Wii News
Added Jul 2, 2008, Under:
Wii
vader347 added Wiimote support to hanse’s port of Chess to the Wii. The original release can be found here: http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Chess
Release notes from vader347:
I was bored and added wiimote support to that chess game because I don’t have a GC controller. If somebody really wants it I’ll add IR too but I am probably going to just forget about it.
Note: This is an unofficial version of the one by hanse but mine is better besides the fact that you can’t see the help at the beginning.
Thanks to lowlines for the icon.
http://forum.wiibrew.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=620vader347
Added Jul 2, 2008, Under:
Wii
DragonMedia Player is a native Wii application with the intent of being a multi-source media player on the Wii.
http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_apps/DragonMedia_Player
Added Jul 2, 2008, Under:
Wii
Yabause Wii is a Sega Saturn emulator for Wii and is the first of its kind as emulating the complex processes of the Sega Saturn is much harder then it looks and now even harder to run it on the limited hardware of the Wii.
Yabause Wii can now run a small number of commercial games at usable speeds (5-10fps) were it is still possible to play the game.
Release notes:
01 July 08: Yabause Wii Ac_K Modification, a little optimisation of Yabause by Ac_K. Download here: http://ack.gtapro.com/public/Wii/Yabause/Yabause_Wii_by_Ac_K.zip
http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_apps/Yabause_Wii
Added Jun 30, 2008, Under:
Wii
The Homebrew Browser allows you to grab the latest homebrew applications and games all through your Wii. No longer will you have to take your SD card out to load the files or transfer the files from your computer to the Wii or even use your computer. Once you install a homebrew application and you no longer want it on your SD card, you can delete it as simple as that!
No more dead links, no more extracting files, no more finding out if there is an icon.png and meta.xml in the homebrew application/game!
Video in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GomiMbDH63o
Features:
Auto updating when your Homebrew Browser version is out of date
One click download and install for each homebrew application
One click deletion of homebrew applications
Able to update your version of a homebrew application once an update comes out
Caching of the homebrew application pictures
Changes:
Fixed issue with requesting files from server (thanks joedj)
Enabled auto updating (press B when asked if you don’t want to update)
New logo and HBC icon
http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_apps/Homebrew_Browser
Added Jun 30, 2008, Under:
Wii
WiiPhysics is a physics playground for the Wii, much like Crayon Physics or PocketPhysics. It uses Box2D and libwiisprite.
Changes
+Removed need for /data directory, compacting wiiphysics into single boot.elf file
+Added Undo Button
+Pulleys, Ropes and Gears (Pin) work great now
+Improved Icons and layout
+Line Drawing works perfect now
+Many Bug fixes, clean up
http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_apps/WiiPhysics
Added Jun 30, 2008, Under:
Wii
Bool has released a Wii toy called “Drawing Box”. Draw boxes and see them falling in a proper physical way.
Video in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy7TP0btvhg
http://blog.emiliobool.com/posts/drawing_box_v1b/
Added Jun 30, 2008, Under:
Wii
Tanks is a battle royal tank game like the one that comes with Wiiplay.
Release notes:
2008/06/28 v0.3a is out, this version is still a POC, but with a lot of bugs fixed and nunchuck support
Thanks to http://www.nintendomax.com for the news.
http://wiibrew.org/wiki/User:Grillo/Tanks
Added Jun 29, 2008, Under:
Wii
libwiisprite is a C++ sprite library written for the Wii which utilises GX for all it’s graphical operations, meaning the GPU is used to accelerate graphics.
libwiisprite aims to make developing Wii homebrew simple and fun with better graphical results than currently existing libraries.
libwiisprite is currently under heavy development, but this version is a semi-stable version allowing most of the proposed functionality of the library.
Currently 24bit and 32bit PNGs are the only supported image format. We are working on allowing images to be loaded from compiled-in texture data and even more formats.
The library comes with full Doxygen documentation to help get development started. It is also available online: http://feesh.braingravy.co.uk/libwiisprite/
Changes:
Image now supports loading from a buffer. Now you don’t have to specify a path, but you can use a raw2c converted file or your own buffer of a png file. The documentation has a whole page dedicated to it.
Quad visibility check fixed. Thanks to crediar for finding the bug.
GameWindow now is a tad faster at initializing. Thanks go to shagkur.
Updated spritetest to load one image from buffer.
Several small bugfixes for the library to make it even more stable.
http://www.wiibrew.org/wiki/Development_Applications/libwiisprite
Added Jun 29, 2008, Under:
Wii
The Homebrew Browser allows you to grab the latest homebrew applications and games all through your Wii. No longer will you have to take your SD card out to load the files or transfer the files from your computer to the Wii or even use your computer. Once you install a homebrew application and you no longer want it on your SD card, you can delete it as simple as that!
No more dead links, no more extracting files, no more finding out if there is an icon.png and meta.xml in the homebrew application/game!
Video in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GomiMbDH63o
Features:
Auto updating when your Homebrew Browser version is out of date
One click download and install for each homebrew application
One click deletion of homebrew applications
Able to update your version of a homebrew application once an update comes out
Caching of the homebrew application pictures
http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_apps/Homebrew_Browser
Added Jun 29, 2008, Under:
Wii
FTPii is an FTP server for the Wii, giving people easy access to their SD cards without having to eject it from the Wii itself.
You will need an FTP client in order to connect to your Wii, but once you have got one set up, all you have to do is use wiiload to send FTPii to your Wii and once the network has initialised it’s good to go.
Release notes:
Fixed MKD bug that caused working directory to change to new directory automatically. Added no-op SITE CHMOD command to prevent some FTP from displaying skip/abort/retry type prompts.
http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_apps/FTPii