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User AlexDP completed somewhat of a final release of his version of WBFS Manager 3.0.

Here is some of the change log.

Changes (3.0):
Added Channel Creation support. (Disabled by default, to enable go to Options->Channel Creation and Enable. Follow the instructions provided below.)
Added “Large Cover View”s, which are two side panels that display the cover for the currently selected item.
Added Automatically Check for Updates option (Requires Internet access, can be disabled).
Added the option to cancel batch operations (cancellation occurs as soon as the current item is finished).
Added drive status indicator under the left-hand list, blue shows amount of used space, green shows amount of used space after adding all entries from the “Games To Add” list.
Added Help menu option.
Added direct drive-to-drive copying for drive’s with similar sector sizes. Drive-To-Drive copying will now first check if it’s possible to do direct copying, if not it will revert to indirect copying.

Fixes (3.0):
Now automatically requests to Run as Administrator.
Fixed the estimated size being wrong for some games.
Fixed an issue with CSV files being exported incorrectly sometimes.
Save expander states, so the user doesn’t have to keep re-opening them each time.
Fixed Homebrew Channel creation. (Now using WiiCrazy’s USB Loader DOL instead of Yal).
Fixed an issue with the “Estimated Total Size” not updating correctly when games were removed from the right-hand list.
Now checks the filesystem type of a drive before loading to make sure it’s not NTFS, FAT or ext.
Fixed an issue with games with “:” or other special characters causing issues during batch extraction.
Fixed issue with game regions showing up incorrectly in initial 2.5 release.
Fixed issue with RAR files in subfolders not being detected during drag and drop operations.
Removed thousandth of a seconds from elapsed time in progress bar.
Fixed mislabled blocks status (was Blocks Used, should be Blocks Free).
Fixed some other minor issues.
Changed installer (now prompts for .NET 3.5 SP1 before installing, also gives options for installing langauges, etc).

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Thanks for the news tip by former admin KinG_Td

What can we say? We are all human, but that doesn’t excuse the lack of posts you may have witnessed in the past little while. For whatever reasons, the Wii scene has picked up at a time that is difficult for some to manage.

All things considered, consider this a heartfelt apology from the NES-Hacks team, and expect a plethora of goodies and updates.

Once again, we’re sorry, but the best is yet to come! Stay tuned!

brkirch has updated the resurrected GeckoOS and is now standing at v1.9

* Added channel loading with hooks, channel menu supports same database.txt format as AnyTitle Deleter MOD to replace the channel IDs with channel names (put database.txt at the root of the SD card)
* Ocarina works on channels
* ELF/DOL loading from geckoload now works
* Optionally the directory data/gecko can contain the codes folder, patch folder, gameconfig.txt, config.dat, and background.png instead of the root of the SD card
* GC memory cards are no longer detected as a USB Gecko
* Changed how exit works; if a loader other than the homebrew channel was used (or an old version of the HBC) it will return to the system menu
* Fixed a text overlapping bug that would happen if a disc error occurs and Ocarina is on

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The GBA emulator Visual Boy Advance has been updated to v2.0.0. A lot has been done to it since its last release. Here is the changelog you guys were looking for.

Tantric has released a new version of his port of Visual Boy Advance a Gameboy Mono, Color and Advance emulator for both the Nintendo Wii and Gamecube. Like his recent updates Visual Boy Advance GX features a completely new GUI thanks to Tantric’s own libwiigui among the other changes listed below.

What’s New?

* New GX-based menu, with a completely redesigned layout. Has Wiimote IR
support, sounds, graphics, animation effects, and more
* Thanks to the3seashells for designing some top-notch artwork, to
Peter de Man for composing the music, and a special thanks to shagkur for
fixing libogc bugs that would have otherwise prevented the release
* Onscreen keyboard for changing save/load folders and network settings
* Menu configuration options (configurable exit button, wiimote orientation,
volumes)
* New save manager, allowing multiple saves and save browsing. Shows
screenshots for Snapshot saves, and save dates/times
* Added video shifting option
* Added video mode selection (recommended to leave on Automatic)
* USB Mouse support (buttons only)
* Keyboard shift key bug fixed
* Built-in 14 colour palettes for some monochrome gameboy games (Magnetic
Soccer, Malibu Beach Volleyball, Marble Madness, Metroid 2, Mortal Kombat,
Mortal Kombat II, Mortal Kombat 3, Mr. Do!)
* Rumble works in GBC games designed for rumble cartridges but shipped
without rumble cartridges, such as Disney’s Tarzan for GBC
* Improved Mortal Kombat Wii Controls
* Mortal Kombat games now have many extra characters to choose
* Wii Controls for more Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games
* Improved Lego Star Wars controls
* Boktai menu now tells you when there can’t be sun because it is night
* Minor bug fixes

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User joedj has released Ftpii 0.0.19

Fixed spurious error when reading bad sectors from NAND.
Add support for SDHC Gecko. (thanks emu_kidid!)
Attempt to fix hang when auto-mounting DVD.
Fixed bug in libogc’s IOS_Open that caused hangs in /isfs.

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Im sure you guys out there are all wondering whats the deal with BootMii “any word on it?” Right? Well thats the case here as Bushing as posted an update on HackMii about BootMii.

Here it is straight from the horse.

Originally Posted by Bushing
Just a brief note, since I haven’t written in a while –

Yes, Marcan has shifted his attention to things non-Wii related. I can hardly blame him; the only reason any of us do what we do is because we find it fun, so when it stops being fun — what’s the point? He’s still around, if you know where to look, and I hope that once we release BootMii, we’ll see some neat projects emerge from it.

Yes, BootMii is still alive; I still can’t promise a release date, but most of the code has been written and we’re now to the point of testing it out and adding some polish. It’s been installed on about 12 Wiis so far and nobody’s been bricked; I hope that we can release a “public beta” within the next couple of weeks. (In this case, “public beta” will mean “we’ve tested this out quite a bit and are fairly confident that you won’t regret trying it, but not everything is finished and we can’t make too many promises). I would expect those of you who have older Wiis (i.e. those who have a vulnerable boot1) to have an easier time installing it, but we intend to eventually add support for as many of your Wiis as possible.

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Waninkoko strikes back with another application for the Wii!! Thats right he is at it again but this time releasing a different app for the Wii Scene. He has released a WAD Creator and currently standing at v1.0. This application lets you extract titles from the Wii (in WAD format) to an external device such as SD card.

[ DESCRIPTION ]:

- WAD Creator is an application that allows you to extract any title (application)
installed on the Nintendo Wii to a storage device in WAD format.

[ REQUISITES ]:

- Custom IOS36 rev 09 or above.

[ HOW TO USE ]:

- Run the application with any method to load homebrew. Choose the title you want to
extract from the list and select the storage device where you want to save it.

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As I was getting ready to write about Gecko v1.8 I come to find out v1.8.0.2 is out already released by Brkirch . This little app for the Wii is getting better and better. For those of you who forgot what Gecko is , its an application that lets you load games and change the region, uses Ocarina codes, has a USB Gecko option if you owned one of those wonderful devices. This app can be used without the USB Gecko but you are limited to the functions available. Even without there are still lots of cool features. Well here is the changelog without further ado.

Gecko 1.8.0.2

* GC memory card crash fixed thanks to Nuke
* A core dump that occurs on some Wiis when launching certain games should no longer occur
* Fixed code list start for gameconfig.txt
* A minor Ocarina fix to ensure ASM insert codes will work properly
* Exit no longer causes a core dump if Gecko was launched by a loader that lacks return to loader functionality (such as preloader); instead exit returns to the Homebrew Channel, or resets the Wii if the Homebrew Channel is not installed

Changelog for 1.8

* Multidol games work through Gecko’s game loader, rebooter is no longer required for them
* To ensure games are fully functional the game loader now uses the IOS requested by the game (as a result there is no 002 error, that error is due to game loaders booting a game with the wrong IOS)
* If a game requests an IOS that you don’t have, the game’s update partition will be searched for the IOS and the option to install the IOS will be given if it is found (if you have a modchip, turn off update blocking!)
* It is now possible to select not to load the debugger, which increases the number of code lines allowed by Ocarina
* New hooks have been added so that most (if not all) Wii games can be hooked
* Rebooter will use the hook selected on the config menu to hook games
* Rebooter is now compatible with preloader
* The menu interface has been improved, and you can load a custom background by creating a 640×480 PNG-24 file, naming it background.png, and putting it at the root of your SD card
* The menu configuration can be saved, and the saved configuration will be loaded automatically when Gecko starts

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The Homebrew Browser has been updated and released at v0.3

Here is the change log:

The Homebrew Browser has now been upgraded to v0.3. With this new version comes a much better design, usability and more information of applications. I highly recommend everyone to update and enjoy the new features.

* Brand new GUI (thanks DayDreamOz)
* Ability to scroll through applications without waiting to download images (images loading or being downloaded will show as “Image not found”)
* Images download in the background
* Much more information on applications which includes a longer description, author, version, size, date, SDHC support and controllers supported
* Shows the total amount of downloads for each application
* Ability to rate applications and shows an average rating
* Ability to queue applications for download in a download queue and download all at once
* Ability to sort applications by date, rating and download count
* Added background music (off by default, change loop.mod with your own music if you like)
* Uses threads
* Ability to move the cursor once downloading or extracting
* Ability to cancel extracting process
* Ability to work offline (by pressing the 1 Button when HBB is initialising the network)
* Ability to hide installed applications from the lists
* Checks for SD card to make sure there is enough free space before downloading each application
* Settings now include show SD card space, check free space, hide installed applications, retreive my rating, background music, rumble, update icon and offline mode
* Added lots of help screens
* Added widescreen support (thanks Cashman)
* Checks that server connected to is really www.codemii.com
* Added check to make sure the SD card isn’t locked
* Downloads all image files before loading HBB v0.3 the first time to make things faster

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A user over at WiiNewz by the name of AlexDP has updated his popular WBFS application for Windows. This is great news for you users out there who are using this cool app. The libwbds delete bug has been corrected and there are other great new features as well which have been added. The entire change log and add-ons can be viewed in the Source.

UPDATE:
An in-place update had been done to address the following problems so please redownload and reinstall:
-Fixed the libwbfs delete bug.
-Added functionality to help debug the “crash on startup” situations, namely what tommyv and kruy are facing.
-Added Spanish language support, coutesy of dgtor.

UPDATE:
Replaced the two download links with a new set with two additional features:
-Automatic cover downloading (You will be prompted the first time you run the program if you want to enable or disable this. You can also change this setting later from the Edit->Download Covers from Web menu). Please be a bit patient, it takes a couple of seconds to download as the site is somewhat slow. While it’s downloading you’ll see a placeholder image which will be automatically updated once the download is complete.
-Region code information
-Changed default location for covers to My DocumentsWBFS Manager Covers for better UAC compliance.

Fixes (2.2):
-Kept error messages from appearing when adding multiple files. If an error occurs, the entry will be marked with a red error symbol in the Games to Add list and a tooltip with the error message will appear if you hover the mouse over the icon.

Changes (2.2):
-Added multilingual support (currently only French, courtesy of TheCrach), contact me if you’d like to add support for your language.
-Added Hombrew Channel creation (not completely tested).
-Added Cover support. Hover mouse over an entry to see the cover.
-Now defaults the selected drive in the drive combo box to the last used drive.
-Item counts for both lists.
-Added Check for Updates to Help menu. Currently only links to WBFS Manager blog which will list updates. Plan to implement proper updater later to help everyone keep up to date.

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