Wii Motion Plus

Wii motion plus, the highly anticipated addition that was announced at Nintendo’s E3 2008 and featured in their 2009 E3 conference. What Wii motion plus offers is a more 1 to 1 control over what you are doing with the Wiimote, what this means is all the games that have had huge draw backs to the fact the controller has issues being picked up by its very own sensor sometimes, this improves that connection capability. You can currently get Wii Motion plus with EA’s Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10, Grand Slam Tennis, and you can also purchase it seperately.

Source:
http://complexgamer.com/wii-motion-plus

Load Games from HD with Wii 4.0 menu Hack

Last week Lifehacker shared a great hack to let you back up and play your Wii games from an external hard drive. That hack has been made easier by eliminating the need for a Wii downgrade.

Why would you want to play your games off a hard disk? Wii games cost anywhere from $20-50, while an external hard drive that can hold all your Wii games—assuming you don't already have one on hand—costs $100 or less. Backing up your games to an external hard drive attached to your Wii costs less than the replacing two premium games, and has the added benefit of loading your games radically faster.

Read full article here:
http://lifehacker.com/5280957/load-your-wii-games-from-a-hard-disk-part-ii

Wii-mote Skins

The year 2009 is full of new innovations from Nintendo Wii and its team. We are experiencing a new gaming experience thanks to the wonderful work of the staff. The massive market of amazing new Nintendo Wii games and with multi player mode give us the opportunity to play with our family or friends.

That is why I like havin different Wii remotes, different colors and now the Wii remote skins give me that occasion. You have many different colorful products that will satisfy your needs no mater if you are a women or man, you have colors from pink to green or blue and many others. Make your game play more colorful with the beautiful covers for your Wii remote.


More info:
http://www.squidoo.com/wiiremoteskins

Vitality Sensor info

At this year's E3 Expo, Nintendo revealed a new peripheral for Wii called the Vitality Sensor. This little gizmo fits on the end of your index finger and can measure certain stats about your body's state. Now some extra info has come out describing how it all works.

The Guardian newspaper says this device uses a small light sensor to look at your blood flow and calculate things like how hard you're breathing.


Source:
http://www.wiisworld.com/wii-news/wii-vitality-sensor-details.html

Nintendo DSi Hacking

Bushing from Hackmii has started a wiki to collect information related to to hacking the NDSi. It is released April 3rd in Europe and April 5th in the States. Stay tuned for more info! Or bookmark this wiki: http://dsibrew.org/wiki/Main_Page

Google Earth Homebrew on Wii

Check out Paulwagener's Google Earth app running on the Wii

Read More from the developer or download it at TehSkeen

Wii Hacking Message Board

While not related to this site in any way, it's been a while since i've posted and thought you might like to see this link.

http://www.wiihacks.com/forum.php

Here you can talk with other wii hackers about all sorts of wii related things. We don't run the forum, but it looks very active, so give it a try.

Gamecube and Classic controllers banned in US

Anascape, a texas based company, sued Nintendo for violating a patent of Anascape's controllers. Nintendo lost the lawsuit. Instead of paying the $21 Million bond, Nintendo has decided to take all the controllers off the shelves.

This isn't the first time Nintendo has been sued, but none have ended like this. As of July 23rd, no more Gamecube or Wii Classic controllers will be sold in the US.... bummer.

How will we play oldschool wii shop titles now?

[news via wiiusers.net]

Wii Homebrew Channel Launched

The Homebrew Channel is a homebrew application loader by Team Twiizers which allows users to load homebrew applications without having to run the Twilight Hack every time. Once installed, users can access the channel from the Wii Menu just like any other Wii channel. It can launch homebrew applications in dol or elf -- either from an SD card, or via TCP or USB Gecko using Wiiload. It is also capable of downloading online updates for itself.



The Homebrew Channel can be downloaded from the official site:
http://hbc.hackmii.com/

Wiibrew chainloader and Twilight Hack

Everything you need to know about the latest wii loader can be found on wii brew's wiki:
http://wiibrew.org/index.php?title=Twilight_Hack

The Twilight Hack works by employing a lengthly character name for the horse in the game ('Epona') in order to facilitate a stack smash. This gets triggered when talking to the man next to you when you start the savegame as he loads the name to use it in his dialog or upon entering the next zone when the game loads the horse for you to ride.

Nice work guys!

Homebrew is starting to trickle out. We have a wii mode MP3 player and a Wii SNES Emulator released recently. More to come soon, I'm sure...

All made possible by dumping ram. Kids, don't try this at home

Wii Hacked - First Homebrew Demo

Even better than Hello World, the hackers at 24c3 have figured out how to run their own code on the Wii. By using what they call a 'tweaser' method, they were able to launch the Wii in Gamecube mode then trick the chips into dumping their contents. After rummaging through the dumps they were able to pull out the encryption keys and used a hole in Lego Star Wars cd to boot their own code. The app they demo in the video shows output coming from the Wii-Mote, proving that it is running in Wii mode and not in Gamecube mode.Previously all homebrew was done in GC mode where memory and hardware was limited. Now with access to the Wii mode, homebrew developers can begin to write apps that take advantage of all the hardware, including wiimote, Wifi, Bluetooth, etc.



There are no additional details on when the information will be released so others may write their own apps from the wii. The next step is to get libraries built or obtain an sdk so more apps can begin to get ported to the Wii. It sounds like lots of work still needs to be done before we will see any useful applications come from the Wii homebrew scene, but 2008 is going to be a good year for wii hackers! Stay tuned@!


Read more:

viaWiiNintendo.net

Interview with the hacker who cracked the Wii

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UPDATE:

Additional Information from xiaNaix @ PSX-Scene:

* They got the wii keys, and we could use them without hacking our wii again.
* This hack requires a drive modchip to execute the code.
* There is not any tool to sign the code, but it’s coming soon.
* They are working to access to the SD thought EXI.
* There is not any stack homebrew for bluetooth
* A linux port for Wii will be released easily.

Head Tracking - VR using Wiimote

Johnny Chung Lee demo's his Head Tracking Virtual Reality system using the Wiimote.

Watch the video:

Wii Browser SDK - Javascript API Supports 4 Wiimotes

I came across this on Ajaxian. It looks like opera has opened up the Wii Internet Channel to developers. You can now use Javascript to poll data from all 4 wiimotes.

The Wii Remote data is accessed through the opera.wiiremote object. This object offers a single method opera.wiiremote.update(n) which is used to obtain the status of an individual Wii Remote. The method expects a single parameter; the Wii Remote number. The number is zero-based, so it starts at 0 for the first remote, and ends at 3 for the fourth remote. The method returns a KpadStatus object, which has several properties that give information about the remote. [source]

There is good info and examples here:
http://hullbreachonline.com/wii/sdk.html

Developers: If you create something using this new API, send me the link, and I will add it to the Wii Portal

Wii Maintenance Mode

Has anyone figured out what this does yet?

Hello,

You may be already aware of this, but the Wii has a maintenance mode that can be accessed by pushing the + and - buttons and then pushing A at start up. I just got a reply from Nintendo about an Inquiry. Feel free to post it. Here is the message unedited:

Message(#6851-000631-3638\6313638)

Hello,

At this time, the “Maintenance Mode” you discovered has no functionality for consumers. If at some future point a consumer application for this mode is made available, it will be revealed on our website (www.nintendo.com).

Even though it appears—with the exception of the Wii Message Board—that everything functions normally in this mode, we do not recommend using it at this time.

Sincerely,
Nintendo of America Inc.

Wii-Mote Driver for OSX Leopard

I don't have Leopard to try it out. Can anyone else answer his question?

Hi!

Just reading your page & curious to know if your app runs on Leopard?
http://wiihacks.blogspot.com/2006/11/wiimote-driver-for-osx-rvl-cnt-01.html

I have managed to connect the Wiimote as a 'remote control' in System Preferences, but as yet no additional control. Does your system allow for moving the mouse yet? I bought a battery-powered Sensor Bar, so ought to be good to go!

Looking forward to hearing from you!

-Guy