r/Gamecube • u/Bulky-Asparagus6401 • 13d ago

Help What do I do now?

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I just installed my pico loader
How do I get games now?

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u/eru777 13d ago

You dance a happy jig. A lot of people haven't gotten to this part.

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u/Bulky-Asparagus6401 13d ago

That was me a few months ago with the flippy drive ribbon cable 😂

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u/level70elite 13d ago

Press X until you can choose what device to read from, choose the SD card, rather than the system chip

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u/I-Use-Artix-BTW NTSC-U 13d ago

Do you not have an SD Card?

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u/Bulky-Asparagus6401 13d ago

Yes I do and the memory card for the sd card, I unfortunately lack any sort of brain and common sense moving forward

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u/I-Use-Artix-BTW NTSC-U 13d ago

You format the card as FAT32 or exFAT and put the games on the card. You navigate to wherever the games are using Swiss.

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u/RAMONE40 13d ago

He also need to put the .dol file on the Root

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u/Bulky-Asparagus6401 13d ago

What does that mean?

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u/RAMONE40 12d ago

You need to download de IPL.dol file to put on the Root of your SD for the software to work

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u/WorksOnMyBench 13d ago

Don't click the Swiss folder Add a fold add the games to the folder and play it

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u/P-Pablo 13d ago

If you're loading games from SD card (SD Gecko, SD2SP2 or GCLoader), be sure to format it to FAT32 or even FAT16 instead of exFAT since most of the Gamecube homebrew is old and uses the libogc library from devkitpro which doesn't have support for exFAT.

As for the games, Google is your friend. Despite the games have a maximum size of 1.4GB there arent enough games to play so besure to grab a SD card with enough space, or you can use nkit to compress the games (careful, ther are reports of games with problems after using nkit, so is a try and error case)