Indigo v1.25.0 — Memory Cards, a cube that flies in, and a drag-and-drop download

[spencercnorton]

The first formal release of Indigo, with everything from the last three days in one download:
a save explorer for your memory cards, a cube that flies in when Indigo starts, In-Game
Reset that comes back to Indigo, fixes for SD adapters, and a download you drag straight onto
your SD card.

New here? norvitech.com/indigo has the full guide and
videos of every screen.

Memory Cards

• Memory Cards, a new row on the System face between System Information
  and Restart Indigo, shows the saves on the memory cards in Slot A and Slot
  B and in folders on the SD card, much as the GameCube's own Memory Card
  screen does. Each save shows its banner, the game's name for it and its
  size in blocks; the tab says how many blocks the card has free, and the
  line above the buttons shows the rest of the save's comment. L and R move
  between Slot A, Slot B and the SD card; A opens a folder.
• A on a save copies, moves or deletes it. Copy and Move go to the other
  slot, to the Save Folder, or to another folder you choose. A save copied
  off a card becomes a .gci named as Dolphin names a GCI folder's saves;
  Action Replay (.sav) and GameShark (.gcs) saves copy onto a card too.
  Every copy is read back and compared before it counts, and a Move removes
  the original only then. A card that already has the save, or hasn't the
  room for it, says so and nothing changes; a save its game marks as not to
  be moved can be copied but not moved; Delete asks first, with Cancel
  highlighted.
• Settings › Setup › Storage › Save Folder chooses where saves copied off
  a card go: a folder on the Configuration Device, swiss/saves until you
  choose another (key Save Folder in global.ini). A lists the folders, X
  chooses the one that's open.
• The System face's three rows sit a little closer together to fit under
  the cube, and Restart Indigo's confirmation returns to its row, now the
  third.

The cube flies in

• When Indigo starts, the Home cube flies in from the distance. It starts
  as a small spinning cube in the middle of the screen, tumbles toward you,
  and comes to rest on Library half a second later. Home is ready after 0.8
  seconds instead of 1.15, and the cube is in view from the first frames
  instead of fading up out of a dark screen.
• Starting no longer dims the screen before the cube appears. The face name,
  its hint and the glass's light fade in as the cube arrives instead of
  switching on at once.
• With UI Motion set to Reduced, the cube fades in where it rests. With Off
  it is simply there, as before.

In-Game Reset comes back to Indigo

• With In-Game Reset set to Apploader, A + Z + START during a game now
  returns to Indigo. A reset restarts whatever swiss/patches/apploader.img
  holds, and until now that was stock Swiss's copy. The release zip now
  carries Indigo's own. It replaces stock Swiss's, so a game started from
  stock Swiss resets to Indigo too.

A drag-and-drop download

• The download is drag and drop. Indigo-vX.Y.Z.zip is laid out exactly
  as the card is: unzip it, select everything inside and drag it onto the
  root of the SD card. Before, everything sat in an Indigo-vX.Y.Z/SD card/
  folder inside the zip. An Indigo-README.txt says what each file is for,
  and the licence and notice now travel in swiss/indigo/.

Fixes

• Starting a game from the Library opens its file afresh. A read error while
  browsing, which a slow SD card adapter (SD2SP2, SD Gecko) can cause, no
  longer carries into the launch. A launch that failed after setup no longer
  leaves the next try reading the game from the wrong place on the card.
• Indigo records when you last played a game before it prepares the game, as
  Swiss does with its recent list. It no longer writes to the card after the
  game's data has been mapped.

Documentation

• Every picture in the README and the guide is recorded again on this
  release, and the README gains two animations: the cube flying in when
  Indigo starts, and Memory Cards copying a save to the SD card. The guide's
  Memory Cards page has pictures of each screen and a card of its own on the
  guide's index, next to System. The README and the guide link the video
  tour and the Indigo page at norvitech.com/indigo; the poster and cheat
  downloads stay at indigo.norvitech.com, with their checksums.
• The guide says Settings help closes with B as well as Y.

For developers

• make dev also builds the packer (cube/packer/reboot.dol), compressing
  with xz because the build image has no 7z, and
  buildtools/sd_package.sh turns it into that apploader.img.
• The host test suite ships with the source: buildtools/ui/tests/ (C unit
  tests, GX vertex-stream checks and source audits) and the UI isolation
  guardrail buildtools/check_ui_isolation.sh are now in the public
  repository, so anyone can run what CI runs with
  buildtools/ui/tests/run_tests.sh all.

Install

1. Download Indigo-v1.25.0.zip below.
2. Unzip it, select everything inside and drag it onto the root of your SD card. If the card already has an ipl.dol, that is your current Swiss: rename it to z.dol first to keep it.
3. Put your games in /games and power on.

The install guide covers every loader, updating and going back to stock Swiss.

Posters and cheats (optional, also drag and drop): Posters: USA & Japan · Posters: Europe & Australia · Cheats

SHA-256: 8b40359a803d65cf351624de6272c7a19bfb3255ad855306fb3f6c49e689a558 Indigo-v1.25.0.zip

Build: the DOL is built from this tag (commit 0a2edf3, which System Information shows) in the pinned ghcr.io/extremscorner/libogc2@sha256:84dcb9aa… image.

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