Genesis Plus is an emulator of the Sega Genesis / Sega Megadrive for Wii and GameCube. This is a port of Charles MacDonald’s Genesis Plus to the Wii with lots of improvements.

Changelog:

1.3.0 (14/12/2008):

[Genesis]
– YM2612 bugfixes (MAME core):
.fixed EG Decay->Substain transition when SL & DR are minimals: fix tracks #3 and #9 in “Mega Turrican”
.fixed a bug in SSG-EG emulation code: fix Level 1 music in “Alisia Dragoon”
.modified SSG-EG Decay End Level: fix some sound effects (ChainSaw, Zap…) in “Beavis & Butthead”
.improved Detune overflow accuracy: fix very high frequency sounds in many games
.fixed registers 0x20-0x26 Reset state: fix intro music in “B.O.B”
.reverted incorrect fix with KEY ON: fix “Flamethrower” sound effect in “Alien 3” and many others
– adjusted HCounter values: fixes line flickering in “Sonic 3D” bonus stage
– adjusted VINT timing: fixes hang-up in “V.R Troopers”
– improved HBLANK flag accuracy: fixes line flickering in “Gouketsuji Ichizoku”
– fixed broken Z80 access to WRAM: fixes hang-up in “Mamono Hunter Youko”
– modified JCART emulation: fixes corrupted tracks logo in “Micro Machines 2”
– added Blargg’s NTSC Filters support (NTSC video artifacts emulation)
– optimized VDP rendering core, rewrote 68k interface (memory handlers, cycle execution, interrupts): greatly improved emulation speed

[NGC/Wii]
– remove slowest libsamplerate settings under “HQ YM2612” option, only keeps SRC_LINEAR (faster) and SRC_SINC_FAST (better)
– added an option to enable/disable bilinear filtering
– rewrote video engine: improved horizontal scaling (VI+GX), improved rendering speed (direct texture mapping)
– removed embedded font, (re)enabled IPL font support: now should works for Qoob users too (thanks to emukiddid)
– fixed “Reset” button behavior, now acts more like Genesis Reset button 😉
– patched libfat for faster SDCARD accesses (thanks to svpe)
– SRAM and SaveState filenames are now based on the ROM filename (for FAT devices only)
– various bugfixes, menu tweaks and code cleanup

[NGC only]
– added 480p support in menu

[Wii only]
– implemented fast scrolling in menu using Wiimote D-PAD
– added “Power” button support
– added USB Storage support
– Widescreen menu fix
– *new* libogc 1.7.0 features: SDHC support, Wiimote shutdown button support

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Genesis_Plus

InfoWiiDisc by choda shows you the region code of a Wii disc.

http://www.elotrolado.net/hilo_infowiidisc-0-1b_1147986

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:

Changed blue tick to yellow tick so it can be seen easier
Made help and controls window larger
Free space is now shown at the bottom right of screen
Added menu when pressing home, can go into settings, reboot the wii or return to loader. Hold the home button to return to loader at any time.
Added settings which allow you to change when the image files are downloaded; either at startup or on-demand. Can enable or disable the free space text.
Added update all applications feature. You access this when clicking on the SD card icon. Once you are shown your applications, the SD card icon changes to an update icon which you can click.

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_Browser

Space Shooter is an original 2D space shooting game. It’s simple, just shoot anything that moves or shoots back. The objective is to destroy all enemies on the four levels.

Changes:

Now compatible with HBC Beta 9, HBC 1.0 and beyond. The binary included is a .dol not a .elf.

Thanks to www.nintendomax.com for the news.

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/SpaceShooter

BibleQuiz is an open-source quiz game. Test your knowlegde about the bible.

Changes:

Added release notes screen.
Added functionality to fetch release notes from internet.
Improve highscore information (Show max score pre topic)
Improve IR pointer.
Added google analytic http request (including highscore information).
Improve result screen information.

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/BibleQuiz

The Homebrew Channel is a self-updating homebrew application loader by Team Twiizers which allows users to load homebrew applications without having to run the Twilight Hack every time. Once installed, users can access the channel from the Wii Menu just like any other Wii channel. It can launch homebrew applications from an SD card or via TCP/USB Gecko using Wiiload. The newest release is compatible with the 23 Oct Updates.

Changes:

Fixed B button issues
Wiimotes now keep the ordering from the System Menu (libogc)
Hopefully fixed the USB Ethernet Issues
Fixed wiimote auto-shutdown (libogc)
Hopefully fixed “video after shutdown” Issues (libogc)
Changes to () -> *

http://www.wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_Channel

T7g compiled a Gentoo Linux distribution working on the Nintendo Wii. Standard GUI features are built in, it comes with many networking tools plus the best part a collection of multimedia players and emulators. There’s a lot more then that though.

Partitial quote of the content:

– Emulators
DosBox, self explainatory
snes9x with snes9express frontend
visualboyadvance with gnomevisualboy frontend or whatnot
FCEUltra, no frontend.
hAtari, the sys roms are installed? (emutos, the free ones) but I don’t have it configured to use them
VICE, for the kid in you. (I was surprised at how many emulators came with it…)
…including, xvic, x64, x128, xpet, xplus4, xcbm2, vsid, c1541, and I think petcat and cartconv are utils.

– Games
JumpnBump (jumpnbump)
Gnome games package… including…
gnibbles, gnobots, glines, gnetc, mahjongg, gnomine, gnometris, gnotravex, gnotski, iagno, gtali, blackjack, same-gnome
Scorched Earth (xscorch)
LinCity (xlincity)

– Multimedia
MPlayer, don’t know which version at the moment but it ran great.
Music Player Daemon for audio, compiled with most codecs I believe. I haven’t added timidity++ support yet (11/30)
Gimmix and Sonata for hitting up Music Player Daemon.
VLC Media Player, no frontend here either, same as mplayer.
alsamixer, I think it controls the volume.
mpg123, for mp3’s while relaxin in the console.
Totem, runs like hell for what I tried but whatever; it’s there.

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

http://www.tehskeen.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9848

The Homebrew Channel is a self-updating homebrew application loader by Team Twiizers which allows users to load homebrew applications without having to run the Twilight Hack every time. Once installed, users can access the channel from the Wii Menu just like any other Wii channel. It can launch homebrew applications from an SD card or via TCP/USB Gecko using Wiiload. The newest release is compatible with the 23 Oct Updates.

Changes:

meta.xml now handles all ISO-8859-1 characters properly
Wiimote power button support (shutdown)
Wiimote rumble honors system setting
Fixed some crash bugs
Fix meta.xml UNIX style newline regression
All wiimotes work now, not just the first one
Classic Controller support
Nunchuk support (scroll only)
Guitar Hero 3 guitar support
Left and right change pages too
Hit 1 on Wiimote for net reload (like net icon click or GC Z)
Add information to installer
Fixed some networking issues with net disabled
Pushed in some text to avoid overscan crop
Widened video width to match system menu (“black bars” fix)
B returns from app screen (unless scrolling)
Try to initialize network earlier
Retry network init a few times
Fix a networking issue (libogc)
Reload stub now identifies itself (magic number)
Support broken HTTP proxies in update check
Show IOS revision in main menu

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_Channel

Minesweeper is a homebrew clone of the classic Windows game coded by mangaman3000 . It comes now with Wii Remote support and score saving.

Changes:

Now saves scores, makes it much more worth playing IMO.
Will try to update menu screens and encrypt the save file for next release.

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Minesweeper

It’s Yahtzee for the Wii coded by Chris.

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Yahtzwii