gcfuse: Mount GameCube Filesystems

Download

• latest gcfuse hosted at github
• August 26, 2006: gcfuse-0.9.1.tar.bz2
• July 17, 2006: gcfuse-0.9.tar.bz2

What Is This?

gcfuse is a program that allows you to mount a Nintendo GameCube DVD
disk image as a read-only part of the Linux filesystem. This allows the
user to browse the directory structure and read the files within.
Further, gcfuse provides access to the main program .dol and also
creates a special file called .metadata in the root directory of
the mounted filesystem.

gcfuse accomplishes all this using Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE),
available at:

  http://fuse.sourceforge.net/

Note that there are likely to be bugs and perhaps even security
problems. It is currently meant as primarily an experimental research
tool for studying GameCube discs.


Requirements:
        - Linux 2.4.x or 2.6.x (as of 2.6.14 FUSE is part of the
          kernel, but you still need user libraries)
        - FUSE (http://fuse.sourceforge.net) 2.5.x or higher

Build:
        ./configure && make

Install:
        make install

Usage:
        gcfuse <image_file.gcm> <mount_point>

        To unmount previously mounted file, use:
        fusermount -u <mount_point>

Further Reading

• gcfuse
• gcfuse, With Executable Support

Changelog

0.9.1:
* copy whole title into .metadata (only 32 characters made it before)
* make main .DOL executable available to browse in the root directory

0.9:
* initial release

Written By

• Mike Melanson (mike at multimedia.cx)
• based on fusepak by Janusz Dziemidowicz