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Added Jul 10, 2009, Under:
Wii
Senet, a board game from predynastic and ancient Egypt, is the oldest board game whose ancient existence has been confirmed, dating to circa 3500 BC.
The objective in Senet is to remove your pieces from the board before your adversary do the same, following a few rules, advancing your own pieces and catching or blocking your adversary’s ones.
It is a game for two opponents and consists of a board of three parallel rows with ten square squares each one and ten small pieces. Normally the pieces of both players were very different, being those of one of conical form and those of the other of carved cylindrical form.
http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Senet
Added Jul 10, 2009, Under:
Wii
SNES9x GX is a Super Nintendo emulator for Wii and GameCube based on the PC emulator SNES9x 1.51. SoftDev is responsible for the original SNES9x 1.51 GameCube port, whose work was continued by crunchy2. Wii support was added by michniewski, and SNES9x 1.51 was ported by Tantric. The project is currently being maintained by michniewski and Tantric. The GUI is powered by libwiigui.
Features:
* Based on Snes9x 1.51 – superior ROM compatibility
* Wiimote, Nunchuk, Classic, and Gamecube controller support
* SNES Superscope, Mouse, Justifier support
* Cheat support
* Auto Load/Save Game Snapshots and SRAM
* Custom controller configurations
* SD, USB, DVD (requires DVDx), SMB, GC Memory Card, Zip, and 7z support
* Autodetect PAL/NTSC, 16:9 widescreen support
* Original/filtered/unfiltered video modes
* Turbo Mode – up to 2x the normal speed
* Zoom option to zoom in/out
* Open Source!
Changes:
* Faster SMB/USB browsing
* Last browsed folder is now remembered
* Fixed controller mapping reset button
* Fixed no sound on GameCube version
* Directory names are no longer altered
* Preferences now only saved on exit
* Fixed on-screen keyboard glitches
* SRAM auto-saved on power-off from within a game
* Prevent 7z lockups, better 7z error messages
* Increase cheats limit from 30 to 150
* Cheats no longer effect next game loaded – they are cleared properly
Free and legal SNES roms to try out with this emulator can be found here: http://www.pdroms.de/files/supernes/
News source: http://www.wiibrew.org
http://code.google.com/p/snes9x-gx/
Added Jul 10, 2009, Under:
Wii
FCE Ultra GX is a modified port of FCE Ultra v0.98.12. With it you can play NES games on your Wii/GameCube. The GUI is powered by libwiigui.
Features:
* Wiimote, Nunchuk, Classic, and Gamecube controller support
* iNES, FDS, VS, UNIF, and NSF ROM support
* 1-4 Player Support
* Zapper support
* Auto Load/Save Game States and RAM
* Custom controller configurations
* SD, USB, DVD (requires DVDx), SMB, GC Memory Card, Zip, and 7z support
* Custom controller configurations
* 16:9 widescreen support
* Original/filtered/unfiltered video modes
* Turbo Mode – up to 2x the normal speed
* Zoom option to zoom in/out
* NES Compatibility Based on v0.98.12
* Open Source!
Changes:
* Faster SMB/USB browsing
* Last browsed folder is now remembered
* Fixed controller mapping reset button
* Fixed no sound on GameCube version
* Directory names are no longer altered
* Preferences now only saved on exit
* Fixed on-screen keyboard glitches
* RAM auto-saved on power-off from within a game
* Prevent 7z lockups, better 7z error messages
Free and legal NES roms to try with this emulator can be downloaded from here: http://www.pdroms.de/files/nes/
News source: http://www.wiibrew.org
http://wiibrew.org/wiki/FCE_Ultra_GX
Added Jul 10, 2009, Under:
Wii
Visual Boy Advance GX is a Game Boy Advance / Game Boy emulator for Wii and GameCube based on VBA-M.
Changes:
* Faster SMB/USB browsing
* Last browsed folder is now remembered
* Fixed controller mapping reset button
* Fixed no sound on GameCube version
* Directory names are no longer altered
* Preferences now only saved on exit
* Fixed on-screen keyboard glitches
* SRAM auto-saved on power-off from within a game
* Prevent 7z lockups, better 7z error messages
More than 500 legal ROM’s for try out can be obtained from here: //files/gameboyadvance/
News source: http://wiibrew.org/
http://code.google.com/p/vba-wii/
Added Jul 10, 2009, Under:
Wii
GuitarsOnFire is a GuitarHero clone, like Guitarfun and FretsOnFire. It uses FretsOnFire compatible songs, which can be found all over the internet. Everything is released under GPL.
Changes:
Customizable scriptable stages. 3 stages included by default (GuitarsOnFire, Guitarfun, Mario)
Lefty flip
Load all GFX from png files on SD card
Load drums.ogg if it exists
‘lower fret overriding’
Sound fix when no song.ogg is found
Gamecube controller support (Untested)
Classic controller support (Untested)
Not showing a difficulty if there are less then 10 notes (some songs just add a single note to show up as having all difficulties)
Added ‘start’ key for keyboard
No songs message when no songs are found
Fix scoring for sustained notes
Remove tails for short notes
Add neck/highway gfx
Failing a song when playing badly
Keyboard keymap customizing
Basic drum track support
http://wiibrew.org/wiki/GuitarsOnFire
Added Jul 10, 2009, Under:
Wii
MPlayer CE is a fork of the Team Twiizers MPlayer Wii port.
Changes:
Files now first analyse, followed by cache, as cache was emptied on analysing previously so now you’ll see cache filling later.
Improved audio/video internet cache, detects if it is a internet stream, if it’s a radio stream then initial cache fill is small.
Optimizing memory access suggestion from Shagkur, cache thread is now more stable.
A8 patch added for DVD playback in cIOS202 to avoid problems with old ModChips.
Improved libfat and fix for special characters.
Using latest Libfat to prevent possible corruption on sd.
Improved USB hotplug and dvd detection, echi module modified for more compatability with usb devices.
Can now mount any fat partition, shouldn’t matter if partition is set as primary or activated.
Now has real fat32 limit therfore can now play larger files.
Video files that hadn’t worked previously may work now.
New buffering system implemented for when buffering is low, if cache becomes low, it will pause and re-buffer to fill cache-min value, to prevent possible hangs with bad connections. You can see the cache by pressing 1 twice on the wiimote, when cache drops to 3% then it will pause.
Shoutcast TV is complete with caching, thanx to Extrems, Review menu.conf.
If IOS202 is installed via the Installer then DVDx is not required for DVD Access.
http://wiibrew.org/wiki/MPlayer_CE
Added Jul 8, 2009, Under:
Wii
PCSX-Revolution is a port of the PlayStation (One) emulator, PCSX, to the Nintendo Wii (formerly named Revolution).
http://www.wiibrew.org/wiki/PCSX-Revolution
Added Jul 8, 2009, Under:
Wii
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 mp3/audio issues
http://wiibrew.org/wiki/ONScripter
Added Jul 8, 2009, Under:
Wii
BootMii Configuration Editor llows you to change the values in the /bootmii/bootmii.ini file without having to take out the SD card and edit it on a PC.
Changes:
English, French, Italian Portuguese and Spanish languages available to select from within the settings menu. Thank you to the following people who have provided translations
French – Vlad
Italian – Raiden
Portuguese – zedascouves
Spanish – Mokona Modoki/Comepiedras
Adjustments to the text positioning to cope with some of the longer words that the new translations bring.
Game cube controller compatible.
Use the D-Pad to move through the options,
‘A’ to select a menu option,
‘Start’ to bring up the settings menu
Boot Delay extended. It can now be changed from 0 up to 10 seconds
576i/480i detection and adjustment. Vertical positioning is adjusted slightly depending on which video mode is selected and the height of the screen
Wiimote vibration. Wiimote vibrates when you enter the start menu
BootMii Configuration Editor Logo always shows in bottom right corner
Wii Power Button now turns off wii without having to hold for 5 seconds
Wii Reset Button now resets the console
Power button on wiimote now powers down the wii
http://wiibrew.org/wiki/BootMii_Configuration_Editor
Added Jul 8, 2009, Under:
Wii
Harmonium is, to put it plainly, a musical doodling tool. The user can manipulate notes on a 16×16 grid to create melodies within a pentatonic scale. On top of this already addictive concept, you can bring things to life by enabling Conway’s Game of Life! It’s not the easiest thing to explain, so just try it!
Changes:
Save/Load
New software mixing
Probably more… (will add later)
http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Harmonium