Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata has confirmed that in the near future it will test out providing demos on the WiiWare service.

Apparently the reason why demos will be provided on the network is because Nintendo wants to try and lure in new shoppers to the service.

To quote: "During the Q&A session at a recent earnings briefing, Iwata told investors that Nintendo would begin...

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According to Artik of French site Logic-sunrise.com, the Nintendo Wii 2 is allegedly set to arrive in 2010 and include Blu-ray and 1080p support.

This rumor appears to stem from an internal source of the marketing department at Nintendo France, however, little information is available to substantiate it unfortunately.

To quote from Ripten (linked above): "It...

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Today Nintendo unveiled that Excitebike World Rally will be heading to WiiWare on the Nintendo Wii this November 9th.

The first footage of it is also available below, courtesy of ScutFarkas63 via YouTube.

To quote: It’s receiving an update for the Wii and it’s coming out on November 9. Even better, you’ll be able to compete online with others. You can check out...

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A new Wii System Menu update is now available in both North America and Europe.

Similar to the previous one that deleted and blocked Wii homebrew, this one is also labeled as version 4.2.

To quote on the noticable changes thus far: "Apparently the latest update is for the Ambassador program (earn free VC titles by helping others connect online) in Europe, but...

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Today some Japanese Magazine scans, screenshots and gameplay trailers for the New Super Mario Bros. Wii game have surfaced.

The scans (below) confirm that the Koopa kids from Super Mario Bros 3 will return and also a few new power up for Mario and Luigi.

Shortly after, Nintendo released two new gameplay trailers for the New Super Mario Wii game on the Nintendo Wii....

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As a follow-up to our Nintendo Wii WODE Demos article from earlier today, we now have some Wii WODE final design pictures to share.

A few of them are below, with the rest available HERE. Finally, in case anyone missed the pricing and WODE specs here they are: 79,90 € incl. the vertical stand.

Features:

• Play Wii & GC game ISOs direct from USB Mass Storage
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A few weeks ago we announced news of the new Nintendo Wii WODE alongside the WODE Jukebox.

Today we have a few videos of the WODE in action. The first is from the Defcon1 demonstration of WODE loading and playing GameCube games from a USB HDD (NTFS formatted).

The second video below demonstrates "The Impossible Mission" where the WODE demo loads Metroid Prime...

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Today shagkur and wntrmute have released DevKitPPC rev18 and libogc 1.8.0 along with libfat 1.0.5.

DevKitPPC is a port of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) and includes a C (gcc) and C++ compiler (g++), a debugger (gdb) and associated utilities, with the architecture "powerpc-eabi".

Download: DevKitPro SourceForge

It also includes standard C libraries based on newlib,...

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This weekend d2project has made available the source code for two Nintendo Wii mod-chips, namely the D2CKey and D2Pro Mod-Chip.

To quote: "This is the official open source repository for d2ckey and d2pro. VHDL, MN102 drivecode, and Gamecube configuration / update discs is hosted here.

All code is licensed under GPL v3. If you are interested in contributing to this...

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Comex released today BannerBomb v2 for the Wii System Menu 4.2. From what I have read, it works great on 4.2 E/U Firmware. But give a try for yourself and let us know your experience with it.

Download: BannerBomb_v2 ALPHA

To quote: I can't get enough of a sample size on IRC, maybe he can help. This version is for 4.2 only, any region. I'm have absolutely no idea how...

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