After months of anticipation, Team Twiizers has finally released the first public beta of BootMii. This Wiibrew app provides added functionality, safety, and convenience for the Nintendo Wii. Quite simply, it can install the Homebrew Channel and DVDX on any Wii, with any System Menu version without any hassle!

Download: BootMii Beta 1

Some recent evidence posted by Wiibrew developer Bushing has revealed that Nintendo may now be charging an extra fee for repairing a homebrew-capable Wii. It's long been generally believed that homebrew voids warranties, but the issue here seems to be the huge additional repair costs, not the fact that a homebrew-enabled Wii is considered out of warranty. More after the jump.

As you may know, the original app (from tona) allows you to delete some titles on your Wii - IOS files, MIOS, system channels, the lot of them. Red Squirrel's most recent AnyTitle Deleter MOD v3.0 has a bunch of improvements, including a backup function to safekeep your installed items.

Download: AnyTitle Deleter MOD v3.0

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.

Wii homebrew devs, check it out. It's Xyzzy v1.1, which you'd find extremely using when extracting OTP encryption keys. It doesn't provide us a changelog, but Wii homebrew dev bushing provides a list of the data it extracts and writes them to keys.txt on any inserted SD. Details in the full article.

Download: Xyzzy v1.1

Here's some behind-the-scenes news from the Wiibrew community concerning SaveMii, the anti-brick dongle for the Wii from Team Twiizers. bushing explains a few things about the future of the dongle in the HackMii blog; about their plans to increase production, and how the presence of mass-produced clones will affect them.

Having troubles with your constantly bricked or semi-bricked Wii? The HackMii team recently featured the Wii Recovery Dongle (a.k.a. SaveMii) on their forums, showing off the various features this hardware can do to fix any incompatibilities with your console. Check out the specs of this anti-bricking hardware in our full article.

A major update for the Wii's GeckoOS! The homebrew is now combined with Ocarina, the stand-alone Wii(RD) code handler. A lot of bugs have also been fixed in this version. Check out the full article fore more details.

Download: GeckoOS 1.06f

In the wake of homebrew developer Waninkoko's Region Changer, the homebrew community revolving around the Nintendo Wii turned to a classic Mexican standoff. On one side, there's Marcan and Bushing calling developer Waninkoko "irresponsibile" regarding the questionable release of a semi-bricking homebrew process. On the other is Waninkoko and allies, who believe that lack of warning was an honest mistake, and the irresponsibility is an oversight. Get to the full story for more.

QuickJump QuickPeek 57 is here with all the nitty-gritty news from last week. A rumored new model for the PSP (which I'd playfully dub as the PSP Slim & Probably-Case-Modded Lite - who knows?), some talk of PS3 Trophies, new XBL content, improving the Wii Friend Code system, and well, dead penguins. *teardrops* Oh, right! And our Comment of the Week section also took quite a toll - ha!, talk about waxing rhetorics dialogues...