We spoke too soon -- "bob's game" isn't dead yet. But as Robert Pelloni's online quest for a Nintendo DS software development kit continues, we're beginning to wonder if we -- the casual observers watching Pelloni's plight -- have actually been playing right into his hands.
Continue reading...Monday, January 12, 2009
Bob's story is one of passion and dedication. Being an average guy, just about my age, Bob also started out with the will to fulfill his dream. The dream of creating a whole DS game, all by himself, and getting it on retail shelves as an equal among its kin.
Continue reading...Friday, December 26, 2008
What’s it like to go from being the lead designer at Starbreeze to developing your own touchscreen-based homebrew painting app for the DS, iPhone, and iPod Touch? Jens Andersson shares that, and his thoughts on homebrew and Apple’s meaning for the industry.
Continue reading...Sunday, December 14, 2008
This year's Retro Remakes Competition is now over. The winners have yet to be announced, but you can already download and play all 50 of the entries. The range of games is immense, with pretty much anything available, from a Tetris and Metroid hybrid (!), to a 3D Super Mario Kart clone, a homebrew Nintendo [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Repeat after me. Homebrew is 100% legal. Homebrew is not piracy. While the piracy accusations fly left, right and centre, and the large corporations, especially in the console industry, keep trying to block out or shut down any and all related projects, I'm always happy when I see some of the dedicated individuals, like the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 24, 2008
On November 18th, 2008, Nintendo dropped the bomb on their unwanted homebrew community with the release of the Wii Menu 3.4 update. The ever-reliable Twilight Hack was destroyed. An updated ToS informed gamers that from now on, Nintendo could automatically update the system at whim. And while our usual benefactors remained calm, they informed us [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Nintendo is well-known for their extreme measures in combating piracy, and more recently homebrew – especially with the Wii. Nintendo has been quick to try and stop homebrew on the Wii; multiple times, in fact. Thankfully, the awesome guys who make homebrew play on the Wii possible have always managed to thwart the Big N. Of [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 27, 2008
Oh we of little faith. On Thursday, GameCyte reported that Nintendo's new Wii Shop Channel update was expressly designed to break homebrew applications, and that Nintendo had sneakily left the end user with only two choices; give up the opportunity to install potentially groundbreaking homebrew apps, or completely lose the ability to purchase new WiiWare [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 23, 2008
Update 10/27: Actually, you do have a choice -- in two days flat, the homebrew community has defeated Nintendo's dastardly update. Five months ago, Nintendo released "Wii Menu Update 3.3," an attack on the Wii homebrew and import communities masquerading as a functionality improvement, where the only added functionality was the ability to drag and drop [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Wii-like 3D motion control using only a webcam: too good to be true? GameCyte investigates.
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009
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