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Wii Homebrew Showcase 2010 (Wii misc)

Cid2Mizard of NintendoMax made a footage of almost every Wii homebrew released in 2010! It’s an impressive showcase of unique but also ported games and applications!

http://www.nintendomax.com/viewtopic.php?t=12788&f=24

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Newo Shooter v0.1 (Wii Game)

Newo Shooter is a rail shooter in a third-person and first-person 3D perspective. The player must navigate his spacecraft, through environments while various enemies (spaceships, robots, creatures, etc.) attack him. Enemies drop various power-ups (free lives, 50% health, weapon upgrades, shields) to help the player. The player receives a score on each level based on how many enemies destroyed. At the end of each level there is a boss that the player must defeat before progressing to the next level.

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/User:Owen/Newo_Shooter

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Drunken Coders Winter Game Programming Competition 2010 (Wii misc)

Create a Nintendo DS or GBA game with a winter or holiday theme. Be it Wack-a-Santa or nuclear snowball fights with diminutive elves we want to see your wintery creations.

Rules:

* Original content (Satire will be considered fair use).
* All entries must run on hardware, the hardware being one of:
o Nintendo DS
o Nintendo Gameboy Advance
o Nintendo Wii or Gamecube (seperately judged!)
* Multiple entries are encouraged but only one prize will be awarded to any individual / group.
* You are of course welcome to work in teams and split your prize how you see fit.
* No emulators, media players, or straight ports of old games please (e.g. porting quake to DS will not get you many points but porting quake, designing your own winter level and letting me walk around as Santa Claus and blast reindeer would be cool).
* Judging will be at the biased discretion of the participating judges but originality and entertainment will be the main focus (and technical splendor of course). Make me laugh and I will forgive your coder “art”.
* Entries will be awarded points and the scores averaged between all participating judges. These points will be assigned based on the following judging criteria: Competition Judging Matrix
* Submissions will be accepted at anytime and can be resubmitted and updated as necessary until the deadline

Deadline is March 21th 2011 (which ever time zone you prefer, as long as it is still March 21th somewhere in the world)!

http://drunkencoders.com/

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Priiloader v0.6 (Wii Application)

Priiloader is a modified version of the officially discontinued Preloader. Preloader is a small application which places itself before the System Menu. Its main feature is to directly boot the Homebrew Channel or a file you can install from a FAT device. Preloader is also able to apply memory patches the system menu to remove limitations or other things. Warning! This homebrew makes permanent changes to your Wii’s flash memory (NAND) and should be used with caution.

Changes:

* Fixed Title Booting on some Wiis (issue 130)
* Fixed the installer for HBC
* Fixed the SHA1 hash production while updating
* Fixed Online updating changelog
* added/fixed Easter Egg (go find it!)
* Added play_rec creation when launching title
* made load/install binary load fat:/apps/ folder
* Increased USB Support(thanks TT)
* Changed the Hacks method (see SVN or hacks page)
* change memory management to use mem2 instead giving priiloader a big speedboost

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Priiloader

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WiiXplorer (r210) (Wii Application)

WiiXplorer is a multi-device file explorer for the Wii by Dimok using graphics made by NeoRame and a customized libwiigui as base for the GUI. It has several additional features to execute various of filetypes like on an actual explorer.

Features:

* USB2 support with IOS58 or IOS202 installed
* SMB/USB/SD/DVD recursive copy/move/delete of files/directories with all files in it
* FAT/NTFS/EXT2/EXT3/EXT4 files systems support
* GUID Partition Table (GPT) support
* Rename files/directories
* Properties of files/directories
* Browse through SD/USB/SMB/DVD/WiiDisk
* Addressbar with path
* Multilanguage with custom font support
* Boot .dol/.elf files
* Playback Wii/GC Game Videos
* Stylish Music Player
* Open TXT/XML/MP3/OGG/WAV/BNS/AIFF files
* Supported Image Formats: PNG/JPEG/GIF/BMP/TPL/TGA/TIFF/GD/GD2
* Imageoperations zoom/slideshow
* Image converter which converts the supported formats to: PNG/JPEG/GIF/BMP/TIFF/GD/GD2
* Screenshot support at any point of the app in different formats
* ZIP/7zip/RAR/BNR/U8Archive/RARC browsing and decompressing
* Properties of archive files
* Add files/directories to a ZIP or create new ZIP files
* Textediting support
* PDF Viewing support
* Format SD/USB primary/logical partitions to FAT32
* Integrated FTP Server and FTP Client
* MD5 Calculator and Logger
* Start BootMii
* Auto-Update feature

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/WiiXplorer

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Beer Belly Bill 3: Grillieren (Wii Game)

Widdy/Metalvotze^Nuance been one of the many visitors at the German demoscene party “the Ultimate Meeting”. Of course he did not come with empty hands and came with a recoded version of his game “Beer Belly Bill 3: Grillieren”, already known from Gameboy Advance.

Collect meat and vegetables. Put the meat on the grill, and the veggies in the waste bin. Putting veggies on the grill is a bad idea, they’ll explode and remove one piece of meat. Drago comes by occasionally, searching the waste bin first, if he finds nothing in it, he walks to the grill to grab a piece of meat. The game ends when there’s nothing on the grill anymore.

http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=56464

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DOSBox Wii v1.5 (DOS emu for Wii)

DOSBox Wii is a port of DOSBox to the Wii using SDL Wii. It also features a Home menu powered by libwiigui.

Changes:

Updated to latest DOSBox SVN
USB compatibility improvements
Fix tilde key on keyboard

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

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Bolt Thrower v0.23 (Wii Game)

Bolt Thrower for Wii is a space shooter currently still in development.

Changes:

Enemy drift off into space when hit
Added explosion trails
Added a few rocks around the moon
Added another type enemy ships – takes 3 shots
Added More sounds

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

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WiiMC v1.1.1 (Wii Application)

WiiMC (Wii Media Centre) is an open source media player for the Nintendo Wii. The GUI is powered by libwiigui.

Features:

* Attractive libwiigui-based interface, designed with the Wii in mind
* Picture viewer
* Music player
* On-line media support, including SHOUTcast, YouTube, and Navi-X
* FAT32/NTFS from SD and USB 2.0 (FAT32 recommended)
* Network playback via SMB, HTTP, and FTP
* Multi-language support: Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Dutch, English, Estonian, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Romanian, Russian, Spanish

Changes:

Synced to MPlayer r32709
Fixed image stuttering and audio sync issues
Fixed pointer alignment on DVD menus
Added ISO/IFO DVD playback, with DVD menu support
Added screen resizing while watching a video via the Wiimote. Just hold down B and use the arrow keys (thanks clava!)
Performance optimizations using paired singles (thanks Extrems!)
Improved USB compatibility
Added support for playlist files in the Videos and Music areas
Enable negative subtitle delay values
Replace libmp3 with libmpg123. Fixes a number of MP3 audio bugs
Added a setting to change the starting area
New JPG scaler for the Picture Viewer (thanks puddles!)
Display artist and song on separate lines for SHOUTcast (thanks jhb50!)
Added settings for YouTube quality and caching for online media
Subtitle autoscaling
Added a delay on startup so those with slow USB drives are not bumped back to the main browser list
Shifted all GUI elements inwards to fix left/right cropping occuring on 16:9 for some people
Fixed a Picture Viewer crash
Fixed lowercase bug for NTFS
Many other minor fixes and improvements

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

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Powder (Build 115-1) (Wii Game Port)

POWDER is a roguelike game, which is not a port of an existing roguelike. It is built around replayability and long term ergonomics, not short term learning. Author of this piece of software is Jeff Lait. POWDER Wii has been ported by insin.

Changes:

The delete key should work on Macs. (Konstantin Stupnik)
Typos in the animate forest description fixed. (Paul Nguyen, Kender)
You can no longer petrify or stone to flesh quest items. (Lorenzo Batallones)
Items that fall in a hole will not be revealed up on the next level’s map. (Kender)
Zapping a wand of invisibility at yourself when you are already invisible from a permament source no longer reports “You are invisible.” (Kender)
No longer falsely get system shock if a creature you possessed, but released when it was polymorphed, is finally slain. (Mental Mouse)
The Regenerate spell now works for creatures with No Regeneration, as was intended. (Mental Mouse)
Flesh golems can once more regenerate. (They lost this in the no-regen sweep) (Mental Mouse)
Giant Spiders have defences better fitting their explevel. (Mental Mouse)
The earth hammer is now made from stone as you’d expect. (Kender)
The spell Summon Daemon now spells Daemon like the rest of POWDER. (Mental Mouse)
Typo fixed in Golden Tridude description. (Mental Mouse)
Clarify cave troll description. (Metnal Mouse)
s/byte/sting/ for scorpion description. (Mental Mouse)
Clarify butcher skill description. (Mental Mouse)
Water elementals no longer leave corpse.
Eaten intrinsicly poisonous corpses now has a significantly shorter timeout. (Kender)
Attacks which deal multiple types of damage in the same hit will have damage reduction applied to each of the types, rather than only to the first type. (Mental Mouse)
Vampire bats will no longer chase players which they aren’t interested in. (Kender)
Option to email character dumps on the iPhone to get them out of the black box.
Searching due to intrinsics will put Searching on the status line, and multiple manual searches will report Seached x10.
Improved the Akoi Meexx 12×12 tiles, for less ugly pixels when in landscape mode on the iPhone.
Makefiles for Linux have $(LDFLAGS) added.
The torches in the Lomaka tiles have been fixed to show up in the correct hand. (Martin Rittweger)
The Wish command now includes the ability to take on a monster’s form and stats, so you can play as a monster if you wish. (Robert Barber)
On level up, the number of Piety points you have in each class is displayed beside the class name so you can better judge which class to pick. (Matthew Wyatt)

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Powder

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