Raz0red's Wii homebrew app Wii2600 is an Atari 2600 emulator based on the open-source Stella 2.7.2. If you're new to the whole Wii homebrew scene, an emulator will basically let you play games made for other systems on your Wii console. In this case, Atari 2600 games. Hit the full version for a list of changes.


Download: Wii2600 v0.2

It's that time of the week again, eh? Time sure flies. It's been a busy week for Nintendo and the Wii and DS games, so let's get crackin'! For starters, we've got lots of Monster Hunter 3 updates for you guys, so you'd better check those out. Then the new Wii MotionPlus is making some noise with a few bundles and the biggest pre-release markdown you'll ever see. And barely making it to today's recap is a brand new Nintendo DS, only it's a bunch of rocks and a newspaper, minus the DS. Catch all that and more on this week's Weekend Warrior.

Homebrew developer D_Skywalk has released a new emulator for the Nintendo Wii. Wiituka is a Amstrad CPC emulator for the Wii. If you don't know, the Amstrad CPC is a series of 8-bit  computers produced during the the 1980s and early 1990s.

Download: Wiituka v0.98.0

Askot's Neopop Wii homebrew emulator is for the SNK NeoGeo Pocket handheld console. Originally based on neopopUK's NeoPop/SDL , it was later on ported to the GameCube by the "Genesis Plus" team, and then converted from a PC based platform to run on the GameCube's proprietary PPS Gekko processor. Features, installation instructions, and changelog are all available after the jump.



Download: Neopop Wii (02-03-2009)
Download: Neopop Wii (02-03-2009) (source)

DolphinWX has been updated by Daco, and it's now up to Rev2069. This Gamecube emulator also has preliminary support for the Wii as well as basic Triforce emulation. Just a few bugfixes in this revision, but they ought to be useful when using this brew.


Download: DolphinWX Rev2069 32bit
Download: DolphinWX Rev2069 64bit

It's starting to look like emulation day here on the Wii blog. Here's another newly-updated emulator: WiiHandy/SDL. This app from Wiibrew dev raz0red lets Wii owners emulate Atari Lynx games using their consoles. It's based on the Handy/SDL source code and is currently at version 0.2.

Download: WiiHandy/SDL v0.2 (binaries)
Download: WiiHandy/SDL v0.2 (source code)

More emulation news for all the old-school gaming fanatics out there. FCE Ultra GX, an emulator that lets you play NES games on your Nintendo Wii, has been updated to v2.0.9. There's a major bugfix included in this version that deals with a memory corruption bug from an old FCE Ultra release, so it's definitely recommended that you update to this version.

Download: FCE Ultra GX v2.0.9

Despite being named after a famous hairy-footed fantasy character of small stature, Frodo is actually a Commodore 64 emulator for the Nintendo Wii home video game console. Developer Simon Kagstrom recently released version 6 of the emulator, and you can check the list of new additions after the jump.


Download: Frodo v6

From Björn Giesler (Wii port) and the Fuse team comes this Free Unix Spectrum Emulator (FUSE) of Philip Kendall, an emulator for the SInclair ZX Spectrum, a home computer popular in the 80s.This release pretty much leaves untouched the port created by Björn, although it is rebuilt against the Fuse 0.10.0.2. As for the rest of the changelog, you can find it after the jump.


Download: Fuse Snapshot 2

The most famous hobbit's namesake is actually a Commodore 64 emulator originally done by Christian Bauer and ported to the Wii by Simon Kagstrom. Changelogs after the jump.

Download: Frodo v3