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wraggster
February 13th, 2008, 19:14
News from Auby (http://www.auby.no/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page)


Current work in progress have made it possible to run ELF files from an SD card inserted in the GC card slot, and this is the result:

http://www.auby.no/files/wii/pong.swf

DIGG THIS (http://digg.com/nintendo/Breaking_News_First_Homebrew_Game_On_Wii)

http://digg.com/nintendo/Breaking_News_First_Homebrew_Game_On_Wii

It's just my old Pong demo written for GameCube a long time ago. Controls doesn't work yet, and there are more to fix before a release, but at least things are moving forward.

Credits:

Code / gfx by DesktopMan

Exploit code by Segher and Bushing

Its gonna be a great scene once the ball gets a rolling :)
titch.ryan
February 13th, 2008, 19:53
and now the fun begins, i hope this scene will be huge and rival that of the psp.

looks like I need to get Zelda before they patch it.
souLLy
February 13th, 2008, 20:22
pure awesomeness. hopefully they'll be able to launch stuff from the normal SD slot as well as the Gecko USB and SD slots, so i can get straight to playing :D
DPyro
February 13th, 2008, 20:29
I don't see any reason why they wouldn't be able to. I hope more stuff develops soon as I'm anxious to start playing homebrew on my Wii :D
Harshboy
February 13th, 2008, 20:40
I just hope they can make an ELF Loader that can load from the Wii's SD Slot because I'd rather not go and spend $20 on an adapter that the Wii already has built in...
ciper
February 13th, 2008, 21:34
Harshboy: I came to essentially say the same thing.

I hope that future projects work to enable the SD card slot so that additional hardware (gecko for example) is not needed. Sure I already own one myself but my little brother doesn't so I'd rather spend the money on a larger SD card.
shadowprophet
February 14th, 2008, 01:30
How how much longer till we get some tetris brew?
SSaxdude
February 14th, 2008, 01:49
Almost makes me wish I didn't sell my Wii. Oh well, I still love my PSP to death.
urherenow
February 14th, 2008, 06:20
if it's running code in "Wii" mode then why is it using the GC slot to load the ELF? Sounds fishy to me... Still pretty cool but I'm not buying an adapter for that.
justin350
February 14th, 2008, 07:37
at least you can say "I made the first wii homebrew" congrats!
souLLy
February 14th, 2008, 11:43
if it's running code in "Wii" mode then why is it using the GC slot to load the ELF? Sounds fishy to me... Still pretty cool but I'm not buying an adapter for that.

They said in an interview recently the reason, that in wii mode some of the gc hardware like the memory card slots are still accessible by the wii, unlike vice-versa.
DPyro
February 14th, 2008, 16:32
All the GC homebrew was used through the GC memory card with the gecko adaptor. This homebrew is basically a non-modified pong program that was already working in GC mode.
CrossZX
February 16th, 2008, 19:50
Great news. I can't wait for all the homebrew goodness thats to come.
rokobungi
February 16th, 2008, 20:15
next we need a bootloader for all the GC homebrew that's already out that can load everything through the wii sd card so people can start trying this stuff out.