HackMii

I didn’t think that I had to explicitly say this, but I see the same things come up over and over again, so I’m hoping I can clear this up for people.

The Wii is not a PSP, or an Xbox, or any other console system.   Stop making guesses about the Wii based on your experience with other consoles.  It Doesn’t Work Like That.
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The Homebrew Channel beta 8 is out. This fixes most of the bugs that we found in beta 7, and incorporates many new libogc fixes.

Changelog:

• you don’t need to eject your memcards anymore
• switched from IOS35 to IOS21, this makes the hbc usable on older firmwares
• improved SD card loading performance (thanks, svpe!)
• improved some translations
• the IP label isn’t cut off anymore
• fixed argv support when loading SD apps
• fixed a minor wiiload issue
• the SD app entries are now sorted alphabetically
• wiimote rumble support
• installer overhaul, it now warns you if your System Menu is too new (future updates)

Grab it at the Official Site

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 sockets), front SD slot support, argv support … and the list just goes on and on.   Many of these features were available if you were willing to hack on CVS versions, but this is a solid release that should result in a lot of nice homebrew apps in the coming weeks.

WinterMute and shagkur put a lot of hard work into this; give it a try and consider supporting the devkitPro project.

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