Many of you have been using the Homebrew Channel for the Wii for a while now. Good for you, it’s a useful, useful thing. But did you know it was, technically, in beta?
And now it’s, kinda, out of beta. Version 1.00 has been released, and while it’s not technically a finished version, it does bring with it a ton of neat features, like Classic Controller support, the ability to detect all four Wii Remotes and support for Guitar Hero peripherals.
The full list of changes/improvements
• meta.xml now handles all ISO-8859-1 characters properly (you can use either UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1 encoding, but UTF-8 is restricted to the ISO subset)
• Wiimote power button support (shutdown)
• Wiimote rumble honors system setting
• Fixed some crash bugs
• Fix meta.xml UNIX style newline regression
• All wiimotes work now, not just the first one (only one can point at a time though)
• Classic Controller support
• Nunchuk support (scroll only, using the stick)
• Guitar Hero 3 guitar support
• Left and right change pages too
• Hit 1 on Wiimote to retry the network connection (like clicking on the network icon or Z on the GC pad)
• Added information to the installer
• Fixed some networking issues with networking disabled (and possibly other bugs)
• Pushed in some text to avoid overscan crop
• Widened video width to match system menu (”black bars” fix)
• B returns from app screen (unless scrolling with B-hold)
• Try to initialize network earlier (slight speedup)
• Retry network initialization a few times
• Fix a networking issue (libogc problem)
• Reload stub now identifies itself (magic number, for future use)
• Support broken HTTP proxies in update check
• Show IOS revision in main menu
• () -> * (Hint: old-school Wiimote support needed what? Try it both ways.)
Provided you know your way around the homebrew setup, go try it out, let us know how it goes.