Wii Homebrew Channel Video

[rememberthe8bit]

keyboard support would be awesome, and a DOS emulator would be awesome, i would love to play the old games again on the wii, like jazz jackrabbit and jill of the jungle.

those games played in fullspeed in the DOS emulator on xbox so i think the wii would be able to play them too.

and of course a snes emulator so i can play seiken densetsu 3 (secret of mana 2), the BEST rpg game of all time.

Well, the XBOX had a PC processor...

[____anders____]

yeah but anyways, it's cool

btw, only 2 posts away from being a dcemu regular

[idapimp]

i cant wait. this is going to be fun. hopefully this doesnt turn out like the psp scene where all that is released nowadays is custom themes. and half-assed games.

[LordSturm]

If this turns out to be a way to "flash" a permanent channel to the Wii, that simply loads an elf off the root of the Wii-SD slot, it is truly all we need. ( Until Wii updates kill it. )

Even better, if it becomes as easy as copying a channel off the SD card in the first place, even cooler.

Hopefully this development does NOT lead to piracy, and Nintendo's efforts are only concentrated on the modchip scene.

The people who want to see piracy to come out of this, PLEASE just get a modchip and leave. ( They are cheap, and less detectable than a soft-modded wii anyway. )

i cant wait. this is going to be fun. hopefully this doesnt turn out like the psp scene where all that is released nowadays is custom themes. and half-assed games.

The psp scene rolled on for a good 3-5 years, it's dying because it's old.

The Wii scene has just begun, and thankfully isn't revolving around piracy. ( just yet, -_- )

[____anders____]

the only piracy that will appear imo will be emulators, cus the wii still can't read burned DVDs without a modchip.

but still, i think that nintendo will get alot of money from VC, because not all are interested in homebrew and perhaps don't dare to install the channel and crash their wii using buffer overflow, not everyone likes zelda and won't buy it, like me.

i think zelda looks better in 2d like the first one on NES (it's awesome!), but i will borrow zelda tomorrow from a friend just to use this exploit i just hope that his version is supported though..

EDIT: and not everyone are looking for an exploit that will crash your wii, no one that i know have ever heard about this exploit, until i told them but they're not good with computers so they've never even heard the word "exploit", or "buffer overflow".

but me.. i'm actually looking for a way to hack all my consoles, cus it's so fun to do something with a console that was never ever supposed to do that, like installing a homebrew channel on my wii

[idapimp]

team twiizers has already stated that they are going to stay legal land not create an iso loader. i am in all honesty kinda happy about that b/c it does nothing but harm a scene buy giving it a bad name and kills developer motivation for original content. not to mention harms the sales of good video games for an awesome system and gives them reason to go after the scene. hopefully the ability to program for use of the wiimote helps inspire creativity in homebrew. i feel all gidddy and retarded like when the psp scene was in its prime. i keep checking the wii news about once every hour or two.

[DPyro]

You have to be kidding yourself if you think piracy won't come from homebrew on the Wii. Just look how fast people created modchips just to run backups of Wii/Gamecube games.

[____anders____]

but still, it`s VERY good that twiizers won`t make an iso loader imho it`s very good that they stay `legal` so nintendo may not consentrate on the exploit and patch it, you gotta admit that`s good, so they can take down the `chippers` instead so we can play around with our homebrew stuff a little while longer

EDIT: i`m a dcemu regular now , post #100

EDIT 2: oh and btw, the modchips are only built for one thing only: playing "backups" and tell me if you think that playing a backup of a commercial game with an illegal modchip is homebrew.
if you have real skills you will find a way to play homebrew without a hardware mod or voiding your warranty, like team twiizers and all the other awesome hackers in the scene..
ps. a modchip isn`t hard to do when there`s a big friggin port inside your wii that`s screaming MOD ME!

[idapimp]

i know piracy will come. piracy runs rampant on every console that gets released nowadays. I'm just relieved that team twiizers isn't doing it. i am sure that someone however will come along within the next month or 2 and create a backup loader. it sucks but its bound to happen. i still can't wait to see some original wii homebrew. maybe an awesome SDK would be written to make stuff easier. on the topic of the homebrew loader i think it would be great if it copies the hack to the system channels and when you boot up the hack it starts a boot.elf that loads a menu of a directory on the sd card that contains multiple elf files named after the program (i.e. tetris.elf) and then loads the elf of choice. that'd be nice.

[watupgroupie]

I can't wait for the wii homebrew scene to start booming. To be honest, I don't really care all that much if piracy comes out of this. It's happened before and I don't have high hopes that it won't.

You guy's are all complaining that the psp scene is crap now, it's true but thats because all of the stuff that is probable to be done has been done. You need to take what is there and use it to the fullest. There is emulators for tons of systems. A handful of good homebrew games that i'm still discoverying, plus releases from sony that are quite fun. Sorry to bust on the wii section here.

If you guys are worried about your power gowing out while it writes to the flash for like 30 seconds your power must go out a lot. I live in the sticks and my power doesn't even go out that much.

Will this channel be like the downloader on the ipod touch and iphone where you use it and you select what you want to download on it?