Indigo v2.5.0-rc.1

Release candidate. v2.5.0 as it is meant to ship, for a last round of testing before it does. The current stable release is linked from https://norvitech.com/indigo/.

Improved

• Menu text batches adjacent glyphs on the same font sheet, keeping the
  same letters and weight with fewer GPU submissions. Button outlines keep
  their exact edge normals while their geometry stays the same.
• The Library opens Spotlight's gameplay stills only when you use Spotlight,
  saving their cache memory and card reads in the other layouts.
• Artwork reads give the menus a turn between pieces. Folder and app
  pictures on a disc no longer hold up a button for the whole picture;
  leaving the page or scrolling away discards an unfinished read. Detail
  still preloads its first poster before opening.
• CI keeps the full tag history but fetches historical file contents only
  when needed, avoiding old guide pictures in each build and host-test clone.

Fixes

• Repository links and CI runner defaults follow the renamed GitHub account.

• An interrupted or incomplete network/USB upload is rejected without
  stopping the menus. Transfers must finish their compressed stream at the
  exact advertised size; network reads time out after ten idle seconds.
  DOL/ELF headers, sections and entrypoint probes stay inside the received
  file. Uploads no longer suspend the menu while it owns the video lock.

• The pinned build now links libiconv-lite instead of the full character-set
  library, reducing the DOL by about 834 KiB while retaining every banner
  encoding. The emulator launch probe checks the actual PowerPC conversions.

• Updated the SDK to libogc2 r2482, including its AESND reset race fix, EXI
  locking cleanup, monotonic timing and SD fixes. The upstream audio fix
  replaces Indigo's earlier local patch. A fresh MemCard PRO GC hardware
  qualification is required before publishing this SDK as stable.

• Updated the Swiss base from r2119 to commit 39a0867e: newer translation
  and disc databases, Need for Speed 960i/1152i fixes, additional field-mode
  detection, and Nintendo Gateway GameCube MSA-500 identification.

• Setup › Display has Apps Video Mode, the mode passed to libogc2 homebrew.
  Auto keeps the menu mode; other apps may choose their own. The setting is
  saved as Apps Video Mode in global.ini.

Documentation

• The guide's Memory Cards and Game Details pictures show 2.4's screens:
  card images that take Move, Copy and Erase, the Storage page with Library
  Path, and Saves counted by file with the save's own line.

For developers

• A weekly Swiss watch (.github/workflows/swiss-watch.yml) checks whether
  upstream Swiss moved past the commit UPSTREAM names. Cheap gates first
  (one ls-remote, then a deterministic file filter) keep silent weeks
  free; one model call judges each new commit take/review/skip for Indigo,
  and only a week with a candidate sends email, with the exact
  upstream_merge.sh command. It merges nothing itself.

Install

Follow the install guide: pick what starts your GameCube, then four steps. In short: download Indigo-v2.5.0-rc.1.zip from Assets below (not the Source code ZIP), unzip it on your computer, back up the card's swiss folder (Swiss hides it) and any ipl.dol or boot.dol you replace, then copy two files onto the card.

What starts your GameCube?	Copy ipl.dol to	Indigo starts
GC Loader	boot.dol at the top of the card, keeping boot.iso (Swiss starts it)	When you switch on
PicoBoot or PicoLoader	ipl.dol at the top of the card, replacing the old one	When you switch on
FlippyDrive	boot.dol at the top of its microSD card	When you switch on
Something else, or not sure	apps/indigo.dol (make apps if needed)	From Swiss: open apps, then indigo.dol

The second file is swiss/patches/apploader.img: copy it into the card's swiss/patches folder (make the folders if needed), replacing the old one, so In-Game Reset set to Apploader returns to Indigo. Any setup can use apps/indigo.dol and keep starting as it does today. Some PicoBoot and PicoLoader chips have Swiss built in and never read ipl.dol: the guide shows how to check.

Updating: back up the card's swiss folder, rename the new ipl.dol to the name of the Indigo file you start now (ipl.dol, boot.dol or indigo.dol) and copy it over that file. Then copy the new swiss/patches/apploader.img over the old one.

Posters and cheats (optional; unzip one and copy the files in its swiss/ui or swiss/cheats folder into the card's folder of the same name, making it if needed): Posters (every region, with Spotlight's stills and descriptions) · Cheats

Verify: SHA256SUMS.txt lists the zip's SHA-256, and the zip carries a build provenance attestation: gh attestation verify Indigo-v2.5.0-rc.1.zip --repo spencercnorton/indigo.

Indigo v2.4.0 — A new File Browser, cube sides and faces, Saves on Details

New

• The Library finds your games on whichever storage holds them: when the
  boot device has no /games folder (such as a GC Loader with the games on
  an SD2SP2 card), Indigo opens the first /games on the other storage
  connected, at startup and from Library. Settings › Setup › Storage ›
  Library Path names a folder to use instead (Auto, the default, looks
  for one); Left and Right step through devices, and A opens a folder
  chooser.
• Memory Cards moves, copies and erases saves on card images too: the
  .raw virtual memory cards Swiss's Emulate Memory Card keeps in
  swiss/saves. Open one in the SD card's stack and Move, Copy and Erase
  work as on a memory card, to and from Slot A, Slot B, an SD folder or an
  image in the other stack. An image takes a save as a card does (not one it
  has, not past 127 saves or its free blocks); its blocks, block map and
  directory are written in the GameCube's own order and read back before a
  Move removes the original. Images on a FlippyDrive or KunaiGC stay
  read-only.
• Memory Cards reaches the card your games are on when your settings are on
  another: with settings on a GC Loader and games on an SD2SP2, say, L and R
  name both cards, and each SD column shows either. Swiss's Emulate Memory
  Card keeps a game's card images on the card the game starts from, so
  that's where they are.
• Game details' Saves counts those copies too: with your settings on one
  card and your games on another, the card images and saves in swiss/saves
  on the games' card join the memory cards' and the Save Folder's. With a
  memory card in a slot and Emulate Memory Card off, Left and Right offer
  them as well; a save file there goes by the card's name, such as
  SD Card - SD2SP2, and the memory card's own copy still goes to the
  Save Folder on your settings card first.
• Game details' Saves counts a game's saves as the GameCube does:
  different files of a game are files, and one file in more than one place
  is copies, each file's blocks counted once. Animal Crossing's town,
  letters and options read 5 files | 58 blocks, and one 11-block save in
  two places 2 copies | 11 blocks. After the date it shows the save's
  own line, the one the GameCube's memory card screen shows under the block
  count; a save records no creation date. Choosing a copy names its file
  when the game has more than one, and the memory card's own copy goes to
  the Save Folder first only when the card holds that same file.
• Choose the menu on each side of the Home cube: Settings › Setup › Console
  › Up Face, Left Face, Right Face and Down Face, each
  Source, Settings, System, Apps or None. Classic turns that way to it; the
  Infinite ring goes up, left, right and down after Library. They replace
  Apps Face: Down Face None turns Apps off, and an older Apps Face › Off
  carries over. Y on Home opens Settings wherever its face is.
• Two more menus for the cube's sides: Memory Cards, the screen System's
  row opens, and Emulators, an Apps screen for the programs in
  /emulators. Neither is on a side until you give it one.
• Settings › Setup › Console › Idle Animation: Sway turns the Home
  cube slowly left and right while Home rests, so the faces beside the one in
  front peek round its edges; Calm, the default, is the drift it always
  had. After a turn the sway starts again from where the cube rests. UI
  Motion Reduced or Off keeps the cube still either way, and so does Change
  Source's picker, where the cube used to drift.
• Waves (Setup › Console) Off takes the waves from behind the cube.
• Face Labels and On-screen Controls (Setup › Console) Off take the
  face's name and the button hints from under the Home cube. Other screens,
  the Library and the File Browser among them, keep their hints, and so does
  Restart's question.
• File Browser can have a side of the cube too (Up Face, Left Face,
  Right Face or Down Face › File Browser): A on it opens the same File
  Browser as System's row, and B comes back to it. It is on no side until
  you give it one.
• File Browser, on the System face below Memory Cards, opens at the top
  of the source, even when the games are in the Library. Z there always
  offers Swiss's copy, move, rename, hide and delete, whatever File
  Management is set to. B goes back to the System face, or to the File
  Browser face when that opened it.
• The File Browser takes the place of Swiss's file lists everywhere
  outside the Library: System's row and its face, the Library face when
  there are no games to show, Recent and an Autoload folder. Two panes sit
  side by side over graph paper, as Memory Cards' two stacks do: the left
  one, marked SOURCE, is your source and starts games; the right one shows
  another folder, on it or on another device. Each row has a cube for what the file is, its real
  name with its extension (a long one cut in the middle, keeping "(Disc 1)"
  and the extension) and its size; the info bar below shows the whole name,
  and a game's banner and title. Left and Right move between the panes, the
  C-stick goes a page at a time, and Up and Down keep going while held. A pane being read says Reading…, and a long storage name above a
  pane gets smaller, or is cut, to keep clear of its free space. Renaming
  or deleting the left pane's folder from the right pane moves the left
  pane to the folder that held it.
• L and R in the File Browser choose each side's storage, as in
  Memory Cards: a menu of the devices Indigo found, then Other devices… for
  the full list. On the left the choice becomes your source; on the right
  the pane opens it, so the two panes can show two devices, such as a GC
  Loader and an SD card, or the same device in two folders. Y swaps the
  two sides, your source with them. Devices that can't be open together
  (two network shares, a FlippyDrive and its flash) are greyed with why,
  and one picked from Other devices… leaves the pane where it was and says
  why; a device that won't open says so in its pane, and Y won't swap onto
  it. A memory card's free space is counted in blocks, as its saves are.
  The right pane opens on your settings' device the first time and keeps
  its device and folder until Indigo restarts; it lets the device go
  whenever you leave the File Browser, start something, save Autoload or
  open Recent. Z on a right-pane file now acts on the right pane's device,
  and Z in either pane leaves the other pane's device mounted, even when it
  is the copy's destination or the copy is cancelled.
• Z in the File Browser opens the file's Actions beside its row:
  Copy, Move, Rename, Hide and Delete, each with its button's letter (X, Y,
  R, L, Z), which chooses it at once. An action the file or its device
  doesn't allow stays listed, greyed, with why in the info bar. Copy and
  Move go to the folder open in the other pane, with no device or folder
  to pick: the info bar says whether the file fits there (never greying it
  for a network share, whose free space isn't known), and Copy asks first
  while a row in the other pane shows where the copy will go. A file that is
  already there offers Keep both, Replace it or Cancel; Keep both is greyed
  when there is room only for one. The copy's card names what goes where and
  shows B Stop; both panes are read again, focused on the copy (which
  flashes), the renamed file or the row that took a moved or deleted file's
  place, and the result shows over them as Memory Cards' maroon message.
  Copy and Move are greyed onto a memory card (Memory Cards copies saves)
  and where a folder there has the file's name; so are Move and Rename on a
  card's saves, which Memory Cards moves, reading the copy back first and
  keeping a game's no-move saves where they are. Swiss's questions keep their
  words and are drawn beside the row; Delete still needs L held with A. A
  on a file that doesn't start opens its Actions, as does a FlippyDrive
  update anywhere but on a FlippyDrive.
• A on a game in the File Browser's left pane opens its Game
  details, as in the Library: its cover, saves, settings, cheats and
  Launch Game, which starts it as the Library does, with the second disc
  Swiss would choose in that folder. The details take the File Browser's
  place without flying in from a Library card, and B (B Back
  there) goes back to the File Browser on the same row. A game started
  from Recent, or an Autoload game, still shows Swiss's own game screen.
• A copy that is stopped, or fails part way, deletes the unfinished file,
  in the File Browser and from Swiss's own copy alike, except on a memory
  card, which keeps what was written, as before. The File Browser's message
  says when part of it could not be removed, and when Replace it had already
  removed the file there. Replace now goes ahead only once that file is
  gone. A Move whose original can't be deleted afterwards says the file was
  copied but is in both places.
• Finishing touches in the File Browser: Y fades the panes across as
  the sides change places (0.15 s, quicker with UI Motion Reduced, at once
  with Off); a closed box, question or message no longer leaves its lines
  in the info bar, so the focused file's show again, under a copy's
  progress card too; and the pane without the focus draws its words in a
  lighter weight, which makes each File Browser frame about a sixth
  cheaper to draw. A right pane that is empty at its top, or whose device
  isn't ready, hints only A Choose storage. "Reading…" shows while the new
  sides are read after Y (a disc spinning up, a network share), and its
  loading cells step more slowly with UI Motion Reduced and stand still with
  Off.
• The File Browser now asks before Move, before Hide, before turning
  Autoload on (Z on .., or Z on a game's details), and before writing a
  .fzn file to a WiiKey Fusion or a `....

Indigo v2.3.1-rc.2

Release candidate. v2.3.1 as it is meant to ship, for a last round of testing before it does. The current stable release is linked from https://norvitech.com/indigo/.

New

• Press Y Folder on Memory Cards' small folder or card-image cubes to
  see the full device-prefixed path, direct contents and up to two save names.
  Choose a persistent color for that cube's rim and folder symbol, or restore
  Default. A saves; B cancels. Card images remain read-only.

Removed

• Removed the Library folder path and color page. Game folders retain their
  existing navigation and artwork without folder identity colors.

Improved

• Save captions use readable comment text and verified game identities when
  games omit display metadata, including Need for Speed: Underground 2.
  Static and missing icons remain distinct from stored animations.
• Save details shows Last updated and Save icon instead of the empty
  creation-date field. It distinguishes animated, static and missing icons,
  previews that could not be loaded, and animations paused by UI Motion Off.
  The GameCube save format does not record a separate creation date.
• Installation starts with the boot method and card you use. The README,
  walkthrough, release notes and ZIP instructions give exact file destinations,
  card layouts, first-launch checks, updates and recovery steps, with clear
  folder-merge instructions and preservation of existing boot files.

Install

Download Indigo-v2.3.1-rc.2.zip from Assets below, rather than GitHub's Source code ZIP. Back up your working card and extract the ZIP on your computer. The card root is the first level you see when you open it; copy files from inside the extracted folder, rather than the ZIP or its enclosing Indigo folder.

Your current setup	Download → card destination	Launch
PicoBoot / PicoLoader using gekkoboot	ipl.dol → /ipl.dol on its SD adapter	Power on normally
FlippyDrive	ipl.dol → /boot.dol on FlippyDrive's microSD	Normal boot mode
GC Loader, Swiss in flash, cubeboot, or unsure	ipl.dol → /apps/indigo.dol	Start Swiss, browse to Apps, launch indigo.dol

Identify and back up your existing boot program before replacing it: an ipl.dol is not always Swiss. With gekkoboot, preserve stock Swiss as z.dol only if that shortcut is unused; keep existing shortcuts. The Launch from Swiss route keeps your original boot files and needs no firmware change. The Indigo ZIP contains no boot.iso; keep GC Loader's current boot image.

Merge the download's swiss files into your existing folder. On a Mac, hold Option while dragging and choose Merge, never Replace for the whole folder. If Merge is unavailable, copy the individual files into the matching subfolders. Keep settings, posters, cheats, saves and games. The new swiss/patches/apploader.img makes Apploader In-Game Reset return to Indigo, including for games started in stock Swiss.

Safely eject, launch by your route, and check System › System Information › About Indigo. Choose the source holding your games; the Library looks for /games there by default. SD2SP2 and SD Gecko are adapters, not boot methods, and your boot card and game-storage card may differ.

Updating Indigo 1.x or 2.x: replace the executable you actually launch (/ipl.dol, /boot.dol or /apps/indigo.dol), renaming the new copy as needed, and merge the shared files again. Keep your recovery copy.

The step-by-step install guide has exact card trees, first-launch checks, upgrades and recovery; the guide included with this release is also available on GitHub.

Posters and cheats (optional; unzip one and drag its swiss folder onto the card the same way): Posters (every region, with Spotlight's stills and descriptions) · Cheats

Verify: SHA256SUMS.txt lists the zip's SHA-256, and the zip carries a build provenance attestation: gh attestation verify Indigo-v2.3.1-rc.2.zip --repo spencercnorton/indigo.

Indigo v2.3.1-rc.1

Release candidate. v2.3.1 as it is meant to ship, for a last round of testing before it does. The current stable release is linked from https://norvitech.com/indigo/.

New

• Press Y Folder on a Library folder to see its complete path and choose
  a color. The color marks its card in every layout and is remembered by path.
  Reset restores the default; B cancels changes.

Improved

• Save details shows Last updated and Save icon instead of the empty
  creation-date field. It distinguishes animated, static and missing icons,
  previews that could not be loaded, and animations paused by UI Motion Off.
  The GameCube save format does not record a separate creation date.
• Installation starts with the boot method and card you use. The README,
  walkthrough, release notes and ZIP instructions give exact file destinations,
  card layouts, first-launch checks, updates and recovery steps, with clear
  folder-merge instructions and preservation of existing boot files.

Install

Download Indigo-v2.3.1-rc.1.zip from Assets below, rather than GitHub's Source code ZIP. Back up your working card and extract the ZIP on your computer. The card root is the first level you see when you open it; copy files from inside the extracted folder, rather than the ZIP or its enclosing Indigo folder.

Your current setup	Download → card destination	Launch
PicoBoot / PicoLoader using gekkoboot	ipl.dol → /ipl.dol on its SD adapter	Power on normally
FlippyDrive	ipl.dol → /boot.dol on FlippyDrive's microSD	Normal boot mode
GC Loader, Swiss in flash, cubeboot, or unsure	ipl.dol → /apps/indigo.dol	Start Swiss, browse to Apps, launch indigo.dol

Identify and back up your existing boot program before replacing it: an ipl.dol is not always Swiss. With gekkoboot, preserve stock Swiss as z.dol only if that shortcut is unused; keep existing shortcuts. The Launch from Swiss route keeps your original boot files and needs no firmware change. The Indigo ZIP contains no boot.iso; keep GC Loader's current boot image.

Merge the download's swiss files into your existing folder. On a Mac, hold Option while dragging and choose Merge, never Replace for the whole folder. If Merge is unavailable, copy the individual files into the matching subfolders. Keep settings, posters, cheats, saves and games. The new swiss/patches/apploader.img makes Apploader In-Game Reset return to Indigo, including for games started in stock Swiss.

Safely eject, launch by your route, and check System › System Information › About Indigo. Choose the source holding your games; the Library looks for /games there by default. SD2SP2 and SD Gecko are adapters, not boot methods, and your boot card and game-storage card may differ.

Updating Indigo 1.x or 2.x: replace the executable you actually launch (/ipl.dol, /boot.dol or /apps/indigo.dol), renaming the new copy as needed, and merge the shared files again. Keep your recovery copy.

The step-by-step install guide has exact card trees, first-launch checks, upgrades and recovery; the guide included with this release is also available on GitHub.

Posters and cheats (optional; unzip one and drag its swiss folder onto the card the same way): Posters (every region, with Spotlight's stills and descriptions) · Cheats

Verify: SHA256SUMS.txt lists the zip's SHA-256, and the zip carries a build provenance attestation: gh attestation verify Indigo-v2.3.1-rc.1.zip --repo spencercnorton/indigo.

Indigo v2.3.0 — Memory Cards, game folders and smoother motion

New

• A on a save opens its size, source and recorded update date before Actions;
  creation dates are explicitly not recorded. Library game details show save
  copies, blocks and latest update from cards and the Save Folder.

• Memory Cards opens Swiss .raw virtual memory cards on SD, showing their
  saves and animated icons. Copy exports a save as a verified .gci file;
  images remain read-only, with Move and Erase dimmed. Unformatted or damaged
  images get a clear message.

• Settings › Setup › Library › Library Folders lets you sort your games
  into folders. On, the Library shows the folders in /games as cards beside
  the games, two levels deep: A opens one, B goes back up, and the heading
  names the folder you are in. A folder in a folder shows every game below
  it. Off (the default), the Library is one list of every game, as before.
  In global.ini it is Library Folders.

• A folder can have a picture: a PNG beside it with its name, such as
  Nintendo.png for the Nintendo folder, becomes its poster, as an app's
  picture does. A folder without one shows a poster of its name. A picture
  over 2 MB is never read, and posters are made one at a time on a thread of
  their own, so a large picture neither holds up a button nor runs the
  console short of memory.

• Settings › Setup › Console › Wave Speed sets how fast the waves drift:
  Slow (half as fast), Normal (the default) or Fast (three times as fast). A
  new speed picks up from where the waves are. In global.ini it is
  Wave Speed.

• Settings › Setup › Console › Temperature places the temperature dial on
  its own: Right, Left or Off, as Clock places the time. Clock moves only the
  time now. In the same corner the time sits beside the dial as before; apart,
  each sits in its own corner. In global.ini it is Temperature; settings
  saved by 2.2, which has no Temperature, keep the dial with the clock.

• Settings › Setup › Console › Cube chooses how Home's cube turns.
  Infinite (the default) turns round every face in a ring, as before. Classic
  lays the faces out like the GameCube's own menu: Library in front, Settings
  on the left, System on the right, Source on top and Apps underneath. From
  Library a direction turns to that side; from a side, only the way back or
  B returns to Library. The icons stay on their sides as the cube turns, and
  a Classic turn arrives in about a quarter of a second. In global.ini it
  is Cube.

• Memory Cards is the GameCube's own Memory Card screen now. System ›
  Memory Cards shows two stacks of small cubes over graph paper, Slot A on
  the left and Slot B on the right, a save to a cube. Each cube carries its
  game's icon, every frame at its own speed as the GameCube plays it, and
  free space shows as smaller, see-through cubes. The
  highlighted cube is larger and pale and sways slowly; every cube floats
  gently. A bar below shows the highlighted save's banner (or its icon), its
  comment and its size in blocks, and above each stack are its letter, Open
  and the free blocks. The stick or the D-pad moves from cube to cube and
  across from one stack to the other, and a stack scrolls a row at a time.
  Visible L Choose storage and R Choose storage buttons open named
  Slot A, Slot B and SD card choices. With no physical cards, both columns
  open on SD and keep independent folder positions. The screen opens with the Home cube drawing away and the
  saves spiralling out into place, and closes back into the cube.

• A Actions from save details opens the GameCube's Move, Copy and Erase
  beside its cube.
  Move and Copy go to the other stack and ask first, a pale cube pulsing
  where the save will land; Erase asks with No highlighted. While the card
  works, the save's cube flies across and waits, and it lands only once the
  copy has been read back the same and a Move's original removed. The saves
  after it slide along, and a maroon box says "Finished copying.",
  "Finished moving." or "The data was erased.", closing by itself. An erased
  save's cube bursts; a copy that fails flies back and says why.

• Move or Copy is dimmed, its reason shown before you choose it, when the
  save can't go: no card, the card has it already, 127 saves, too few free
  blocks, a game that won't let its save move, or an SD card that can't be
  written.

Changes

• Game folders skip Mac ._ metadata files, so copying a game from a Mac
  no longer makes its folder report an invalid disc image. Hidden files in
  a game's folder follow Show hidden files, as they do in the file list.

• Save details gives the save name a larger headline, separates blocks and
  KiB into clear summaries, aligns source and date fields, and shows distinct
  controller hints for Actions and Back.

• The Library's Saves inset gives the copy and block totals more space and
  larger text, with a brighter update line beneath them.

• Memory Cards copies and moves a save to the SD card into the folder the
  SD card's stack has open, which starts at the Save Folder, rather than
  always into the Save Folder; when that folder holds folders, a list offers
  it or another folder. A save is no longer moved from one folder of the SD
  card to another there: the file browser does that. Delete is Erase now,
  and B on the SD card's stack goes up a folder instead of an Up to row.

• The Library's parent card and X return directly to Home at /games,
  retaining that Library root. B and X keep the current game or folder for
  the next visit; the root parent card opens on the first actual card.
  With Library Folders on, an empty /games stays in Indigo with its way
  back to Home.

• Every face of the Home cube shows its icon as the cube turns, animated, the
  side faces at rest included. An icon on a face turned away from the screen
  is drawn four times as wide and twice as tall, then scaled down, so its
  thinnest lines keep their light, without breaking into fragments, fading
  out or flickering as the cube sways. Mostly horizontal icons, such as
  Settings' sliders, still look narrow on a face seen nearly edge-on.

• A slanted line on a face seen nearly edge-on, such as the clock's minute
  hand at ten to the hour, no longer disappears at some angles as the cube
  sways. Its corners were too sharp for its soft edge, and it was skipped;
  it is drawn plain now.

• The halo around the Home cube is gone, as the glow spot under it went in
  2.2.

• The Home cube's icons stand a little off the glass instead of lying in it:
  the face you are on lifts its icon, which shifts against the glass as the
  cube turns and sways. Under it a soft shadow falls on the glass, down and
  to the left, away from the light; the icon itself stays sharp. Faces turned
  away keep their icons down, so none hangs past the cube's edge.

• A Jet Black backdrop is darker still. Its bottom right corner, the
  brightest, read as a grey cloud.

• The CPU temperature holds steady. The console's sensor reads in 4 degree
  steps, so a CPU sitting on a step showed one side and then the other every
  second (40 °C, 44 °C, 40 °C...). Indigo now shows an average of the last few
  seconds' readings, which moves a degree at a time, at the top of the screen
  and in System Information alike.

• With Clock at Left, the loading spinner at the top right ran its word
  "Loading" from the wheel out to the screen's edge, where a TV can crop it.
  It reads inward from the wheel now, in either corner.

• The menus' animated background costs the console far less each frame: the
  cube works out its square roots without newlib's slow loop, keeps its
  outline's lengths, skips icons that can't be seen, copies only the part of
  the frame its glass shows, and isn't drawn at all under a full-screen page
  or when Grid and Spotlight park it beside the screen. Upstream's backdrop
  picture, which Indigo's background always covered, is no longer drawn under
  it. In Dolphin the background's time a frame went from 8.75 ms to 4.25 ms
  on Home and from 9.00 ms to 4.50 ms on the Settings face.

• Scrolling back through the Library shows the covers at once: a cover
  scrolled past keeps its place in memory until a new one needs it, instead
  of being read from the card again.

• Starting a two-disc game no longer reads every disc image in its folder to
  find the other disc, only those whose details don't already rule them out.

• A settings save that loses power (or a card pulled mid-save) keeps the
  settings from before it or the new ones, never none.

• Moving between games, the old title fades out before the new one fades
  in, rather than the two showing over each other.

• With UI Motion on Reduced, the cube no longer moves during the boot and
  then stops short.

• The Loading spinner and the progress bar's sweep keep the same speed at
  50 Hz as at 60 Hz.

• The Home controller's idle animation no longer stops after Indigo has been
  running for an hour and three quarters.

• Holding the stick in the Library's Horizontal, Vertical and Spotlight
  layouts, the games glide past without a jump. The strip could fall only
  one game behind the selection, so at the stick's pace it skipped forward
  two fifths of a card every step; with nine games or more it can fall two
  behind now.

• The waves behind the menus ease between Home's quieter strength and the
  other screens' as the cube moves, instead of brightening or dimming in one
  frame as you leave or come back to Home.

• Coming back to Home, the face's name and the hint under the cube fade in
  as the cube grows back to its place, instead of appearing at once over a
  cube still on its way.

• On Home, Source's and System's rows and the restart question fade in when
  they open, and the highlight fades from row to row as you move instead of
  jumping.

• As the boot's cube lands on Home, the icon on the face beside the front
  one fades in with the glass's light instead of appearing in one frame.

• A cover, a gameplay still or...

Indigo v2.3.0-rc.2

Release candidate. v2.3.0 as it is meant to ship, for a last round of testing before it does. The current stable release is linked from https://norvitech.com/indigo/.

New

• A on a save opens its size, source and recorded update date before Actions;
  creation dates are explicitly not recorded. Library game details show save
  copies, blocks and latest update from cards and the Save Folder.

• Memory Cards opens Swiss .raw virtual memory cards on SD, showing their
  saves and animated icons. Copy exports a save as a verified .gci file;
  images remain read-only, with Move and Erase dimmed. Unformatted or damaged
  images get a clear message.

• Settings › Setup › Library › Library Folders lets you sort your games
  into folders. On, the Library shows the folders in /games as cards beside
  the games, two levels deep: A opens one, B goes back up, and the heading
  names the folder you are in. A folder in a folder shows every game below
  it. Off (the default), the Library is one list of every game, as before.
  In global.ini it is Library Folders.

• A folder can have a picture: a PNG beside it with its name, such as
  Nintendo.png for the Nintendo folder, becomes its poster, as an app's
  picture does. A folder without one shows a poster of its name. A picture
  over 2 MB is never read, and posters are made one at a time on a thread of
  their own, so a large picture neither holds up a button nor runs the
  console short of memory.

• Settings › Setup › Console › Wave Speed sets how fast the waves drift:
  Slow (half as fast), Normal (the default) or Fast (three times as fast). A
  new speed picks up from where the waves are. In global.ini it is
  Wave Speed.

• Settings › Setup › Console › Temperature places the temperature dial on
  its own: Right, Left or Off, as Clock places the time. Clock moves only the
  time now. In the same corner the time sits beside the dial as before; apart,
  each sits in its own corner. In global.ini it is Temperature; settings
  saved by 2.2, which has no Temperature, keep the dial with the clock.

• Settings › Setup › Console › Cube chooses how Home's cube turns.
  Infinite (the default) turns round every face in a ring, as before. Classic
  lays the faces out like the GameCube's own menu: Library in front, Settings
  on the left, System on the right, Source on top and Apps underneath. From
  Library a direction turns to that side; from a side, only the way back or
  B returns to Library. The icons stay on their sides as the cube turns, and
  a Classic turn arrives in about a quarter of a second. In global.ini it
  is Cube.

• Memory Cards is the GameCube's own Memory Card screen now. System ›
  Memory Cards shows two stacks of small cubes over graph paper, Slot A on
  the left and Slot B on the right, a save to a cube. Each cube carries its
  game's icon, every frame at its own speed as the GameCube plays it, and
  free space shows as smaller, see-through cubes. The
  highlighted cube is larger and pale and sways slowly; every cube floats
  gently. A bar below shows the highlighted save's banner (or its icon), its
  comment and its size in blocks, and above each stack are its letter, Open
  and the free blocks. The stick or the D-pad moves from cube to cube and
  across from one stack to the other, and a stack scrolls a row at a time.
  Visible L Choose storage and R Choose storage buttons open named
  Slot A, Slot B and SD card choices. With no physical cards, both columns
  open on SD and keep independent folder positions. The screen opens with the Home cube drawing away and the
  saves spiralling out into place, and closes back into the cube.

• A Actions from save details opens the GameCube's Move, Copy and Erase
  beside its cube.
  Move and Copy go to the other stack and ask first, a pale cube pulsing
  where the save will land; Erase asks with No highlighted. While the card
  works, the save's cube flies across and waits, and it lands only once the
  copy has been read back the same and a Move's original removed. The saves
  after it slide along, and a maroon box says "Finished copying.",
  "Finished moving." or "The data was erased.", closing by itself. An erased
  save's cube bursts; a copy that fails flies back and says why.

• Move or Copy is dimmed, its reason shown before you choose it, when the
  save can't go: no card, the card has it already, 127 saves, too few free
  blocks, a game that won't let its save move, or an SD card that can't be
  written.

Changes

• Game folders skip Mac ._ metadata files, so copying a game from a Mac
  no longer makes its folder report an invalid disc image. Hidden files in
  a game's folder follow Show hidden files, as they do in the file list.

• Save details gives the save name a larger headline, separates blocks and
  KiB into clear summaries, aligns source and date fields, and shows distinct
  controller hints for Actions and Back.

• The Library's Saves inset gives the copy and block totals more space and
  larger text, with a brighter update line beneath them.

• Memory Cards copies and moves a save to the SD card into the folder the
  SD card's stack has open, which starts at the Save Folder, rather than
  always into the Save Folder; when that folder holds folders, a list offers
  it or another folder. A save is no longer moved from one folder of the SD
  card to another there: the file browser does that. Delete is Erase now,
  and B on the SD card's stack goes up a folder instead of an Up to row.

• The Library's parent card and X return directly to Home at /games,
  retaining that Library root. B and X keep the current game or folder for
  the next visit; the root parent card opens on the first actual card.
  With Library Folders on, an empty /games stays in Indigo with its way
  back to Home.

• Every face of the Home cube shows its icon as the cube turns, animated, the
  side faces at rest included. An icon on a face turned away from the screen
  is drawn four times as wide and twice as tall, then scaled down, so its
  thinnest lines keep their light, without breaking into fragments, fading
  out or flickering as the cube sways. Mostly horizontal icons, such as
  Settings' sliders, still look narrow on a face seen nearly edge-on.

• A slanted line on a face seen nearly edge-on, such as the clock's minute
  hand at ten to the hour, no longer disappears at some angles as the cube
  sways. Its corners were too sharp for its soft edge, and it was skipped;
  it is drawn plain now.

• The halo around the Home cube is gone, as the glow spot under it went in
  2.2.

• The Home cube's icons stand a little off the glass instead of lying in it:
  the face you are on lifts its icon, which shifts against the glass as the
  cube turns and sways. Under it a soft shadow falls on the glass, down and
  to the left, away from the light; the icon itself stays sharp. Faces turned
  away keep their icons down, so none hangs past the cube's edge.

• A Jet Black backdrop is darker still. Its bottom right corner, the
  brightest, read as a grey cloud.

• The CPU temperature holds steady. The console's sensor reads in 4 degree
  steps, so a CPU sitting on a step showed one side and then the other every
  second (40 °C, 44 °C, 40 °C...). Indigo now shows an average of the last few
  seconds' readings, which moves a degree at a time, at the top of the screen
  and in System Information alike.

• With Clock at Left, the loading spinner at the top right ran its word
  "Loading" from the wheel out to the screen's edge, where a TV can crop it.
  It reads inward from the wheel now, in either corner.

• The menus' animated background costs the console far less each frame: the
  cube works out its square roots without newlib's slow loop, keeps its
  outline's lengths, skips icons that can't be seen, copies only the part of
  the frame its glass shows, and isn't drawn at all under a full-screen page
  or when Grid and Spotlight park it beside the screen. Upstream's backdrop
  picture, which Indigo's background always covered, is no longer drawn under
  it. In Dolphin the background's time a frame went from 8.75 ms to 4.25 ms
  on Home and from 9.00 ms to 4.50 ms on the Settings face.

• Scrolling back through the Library shows the covers at once: a cover
  scrolled past keeps its place in memory until a new one needs it, instead
  of being read from the card again.

• Starting a two-disc game no longer reads every disc image in its folder to
  find the other disc, only those whose details don't already rule them out.

• A settings save that loses power (or a card pulled mid-save) keeps the
  settings from before it or the new ones, never none.

• Moving between games, the old title fades out before the new one fades
  in, rather than the two showing over each other.

• With UI Motion on Reduced, the cube no longer moves during the boot and
  then stops short.

• The Loading spinner and the progress bar's sweep keep the same speed at
  50 Hz as at 60 Hz.

• The Home controller's idle animation no longer stops after Indigo has been
  running for an hour and three quarters.

• Holding the stick in the Library's Horizontal, Vertical and Spotlight
  layouts, the games glide past without a jump. The strip could fall only
  one game behind the selection, so at the stick's pace it skipped forward
  two fifths of a card every step; with nine games or more it can fall two
  behind now.

• The waves behind the menus ease between Home's quieter strength and the
  other screens' as the cube moves, instead of brightening or dimming in one
  frame as you leave or come back to Home.

• Coming back to Home, the face's name and the hint under the cube fade in
  as the cube grows back to its place, instead of appearing at once over a
  cube still on its way.

• On Home, Source's and System's rows and the restart question fade in when
  they open, and the highlight fades from row to row as you move instead of
  jumping.

• A...

Indigo v2.3.0-rc.1

Release candidate. v2.3.0 as it is meant to ship, for a last round of testing before it does. The current stable release is linked from https://norvitech.com/indigo/.

New

• Settings › Setup › Library › Library Folders lets you sort your games
  into folders. On, the Library shows the folders in /games as cards beside
  the games, two levels deep: A opens one, B goes back up, and the heading
  names the folder you are in. A folder in a folder shows every game below
  it. Off (the default), the Library is one list of every game, as before.
  In global.ini it is Library Folders.
• A folder can have a picture: a PNG beside it with its name, such as
  Nintendo.png for the Nintendo folder, becomes its poster, as an app's
  picture does. A folder without one shows a poster of its name. A picture
  over 2 MB is never read, and posters are made one at a time on a thread of
  their own, so a large picture neither holds up a button nor runs the
  console short of memory.
• Settings › Setup › Console › Wave Speed sets how fast the waves drift:
  Slow (half as fast), Normal (the default) or Fast (three times as fast). A
  new speed picks up from where the waves are. In global.ini it is
  Wave Speed.
• Settings › Setup › Console › Temperature places the temperature dial on
  its own: Right, Left or Off, as Clock places the time. Clock moves only the
  time now. In the same corner the time sits beside the dial as before; apart,
  each sits in its own corner. In global.ini it is Temperature; settings
  saved by 2.2, which has no Temperature, keep the dial with the clock.

Changes

• Every face of the Home cube shows its icon as the cube turns, animated, the
  side faces at rest included. An icon on a face turned away from the screen
  is drawn four times as wide and twice as tall, then scaled down, so its
  thinnest lines keep their light, without breaking into fragments, fading
  out or flickering as the cube sways. Mostly horizontal icons, such as
  Settings' sliders, still look narrow on a face seen nearly edge-on.
• A slanted line on a face seen nearly edge-on, such as the clock's minute
  hand at ten to the hour, no longer disappears at some angles as the cube
  sways. Its corners were too sharp for its soft edge, and it was skipped;
  it is drawn plain now.
• The halo around the Home cube is gone, as the glow spot under it went in
  2.2.
• The CPU temperature holds steady. The console's sensor reads in 4 degree
  steps, so a CPU sitting on a step showed one side and then the other every
  second (40 °C, 44 °C, 40 °C...). Indigo now shows an average of the last few
  seconds' readings, which moves a degree at a time, at the top of the screen
  and in System Information alike.
• With Clock at Left, the loading spinner at the top right ran its word
  "Loading" from the wheel out to the screen's edge, where a TV can crop it.
  It reads inward from the wheel now, in either corner.
• The menus' animated background costs the console far less each frame: the
  cube works out its square roots without newlib's slow loop, keeps its
  outline's lengths, skips icons that can't be seen, copies only the part of
  the frame its glass shows, and isn't drawn at all under a full-screen page
  or when Grid and Spotlight park it beside the screen. Upstream's backdrop
  picture, which Indigo's background always covered, is no longer drawn under
  it. In Dolphin the background's time a frame went from 8.75 ms to 4.25 ms
  on Home and from 9.00 ms to 4.50 ms on the Settings face.
• Scrolling back through the Library shows the covers at once: a cover
  scrolled past keeps its place in memory until a new one needs it, instead
  of being read from the card again.
• Starting a two-disc game no longer reads every disc image in its folder to
  find the other disc, only those whose details don't already rule them out.
• A settings save that loses power (or a card pulled mid-save) keeps the
  settings from before it or the new ones, never none.
• Moving between games, the old title fades out before the new one fades
  in, rather than the two showing over each other.
• With UI Motion on Reduced, the cube no longer moves during the boot and
  then stops short.
• The Loading spinner and the progress bar's sweep keep the same speed at
  50 Hz as at 60 Hz.
• The Home controller's idle animation no longer stops after Indigo has been
  running for an hour and three quarters.

Fixes

• Apps: a picture with a long block of data in it, more than 256 KB in one
  piece (some programs save a PNG that way, or put a large block of
  metadata in it), crashed Indigo while it made the app's poster. The
  checksum zlib-ng takes of a block that long needs more stack than the
  poster thread has; Indigo now takes it 8 KB at a time. Folder pictures
  are made the same way.
• A game or app could freeze as it started, until the console was switched
  off. Stopping the menu's music and sounds could catch the audio DSP with an
  answer the CPU had not read yet; the DSP then never took the stop, and the
  CPU waited for it with interrupts off. Indigo now builds libogc2's audio
  library from its own copy, with the stop fixed to let the DSP finish first.
• After a game failed to launch, the menu stayed in the video mode the launch
  had switched to for the game. A PAL game left an NTSC console's menu at
  50 Hz, which a TV that only takes 60 Hz shows as a black screen, and an
  NTSC game left a PAL console's at 60 Hz. The menu goes back to its own mode.
• Migrating a settings file from Swiss before 2019 (a single swiss.ini) no
  longer overruns the menu's stack, and a cheats file of 4 GiB, or the
  console running out of memory while reading one, no longer crashes it.

For developers

• test_frame_budget.py runs the real cube renderer against counting GX
  stubs and holds each scene's per-frame cost (square roots, trig, vertices,
  GX_Begin calls, EFB pixels copied) to the ceilings in
  frame_budget.json; --update locks in a gain.
• make -C cube/swiss BUILD=build-perf TARGET=swiss-perf UI_PERF=1 builds the
  performance overlay, now with the GPU's own counters; CI builds it beside
  every DOL.
• One list of C tests drives both the test Makefile and run_tests.sh, and
  the contracts lane builds every fuzzer, so a broken one fails CI.
• The DOL is the same bytes in any locale, any folder and whatever tags the
  clone has: the build links its files in byte order, names no build path,
  and tags.h (read only by upstream's startup autoload, which Indigo drops)
  is empty. CI's second build runs in another folder.
• New fuzzers and harnesses: fuzz_cheats (with allocations failing on
  purpose), the settings fuzzer now also merges files and migrates a legacy
  swiss.ini, and test_config_save.py cuts the power at every step of a
  settings save.
• Fuzz runs after "CI passed", so it never holds a runner a required job is
  waiting for, and the weekly run fits its hour. Build runs make -j8 dev,
  30 s faster; Reproducible build still builds one file at a time, as the
  README does, and proves the two give the same DOL.
• The toolchain's digest moves by hand, every copy at once: Dependabot leaves
  libogc2 alone and check_workflows.py holds all 13 copies equal.
• The menu music is menu_music.mp3, embedded with #embed, instead of a
  5 MB header of numbers.
• The DOL is 106 KB smaller: Swiss is built without unwind tables, which
  nothing in it reads.
• A thread whose stack overflows now crashes in the emulator test as it does on
  a console: the runner's Dolphin emulates the data address breakpoint libogc
  guards each thread's stack with, where it used to let the overrun corrupt
  memory unseen. A stack overflow that crashed a console, but passed CI, now
  fails there too.
• The emulator test presses a cube turn or a step along a row again when the
  menu was too busy to see the press and the screen did not change, as a
  person would; the report lists each such press.
• AESND, libogc2's audio library, is built from cube/swiss/aesnd: a copy
  byte-identical to the toolchain's libogc2, with Indigo's fix as a patch
  applied at build time. CI checks the copy against that commit and the
  toolchain, and stops AESND 300 times in the emulator test.
• CI saves settings to a card whose writes fail, boots it again and checks
  the settings still load in their colours, and its smoke job with every
  setting changed now runs on a GC Loader.
• The emulator test can put the probe's game in pieces on the SD card
  (run.py --fragments N), as a copy onto a used card can leave a game: in
  40 it must launch, the most Swiss and a GC Loader can serve, and in more it
  must be refused with a message. CI's GC Loader job launches it in 40.
• The emulator test can put the SD card in a GC Loader (run.py --storage gcloader): the runner's Dolphin answers as one, so Indigo finds it, keeps
  its settings on its card and launches a game by the game file's fragments,
  as on a console with one. CI launches the probe's game that way, in 480p.
• The emulator test counts the console's own seconds, which the runner's
  Dolphin now reports, for its waits and presses, so a busy machine slows a
  run instead of failing it; a failed step says where the console's CPU was.
• The emulated SD card can fail as a test asks (run.py --sd-faults), and
  --route save checks that settings saved to a failing card are still there
  on the next boot.
• The emulator test runs each job in a video mode of its own: PAL composite
  576i, NTSC composite 480i and a component cable's 480p, in both regions. A
  console's SRAM now matches its region, and the probe reports the mode the
  menu was in, which the smoke route checks after a failed launch of a game
  from the other region. Until now every job ran interlaced: 480p never ran.
• An SD card can start with settings (run.py --settings <name>, from
  buildtools/ui/emulator/settings/), which must al...

Indigo v2.2.0 — Backdrop and Wave Color, a Clock setting and a cleaner cube

The backdrop and the waves can each have a color of their own, the clock can
move to the top left or go, and the cube draws cleaner on a console: no glow
spot under it, smoother edges, and side faces that show clear glass at rest
instead of broken icons. A Jet Black backdrop is nearly black now.

New

• Settings › Setup › Console › Clock puts the time and the temperature
  dial in the top right corner (the default), the top left, or nowhere. The
  loading spinner and the Source screen's label move to the other corner.
• Settings › Setup › Console has Backdrop Color and Wave Color under
  Menu Color. The backdrop behind the cube and the waves in front of it can
  each keep a color of their own, one of Menu Color's eight, or follow Menu
  Color as before (the default). Like Menu Color, A lists the colors and the
  screen shows each one as you move through the list. In global.ini they are
  Backdrop Color and Wave Color.

Changes

• A Jet Black backdrop is nearly black now. Gray at Indigo's brightness read
  light on a TV.
• The glow spot on the floor under the Home cube is gone; the halo behind the
  cube stays.
• The cube's edges are smoother on a console. The lights mirrored in the glass
  no longer break into a dashed line along a bevel seen nearly edge-on, and the
  rim of light on the top right corner no longer stair-steps.
• The icons on the cube's side faces no longer break into fragments, such as
  the Settings face's sliders showing as crosses. An icon fades as its face
  turns edge-on and comes back as the face turns round, so at rest the faces
  to either side show clear glass.

Install

New to Indigo:

1. First, before you copy anything: if the card already has an ipl.dol in its root, that is your current Swiss. Rename it to z.dol to keep it; with PicoBoot or PicoLoader, holding Z at power-on starts it.
2. Unzip Indigo-v2.2.0.zip (below), select everything inside and drag it onto the root of the card. Let it replace files of the same name. On a Mac, hold Option as you drop and choose Merge: Replace deletes what is already in the card's swiss folder (your settings, cheats and saves).
3. Put your games in /games (make the folder if the card has none), with nothing else in it or in the game folders, and power on.

Updating from Indigo 1.x: ipl.dol is already Indigo, so don't rename it; copy the new files over the old ones, choosing Merge on a Mac. If 1.25.0 made you rename stock Swiss to swiss.dol, you can rename it back to z.dol: since 2.0, Indigo doesn't start it by itself (#3).

PicoBoot and PicoLoader boot ipl.dol. FlippyDrive boots boot.dol, and with GC Loader or another loader that boots a disc image you start ipl.dol from Swiss: the install guide covers every loader, updating and going back to stock Swiss.

Posters and cheats (optional; unzip one and drag its swiss folder onto the card the same way): Posters (every region, with Spotlight's stills and descriptions) · Cheats

Verify: SHA256SUMS.txt lists the zip's SHA-256, and the zip carries a build provenance attestation: gh attestation verify Indigo-v2.2.0.zip --repo spencercnorton/indigo.

Indigo v2.1.1 — ipl.dol uncompressed again

2.1.0's compressed ipl.dol could leave the console restarting over and over
at power-on instead of starting Indigo. 2.1.1 is 2.1.0 with ipl.dol
uncompressed again, as it was in 2.0.1; everything else is the same.

Fixes

• ipl.dol is the uncompressed DOL again (5.5 MB). The compressed one in
  2.1.0 did not start on a GameCube booted from a GC Loader: it failed to
  unpack, the console restarted, the loader read it again and it looped. If
  you installed 2.1.0, copy 2.1.1's files over it the same way.

For developers

• The zip's ipl.dol is cube/swiss/swiss.dol again, and the packing from
  #57 (verify_dol.py --packed, dolphin_ipl.py, the compressed file in
  Reproducible build and the Emulator job) is reverted. The compressed DOL
  passed CI and Dolphin but not a console, so it ships again only after a
  console test.

Everything in 2.1

2.1.1 carries all of 2.1.0, which is withdrawn because of the ipl.dol above:

A fourth Library layout, Spotlight, with a gameplay still and a description
for every game; Apps, a fifth face of the cube for your emulators and other
programs, with your own pictures as posters; one poster pack for every
region; and everything upstream Swiss changed up to r2119.

Swiss r2119

Indigo is built on upstream Swiss r2119 now, up from a July build between
r2073 and r2092, and has everything upstream changed since:

• Games start with Swiss's current video timings: the timing tables Swiss
  gives every game, and a +0 vertical offset by default. Under GCVideo or
  GCDigital compatibility, the default, every game started at -3 (#42).
• Turning off controller rumble no longer makes games reset after 32
  minutes.
• Neighbours from Hell returns to its menu. Animal Crossing Deluxe starts
  without disc read speed emulation, and discs with Kawasedo's NES emulator
  without the forced anisotropic filter.
• Swiss Video Mode offers 240p and 288p.
• Setup › Library › Load at startup chooses a device and a folder for Indigo
  to open when it starts. Z on a game's details still sets a game.
• A game's name and description from its banner, when written in another
  encoding such as Japanese Shift JIS, show far fewer garbled characters.
• In the file lists, a clap on the DK Bongos jumps to the next game that
  uses them.
• Fixes to the SD card file system (FatFs R0.16-p2), the FTP client,
  copying a file onto a name that already exists, and the stub that
  reloads Swiss.
• An NKit.iso of an ArtX diagnostic disc says it can't be played in that
  format.
• The Redump and [T-En] Collection game databases are current.
• The first start from a GC Loader or PicoLoader boot image says that
  System Boot Mode › Production brings back the GameCube logo screen.

Library

• A fourth Library Layout, Spotlight: the selected game's gameplay still
  fills a 4:3 panel, with its title, publisher, a description and its game
  ID in the column beside it, over a row of disc banners, the selected
  game's in the middle and a little larger. Left and Right move along the
  row, as in Horizontal; the still changes with the title. A game without a still shows its cover there, and leaves from it
  for its details. Choose it in Settings › Setup › Library › Library
  Layout.
• Spotlight's stills come from /swiss/ui/stills.pak, a second pack next to
  the posters: one 320×240 screenshot per game. The poster pack carries it
  beside posters.pak, made from the libretro-thumbnails project's
  GameCube screenshots; poster_pack.py --stills builds one from your own.
• Spotlight describes every game: a few sentences from
  /swiss/ui/descriptions.txt, which the poster pack carries too
  (English descriptions from GameTDB), else the description on the game's
  disc banner. A game with neither says so. The file is plain text you can
  edit, one game per line.
• The Spotlight layout's design comes from
  Gameplay Spotlight by mvizensk,
  with its author's permission. System › Credits and NOTICE thank them.

One poster pack

• Posters are one download now, for every region: box art for every
  GameCube game GameTDB has a cover for, with Spotlight's stills and
  descriptions. There is no region to choose, and a card that mixes USA,
  Japanese and European games gets posters for all of them. A pack holds up
  to 2,048 games, up from 1,024. Indigo 2.0 and earlier refuse a pack this
  big; the regional packs their release notes link stay online for them.

Apps

• New: Apps, for the programs on your card that aren't games (emulators,
  Game Boy Interface, tools). Put their .dol, .dol+cli or .elf files in
  /apps at the root of the card, loose or each in a folder of its own, and
  Home gets a fifth face, Apps, one turn left of Library. A on it shows them
  as posters in your Library Layout, moving the same way; A starts one, with
  the launch screen games have, and B goes back to Home. Swiss's .cli and
  .dcp files beside a program still work. Without apps on the card, Home is
  the four faces it was.
• Setup › Console › Apps Face (Hide Apps Face in global.ini) turns the
  Apps face off, and Indigo then doesn't look in /apps at all. It is On by
  default.
• Each app's poster is your own picture: a PNG beside the program with its
  name (gbi.png for gbi.dol), or its folder's icon.png, up to 2048
  pixels a side. Indigo converts it on the console, so there is no pack to
  build. A poster-shaped picture fills the card; a square icon or a Homebrew
  Channel banner sits in the middle over a backdrop in its own colours.
• An app without a picture gets a poster of its name, in big letters split
  where the name has a -, _ or space, in a colour picked from its first
  word: Game Boy Interface's gbihf-ossc and gbihf-direct-hdmi share one,
  and its gbisr variants have another.
• boot.dol is left out of Apps, since the Wii's Homebrew Channel layout uses
  that name for the Wii program, and so are hidden files and names starting
  with a dot.
• The cube's icons fade one by one. When a turn has to move an icon to
  another side, as turning sideways and then tipping at once does, only that
  icon fades out and back in, where every icon used to. With five faces the
  icons you can see never have to move: only ones facing away do.

Fixes

• A file in /games that isn't a game no longer hides the Library. A text
  file, a cover picture or an empty folder there, or in a game's folder,
  turned the whole Library into Swiss's plain file list, with no sign of
  which file did it, and Library Layout and posters then seemed to do
  nothing. The Library now skips them and shows the games. Swiss's list
  comes back only when /games holds no disc images at all.
• The glass cube no longer sparkles along its edges on a console. Single
  pixels flickered where a face meets a bevel and where a bevel meets a
  corner: the glass's refraction, reflection and sheen cut a face's side and
  the bevel beside it at different points, and the GameCube snaps every
  point to a sixteenth of a pixel, which opened and closed pixels along the
  seam as the cube moved. Both sides are now cut at the same points, made
  the same way. The round ends of the icons' strokes (the controller's
  triggers and X and Y, the disc's glints) had the same fault and are fixed
  too. Dolphin's finer snap hid it.
• System Information shows the whole date: weekdays and months are three
  letters (TUE SEP 29, 2026). A long one, such as a Tuesday in September,
  ended in an ellipsis.

For developers

• UPSTREAM names the upstream Swiss commit Indigo is built on,
  now r2119, and lists the upstream files Indigo changes, each with the
  reason. CI checks it both ways: a change to an
  upstream file that the list leaves out fails, and so does a listed file
  that matches upstream again. It replaces the interface-only gate and its
  exact-line exceptions, which are now lines in that list.
  buildtools/upstream_merge.sh <commit> moves to another upstream commit:
  it merges upstream's changes over the difference in line endings, updates
  the commit, and lists anything left to resolve.
• The size tripwires are 6 MiB for the DOL (verify_dol.py) and 7 MiB for
  the zip (check_package.py), up from 5 and 6: the DOL is about 5.2 MiB
  and the zip about 6.1 MiB with the text-encoding libraries r2119 links.
• The pack builder makes gameplay stills as well as posters:
  poster_pack.py --stills <folder> writes stills.pak, one 320×240
  screenshot per game in the poster pack's format. The Library's art cache
  loads a stills pack next to the poster pack, in three slots of its own.
  docs/PACKS.md describes
  the format, which the source cited but the repository never had.
• Game details read no further than a disc banner's 128-character
  description, which need not end in a NUL; they could read on into the
  memory after it.

Install

New to Indigo:

1. First, before you copy anything: if the card already has an ipl.dol in its root, that is your current Swiss. Rename it to z.dol to keep it; with PicoBoot or PicoLoader, holding Z at power-on starts it.
2. Unzip Indigo-v2.1.1.zip (below), select everything inside and drag it onto the root of the card. Let it replace files of the same name. On a Mac, hold Option as you drop and choose Merge: Replace deletes what is already in the card's swiss folder (your settings, cheats and saves).
3. Put your games in /games (make the folder if the card has none), with nothing else in it or in the game folders, and power on.

Updating from Indigo 1.x: ipl.dol is already Indigo, so don't rename it; copy the new files over the old ones, choosing Merge on a Mac. If 1.25.0 made you rename stock Swiss to swiss.dol, you can rename it back to z.dol: since 2.0, Indi...

Indigo v2.0.1 — The download keeps your games folder

Three fixes to 2.0: the download, where System Information sends you for help, and a
flash between a game's details and its settings.

Fixes

• The download no longer carries an empty games folder. On a Mac,
  choosing Replace when dropping it on the card swapped the card's own
  games folder, and every game in it, for the empty one. Make /games on
  the card if it has none; the install steps say so.
• System Information › About Indigo sends bug reports and questions to
  Indigo's GitHub issues and discussions. It pointed to upstream Swiss's
  community, which does not support Indigo.
• Opening a game's settings from its details and leaving them no longer
  flashes the empty background in between. The details went away as the
  button went down, but the settings page came up only once it was let go,
  and on the way back the page went first; for as long as the button was
  held, about a tenth of a second on a quick press, only the background and
  the cube showed. The page now comes up on the press and stays until the
  button is let go. Opening and leaving Settings from Home flashed the same
  way and is fixed too.

For developers

• A CI machine names its runners "indigo" unless INDIGO_CI_NAME says
  otherwise, instead of after its hostname: runner names show in public job
  logs.
• The CI runner supervisor keeps running when GitHub or Docker fails, and
  retries on its next pass. It used to exit on one slow GitHub reply. After
  five failed passes in a row it runs INDIGO_CI_ALERT, and it runs it again
  when it recovers. The command now also gets INDIGO_CI_ALERT_KEY and
  INDIGO_CI_ALERT_STATE, so it can close its own notification.
• The build uses libogc2's toolchain image of 2026-09-28
  (sha256:e6531ec…), up from 2026-07-05's. CI, releases, both runner
  images, the poster pack builder and the build commands in the README, the
  guide and AGENTS.md all name it. The poster builder had its own older pin.
  The new image has an arm64 build as well, so it runs natively on
  Apple-silicon Macs.

Install

New to Indigo:

1. First, before you copy anything: if the card already has an ipl.dol in its root, that is your current Swiss. Rename it to z.dol to keep it; with PicoBoot or PicoLoader, holding Z at power-on starts it.
2. Unzip Indigo-v2.0.1.zip (below), select everything inside and drag it onto the root of the card. Let it replace files of the same name. On a Mac, hold Option as you drop and choose Merge: Replace deletes what is already in the card's swiss folder (your settings, cheats and saves).
3. Put your games in /games (make the folder if the card has none), with nothing else in it or in the game folders, and power on.

Updating from Indigo 1.x: ipl.dol is already Indigo, so don't rename it; copy the new files over the old ones, choosing Merge on a Mac. If 1.25.0 made you rename stock Swiss to swiss.dol, you can rename it back to z.dol: since 2.0, Indigo doesn't start it by itself (#3).

PicoBoot and PicoLoader boot ipl.dol. FlippyDrive boots boot.dol, and with GC Loader or another loader that boots a disc image you start ipl.dol from Swiss: the install guide covers every loader, updating and going back to stock Swiss.

Posters and cheats (optional; unzip one and drag its swiss folder onto the card the same way): Posters: USA & Japan · Posters: Europe & Australia · Cheats

Verify: SHA256SUMS.txt lists the zip's SHA-256, and the zip carries a build provenance attestation: gh attestation verify Indigo-v2.0.1.zip --repo spencercnorton/indigo.