System Menu 4.2 caused quite a bit of grief not only for the Wii homebrew community but to the general Wii populace as well. While we haven't heard anything from Nintendo yet about the latter, we do have good news for the homebrew fans out there: a new version of Bannerbomb has been released.

Download: Bannerbomb Alpha v2

Team Twiizers is back to release a new update of HackMii Installer, a handy homebrew utility that is capable of installing the latest update of the Homebrew Channel, BootMii public beta 4, and DVDX v2 on any version of the Nintendo Wii's system menu. The latest update is set to counter the recently release Wii System Menu Update 4.2.


Download: HackMii installer v0.5

Team Twiizers is back to release another homebrew exploit for the Nintendo Wii called Indiana Pwns. According to the dev team, Indiana Pwns is a safe and public way to enable homebrew on the  Wii without hardware modification. More after the break.


Download: Indiana Pwns v1.1

If you're reading this, I'm sure you would be expecting Nintendo news spanning across E3. But since we're doing a QuickPeek feature on E3, we're gonna stick with the news outside the Electronic Entertainment Expo for now. Besides, there's still some non-E3 info that you might wanna catch up on, especially this week's lineup of great homebrew, so you can get those on this week's recap.

This week is heavy on the Wii. We've got publishers and first party devs all looking to pack more games for the Wii. There's Bethesda and their big plan, XSEED and their Ju-on game, some from Capcom, and even a dead rumor rises from the grave to come to the Wii. To cut a long story short, the Nintendo Wii is gonna get swarmed by new games in 2009. There's some good news for the DS and the homebrew side too, so be sure to read up on the recap, brought to you by the Nintendo Weekend Warrior.

Homebrew coder Comex has released a new update for Bannerbomb. Bannerbomb is an exploit that allows the user to load a .dol or .elf file from an SD card. It also allows users to run homebrew on System Menu 4.0 and all previous versions. The new update fixes some bugs and added new features.


Download: Bannerbomb Alpha 1 v108

Wiibrew developer comex has found an exploit on the Wii's System Menu that could render modchips and the Twilight Hack obsolete. Not a lot of details have been released yet, but a preview video has been released. Watch it after the link.

Team Twiizers has looked through the Wii's new System Menu 4.0 (the one that has the new SD Card Menu) and found out a few interesting things about it. The best news for homebrewers is that both the Homebrew Channel and DVDX are still working. The bad news is that the Twilight Hack no longer works.

Thanks to the efforts of the Wiibrew community, DVD playback is now possible on the Wii (albeit it has to be modded), which brings us back to the question, why wasn't it already possible in the first place? Well, it was. Nintendo just disabled it.

Fresh off Team Twiizer's spectacular announcement comes waninkoko's own. The Wii homebrew dev has released the latest build to his custom firmware software programs: the Custom IOS Installer and Uninstaller. He's even released a new downgrader program. Details in the full article.

A big thanks to linkinworm for the heads up in the forums!



Download: Custom IOS37 rev03
Download: Custom IOS Uninstaller v1.1
Download: Custom IOS Downgrader v1.0
Visit: QJ.NET Wiibrew Forums, Custom Firmware Programs Thread