Stefano Marinelli
boosted
My favourite experience regarding Wii homebrew so far has to be NetBSD. I wanted to use my Wii as a computer for a while now, and NetBSD being available as an operating system you can install and get going on an SD card and a Wii with the HBC is definitely the highlights of my Wii homebrew experience. I don't use my Wii much at the moment, as I don't even have a monitor I can use for my Wii yet, but I have used it for a while on a TV and it was nice.
Networking is a bit hard, at least on the Wii however. I tried to get WiFi included in as a Wii image of NetBSD to burn, this was during my time on FreeBSD, and I just couldn't compile it. I was doing something weird where I would alternate between GCC and clang but that would have been a waste of time once it got to booting.
Other than that, it was nice writing a fetch program entirely written in C using vi and man pages to get by. It was a nice break from writing things without an LSP to help, although I still love using modern features many editors provide, obviously excluding AI, so I will stick with that. I also found that Lua existed on it which definitely helped whenever I didn't want to write C.
First *BSD post in a while, as I forgot to talk about the time I used NetBSD. I'll probably talk about Linux more at some point but I wanted to talk about *BSD a little again. Try NetBSD if you get the chance!
My favourite experience regarding Wii homebrew so far has to be NetBSD. I wanted to use my Wii as a computer for a while now, and NetBSD being available as an operating system you can install and get going on an SD card and a Wii with the HBC is definitely the highlights of my Wii homebrew experience. I don't use my Wii much at the moment, as I don't even have a monitor I can use for my Wii yet, but I have used it for a while on a TV and it was nice.
Networking is a bit hard, at least on the Wii however. I tried to get WiFi included in as a Wii image of NetBSD to burn, this was during my time on FreeBSD, and I just couldn't compile it. I was doing something weird where I would alternate between GCC and clang but that would have been a waste of time once it got to booting.
Other than that, it was nice writing a fetch program entirely written in C using vi and man pages to get by. It was a nice break from writing things without an LSP to help, although I still love using modern features many editors provide, obviously excluding AI, so I will stick with that. I also found that Lua existed on it which definitely helped whenever I didn't want to write C.
First *BSD post in a while, as I forgot to talk about the time I used NetBSD. I'll probably talk about Linux more at some point but I wanted to talk about *BSD a little again. Try NetBSD if you get the chance!
alcinnz
boosted
New #blog post: Random updates
https://rldane.space/random-updates.html
Just some quick updates, not intended to be filler, but... "just what it says on the tin." ;)
cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn
(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)
#rlDaneWriting #blost #Life #Roku #Streaming #StreamingServices #Netflix #Amazon #Prime #AmazonPrime #Disney #Nintendo #Wii #GameCube #StarWars
New #blog post: Random updates
https://rldane.space/random-updates.html
Just some quick updates, not intended to be filler, but... "just what it says on the tin." ;)
cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn
(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)
#rlDaneWriting #blost #Life #Roku #Streaming #StreamingServices #Netflix #Amazon #Prime #AmazonPrime #Disney #Nintendo #Wii #GameCube #StarWars
alcinnz
boosted
Got my #Wii up and running, although sans working balance board, for now.
Now I'm wishing I still had my PSOne from 23 years ago. :D
I had the groovy little LCD monitor and everything.
A 4:3 LCD monitor is almost unobtanium now. lol
(not really, I think there are plenty of back-up camera monitors to be had with analog inputs at that size, and quite affordably, too, IIRC).
Got my #Wii up and running, although sans working balance board, for now.
Now I'm wishing I still had my PSOne from 23 years ago. :D
I had the groovy little LCD monitor and everything.
A 4:3 LCD monitor is almost unobtanium now. lol
(not really, I think there are plenty of back-up camera monitors to be had with analog inputs at that size, and quite affordably, too, IIRC).
alcinnz
boosted
Took a #Wii home from mom's house as they were clearing out a bunch of old stuff.
The Wii powered on, and while Wii Fit was the only disc I had, it did load it fine.
Unfortunately, a video cable wasn't in the bag of Wii stuff, and while I tried four new AA batteries in both of the balance boards I have, neither of them lit up when I hit the power button, which tells me they were stored with old AAs that leaked and corroded (a bit of powder/cruft in the battery compartment confirms this).
The Wiimote seems to be working, though (quick LED flash when I hit the center button).
This hardware has been sitting in the garage for no less than a decade.
Oh bother. I really don't want to pay $60 for a used balance board on fleabay, or $30 a pop for used discs.
Anybody know a good cheap source for Wii stuff? :D
Took a #Wii home from mom's house as they were clearing out a bunch of old stuff.
The Wii powered on, and while Wii Fit was the only disc I had, it did load it fine.
Unfortunately, a video cable wasn't in the bag of Wii stuff, and while I tried four new AA batteries in both of the balance boards I have, neither of them lit up when I hit the power button, which tells me they were stored with old AAs that leaked and corroded (a bit of powder/cruft in the battery compartment confirms this).
The Wiimote seems to be working, though (quick LED flash when I hit the center button).
This hardware has been sitting in the garage for no less than a decade.
Oh bother. I really don't want to pay $60 for a used balance board on fleabay, or $30 a pop for used discs.
Anybody know a good cheap source for Wii stuff? :D