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This is GNU/Linux on the Nintendo GameCube -- a port of the Linux operating system kernel and assorted GNU userspace utilities to the GameCube video game console from Nintendo.

As it is a computer with decent RAM and a good CPU, it makes sense to port Linux to this platform.

Linux can be used:

• to use a GameCube as a thin client
• to use a GameCube as a multimedia terminal
• to use a GameCube as a tiny PowerPC-based server
• as a runtime environment for homebrew development

The GameCube Linux Project is in constant development. You are welcome to contribute!

This Website is a Wiki

You can edit pages by clicking "edit" on top of the page, and you can add new articles. Please note that this site is about GameCube Linux only, so do not add information about modchips or pirating games. Also please test the system in the Sandbox, not on real pages.

News

12 Apr 2008: USB Keyboard support Another baby step has been taken to bring Linux on the Wii to a more useable form. This time we have added support for USB keyboards through the IOS keyboard interface available since IOS version 30. This has been possible again thanks to the keyboard (http://wiibrew.org/index.php?title=/dev/usb/kbd) article available at the wiibrew.org site. Version 0.4 (http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gc-linux/wii-linux-PoC-0.4.tar.gz) of the useless wii-linux PoC has been released to show this new feature.

4 Apr 2008: Front SD slot Thanks to the bits of information collected and made public by the wiibrew.org and libogc communities we have been able to write a block driver to use SD cards through the Nintendo Wii front SD card slot. The driver provides read /write support and performance is fine (2.1 MB/s reads on my normal SD cards) compared to the classic SD card adapter driver. As in the last posts, we have released a new version of the wii-linux Proof of Concept (http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gc-linux/wii-linux-PoC-0.3.tar.gz) to show our progress in the kernel side. Now the door is open for more promising stuff...

4 Mar 2008: powerpc arch We have added support for the powerpc arch branch in our Linux kernel patches, in addition to the ppc branch. The latter will be removed soon from the Linux kernel, so this was a move for the future. The changes are available through the cvs service (http://gc-linux.cvs.sourceforge.net/gc-linux/linux). If you want to quick-test them on a Nintendo Wii, we have released version 0.2 of the wii-linux Proof of Concept (http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gc-linux/wii-linux-PoC-0.2.tar.gz). This time classic pads and audio are enabled and you can use up to 52MB of MEM2 as a block device. On the EXI front, support for SD cards with blocks greater than 512 bytes has been fixed and it seems that the Nintendo Wii doesn't suffer from the EXI leaking read bug^H^H^Hfeature... Who wanted SD card EXI DMA reads? :)