swiss-gc VS cleanrip

-Tales of Symphonia - does it hang at a certain point in the game noted here: https://github.com/emukidid/swiss-gc/issues/387

The issue was reported https://github.com/emukidid/swiss-gc/issues/401 but was closed without resolution.

Yes. Here is a video demonstration of using the disc to access Swiss. You need this version of the Action Replay disc (ensuring it says US console if your console is a US model, or it says European console for PAL models). You then need an SD card adapter like this to store the Swiss files. You can also store Game Boy Interface files to load it from Swiss. Here is a visual comparison of Game Boy Interface. I can tell you it looks so much better on a modern TV.

Thanks for the reply! I'd never have thought to try that. Though, now instead of rebooting to the build-in IPL it just hard locks with a black screen instead. Much like this thread, so I guess I'm not alone as this seems to have been going on for a long time: https://github.com/emukidid/swiss-gc/issues/364

In most cases, yes. As hanst3r said if the game requires streaming audio emulation (select the game in Swiss and it will tell you whether it uses this or not) then you can't also use virtual memory cards. This also applies if you enable read speed emulation, which as far as I know is only required with Tales of Symphonia.

You don't need the OEM disc for anything. You just need some way to boot homebrew. Some options are an Action Replay and an SD Card adapter, a memory card with an exploited save game and the game that goes with it, or using a modded GameCube with Picoboot, GCLoader, or XenoGC. You boot into Swiss and then select options for and boot into GBI.

If you have discs you want to dump, you can use CleanRip.

You have homebrew channel. Before you do anything to the disc, try dumping it with CleanRip: https://github.com/emukidid/cleanrip

If you’re worried about the disc, try dumping it with CleanRip (https://github.com/emukidid/cleanrip). If you are able to dump the entire disc and verify it against redump, the disc is fine and you shouldn’t do anything to it. If dumping fails, the disc is permanently damaged and there is nothing you can do about it. I’ve seen a lot of games that were in absolutely awful conditions, but that were dumped just fine. I’ve also seen a lot of discs that are seemingly in good condition that have one very small deep scratch and that was enough to make a dump fail. It’s nearly impossible to tell if a scratch is deep enough without actually trying to dump it.

You use CleanRip on a GameCube or Wii. It's possible to do it on a PC, but the requirements and limitations make it not worth considering.

and the disc dumper is here: https://github.com/emukidid/cleanrip/tree/2.1.1

With a modded GC/Wii you can use CleanRip to backup the disk to an SD card. Have a look here