Michniewski and Tantric updated their SNES9x port to Wii and Gamecube once again.

Changes:

– Faster SD/USB – new read-ahead cache
– Removed trigger of back to menu for Classic Controller right joystick
– Fixed a bug with reading files < 2048 bytes - Fixed some memory leaks, buffer overflows, etc - Code cleanup, other general bugfixes

Discussion: http://www.tehskeen.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10406

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Snes9x_GX

SpiderDave is working on Splatter Castle, it’s a Castlevania style platform game for Nintendo Wii.

Quote:

Splatter castle is a platform game for Wii. Development is still early. Use at your own risk.

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/User:SpiderDave/Splatter_Castle

Fuse is the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator by Philip Kendall, an emulator for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, a home computer that was very popular in the 80s.

Changes:

– Buttons 1, 2, A, B, Plus and Minus are now user defined. By default they are mapped to joystick fire. To define them go to menu Options/Joysticks/Joystick 1…/Button Mapping
– Added ability to save settings: To manually save settings go to menu Options/Save. You can also set auto-saving settings to on in menu Options/General. Settings are automatically loaded on startup. They are located in sd:/apps/fuse/.fuserc. This is an unofficial patch.

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Fuse

Wiilander is a clone of the popular classic 70s Lunar Lander game. With a big different, you don’t use buttons – instead just hold the Wiimote horizontally and rotate it to control the angle of the ship, and twist it to control the throttle of your rocket. Discover the secret word, landing on all the bases!

Changes:

– Cinematic improved dramatically.
– Now game is easier.
– Stall altitude refered to the “sea level”.
– When ship stall, Wiimote start to vibrate.
– Increase the thick of the mountains.
– New colours, on the ship (and on the fire??)
– Ship now take off.
– Game over only when you run out of fuel AND ship crash.

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Wiilander

SpaceBubble by wplaat is a classic board puzzle game based on bubble breaker. Select multiple bubbles with the same color and destroy them, the more you hit in one the higher score you will get.

Changes:

– Show score of selected bubbles on screen.
– The 40 highest global scores are showed.
– Reposition some buttons.
– Improve bonus schema (level 4 , 5 and 6)
– Added level cleared information screen.
– High score is send to web service if score is better then the 40st global high score position.
– Increase HTTP receive buffer size to 8196 bytes.
– Build game with libogc 1.7.1 and devkitPPC r16 compiler.

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/SpaceBubble

WiiEarth is a Google maps like app that enables you to browse the earth like in Google maps.

Changes:

– Removed Google images (captcha problem)
– Added OpenStreetMap images
– Way faster downloading of tiles
– disappearing cursor problem fixed (since latest libogc was used)
– Cool new icon (thanks Wilsoff)
– Other cool stuff

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/WiiEarth

SpaceBubble by wplaat is a classic board puzzle game based on bubble breaker. Select multiple bubbles with the same color and destroy them, the more you hit in one the higher score you will get.

Changes:

– HotFix: Prevent random crashes if wifi connection doesn’t response.
– HotFix: Prevent wrong calculation of possible moves.
– Only scores above 10.000 are added to the global highscore.
– Added winner text if player clears all six levels.
– Added 2.000 bonus points if you clear all levels.
– Added clock color change for the last 10 seconds.
– Added clock sound effects.
– Adapted button size on most screens.
– Build game with libogc 1.7.1 and devkitPPC r16 compiler.

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/SpaceBubble

hbcxmlgen is a Bash script for creating the Homebrew Channel’s meta.xml files.

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Hbcxmlgen

The Homebrew Browser allows you to download the latest homebrew applications and games all through your Wii. You don’t need to take your SD card out. You don’t even need a computer! You can also delete homebrew you no longer want.

No more dead links, no more extracting files, no more finding out that the homebrew application doesn’t include an icon.png and meta.xml in the zip file!

Changes:

Keep retrying networking initialisation
Now shows the progress when extracting the zip files (thanks Tantric)
Detects the ftpii directory when using a password like ftpii_mypass
Keep meta.xml name when updating if it has been edited
Added more error checking when updating HBB, if updating fails it reverts back to the previous version
Media category becoming unavailable should now be fixed
Fixed controller screen to display accurate Dpad information

Thanks to http://www.dcemu.co.uk for the news.

http://www.codemii.com/2009/01/24/hbb-updated-to-v025b/

Nowell is a open-source 2D vertical scrolling shoot-em-up.

Changes:

fix a bug with bullet rotation

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Nowell