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Opera For Wii Now Available For Free

3:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | If you thought the idea of having Opera on your Wii was a novel one but not if it cost you money, you’re in luck. Nintendo has dropped the point requirement for the browser. More »

Load Your Wii Games From A Hard Disk, Part II

9:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Last week we shared a great hack to let you back up and play your Wii games from an external hard drive. That hack has been made easier by eliminating the need for a Wii downgrade. More »

Back Up And Play Your Wii Games From An External Hard Drive

7:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | A disc that never leaves the case can never be scratched. Save your Wii games to an external hard drive with this handy tutorial for speedier and scratch-free playback. More »

YouTube Coming Soon To A TV Near You

10:20AM Adam Pash | Video streaming web site YouTube announced a new beta service today called YouTube for TV (if you want to try it in your regular browser, here’s how). To begin with, the service is available on Sony PS3s and Nintendo Wiis, offering a “10-foot television viewing experience through a streamlined interface that enables you to discover, watch, and share YouTube videos on any TV screen with just a few quick clicks of your remote control.” Sounds good so far, but if you’ve got a Wii or PS3, let’s hear what you think in the comments. More »

Work Around The Wii’s 2GB SD Card Limit

10:40PM Kevin Purdy | O’Reilly’s Hacks Blog points out a way to work around the Nintendo Wii’s arbitrary 2GB limit on storing games and save information to an SD card. After formatting the card using the SDFormatter tool, simply fill everything but 2GB with junk data that you can later replace. Useful for anyone who’s hacked their Wii for homebrew apps. [via] More »

Operate Your Computer with Wii Controllers

2:00AM Kevin Purdy | Nintendo doesn’t exactly advertise it, but the remotes for the Wii gaming console—including the balance board that comes with Wii Fit—have Bluetooth capabilities. That means you can connect your Wii peripherals to your computer to operate the media centre hooked up to your TV, play emulated games with a Nunchuk, Classic Controller, or even a Balance Board, and pretty much have them do anything you can do with a keyboard. Let’s walk through linking up your Wii peripherals and putting them in control of your Mac, PC, or Linux box. More »

Soup Up Your Homebrew-Hacked Wii

10:00AM Adam Pash | You’ve hacked your Wii to run homebrew apps and play back DVDs without any difficult hardware hacking and now you want to dive into more of your homebrew options. Let’s take a closer look at how to install new homebrew applications on your Wii through the homebrew channel, play back virtually any video or audio format, run old-school video game emulators, and more. Oh, and we’ll play a little Doom, naturally. More »

Hack Your Wii for Homebrew Apps and DVD Playback

2:00AM Adam Pash | Despite the fact that it ships with a DVD drive, for whatever godforsaken reason, the Nintendo Wii doesn’t support DVD playback—until last week, that is, when a homebrew hacker released a tool that enables DVD playback on your Wii. The best part? You don’t have to crack open your Wii or disturb your hardware in any way to install it. Let’s take a detailed look at how to softmod your Wii with the Twilight hack to run homebrew apps. Then I’ll show you how to install the Wii port of the open source media player, mplayer, to turn your Wii into a DVD (or should I say WiiVD?) player. More »