MiniK released Vectoroids, it’s a clone of the classic arcade game “Asteroids” by Atari. Your objective is to maneuver a space ship within a field of asteroids, and shoot them into smaller and smaller pieces, eventually destroying them completely.

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Vectoroids

Giddy 3 is a great fun platform puzzle game. It was originally released in 2001 for MS-DOS.

Changes:

Giddy’s speech bubbles and some other texts stay on the screen for a bit longer.
The appearance of the hint bulb is a bit more obvious
Fixed a nasty bug which meant that if you did things in a certain order the game became uncompletable.
Updated the meta.xml file properly this time

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Giddy_3

MPlayer CE is a fork of the Team Twiizers MPlayer Wii port.

Changes:

SD/USB Mount bugs fixed
DVD Mount/Stop/Motor/Pause problems fixed, now mounts, only when you select DVD
Network Initialising on startup changed, now connects “hidden” in Background of MPlayer.
Added 5 SMB Shares, review smb.conf
Boot-up speed increased

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

http://code.google.com/p/mplayer-ce/

Pong2 is an open-source game based on the original game of Pong. Pong2 has improved features over the original. The paddle can be moved horizontally and vertically. 10 tracks of background music are available during game play. The first player to score 10 points in each level is the winner.

Changes:

– It took a long time but now pong2 support multi player mode.
– Added extra menu option to select multi player mode.
– Build game with libogc 1.7.1 and devkitPPC r16 compiler.

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Pong2

Christian Remboldt has released a new version of his native Nintendo Wii cheat code manager. Using WiiCM you can select which cheat codes you wish to use with the Ocarina cheat engine which can be found as a stand alone application or bundled in with Gecko OS.

Changes:

– Max Cheats is now 500. SSBB compatible
– Fixed file selector bug.
– Compiled with libogc 1.7.0 adds SDHC support.
– Fixed sound effects and changed to asndlib.
– Added libfreetype for logo.

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Wiicm

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!

Changes:

– Dhewg’s interpretation of brijohn’s usb keyboard patches.
– SCI engine won’t be included until 0.13 is released. (Requested by dhewg). If you want SCI, build it yourself.

This release is a infrequent build from the Subversion trunk.

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

http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=6599

Help the Wii scene and run the BootMii Compatibility Checker. More details by following the link below!

http://hackmii.com/2009/02/bootmii-checker/

marcan is telling us some interesting and dirty stuff going on in the Wii scene – actually not really the Wii scene, but releated to it. As it has happened many times before, people are trying to making money with the work of others.

Read on:

Those of you that already know the story regarding these and other websites may skip this paragraph. Several websites have, for a while now, been selling our Wii homebrew tools in conjunction with warez loaders, under the guise of “unlocking” you Wii. In doing this, they of course make all sorts of outlandish claims, such as full compatibility, avoidance of breaking the warranty, and an impossible ability to work through future updates. Needless to say, these warez loaders aren’t fully compatible, are slower than using originals, installing homebrew breaks your warranty (whether you manage to hide it or not is a different issue), and chances are the next Nintendo update will shut them down again (why, oh, why, are you taking so long, Nintendo?). They also seem to be making a pretty penny – we’ve heard figures of $8000 monthly revenue for HomebreWare. This doesn’t make us very happy, given that we’re making these tools for free. The two websites are located at homebreware.com and wiiunlocker.com (don’t link to them, they don’t need any of our PageRank).

Apparently HomebreWare has been recently sold for $30000. The old owner linked to our website download page and at least attempted to make the package somewhat legal (if entirely redundant and a waste of money). The new owner obviously couldn’t care less about the legality part. He’s converted the “package” into exclusively a piracy tool, with no other homebrew besides the Twilight Hack, The Homebrew Channel, and the usual warez loaders, plus a generous sprinkling of Nintendo software, and hosts it all on his server. He also bundles HBC beta9, which didn’t yet include the scam warning screen (so anyone who doesn’t have an active internet connection on the Wii won’t even know that he was scammed). He also includes a handy guide on how to torrent Wii games. I’m back in the process of firing a few DMCA notices around to try to get it taken down (or at least piss them off somewhat), but this is getting absurd. If anyone knows a lawyer willing to offer advice of what, if anything, can be done (practically speaking), or what the best course of action is in these cases, I’d sincerely appreciate it if they could contact me.

As for the other guys, Wiiunlocker seems to be trying as hard as they can to hide the fact that they’re selling our software. Originally, they just hotlinked to our downloads. Since we killed unknown referrers, then they switched to non-linked tinyurl URLs (which you have to copy and paste into the address bar), which results in a blank referrer. After that, I implemented a dynamic link mechanism that forces you to go through our downloads page – then they tried copying one of those links, but they cycle every 10 minutes and thus it didn’t last long. Having lost the battle against our server, they turned to a publicly available mirror. We contacted its owner and got it shut down. They’ve switched to a secret mirror hosted at The Android News, which we can only guess is a friend of theirs, or a hacked website. We’re in the process of trying to get that taken down.

If you are currently hosting a copy of any of our software, we ask that you remove it and link to hbc.hackmii.com instead. We generally don’t mind mirrors, but it makes you a ripe target for one of these scammers to hotlink. Then we’d have to get in contact, and it’s all a big pain for you and us. We have plenty of bandwidth at hbc.hackmii.com, so it’s easiest for everyone if you just link to our downloads page.

The title might seem redundant to those that already know this, but I’m hoping it might help draw the attention of some potential “customers”.

Thanks to brakken / http://www.tehskeen.com for this interesting hint.

http://hackmii.com/2009/02/scam-homebreware-and-wiiunlocker/

Liights Out! is a puzzle game for the Wii, based on the classic puzzle game Lights Out. The goal is to turn off all the lights on the board. When you toggle one light, the lights nearby also toggle.

Changes:

Fixed accidental logging, which caused the main menu to lag in beta 4
Fixed broken-looking background image in beta 4

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/User:BHSPitMonkey/LiightsOut

WiiRadio is a ShoutCast stream player. It can read from thousands of internet radio streams and play them back on the Wii.

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/WiiRadio