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Using Peter Mackay’s Quake port, Eluan has released a version compatible with the Wii. It features Wiimote IR support and front SD reading, although saving needs to be enabled to work. This release was quickly created, and has a few bugs to be worked out currently.

Homebrew Channel Resources

Quake Wii icon by ZeldaDD

From the release notes:

It resets properly on the Wii (still not able to return to the loader, though.)

Reads files from the front Wii SD slot (saving disabled, forgot to reenable it before uploading, but you can remove the return lines on SYS_FileOpenWrite and SYS_FileWrite to make it work.)

Wiimote support, tried to map the buttons on the wiimote and nunchuk more or less like the gamecube ones, wiimote IR aiming and nunchuk up-motion jumping.

That’s it, please don’t complain about the wiimote implementation and SD card reading yet. The wiimote code is completely new to me (and I don’t know about the real stability of the code on the libogc cvs) and the SD reading doesn’t use libfat yet, but use the wiisd functions from the latest libogc CVS.

Download: Quake Wii (5-28-2008)

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The D2Pro Team has released version 1.3 of their Utility Disk

Thanks goes out to Rudster for informing us.

Utility Disc v1.3 Released - 2008.05.29
We have just added the v1.3 Utility disc to the resources section. This disc can be used to configure d2pro and also update the flash to v1.3. If your d2pro is DVD-updatable, you can use this disc. Beta firmware to make d2pro DVD-updatable is also available for download, with an official release scheduled for next week.

Downloads:
v1.3 Utility (Config/Flash Update) Disc
European Region - bz2 tarball - 89KiB
Japanese Region - bz2 tarball - 88KiB
US Region - bz2 tarball - 89KiB

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At tehskeen, emu_kidid has released a few improvements to the VBA Emulator

Download:
VBA172_GC&Wii.rar
Homebrew Channel Pack

I decided that I would do a few little minor additions to this emulator before I dropped it totally from my list and so here’s the results.


Wii Port
Wiimote / Classic Controller / Gamecube Pad support
Front-SD ROM Loading
Front-SD SRAM Saving and Loading
MEM2 ROM Storage for fast access
In-game Menu with ability to exit to loader (Home button)
Auto frame skip for those core heavy games


GC Port
SDGecko ROM Loading
SDGecko SRAM Saving and Loading
In-game Menu with ability to exit to loader (X+Y)
Auto frame skip to give you the illusion of full FPS


Please note, there’s not much of a GUI if anything. The only way you can load another ROM is to exit to the loader through the in-game menu or simply reload the DOL.


Please note, this is coded in PAL60, if you change it you will probably mess up the timing and things will go horribly wrong due to frame-skip relying on this.


Roms must be placed in /VBA/ROMS/ and cannot be compressed.
Saves will be placed in /VBA/SAVES/ and will automatically be loaded if they exist.
The GBA BIOS file is to be placed in /VBA/BIOS/BIOS.GBA.


If you want to use a Wiimote/Classic Controller, turn it on during the ROM selection menu for it to be detected.


Full source code is included. You will need to wait until the current libOGC CVS is updated to devkitpro r15 and actually working. I compiled using a modified devkitPro r14 and libogc from CVS. Use the pre-compiled GBA.o (done with level2 optimizations) if you wish to compile this software again. (GBA.d will need to be modified) This is a messy build process but it’s the only way to get it working for now.


Wii/GC ports by: emu_kidid,
Original Gamecube port: softdev.
VBA by Forgotten (http://vba.ngemu.com/)
libOGC/devKitPro by shagkur/Wintermute.

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Sven Peter has updated Sven’s blog with information on the USB status for the Wii.

I’ve (finally) been able to create a patch for libogc today which just got accepted and adds my usb-storage code to it - just wait for the next release or get the CVS version if you know what you are doing. Thanks again to shagkur for some miscellaneous fixes and hints to my code.

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LoPsT has released version 3.0 of his modification to the Snes9x emulator. This release includes many of the most desired features, including Zip compression support and PAL60 RGB cable support.

From the release notes:

New on the menu in this version:

Support for 2 wiimotes (fast synchro)

Support CSA classic.

Support Nunchuk.

Support for SD Frontal (to load backups).

Support for savegame directly into the gcram (out of emu).

Support for files on behalf long.

Support for compressed files to Zip.

Support for returning to the “HomeBrew Channel.”

Support for RGB cable PAL60.

Support for PAD Gamecube.

Download: Snes9x 3.0 LoPsT

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After today’s release of the Homebrew Channel, I [WB3000] have created a simple Windows program that lets you edit or create meta.xml files associated with homebrew programs. This program requires the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 to run.

Download: Meta.XML Windows Editor v1

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Bushing and Marcan, amongst many other contributors, have released beta 7 of the Homebrew Channel. It features all of the teasers seen in the preview video, including a custom banner, integrated TCP loading, and automatic updates. This release includes the standard .ELF file, as well as installation ISOs for each Wii region.

From the release notes:

We’re proud to present the first public version of The Homebrew Channel, beta 7.

Without further ado, please visit the channel’s homepage for more information and downloads.

Download: Homebrew Channel ELF - Installation ISO (USA, EUR, JAP) - App Pack
Download: Homebrew Channel Packs

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At Wiibrew.org, Bg released WiiWhiteboard, a port of Johnny Chung Lee’s Low-Cost Multi-point Interactive Whiteboards Using the Wiimote

Use two Wiimotes and an infrared pointer to make an interactive whiteboard. This is a port of Johnny Chung Lee’s Low-Cost Multi-point Interactive Whiteboards Using the Wiimote to the Nintendo Wii.

Download: wiiwhiteboard.zip
Source: Online/SVN

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emu_kidid over at tehskeen has released USB-BOOT v2 to play Gamecube backups through USBGecko.

USB-BOOT v2
Play your gamecube backups via USBGecko.

Whatsnew:
Works with all games now, even 007 Agent Under Fire, etc :)

Usage:

Insert USBGecko into slot B and connect it to PC.

Load USB-BOOT.dol via your favourite method.

Have a GC game in the drive.

Hit A when prompted.

When the screen asks, on the PC drag a ISO/GCM into USB-BOOT.exe

Notes:
Speed is terrible but compatability is pretty good.

Enjoy.

Download: usb-boot_v2.rar

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Waninkoko has released a utility over at teknoconsolas.info to help people with Semi Bricked Wii change the Wii Settings. Wii Config 1.0 has been released in both DOL and ELF format.

Download:
WiiConfig v1.0 (DOL).zip
WiiConfig v1.0 (ELF).zip

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