Starfall, formerly HackInstaller, is an application developed by Crediar to patch the system menu to include new features.

Information:
These hacks only work with the System Menu 3.2E(v290) or 3.2U(v289). If you have any other version, it will just return to the loader.

This tool does not update any SHA1 hashes or signatures. Currently IOS isn’t checking those, but that could be fixed in a future update.

Just load it and carefully read the on screen stuff otherwise you won’t be able to install it.

All hacks are optional and can be installed or removed separately.

The Rescue Menu is a built-in menu by Nintendo, it doesn’t make your Wii unbrickable. If you install another System Menu, all hacks will be removed.

Your System Menu will only be patched, it won’t be deleted. This makes the patch progress very brick safe.

http://www.wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_apps/Starfall

txt-read is a simple app for viewing text files.

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From Google Code
A simple text file viewer for the Wii.

Features
Wiimote support
Front SD support
The display never breaks (by displaying too many lines than fit on one screen)
Uses the Wii’s basic text console
File selector

What is being worked on
Subfolders, and fix bugginess in file selector.
Partial displaying of long lines

Instructions
To load it, you can now use any method of loading homebrew.

The app will then ask you if you want to display line numbers. Press 1 for yes or 2 for no.

Then it lets you choose a file from the SD card. Currently, there is no subdirectory support, so text files must be in root.

Then you can use up and down to scroll, and home to exit.

Simple, eh?

http://www.wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_apps/txt-read

Music player for the Wii. It has a nice interface and is skinnable. It plays mp3, ogg and other formats but does not work with wma, aac or flac. It is a native Wii application (no Wii Linux) with the intent of being a multi-source media player on the Wii.

DragonMedia Player will pick up files anywhere on your SD card, and plays sequentially once a file has started. Simply install into the HBC by copying the dmp folder in the zip file to /apps/ and run the program. Do not rename the folder as DragonMedia Player expects things to be in the correct order to function. For the changelog, please look inside either the source or the binary zip file.

Changes:

Added sid playback support.
Added snd/sndh/sc68 playback support.
Added language file support.
Tweaked a few things to refine more.
Fixed memory leak in emulated support.
Location in filebrowser is preserved when browsing to subfolders.

http://www.wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_apps/DragonMedia_Player

txt-read is a simple app for viewing text files.

Changes:

Fixed bug where some lines will be missed off the end of files meeting specific requirements

Thanks to www.tehskeen.com for the news.

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_apps/txt-read

A port of id Software’s Quake to the Nintendo Wii, based upon the Gamecube port.

Changes:

– Shouldn’t freeze – ever.
– Pressing 1 (or Z in the gamecube controller) shows scores
– Power button now works (forgot about it :P)
– Model bounding box fixes (no more dissapearing models)
– HBC-ready
– Command line easy to manage – still needs a frontend for the end user, though.

Thanks to www.tehskeen.com for the news.

http://www.tehskeen.com/forums/showpost.php?p=37442&postcount=259

Wii Solitaire is a very simple solitaire game which makes use of the Wiimote. This game is still a work in progress.

Changes:

Major Game-play Changes
– Card-Based Selection
– Vertical Card Adjustment

Minor Changes
– Finished Core Menu
– GRRLIB 16:9 Support
– Properly Scaled Cards and New Table

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_apps/Wii_Solitaire

GeeXboX is an open-source media center software.

Changes:

– Simplified wiimote connection and reconnection
– Auto-repeat wiimote commands when buttons are held down
– Kernel patch update
– Update to MPlayer svn snapshot 20080806

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

http://gchack.free.fr/Wii/utils/geexbox/geexbox-wii-0.1alpha2.zip

This is the card game Uno, 2 to 4 people can play via the Internet (or local area network). You can also play against 3 computer controlled opponents.

http://gchack.free.fr/Wii/hombrews/UNO/UnoV8.rar

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Ocarina is a very simple Wii application for your homebrew channel. What it does? Start a game.. but there’s a twist of course.

Ocarina checks the GAME ID.. like RZDP01 for Zelda Twilight Princess (PAL). Then it checks the inserted SD card whether it can find a cheat code file for that game: in this case it would have to be name [sd]:codesrzdp01.gct .

To create GCT files.. a PC application is bundled in the package. This application is coming with 2 example files. rsbe.txt and rsbp.txt (Smash Brothers NTSC-U and PAL respectively). Using the File menu you can open, them and select the cheats you want.

Note that unlike an Action Replay you can modify codes with XXXXXXXX inside them.. it will always ask you to store modifications to its application memory I added this question so that people do not cry if a code is messed up – the actual cheat code file will not be modified until you save it in the app.

Once you’re done selecting codes: click on “Export to GCT”… and the rest should be pretty straight forward! Insert your SD card.

http://www.wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_apps/Ocarina_Cheat_code_engine

Crediar has managed to hack the Nintendo Wii’s System Menu in various ways to allow some cool stuff to be done!

This includes:

* No healthwarning (the blackscreen is the time it needs to load the channels)
* region free Wii games
* region free GC games
* region free channels
* start the build-in rescue menu when Y is pressed on the first GC controller
* rescue menu patch to boot everything not just diag-discs
* No mainmenu BGM

Check the Youtube video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZY2XSWc2F0

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

http://www.tehskeen.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=8288