I'm launching my next big project - Dolphin Depot. It's a homebrew app store for Nintendo GameCube. It runs on real hardware but there is a web version too! Check it out at: dolphindepot.org

Thanks to @webhdx, the Nintendo GameCube now has a homebrew app store that works on original hardware. 👏🕹️

More info: retrododo.com/the-nintendo-g…

Thanks Jon @SpawnWaveMedia for getting hands on with the project! youtube.com/watch?v=fW3vs3…

A huge thank you to all the media outlets for covering Dolphin Depot and helping spread awareness of the cause!

I've created a few smaller but still very cool utilities along the way:
- opening.bnr file generator available online on the Dolphin Depot website as well as JavaScript CLI tool: npmjs.com/package/@dolph…
- opening.bnr quicklook extension for Mac OS: github.com/DolphinDepot/o…

BTW! Dolphin Depot (website and GC client) are going to be fully open source soon. I need to clean up the code a bit before it's open and ready for contributions.

If any content creator is interested in spreading the word and featuring it on a video please let me know! I greatly appreciate any help in promoting this project ❤️

A fellow Polish modder has created a firmware patch for cheap IDE-SD adapter that adds PSX DVR compatibility. It's basically what ATA-Express does but the firmware is free! It also includes >128GB SD support.

youtube.com/watch?v=S4Ubpu…

Wii mini feature restoration... Wifi, SD card slot, reset button, and 480p component video now working. I used kits from
store.webhdx.dev and I assembled some of these too
github.com/Wii-Mini-Hacki…

PSA: Shipping prices on my store went up - it's now not possible to ship goods as regular mail, meaning small items are now shipped as parcels, at 2-3x cost increase. USA shipments are still suspended due to Polish Post ignorance. I have no alternative to offer, sorry.

This is unreal. Congrats to everyone involved.

Great native game launcher, previously exclusive to particular ODE is finally available to PicoLoader and PicoBoot users thanks to @makeo_dev

I will be unable to ship any packages to the US for an indefinite time, as Polish Post has suspended shipments due to tariffs imposed by Trump. Once resumed, costs will likely rise with a 15% tariff. I apologize for the inconvenience.

I'll try to work with other carriers but shipping costs will be at least 5-10 times more expensive.

It's a weird thing in between PicoBoot and Flippydrive and I absolutely love it. I think this is going to be the ultimate mod solution for GC. It's cheap and open source!

I created DevkitPPC based Docker images for arm64 and amd64 platforms. These can be used for homebrew development using libogc and libogc2. Builds are fully automated with new snapshot being tagged every week. Hope you like it :) github.com/webhdx/devkitp…

🚨 PicoBoot v0.5.0 is here! 🚨

This update brings official support for Raspberry Pi Pico 2(W) and Pico W.

Download: github.com/webhdx/PicoBoo…

as a longtime Dreamcast scener and contributor to KallistiOS (dreamcast scene's homebrew OS kernel which serves as its SDK) I'd been working on porting it to GameCube for the past month or so as a fun project to get out of my longtime Dreamcast bubble

now after yesterday's Wii gc news this just got a lot more interesting

this is just in the early stages but I have KOS toolchain, build system, startup/init, enough EXI code to print to USB Gecko, and now implementing CPU-level things that KOS needs like timers and exceptions.

my plan has been to finish all the core kernel stuff and then put it up for wider contributions to implement drivers for hardware subsystems. this will be a long way off from being usable for end projects of course, but i hope one day KOS GameCube (and Wii) can be as featureful and polished as it is for Dreamcast

My main takeaway from the Switch 2 Nintendo direct is that we finally have a good modern Gamecube wireless controlller for blueretro!

I've added Morph 4K GameID control to Swiss. All thanks to $15 network adapter like ETH2GC. This feature is no longer exclusive to RetroGEM. Hopefully other network enabled systems like PS2 will follow.