Cheapest XBox 360 Deal
I almost bought an XBox 360 at Walmart this weekend, but a friend convinced me not to. The reason being is that Dell sells them and they often have coupons. I scoured the ‘Net yesterday for the best XBox 360 deal and finally found it. Indeed it was with Dell.
Run Anything on your Wii with BootMii
The good folks at HackMii are working on a new project they call BootMii. BootMii provides a hook into the Wii system very early in the booting process (at boot2). Being able to execute code early in the boot process will allow homebrew developers to essentially do anything they want.
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Play Wii DVDR Backups without a Modchip
Back in July of this year, bushing over at Hackmii announced that he had identified a potential security issue that would allow pirated games Wii games to be played on an unmodified Wii console. It appears that Nintendo did respond to his post and he has since begun a dialogue with them to explain his findings. It seems that now bushing is not the only one to have identify an exploit for playing DVD backups on an unmodded Wii. WiiGator at Tehskeen not only found an exploit, but he took it a step further and released a backup launcher complete with source code. Read more…
Advertisement on YouTube for Wario Land: Shake It
Nintendo has a brilliant advertisement on YouTube for Wario Land: Shake It on YouTube. It starts out more or less like any other video you might see of a video game. However, at one point you start to see coins fly out of the video and into the web page! The video starts to shake around and the web page starts to fall to pieces. It has to be the best YouTube video ad I’ve seen to date.
SaveMii Wii Recovery Dongle
Hackmii has a story about a Wii recovery dongle that Team Twiizers has developed. The SaveMii is a small PCB that you plug into the GameCube memory slot that forces the Wii into recovery mode. This allows some manner of recovery by allowing updates from game discs to take place or running an autoboot disc if you have a drive chip installed.
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Free Alternative to Good Old Games
Kotaku posted a story yesterday about the launch of Good Old Games. There’s no doubt that I love classic gaming, be it playing NES games on my Wii or old PC games. If the price is right, Good Old Games could definitely make some money serving a niche market. However, if you’re cheap like me, there is an alternative that won’t cost you a dime.
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New Release of NES Emulator for Wii
A couple of days ago, version 2.0.0 of FCE Ultra GX for the Wii/Gamecube was released (it is a port of FCE Ultra 0.98.12 for Windows/Linux). Until yesterday, I had been using a hacked version that provided Wiimote support. The official version now provides Wiimote support and it is much better than the hack I was using. There are some nice menu enhancements and game settings are now saved in an XML file on the SD memory card. There is also preliminary support for loading/saving via a network share, although I haven’t had any luck with it.
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New Social Network for Gamers
Bwana put together a nice video about Raptr, the new social network for gamers. As Bwana will tell you, Raptr is similar to other clients that will track what you’re currently playing on different gaming platforms. Raptr supports XBox 360, PS3, Wii, PC, and Mac. Any of your friends that have the client installed will see what you’re playing. In addition to having a client, it will also tie into other social networks such as Twitter, FriendFeed, and Facebook. It also outputs an RSS feed for integrating with blogs and news readers. I signed up and started checking it out, and so far I like what I see. If you join and you want to be my friend, my nickname is GeekLad.
