Wii stuff
Check out the new firmware releasedfor the Wii system. This will not work with the latest homebrew.
Check out the new firmware releasedfor the Wii system. This will not work with the latest homebrew.
What’s New?
* Changed blue tick to yellow tick so it can be seen easier
* Made help and controls window larger
* Free space is now shown at the bottom right of screen
* Added menu when pressing home, can go into settings, reboot the wii or return to loader. Hold the home button to return to loader at any time.
* Added settings which allow you to change when the image files are downloaded; either at startup or on-demand. Can enable or disable the free space text.
* Added update all applications feature. You access this when clicking on the SD card icon. Once you are shown your applications, the SD card icon changes to an update icon which you can click.

A recent Wii Firmware Update has stopped homebrew from working apparently. The update added a few small things to the Japanese Wii Shop Channel, mainly renaming Wii Points to Nintendo Points, and didn’t really do too much elsewhere. But now we know that it had a hidden agenda. If you already have the Homebrew Channel installed on your Wii, you should be fine, but if anyone wants to take part in homebrew now, they won’t be able to. Having said that, workarounds have been created for past updates, so it’s possible that something will be figured out to allow homebrew once again.
[Via Engadget]
IOS51 & Updated all IOSes except IOS30, IOS31 and IOS37 (these were already updated, see below)
Released: 23rd October 2008
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.
File Formats Tested
This now has faster USB read times for USB storage. Widescreen support, video scaling with the nunchuk.
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Source: http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_apps/MPlayerWii
The Wasabi Team have released their promised upgrade for their line of drive based modification chips for the Nintendo Wii. These chips allow you to boot unsigned code including homebrew and legitimate game backups. As promised this new firmware includes D2E support. The Wasabi modchip supports DMS, D2B, D2C, D2C2 and D2E drives.
What’s New?
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The Homebrew Browser allows you to download the latest homebrew applications and games all through your Wii. You don’t need to take your SD card out. You don’t even need a computer! You can also delete homebrew you no longer want.
No more dead links, no more extracting files, no more finding out that the homebrew application doesn’t include an icon.png and meta.xml in the zip file!
Note: Not all applications/games are included yet. They will be added over time.
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This new version of the Twilight Hack is compatible with version 3.3 of the Wii System Menu, using the workarounds explained in previous posts. Thanks to everyone on IRC who contributed to the search for the bugs, and to tmbinc and tehpola for finding the two bugs that make this possible.
Changelog for this release:
Download it here. Head over to Wiibrew for more information and updates. See the included README for installation and usage instructions.
Source: www.hackmii.com
A Windows program and menu that installs everything you need to start running homebrew on you wii! This will require Legend of Zelda, and it is unknown if this will work with the latest Wii 3.3 firmware update.
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Find the latest updates and more information here: http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Wii_Brew_SD_Installer
Another alternative to the higher price of the USB Gecko, is the SD Gecko. An SD Gecko, or Clone can be had for around $20 on ebay. They are identical to our previous instructional post on how to create your own! The only difference is these are on a nice pcb board with sd card spring loader.