TehSkeen is proud to present the worlds first Nintendo Wii homebrew coding competition.

There are a bunch of high quality prices, head over and check the rules. Having an entry is actually more “spirit” than fame – this would be more in the sense of homebrew scene, but anyway… if there are nice goodies to win why not!

http://www.tehskeen.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8248

Quote from Rapfnny:

Nice App for WiiBrew Dedicated SD Cards. Uses Soully’s Channel Pic and also starts up Homebrew Manager

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

Music player for the Wii. It has a nice interface and is skinnable. It plays mp3, ogg and other formats but does not work with wma, aac or flac. It is a native Wii application (no Wii Linux) with the intent of being a multi-source media player on the Wii.

DragonMedia Player will pick up files anywhere on your SD card, and plays sequentially once a file has started. Simply install into the HBC by copying the dmp folder in the zip file to /apps/ and run the program. Do not rename the folder as DragonMedia Player expects things to be in the correct order to function. For the changelog, please look inside either the source or the binary zip file.

Changes:

* Fixed core dump on loading pls files.

http://www.wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_apps/DragonMedia_Player

WiiMU is a PoC “Channel Launcher” app for the Wii. It eventually aims to completely replace the System Menu in functionality. At the moment it is quite far from that goal, but it does have a start.

Important Information:

There are some slight problems with 0.1a3. First, on the channel list, you may get two listings of a channel. Choose the first one. Second, the elf file is named WiiMU.elf. You must rename it to boot.elf for it to work. These issues have already been brought to attention and will be fixed in a4

http://www.wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_apps/WiiMU

WiiMU is a PoC “Channel Launcher” app for the Wii. It eventually aims to completely replace the System Menu in functionality. At the moment it is quite far from that goal, but it does have a start.

It currently:

– Lists all installed Channels. (Does not include those with only a ticket)
– Allows selection of the Channel to load.
– Allows launching of a disc.
– Allows return to loader.
– Allows return to real System Menu.
– Has a NAND Dumper. Thanks to Redbird who released YaWnD, I was able to add this to the release. This is NOT my code, it is Redbirds.
– Allows you to look at all save files on your Wii. Copying does not work yet.
– Allows you to look at the configuration settings from your Wii.
– Has a Main menu. Contains Launch Disc, Launch a channel, dump NAND, return to Wii Menu, browse save files, look at configurations, and return to Loader.

Please note that at the moment it DOES NOT REPLACE ANY SYSTEM FILES! It may eventually get to that point, but currently it is far from it.

Changes:

* Fixes a bug in which certain users couldn’t get the list of channels.
* Adds save file browsing. Copying does not work yet.
* Adds a configuration viewer. Will eventually allow changing.
* Adds launching a disc.

http://www.wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_apps/WiiMU

MPlayerWii is an audio/video player. It is a native port of the MPlayer media player. It will play almost any kind of audio file but still needs improvement on video playback.

Changes:

mount/unmount the SD card and/or USB drive so you can swap them out without reloading MPlayerWii
added USB read-ahead cache
added preliminary samba network share support
fixed startup crash when a usblan or usb keyboard is attached
added network streaming cache
added video scaling with the nunchuk (use joystick to move, Z button to stretch and C to reset)
added configuration file (put in the SD root folder)
new ascii logo by sensah

http://www.wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_apps/MPlayerWii#Unofficial_Versions

Homebrew Manager allows to “manage” your homebrews via a Windows program.

This version fixes minor bugs introduced with the recent v1.4 release.

http://reppa.dev-fr.org/p4024/2008-07-31-wii-homebrew-manager-1-4b.html

OpenTyrian is a port of the DOS shoot-em-up Tyrian. Tyrian is an arcade-style vertical scrolling shooter. The story is set in 20,031 where you play as Trent Hawkins, a skilled fighter-pilot employed to fight Microsol and save the galaxy.

Now ported to Wii by nuvalo.

http://www.elotrolado.net/hilo_opentyrian-juego-matamarcianos-en-wii-31-7-08_1067710

Wii Solitaire is a very simple solitaire game which makes use of the Wiimote. This game is still a work in progress.

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/User:Wil/Wii_Solitaire

Wii Region Changer let you change your Wii’s region code freely. Custom IOS v37 rev 03 or newer is required.

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

Update 13.07.2008 – 19:00
It seems the Wii Region Changer is not a “complete” product and therefor might harm or brick you Wii. PLEASE DO NOT USE IT!

The link in the original posting has been removed!