Wii Homebrew: What's Out There?

Post by **CronoTriggerfan** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 7:23 pm

I was just mulling over renting Twilight Princess to try this out, but I don't know if I should waste my time. What exactly does the Homebrew Channel have to offer me on the Wii?

grossaffe · Post by **grossaffe** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 8:27 pm

I guess it depends on what you wanna do with homebrew. It can run emulators, linux, media players, there's a program that'll let you delete files that you couldn't otherwise delete (but prevents you from deleting stuff that'll brick your system).

gamecube6 · Post by **gamecube6** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 9:04 pm

I did make that thread...

Well, There's
DVD playback,
Jukebox software,
A good running NES and SNES emulator,
Linux,
a very bad N64 emulator,
A bunch of other emulators I couldn't get to work/didn't care about,
and a bunch of crappy homebrew games.

WITH DOWNLOAD LINKS

Good stuff. Do it.

xtrmgam3r360 · Post by **xtrmgam3r360** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 9:57 pm

initially i had trouble installing the homebrew channel,( but that was way back when if first came out) but now theres the super easy way to do everything, and after you pick what you want with that(and download the file) install this on the wii and you can download new apps strait to it.
oh, and to actually answer your question, theres guitar fun (frets on fire clone), emulators, and Masteroids (multiplayer asteroids = rediculously addicting party game) and Quake.

Harshboy · Post by **Harshboy** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 10:03 pm

ISO Loader (Very Beta, works though)
Homebrew Channel + Homebrew/Emulators
DVD Player

grossaffe · Post by **grossaffe** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 10:34 pm

Harshboy wrote:ISO Loader (Very Beta, works though)
Homebrew Channel + Homebrew/Emulators
DVD Player

didn't the author of the ISO loader stop working on it because he was upset his beta got released?

gamecube6 · Post by **gamecube6** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 8:45 am

xtrmgam3r360 wrote:initially i had trouble installing the homebrew channel,( but that was way back when if first came out) but now theres the super easy way to do everything, and after you pick what you want with that(and download the file) install this on the wii and you can download new apps strait to it.
oh, and to actually answer your question, theres guitar fun (frets on fire clone), emulators, and Masteroids (multiplayer asteroids = rediculously addicing party game) and quake.

Ah, I forgot to mention quake and guitarfun.

There's also DOOM.

Jongamer · Post by **Jongamer** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 11:47 am

grossaffe wrote:
Harshboy wrote:ISO Loader (Very Beta, works though)
Homebrew Channel + Homebrew/Emulators
DVD Player
didn't the author of the ISO loader stop working on it because he was upset his beta got released?

he WAS, but had a change of heart, he will still continue to work on it.

I just can't wait for a GCN ISO loader for Wii, there are still tons of Gamecube games I want to play/finish.

lifeisbetterwithketchup · Post by **lifeisbetterwithketchup** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 12:01 pm

Jongamer wrote:he WAS, but had a change of heart, he will still continue to work on it.

Do you have a source on that? I can't find any info on it anywhere (about it being continued).

GoldenfrankO · Post by **GoldenfrankO** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 1:08 pm

my favorite ones are

GuitarFun (Guitar Hero clone)
GBA Emulator (works Great)
NES Emulator (Never could get roms to load)
SNES Emulator (Works Great)
Wadit (Lets you download free official/custom Wiiware/VC games)

Post by **Skyone** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 11:43 pm

Jongamer wrote:he WAS, but had a change of heart, he will still continue to work on it.

Really? I got the leaked alpha a week ago (slow as a turtle to load disks), and I was surprised to see some games actually worked. Where did you hear he's going to continue working on it? It'd be great to actually get a native NTSC signal from it, I've had to use my multi-regional projector to play backups.

Jongamer · Post by **Jongamer** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 7:01 am

Skyone wrote:
Jongamer wrote:he WAS, but had a change of heart, he will still continue to work on it.
Really? I got the leaked alpha a week ago (slow as a turtle to load disks), and I was surprised to see some games actually worked. Where did you hear he's going to continue working on it? It'd be great to actually get a native NTSC signal from it, I've had to use my multi-regional projector to play backups.

http://www.tehskeen.com/forums/showthre ... 876&page=4

my source

extremesonic · Post by **extremesonic** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 8:32 am

NES Emulator(great w/minor sound bug)
SNES(great, based on SNES9x 1.51)
Genesis(Best of them all IMO)
GameGear/Master System(same level as the Genesis one)
GBA(Based on VBA, little choppy due to frameskips, is improving pretty quick)
GB/GBC(great)
TG-16(haven't tried it personally, suppose to do the job though)

N64(pretty early stages, but next release is suppose to improve greatly)
PS1(no official release, but good runs well considering 0 optimization to run on the Wii).

N64 and PS1 emulators are both being worked on by the same team, and they are very talented, so expect those to get better soon enough.

All the non portable emulators(not sure about the N64,PS1 and TG-16) support 4(in the SNES' case 5 I think) players in any combination of controllers, with custom controls.

Basically Wii homebrew is awesome, and keeps getting better.

Jongamer · Post by **Jongamer** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 9:53 am

I can't wait for PS1 CD-Rom support, so you can just pop the game into the Wii and play it on the emulator.

Cause I don't really feel like digging out my PS1 or PS2 and locating my memory cards and controllers.

I hope the same for a Saturn emulator.

*thinks for a min*

copulate, I forgot that the Wii can only read DVDs, not CDs.

I still wouldn't use that DVD player homebrew much, too much stress on the laser that was not built to play movies.

I still want to put a Crystal case on my Wii sometime, since my warrenty expired back in July.

kasar · Post by **kasar** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 12:11 pm

extremesonic wrote: N64 and PS1 emulators are both being worked on by the same team, and they are very talented, so expect those to get better soon enough.

they will make a wii "only" emulator versions? or they also will support native gamecube?
IÂ´m asking cause seems the gamecube homebrew is being forgoten fery fast.

anyway I know gamecube and wii arent very different, the wii also can execute GC homebrew, (GCOS and others run perfect), so I think they can compile also a Gc version without much trouble