Fighting game fanatics should have a field day with the latest unofficial build of the Dolphin GameCube and Wii emulator.  Why? Well, both the PAL version of Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Tatsunoko vs Capcom are now running, for one. Things still get a bit buggy at times, but they, they run.


Download: Dolphin rev 2745 32bit
Download: Dolphin rev 2745 64bit

The Wiikey team has released version 2 of their modchip. Changes look mostly related to performance, although there is now added support for "problem titles" such as Mario Kart Wii and Super Smash Bros. Brawl. More details in the full article.

Ever since the WiiD (aka Wii Drive) modchip was announced, the folks behind it have been really busy - they launched a website, placed installation diagrams, and released firmware updates. If you think that the updates have stopped there, then you are wrong, because they have recently released Firmware Upgrade V2. Seems to us that they're just getting warmed up!

Just in case you've just emerged from the rock you've lived in for the past month, the WiiD modchip is the one of newest additions to the Wii's growing crop of chips. The all-important D2B DVD chip support, stealth mode, and firmware upgradability via DVD are all there. Now, here's what's new with WiiD Firmware v.2:

This Firmware will:

• add Region Free capability to your WII
• correct any issues with "GCOS SELFBOOT MULTIVER" v2 and v3 and audio streaming games.
• Details: Any streaming audio multigame disc generated with "make-multiv2.exe" would not boot due to a bug in the streaming audio intitialization in GCOS MultiVer. Version v3 corrects this problem but still has an initialization value that could lead to some problems with some games.
  
  This firmware update detects a GCOS MultiVer generated disc and applies the correct audio initialization on the fly.
  Any disc generated with the make-multiv2.exe version will now work normally and full compatibility is added to any disc made with the latest make-multiv3.exe version.
  
  All the other streaming audio single disc games continue to work normally (as they have done since the factory firmware release).

Check out WiiD's official website via the link we have for you below.

Over at the site of the oddly named Knights of Kaos clan, there's a post that outlines the many available media solutions you can use through the Wii Web Browser.

They talk about BrowseAmp, AjaxAMP, Winamp Streaming Services, ORB Streaming Audio, Wii Media Center X, The WiiCR, and iTunes streaming tricks and solutions you can use in the Wii Browser. They also point out Jinzora, a web based PHP/Apache/Mysql/Flash Music system. They report that one of the founders of Jinzora is currently working on a Wii Compatible frontend skin.

For more detail on the the mentioned applications and a solution for ORB streaming problems, feel free to use our read-link below.