I recently picked up a PAL Gamecube Doshin the Giant game and an older Action Replay version 1.06 and was bummed to discover that Action Replay would not work with my newer Gamecube that had the Digital AV removed. It is only the games with a 60Hz option that will play without the rolling screen. I thought this information may be of help to someone choosing the correct version of Freeloader for the type of GameCube they used.įrom what I can see, the Freeloader only allows the game to boot up in the console, but does nothing to allow 50Hz games to play properly. Version 1.06 gives an error message asking you to restart the console.

On the newer style GameCube that had the digital out removed, only the 1.06B version worked. It was not necessary to hold down the B button to bring up this option.

The game then asked if you preferred to play in 60Hz or 50Hz. Both versions booted Resident Evil to a color screen - with rolling text. On the older style GameCube with the digital out, both versions allowed the selection the game region by pressing the Z button on the controller. The version is printed on the inner ring of the disc's. I have two of the older version Freeloader disc's, version 1.06 and 1.06B. I have one PAL GameCube game - the Resident Evil remake. So what can I do? Am I doing something wrong? Did the old posts lead me astray? It'll be quite the bummer if I just spent around 30 bucks for nothing. I've tried multiple controllers, just in case the buttons weren't responding right, and I tried on both the GameCube and Wii (on the Wii, the TV displays nothing when the game loads, not even the rolling b/w picture). I've also read that you can change some PAL games from 50 to 60Hz by pressing B as the game loads up, but no matter when I press B, that never happens either. The directions speak of pressing Z after the Freeloader loads up to manually select a region, but no matter when I press Z (or any other button), the flag menu never appears. However, I'm following the directions exactly (and I'm not a Freeloader newbie either as I borrowed one years ago to play through a Japanese game), and no matter what I do, I get a rolling black and white picture. I just recently bought both PAL Doshin the Giant and a brand new Freeloader from because I had read multiple people saying on this board in old topics that they could play Doshin just fine.

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