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Play DVDs on your Wii

August 30th, 2008

The news is a couple of weeks old now, but I just got around to testing it out last night. Over at HackMii, Erant announced the release of a ‘hidden channel’ (DVDX) which allows homebrew software to access the DVD drive. It requires the famous Twilight hack or a modchip, like all Wii homebrew so far.

What this means, is that using DVDX installer with Mplayer, you can now watch regular DVDs using your Wii, in addition to regular video files (ie DivX, Xvid, AVI, MPEG-2, WMV etc) placed on the SD-card. It’s kind of dumb that Nintendo simply didn’t include this capability from the start …. anyhow, nice to see the homebrew community has come to the rescue.

Rather than re-iterate here how to set it all up, see the WiiBrew guide and Erants post for instructions.


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The Pinnacles of Awesomeness: Strong Bad hits WiiWare

August 12th, 2008

It’s been pretty quiet here at the Frwee Wii Blog for the last few months. But I can’t resist quickly mentioning that Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People: Episode 1: Homestar Ruiner has been released on WiiWare. You can check out a demo on PC too. This is one of the strongest (pun slightly intended) additions the WiiWare offerings to date, especially for fans of the Homestar Runner and Strong Bad Flash cartoons, or those that enjoy point and click adventures like Sam and Max Hit the Road (the more recent incarnation of which has also been developed by Telltale Games).

Via The Tanooki, among others.


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Wiimote Man in the PS3 Queue

July 12th, 2008

It’s two years old, and pretty stupid, but I wonder how many people in that line wish they’d bought a Wii (or a two :) ) now …


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Viidelectrix Flash games for the Wii - Awesomeness !

July 6th, 2008

From the team the brought you Homestar Runner, Strong Bad, Trogdor the Burninator and Limozeen comes … Viidelectrix for the Wii.

Always nice to see more Wii-specific Flash games … even better when it is neo-retro-coolness like this !


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The Conduit - Trailer

May 18th, 2008

Hot on the heels of the latest MadWorld trailer comes … The Conduit.

If they get online multiplayer right with this one, things are really looking up for hardcore gamers with a Wii.

(Via N+)


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