The rules are simple. You take turns with another player to drop red or black pieces into the board. Pieces fall in from the top and slide down to stack up on top of each other. The goal is to get 4 of your pieces touching in a straight line (diagonals also count) before your opponent does. This is similar to Tic-Tac-Toe.

This is a 2 player game. Unless you have a split personality, you will need to install a second player (not included) somewhere near your Wii.

Changes:

– fixed the file loading from SD. again. was broken since HBC 1.0.2
– added USB support (?)
– added gamecube controller support
– bunch of behind the scenes changes

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Iiii

A multi device file explorer for the Wii and a GUI made with LibWiiGui by Tantric with graphics by NeoRame.

Features:
– SMB/USB/SD recursive copy/move/delete of files/directories with all files in it
– Rename files
– Properties of files/directories
– Browse through SD/USB/SMB
– Addressbar with path
– Multilanguage support
– Boot .dol/.elf files
– Open TXT/XML/PNG/JPEG/GIF/MP3/OGG/ files

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/WiiXplorer

Attila has released a modification to Firmware Downgrader 1.1, now calling it Firmware Downgrader v1.2 mod. This tool can downgrade you’re system menu, although t is NOT recommended to do so anymore!

Changes:

– An audit of Boot2 whether the downgrade can damage the console.
– A reading of the wad files needed on the SD card to enable downgrade without internet.
– Added support the GameCube pad
– Remove 2.1J and 2.1U since they are not present on the servers Nintendo
– Improvement when trying to connect

Thanks to djdynamite123 / http://www.tehskeen.com for the news.

http://www.wii-info.fr/

Here comes another aricle by bushing, writing about the history of Wii hardware.

He focuses on:

Updates to the disc drive
Updates to the “big chips” (Hollywood, Broadway)
Updates to the main PCB

Follow the link below for the full article!

http://hackmii.com/2009/08/wii-hardware-a-history/

bushing over at HackMii.com wrote an article, why it was not possible to softmod some Wii’s in the past. The article is a bit long but for sure interesting. The article is linked below.

http://hackmii.com/2009/08/timing-is-everything-the-case-of-the-unsoftmoddable-wii/

Quadrax is logical game game where more than keen reactions you will need fast fingers and will have to use all your grey brain cells.

Quadrax was originally ZX-Spectrum game made around 1994 by Slovak company called Cauldron, which was later ported to PC (Windows).

This version of game is based on Quadrax IV: The Secrets of Pyramid PC-Windows version of game, which was simply ported from DirectX to SDL graphic system.

Changes:

Less memory usage
+ Screenshots-taking is now possible (Nunchuk C button) – Screenshots are saved in apps/quadrax/screenshots as .bmp files
+ Added level number in HUD
– Max. unlocked level is sometimes not saving correctly (send me an email if this occurs)
+ Camera movement added (Nunchuk joystick)

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Quadrax

Mplayer CE is a homebrew media player for the Nintendo Wii. It was initially created as a fork of the Team Twiizers MPlayer port, combining elements of MPlayerWii, GeeXboX and other great homebrew contributions. It is built with devkitPPC development tools and libogc libraries, fully homebrew driven and not associated with Nintendo in any way.

Some of the current features includes DVD, SDHC, SMB, USB 2.0 storage device support, multiple media, subtitle, playlist and streaming formats, customization possibilities, etc.

Changes:

– FTP support added (thanks to hax)
– NTFS support added for USB and SD (thanks to Shareese)
– SMB speed improved
– Hopefully finally eradicated the freezing bug
– Fixed noise bug when loading another stream

http://code.google.com/p/mplayer-ce/

Still Alive to is a puzzle game inspired by Portal: The Flash Version which is a 2D renewal of Portal, developed by Valve Corporation.

Portal consists primarily of a series of puzzles that must be solved by teleporting the character and other simple objects by using a Portal Gun. The unusual physics allowed by the portal gun are the emphasis of Portal.

Release notes:

Added:
– 2 player coop mode. Each player can shoot one portal and the 2nd player can join the game at any moment by pressing the home button
– You can download new maps directly onto the Wii (Thx Morukutsu)
– You can upload your created maps so that other people can play them.
– When watching a replay, pressing the (1) button allows you to take control of it
– Particles effect when exiting a portal

Corrected:
– Smoother infra red cursor. No more problems in the top left corner of the screen
– 60Hz users : The screen is no longer cut, you can see all of the game (Thx Morukutsu)
– Turrets : they stop aiming at you when they’re dead (red line)

Thanks to http://www.tehskeen.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=13528 for the news.

http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=158618

This powerful application allows you to design and create your own games for one of the most popular consoles around – the Nintendo Wii. All that you need is a PC running windows with the latest version of the .NET framework, a Nintendo Wii and an SD card.

Thanks to http://www.tehskeen.com for the news, via http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=238938

http://www.wiigamestudio.com/

Crazy Intro is an autoboot homebrew to use along with Preloader. You can use Crazy Intro to customize the opening of your Wii. You can display your selected picture and play the music of your choice at each start of your Wii. Also you can assign your frequently used channels to the directional buttons on the Wiimote. You can use B button to quickly access homebrew channel.

Changes:

Visual settings and button configurations separated. Now you can build & share themes. Each theme has their own folder under crazyintro folder in the sd card. You can select the theme used by editing the crazyintro.xml configuration file. You should use folder name of the theme. Now crazyintro.xml file only contains stuff like shortcuts & selected theme and so on.
All wiimote buttons are now configurable. You can even control what to launch with A and B buttons. Also +, -, 1, 2 buttons are configurable.
You can create complicated shortcuts. Say you don’t want your kids messing with the dangerous applications, you can create hidden shortcuts to those applications. They can be a hidden channel or a dol/elf on the sd card. For ex: pressing HOME followed by Left, A, Right, A would take you to any title deleter.
Autoboot function for mp3 playing themes. Boots your chosen shortcut, be it homebrew channel, system menu or any title on your wii… (of course when music stops)
Experimental dol/elf loading feature added, beware there are some compatibility issues in some applications at the moment.
Code is now open source : http://code.google.com/p/crazyintro/

Thanks to http://www.tehskeen.com for the news.

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Crazy_Intro