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Homebrew Weekend

I’ve got free time again and I want to try out some homebrew console development. I’ve got a Wii, so I’m looking at GameCube homebrew for now. The steps as I see them are:

  1. Get someone elses homebrew working on my system.
  2. Get a dev environment setup, compile someone elses stuff and run it.
  3. Write some silly stuff of my own (I’m thinking Robotron ripoff)
  4. Profit!

I’ve got step 1 done. I bought a Datel SD Media launcher which allows one to load .dol and .bin files off of a SD card. I’m curious how the Datel CD is bootable by the Wii. How’d they pull that off? I also got some cheapo Gamecube controllers and downloaded some ROM’s from here: http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=48442

So now I’m onto steps 2 & 3, this is my launchpad for that: http://www.tehskeen.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2968

Update:  Neat, that didn’t take very long to do.  I was expecting quite a fight to get a dev environment running for some reason.  Onto step 3!