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