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Entries from June 2008

devkitPPC r15 now out

June 5th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Just a quick note to those who haven’t already seen this — devkitPPC r15 is now out.  Together with libogc-060208, there’s a tremendous amount of Wii goodness there for any developer.  Most (if not all) of the special features that we used in the Homebrew Channel — Stable Wiimote code, networking (including listening and non-blocking […]

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Dual NAND Flash hack

June 3rd, 2008 · 41 Comments

ChipD has done a lot of work lately with the actual, physical NAND Flash chip on the Wii, and he just told me about his latest feat — two chips installed in one Wii, with a switch to toggle between them.  More pictures and info after the break.

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WADs and ISOs: The Warez Connection

June 1st, 2008 · 53 Comments

There still seems to be some confusion about why we turn our noses up at WAD-manipulation tools, so I think an analogy is in order.  A WAD Installer is like an ISO Loader. Why? WAD files and ISO files are very similar, in fact.  They are container formats (like ZIP files and TAR archives), which […]

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