Wii GeckoOS can act alone or take advantage of his USB Gecko Nintendo Wii development adapter. One cool feature of the OS is the fact you can boot it with the homebrew channel and use it’s Region Free feature to boot other region games on your Wii.

Changes:

Multidol games work through Gecko’s game loader, rebooter is no longer required for them
To ensure games are fully functional the game loader now uses the IOS requested by the game (as a result there is no 002 error, that error is due to game loaders booting a game with the wrong IOS)
If a game requests an IOS that you don’t have, the game’s update partition will be searched for the IOS and the option to install the IOS will be given if it is found (if you have a modchip, turn off update blocking!)
It is now possible to select not to load the debugger, which increases the number of code lines allowed by Ocarina
New hooks have been added so that most (if not all) Wii games can be hooked
Rebooter will use the hook selected on the config menu to hook games
Rebooter is now compatible with preloader
The menu interface has been improved, and you can load a custom background by creating a 640×480 PNG-24 file, naming it background.png, and putting it at the root of your SD card
The menu configuration can be saved, and the saved configuration will be loaded automatically when Gecko starts
A configuration file can be created for game specific settings like hook type
New code types are supported by the code handler
GPF (gecko patch file) support

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

http://wiird.l0nk.org/forum/index.php/topic,3144.0.html

Peculiar Voyage – Escape from Cute is a demo of a Rogue-like “Mystery Dungeon” style game and still has a lot of rough edges.

Video in Action: https://www.youtube.com/espectraa1s

http://forum.palib.info/index.php?topic=7088.0

Kidspaint is a painting program mainly for kids.

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Kidspaint

BarcodeZilla is a Zxing based barcode decoding application which is enabled for product recognition (mainly intended for EAN-8 / EAN-13 and UPC barcodes) that will display information the origin country of the product and allows to download product information (if available) and to edit and upload product and price information for your country as well using a WCF webservice.

Actually the online database is still quite empty as the author been the only one to use it during the last days (it contains a few switzerland products) but he is sure that it can grow very quickly if everybody plays the game and uploads some products.

Changes:

Non-Books (ISBN) are checked on UPCDatabase.com if not found on barcodezilla webservice

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=502771

The application has the capability to recognize the position and the orientation of the phone. It can differentiate among the following three states:

1. The phone is positioned horizontally and its face is up. This is “Face Up” state.
2. The phone is positioned horizontally and its face is down. This is “Face Down” state.
3. The phone is NOT positioned horizontally. This is the “Default” state.

While in the “Default” state, the application restores default settings to your ring stream and vibration. In the other states you can mute ring stream orand turn off vibration (depending on your settings).

https://slideme.org/application/face-ring

Grafx2 is a bitmap paint program that allows you to draw in more than 60 video resolutions (from 320×200 to 1024×768, including most of the standard Amiga resolutions : 320×256, 320×512, 640×256, 640×512, etc…).

Please report bugs to the authors, as they want to improve their application.

http://code.google.com/p/grafx2/

Monochrome Worlds is a simple puzzle game where players must two people reach a common goal. These two people, one of them black and the other white, live in different worlds and must work together in order that both of them reach the gray-colored spot, which is the only place where they can share the same space.

Monochrome Worlds is a remake of a Flash-based game called Monochro Observer created by Tatsuya Koyama. The motivation behind the remake was to be able to play the game in environments that have no Flash players available, such as the GP2X.

http://archive.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,25,2759

ONScripter is an opensource cross-platform clone of the NScripter Visual Novel engine. The original ONScripter was written by Opagee the fork that supports the English language is maintained by Haeleth.

Changes:

Merged latest upstream changes
Fixed specifying multiple archive paths
Added ogg_only option to xml file

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/ONScripter

Infantile Paralyzer updated his his legendary shell application “MoonShell” once again!

http://mdxonline.dyndns.org/

OpenBOR (Open Beats of Rage) is an open source engine to play Beats of Rage.

Beats of Rage is a freeware open source video game and moddable game engine made by Senile Team ( http://www.senileteam.com/beatsofrage.html ) and inspired by Sega’s classic Streets of Rage series. The term “moddable” means that the program allows users to create their own content, and thus their own beat-’em-up game, which is then called a “mod”.

Beats of Rage was first made available for download November 2003. It was not advertised in any way other than by word of mouth, yet it soon gained enormous popularity. OpenBOR is now managed by the guys at Lava Lit.

Changes:

All Crashes have been resolved.
All Memory leaks have been resolved
Sound issues resolved
Panel speed issues resolved

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

Download from Lava-Lit (requires registration) – the PDRoms archive will update again with one of the next releases.

http://lavalit.com:8080/index.php/topic,2729.0.html