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• Revolution Engine 0.1 public release - create your own 3D homebrew games

  Joining in the fray of the growingly exciting Wii homebrew community is Spanish developer technik and he brings with him his creation, the Revolution Engine. It's a 3D games engine for the Wii that allows you to easily create cool 3D homebrew games for your console.Cool, huh. This release is just a baby, so to speak, though, so there are still a bunch of features that aren't installed yet. But technik reassures you'll be getting them soon enough on the next release. In fact, he's already working on it as we type.Here are some of the features you may expect to find in Revolution Engine 0.1 public release:Allows you to render full 3D scenes in real time on your Wii with mulitple dynamic objects which have Mesh and Texture (only one channel textures right now).Allows you to render 2D images over the 3D image to use as panels, texts, etc... Using simple png files so you can use it for 3D games, 2D games or a combination of both.A vector Based Cameras system that allows you to make target, first person, third person, free cameras, or any kind of cameras you want.Mesh loading from its own file format, so performance is improved. This format is free, plain text, and easy to understand so anyone can make exporters or conversors from other formats.Texture Loading from png files using frontier's pngu library.Wow, those certainly look really good. I can only predict more good brews making its way to the Wii because of this release. Thanks for you contribution, technik! We'll be sure to watch out for more updates on this project, so you guys better stay tuned here on QJ.In the meantime, you can check out the official site for this project. But if you're not that well-versed in Spanish, then you might want to bring in your handy translator with you. Oh, and there are also video clips in there to show you the progress of this release. We've imported one here for you guys so you can get a clearer picture of how this all goes down. Download: Revolution Engine 0.1 public releaseRelated Articles:Bushing discovers exploit that allows ISOs to run on unmodified Wiis, writes NintendoNintendo finally responds to Bushing about Wii exploit discoveryForum discussion: Bushing finds ISO hack

• The Wiibrew Weekend Warrior: Nintendo responds to bushing, wicked dev tools, and a debate over piracy

  Ahoy there, Wiibrewers! We live in exciting times for the Wiibrew community. Last week, Wiibrew developer bushing revealed to the community that he found a yet-untapped Wii exploit, and has decided to contact Nintendo about it. After a period of silence, Nintendo has finally replied. That and more in this week's Wiibrew Weekend Warrior! Let's get cracking!Wiibrew Pick of the Week Wiibrew developer kriogeN certainly picked a fun game for his first homebrew project. kriogeN has reincarnated the classic card game UNO on to the Wii, complete with online multiplayer that supports up to four players. Nice, eh?The translation of the readme is pretty rough with your average online translator, but the game pretty much speaks for itselfLink: UNO v4 - graphics improvedWiibrew ProgramsNetwork Wiibrew programs FTPii and Wii Web Server were both updated this week. FTPii has been kicked up to v0.0.11, with improvements in stability so the program shouldn't hang as often. Wii Web Server is now on v0.80 of its Alpha stage, with support for threading, and implementation of error pages.Link: FTPii v0.0.11 - remote authentication administration, USB Ethernet fixLink: Wii Web Server alpha v0.80: 404 and 500 error pages implemented DragonMedia Player saw two updates this week. There are a lot of new features added to the program, including a load screen and the ability to change themes. Playing of files from a USB connection should also be smoother now.Link: DragonMedia Player v0.12 AlphaLink: DragonMedia Player v0.11 Alpha: 24-bit flac support fix, moreDev's CornerSome wicked dev tools were released this week. First up we have the Wii Update File Extractor (also called the WUFE, which is just catchier) from Nuke, who is also the author of Gecko Region Free. WUFE is a quick and easy way to extract all the update files from a Wii DVD game (system WAD files, IOS files).Next up is xyzzy from bushing. It's a quick code that he slapped together in a few minutes, but is nevertheless an extremely useful tool for devs. It returns private key structures of IOS address spaces, and automatically saves them to a text files on the SD card.Link: Wiibrew program: WUFE, extracts update files from Wii DVD gamesLink: Xyzzy Wiibrew program from Bushing: returns encryption keysNews from the Wiibrew Front:I don't know what bushing's reasons are for consulting with Nintendo on the exploit he's discovered, but as he said on his blog, he's given it a lot of thought, and I'm sure he has the community's best interests at heart. After all, he didn't hesitate on sharing the news of the discovery despite knowing he'll get a lot of flak for it.He did get a lot of flak for it - and some hilarious fake emails to boot. You can check out his blog to read some of them. In the throng of criticism and fake emails he's received though, lay an authentic reply from a Nintendo representative.Bushing only chose to disclose that Nintendo has received his message, that they replied, and that he will no longer post any other correspondence with them. Will this mean the Wiibrew community will get Nintendo's cooperation? Or will the opposite happen? We shall have to wait on bushing for further news on this one.Link: Nintendo finally responds to Bushing about Wii exploit discoveryThat's it for this week, folks. Hopefully, bushing will disclose more on his talks with Nintendo in the following week. I want to direct you guys to some passages on bushing's blog which you might find interesting. This is a quote from an email he received: "I don t think you ll get anywhere by doing dialogue with Nintendo. I just don t think so.."Bushing responded by saying: "[...] nobody else has actually  tried to engage Nintendo on a mature, professional level, so we feel obligated to try."I leave you with this week's first ever Wiibrew Comment of the Week. You can also follow the link for a rather interesting debate over bushing's decision to keep the exploit to himself, and the legal repercussions the exploit will present when it opens up the potential of piracy on the Wii.