Since I can't get a USB launcher to work, I thought I'd go with the "easy" option - Neogamma.
Well...all I can get is a green screen and a reset. My discs are showing the Gamecube logo in the official Nintendo disc channel, so it seems like they've been burned properly. But when I run Neogamma, I click on launch and it goes to a solid green screen for a second before the console just restarts.
Any idea where to start troubleshooting? I just re-hacked my console using ModMii, so I feel like all the necessary IOS files should be up to date, but maybe I'm missing something.
Sounds like you did not install a cMIOS, or you probably installed DIOS MIOS. Which overwrites the cMIOS. At one time DIOS MIOS
was a cMIOS, but for some reason crediar scratched that support. Well, maybe the homebrew support somewhen found its way back, i don't know.
Anyways, long story short: For NeoGamma to play GC backups, you need at least a compatible drive,
good burns, a cIOS, a
cMIOS and NeoGamma's default settings.
you need a Cmios for neogamma to work and set the gamcube loader method to external for it to not read it's built-in Cmios
The external mode loads gamecube homebrew .dol files from sd card. You could start a gamecube memory card manager this way for example, or the gamecube Gecko OS version. Well in theory, i think the gamecube Gecko OS version didn't work for some reason.
The 2 important modes are: MIOS and internal. MIOS just loads the MIOS/cMIOS. That means, if WiiGator's cMIOS with integrated GC loader is installed, WiiGator's GC loader shows up. The internal mode launches NeoGamma's GC loader, which would be the best GC launcher
for discs if there weren't so many bugs.