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I see the File Browser instead of the Library

The File Browser's two panes of files, which the Library face opens when it has no games to show.

The File Browser, two panes of files, is part of Indigo: System › File Browser opens it on purpose. The Library face shows the poster Library when /games holds at least one disc image (.iso, .gcm, .tgc, .fdi), directly or in a game's folder, and it skips anything else there. It opens the File Browser instead when:

  • /games holds no disc images, for example only compressed .rvz or .gcz images, which must be decompressed with NKit or Dolphin first.
  • Your games are on another card or drive: choose it on the Source face.
  • Flatten directory in Settings › Setup › Library was changed from */games, and /games holds loose disc images beside game folders. Set it back to */games.

See Set up the games folder.

Home starts on Source, or Library says Select Source

Indigo didn't find a device to read games from when it started. Check that the SD card or drive is seated, then choose it on the Source face: see Change the source. In the source picker, Z also lists the devices that weren't detected, and A on one tries again.

Some games have no box art

A game shows its banner card when its game ID isn't in your poster pack. The card shows the ID, so you can check:

  • GameTDB has no cover for it, or it's a homebrew or translated disc with an ID of its own: build your own pack.
  • The card still has a pack from before Indigo 2.1, which covered one region: replace it with the poster pack, which covers every region.
  • Every game shows its banner: check that /swiss/ui/posters.pak is there and that Indigo is 2.1 or later. 2.0 and earlier refuse a pack this big.

A message says the file is a bad dump

A message over the Library: File is a bad dump, but may be playable. Please attempt recovery using NKit.

Swiss knows the exact size of each GameCube disc. "File is a bad dump, but may be playable" means your image is a different size, so something is probably missing or damaged. It shows for five seconds, then the game opens anyway. "File is a bad dump and is not playable" stops the game from opening. Try NKit's recovery, as the message suggests, or make a fresh copy of the disc. Verify (R on game details) checks an image's data.

The screen went dark after I changed a video mode

Wait ten seconds. When A switches Swiss Video Mode, System Video, AVE Compatibility, Force DTV Status or RetroTINK-4K HDMI Input to a new value, Indigo puts the old mode back by itself unless you press A again to keep it. See Video changes ask first.

If a game starts in a mode your TV can't show, open the game's details, press X, highlight Force Video Mode and press X to put it back to the default.

A game's picture is stretched, shifted or wrong

Look at the game's own settings (X on its details) for anything marked Custom: Force Widescreen, Force Horizontal Scale and Force Vertical Offset change the picture. X puts a setting back to Game Defaults. If every game looks wrong, check Game Defaults instead (Settings, the Defaults tab).

My settings don't stick

Open Settings › Setup › Storage and read the line under the title:

  • "No device to save settings to." Indigo found nowhere to save. Check your SD card, then set Configuration Device and leave with Save & Exit.
  • "No swiss/settings/global.ini yet: using defaults." There's no file yet, or it couldn't be read. Leaving Settings with B or Save & Exit writes one.
  • "Settings are saved in swiss/settings/global.ini." Saving works. If a setting you typed into the file on a computer is ignored, check its spelling against Settings files: keys and values are case-sensitive, and only Yes turns a setting on.

Leaving with Discard & Exit throws away the changes you made.

My cheats don't show up, or don't work

  • "No cheats found" on game details: the file must be /swiss/cheats/<game ID>.txt, named with the six-character ID exactly. The cheat pack has them for every region.
  • The cheats don't apply: cheats apply when you open the cheat browser before starting the game. To have them apply every time, turn on Auto-load cheats in Settings › Quick.
  • "Not enough room. Turn off another cheat first.": the active cheats have filled the reserved cheat space. Turn some off; press Z in the cheat browser to see how much is used.

Indigo starts, then stock Swiss appears

Indigo 1.25.0 and earlier start a stock Swiss they find in the root of the card as z.dol, a.dol, b.dol, x.dol, y.dol, start.dol, boot.dol or swiss_r….dol, in place of themselves, and In-Game Reset lands there too. Update Indigo: later releases don't look for them, so stock Swiss can stay on the card as z.dol.

In-Game Reset takes me to stock Swiss

In-Game Reset set to Apploader returns to whatever is in /swiss/patches/apploader.img. Copy that file from the zip of the Indigo you run: the one stock Swiss ships is stock Swiss. Reboot resets the console instead, which returns to Indigo only when your loader boots it (GC Loader boots boot.iso).

The same game opens every time Indigo starts

That game is set to Autoload. Press B to go to the Library, open the game again and press Z: the shortcut changes from "Autoload On" back to "Autoload".

There's no Apps face, or an app or its picture is missing

The Apps face shows only when /apps, at the root of the source, holds a program: a .dol, .dol+cli or .elf that isn't called boot.dol (the Wii's), and Settings › Setup › Console puts Apps on a side (Down Face, by default). Programs two folders deep, hidden ones and names starting with a dot are left out. A picture must be a PNG with the program's name, or its folder's icon.png, up to 2048 pixels a side and 2 MB, and not interlaced. Apps has the details.

Still stuck

  • Questions: Discussions.
  • Bugs: open an issue, with the version you downloaded, or the commit System › System Information › About Indigo shows, your loader and what you pressed.
  • Report problems with Indigo here, not to the Swiss project: Indigo is an unofficial fork.

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