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Homebrew EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Level 1-1 done in Reggie!, a New Super Mario Bros. editor 20 New Super Mario Brothers Wii has been out for, oh, about 48 hours, but the Wii homebrew scene is already on the case: GBAtemp user Tanks has recreated Level 1-1 from the original Super Mario Bro... Wii update may be bricking innocent consoles 39 Remember the new firmware update which Nintendo just sent out to do away with all those nasty people who have been running the Homebrew Channel? You know, another one of those feeble attempts to ... New Wii system update wacks hacks, yet Indiana Pwns 15 So yeah, it's not a big surprise or anything, but it is a big deal to a lot Wii owners out there: the new Wii System Update 4.2 de-installs the Wii Homebrew Channel, and blocks most methods of re... Ghost N Zombies: new for the Colecovision (not kidding) 11 It soothes my retro heart to know that no matter how many shiny, high definition games get pumped out into today's market, there will always be someone somewhere proudly pouring their heart and s... Finally a use for your laser harp 13 Has your laser harp been sitting in the basement collecting dust? Got no all night raves to bust it out for? Wait. You don't have a laser harp? You mean you didn't rush out to make your own the s... University project uses the Wii to teach CPR 14 Wii mods aren’t just forMoving metal arms of doom.They can teach stuff, too.BioMed studentsHave a program that shows howTo use CPR.Waggle teaching lifeSaving techniques? That’s madnes... Fan translation of Culdcept DS rocks my world 12 The Culdcept series rules. If you like board games, card games and screwing over your friends, there are few games which can compare. But, apart from a PS2 release and Culdcept Saga for the Xbox ... Sad about Fatal Frame IV? You could use this fan translation 29 Fatal Frame IV is officially not coming to the US, and fans are not pleased about it. Having purchased every game in the series since the first one, I had planned to import it and stumble through... New FPS heading to the Dreamcast: Nostalgia FTW! 17 Asking videogame nerds if they like the Dreamcast is akin to asking Roman Polanski if he likes a trail of candy leading to his bedroom. The system that has only gotten more popular with hindsight... DSi finally penetrated by pirates, ravaged without mercy 59 One of the biggest motives behind the development of the DSi was surely to curtail the huge amount of piracy that has affected previous incarnations of the system, thanks to the rise of the R4 Ca... Homebrew 8-bit NES game D-Pad Hero is better than Guitar Hero World Tour 26 Here's what Activision should have released in Fall of 2008 -- an 8-bit version of the Guitar Hero franchise called D-Pad Hero.Designed by Kent Hansen and Andreas Pedersen, this 8-bit remake of t... How loving the PSP is driving me to hurt it 54 They say often that we hurt the things we love most, and as I patiently wait for a supremely cheap Memory Card Duo to arrive, I find that a most apt phrase. I love the PSP. As a piece of technolo... DSi clenches, eventually yields, to some hot homebrew lovin' 14 Console hacksmiths can never, ever be stopped, and despite the DSi doing what it can to hold out against naughty tinkerers, it has finally surrendered to the Acekard 2i, which should facilitat... PSP 3000 is a tough nut to crack, pirates having difficulty 18 Everybody knows that the PlayStation Portable is a pirate's wet dream, having been a shining beacon of firmware cracks and homebrew applications since its release. Sony has been intent on fightin... Introducing N-Warp Daisakusen: a brand new SNES game 7  What are the people in the video above playing? A new game ... for the SNES? Yeah, you heard me right. N-Warp Daisakusen is a homebrew project from Matthias "d4s" Nagler, and is o... Homebrew makes the DS a professional photography tool 16 The Nintendo DS homebrew community has become a hotbed of creativity lately. This professional photography application is a perfect example of what can happen when smart people put their minds to... Thank God: Wii homebrew now allows for DVD movie playback 37 Today, the Internet has wrought a homebrew hack for the Wii that will allow for the playback of DVD movies on an otherwise movie-playback-less console. We're all about legal hombrew hacks for Nin... Calling all Zune owners: Homebrew games are ready for play 24 With the release of XNA Game Studio 3.0 CTP yesterday, the Zune community was quick to start tinkering around with putting games on the multimedia device. One such enthusiast was even kind enou... Pandora open-source portable game system gives pants tingles 27 I love both of my portable game systems dearly. The PlayStation Portable and the Nintendo DS both have their pluses and minuses, but one of the two manages to go with me wherever I go. I would've... Nifty UMD-shaped PSP device stores four memory sticks 17 Face it: there are plenty of gamers out there that will never find themselves sticking a UMD into their PlayStation Portable. It doesn't matter if they're A/V fiends, legal beagle downloaders or ... Nerd wins at sweetness, proposes using a hacked version of Bejeweled 34 Despite popular opinion that dorks are always loners that fester in front of their computers playing WoW and not showering, they do sometimes fall in love and actually get married. In some cases,... The best Wii hack yet: Tetris hack for Twilight Princess 31 Like all stories thus far on the Wii homebrew scene, this latest news isn't exciting because it's actually exciting, but rather because it portends great things to come for the future of Wii ho... Homebrew DS game creates levels from nearby wifi points 22 The Nintendo DS homebrew title Metro-Wardive converts nearby wlan waves into game objects. The software reads the names of the hotspots and turns them into enemies which will try to take over you... Carmack likes Homebrew, disappointed that Nintendo does not 19 John Carmack, the man behind Doom, is a fan of homebrew, and wishes that the DS's platform holders would embrace it rather than hinder it. Carmack believes that homebrew on the DS is perfect for ... PSP gets unofficial motion sensing capabilities 20 Everyone should give a golf clap to the folks at NEOTEAM for creating a PlayStation Portable motion kit. With the focus of the peripheral being on homebrew (no retail game support just yet), we&r... Cave Story PSP demo now available! 23 Now that all y'all got your PSP homebrew on courtesy of Lumines, you might be feeling overwhelmed -- thinking "my God, so much crap to load, how will I ever decide?" That's why ... PSP firmware exploit found in Lumines; sales jump 5900% on Amazon 41 You may have already heard about the latest PSP exploit discovered within the classic puzzler Lumines, availing owners of any variety of PSP -- all the way up to its current firmware, 3.50 -- the... Nevermind Sonic RPG -- A polished Sonic homebrew alternative is due soon 23   If there are any SEGA IP lawyers in the room, please kindly push them out of a window before firing up this video. A tinkering duo of hobbyist game designers have decided to take the ... OMGCHUBBY! Top 5 sexy DS homebrew 15 What could make a touch-sensitive version of Rock, Paper, Scissors on the Nintendo DS even better?  I don't know ... let's see ... how about ... BREASTS! DS Fanboy has compiled a sti... Prepare to envy: the ultimate custom gaming cabinet 21 Put a lot of work into that home-built MAME arcade cabinet, have you? Well, be prepared to hack it into scrap and start over; gaze upon the coolest custom gaming cabinet ever built and tremble.Gr... DS Homebrew: Everlasting (monkey) love 9 The DS has always been emanciated by the lack quality monkey-themed* video games, so it is with great primal joy that I present to you this worthy hodgepodge of homebrew excellence: Everlasting L... Play Quake on your Nintendo DS 5 Released over 10 years ago, it's a wonder that anyone still wants to play Quake at all. Quake has been ported to dozens of devices; it's been seen running on everything from PDAs to somet... Get your homewbrew on: v3.03 PSP downgrader is released 12 Noobz has what all v3.03 PSP owners have been craving -- a firmware downgrader! Now, you too will be able to kick it homebrew style like the other cool kids. Well, that's unless you accident... Motion-sensing on your DS 7 A very ambitious homebrewer who goes by the name KeithE has developed a motion-sensing card for the Nintendo DS. It consists of a 3-axis accelerometer and a single axis gyroscope. The card works ... DSiPodLite; innovative yet useless synaesthesia 5 DSFanboy (the shining counterpoint to it's execrable PSPFanboy sister-site) had a story up today about the above bit of homebrew genius. It seems that some clever hackers from the Netherlan... You, too, can learn to crochet extra lives 11 If this doesn't make your girlfriend squeal in delight, almost nothing will. In addition to Bob - omb, Etsy artist AmigurumiAmour makes  mushrooms in the grow large and extra life variet... Early Halo beta running on PSP 20 Mother of God. Some people have way too much time. And talent. Two homebrewers who go by the names "1337PSPM0dd3r" and "PSMonkey" have managed to get an early beta of Halo wor... The state of DS homebrew: Jesus inside 0 The mother of all mobile gaming sites Modojo is ran a seven page feature on the state of DS homebrew games, with special emphasis on some of the most polished games created for the system and an ...		Save cash!   See "Black Friday" video game deals New on Destructoid.TV play all videos Loading Destructoid Videos Win this! 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