Nintendo GameCube SD2SP2 SD adaptor

I moved in the Summer, and my GameCube had been in storage. I dug it out when I visited my parents at Christmas and brought it home and set it up. I bought a HDMI solution for it and my SNES (that's for another post) but as I was searching on Ebay I became aware of something called the SD2SP2.

I already had an SD Media Launcher from Datel. This allows you to boot homebrew GameCube games from an SD card inserted in the adaptor in the memory card slot. This also allows you to boot backus from disk and from SD card. I've got a load of games on disk but for convenience and to save laser wear it's nice to have them all super-handy.

Problem with the SD media launcher is that Datel's boot disk only supports 2GB SD cards, so usually you boot the awesome homebrew tool Swiss from that, then you can swap out the SD card, or use another media reader in memory card slot 2. However, it's a bit more of a hassle and so this SD2SP2 looks good. I paid £11 delivered from Ebay in January 2020.

Here it is. It's very small. It fits a full-size SD card holder. 

It fits snuggly into the Serial Port 2 expansion, which up until now had been unused.

Plug your GameCube back in and boot from the Datel disk. The is region-locked so you need the correct one from your GameCube. Mine is a Japanese model with a switch for US, so I use that version.

I have a 251 memory card in slot one and the SD media launcher (with a 2GB SD card in slot 2). I have Swiss on this SD card, renamed to autoexec.dol so it automatically starts.

Voila! Swiss boots to this screen which shows the contents of the SD card now installed in serial port 2. As you can see, I have 'only' a 32GB card in here, and that's plenty for the games I want to have easy access to.

And that's it! What a great mod, and it doesn't alter the console physically. Top marks from me.