Bannerbomb is an exploit capable of launching homebrew from any version of the System Menu. It was created to replace the Twilight Hack, which does not work on System Menu 4.0.

The exploit works by using a malformed banner to crash the Wii and run code to load the boot.dol placed in the root of the SD card. It can be used to install the Homebrew Channel, DVDx and the BootMii public beta via the HackMii Installer.

v104 - v108

Message "Load /boot.dol?" changed to "Load /boot.dol/elf?"
Attempted to prevent the freeze-after-a-minute bug (other than by disabling WC24)
Added a message about the scam at the first popup

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Harmonix and MTV Games today announced an onslaught of rock coming this week to the Rock Band Music Store catalogue of downloadable content for Wii system, with 25 new tracks, including six songs from the eclectic and legendary Grateful Dead. This week's music update also includes songs from The Knack, Coheed & Cambria, the B-52s, Buzzcocks, The Runaways, T-Rex, At the Gates, Evile and The Haunted. Wii Rock Band 2 owners will also gain access to tracks recently released to other gaming consoles, including Franz Ferdinand, The Allman Brothers Band, The Distillers, Prong, Luscious Jackson and Alien Ant Farm.

Wii fans can expect a rollout of previously released downloadable Rock Band content until the entire back catalogue of more than 670 songs is available.

Release Date: Tuesday, May 19, 2009
** Dates for Rock Band game tracks are tentative and subject to change **

Tracks:
Franz Ferdinand "Take Me Out"
Franz Ferdinand "Do You Want To"
Franz Ferdinand "Lucid Dreams"
Alien Ant Farm "Smooth Criminal"
The Allman Brothers Band "Blue Sky"
The Allman Brothers Band "Midnight Rider"
The Distillers "Drain the Blood"
Luscious Jackson "Naked Eye"
Prong "Idealistic Types"
Prong "The Banishment"
The Knack "My Sharona"*
Coheed & Cambria "Ten Speed (Of God's Blood & Burial)"*
The B-52s "Roam"
Buzzcocks "Ever Fallen in Love"*
The Runaways "Cherry Bomb"*
T-Rex "Bang a Gong"*
Grateful Dead "Casey Jones"
Grateful Dead "China Cat Sunflower"
Grateful Dead "Franklin's Tower"
Grateful Dead "I Need A Miracle"
Grateful Dead "Sugar Magnolia"
Grateful Dead "Truckin'"
At the Gates "Blinded by Fear"
Evile "Thraser"
The Haunted "D.O.A."

(*Denotes a cover track)

Price: $2.00 (200 Wii Points) per track ...

Guitar Hero continues to re-define the music and gaming experience this Fall with the release of Guitar Hero 5. Featuring the best variety and biggest rock stars of today combined with classic rock anthems, Guitar Hero 5 is the latest installment of the world's most popular music game. For the first time ever, players can customize the make-up of their band by rocking with any combination of instruments in-game: whether it be two guitars and two drums, or three guitars and a microphone, any combination is possible, allowing players to experience music their own way. Brand new, innovative, easy-to-use gameplay modes like Party Play and RockFest put fun, competition and control at center stage as fans tailor the Guitar Hero experience to match their personal style and interests. For extended hours of entertainment, downloadable content from Guitar Hero? World Tour will be compatible with the game and will automatically be updated to include all of the upgrades and enhancements of Guitar Hero 5.*

Guitar Hero 5 features the strongest, most varied set list to-date comprised of master tracks from 85 of the hottest bands of today and the biggest classic acts including; Kings of Leon, The Rolling Stones, The White Stripes, Santana, Vampire Weekend, Tom Petty, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, plus more than 25 artists from a variety of music genres that will be making their music video game debut.

"Guitar Hero is the music platform for today because it celebrates the social nature of music and brings fans closer to the music and artists they love while allowing them to share and discover music with their friends, family and online communities," said Dan Rosensweig, president and chief executive officer of Guitar Hero.

Among the first-time-ever features of Guitar Hero 5 are: Party Play, where players can jump in or drop out of gameplay seamlessly; RockFest, a comprehensive competitive experience available featuring five new head-to-head modes playable online or in your living room; and the ability to play the entire set-list from the first time the game is turned on.

Guitar Hero 5 refines the player experience, enhances the art style and redesigns core features such as GHMusic StudioSM, making it the most accessible, fun-to-play and authentic experience for seasoned music gamers as well as first-time players. New innovations such as Band Moments, where bands are rewarded for hitting special note streams together and song challenges where gamers are tasked to play through a song a specific way, add a new competitive layer of excitement and accomplishment to the music rhythm genre.

Published by Activision Publishing, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI), Guitar Hero 5 is being developed by Neversoft Entertainment for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PLAYSTATION 3 computer entertainment system, and by Vicarious Visions for the Wii system from Nintendo. Budcat is developing Guitar Hero 5 for the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system. The game is not yet rated by the ESRB. For more information about Guitar Hero 5, please visit GuitarHero.com ...

D3Publisher announced today that it will bring Cartoon Network's hit orginal action-adventure television series THE SECRET SATURDAYS to video game systems for the first time this fall with THE SECRET SATURDAYS: BEASTS OF THE 5TH SUN for Wii, PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system, Nintendo DS, and PSP (PlayStation Portable) system. In THE SECRET SATURDAYS: BEASTS OF THE 5TH SUN, players take control of Zak Saturday and the rest of the Saturday family, a group of scientific explorers dedicated to discovering and protecting the secret artifacts and mysterious creatures known as Cryptids. Using Zak's unique powers and The Claw to battle enemies and swing through action-packed environments, players will find and collect more than 30 never-before-seen Cryptids and face off against a number of the television series' most notable villains.

"THE SECRET SATURDAYS: BEASTS OF THE 5TH SUN offers a new and original storyline based on the THE SECRET SATURDAYS television series that will have gamers traveling to very unique locations around the globe to discover and protect lost Cryptids," said Alison Quirion, vice president of marketing, D3Publisher. "A perfect mix of combat, puzzles and platforming mechanics, THE SECRET SATURDAYS: BEASTS OF THE 5TH SUN adds up to a truly fun and authentic gameplay experience. "

"This fall marks an exciting time for The Secret Saturdays with the debut of the brand's consumer products program at retail," said Christina Miller, vice president, Cartoon Network Enterprises. "This first video game release based on the series is a great interactive experience that draws upon the immersive content from television series and really gives fans an opportunity to discover, battle and capture cryptids of all kind."

In THE SECRET SATURDAYS: BEASTS OF THE 5TH SUN, players will take control of multiple characters that include the entire Saturday family - Zak, Drew, Doc, Doyle and their pet cryptids, Zon, Komodo and Fiskerton - and some select Cryptids to fly, swing, pole vault and battle enemies. Players will adventure through 10 action packed levels in amazing environments from dangerous jungles to lost undersea cities to collect and interact with more than 50 never-before-seen Cryptids. Along the way, players will record the details of each find in their very own Cryptipedia. Fun puzzle elements allow players to locate hidden Cryptids and discover new paths as they fight recognizable enemies from the show including Van Rook, Piecemeal, Munya and the evil V.V. Argost.

THE SECRET SATURDAYS: BEASTS OF THE 5TH SUN for Nintendo DS is under development by 1st Playable Productions, LLC. All other versions are under development by High Voltage Software. The game is currently rated "RP" ("Rating Pending") by the ESRB.

For more information on THE SECRET SATURDAYS: BEASTS OF THE 5TH SUN, including game features, screenshots, videos, and downloads in the coming months, please visit: www.TheSecretSaturdaysVideogame.com, the official site of THE SECRET SATURDAYS video games on consoles and handhelds.

THE SECRET SATURDAYS premiered on Cartoon Network on October 3, 2008 and is a Top 10 show with boys 6-11 on Friday nights and a Top 5 show with boys 6-11 on Sunday nights. ...

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Gabest has released a new version of GSdx.

GSdx is a great GPU plugin for PCSX2 and PSone Emus. It supports DirectX 9 and DirectX 10.

http://forums.pcsx2.net/thread-3031-page-1.html ...

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A new build from the NES emulator FCEUltra-Win32-mappers-modified has been released. This emulator is based on FCEUltra source code snapshot (fceu-0.98.13).

http://cah4e3.shedevr.org.ru/fceultra.php ...

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Sega MegaDrive/Game Gear/Master System/SG/SC emulator has been updated. Changes:
- A little limitation of vcell scrolling emulated correctly. Thanks to Steve Snake for detailed info on this. (F1 World Champioship, Kawasaki Challenge use this).
- Changed the YM2413 emulator a little. Should sound more accurate. (After Burner 2, Ys (J) etc..)
- Many new YM2612 improvements and upates. Thanks to the new research and testing by Nemesis.
- Sprite masking bug in Mickey Mania fixed.
- Many improvements to renderer. Now passes all of the sprite masking and limitations tests.
- Cheats fixed.
- Palette select bit emulated. Sik's ROM ****s up correctly now :P.
- Completely overhauled Z80 handling and emulation. RAZE has been removed. It has been tested quite heavily alongside the real thing by Tiido and is very close to the real hardware now. But this has made emulator a bit slow as well. My thanks goes to Tiido for testing this.
- Fixed lightgun support which got broken in 0.95.
- Option added to remove flickering while in interlacing mode.
- Fixed AVI recording.
- Improved stability and crashes (hopefully).
- Option added to force the output image aspect to be 4:3 (which the real hardware does). In this mode, games with 256 pixels width will be scaled to 320.
- Ability to load SMS/GG ROMs from the command line.

http://www.spritesmind.net/_GenDev//...opic.php?t=465 ...

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