Wii Homebrew

Wii homebrew refers to the reuse of Nintendo’s Wii game console hardware, accessories and software for purposes outside of those intended by the manufacturer. Key objectives are to provide open source tools to expand or alter the capabilities provided “out of the box”.

At present good progress has been made on using the Wii Remote as a pointing device on other operating systems as well as control other machines. A long term goal is to run unsigned software on the console to allow homebrew games and applications to be used. Although it hasn’t been utilized much yet, Team Twiizers’ exploit does just this.

One of the most important goals being worked on is the ability to run homebrew games and applications that are not licensed by Nintendo. Due to the similarity between the Wii and the Nintendo GameCube hardware, it is hoped that the bulk of the homebrew development tools used for the Nintendo GameCube will be usable in the Wii with little modification.

Wii HomeBrew Channel