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Waninkoko has released a Region Changer to change the region of your Wii console.
There are reports that this application is causing bricked Wii’s.
Nintendo-Scene will not post this app and we recommend that you do not use this application on your Wii.
On a side note Marcan and Bushing have announced that they will not share any more information with Waninkoko due to Waninkoko releasing applications that are half completed which could have devastating effects to Wii consoles.
You can read more at Elotrolado.net
Google translated to English here

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Inferno-ds is a port of the Inferno Operating System for use on the Nintendo DS.

Inferno DS is a port of the Inferno Operating system to the Nintendo DS.
 
Inferno DS aims to use the distributed nature of Inferno with the variety of input methods, for the hardware capabilities of the DS like wifi, touchscreen, graphics & audio (see TechnicalBackground) to create new and interesting ways of interacting with computational resources.
 
The GsocProjectIdeas wiki page includes some application examples like gaming, VoIP, jukebox and accessing remote resources using the styx(5) protocol.

Download: isds-r164.zip

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Marcan has posted on Hackmii about the work in progress DVD library for Wii homebrew. It will not need any custom IOS installed, and will most likely be released with special DVD loading versions of mPlayer, Snes9xGx, and GenPlus. He also discusses the current situation between Bushing and Nintendo.

From HackMii:

Note: this is not a backup loader, in any way, shape, or form. If you’re looking for a backup loader, please move along.

While Nintendo did reply to bushing’s open letter, he has not succeeded in establishing a conversation with an engineer about the issue. Furthermore, we have learned that they received and read at least two of the original three e-mails that were sent prior to the open letter, and decided not to reply (in fact, one of their replies was to one of the original e-mails, but only after the open letter was posted). Therefore, we can only conclude that they are not very interested in the issue.

As many of you may already know or have deduced, the bug in our open letter referred to a way of reading DVD-Rs (and Video DVDs) without the use of a modchip. Several people have investigated the bug independently, and they’ve gotten pretty close. However, we did discover an easier way of enabling this mode from homebrew, which, among other things, does not require any changes to IOS at all. This method is also relatively difficult to transform into some sort of backup loader.

Erant has been developing a library that uses this trick to enable DVD access for homebrew. We hope to release it this coming week, after a few details have been polished. svpe and dhewg have been working on a native mplayer port that uses this library to play back DVDs, which we hope to release as a proof-of-concept together with the library. We also have DVD-loading versions of snes9x and Genplus.

Non-modchip users will not need a custom IOS. Ironically, this method doesn’t work for users of some modchips. Therefore, these users will require a patched IOS using the well-known UnencryptedRead patch (the library will automatically use it if needed). We’ll try to release a somewhat more user-friendly version of patchmii dedicated to this task together with the library.

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Waninkoko has released a Custom IOS Downgrader, which allow you to downgrade your Wii to a previous firmware version, for instance, going from 3.3U to 3.2U. This would allow users who have already upgraded to the latest firmware to use the trucha exploit directly from the system menu.

From the release notes:

Custom IOS Downgrader v1.0
developed by Waninkoko

DESCRIPTION:

This application allows you to downgrade your Wii firmware to any available version.

REQUISITES:

Custom IOS37 rev 03 or higher.

Internet connection.

HOW TO USE:

Run the application and select the firmware to install.

Download: Custom IOS Downgrader - v1.0

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Waninkoko has updated his Custom IOS to Revision 3. The changes are mostly internal, with a few check functions removed.

From the release notes:

Custom IOS Installer (v37 rev 03)
developed by Waninkoko

DESCRIPTION:

- This is a Custom IOS, an IOS modified to add some new features
not available in the official IOS.

This IOS has been made to be used ONLY with homebrew software.

The Custom IOS installs as IOS249 and it does not modify any other
IOS so it is secure to install.

REQUISITES:

“IOS37-64-v2070.wad” original WAD file.

HOW TO INSTALL IT:

Copy “IOS37-64-v2070.wad” file to the root of a SD card.

Insert the SD card on your Wii.

Run the installer ELF.

CHANGELOG:

ES_AddTicketStart() title version check removed.

ES_DeleteTicket() and ES_DeleteTitle() now can delete system titles.

ES_SetUID() check removed.

Download: Custom IOS - Revision 3

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Nuke has released a Wii homebrew program called WUFE, which extracts all the update files from a Wii game disc onto an SD card.

From the release notes:

What is WUFE?

With this Tool you can insert any Wii DVD Game and extract all the Update files from the Game. I.e System WAD files, IOS files and extracts them to an SD card inserted in the ‘Front SD Slot’

Why do I need this?

It is just a fast and simple way to get these files and requires no ripping or copyright keys. It is also part of a suite of soon to be released tools which will add features to Gecko OS and improve game compatibility.

Instructions:

Copy the wufe folder to your apps directory on your SD card, then run from the Homebrew channel.

Place a FAT32 formatted SD card with plenty of space on it in the Front SD slot. Insert Game and Press A on the Wii Remote. The files will then extract to your SD card.

Please note some system files can take along time to save card as they can be 30+ MB in size, speed will depend on how fast your SD card is also.

Disclaimer:

Please only install WAD files if you know what you are doing. This product can not brick your Wii, but installing unknown files on your Wii can. I take no responsibility for the use of this product and what you do with it.

This program of course uses no copyright SDK code, keys, certs or any other copyright Nintendo (TM) code.

Download: WUFE - Wii Update File Extractor

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Nintendo-Scene user two-rok has informed us that D2Pro has released an alternative 2.1 update for everyone who has experienced issues with the original 2.1 update

Alternative v2.1 Firmware Released - 2008.07.24
An alternative release of v2.1 firmware has been made available in the resources section for d2c users experiencing problems with the v2.1 update.

Downloads:
v2.1 Firmware - Alternative - for d2c users experiencing problems with v2.1 firmware

Linux i386 - gzip tarball - 537KiB
Mac OS X - gzip tarball - 539KiB
Windows XP - gzip tarball - 538KiB (driver also required — do not let Windows automatically search for a driver for d2prog!)

Thanks again to two-rok for bringing this to our attention.

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Nintendo has released a small update for the Nintendo Wii. Using Marcan’s Wiimpersonator, it shows that the only changes are to the Photo Channel. The version number of the Wii remains the same, and the Homebrew Channel continues to work.

Wii Update Information:

************* SUMMARY OF CHANGES *************
====== Titles Changed ======

Channel ‘HAAA’
Title ID: 00010002-48414141
Version: 0x 2
Size: 6455296
Contents: 4 (of which 0 are shared)

Channel ‘HAYA’
Title ID: 00010002-48415941
Version: 0x 2
Size: 8290304
Contents: 8 (of which 2 are shared)

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A few new tutorials have been created on the forum lately. Quite a few of these can only be found on our forums.

For more information on creating Wii backups the standard way, the Creating Wii and Gamecube Backups tutorial is still a good read. A Backup Wii Games to SD card tutorial has also been made by tom35, though it requires an SD Gecko.

Tom has also compiled a list of sicknasty413’s Wiimote and Nunchuk LED modifications into a single thread, which is a good place to start when researching those types of mods. Other Wii modification tutorials can be found in either the Wii Case/Hardware Mods section, or in its child forum known as Wii Remote Hacking.

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Bushing has released code to backup your Wii’s private keys.

This isn’t the prettiest code I’ve ever written — it doesn’t have much of an interface, and I just threw this release together in a few minutes. However, it’s been exceedingly useful to me, and hopefully some of you will find it useful, too. I’ll quote the README here:

This program will do the following, automatically:

Download IOS11 from the Nintendo Update Server

Patch it to remove the MEM2 protection (so the PPC can access all 64MB of it)

Patch it to allow it to delete itself later using ES_DeleteTitle()

Find an unused IOS slot (counting downward from IOS255)

Install the hacked IOS11 there

Reboot into the hacked IOS

Copy the private key structure from the IOS address space into MEM1

Reboot back into a sane IOS

Delete the temporary, hacked IOS

Display the keys on screen

Try to write them to a file on the SD card — keys.txt

Pause for 60 seconds to allow you to copy the keys down using pen and paper, if necessary

I wrote this a week or two after I killed a Wii trying to reproduce tmbinc’s original Tweezer Hack. May it rest in peace.

The first version of this code just used a patched version of IOS, which was an ugly hack. It’s still an ugly hack, but at least it no longer contains copyrighted code. You should only really need to run it once on any given Wii, but it should be safe to run as much as you want. If nothing else, it demonstrates the kinds of ways you can use PatchMii_core to do something useful (as opposed to just running it and then packaging the result up as cIOS).

(c) 2008 bushing / hackmii.com

Download: xyzzy-1.0.zip (source and binary)

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