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@9ary 9ary released this 14 Mar 14:15
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r9.1
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This is a minor bugfix release.

  • Fixed Qoob SX support, for real this time. (#45)
  • iplboot now waits for up to a second for a component cable to show up. If none is detected, the progressive scan setting will be disabled.

Note

Did you know? Qoob Pro is by far the fastest-booting modchip supported by iplboot. So fast in fact that it boots faster than gcvideo can initialize, so it would not see the component cable and use interlaced video.

This is because it ships its own BS1, which allows transferring only as much data as necessary from the modchip/bootrom. ViperGC and PicoBoot do not do this, so the full size of the original IPL is transferred, while Qoob SX does perform the override, but increases the size of the transfer to over 2MiB!

iplboot itself is just under 64KiB in size, which is much smaller than the ~1.5MiB of the original IPL. This means that it only needs about 20ms to be read out, as opposed to about half a second or more in the other cases. Noticeable if you're looking for it, long enough to run into hardware races, but overall no big deal, and still much faster than sitting through the boot animation.

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