Hardware GCN How to burn swiss to disk

[cAXgT8x4d7jGN7dgV0EfZ]

Hello casual readers and users of this forum! I'm a fairly new person in this topic (as for the GameCube) and I don't quite understand how to burn swiss to disk. I would not have applied to the forum if I had enough understanding in this topic or at least understood a foreign language (by the way, Hello from Mother Russia) if you have step-by-step articles or video tutorials, I will be happy to watch. Thank you for reading!

I'll leave some photos of my DVDs.

 

[SylverReZ]

You will need to burn the Swiss ISO for your specific region using "ImgBurn".
https://www.imgburn.com/

 

[master801]

https://www.gc-forever.com/wiki/index.php?title=Create_a_bootable_homebrew_disc

https://www.gc-forever.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=657

Make sure to test in Dolphin before burning, unless you don't mind potentially wasting mini discs.

Interesting mini DVD-R discs. Never seen banana digital discs before.

EDIT: Looked in the newer versions of Swiss. Looks like they have pre-built ISOs in the "ISO" folder. So you'd just need to burn that instead of the old school method.

EDIT EDIT: Testing the ISO in Dolphin, it just crashes. Would probably still work on a modded system though.

 

[cAXgT8x4d7jGN7dgV0EfZ]

You will need to burn the Swiss ISO for your specific region using "ImgBurn"

Do I understand correctly that the region of my GameCube is indicated on the back of the console?
And if I have a GameCube with a Xeno chip, does it change the course of action ?

 

[SylverReZ]

Do I understand correctly that the region of my GameCube is indicated on the back of the console?
And if I have a GameCube with a Xeno chip, does it change the course of action ?

Yes. Seeing as you have a Japanese model, then you're going to need to burn the Japanese ISO.
You will need a Xeno GC or other GameCube modchip to run burned DVDs.

 

[cAXgT8x4d7jGN7dgV0EfZ]

Make sure to test in Dolphin before burning, unless you don't mind potentially wasting mini discs.

Interesting mini DVD-R discs. Never seen banana digital discs before.

Which Dolphin are we talking about ?

 

[KleinesSinchen]

EDIT EDIT: Testing the ISO in Dolphin, it just crashes. Would probably still work on a modded system though.

Noticed that as well when trying to capture a screenshot. At some point Dolphin emulator became unable to handle Swiss. ??Emulation bug or inaccuracy??

Do I understand correctly that the region of my GameCube is indicated on the back of the console?
And if I have a GameCube with a Xeno chip, does it change the course of action ?

That does not change the course of action. Having a modchip installed makes this possible at all, since a burned DVD will be rejected on a stock console.
We don't have any real influence on the burning process of DVD-R, so just write the image with IMGBurn as said above.
Don't be surprised if burning takes a while. The writer might write much more than the tiny Swiss ISO itself to ensure some weird compatibility/standard requiring a minimal radius to be written on DVD-R (does not apply to DVD+R which would require bitsetting to work on GC instead).
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The next questions are:

• Is the XenoGC installed correctly and does it work?
  
  • → Most reliable and easiest test is booting an original game from a different region… because of:
• Can you GC read burned discs at all?
  
  • Even if the modchip is working correctly, the drive itself might fail to read/detect burned media
  • GC is picky. Some DVD-R work, some not. Not all GC drives are the same: Some are bad, some are very bad and some are horrible.
  • Adjusting the pot might be needed to get burned media work at all

In the end I'd recommend – once Swiss boots from a DVD – to set it to stop the drive automatically. It is a good idea to load games from SD2SP2 or SD-Gecko rather than from discs (original or burned).

 

[cAXgT8x4d7jGN7dgV0EfZ]

And so tomorrow I will try to record Swiss on my Banana DVD-R. As for the chip, it is installed correctly and when I bought it, I checked and was given to play Resident Evil 4 GameCube PAL region, so it works properly as well as the disk reader. I will only pray for the correct Swiss recording on 10 banana discs. And I overlooked that I already have SD2SP2 available in this version -->