Dolphin in Linux : Where do I place the GameCube BIOS (IPL)?

r2rX · 10-23-2011, 09:40 AM #1

Hey guys,

I've been running Dolphin in Linux, and i've managed to get everything (including LLE for GC and Wii) working except the GameCube BIOS...'cause I don't know where to place it.

With Dolphin, in Windows, you have the Sys and User folder. The LLE files, and the GC IPL, go into the Sys folder. However, with the Linux version of Dolphin, there is no Sys folder (that i've noticed).

What we do have is the equivalent of the User folder which is in /home/xxx/.dolphin-emu. When placing the LLE files in the Wii and GC folder, LLE works...but the IPL does not work.

So if someone could let me know where it goes, i'd appreciate it a bucket-load.

r2rX Smile

**LPFaint99** · (This post was last modified: 10-23-2011, 09:53 AM by LPFaint99.)

one of these should be the appropriate path depending on the region of the ipl

/home/xxx/.dolphin-emu/GC/USA
/home/xxx/.dolphin-emu/GC/PAL
/home/xxx/.dolphin-emu/GC/JAP

EDIT:
on second thought that would be the user data dir...
i don't know offhand where the sys data dir is on linux

r2rX · 10-23-2011, 10:42 AM #3

I already tried that...but it didn't work. Smile

I don't know where the equivalent of the Sys folder is....

r2rX Smile

**neobrain** · 10-23-2011, 10:50 AM #4

Tried /usr/share/dolphin-emu/GC/USA?

willianholtz · 10-24-2011, 03:33 AM #5

correct is: /home/xxx/.dolphin-emu/GC

r2rX · (This post was last modified: 10-24-2011, 08:14 AM by r2rX.)

Hey guys,

So far, no luck.

I've placed the .IPL file in /home/xxx/.dolphin-emu/GC/USA and also placed the .IPL file in home/xxx/.dolphin-emu/GC; didn't work.

Documentation indicates that the Sys material should go into /usr/share/dolphin-emu/. So, I placed the .IPL file in /usr/share/dolphin-emu/GC/USA and it still doesn't work....even changing the dolphin-emu folder permissions (in /usr/share) from root to my account didn't work.

So I have no idea how to get this working.

r2rX Smile

***shuffle2*** · 10-24-2011, 08:32 AM #7

it needs to be the raw (ie undecrypted) version.

**LPFaint99** · 10-24-2011, 09:33 AM #8

the file is named "IPL.bin" right?

r2rX · 10-25-2011, 08:41 AM #9

Yes, the file is called IPL.bin. It's the same one that i've used with Dolphin, in Windows, and it works just fine......so I don't understand what i'm doing wrong here.

r2rX Smile