News

Pimp My Wii is an app that will install missing and outdated titles to your Wii console. The program will detect missing or outdated IOSes and check that you have the latest version of the Wii System Menu. It also checks if you have the latest Wii Shop Channel. If you don’t have the latest versions of those titles, the program will download or read them from USB or SD, and install them. When using this program, you will have all advantages of 4.1 cumulated with those of 3.2, and this without drawbacks!

The program is automatically displayed in English or French depending of your Wii’s language. It is also compatible with NTSC-U, NTSC-J and PAL Wii consoles. (Korean Wii is theoretically compatible, but IOSes specific to this version will not be installed).

Changes:

Correcting a bug that made 3.3 and 3.4 Wii without any IOS containing Trucha Bug unable to downgrade IOS15.
Correcting a message about an outdated cIOS.
If Your IOS 249 is a stub (with a official 4.2 update), it will tell you that you don’t have any cIOS.
Another check to verify that the loading of the “best” IOS has worked.
Adding the new title id of HBC to verify that it has been installed.
Added IOS 70 and the update of every other IOS.
Still install 4.1, NOT 4.2.
Updated the Wii Shop version to v17.
No more patch on IOS 61 to prevent problems with Wii Shop and to let Homebrew Channel use it (without upside down).
New stub verification based on size of IOS.
It now tell you which IOS are stub.
Internal improvement of the default choice for IOSes patches.
Let you navigate through the list of IOS with “minus” and “plus” (or Trigger L / R for GameCube pad).
Now detect if IOSes 30, 50 and 60 are stub (non usable) and install an older version (non stub, so usable) and replace the revision number inside. It may prevent brick if you install a lower System Menu without installing associated IOS (or if you downgrade your Wii then upgrade using a DVD of a game).
Now prevent installing System Menu 4.1 if your IOS 60 is a stub.
Downgrade of IOS 15 now works for Wii 4.2.
Added a description of each choice in the menu.
Added an “minimal installation” mode to just downgrade IOS 15 if necessary and patch IOS 36 to include the trucha bug inside.
Added an individual description on each IOS when asking for install.

ShowMiiWads is a ‘Wad File Manager’ for Windows. It displays information about wad files, edits them and give a preview of the Banner and Icon. New in this Version is the included NAND Backup Browser ‘ShowMiiNand’ which displays all titles installed in your NAND Backup (No BootMii Backups!).

Changes:

Fixed a bug where every entry was added multiple times in ShowMiiNand
Fixed VC / WiiWare detection (Thanks to giantpune for the hint!)
Added auto updatecheck at startup

GCalendarApp is a full-screen browser that displays Google Calendar at start.

GDocsApp is a full-screen browser that displays Google Docs at start.

GmailApp is a full-screen browser that displays Gmail at start.

My IP Info is an application designed to quickly and easily display the Internal (Private) IP Address of your device, as well as the Public IP Address (as seen from the Internet). It will also determine the GeoLocation of the Public IP (using HostIP.info). Finally it tells you if your device is directly reachable from the Internet by attempting to connect to your device using a simple http request on TCP port 80 from a remote server on the Public Internet.

iScuba – while scuba diving make sure that you do not let any of the fish touch you.

Vroomtrap is a web application designed to identify speed traps across the world for motorists using public roads. The iPhone application is an extension of the web application which allows users to upload information about where speed traps are located. The iPhone application also downloads speed traps from the website every mile and scans for any speed traps in your area in real time. If a speed trap is located near you, the application alerts you.

ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped with the games, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed!

Some of the adventures ScummVM supports include Adventure Soft’s Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2; Revolution’s Beneath A Steel Sky, Broken Sword 1 and Broken Sword 2; Flight of the Amazon Queen; Wyrmkeep’s Inherit the Earth; Coktel Vision’s Gobliiins; Westwood Studios’ The Legend of Kyrandia and games based on LucasArts’ SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion) system such as Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max and more. You can find a thorough list with details on which games are supported and how well on the compatibility page. ScummVM is continually improving, so check back often.

Release notes:

-Please help test ScummVM DS 1.0.0 beta3! Download here!

Please test this new beta version of ScummVM, and post your results here. It would be good to know which games you have tested.

This is the big one – version 1.0.0. It’s a big milestone for the whole ScummVM project, as this means the project is out of the first development phase and into a real prime-time release!

So it’s important that this version is as good as it can be. Whether that happens will be down to all you great forum users. If you try this and post any bugs you may find, you’ll be helping to make ScummVM DS better for everyone. I can only test a small number of games, so if you have played a game and know it works, please post that here too.

New features in this version:

New Features

* A mouse pad area underneath the on-screen keybaord allows you to move the mouse with the keyboard open.
* Using the laptop trackpad-style controls, moving the cursor to the edge of the screen now scrolls the view
* The usual round of bugfixes.

Download here:
http://scummvm.drunkencoders.com/scummvmds1-0-0beta3.zip

Supported Games

Build A:
Manic Mansion
Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Loom
Passport to Adventure
The Secret of Monkey Island
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Day of the Tentacle
Sam & Max Hit the Road
Bear Stormin’ (DOS version only)
Fatty Bear’s Birthday Surprise (DOS version only)
Fatty Bear’s Fun Pack (DOS version only)
Putt-Putt’s Fun Pack (DOS version only)
Putt-Putt Goes to the Moon (DOS version only)
Putt-Putt Joins the Parade (DOS version only)

Build B:
Beneath a Steel Sky
Flight of the Amazon Queen

Build C:
Simon the Sorcerer 1/2
Elvira 1/2
Waxworks (Amiga version only)

Build D:
Sierra AGI games
Gobliiins 1 – 3
Bargon Attack
Ween: The Prophecy
Future Wars
Lost in Time

Build E:
Inherit the Earth

Build F:
Kyrandia 1

Build G:
Lure of the Temptress

Build H:
Nippon Safes

Thanks to http://www.nintendomax.com/index.php?topic_id=10638 and http://mobiles.gx-mod.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=8977 for the news.

Client-Server Android application to collect metrics on your Android device. It collect metrics (Memory available, CPU, Battery charge, GPS data) on specified intervals and send it over TCP/IP to server for analysis.

For more details please visit http://androidperformance.dyndns.org – Registration required to browse test data.