Wii News
Added May 4, 2009, Under:
Wii
Wii Balance Board Tool for Wii.
Release notes from Eli Sherer:
My first release, I always wanted a scale program without going into WiiFit all the time going through the Body Tesy. So I made one! and I added the Center of Gravity (COG) feature also. Hope you enjoy.
Changes:
Changed the buttons so they are text now and take less space on the SD card.
Fixed the cursor and the background position
Added an icon of the balance board on the main menu that becomes opaque on identification.
http://www.wiibrew.org/wiki/Balance_Board_Tools
Added May 4, 2009, Under:
Wii
Stella is a multi-platform Atari 2600 VCS emulator released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Stella was originally developed for Linux by Bradford W. Mott, however, since its original release several people have joined the development team to port Stella to other operating systems.
Changes:
4-player paddle support
Ability to set the paddle mode to use (Roll, IR, or Analog joystick)
Wiimote “Roll” paddle mode (similar to Bit Trip Beat)
Ability to set “Roll” paddle mode sensitivity and center
Wiimote “IR” paddle mode (rewritten since 0.1)
Ability to set “IR” paddle mode sensitivity
Analog joystick horiz/vert paddle mode (Classic, Nunchuk, Gamecube)
Ability to set analog paddle mode sensitivity
Analog joystick control support (in game and during menu navigation)
Driving control support (via d-pads and analog controls)
Ability to toggle color/BW modes from controller (Starmaster, etc.)
Improved sound support
Fixed bug that caused some games to always display at 1x (versus 2x)
Fixed emulation of select/reset buttons (you can now hold them down)
Added ability to display rom info (screenshots) when browsing (slow, see known issues)
http://www.wiibrew.org/wiki/Wii2600
Added May 3, 2009, Under:
Wii
Crazy Intro is an autoboot homebrew to use along with Preloader. You can use Crazy Intro to customize the opening of your Wii. You can display your selected picture and play the music of your choice at each start of your Wii. Also you can assign your frequently used channels to the directional buttons on the Wiimote. You can use B button to quickly access homebrew channel.
Changes:
Using latest libogc, sdhc support along with it.
Birthday feature added. If one of your miis have a birthday a customizable image displayed and an mp3/mod file played along with it greeting the user.
Press picture can use tilesets which can be used in creation, of simple animations. For better description of the feature take a look at crazyintro-explained.xml in the archive. Also three images and three example configuration files supplied in the archive.
Dancing girl animation : Nipson / from demo Eiger
Birthday music : Jogeir Liljedahl
http://www.wiibrew.org/wiki/Crazy_Intro
Added May 3, 2009, Under:
Wii
Wii Balance Board Tool for Wii.
Release notes from Eli Sherer:
My first release, I always wanted a scale program without going into WiiFit all the time going through the Body Tesy. So I made one! and I added the Center of Gravity (COG) feature also. Hope you enjoy.
http://www.wiibrew.org/wiki/Balance_Board_Tools
Added May 3, 2009, Under:
Wii
This is a port of Quake to the Wii based on the GC Quake port by Peter Mackay, ported to Wii by Eluan and enhanced by Piko.
Changes:
Initial USB Keyboard support. (Note: Some keyboards will cause QuakeWii to hang on start up, if you are stuck at a black screen when you start, unplug your keyboard.)
The OSK keyboards repeat delay is now a cvar, you can change it in the configuration file, a menu entry will come soon. Default delay is 0.25 seconds.
http://www.wiibrew.org/wiki/Quake_Wii
Added May 3, 2009, Under:
Wii
Wii Device Library is a cross platform C# class library that provides an interface to various Wii related devices, like the Wiimote, Classic Controller, Nunchuk and Balance Board.
It’s possible to use Wii devices like the Wiimote or Balance Board with your computer. All you need besides one of these devices is some kind of bluetooth device. This could either be a bluetooth dongle or bluetooth built into your pc or laptop.
When using the Wii Device Library you don’t have to worry about all the bluetooth stuff, you can just access your device of choice through a simple and intuitive interface. Also new Wii devices and extensions can be implemented by this interface without recompiling Wii Device Library.
Another nice feature is the ability to scan for Wii devices through bluetooth and connect to them when they are available. This makes it possible to automatically connect to Wii devices when they are syncing. It uses the libraries of several bluetooth stacks to scan, connect and communicate with the Wii devices. Also this part of the library can be extended with support for more bluetooth stacks and/or operating systems.
http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Wii_Device_Library
Added May 2, 2009, Under:
Wii
This is a port of Quake to the Wii based on the GC Quake port by Peter Mackay, ported to Wii by Eluan and enhanced by Piko.
Changes:
The player skins will be set to the ranger’s default skin, until I can get player colors working correctly.
Bug fixes.
http://www.wiibrew.org/wiki/Quake_Wii
Added May 2, 2009, Under:
Wii
Japanese coder “and” has released an updated version of “Super Star Shooter”. It’s a solid 2D topdown space shooter, which is also available for other systems such as the Gameboy Advance ( //files/1096/ ).
Thanks to http://www.tehskeen.com for the news!
http://www10.big.or.jp/~and/
Added May 2, 2009, Under:
Wii
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.
No more dead links, no more extracting files, no more finding out that the homebrew application doesn’t include an icon.png and meta.xml in the zip file!
Changes:
Able to download and browse at the same time (just click on a category when downloading)
Fixed bug which didn’t show the last character for applications names, descriptions, etc.
Fixed bug where the wrong applications were shown after downloading from download queue
Added GC controller support (port #1)
Added nunchuck support for scrolling the apps list
Added ability to power off the Wii via the Wiimote power button
Menu items are now accessible when in the help or settings screen
Thanks to http://www.nintendomax.com for the news!
http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_apps/Homebrew_Browser
Added May 2, 2009, Under:
Wii
Giddy 3 is a great fun platform puzzle game. It was originally released in 2001 for MS-DOS.
Changes:
No longer jumps constantly while the jump button is held
The phone box hint gives a clue that phone calls require coins
The bomb hint now disappears when it is supposed to
http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Giddy_3