The Unofficial Homebrew Channel for the Wii is Live
By Shawn on Monday, May 26th, 2008 at 3:21 PM PST In Computer, Game Companies, Game Consoles, Game Platforms, Game Related Science, Gamer Life, Games, Nintendo, Nintendo
There’s been talk about Homebrew for the Wii since it came out. The homebrewers’ dream has become reality as The Homebrew Channel is now live. This interface is designed to make testing out new code and launching homebrew easy.
The Homebrew Channel is a tool that can be installed on any Wii (no hardware mods required) that lets you run unsigned homebrew software from an SD card, or upload executables via WiFi or a USBGecko. We’ve tried to make it friendly for users with a simple GUI, and powerful for developers with direct upload features and reloading which we hope will make testing less painful. The channel can be installed using a DVD if you have a modchip, or using an exploit in Zelda: Twilight Princess which only requires an SD card (or any future hack or booting method). Once installed, it simply shows up as a Channel on the Wii Menu, just like any official channel. Hopefully, this and other recent developments (such as the upcoming devkitPPC r15 toolchain, much improved and with many bugs fixed) will help make the Wii an appealing platform for DIY software. And yes, it also runs Linux.
Here’s a video of the beta version of The Homebrew Channel:
You can download the client from the official Homebrew Channel website.
via Slashdot
