Standard IPL to load when no IPL.dol or any button press is detected

[JesusSanchezLopez]

Earlier releases of Gekkoboot would boot standard or "native" Gamecube IPL when no IPL.dol was detected. This is no longer the case, although documentation is still showing this behavior at Geckoboot documents

This configuration would boot into the original GameCube intro by default, or Swiss if you held Z, or GBI if you held B:

/z.dol - Swiss
/b.dol - GBI

The benefit of this behavior was that Gamecube functioned like a non-modded console, unless someone pressed a button. I realize that this behavior was changed as part of issue #16.

Could there be an enhancement made to Gekkoboot that would allow restoring "original" behavior? This could be in a settings file or a file indicating to load native Gamecube IPL. (If going settings route, it would be also great to turn off some or all boot time messages that display at startup on the screen).

For reference, this issue was initially logged under Picoboot issue #130

[9ary]

Yeah, I'm planning to reintroduce this as a configurable, non-default behavior in the future ("stealth mode" in #40). The reason this was changed is that it made picoboot installs unnecessarily difficult to troubleshoot (hard to tell whether the problem is a bad install or a bad/poorly-inserted SD adapter).

For now, I can only recommend using an older version if it really bothers you. Typical intended usage for gekkoboot is to flash it once and update infrequently (usually only if you really want new features or need a bug fix), instead of putting Swiss directly on the modchip and needing to reflash it every time you update.

[JesusSanchezLopez]

Thank you for confirming that this feature will be back! I haven't touched my setup in ~3 years, but while I had Gameboy player removed, I figured I should get Picoboot and Swiss up to date, especially since Picoboot update mentioned better SD card compatibility and overall reliability improvements.

As you suggested, I downgraded Picoboot to v0.2 to get back preferred behavior. I will patiently wait for r10 ;)

Thank you for your work and support to the Gamecube community!