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Excellent. Glad my ranting was helpful. :p

Calling DCDisable() just instantly kills my Wii program, sometimes displaying a very distorted code dump for a second before blanking out.

And looks like so do DCFlushRange and DCInvalidateRange.

Surprise.

The audio example fails to build because of not finding lmm (another maxmod issue), and the biosdumper example fails because of missing -lfat (just like with libogc). Also, libgba was broken (/opt/devkitpro/libgba/lib was a file instead of a directory, just like with libogc) and had to be ...

Sigh.

/root/code/wii/devkitppc/buildscripts/.devkitARM/libfat-1.0.11/gba/../include/fat.h:56:25: fatal error: disc_io.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make[2]: *** [cache.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [release] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/code/wii/devkitppc/buildscripts ...

...so after violently hacking the makefile to patch around that so I could move on to the next hurdle in the way of even beginning my project that doesn't even involve DS or audio...

/opt/devkitpro/devkitARM/lib/gcc/arm-none-eabi/4.7.1/../../../../arm-none-eabi/bin/ld: cannot find -lmm7

*facepalm*

(hmm, no edit button on this forum?)

and then it stops again:
/root/code/wii/devkitppc/buildscripts/.devkitARM/default-arm7-0.5.24/source/main.c:32:21: fatal error: maxmod7.h: No such file or directory

Looks like in this case it's a simple typo:
default-arm7-src-0.5.24.tar.bz2 should be
default_arm7-src-0.5.24.tar.bz2

After manually downloading that (before noticing the name that I could have just fixed in the script) it spends about 16 hours(!) compiling before also telling me it needs libusb.

Is there any documentation or sample code on how to send a multiboot program to a Game Boy Advance from a Gamecube/Wii? I can only seem to find tattered, conflicting scraps of documentation of the protocol; some mention some type of encryption, talk of different transfer modes but no explanation how ...

Uhoh, more buildscript issues:

$ ./build-devkit.sh
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Patches and improvements are of ...

As I suspected the libogc I got from the tarball was faulty and I had to compile it from
source.
After that, I still can't compile the examples, as oggplayer.c fails claiming it
can't find tremor/ivorbiscodec.h, despite it being right there in /usr/include, so I really
have no idea how even to fix ...