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Wii Homebrew Can Now Read Burned DVDs, Play PSP Games?
Posted by John Mahoney at 8:30 AM on July 19, 2008
Couple of news tidbits from the shadowy Wii homebrew scene today. First is what is supposedly the first custom Wii firmware that its author, Waninkoko, claims will allow the Wii to read burned DVDs without any hardware modification. And from the "just for the hell of it" department is a separate announcement of a PSP emulator running successfully on the Wii--albeit at a blazingly unplayable four to eight frames per second. The PSP emulator smells a bit more of fish than the DVD-R enabling firmware, but neither have been tested officially. [Waninkoko, DCEmu via Slashdot]
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Mr.SithNinja
Posted 9:06 AM 19/7/08
Looks like it was done in two pieces the "N0PSP" and the "7 fps" are squared off and you can tell the difference between the the real background and their overlay.
Mr.SithNinja
Mr.SithNinja
Posted 9:02 AM 19/7/08
If you take the pic and zoom in on the N0$PSP you can tell that it was Photoshopped on there. There is a lot of pixel distortion there.
Mr.SithNinja
rgshredder
Posted 9:02 AM 19/7/08
homebrew is wicked bad azz, but playing movies and media in that respect prematurely kills your dvd lens...If you're gonna drive by flame me for making this statement, do a bit of research before you do
rgshredder
HeartBurnKid, creepy morbid freak
Posted 8:59 AM 19/7/08
@spimoles: There is one. And it's AWESOME.
ScummVM is the shit -- it turns out that the Wiimote is the perfect way to play all those old LucasArts adventure games.
HeartBurnKid, creepy morbid freak
spimoles
Posted 8:55 AM 19/7/08
idk about this one.... my mom always told me not to flash my wii...
seriously though this looks really cool. wasn't aware that there was even a wii homebrew scene. Most of the people I know who own one are still just playing wii sports
spimoles
HeartBurnKid, creepy morbid freak
Posted 8:44 AM 19/7/08
I'd be wary of flashing my Wii's firmware -- that's something that's quite likely to come back and bite somebody in the ass.
Though I sooooooooo want to, just to say I did... :)
HeartBurnKid, creepy morbid freak
Mr.SithNinja
Posted 9:38 AM 19/7/08
@aR-Tard: The iPhone blows them both away! ;)
Mr.SithNinja
aR-Tard
Posted 9:24 AM 19/7/08
Come on now, we all know PSP has a much more powerful processor than the Wii...
aR-Tard
JEmlay
Posted 9:20 AM 19/7/08
If true and if they can get PSP to 30 fps then I'd buy a second Wii in a heart beat.
JEmlay
crapcakes
Posted 11:16 AM 19/7/08
Is homebrewing for the Wii just one of those "becuase you can" sort of things?
crapcakes
hammertime94
Posted 11:36 AM 19/7/08
@hammertime94: On second thought...
hammertime94
hammertime94
Posted 11:35 AM 19/7/08
@Mr.SithNinja: It's a 480 x 272 game outputed at 640 x 480 on a 1920 x 1080 screen. There will obviously be some distortion.
hammertime94
aznplayer213
Posted 2:49 PM 19/7/08
seriously i really hope someone, someday will just mod a wii and put in a GTX280 and maybe a q9450....probably a 780i to tie it off...
aznplayer213
Pablos102030
Posted 4:24 PM 19/7/08
locoroco + wii remote = AWESOME
Pablos102030
jayhawk11
Posted 5:03 PM 19/7/08
@aznplayer213: Is it too much to ask for a flux capacitor, too?
jayhawk11
bookmark
Posted 9:52 PM 19/7/08
@HeartBurnKid, creepy morbid freak:
at least your one gets to run sports, my one only gets to eat dust
bookmark
Numerous
Posted 2:09 AM 20/7/08
@rgshredder: (Read this comment as a serious question, not a flame or attack) Why would using the drive to read discs make it burn out? Isn't that what it is designed for?
Numerous
Hand_O_Death
Posted 4:17 AM 20/7/08
So people bitch about the PSP because they dont want to play the regular games on it and just want to play homebrew, then they hack the Wii to play the PSP games that they did not want to play on the PSP. I totally understand.
Hand_O_Death
DJTripleRRR
Posted 5:34 AM 20/7/08
no$psp... Hmm well it's feasible that there is a no$psp since there's a no$gba that almost perfectly emulator ds and plenty of other no$ emulators
DJTripleRRR
somebody-else
Posted 2:30 PM 19/7/08
@aR-Tard: Come on now, we all know the Wii has at least 4 times more good games than the PSP (for that matter, it has more good games than any other system, save for the PC). Processing power has nothing to do with the quality of a game.
@Mr.SithNinja: You must have a lot of free time to dissect pictures to see if they're photoshopped. Or you just go ahead and assume things are fake. You remind me of xkcd comic #331.
somebody-else
MichaelFanuimor
Posted 11:52 AM 19/7/08
re: "I'd be wary of flashing my Wii's firmware -- that's something that's quite likely to come back and bite somebody in the ass." Isn't it funny when people don't know what the word literally means? :)
MichaelFanuimor
HeartBurnKid, creepy morbid freak
Posted 3:23 AM 22/7/08
"re: "I'd be wary of flashing my Wii's firmware -- that's something that's quite likely to come back and bite somebody in the ass." Isn't it funny when people don't know what the word literally means? :) "
@MichaelFanuimor: It's even funnier when somebody reads words where they have not been used.
CTRL-F + "literally" = only your post (and now this one, I guess).
HeartBurnKid, creepy morbid freak
Mr.SithNinja
Posted 4:41 AM 22/7/08
@somebody-else: You seem to have as much free time as i do if you have time to comment on someone else's comment... It's not like it was an involving process. The pic didn't look right so, Right-click save, open with MS Pic Viewer, click zoom icon..... Took longer to type this than do that...
Mr.SithNinja