How to make your own Nintendo GameCube (and Wii) SD adapter 4th of Januari 2007

*.: This is only the color I used you are of course free to use any color you like (I do suggest using different colours for every connection though).

**.: On my images you can see a long white wire, a short white one and a long red one. This is because when I connected VSS (red) I noticed the salvaged memory card I was using was no longer grounded as I had removed too much of the PCB. To fix this I placed a white wire to the small metal plate (also ground) and connected that to VSS on my SD socket. To ground VSS2 on my SD socket (I believe it HAS TO BE grounded) I placed the small white wire from VSS to VSS2.

***.: Both sense pins have to be connected or else your adapter will not get detected (this has not yet been done in the pictures of my adapter)!

*Addition - updated*

I've recently found a SnesGX build that works for me (with all my SD cards) and which can be used to test your SD adapter. You can download it here. After some tests I also found that pretty much all new homebrew that uses the SDadapter works for me, but only with one of my SD cards. Apparently it really matters what SD card you use, but I'm unsure why one works and the others don't.



Also, I've received a nice set of pictures of a completed SD adapter from shtonkalot. You can download the images here. Thanks for sending the images mate, this makes it a lot easier for people to make their own adapter!



And here I have a second set of pictures from someone who made his own adapter. In this case the SD socket wasn't even removed from the cardreader it was taken from! To allow for easier handeling a network plug was used to make the socket removable. See for yourself here. Thanks Derek!