Homebrew Wii Homebrew

[Geren]

I decided to make a new thread that gives a better view on the best homebrew around. There are few lists of good homebrew and most of them are outdated. The current essentials lists is one of them since it's old, and it only reflects Guild's own preferences. This one aims to be like the other essentials lists, in which everyone can vote and add entries.

Let's make this new one together.

Guidelines

• This is the homebrew section, so let's try to keep back-up loaders and that sort of stuff for its own section. System utilities like DOP-Mii or MMM are welcome thought.
• If you want to add new entries, don't edit your post. It's probable that I don't see it, so instead make a new one.
• When adding new entries, please try to follow this format:
  
  
  
  
  
  Category
  +1. Name of the application. (Brief Description). Link to the coder's/google code/wiibrew page.

Essentials (10 votes or more)

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Games:
Emulators:
Utilities:

Reccomended (More than 6 votes)

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Games:
Emulators:
Utilities:

Noteworthy (More than 3 votes)

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Games:

Emulators:
[5] Snes9xGx (Snes emulator with many features and nice gui)
[4] Wii64 (Work in progress Nintendo 64 emulator)
[4] WiiSX (Play Station 1 emulator with good rom compatibility)

Utilities:
[5] WiiXplorer (Lets you explore and manage files on devices attached to your wii)
[5] SaveGame Manager GX (Allows you to extract or install save files and miis from your wii to your SD)
[4] WiiMC (Multimedia application in which you can see movies, pictures, play music and more.)

Others (3 votes or less)

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Games:
[2] Desert Bus (The most realistic driving simulator ever made)
[2] QuakeGx (Port of the classic first person shooter)
[2] Nowhere (First-person graphical adventure, kinda like Silent Hill)
[2] Wii Doom (Port of the classic first person shooter)
[1] Descent (Port of the classic first person shooter)
[1] Helium Boy (3d plataformer inspired in Ballon Fight)
[1] Hexen Wii (Port of the classic first person shooter)
[1] Heretic Wii (Port of the classic first person shooter)
[1] Super Mario War (Multiplayer Super Mario, ported to the Wii)
[1] Don't get Crushed (Try to survive as a little ball)
[1] Masteroids (Simple and fun destroying-asteroids game)
[1] Newo Shooter (Science! spaceship shooter)
[1] Bolthrower (Spacehip shoot'em up)
[1] StillAliveWii (2D game based on the game Portal)
[1] WiiTriis (Classic Tetris ported and updated to the Wii. It can use your Miis)
[1] OpenBOR (Beat'em Up game engine with many available mods)
[1] Piero's Wiicross (Puzzle Picross game)
[1] WiiX-Ball (Ball&Paddle game based on DX-Ball)
[1] Wii Double Down (Blackjack card game. It can use your Miis)
[1] Abuse Wii (Port of the 2d dark platform game adapted to the Wii)

Emulators:
[3] VBA Gx ( Emulates Gameboy, Gameboy Color and Advance)
[3] Genesis Plus GX (Genesis / Sega Mega Drive / Master System / Game Gear / SG-1000 emulator with a lot of features)
[3] FCE Ultra GX (NES emulator with many features and nice gui)
[3] VBA Gx ( Emulates Gameboy, Gameboy Color and Advance)
[2] ScummVM (Point & Click, graphical adventures games emulator)
[2] Wiimednafen (Multi-Emulator. Supports many kinds of consoles including Virtual Boy, WonderSwan, Lynx and more)
[1] SDL MAME Wii (Arcade machines emulator)
[1] Hugo-Wii (PC Engine / TurboGrafx16 emulator)
[1] SMSPlus (Sega Master System and Game Gear emulator)
[1] Mighty Channels (Nand emulator that only runs channels. There's a mod of it.)

Utilities:
[3] Priiloader (Helps to recover from some bricks, block updates and even load homebrew)
[3] Syscheck (Evaluates and reports your system's IOS, cIOS, etc.)
[2] Postloader3 (Homebrew browser, nand emulator and more)
[2] MymenuifyMOD (Homebrew that allows you to install themes on your wii system menu)
[2] Multi-Mod Manager (All-in-one wii modification tool)
[2] B.L.I.N.D! (Tool that let's recover from some bricks)
[1] Settings Editor GUI (Wii settings editor application)
[1] WiiMod (Wii Modification utility capable of many tasks)
[1] nswitch (Allows you to change between differents nands. To be used with neek2o)
[1] RawkSD (Install custom songs on games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band)
[1] Homebrew Browser (Browse, download, update and even delete games and applications with your wii)
[1] ONScripter (Visual Novel engine)
[1] txtEd (Simple text file editor)


[1] Homebrew Channel/bootmii (Homebrew launcher)

Things I've voted on

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Games:
+1 Nowhere (First-person graphical adventure, kinda like Silent Hill) http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Nowhere
+1 Helium Boy (3d plataformer inspired in Ballon Fight) http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Helium_Boy
+1 Super Mario War (Multiplayer Super Mario, ported to the Wii) http://wiibrew.org/w...r_Mario_War_Wii
+1 Wii Doom (Port of the classic first person shooter) http://wiibrew.org/wiki/WiiDoom
+1 QuakeGx (Port of the classic first person shooter) http://wiibrew.org/wiki/QuakeGX
+1 Don't get Crushed (Try to survive as a little ball) http://thatotherdev.com/2010/08/05/dont-ge...93-wii-windows/
+1 StillAliveWii (2D game based on the game Portal) http://wiibrew.org/wiki/StillAliveWii
+1 WiiTriis (Classic Tetris ported and updated to the Wii) http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Wiitriis

Emulators:
+1 FCE Ultra GX (NES emulator with many features and a nice looking gui) http://code.google.com/p/fceugc/
+1 Snes9xGx (Snes emulator with many features and a nice looking gui) http://code.google.com/p/snes9x-gx/
+1 Wii64 (Work in progress Nintendo 64 emulator) http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Wii64
+1 WiiSX (Play Station 1 emulator with good rom compatibility) http://wiibrew.org/wiki/WiiSX
+1 Wiirtual Boy (Emulator of the rare Virtual Boy console) http://www.wiibrew.o...iki/WiirtualBoy
+1 Genesis Plus GX (Genesis / Sega Mega Drive / Master System / Game Gear / SG-1000 emulator with a lot of features) http://code.google.com/p/genplus-gx/

Utilities:
+1 Syscheck (Evaluates and reports your system's IOS, cIOS, etc.) http://www.wiibrew.org/wiki/SysCheck
+1 WiiMC (Multimedia application in which you can see movies, pictures, play music and more.) http://www.wiimc.org/
+1 WiiXplorer (Lets you explore and manage files on devices attached to your wii) http://www.wiibrew.org/wiki/WiiXplorer
+1 Multi-Mod Manager (All-in-one wii modification tool) http://mmm4wii.posterous.com/
+1 SaveGame Manager GX (Allows you to extract or install save files and miis from your wii to your SD) http://www.wiibrew.o...Game_Manager_GX
+1 MymenuifyMOD (Homebrew that allows you to install themes on your wii system menu) http://code.google.com/p/mymenuifymod/

Now everybody please lend me your votes! °/

 

[tueidj]

Games:
+1 Desert Bus: The most realistic driving simulator ever made. http://www.wiibrew.org/wiki/Desert_Bus

 

[chaosdarkneo]

Games:
+1 Nowhere
+1 QuakeGX
+1 Desert Bus

Emulators:
+1 Wii64
+1 WiiSX

Utilities:
+1 SysCheck
+1 B.L.I.N.D. (settings editor that can be booted into with a recovery disk/mode)
+1 SaveGame Manager GX

 

[SifJar]

+1 B.L.I.N.D. (settings editor that can be booted into with a recovery disk/mode)

Do you have a link for that? Never heard of it before, and can't find anything with Google...

EDIT: Never mind, my uber Google skills found it: http://tinyurl.com/BLIND-Wii

 

[chaosdarkneo]

Sure.

Here

 

[tueidj]

It's just Wii Mod with some cosmetic changes.

 

[chaosdarkneo]

It's just Wii Mod with some cosmetic changes.

BLIND automatically forces NTSC Output so it can be run on almost any TV and is a lot more user-friendly.

Either way, it still is better than WiiMod.

 

[tueidj]

Forcing NTSC mode means changing one line of code, not rebranding the entire app. If you've got a TV that can't display NTSC (I live in a PAL country so don't tell me all TVs can handle NTSC) it's not better at all - it's useless.

 

[Geren]

Added the votes so far.
And btw, if anyone doesn't like an application he's not forced to use it

there's no need to bash it.

 

[JoostinOnline]

Woot! Something of mine was mentioned!

Forcing NTSC mode means changing one line of code, not rebranding the entire app. If you've got a TV that can't display NTSC (I live in a PAL country so don't tell me all TVs can handle NTSC) it's not better at all - it's useless.

It was more than one line of code, lol. Besides, I added several more features to it.

PS: He said "almost any TV".

Edit: Not voting as my vote wouldn't be seen as unbiased.

 

[tueidj]

It was more than one line of code, lol.

This is how apps select the video mode automatically:

rmode = VIDEO_GetPreferredMode(NULL);

Here's how to force NTSC mode:

rmode = &TVNtsc480IntDf;

Anything else is unnecessary.

 

[newo]

Games
+1 Newo Shooter (science!)
+1 Masteroids http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Masteroids
+1 BoltThrower http://wiibrew.org/wiki/BoltThrower

Emulators:
+1 Snes9xGx

Apps;
WiiMC WiiMC (Wii Media Centre) is an open source media player for the Nintendo Wii.

 

[Shano56]

USB Loaders: +1 USB Loader GX http://usbloadergx.koureio.net/
+1 SaveGame Manager GX
+1 WiiXplorer
+1 Priiloader

 

[Aijelsop]

Priiloader +1
MyMenuify Mod +1 (http://code.google.com/p/mymenuifymod/)
USBLoaderGX +1
Wiiflow +1

 

[Geren]

Updated the main posts, as there is still some interest in this.

Still keeping out usb loader for the reason described in the guidelines.

 

[CyborGamer]

Might consider replacing Wiirtual Boy with WiiMednafen instead, since the the VB support is apparently better.

Anyways:

Emulators
+1 Snes9x GX
+1 VBA GX
+1 Gen Plus GX
+1 WiiSX

Utilities
+1 USB Loader GX
+1 NeoGamma
+1 Savegame Manager GX



Does OpenBOR count as game, emulator, or utility? A +1 for that too.

 

[kylster]

The main app I use is WiiMod so +1 for it; the 2nd app I use is nswitch for neek2o and postloader3 but I'm not sure if these are accepted cause I do not know what catagory they would fall unders so in summary:
WiiMod +1
nswitch +1
PostLoader3 +1

 

[Taleweaver]

I don't see how USB loaders aren't homebrew, yet emulators are. So does neogamma count as homebrew (depending how you look at it, it's emulating a gamecube) or as an USB loader? And what about swiss?


Anyway...from what I've used:

Games:
Descent
Piero's wiicross
wiidoom
heretic
hexen
Wiix-ball


Emulators:
neek2o (it's emulating a wii on a wii )
mighty channels
wiisx
wii64
SDL MAME wii
scummVM
snes9xgx
fceultra gx
viirtual boy (may have to check out that wiimednafen thing)
vbagx
genesis plus gx (note that it now emulates master system games as well)

Utilities:
HBC/bootmii (duh!)
POSTLOADER3!!!
MODMII!!!
wiixplorer
Settings editor
wiiMC
rawksd
priiloader
MMM (I prefer this over wiimod and dop-IOS, but it's mostly because it works under 'neek)
savegame manager gx
syscheck

 

[SifJar]

NeoGamma does not emulate GC. It "simply" loads GC using the Wii's native GC hardware emulation.

 

[kylster]

(I prefer this over wiimod and dop-IOS, but it's mostly because it works under 'neek)

what cIOS do yo have on your neek nand? I have the latest public beta of d2x v7d[249base56] Wii mod boots with an error but if you keep pressing B it will load after displaying the error 3 times and works fine after that. I have received a code dump but it was only when using the Any Title Deleter function of WiiMod in neek.