Wii News
Wiilander v0.42 (Wii Game)

Wiilander is a clone of the popular classic 70s Lunar Lander game. With a big different, you don’t use buttons – instead just hold the Wiimote horizontally and rotate it to control the angle of the ship, and twist it to control the throttle of your rocket. Discover the secret word, landing on all the bases!

Changes:

– Cinematic improved dramatically.
– Now game is easier.
– Stall altitude refered to the “sea level”.
– When ship stall, Wiimote start to vibrate.
– Increase the thick of the mountains.
– New colours, on the ship (and on the fire??)
– Ship now take off.
– Game over only when you run out of fuel AND ship crash.

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Wiilander

By with 0 comments
SpaceBubble v0.40 (Wii Game)

SpaceBubble by wplaat is a classic board puzzle game based on bubble breaker. Select multiple bubbles with the same color and destroy them, the more you hit in one the higher score you will get.

Changes:

– Show score of selected bubbles on screen.
– The 40 highest global scores are showed.
– Reposition some buttons.
– Improve bonus schema (level 4 , 5 and 6)
– Added level cleared information screen.
– High score is send to web service if score is better then the 40st global high score position.
– Increase HTTP receive buffer size to 8196 bytes.
– Build game with libogc 1.7.1 and devkitPPC r16 compiler.

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/SpaceBubble

By with 0 comments
WiiEarth v2.0 (Wii Application)

WiiEarth is a Google maps like app that enables you to browse the earth like in Google maps.

Changes:

– Removed Google images (captcha problem)
– Added OpenStreetMap images
– Way faster downloading of tiles
– disappearing cursor problem fixed (since latest libogc was used)
– Cool new icon (thanks Wilsoff)
– Other cool stuff

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/WiiEarth

By with 0 comments
SpaceBubble v0.31 (Wii Game)

SpaceBubble by wplaat is a classic board puzzle game based on bubble breaker. Select multiple bubbles with the same color and destroy them, the more you hit in one the higher score you will get.

Changes:

– HotFix: Prevent random crashes if wifi connection doesn’t response.
– HotFix: Prevent wrong calculation of possible moves.
– Only scores above 10.000 are added to the global highscore.
– Added winner text if player clears all six levels.
– Added 2.000 bonus points if you clear all levels.
– Added clock color change for the last 10 seconds.
– Added clock sound effects.
– Adapted button size on most screens.
– Build game with libogc 1.7.1 and devkitPPC r16 compiler.

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/SpaceBubble

By with 0 comments
Hbcxmlgen (R1) (Wii Application misc)

hbcxmlgen is a Bash script for creating the Homebrew Channel’s meta.xml files.

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Hbcxmlgen

By with 0 comments
The Homebrew Browser v0.2.5b (Wii Application)

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:

Keep retrying networking initialisation
Now shows the progress when extracting the zip files (thanks Tantric)
Detects the ftpii directory when using a password like ftpii_mypass
Keep meta.xml name when updating if it has been edited
Added more error checking when updating HBB, if updating fails it reverts back to the previous version
Media category becoming unavailable should now be fixed
Fixed controller screen to display accurate Dpad information

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

http://www.codemii.com/2009/01/24/hbb-updated-to-v025b/

By with 0 comments
Nowell v1.01 (Wii Game)

Nowell is a open-source 2D vertical scrolling shoot-em-up.

Changes:

fix a bug with bullet rotation

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Nowell

By with 0 comments
SpaceBubble v0.30 (Wii Game)

SpaceBubble by wplaat is a classic board puzzle game based on bubble breaker. Select multiple bubbles with the same color and destroy them, the more you hit in one the higher score you will get.

Changes:

– Added scrollbar to highscore and release notes screens.
– The fifty highest local scores are showed.
– The thirty highest global highscores are showed.
– Improve button layout.
– Improve third intro screen.
– Build game with libogc 1.7.1 and devkitPPC r16 compiler.

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/SpaceBubble

By with 0 comments
Frodo v6 (C64 emu for Wii)

Frodo is a Commodore 64 emulator written by Christian Bauer ( http://frodo.cebix.net ). It was ported to the Wii by Simon Kagstrom and does not share any code with FrodoWii.

It has only been tested in 480i mode on a PAL TV (the 50Hz mode gives me a headache). Sound support is slightly buggy, but usable. The emulation is not perfect, so all games will not run under Frodo. If you have multiple versions of a game, try each of them as often at least one will work.

Put .t64 or .d64 files in /apps/frodo/images on your SD card. The in-game menu allows you to insert disks/tapes, load them and configure the display, joystick ports etc. Saves will be stored on the SD card and the preferences are stored persistently. Wiimote 1 is by default the joystick in port 1 and wiimote 2 the joystick in port 2, but you can swap this.

Changes:

– A virtual keyboard has been implemented, both for selecting key bindings and for typing things on screen
– Don’t load files which are zero-sized. This helps with some disk files where the first file is not the PRG one
– Some small bug fixes and pretty large code cleanup

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Frodo

By with 0 comments
SpaceBubble v0.20 (Wii Game)

SpaceBubble by wplaat is a classic board puzzle game based on bubble breaker. Select multiple bubbles with the same color and destroy them, the more you hit in one the higher score you will get.

Changes:

– Added 16 background music tracks.
– Added several sound effects.
– Each level has it on score matrix and time parameter.
– First official release for the Wii HomeBrew scene.
– Build game with libogc 1.7.1 and devkitPPC r16 compiler.

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/SpaceBubble

By with 0 comments