."

Most .gcm files that I have are over 1 Gig, so it's either I get a bigger card or I try to shrink them. I tried using "GCM Utility v0.5" on a couple isos but i didn't work for some reason. I saw in this forum thread that it's probably because "You are using FAT32 as a file system and not NTFS. FAT32 has no compression option." In this pic it shows how to change to NTFS.

 

so you mean i have to format my sd card as ntfs? well my hd is ntfs already if thats what you were referring to. i could have sworn that the sd carad has to be in fat format.

 

No, sorry about confusing u. I checked and my HD is already formatted to NTFS already so that's not the prob. I think just the drive that you'd be compressing/shrinking .gcms/.isos needs to be in NTFS. I didn't do anything to my SD card. :/ you're right about it being in fat format.

And I think I was getting problems because the isos I was trying to shrink weren't "scene" releases (like properly ripped games).

 

Update: I shrunk a NTSC scene release of Ikaruga (by StarCube) down to like 250MB and got it up and RUNNING through SDBoot!!! The only thing is there's some static that comes in and out of my TV speakers, but everything else-gameplay & graphics work flawlessly. :O I tried the sound as mono & stereo but still got the partial static-y sound. Works ok though!

Update 2: shrunk NTSC scene rip of Alien Hominid (by MoonCube) down to 400MB and got it up and running too!! But not without some tweaking. A couple of the .gcms i've tried loading through SDBoot have asked "please insert game disc" like right after the loading screen. But right before i booted up, i replaced the sdml cd with just a regular GC disc (mario kart double dash for me) to like trick the cube and i got Alien Hominid running just fine. But apparently it has nasty streaming audio so i just had to disable the music in the options menu.

 

oops, double post.

 

well something is wrong then. I made the GCGAMES folder on the root of the card. I put my gcm/iso files in it. I have sd boot slot a or b (depends on which slot i put it in) on the root. those are the oonly files I have. Boot it up lload it with sdml. When It says insert sd card i press a and then it says setting up sd card, then it flashes a red screen that says error:could not get file stats. So then I can move still but if I hit boot It gives me that error then it freezes. Am I supposed to have sort of disc in the cube or something?

 

Hmm, for me it sets up the card and it goes straight to the menu. I think the problem is definitely your card. :/

 

Update 3: Shrunk NTSC screne release of Luigi's Mansion, and I couldn't get it working. It only goes to the "Nintendo" screen and just freezes everytime.

Update 4: Shrunk PAL scene release of Ikaruga, and still can't get the video display mode right. The image is all over the place.

Update 5: Shrunk NTSC scene release of Wario World, and it runs flawlessly! Booted up with no prob. :O

 

Wha?? I used 3 different cards and same result on all. It can't seriously be the card? I used 1 gb pny sd card, 2 gb kingston microsd, and 2 gb sandisk sd card. If the almighty sandisk isn't working then it can't be the card.

 

That's so wierd. I'm just using a 500MB micro transflash Sandisk card and it works for me. :/

 

this is gay. how old is your cube?

 

it was one of the first models--model dol-001--but i bought it used over the net.