Controls · Indigo, Swiss for GameCube

Indigo uses the same buttons for the same jobs everywhere, and the bottom of every screen shows the buttons that work there, drawn as the controller's own buttons.

The short version

Button	Does
Control stick or D-pad	Move. On Home, turn the cube. Hold to keep moving through a list.
A	Open or choose.
B	Go back. In Settings, leave and keep your changes.
X, Y, Z	The extra actions each screen names in its hints. Y explains a setting.
L, R	Switch tabs or pages.
START	Shows your recent games on Home, when Recent List is on.

Screen by screen

Home

Button	Does
Left, Right	Turn the cube to the next face.
Up, Down	Tip the cube over to the next face.
A	Open the face you're on.
B	With Setup › Console › Cube at Classic, turn back to Library.
Y	Settings, wherever its face is. The hint shows Y Settings while Settings has no side.
START	Recently played games (Setup › Library › Recent List).

The Source and System faces open a short list: move with the D-pad, A opens, B goes back. See Home. With a Classic cube, a direction turns only from Library to a side and back: see Infinite or Classic.

Source picker

Button	Does
Left, Right, L, R	Slide the previous or next device into the middle. The stick works too: hold it to keep going.
A	Open the device, or try again if it wasn't detected.
Z	Show every device, or only the ones detected.
X	Change an SD adapter's speed.
Y	Details about the device.
B	Back.

See Source.

Library

Button	Does
D-pad or stick	Move through your games: see the layouts below.
A	Open the game's details.
Y	The game's own settings. Leaving them shows its details.
X	Up one folder.
B	Back to Home.

How the D-pad moves depends on Library Layout (Setup › Library):

To move	Horizontal, Spotlight, Jewel Case	Vertical	Grid
To the next or previous game	Left, Right	Up, Down	Left, Right
To the game above or below			Up, Down
A page at a time	Up, Down, L, R	Left, Right, L, R	L, R

In Jewel Case the C-stick turns the case in your hands, and Z stops the disc spinning or starts it again (there, Z doesn't open a file's actions as it does with Enable File Management on). See Library.

Apps

Button	Does
D-pad or stick	Move through your apps, as the Library moves: the table above.
A	Start the app.
B	Back to Home.

See Apps.

Game details

Button	Does
Up, Down	Move between Launch Game, Cheats and Settings.
Left, Right	Choose the copy of the game's save to start with, when the Saves box shows two or more.
A	Open the one you're on: launch the game, or its cheats or settings.
L + A	Clean boot: start the disc with no changes applied (disc drive only).
B	Back to the Library, or to the File Browser when it opened them.
X	This game's own settings.
Y	Cheats.
Z	Autoload: open this game every time Indigo starts. Press again to turn it off.
R	Check the disc image's data, for discs Indigo can verify.

The other buttons work wherever you are on the screen. Z appears when Indigo has a device to save settings to. See Game details.

Cheats

Button	Does
A	Switch the highlighted cheat on or off.
X	Show only the cheats that are on, or all of them.
Z	Advanced: cheat memory and the WiiRD debugger.
B	Done.

See Cheats.

Settings

Button	Does
Up, Down	Move between settings. Hold to scroll.
Left, Right	Step the highlighted setting to its previous or next value. A video setting waits for A.
A	Change the value. On a setting with four or more choices, list them all. On a video setting, switch to the value shown.
Y	Explain the highlighted setting. Y or B closes it.
L, R	Switch between the Quick, Defaults and Setup tabs.
X	In a game's own settings: put the setting back to Game Defaults.
B	Leave Settings, keeping your changes. In a Setup section, go back to the list of sections.

In a list of choices, move to one and press A, or B to keep what you had. See Settings.

System information

Button	Does
L, R	Previous or next page.
B	Back.

See System.

Memory Cards

Button	Does
Control stick or D-pad	Move from cube to cube. Left and Right cross from one stack to the other; Up and Down scroll a stack. Hold to keep moving.
L, R	Swap the left (L) or right (R) stack for Slot A, Slot B or the SD card.
A	On a save: open its details, then A Actions for Move, Copy or Erase. On a folder or card image: open it.
Y	On a small folder or card-image cube: its full path, contained saves and color.
B	Close a box or cancel. On the SD card's stack, in a folder it opened: up a folder. Otherwise: leave Memory Cards.
X	When choosing a folder: choose the one that's open.

See Memory Cards.

File Browser

Two panes of files, from System › File Browser, the File Browser face, and wherever Indigo lists files outside the Library. See File Browser.

Button	Does
Up, Down	Move a row. Hold to keep moving.
Left, Right	Move to the other pane.
C-stick	A page up or down.
A	Open a folder. In the left pane, a game's details, or start a file. A file that doesn't start: its actions.
X	Up a folder. At the top, choose that side's storage.
L, R	Choose the left or the right side's storage.
Y	Swap the two sides: the right pane becomes your source.
Z	A file or folder: its actions, to Copy or Move it to the other pane's folder, Rename, Hide or Delete it. `..`: Autoload this folder.
START	Recently played games.
B	Back to the face that opened it: System, or File Browser.

In the actions box, Up and Down move, A chooses, B closes, and each action's letter chooses it at once: X Copy, Y Move, R Rename, L Hide, Z Delete. Delete asks for L held with A. While a file copies, B stops it.

During a game

With In-Game Reset on (Settings › Quick):

Buttons	Does
A + Z + START	Leave the game.
R + Z + START	Restart the game.

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