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First True Homebrew Released

First True Homebrew Released

After a couple of months of anticipation, and a lot of speculation, Today sees the release of the first real and publically available homebrew.

Designed by auby.no, Tetris for Wii utilises the previously released Zelda Exploit to enable booting of the ELF file. Now Tetris is as good as Tetris gets, the same old game that we all know. But it is a start, and quite a valid start which will lead to some extremely exciting material to follow.

To do this on your own Wii you will need the following:

- An Account at www.wiinewz.com

- a Wii (cmon I had to put it.... but in all seriousness, it doesnt matter if its modded or not)

- Zelda HAck (Latest Release at time of writing was V0.1-alpha2) which can be downloaded from here: psx-scene.com/

- Tetris Elf File: psx-scene.com/

- SD Gecko adapter or similar device

- Gamecube controller (as yet they still havent released the drivers for the wiimote)

Instructions are in the readme file.

For those that dont want to do this or dont have a Gecko, then you can watch the video:



Enjoy

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Source: http://wiibrew.org

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annirowe 20/02/2008
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XxNathanXx
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AWSOME im gonan try it right now
leeman34
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wow its sounding like its stepping up now
thegame10
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is it me or does it look like he's thrown his wiimote at his tv? theres like a red mark there, unless its the camera

looks good nonetheless
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annirowe
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XxNathanXx said: AWSOME im gonan try it right now



Well that was 3 hours ago... Any luck?
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Stormstruk
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I still don't get this.

Now he can load a tetris game?

Or is this because he can now bypass the Wii security settings and play ANY game, when it's finished?
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LostDjinn
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That's great news.

Now we just need some app's created for the Wii to make use of. A USB hard drive driver springs instantly to mind.
annirowe
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Stormstruk said: I still don't get this.

Now he can load a tetris game?

Or is this because he can now bypass the Wii security settings and play ANY game, when it's finished?



Yes he can load a tetris game. A game that wasnt signed by Nintendo. So put you mind to good use and think about all the other apps you ma want to run on your wii. What about home automation from the wii Channels, Homebrew games (ie. The original Duck hunt), etc etc
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jotendo
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Awesome,
they'll have to make some awesome ones, like some original NES games or SNES, or 64 if possible.
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Sarukun
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WOW........ i like it!!!
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annirowe
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If you are having trouble getting it onto the sd card then try this:

wiibrew.org/
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DoGGpound
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Very exciting... now let's hope they make some Homebrew worth bothering with.
Tsunamo
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is an sd gekko adapter just a sd card of any type for wii
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annirowe
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Tsunamo said: is an sd gekko adapter just a sd card of any type for wii



No a Gecko is an adapter originally for the Gamecube. It plugs into the Gamecube memory ports. You then put an SD card inside the Gecko so that the Wii can read it.
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Guitar2012
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Where Do You get that Gecko thing
WiiWillRoc
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oooooooooo ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh oooohhhh eeeeee ahhhhh oooo etc.
annirowe
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Guitar2012 said: Where Do You get that Gecko thing



In Canada??? Cant help you there! Myself and a lot of others here swear by Ozmodchips www.ozmodchips.com Im sure he posts overseas but you may be able to find someone closer, Oh and here you go... www.modchip.ca/

Thats from Wiinewz so they should be pretty good.
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JellyWoo
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can't you just plug in your sd card into the slot in the wii without using an SD Gecko adapter?
annirowe
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JellyWoo said: can't you just plug in your sd card into the slot in the wii without using an SD Gecko adapter?



No not yet. The havent developed the drivers to take advantage of the SD card slot yet. It will come. You can hard wire a gecko internally but why do that when we will have SD access soon.
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wkm122
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Hmm... This has been out for 2 days already... I was going to post this, but the last homebrew news article I put never made it very far.

What is this whole SD Gecko thing that everyones talking about?
BBking
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wkm122 said: Hmm... This has been out for 2 days already... I was going to post this, but the last homebrew news article I put never made it very far.
What is this whole SD Gecko thing that everyones talking about?



From scrolling down and reading pervious threads, it sounds like GameCube accepts SD cards as their memory cards? Wii's don't accept SD cards so you put the SD card in the SD Gekko so the Wii can read it?
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