GCN file too fragmented?

[Superfighter]

i posted this in wii homebrew forum because i didnt know the gc gbatemp forum exist lol...
my problem is every game i try to boot in swiss (i tried all the games i have) i get this message: invaild file (too fragmented?)
i tried diffrent sd cards micro sd cards and nothing work.. i tried fat32 and exfat with 32k allocation size and nothing works..
should i try another sd gecko or buy new sd card adapter to pc ? or should i try GCoS?
i use swiss in gamecube (not wii)

 

[toxic9]

I'm a gamecube expert.
Swiss runs fine from every SD card / micro SD card on FAT32.
Your problem must be on your PC.

Can you post a picture of your SD card files and folders? And the ISO you are trying to load...
Can can you tell me how are you loading swiss??

 

[Superfighter]

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in every sd card i have expet from the 2gb that has swiss and all stuff it looks like that

 

[aea]

Have you tried to defragment your cards?

 

[IC_]

I'm a gamecube expert.
Swiss runs fine from every SD card / micro SD card on FAT32.
Your problem must be on your PC.

Can you post a picture of your SD card files and folders? And the ISO you are trying to load...
Can can you tell me how are you loading swiss??

I had a microSD card that didn't work with any games and another one fixed the issues

 

[KleinesSinchen]

Oh… sad. I see you tried exFAT and it did not work for you. Already said it was a long shot… Process of elimination:

• Different SDs from different manufacturers in different sizes → not likely a problem with all SDs
• Reformatted multiple times →not likely a problem with the filesystem

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• Have you verified the images to be good dumps? Check the images after writing them onto an SD with a checksum tool like md5sum, crc32, sha1sum…
  • compare the checksums on your hardrive with those on the SDs and/or
  • with the data inside gc.dat
• Try a different SD-reader/writer and/or a different computer like toxic9 already suggested
• Can you load any gc homebrew apps from SD gecko with Swiss?
  • Trying a different SD-Gecko is a good idea just to make sure
  • Also try the other Memory Card slot (if not already done)

I had a microSD card that didn't work with any games and another one fixed the issues

That is my experience too. It took me a while to find an SD that fully works on the cube. And I can rule out all other possible causes of error like bad/fake/dying SD, bad reader, bad filesystem, problem with the computer as I checked all of this. None of the tested SDs made trouble on any other device than the good old cube.
I finally had success with exFAT which was kind of baffling.

 

[Alexander1970]

Hello.

Did you try to format your SD Card with SD Formatter to FAT32 ?

 

[Superfighter]

Oh… sad. I see you tried exFAT and it did not work for you. Already said it was a long shot… Process of elimination:

• Different SDs from different manufacturers in different sizes → not likely a problem with all SDs
• Reformatted multiple times →not likely a problem with the filesystem

=======================

• Have you verified the images to be good dumps? Check the images after writing them onto an SD with a checksum tool like md5sum, crc32, sha1sum…
  • compare the checksums on your hardrive with those on the SDs and/or
  • with the data inside gc.dat
• Try a different SD-reader/writer and/or a different computer like toxic9 already suggested
• Can you load any gc homebrew apps from SD gecko with Swiss?
  • Trying a different SD-Gecko is a good idea just to make sure
  • Also try the other Memory Card slot (if not already done)

That is my experience too. It took me a while to find an SD that fully works on the cube. And I can rule out all other possible causes of error like bad/fake/dying SD, bad reader, bad filesystem, problem with the computer as I checked all of this. None of the tested SDs made trouble on any other device than the good old cube.
I finally had success with exFAT which was kind of baffling.

ok my problem solved