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Cobain updated his homebrew game project Closed to v1.6.

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.

Changes:

– Able to view currently installed applications
– Fixed bug in downloading and removing applications which affected uno and may have affected other applications
– Retries increased to 10 times with a longer pause in-between
– Able to reboot the Wii by holding B and pressing Home
– Detects if you have a .elf version of any application and lets you update that application
– Now uses zip files which means download sizes are reduced (thanks Tantric)
– Added SDHC support
– Detects if HBB icon or meta file exist, if they don’t then it downloads them

Thanks to Tantric the Homebrew Browser now has zip support. This means that applications that were classified as having too many files can now be included in the HBB. Applications now will take less time to download however the trade off is it takes a little while to extract the zip files.

Hooka has updated RACE!, it’s a Neo Geo Pocket (NGP) and Neo Geo Pocket Color (NGPC) emulator for multiple platforms such as the GP2x.

Release notes:

Just thought I’d let this go into the wild. I released a new version of RACE! here! Haven’t quite gotten save states working yet, but cart saves should be saved more frequently now Also added usb joystick support, although it is very crude and just hardmaps the buttons atm :S Work still needs to be done to get save states working then add a menu, but atleast I’ve been making progress. It comes with selector, but I’d recommend ditching it and using gmenu2x and it’s built-in selector with the race binary (no extension) as this allows tv-out to work properly

Easy Expenses is mainly focussed on logging expenses. It is meant to be simple and easy to use. Easy Expenses is not designed as a complete finance management program and never will be. If you want to use Easy Expenses for this purpose, you have to export the data and process it in a program like Microsoft Excel.

Changes:

– Removed income column, instead income is shown as positive/negative value (depending on setting).
– Option to increase/decrease values by digit (e.g. increasing 9 gives 0, not 10).
– Only one instance can run.

MK2k released APPSwitcher. It is a little VSH plugin that lets you categorize your homebrew for the XMB.

P86 Team updated TVSP.

Changes:

– Fixed the bug which causes on exit…
– Fixed the bug which make graphical problems on Network Manager…
– You don’t have to set Pixel Width>320 anymore.
– If you choose higher pixel width than 320, syncronising or performance might get slowlier…
– Added more stable buttons.

CoMbiNa updated Custom Firmware Extender with RemoteJoyLite v0.18.

Release notes:

I updated Custom Firmware Extender 3.0 with the files of RJL 0.18 (it previously used RJL 0.17a).

Dungeons is an mini RPG for the Wii with some WiiMote supports. The aim is to find all red orbs and fight the last Boss. Fight monsters and power up your skills. The most important thing is to find out witch values are the best. Find keys and open doors in this labyrints of chaos and become a hero.

Release notes:

– first release (first game for wii and first game in pure C by iron hand 😉 )
– main engine completed (i hope)
– you can reach level 10 (you can play along but no new monster or maps appear)
– there are 15 orbs

Thanks to www.nintendomax.com for the news!

MahJongg Wii is an extremly polished free MahJongg solitaire game for the Wii.

Changes:

– Added versus mode!
– Re-factored the tile selection processing and completed all coding around tile selection for both versus and coop modes
– Added option to restart the game when paused or no more moves left
– Added option to start a new game without going back to the menu when current game has finished
– Changed so that if only two tiles are left which are on top of each other the game finishes
– Fixed bug where tile placement algorithm gets stuck in an infinite loop when it cannot place all tiles successfully. Now if this occurs it finishes the shuffle and returns to no more moves mode
– Alternated which pointer is drawn first every frame to not give the advantage to player one in two player versus mode
– Added separate tile selections per player (this affects the co-op mode as well as the versus mode)
– Added Hungarian, Finish and Swedish languages

c_boy released an remake of BroderbundSoftware’s “Lode Runner”. The original from 1983 was running on an Apple II device.