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.

Changes:

Using dol instead of elf to work with HBC beta 9

Out of no where the HBC was updated to Beta 9 and what you might have figured out is that the HBC now only loads valid ELF files. This was news to me and as far as I’m aware they didn’t tell any homebrew developers about this. The only way you’d know about it is by reading the new README file that’s included or trying to run a elf file. It would have been nice if they had told us about this new ELF feature before they released it.

Those of you who have updated to HBC Beta 9 will have to re-download the HBB manually.

Download HBB v0.2.3b or run HBB on your Wii to update (you will need to update twice).

I was working on showing all the applications on your SD card before the newest HBC came out. You can view them by moving your cursor to the top left corner of the screen and pressing A.

http://www.codemii.com/2008/10/26/hbb-updated-to-v023b/

The Homebrew Channel is a 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 in dol or elf — either from an SD card, or via TCP or USB Gecko using Wiiload. It is also capable of downloading online updates for itself.

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_Channel

Muzer has released Wii Shop and IOS51 installer, a very quick hack of PatchMii that allows you to access the wii shop channel without losing all the functionality of fakesigned stuff.

Please make sure you read the full instructions by visiting the page below for applying anything!

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Wii_Shop_and_IOS51_installer

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:

– Fixed two bugs in result screen
– Improved game images
– Replaced two music tracks
– Made source code available

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/PONG2

Nintendo has released an update which blocks fakesigning on all IOSes. Updating is not recommended until further details and implications regarding homebrew are examined.

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Wii_System_Updates

Bricks-OS is an Operating System primarily for Game Consoles. It’s main goals is to share resources between different game consoles. This is achieved by using message passing for communication.

More release notes:

The list of currently supported game consoles:
– Gameboy Advance
– Nintendo DS
– GameCube
– Playstation2
– Playstation Portable
– Wii
– i386 PC

The list of current features include:
– Preemptive multitasking (even on the GBA and NDS)
– Message passing
– Hardware OpenGL implementation (on some consoles)
– Software OpenGL implementation (for all consoles not supporting hardware 3D)

Binary versions of the latest release (v0.0.3) can be downloaded, demonstrating a Software OpenGL implementation (GBA, GC, Wii, PC, PSP), and a Hardware OpenGL implementation (NDS, PS2). The source can be downloaded using SVN, hosted by sourceforge.net.

Please take a look at Maximus32’s website for more information, screenshots and downloads:
http://bricks-os.org/

Discussion: http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=16166

http://bricks-os.org/

With WiiTCPLoadGUI we can easily make connection with Homebrew/TCPLoader Channel and stream binary files, it’s write in c++ using Qt4 library, supported platforms: Windows 32bit/64bit (64bit future), Linux x86/x86_64 and MacOSX x86.

Changes:

Now windows version should work correctly

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/WiiTCPLoadGUI

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:

Added game score overview screen
Ball position is random now.
Added the (impossible) level five.

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/PONG2

Tantric has released a third version of his continued port of FCE Ultra GX a NES emulator for both the Nintendo Wii and GameCube. This new version addresses some sound issues from the last version and fixes compatibility with the Qoob Pro chip on GameCube consoles.

Changes:

* Right audio channel corruption fixed (thanks cyberdog!)
* Low pass audio filter turned off (muffles audio)
* Changed to alternate audio filter
* PAL Timing corrected
* Cheesy/2X video filters fixed
* Qoob Pro modchip support for GameCube (thanks emukidid!)

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

http://www.tehskeen.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9306

Brakken has some news about his Wii Coding Competition…

Quote:

It’s getting closer to November 15th, the official deadline for turning in your original Nintendo Wii homebrew for TehSkeen’s Nintendo Wii Coding Competition. We’ve got a lot of people who’ve voted they will be entering, but as always, we could use more!

This is where you, the average user can help out! As some of you may or may not know, a dirty rat narked out our contest to Paypal and according to them any contest where a random pool of winners are selected falls under their Acceptable Use Policy regarding Gambling. So, we can’t accept donations via Paypal, but we’ve managed to get another way to accept credit cards.

It may be a minor inconvenience to use our new payment method versus Paypal, but to get more fine homebrew coded for the Wii isn’t it worth the little extra bit of trouble (if filling out a credit card form other then using Paypal is trouble to you)? So, if you’re in the donating mood head over to the official contest site and throw down some cash so we can get these coders motivated!

http://www.tehskeen.com/contests/tswcc/