Dolphin Depot Gives the GameCube Its Own Homebrew App Store on Real Hardware

The GameCube has its own homebrew app store. Dolphin Depot, from PicoBoot and ETH2GC creator webhdx, is now in open beta, and it lets you browse and download homebrew straight onto a real GameCube over the network.

Finding GameCube homebrew has always meant hunting round forums, Discords and old download pages, then shuffling files onto an SD card by hand. Dolphin Depot puts it all in one catalogue on the console itself, the way the Wii’s Homebrew Browser and the 3DS scene have done for years.

What’s new

According to the project’s own history page, the idea came out of webhdx’s ETH2GC network adapter: once getting a GameCube online was cheap, an app store was the obvious next step. Work started in February 2026, a closed beta ran through the community Discord in October, and the public beta opened on 2 November.

NoobFeed, which tried it out, says the catalogue is split into sections such as recommended, most liked, recently updated and staff picks. Early highlights include:

• Emulators for NES, SNES, N64, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, PlayStation and Sega systems.
• Tools like Swiss, the 240p Test Suite, FTP and HTTP servers, the CubeBoot menu and a memory card manager with exFAT support for backing up saves to SD.
• Games and ports, including ClassiCube with online play and a port of DOS shooter Raptor. Ports like Raptor need files from your own copy of the game, which Dolphin Depot does not supply.

It does not host retail GameCube games, and that is the point: this is for homebrew.

What you need

The installation guide lists three things:

1. A GameCube that can run homebrew, through a save exploit, a modchip such as PicoBoot or PicoLoader, or an optical drive emulator like GC Loader or FlippyDrive.
2. A network adapter: Nintendo’s Broadband Adapter or a modern one like ETH2GC. The Modem Adapter and the FlippyDrive Ethernet Adapter are not supported.
3. Storage: SD2SP2, SD Gecko or MMCE with an SD card.

You copy the client to the apps folder on your SD card and launch it from Swiss, CubeBoot or Cubiboot. The client and guide are on the official Dolphin Depot site, and developers can submit their own apps to the open registry on GitHub.

Our take

This is exactly what the GameCube scene needed. PicoBoot made modding a Cube cheap and easy, ETH2GC got it online, and now there is a proper shop window for everything people are building for it. It is a beta, so expect the odd bug, but for anyone with a modded Cube under the telly it is well worth a look. For more on the GameCube emulation side, see our piece on the latest Dolphin emulator update.

What would you download first: an emulator, Swiss or ClassiCube?