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Gamecube DOL green screen
Issue #397
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Original issue 397 created by stanislas.treville on 2014-09-14T12:33:39.000Z:
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.Burning Snes9x or any other Gamecube emulator on a dvd.
2.Running the dol file with cobra 2.1 bios on a viper (normal) modchip.
What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Green Screen/ Half, flickering static green screen, 'Loading DOL' message whithout anything ever happening
What version of the emulator are you using (official, SVN revision,...)?
Latest found on the web.
Please provide any additional information below (Emulator settings, Console
setting,...)
There's nothing special with it, really, I just wanted to get a Sega/Sony or whatever Nintendo, Gamecube emulator, (yes I know it can also be done on any other console, such as the wii, ps2, ps3 xbox/360... but I just can't explain this to myself, wondering how many dozen dvd's I have stupidely wasted trying to get it to work, as I tried almost every method proposed on the internet, yet could never get a positive result.
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Comment # 2 originally posted by ekeeke31 on 2014-09-14T12:49:54.000Z:
On an additional note, you might want to ask about your issue on gc-forever.com, they might have better knowledge about Viper OS and its specificities.
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Comment # 3 originally posted by stanislas.treville on 2014-09-14T12:53:30.000Z:
Ok thanks, but what about the homebrew app. swiss ? Do you need a SD-loader to run it or is it just a flash file ?
I had a Xeno-GC a while ago but due to a poor installation I fear I might have messed it up quite a bit (well anyway, the console didn't work anymore althought it was an 'easy installation').In any case, many thanks for the help, I really appreciate.
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Comment # 4 originally posted by ekeeke31 on 2014-09-14T12:58:40.000Z:
I don't know much about Swiss and never used it as it's quite recent I think.
The board I linked above is the home of its developer (emukidid) who is probably the most suited one to answer your questions about Gamecube soft-modding in general. -
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Comment # 5 originally posted by stanislas.treville on 2014-09-14T13:00:58.000Z:
Ok, thanks for the info and the link; I'll check that out right away.
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Comment # 7 originally posted by ekeeke31 on 2014-09-14T13:09:33.000Z:
Another way that could work is to make a bootable DVD which directly boots to an application that can load DOLs from a DVD (Swiss, GCOM, GCOS,...) instead of using the DOL loading function of Viper OS, which is probably limited regarding the type and size of DOL it can load.
http://www.gc-forever.com/wiki/index.php?title=Create_a_bootable_homebrew_disc
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Comment # 8 originally posted by stanislas.treville on 2014-09-14T13:26:14.000Z:
Hey thanks for the tube there, but I am merely informed on those kind of things; what's a 'mkisofs' for instance and another problem is that whenever I try to run DollZ3, a dos console appears for just a few seconds and then pops out of the screen, as a user of windows 7, might it be that the OS is just too recent for the application ?(do you need a previous one such as XP or windows 2000 ?)
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Comment # 9 originally posted by ekeeke31 on 2014-09-14T14:02:08.000Z:
Those are command line applications, you need to run them under a command prompt window or using a .bat file. A .bat file is a .txt file renamed to .bat which contains the command line as specified in the link (for example "mkisofs -R -J -G gbi.hdr -no-emul-boot -b bootldr.dol -o homebrew_disc.iso disc/")
The link at the bottom seems to point toward a thread with a package with all the available tools and .bat files, you would only need to follow the instructions.
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Comment # 1 originally posted by ekeeke31 on 2014-09-14T12:46:30.000Z:
No idea, this is likely an issue between DOL files built with recent libogc and Viper OS DOL loader, I personally have a Xeno GC and no problem to boot GC homebrew, I'm afraid there is nothing I can do about your problem.
There is nothing that can be fixed in application code anyway, it seems there was an option to Dollz (a DOL compressor tool) to fix support for Viper but, just like Viper OS, this tool isn't open-source and there is no way to know what needs to be done to "fix" Viper support. Is is also incompatible with large DOL files like Genesis Plus GX or Snes9x GX so we can not use it anymore.