Since the launch of the Wii Homebrew Channel is a phenomenal achievement for the Wii homebrew scene, it's only right other developers have cause to celebrate in their own ways.

In honor of the launch, developers tehpola, sepp256, and emu_kidid have released Wii64, a Nintendo 64 emulator for the Wii.

The N64 seems to be popular these days; developer Wally also released a beta of the Daedalus R14 for the PSP - the platform's own N64 homebrew emulator.

Reports say that the emulator is still slow, and there's still a lot of graphical issues, but nevertheless this is still great progress. Hopefully we'll get to see a fully working version in the near future. Here are the developer's notes:

What's New?

• glN64 Port
• MEM2 ROM Cache for Wii (fits 32MB ROMs)
• libfat support (Front Slot & SD Gecko now work)
• libsdcard support (RIP)
• Save/Load on Wii Filesystem
• Progressive video support
• Embedded font support for Qoob users
• Threaded audio
• Various GX_gfx fixes
• Reworked input plugin
• Modular controller input
• Classic controller support
• Developer Features submenu
• Toggle FPS/Debug display

Download: Wii64