TL;DR: The Homebrew Channel, essential for running custom Wii software, has ceased development due to potential copyright infringement involving stolen Nintendo SDK and RTEMS code within its core ...

Historically, efforts to create original games and tools, port over open source emulators, and explore a game console’s hardware and software have been generally lumped together under the banner of ...

It could make it harder to load software on future hacked Wiis. It could make it harder to load software on future hacked Wiis. HBC is a central piece of the Wii homebrew community, serving as a ...

Development for the Nintendo Wii homebrew channel has ceased, and the repository has been archived. This comes as the devs say that a vital component was made using code stolen from other developers, ...

Toward the end of April, the Wii Homebrew Channel – an essential tool for anybody who's ever modded their Wii – ceased development and had its GitHub repository archived. With accusations of stolen ...

I don't do Wii Homebrew/emulator stuff at all, but this is a terrible blow for the community. Seems like libogc that they depend on has stolen code directly from Nintendo SDK and RTEMS threading/os.

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and began doing so professionally in 2010 because an opportunity presented itself ...