SD Gecko

[takeshibaconsuzuki]

First of all, can an SD Gecko's sd card be used as a memory card for the gamecube? I have searched around the internet, but there were many conflicting statements. From these, I kind of gathered that the official geckos can but the clones can't, but I wanted to make sure.

Second, where can I buy an SD gecko? the closest I came to finding an in-stock was here: http://www.dx.com/p/wiikey-sd-card-adap ... 5u-0P6YNyA

Thanks in advance.

 

[Blargaman91]

That adapter is fine. This here is the same one at a higher price, but probably faster shipping because DealExtreme takes forever: http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Video-Game- ... 1936&rt=nc
All I know about using an SD card as a memory card is that Swiss seems to have an option to "emulate a memory card" with the SD card, but I don't know how it works. It's definitely not directly compatible, though. GameCube BIOS will tell you "The device inserted in Slot A/B cannot be used".

 

[TacoSlayer]

basicaly you use it to load and play homebrew games and emulators

 

[takeshibaconsuzuki]

So if I use swiss I should be able to use sd cards in gecko as memory cards, right? And if not, why do people add sd geckos to their portables (modchips come with sd slots)?

 

[megalomaniac]

use a real memory card

swiss virtual memorycard still needs more work...
there is no timeframe on when more investigation will be preformed to improve it...

 

[takeshibaconsuzuki]

use a real memory card

swiss virtual memorycard still needs more work...
there is no timeframe on when more investigation will be preformed to improve it...

I saw many portables with both a gecko and a wiikey/wasp fusion, but for those portables, what is the purpose of the gecko?

 

[megalomaniac]

depends...


some people use WKF/WASP with official firmware which required WBFS sd card on the WKF/WASP slot..then they play homebrew from SD Gecko


others use WKF/WASP with swiss on flash which requires FAT/FAT32 sd card in the WKF/WASP slot...then they use SD Gecko for homebrew and extra storage for more ISOs...



note: most homebrew does not support loading from WKF/WASP sd card...so if you plan to use homebrew you will need to use SD Gecko...
if you look for the builds i released of a lot of popular homebrew, you will find they are WKF/WASP fat32 compatible...



so many choices to consider