Changelog

Versions follow semantic versioning. Each release is a vX.Y.Z tag on main, and a release candidate before it is a vX.Y.Z-rc.N tag on beta. The newest changes are at the top until their release is named.

v2.8.0 — Disc source badge

New

Games read from Game Disc carry a small disc badge in the top-left of their Library artwork. Spotlight marks its large picture or cover; Jewel Case marks the cover when you open the game's details.
The badge adds 576 bytes to the executable, with no increase in data or BSS size, and needs no new texture, heap allocation or draw-time file read.

Maintenance

Hold each emulator-test press for at least a frame of the console's time when the runner is busy, and wait for the File Browser's right pane to name Memory Card - Slot A before checking its saves.
Refresh the emulator runner's base image.

Coverage

Optical navigation and whole-disc launch are tested in Dolphin with and without an SD Library attached. Physical optical-drive recognition and launch remain unconfirmed on a console.
MemCard PRO GC coverage on the current SDK remains pending; emulator tests do not qualify a real card.

New

Settings › Setup › Display › Swiss Video Mode adds NTSC 540p60 (720 x 540 progressive at 60 Hz) when a digital or component video cable is detected. Selecting it switches to a four-tile 720 x 540 progressive renderer with a 10-second confirmation prompt (and L + R + B at any time to return to 480p), a full-stage pre-pass for 3-channel RGB prismatic glass refraction, bloom and supersampled Home face pictures, an 8-bit contrast-shaped font sheet, 1:1 RGB565 artwork decoding with anisotropic filtering, and softened silk wave dispersion. Before a game or another application starts, Indigo returns to its normal video mode. See the 540p60 technical notes for scaler setup (for Retro GEM, set Use Console DE to On (16:9)).
Settings › Setup › Console › Menu Language puts Indigo's own screens in Ukrainian (Українська). Its words come from swiss/indigo/uk.po, which the download now carries, and its letters from a Cyrillic sheet drawn from Noto Sans, since the console's font has none. Games, their titles, System Language and the settings files stay as they are; without the file the menus stay English. File names in Cyrillic now show their letters too.
Add a standalone experimental video diagnostic (buildtools/video_lab/) for source-width, recovery and tiled GX copy verification, with source-pattern captures, frame-by-frame checks of known-black skipping, dirty regions and cached static layers, and a pinned SDK audit.

Improved

Open Time Zone when turning on Sync Clock with no zone set. Enter your location to follow its daylight saving rules at startup. Keep offset uses the console's current UTC offset year-round.
Add Arrmes and Endexis to the README suite links.
Allow the upstream watch to reach its three required API hosts through the runner's HTTPS proxy. Other destinations and private addresses stay blocked.
Refresh scheduled checks under the active workflow maintainer and allow the weekly beta dispatcher to be tested manually. Scheduled runs retain the full extended fuzzing check; manual runs can select it explicitly.

Fixed

Keep the Home cube outside the screen in widescreen Grid, Spotlight and Jewel Case layouts, including after changing the menu's screen shape.
Keep Game Disc selected when opening the Library and show the disc's game at its root. A disc no longer falls back to another card's /games folder, and its data folders stay in the File Browser.
Recover a missed Right press in the virtual memory-card emulator test only while the original folder colour is still visible.

v2.6.0 — Jewel Case memory savings and Swiss updates

New

Web opens Indigo Web with a smaller native interface, an IPL chrome font, an Indigo return button and a controller menu. It follows Indigo's menu colour, screen shape, video mode, motion, sounds, rumble and active time zone without overwriting standalone browser preferences. Its data follows the config card when that card is supported. The new default start page is https://norvitech.com/indigo/start/; an existing saved home page stays set.
The start page can remember a weather ZIP on the browser card for future launches. Its Forget ZIP link clears it. This is a first-party preference; general cookies and login state are not added.
Browser pages support checked gzip, dropdown choices, search redirects and bounded meta refresh. Visible-box indexing and a reclaimable image working set reduce work on long pages. Any of the four controller ports can take over after returning to neutral.
Settings › Setup › Library › Saves on Details has an Always option: the Saves box stays visible with one copy or none. On keeps the existing two-copy threshold and Off leaves the memory cards alone. Card loading and save scanning are unchanged.

Improved

Review Swiss through d9159b0: Time Zone accepts bundled location names, Swiss clock-setting aliases import into the existing opt-in Sync Clock, environment updates and launch snapshots use the upstream lock, and downloads include lwIP's licence. Time Zone observes IANA 2026f's temporary Havana rule. Preserve the pinned SDK and local-clock behavior; periodic SNTP and automatic RTC rewriting remain deferred.
Prepare the Jewel Case rod-lighting texture from lossless target-generated data, reducing work at first use.
Reuse the Jewel Case rainbow strips’ shared lighting samples while preserving their geometry and colors.
Reduce Jewel Case mesh memory by sharing identical position and normal data while preserving the geometry and glints.
Jewel Case shares exact repeated colors between its lighting tables, reducing retained RAM while preserving reflections and interpolation.
Jewel Case derives printed disc coordinates on the GPU, removing duplicate texture-coordinate data from each printed disc's vertex stream.
Thread-safe devices load Library artwork on one background reader instead of waiting for each video frame. Reads remain bounded to 16 KiB, complete textures pass their CRC before appearing, and input actions drain the reader. A short sleep after every step shares time with input and background work. Other devices retain the bounded menu-thread path.
Library title fitting and Spotlight description wrapping are prepared before taking the video lock, so formatting a new window does not hold up drawing.
Home reuses its icons' circle geometry between faces and frames, reducing repeated calculations without changing their appearance.
Library artwork shares a bounded read budget between input checks. Stills and disc art pause when their layout is hidden and resume when used.
Font and panel drawing preserve immutable textures in the GPU cache; Jewel Case shares one cache invalidation across all its passes.
The executable is compiled for size, reducing its on-card size and static memory footprint while retaining the embedded music, supported character encodings and uncompressed boot format. Hot renderers and the audio mixer retain their existing optimization setting.
Link-time optimization further reduces the executable while keeping hot renderers and audio on their measured code-generation path. The fallback banner retains its pixels with a consistent shared declaration.
Omit an unused linker-generated unwind lookup index while preserving the registered exception frame tables. Game/app launch probes now exercise target C++ catches, rethrows and cleanup before reporting a successful handoff.

Fixed

Manual and weekly CI runs start parser fuzzing after successful checks even when the pull-request-only branch check is skipped, while honoring cancellation.
Keep the In-Game Reset return loader's decoder mode consistent, including its short-buffer failure path.
Dolphin file-game entry observes the root selection and bounds arrow corrections before opening games, rejecting changed or ambiguous context.
Dolphin file-game navigation retains the expected rows and actual directory/ selection captures for diagnosing a failed transition.
Dolphin Memory Cards checks observe Save Details and Actions before selecting a card operation, so a missed opening press cannot turn Copy into Move.
Emulator Home checks wait for the console's animation time before accepting a steady face name, so cached host frames cannot capture a fading reference.
The emulator's folder checks observe Settings tab and section transitions before changing a layout, recovering from a missed press with a recorded, bounded retry and stopping when navigation does not respond.
Jewel Case's sway stays continuous through long sessions. UI Motion Off stops the disc immediately and follows the C-stick without coasting; Z keeps its gradual spin stop when motion is enabled.

Validation coverage

Automated checks cover all eleven emulator routes, thirteen parser-fuzz targets, and native GameCube SD2SP2 menu browsing at NTSC 480p. Matched renderer tests retained about 274 KiB less Jewel heap and reduced first preparation from about 2.91 seconds to 0.185 seconds; 24 native image pairs were byte-identical. The captured workloads contained 14,606 frames with no frame period above 25 ms. These measurements describe renderer allocation and preparation.
Attended picture/controller assessment, actual opt-in clock sync and saved preference persistence, real game/A+Z+Start return, Web return and installed cold-boot qualification remain pending for this release.
MemCard PRO GC qualification remains pending.

v2.5.0 — Manuals, disc art and a connected cube

New

The Library can show your games as Jewel Case: one clear CD jewel case at a time, the game's disc spinning inside. Left and Right swap cases, the old one falling back as the next swings in; the C-stick turns the case in your hands. Choose it in Settings › Setup › Library › Library Layout. It is ported from the jewel case games view of portlandhodl's Swiss (github.com/portlandhodl/swiss-gc), after Ann Nguyen's CD Case (bubbbly.com/cd-case); System › Credits names them.
The Jewel Case's discs come from /swiss/ui/discs.pak, a third pack next to the posters: a 160×160 picture of each game's disc. The poster pack carries it, made from GameTDB's disc art, and poster_pack.py --discs builds one from your own pictures. A game the pack has no disc for has the middle of its cover printed on its disc, and one with no cover either a bare silver disc.
In the Jewel Case, Z stops the disc spinning, and Z again starts it. Indigo remembers the choice. There, Z no longer opens a file's actions with Enable File Management on; the other layouts keep it.
Game manuals: a game whose manual is on the card has a Manual row at the top of its details, and A opens it at the width of the screen. Up and Down scroll, Left and Right turn the page (the next one is read ahead), Y shows the whole page, L and R go to the first and last page. Indigo comes with no manuals: buildtools/ui/manual_pack.py converts your own PDF or page pictures into /swiss/ui/manuals/<game ID>.pak (docs/MANUALS.md).
Settings › Network › Sync Clock sets the console's clock from an NTP server each time the network starts, so a network adapter keeps the clock right. The IPL and games see the new time too. It asks in the background, so a server that doesn't answer never holds up Settings or a game; a game started before the answer keeps the time it had. It shows only when a network adapter is there, and stays off until you turn it on. Time Zone takes a POSIX TZ string, such as MST7MDT,M3.2.0,M11.1.0, and changes for daylight time by itself; left empty, the clock keeps the zone it is in, snapped to the nearest real one so a clock that drifted a few minutes still lands on its own zone. NTP Server IP is an address (the console has no DNS). An empty setting uses the default Cloudflare time server.
Home has a Web face, which opens CubeBrowser, a web browser for the GameCube by Arial-Bold (used with permission). It ships in the zip as swiss/indigo/cubebrowser.dol, with its certificates in gcbrowser/ at the top of the card, and the licences of what it's built from in swiss/indigo/NOTICE.txt and swiss/indigo/LICENSE-mbedtls.txt. Give it a side under Settings › Setup › Console (Up Face, Left Face, Right Face or Down Face › Web). It needs a network adapter; the browser's Return to Indigo button at bottom-left comes back with one press. The browser reads gcbrowser/ from an SD2SP2, an SD Gecko or a GC Loader, not from a FlippyDrive's card. With the console lab on (LabServer=Yes) the browser starts its own, so a test run can follow Indigo into it.

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

Updated the Swiss base through abe21df5: homebrew keeps its own banner description while SDK metadata is read, apps without environment support no longer inherit TZ, and FTP/copy/verification timeouts use the steady clock. The pinned libogc2 r2482 SDK is unchanged.
Animal Crossing Deluxe starts with Force Widescreen off. The game has its own Widescreen mode and sizes its rain and snow by it, so widening the game from Indigo as well left the sides of the screen without weather and stretched the clock and other on-screen displays. For 16:9, turn on Widescreen mode in the game's Settings at startup. A game file that sets Force Widescreen still applies.
Repository links, the address on System › Info 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.
A DOL or ELF started from a card is checked the same way: one cut short, such as a copy that stopped partway, says "DOL is corrupted" instead of starting and running whatever lies past its end. SDLOADER.BIN and other raw BINs still start.
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. The current SDK has not been qualified on a real MemCard PRO GC. The earlier real-card report applies to the previous SDK; emulator and GCMCE checks do not establish a new real-card result.
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, and a program sent over the network keeps the menu's. 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

Release builds report MemCard PRO GC test coverage without requiring hardware the maintainer does not own. Pending and historical records keep their actual source/SDK identity; publication does not turn them into a hardware pass.
A console lab for testing on real hardware, off by default. With LabServer=Yes, TCP port 4300 serves the framebuffer on screen, the debug log and a virtual controller, and restarts the console, so a test run on the LAN can drive and check Indigo with nobody at the console; a restart waits for an upload under way. LogHost sends every debug line over UDP from a thread of its own, so nothing that logs waits for the network. The log's times and virtual presses run on the steady clock, which Sync Clock doesn't move. See docs/UPLOADS.md.
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.

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 .fpkg file to a FlippyDrive. Delete says when a folder's contents go with it.
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.

Removed

Settings › Setup › Library › File Browser Type, for apps and for games: there is one File Browser now. The keys stay in global.ini, read and written for Swiss.
Swiss's own file lists (Standard, Fullwidth and its Carousel), which nothing opened once the File Browser took their place, are gone, with the file-type tags, star and banner mask only they drew, which saves about 120 KB. The Library, the Recent list, Settings › Load at startup's folder chooser and Swiss's game screen for Recent and Autoload stay as they were. The example global.ini sets Library Layout instead of GameBrowserType.

Improved

The Saves box on a game's details shows only for a game with two or more save copies; with one or none, the details screen moves its rows back up. Settings › Setup › Library › Saves on Details turns it off, and then a game's details don't read your memory cards at all. In global.ini it is Hide Saves on Details.
Left and Right on a game's details choose which copy of its save to start with, when a memory card is in a slot and Emulate Memory Card is off: each copy (the card's first, then the Save Folder's, newest first), then the totals again, which leave the card as it is. Launching with another copy chosen asks first, keeps the memory card's own copy in the Save Folder, puts the chosen one on the card and reads it back; if anything fails, the card's own copy goes back and the game doesn't start. B in the question keeps the card's copy. A card swapped while the save goes on keeps its own save.
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.
The install guide asks what starts your GameCube, then gives four steps for that setup: download, back up, copy two files, start Indigo. Each setup, GC Loader included, shows a picture of the card afterwards. GC Loader, PicoBoot, PicoLoader and FlippyDrive can start Indigo at power-on or from Swiss; on GC Loader, Indigo as boot.dol is started by the Swiss in boot.iso.
Installing copies two files, ipl.dol and swiss/patches/apploader.img, instead of merging the whole swiss folder. When the card already has an apploader.img, a Mac offers only Replace for the folder, and Replace deletes the settings and saves inside it.
PicoBoot and PicoLoader owners can check whether their chip starts the card's ipl.dol or has Swiss built in. The README, release notes and the ZIP's readme give the same steps.
The guides say how to show Swiss's hidden swiss folder on a computer, and the poster and cheat packs are copied file by file into swiss/ui and swiss/cheats, never as a whole swiss folder.

Fixes

Game details: replacing a save is bound to the card it started on, so a write or read-back that fails after a card swap never writes the original save to the replacement card.
Starting a damaged disc image no longer crashes Indigo. One whose file table counts more entries than it holds, or names a file outside it, sent the launch reading far past the table; the Library already listed such images safely. The launch now reads no further than the table reaches, and so does a disc in the drive opened as a folder.
Keep both, copying or moving a file onto FlippyDrive Flash where one of that name already is, no longer stops the console.
A copy or a move onto the same file, reached through a folder spelled in another case (FAT ignores case), is no longer allowed to replace it: that deleted the only copy.
A copy that fails before anything is written no longer says part of it is left behind.
A file already at the destination that can't be read, as on a network share that lists it but won't open it, is asked about (Keep both, Replace, Cancel) like any other. The copy used to write over it without asking, and a write that failed then deleted it.
A save copied onto a memory card that fails, or reads back wrong, after the card was taken out or changed (a MemCard PRO switching cards, say), no longer deletes the save of the same name on the card now in the slot.
Z on .. turns Autoload off in the folder Indigo starts in, with File Management off too; turning it on still needs File Management, or the File Browser from System.
With a MemCard PRO GC, or another memory card that changes to each game's own card, a game's details no longer read the card before it has changed, which showed the previous game's saves or "Save scan incomplete". The Saves box says Memory card loading until the card is ready, even for a game with fewer than two save copies, and Memory card didn't load if it never is. Opening games' details quickly one after another no longer leaves the card without its GameID until it is taken out and put back. Indigo only reads such a card: Left and Right don't offer it another save copy. This is the code a real MemCard PRO GC was tested with (#102).
A quick press made while Indigo reads from a device is no longer missed: B in the Library or Apps while a folder's picture loads from a disc, and B to cancel a copy or a verify in the File Browser while a piece of the file is read or written, the last one included: a Move stopped there keeps its original. The File Browser, unlike Swiss's lists, keeps a press made while a folder or a banner is read.
A game's details opened before its cover was read, just after reaching it in the Library or after the source changed, kept the disc banner until you left them. The cover now fades in once it is read, and the first details opened after Indigo starts have it straight away.

Documentation

Clarify app image filenames, reserved cheat space, folder display and supported Library source layouts.

For developers

Stable publication of the MemCard PRO switching requires a recorded real-card pass whose tested build has the same card-slot code, the same launch around a switch and the same pinned library image (check_memcard_qualification.py). Lab checks allow candidate testing; they cannot clear the hardware hold. 2.4's record is the #102 test build.
The launch-test probe fits its full barcode inside a 240-line framebuffer. Its old fixed-height grid ran past that buffer and could make a successful launch appear frozen in a long test.
Every walk of a disc's file table in gcm.c goes through two checks, fst_entries and fst_name; the fst fuzzer runs them with get_fst_details, adjust_tgc_fst and calc_fst_entries_size. The game route launches the disc with a runaway file table on its way to the probe: it fails like any launch there and comes back to the Library.
test_card_slots.py runs the real card_slots.c against stubbed MMCE, CARD and EXI calls with a fake clock and presence line, and test_ui_card_slots scripts the slot's states; test_save_choice.py holds the save choice to a card that changes, during its question too. The Game Detail audit pins the wiring, with mutants.
test_save_choice.py runs Game Detail's save choice from swiss.c itself: no choice without a card, with Emulate Memory Card on or on a memory card emulator, each copy then the totals, and B keeping the card's copy. test_saves_stats.py holds the card's own copy first however many the Save Folder has, two cards' copies in slot order, and the folder's newest, newest first; test_saves_card_io.py swaps the card before the replace. The audits pin that the File Browser lets its loading wheel go only once the banner thread has stopped, closes the left pane's files before an operation, offers no Rename on a memory card, keeps manage_file_ex's destination in one static handle, forgets its page wherever the page goes, and deletes a failed copy's file unless nothing was written, asks about any file there its existence check finds, sees a B from the last piece, and that a card's own copy is deleted only once it reads back as the one kept, each with mutants. test_saves_card_io.py changes the card during a failed write and during the read-back: the save there of the same name stays. A memory card save's name can hold a slash: only a .dol one folder below the open one is a program folder.
The emulator test finds the File Browser by its two pane boxes, storage buttons and info bar in either screen shape, and checks which pane has the focus; the frame budget counts its shapes (files, files-right, files-wide), and audit_files_contract.py holds it to Swiss's list contract, with mutants.
A new emulator route, files, boots from a GC Loader with a second SD card in SD2SP2 and copies, keeps both, moves, renames, deletes and stops a copy between them, checking every result on the card images. The frame budget adds files-actions, files-copy and files-message; manage_file_ex runs Swiss's file operations with the choice and the destination folder given, and the contract audit pins Swiss's own box, picker and folder chooser under it, the partial-file deletion at each of its four places, the Delete chord and the question texts, with mutants. test_ui_files checks the Actions box's choices against Swiss's own permissions for every device and file.
test_files_detail.py builds the one-game window a File Browser game's details open from, out of swiss.c itself, and holds it to the Library's own checks, with mutants; the contract audit pins how the details come in and go back, and that a MemCard PRO is sent the game's ID before they show. The files route ends by opening a game's details from the File Browser, coming back to the same row, and launching it to the probe; the first details it opens must show the game's poster from their first frame. Its sanitized build links without PIE, as the Makefile's do: on a host with vm.mmap_rnd_bits=32 about one PIE ASan run in four faulted before main and printed AddressSanitizer:DEADLYSIGNAL without end. It and test_ui_png.py now stop a binary after 120 s or 16 MiB of output and fail with its first lines; the source checks fail if any ASan build in buildtools lacks -no-pie.
The contract and dispatch audits fail if any of Swiss's list renderers, their row drawing or their pictures come back, or if the Library keeps a branch for a list of its own, with mutants; the Library's input audits follow its layout alone.
The emulator test holds each button for its full time from Dolphin's next clock report, so a press can no longer end within a frame of starting and never reach the console.
That press now lasts 0.1 to about 0.2 s of the console's time instead of up to 0.3 s: a held direction repeats after 0.32 s, so a press let go a few hundredths of a second late on a busy machine moved Settings two rows and the route changed the wrong setting. The route's walks to a Settings row read the focus back after every press, take a double step back with UP and press a missed one again.
The dispatch audit finds every loop that reads held buttons around a device read or write and fails unless it also takes the presses the retrace scans latched, with mutants for each loop.

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 an app's or folder's poster fades in over a fifth of a second as it arrives, over the card that stood in for it, rather than replacing it in one frame. One read while it was off screen shows at once when you scroll to it, as before.
The highlight in Game Details slides from row to row, and so do the current tab's cell in Settings and its underline in Memory Cards, as the focus in the cheat list already did, instead of jumping.
A moving cover in the Library slides one way to rest, its edges never stepping back as it settles, and Settings' focus card no longer nudges an edge back the other way as it moves to a row of another width.
In Spotlight, moving from one game with a gameplay still to another, the new still fades in over the old one, instead of both fading through a darker panel half way.
The Home controller lets go of its idle play over a moment when you touch the pad, instead of its sticks jumping to your hand in one frame.

Fixes

Rewinding an MP3 near its start goes back to the start instead of skipping the track, and Forward near the end of a large track no longer wraps to the start. Its progress marker stays inside the bar, including an empty file or a device reading beyond the end of the track.
Memory Cards' small cubes have smooth outlines as they float and turn, including the highlighted cube, free cells and folders. Their game icons and banners keep the game's own artwork.
Memory Cards reads and erases the selected save when different games or makers use the same save name. Copy checks and failed-copy cleanup keep that identity too, so an existing save is left intact. A save header with a wildcard game or maker code is rejected before it can write to a card.
Memory Cards moved a card's save that its game marks as not to be moved: libogc2's listing of a card leaves a save's permissions out, so the check never saw them. It reads them from the card's directory now, Move is dimmed for such a save, and a copy of one on the SD card keeps them.
Since 2.3.0-rc.1: a loader that starts Indigo with settings as arguments no longer turns Library Folders off and loses the FlattenDir it keeps, and a Clock argument no longer moves the temperature dial. Turning Library Folders on over a FlattenDir that was empty or already its own pattern now comes back to */games when it goes off.
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

CI also opens a synthetic RAW memory card on SD with both physical slots empty, browses its saves and exports one as a GCI. The exported identity and block-chain payload must match, and the RAW image must stay unchanged.
The emulator test's smoke route walks Memory Cards with a memory card in each slot, GCI folders of made-up saves with every kind of icon (buildtools/ui/qa/make_test_saves.py): it moves across the cubes and between the stacks, scrolls, swaps a stack with L and R, copies a save to Slot B and checks Slot B's folder gained it with the same blocks, then erases it and checks Slot A's folder lost it.
Memory Cards' save art (banners, every icon frame and comments) is read by pure, fuzzed code in ui_saves.c, and its cubes are laid out, moved and projected on the CPU by ui_save_cubes.c and drawn in the 2D pipeline. Both have host tests, and the cube screen's GX stream, its safety audit and its frame budget scenes are pinned.
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 all survive Indigo's own saves. CI's GC Loader smoke job starts with every setting of Indigo's own away from its default, but Menu Widescreen.
The emulator test launches a game and an app all the way. A small program, the probe (buildtools/ui/emulator/probe/), sits on the demonstration disc as a game and as an app. Launched, it reports what the hand-off left it, drawn as blocks the test reads back from the screen: the menu music stopped, nothing still writing to memory, a game's own disc ID and its 24 MB, an app's own path. Launches used to stop at the launch screen in Dolphin: its stand-ins for the DSP don't know libogc2's audio library, so the DSP now runs its own microcode, in step with the CPU, and its controller answered nothing to commands a real one ignores, which hung Swiss's GameID packet before every launch (see below).
CI runs the emulator test four times: every menu, and a game's launch from the Library, each from the demonstration disc in PAL and from an SD card in NTSC. Dolphin's own default region had been PAL.
The emulator test boots from an SD card, as Indigo is installed: the build's zip unpacked onto a FAT32 card image with the demonstration games beside it, served by an SD2SP2 adapter that CI's Dolphin gains from a patch (buildtools/ci/runner/dolphin/), so libogc2's SD driver, FatFs and Swiss's device code run as on a console. A new card starts in Settings, and the test checks what Indigo writes to the card: its settings, the recent list and its play history.
CI's Dolphin is built from source, a pinned March 2026 commit, in place of Ubuntu's 2512 package, with a fix of ours: a controller answers the serial commands a real one ignores (a steering wheel's probe, Swiss's GameID packet) with no response, where Dolphin's answer of nothing hung the transfer for good. That was why Swiss in Dolphin stalled starting up with a controller connected, and why a launch stalled.

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.

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.

v2.1.0 — Spotlight, Apps and one poster pack for every region

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. The code is 2.1.0-rc.1's, unchanged.

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

ipl.dol is compressed, as stock Swiss's own download is: 2.9 MB for a loader to read at power-on instead of 5.5 MB, and the console checks it as it unpacks. A copy the loader read only in part could stop Indigo on a black screen; now the console restarts and the loader reads it again. Unpacking adds a moment before the cube appears.
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 5.5 MiB with the text-encoding libraries r2119 links.
The zip's ipl.dol is cube/packer/swiss.dol: the DOL compressed by upstream's packer, which make dev already built for In-Game Reset's apploader.img. verify_dol.py --packed checks that it unpacks to exactly the DOL CI checks, in the one .xz format the console's decoder reads, and that the unpacker stays clear of what it unpacks and of its stack. The Emulator job boots it through buildtools/ui/emulator/dolphin_ipl.py, a copy past the unpacker's console-only check, and Reproducible build compares both files.
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.

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.

Indigo 2.0: the Home cube is clear glass all through, a game started from the Library opens on a launch screen with its cover instead of Swiss's progress boxes, Change Source shows the devices themselves, and the menus have new music. Everything below was tested together on a GameCube as 2.0.0-rc.1, and every picture in the README and the guide is recorded again on it.

New menu music: "Up in the Sky" by Memoraphile (CC0), given the console's sound: the GameCube's 32 kHz, a gentle top end and its own DSP-ADPCM compression. The track's quiet intro plays once, then an 85-second section loops without a seam.
The music streams: a decoder thread feeds the audio DSP a frame at a time, so the two-minute piece takes less memory than the old 16-second loop, which decoded 2 MB of sound up front. The DOL grows by 1.1 MB, the MP3.

New setting, Setup › Display › Menu Widescreen, for a TV set to 16:9. Indigo's own screens are drawn narrower so the TV's stretch gives them back their shape: the background and its waves fill the whole screen, and the cube, the text and the menus keep their size in the middle. The clock moves into the corner. It changes as soon as you switch it. Games still follow Force Widescreen.

Library

The Horizontal layout shows two covers either side of the selected game instead of one. The second on each side, until now a thin strip seen edge-on, is a smaller card turned away with its box art, or its disc banner when the poster pack has none, and covers fade in at the edges as you move.

Game details

Up and down on the D-pad or the control stick move between Launch Game, Cheats and Settings on a game's details, and A opens the one you're on. A bright frame shows where you are: it starts on Launch Game, passes over Cheats when the game has none, and is still there when you come back from Settings or Cheats. X, Y, Z, R, L + A and B work as before, wherever the frame is. The hint line reads D-pad Move, A Select, B Library, X Settings, Y Cheats.
Game details play the menu's sounds: moving the frame blips, and every action, the shortcuts too, plays the select sound. They made none before.

Launch screen

Starting a game from the Library no longer shows Swiss's progress boxes, with their file names, sizes and bar that starts over for every file. The details make way for the game's cover, centred in a ring that fills as Indigo checks, prepares and loads the game, and one line under the title says which step it's on. When the ring is full the screen fades to black and the game starts. A card that must stay in its slot is still named. It is the same with Boot without prompts. With UI Motion set to Off the ring fills in steps, without its glint, and the screen goes straight to black.
The video mode and the number of cheats applied are steps on the ring instead of notices that held the start for two seconds and one second.

Source picker

Change Source shows the devices themselves. The cube lifts out of the way and the devices Indigo found line up under it on glass tiles, each with its picture: the one in the middle larger and framed, its neighbours smaller and dimmer. The row slides from one device to the next and goes round. Under the middle one, the picker says what the device can do (Boot + Stream, Boot or Files, where 1.25.0 said Boot Ready and Files Ready), where it plugs in (Slot A, Serial Port 2, Disc Drive and so on), whether Indigo detected it, and whether it is the current source or holds your settings.
With no device detected that can do the job, the picker lists every one that could, as Z does. It used to search for one forever.
The control stick changes the device too, and holding it keeps going; the D-pad, L and R still work. The bottom line shows the buttons, the stick and D-pad that change the device among them, and the picker plays the menu's sounds.
Copy and Move choose where to put a file in the same picker.

Home cube

The cube's edges no longer look jagged on a large or upscaled TV. Where a face met one of its rounded edges the glass changed colour in one step, which the picture drew as a staircase; the colour now blends across. The cube's outline, its rim of light, the face icons and the waves behind fade over one whole pixel, with Menu Widescreen too, which had narrowed them to three quarters of one, and the rim keeps one brightness along its length.
The cube is clear glass all through: the solid cube inside it is gone. Its far edges show through, bent by the front, and a smoked panel under each face's icon keeps the icon easy to read. The glass mirrors soft lights around it, a gradient and a brighter window on the faces and thin glints along the rounded edges, drawn sharp to the pixel; they slide across the glass as the cube turns and drift a little while Home rests (not with UI Motion set to Reduced or Off).

Fixes

Indigo stays on screen when stock Swiss is kept on the card as z.dol, as the install guide says. At startup Indigo still ran Swiss's search for a newer Swiss in the root of the card (z.dol, a.dol, start.dol, boot.dol and similar names) and took any stock Swiss it found for one, so PicoBoot and PicoLoader started Indigo only for it to start stock Swiss straight away. Indigo no longer runs that search, which also made a copy of Indigo named boot.dol start itself over and over (#3).
Settings › Setup › Storage no longer offers A Edit on Save Folder while it is dimmed. Without a Configuration Device there are no folders to list, so A does nothing there. Dimmed network settings keep A Edit: A still opens their editor.
The Library no longer crashes on a damaged disc image. It reads each listed image's file table to find the game's banner, and a header-only dump, a truncated download or a corrupt table could send that read past the end of the table and crash the console. Indigo now checks every entry against the table's size; such an image shows without its banner.
Settings' middle tab reads Defaults. "Game Defaults" is wider in the console's font than on a computer and showed cut short, as "Game Def…"; the page it opens is still called Game Defaults.
Video settings no longer switch the picture at every step. On Swiss Video Mode, System Video, AVE Compatibility, Force DTV Status and RetroTINK-4K HDMI Input, Left and Right now only choose a value, so holding them steps through the values; A switches to the one shown and asks, as before, whether to keep it. Moving to another setting or leaving without A puts the old value back.
A game whose launch cannot read the console's BS2 says "Failed to read BS2!" and comes back to the Library, as Swiss means it to. It crashed instead: the failure freed a pointer the launch had never set.

Documentation

The guide's example of a dimmed setting is Save Folder with no Configuration Device. IPv4 Address, the old example, doesn't dim while DHCP is on.
The install instructions were checked against the code and against PicoBoot's, PicoLoader's, FlippyDrive's and Swiss's own documentation:
- PicoLoader sits beside PicoBoot. A chip with Swiss in its flash names the firmware to flash instead (picoboot_full_pico.uf2, picoloader_gekkoboot.uf2); FlippyDrive boots boot.dol.
- SD2SP2 and SD Gecko are named as what reads the card, not as ways to start Swiss, and a Wii needs GameCube ports and an SD Gecko.
- A stray file or folder inside a game's folder also brings back Swiss's file list, and Hide unknown file types hides text files and pictures but not folders, programs or music.
- Home faces Library when Indigo has a device to read from, whether or not it found games.
- Stock Swiss drops Indigo's own settings, such as Menu Color, when it saves.
- The build commands name the image CI uses, pinned by digest; there is no make dist.
- Troubleshooting covers stock Swiss taking over at startup in 1.25.0 and earlier.
- The README's release badge links the latest release rather than the list of tags.
Every picture in the guide and the README is recorded again: the clear glass cube, the Defaults tab, two covers either side in the Library, the frame on a game's details and the new source picker. Game details has a picture of the launch screen, and the button icons keep their colors in the animations, where the green A had turned teal.
The install steps start by renaming the card's ipl.dol, before anything is copied, and say how to update from Indigo 1.x. They warn that on a Mac, Finder's Replace deletes what is in the card's games and swiss folders: hold Option and choose Merge. The README, the guide, the release notes and the zip's Indigo-README.txt say the same.
The README describes 2.0's screens.
The guide's Game details page no longer says Indigo can't read memory cards.
SECURITY.md, SUPPORT.md and CONTRIBUTING.md name release candidates, and CONTRIBUTING.md the route for a fix to a release.
The issue forms are brought up to date for 2.0.

For developers

Indigo is developed on GitHub. Changes land on the beta branch by pull request, betas ship as vX.Y.Z-beta.N pre-releases, and a release candidate that holds up is promoted to main as a release. docs/RELEASING.md has the procedure and AGENTS.md the working detail.
GitHub Actions builds the DOL and the SD card zip for every push and pull request, runs the three host-test lanes and the source checks (whitespace and the UI isolation guardrail), and keeps the zip as an artifact to try on a console. A pushed tag publishes its release from the tagged commit, with SHA256SUMS.txt and a build provenance attestation.
The issue forms are the two Indigo ones; upstream's duplicates are gone.
make clean in buildtools/ui/tests/ removes every test it builds. It used to leave the cube-motif tests behind and listed others twice; it now removes the Makefile's own target lists, so a new test is cleaned too.
CI and releases run on the maintainer's own machines: every job gets a fresh container that takes that one job and is thrown away, runs without privileges, and can reach GitHub and nothing else (buildtools/ci/runner/).
CI checks more: the DOL's structure, size and the commit it names; the zip's exact layout; a second build that must match the first byte for byte; the host tests under Clang's sanitizers as well as GCC's; and a policy check on the workflows themselves. One "CI passed" check sums up every job.
CI boots every build in Dolphin and walks its menus with a controller: the cube turns through its four faces, each face opens and closes, and the Library moves between games and opens one's details, where UP and A open the game's settings, on a demonstration disc of fictitious games. Dolphin emulates the MMU, so a crash stops the test as it would stop a console. Every step's picture is kept with the run (buildtools/ui/emulator/).
CI fuzzes the files Indigo reads from a card: poster packs, the play history, saves, settings files and disc images' file tables, each with AddressSanitizer and UBSan, starting from real files of each kind. The settings and file-table fuzzers run Swiss's own code as the console does: with its strtok_r, and with its unsigned char. The emulator test's disc also carries two damaged images the Library must list without crashing. Weekly on main, every check runs again and the fuzzers run for ten minutes each.
The emulator test also opens Change Source: the device picker shows a device's name, RIGHT shows another, and B leaves it.
Release candidates: a vX.Y.Z-rc.N tag on beta publishes a pre-release like a beta, its notes opening with "Release candidate" (docs/RELEASING.md).
Release notes link the repository's files by full URL at the release's tag, so the links also work where GitHub doesn't rewrite them: through the API and gh.
The test fixtures use neutral machine names and generic addresses.

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

The first formal release of Indigo: everything below, tested together, with the guide and every picture recorded again on this build.

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.

v1.24.0 — four icons for every face, sharp on the glass

Each face of the Home cube has four icons of its own, and no face offers another face's. Library has Controller, Books, Covers and Play; Source has Hub, Disc, SD Card and Folder; Settings has Sliders, Gear, Toggles and Dial; System has Clock, Info, Power and Chip. Covers, Play, SD Card, Folder, Toggles, Dial, Info, Power and Chip are new, and None is gone.
A settings file that names an icon from another face's list, or None, leaves that face on its first icon.
The face icons are drawn after the glass's glow instead of under it, so their lines stay sharp and easy to read.
The sun no longer glints in the corner of the glass, and no band of light passes over it while Home rests. The rest of the glass (the bent view through it, the prism edges, the glow, the rim and the halo) is unchanged.
The dot that circled the temperature dial at the top right is gone; the time and the temperature stay.

v1.23.2 — a quieter sun on the glass

The sun that a corner of the Home cube catches is now a small glint with short rays instead of a large starburst. Its core is smaller and softer, the streak and rays are shorter and fainter, and the reflections across the screen are fainter. The README and guide pictures of Home, Source and System are recorded again with it.

v1.23.1 — pictures of every new screen

The README's Library animation shows all three layouts, and two new animations follow its Settings paragraph: a tour of Settings in its new look, and Y opening a game's settings from the Library. Home, Game Detail and Menu Color are recorded again on this release.
The guide's Library page has an animation of the Library Layout setting and of the Vertical and Grid layouts, and one of Y and a game's settings. Every picture of Settings, Game Detail, the cheat browser, the Library, the Source and System screens and the troubleshooting box is new, so each shows the current look.
The guide's Game Detail, Settings and Controls pages describe the Settings line on Game Detail, Y in the Library and each layout's buttons.

v1.23.0 — Library layouts, and a game's settings from the Library

Library Layout, the first setting in Setup › Library, lays the Library out three ways. Horizontal is the row of covers you know. Vertical is a column down the left of the screen, turning like a wheel, with the selected game's title, publisher and details beside its cover. Grid shows rows of five covers, three rows at a time, with a lit frame that slides to the selected cover and its title and publisher above the controls.
Every layout wraps round from the last game to the first. In the grid, Left and Right run on from one row to the next, Up and Down move a row and keep to the column, and L and R move three rows at a time.
Y on a game in the Library opens that game's own settings, in every layout. Leaving them shows the game's details, and B returns to the Library with the same game selected. Y never starts a game, even with Boot without prompts on.
The sliders mark that shows a game has settings of its own now appears on every cover that shows its art.

v1.22.1 — glass that catches the light without burning white

When a face of the Home cube turns through the light as the cube turns or tips, it now brightens to a pale lilac with its icon still showing. Before, the glow added on top of the reflection turned the whole face white for a few frames. The cube at rest looks the same as before.

v1.22.0 — Settings in the cheat browser's look

Every Settings page (Quick, Game Defaults, Setup and its six sections, and a game's own settings) is drawn like the cheat browser: one full page, the tabs as a segmented control between L and R, the settings as cards, and the highlighted one lit with an accent bar that slides as you move.
Settings that are on or off show an ON or OFF switch; settings with more choices show their value in a pill, with arrows while highlighted. Text settings read like a field, and "Not set" when empty. Menu Color shows a swatch of the color.
A line above the buttons says what the highlighted setting does, or what its current value does. The buttons that work are shown as icons, with Save & Exit and Discard & Exit beside them.
The list of choices, the help and every message and progress box are cards in the same style; a warning's accent is amber and a failure's red.
A game's own settings count their Custom rows at the top right ("2 custom"), and Game Detail gains a SETTINGS line: how many are the game's own and the first of them, or "Game Defaults" with X to change them.
The page stays on screen for the whole of Settings instead of being rebuilt after every press, so it never flickers.

v1.21.0 — glass that bends light

The Home cube is glass that refracts: through the front you see the cube's far edges, its inner cube and the backdrop, bent and slightly magnified, and the rounded edges part the light into red, green and blue like a prism.
Highlights, glints and the face icons glow. A fine rim lights the edges that face the light, a halo sits behind the cube, and the glass focuses a patch of light on the floor under it.
A corner that catches the light flares like the sun: a bright point, six rays, a long streak and faint reflections strung across the screen.
While Home rests, a band of light passes over the glass every seven seconds. It needs UI Motion set to Full.
All of it follows Menu Color. The sun's white core and the prism's fringes keep their own colors.

v1.20.0 — see which games have their own settings

In the Library, a small sliders mark in the corner of a cover means the game has settings of its own: at least one that differs from Game Defaults, the same count Game Detail shows as "X SETTINGS (2 CUSTOM)". A game reset to its defaults loses the mark. It follows Menu Color.
Indigo reads the games' settings files once when the Library first opens, and again after you save settings.
Game Defaults no longer shows Force Vertical Offset. That default never reached a game (each game starts at -3 with GCVideo or GCDigital and +0 otherwise), so the row did nothing. Set it in a game's own settings; the key in global.ini is still read.

v1.19.1 — the Indigo guide

New: the Indigo guide, thirteen pages with pictures from the real interface. It covers installing, the controls, Home, the Library, game details, cheats, Settings and a game's own settings, Menu Color and the cube icons, sources, System, posters and troubleshooting, and ends with every setting explained.
The README links to it, and its Home animation and System picture are re-recorded with v1.19.0's cube, whose icons now share one shade.

v1.19.0 — cube face icons

Settings › Setup › Console has a row for each face of the Home cube: Library Icon, Source Icon, Settings Icon and System Icon. Each picks the picture on its face: Controller, Books, Hub, Disc, Sliders, Gear, Clock or None. Any face can show any of them, and a face keeps its name and what A does there.
Disc and Gear are new, and Books is the bookshelf the Library face had in v1.4.0. Controller mirrors your controller and Clock tells the time on whichever face you put them.
Every icon now glows in the same lilac, the Library controller's, on every face, and the glass behind each face has the same tint. The defaults are still the controller, hub, sliders and clock.
The settings file keys are Library Icon, Source Icon, Settings Icon and System Icon.

v1.18.0 — button icons in prompts

Message boxes show their buttons as icons too. "Press A to continue." becomes the A button and CONTINUE, and deleting a file shows L + A to continue or B to cancel.
Settings' two questions end on their buttons: "Reset everything on this screen?" shows A RESET or B KEEP, and "Keep this video mode?" shows A KEEP or B CHANGE BACK under its countdown.
The icons also reach these screens:
- the on-screen keyboard;
- the DOL parameters screen;
- the cheat browser when it has nothing to show;
- the older Swiss screens: the classic file browser's game box, the file manager, the folder and DOL pickers, and the MP3 player.

The README shows Menu Color: the Home cube in each of the eight colors, and the Menu Color list previewing each one before you choose.

v1.17.1 — direct download links

The README's Posters and Cheats sections link straight to the three downloads (posters for USA and Japan, posters for Europe and Australia, cheats for every region) instead of only to the page.

The list that A opens on Settings › Setup › Console › Menu Color now shows each color on screen as you move through it, the way Left and Right already do on the row. B puts your color back; A keeps the one you are on.

v1.16.1 — posters and cheats to download

Ready-made poster packs (USA and Japan, or Europe and Australia) and a cheat pack for every region are at https://indigo.norvitech.com. The README and the release zip's instructions point there; building your own posters.pak still works as before.

Settings › Setup › Console › Menu Color colors the whole interface: the cube, its light and the stage behind it, the panels, the highlight and the text. Choose Indigo (the default), Azure, Emerald, Gold, Spice, Crimson, Rose or Jet Black. Right steps round the color wheel and A lists them all. The new color shows at once, and Discard & Exit puts the old one back.
Every color keeps Indigo's brightness, so text reads as easily and the glass cube keeps its depth. Cover art, banners, the controller buttons in the hints, warnings and enabled cheats keep their own colors.
The settings file key is Menu Color.

v1.15.0 — button icons

Control hints show the controller's buttons instead of spelling them out, the way games do. You see a green A, a red B, grey X and Y, a purple Z, the L and R triggers, START, the control stick and the D-pad, each followed by what it does.
They cover every hint line: Home, the source picker, the Library, game detail, cheats, Settings and System information. On the game detail card they also mark the launch button, "Choose cheats" and the shortcuts. Hold L and press A shows as L + A.
A game's own settings now show all of "X DEFAULT B DONE". The title bar used to cut it off.
The README's pictures are re-recorded with the icons.

v1.14.1 — Home

The white frame on the cube is gone. The white line and the dark line inside it no longer outline the face you are on; the glass, its reflection and each face's emblem are unchanged.
The README's Home animation and System screenshot are re-recorded without it.

v1.14.0 — pick from a list

A on a setting with four or more choices lists them all. That covers the video modes, languages, polling rates, horizontal scale, camera stick options, RetroTINK-4K profiles and a few more. Move with the D-pad or stick, press A to pick, or B to keep what you had; the current choice is marked. Left and Right still step one choice at a time.
The list holds exactly what Right steps through, so video modes your cable can't show stay out of it, and the polling rates the list would otherwise name twice appear once.

v1.13.1 — the video prompt names the new mode

"Keep this video mode?" now says what you'd keep, for example "Keep Swiss Video Mode: PAL 576p?". The row behind the prompt still showed the old value until you answered.

v1.13.0 — steady stick in the last two old lists; the disc drive is "Game Disc"

The folder picker (copying or moving a file) and the "Select DOL" list now scroll with the stick like every other list: one row, a pause, then a steady repeat. Before, a full stick raced through a row every 24 ms or so.
The disc drive is called "Game Disc" instead of "DVD" wherever Indigo names a source: the source picker, Home's Source screen, the file list and System information. Settings about the drive itself keep their names.
System information says CPU calibration is adjusted in Setup / Console, where it moved in v1.9.0, instead of the old "Settings / System".

v1.12.1 — Home

The white frame on the cube now marks the face you are on. It stayed on the face Library starts on, so after a turn it sat edge-on beside the face you had chosen, or on the top or bottom after Up or Down. Now it fades across to each face as that face turns to the front.
The README's Home animation is re-recorded with it, and the System screenshot is current: it still showed the rings around the cube removed in v1.4.1.

v1.12.0 — settings read the positive way round

Settings stored as "Disable …" now read the way you'd say them: Controller Recalibration, Alpha Dithering and Hypervisor show On or Off, like Controller Rumble already did. The settings file keeps its key names, so Disable Hypervisor=Yes still works and shows as Hypervisor › Off.
Their help says what On and Off each do.

v1.11.0 — Storage says whether your settings file loaded

Settings › Setup › Storage now tells you, under its title, where your settings live and whether that file loaded: "Settings are saved in swiss/settings/global.ini.", "No swiss/settings/global.ini yet: using defaults." or "No device to save settings to."
Configuration Device's help names the file and says the choice changes only once Save & Exit has written the settings there.

v1.10.0 — help for every setting; saving keeps your files intact

Y now explains every setting in Settings. 34 rows had no help, including most of Network, Swiss Video Mode, Disable Video Patches, Force Widescreen, Field Rendering and Horizontal Scale.
Game Defaults' NTSC and PAL video modes have their own help instead of sharing a game's.
Saving settings no longer wipes a hand-edited global.ini or game file:
- comments, blank lines and keys Indigo doesn't know stay where they are;
- known keys get their new value in place;
- missing keys are added before the End marker.
Older key names are replaced by their current ones.
Reset to defaults in a game's settings no longer wipes the Comment and Status lines in its file.
Toggling autoload (Z) saves only the Autoload line. Before, it saved every setting in memory, including ones turned off for this session only, such as Boot without prompts when B was held at launch.
A new Configuration Device is written to the console's SRAM only after the settings are saved to it. If that save fails, the console keeps the old device instead of pointing at one without settings.
A settings file that can only be read in part now counts as unreadable, so it is never half-applied or saved over.
Fixed in v1.9.0's game settings: opening them with X no longer puts the game's Force Video Mode back to its default. The X press that opened the screen was also read as "X: use the default" on the first row.

v1.9.0 — Settings layout and a game's own settings

Settings is reorganised around when you change things:
- It opens on Quick: nine settings that fit on one screen. They are menu music and sounds, UI motion, rumble, In-Game Reset, the GameCube main menu, memory-card emulation, auto-loaded cheats, and boot without prompts.
- Game Defaults holds what every game starts with.
- Setup holds everything you set once, in six sections: Display, Console, Storage, Network, Library and Developer. A opens a section and B goes back.
- L and R move between the three.
A game's own settings (X on its detail screen) open on their own, titled with the game's name and without the global tabs, so changing them can't also change the defaults.
The Save & Exit and Discard & Exit buttons replace Back and Next.
The old Game tab's "Reset to defaults" is gone, because its settings are now spread across Quick and Setup. Game Defaults and a game's own settings keep their resets.
docs/SETTINGS.md now lists each key under the screen that shows it.
Values that differ from Game Defaults are marked Custom. Every other row follows Game Defaults, and so changes whenever the defaults do.
X puts the highlighted row back to its Game Defaults value.
The rows you're most likely to change come first, in the same order on Game Defaults: video mode, widescreen, language, polling rate and the controls. Compatibility, picture tuning and the RetroTINK-4K profile follow.
"Reset to defaults" asks before it resets a whole screen.
Game Detail says when a game has its own settings: the hint reads "X SETTINGS (2 CUSTOM)".

v1.8.0 — Settings controls

Holding the D-pad now repeats, the same way the control stick does: hold Down to run through a list.
A changes the highlighted value, the same as Right.
B leaves Settings. Anything you changed is saved, as with Save & Exit. Discard & Exit is still there to undo.
L and R wrap around the six tabs.
After you change Swiss Video Mode, System Video, AVE Compatibility, Force DTV Status or RetroTINK-4K HDMI Input, Settings asks whether to keep the new picture. Press A within 10 seconds to keep it; otherwise it changes back by itself, so a mode your TV can't show never sticks.
Fixed: if you opened Settings from a game and changed a game default, saving wrote that game's old values into its own settings file, so the game stopped following the defaults. It now keeps following them.

v1.7.0 — Home

The cube is glass, like the GameCube's own menu. A soft reflection lies across each face and slides over it as the cube turns and sways, and the bevelled edges catch the light as thin glints.
The light stays put while the cube turns, so every face looks the same when it comes to the front. Before, the lighting was painted on the cube and turned with it: Source arrived brighter than Library, and Up or Down carried the bright top to the front.
The README's Home animation tips the cube up and down as well as turning it left and right, as Up and Down on the D-pad or control stick do.

v1.6.0 — download

Each release now has an Indigo-vX.Y.Z.zip download. Its SD card folder holds ipl.dol and the games and swiss/ui folders, ready to copy to the root of the card.
The README's new "Set up your library" section says how /games has to look for the Library to appear, and how to add posters.
buildtools/ui/poster_pack.py is now published. --covers DIR builds posters.pak from a folder of cover images named by game ID, and a missing Docker image produces the exact docker pull command instead of Docker's error.

v1.5.2 — settings files

New: docs/SETTINGS.md lists every key Swiss reads from global.ini and from a game's own settings file, with its values, its default and where it appears in Settings, so a card can be set up on a computer before it goes in the console. Example files are in docs/examples/.
The README no longer says Settings was rebuilt: it keeps Swiss's six tabs, restyled.

v1.5.1 — README

Install now says where swiss.dol goes on the console: in place of the file your loader already boots, under that file's name, with PicoBoot spelled out. The build path cube/swiss/swiss.dol read as a path on the SD card.

v1.5.0 — Home

The Library face shows a GameCube controller instead of the bookshelf, and it follows the controller in your hand: the control stick and C-stick lean with yours, and A, B, X, Y, Start, the D-pad and the L and R triggers light while you hold them. Two seconds after you let go it starts playing by itself; with reduced motion on it only mirrors you.
The short marks on the four sides of the cube are gone, on Home, in Settings and on the restart prompt.
The README's Home animation is re-recorded with the controller.

v1.4.2 — README

The README's licence section notes that Indigo's interface was built with Claude Code.

v1.4.1 — Home

The orbit rings around the cube are gone, on Home and on every other screen that shows the cube; it now sits on its own over the backdrop.
The README's Home animation is re-recorded without them.

v1.4.0 — Indigo

Swiss UI is now called Indigo, with a new home at spencercnorton/indigo. Earlier releases stay in the archived spencercnorton/swiss-ui repository. The executable is still swiss.dol and settings stay where they were, so an existing card needs no changes.
Home names only the face you are on, under the cube. The source name above the cube and the neighbouring faces' names beside it are gone; they did not turn with the cube.
The Library face shows books on a shelf instead of three bars that read as a chart.
The README's Home animation is re-recorded with the new labels and emblem.
System Information and the restart prompt use the new name, and the About page's source link points at this repository.

v1.3.4 — cheats

Fixed: leaving the cheat browser crashed Swiss when the cheat file came from a read-only device such as a data disc. Saving the selection now skips a device that cannot write instead of calling a missing write handler.
The game detail picture is now an animation: the cheat browser opens, cheats are switched on and off, and the detail screen shows the new count.

v1.3.3 — screenshots

The library animation and game detail still show real GameCube games with their box art from a poster pack, instead of fictitious placeholder titles.

v1.3.2 — screenshots

The library animation and game detail still now show a poster pack in use: nine illustrated covers drawn for the fictitious demonstration titles, rendered by the real poster pipeline (focus scaling, depth, retained art), instead of the generated fallback cards.

v1.3.1 — screenshots

The Home animation is re-cut on the rotations: the loop now walks Library, Source, System and back to Library, instead of opening on four idle seconds and cutting off mid-turn.

v1.3.0 — screenshots

The README now shows the interface: an animated capture of the Home cube turning between its four faces, the game library, and the game detail screen.
Captured from a demonstration card built for the purpose — nine fictitious titles with generated cover art — so nothing in frame is anyone's real library or third-party artwork. The animations are APNG, which GitHub renders in a README like any image.

v1.2.0 — first public release

The first published release of the interface rebuild. Everything below is what this tag contains rather than a list of changes against an earlier public version; the upstream Swiss history it is built on is at emukidid/swiss-gc.

Home: an animated four-face cube, one face per destination, with device state carried through the rotation.
Library: a retained poster grid over the device's games, with a saved selection that survives a return to Home.
Game details: a per-title surface with artwork, region and format information, and the boot options for that title.
Cheats: a presentation pass over the cheat browser, with clearer per-cheat state and safer runtime handling.
Settings and System: rebuilt surfaces with consistent controller navigation shared across every screen.
Interface work only: device handlers, the patch engine and the loader are upstream Swiss.

From CHANGELOG.md in Indigo v2.8.0, rendered for the web. Spotted a mistake? Suggest an edit.

v2.8.0 — Disc source badge

New

Maintenance

Coverage

v2.7.0 — 540p60 menu mode, Ukrainian menus and clock zones

New

Improved

Fixed

v2.6.0 — Jewel Case memory savings and Swiss updates

New

Improved

Fixed

Validation coverage

v2.5.0 — Manuals, disc art and a connected cube

New

Improved

Fixes

Documentation

For developers

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

New

Removed

Improved

Fixes

Documentation

For developers

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

New

Changes

Fixes

For developers

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

New

Changes

v2.1.1 — ipl.dol uncompressed again

Fixes

For developers

v2.1.0 — Spotlight, Apps and one poster pack for every region

Swiss r2119

Library

One poster pack

Apps

Fixes

For developers

v2.0.1 — The download keeps your games folder

Fixes

For developers

v2.0.0 — A clear glass cube, a launch screen and new menu music

Menu music

Menu Widescreen

Library

Game details

Launch screen

Source picker

Home cube

Fixes

Documentation

For developers

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

Memory Cards

The cube flies in

In-Game Reset comes back to Indigo

A drag-and-drop download

Fixes

Documentation

For developers

v1.24.0 — four icons for every face, sharp on the glass

v1.23.2 — a quieter sun on the glass

v1.23.1 — pictures of every new screen

v1.23.0 — Library layouts, and a game's settings from the Library

v1.22.1 — glass that catches the light without burning white

v1.22.0 — Settings in the cheat browser's look

v1.21.0 — glass that bends light

v1.20.0 — see which games have their own settings

v1.19.1 — the Indigo guide

v1.19.0 — cube face icons

v1.18.0 — button icons in prompts

v1.17.2 — Menu Color in the README

v1.17.1 — direct download links