System

The System face tells you about your console, manages the saves on your memory cards, opens the File Browser and restarts Indigo. On Home, turn the cube to System and press A.

System Information

System Information is six pages about the console and the session. L and R move between them, and B goes back.

Connections and Input / Output are read when you open the page; open it again to see a change.

The CPU temperature has no factory calibration. If Overview's reading is off on a cold console, adjust Settings › Setup › Console › CPU Temperature Calibration until it reads about room temperature.

Memory Cards

Memory Cards shows the saves on the memory cards in Slot A and Slot B and in folders on your SD card as two stacks of cubes, each with its game's icon, the way the GameCube's own Memory Card screen does, and moves, copies and erases them from one stack to the other. See Memory Cards.

File Browser

File Browser opens at the top of your source, even when your games show in the Library, for the files the Library and Apps don't show: settings, cheats, saves, music and anything else on the card. It can have a side of the Home cube of its own too: Settings › Setup › Console › Up Face (or Left, Right or Down Face) › File Browser; see Choose the sides. The same screen shows wherever Indigo lists files outside the Library: from the Library face when there are no games to show, from Recent, and for an Autoload folder.

It shows two panes side by side, as Memory Cards shows two stacks. The left pane, marked SOURCE, is your source: games, programs and music start from it. The right pane shows another folder, on the same device or on another one. Above each pane are its device, the device's free space (or read-only; nothing when the device can't say, as on a network share), the open folder and where you are in it. Each row has a cube for what the entry is (folders violet, disc images silver, programs teal, firmware updates amber, music pink), the file's real name with its extension, and its size. A name too long for the row is cut in the middle, keeping its extension and a "(Disc 1)" before it; the info bar below shows the whole name, and for a game its banner and title.

• Left and Right move between the panes; each keeps its place. The pane you are in has a bright edge; the other one's edge is dimmer and its words are lighter.
• Up and Down move a row, and keep going while held. The C-stick goes a page up or down.
• A opens a folder or starts a file in the left pane, and X or .. goes up a folder. A on a game (a disc image), on storage that starts games, opens its Game details, as in the Library: its cover, saves, settings, cheats and Launch Game. B there comes back to the same row. In the right pane, A opens folders; games start from the left. A on a file that doesn't start (a text file, a save, a FlippyDrive update anywhere but on the FlippyDrive) opens its actions.
• L and R choose the storage on each side, as in Memory Cards: L the left pane's, R the right pane's. X or .. at the top of a pane does the same.
• Y swaps the two sides: the right pane's device and folder become your source, and your source moves to the right, the panes fading across as they change places (at once with UI Motion Off). Y again swaps them back.
• B goes back to the System face, or to the File Browser face when you opened it from there. The Library face opens the Library again as usual.
• START shows recently played games; choosing one leaves the File Browser.

Storage on each side

The storage menu lists every device Indigo found that it can read, then Other devices…. Up and Down move, A chooses and B closes it. The info bar says what choosing the focused device does.

• On the left, the device you choose becomes your source, as from Source › Change Source; Other devices… opens that picker, with every device and each one's settings.
• On the right, the pane opens the device at its top. Other devices… opens Swiss's list of devices that can be written to.
• Both sides can show the same device, each in its own folder. Two devices that share a connector can't be open together, such as a FlippyDrive and its flash, or two network shares: the one the other side holds is greyed, with why.
• A device that won't open says so in its pane, with the reason, and R chooses another. Y doesn't swap onto it.
• The first time, the right pane opens on your settings' device, or on your source when the settings live there too or when the File Browser was opened from the Library face, Recent or an Autoload folder without File Management. After that it keeps its device and folder until Indigo restarts.

Copy, move, rename, hide and delete

Z on a file or folder, in either pane, opens its Actions beside it: Copy, Move, Rename, Hide (or Unhide) and Delete. Up and Down move and A chooses, or press an action's letter: X Copy, Y Move, R Rename, L Hide, Z Delete. B closes the box. An action the file or the device doesn't allow stays in the list, greyed, and the info bar says why. Opened from System or its face, the File Browser always has its actions; opened any other way, they need File Management on (Settings › Setup › Library). File Browser leaves that setting as it is. A program folder, which starts its program when you press A on it, is acted on as the folder.

Copy and Move take the file to the folder open in the other pane. The info bar says whether it fits there, from the other device's free space (a network share's free space isn't known, so nothing is greyed for it).

• Copy asks first, and a row in the other pane shows where the copy will go. A card shows its progress and B stops it; a stopped copy is removed, so nothing half copied is left behind. A copy that fails part way is removed too. If the device won't let it go, the message says part of it is left.
• Move asks first, then copies the file and removes the original once the copy is whole. In another folder of the same device it just moves.
• If the file is already there, choose Keep both (the copy gets a number) or Replace it. When there is room only for one, Keep both is greyed. Replace it removes the old file first, so a replacing copy that is stopped or fails leaves neither; the message says so.
• Copy and Move don't go onto a memory card: use Memory Cards to copy saves. Copying a save off a card is fine. Moving one off a card is in Memory Cards too, which reads the copy back first and keeps the saves a game doesn't let move where they are; a card's saves can't be renamed.
• Rename shows the keyboard with the file's name: change it and press START.
• Hide asks first. A hidden file or folder shows again with Show hidden files on (Settings › Setup › Library).
• Delete asks for L held with A: A on its own deletes nothing. Deleting a folder deletes everything in it.

When it's done, both panes show what changed and a message says how it went: the copy focused (and flashing) where it went, a moved or deleted file's neighbour where it was, a renamed file under its new name.

Indigo also asks before the File Browser changes how your console starts:

• Z on .. sets Autoload: that folder opens every time Indigo starts, instead of Home. Z there again turns it off. On a game's details, Z does the same for the game.
• A on a .fzn file writes it to a WiiKey Fusion's flash, and on a .fpkg file updates a FlippyDrive's firmware.

What it can't do:

• Copy or move a folder: only files. Copying somewhere else than the other pane's folder: open that folder there first.
• Show /games folder by folder in the left pane. Swiss lists the disc images in /games's folders as one list there (Flatten directory, Settings › Setup › Library); the right pane shows the folders.
• Show what Hide unknown file types and Show hidden files hide.

Restart Indigo

Restart Indigo resets the console, which then starts the way it does after you press its Reset button. If your loader boots Indigo, as PicoBoot does with ipl.dol, you're back in Indigo with a fresh session; a loader that boots stock Swiss first starts that instead.

Indigo asks first, with Cancel selected, so an extra A can't restart it by mistake. Choose Restart with Left or Right, then press A.

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