Team Twiizers: Homebrew Channel Beta 10 will be “final”
While Wiibrew devs are busy updating their programs to be compatible with Homebrew Channel Beta 9, Marcan and the rest of Team Twiizers are already working on Beta 10. The Team wants you to know that Beta 10 will be the last update in for a long while, so if you have any suggestions for the update – a fix, a small feature – better voice it out over at hackmii. More after the link.
While Wiibrew devs are busy updating their programs to be compatible with Homebrew Channel Beta 9, Marcan and the rest of Team Twiizers are already working on HBC Beta 10.
The Team wants you to know that Beta 10 will be the last update in for a long while, so if you have any suggestions for the update – a fix, a small feature – better voice it out over at hackmii.
Marcan explains that the Homebrew Channel is already “feature-complete,” so they won’t be adding any major features in Beta 10, which will just be an update to smooth out kinks, fix a few bugs, maybe add some minor features if it’s doable. The operative word here is minor. Note that they will not add any big new features:
DonÂ’t even think about integrating other apps, or adding disc loading, or anything like that. WeÂ’re talking about small fixes like honoring some setting or adding some minor controller support. Classic controller support is plausible. Fixing some graphical problem is doable. Integrating FTPii isnÂ’t. Sound isnÂ’t. IÂ’m deleting totally implausible posts to keep things sane.
And here’s what they already worked on for Beta 10:
- meta.xml now handles non-ASCII characters properly (you can use iso-8859-1 or utf-8 encoding, but utf-8 is restricted to the iso-8859-1 subset)
- Wiimote shutdown support (in libogc git now – we should have added this earlier)
- Wiimote rumble now honors the rumble setting
- A crash bug or two (hard to hit)
So if you want to voice out a suggestion for Beta 10, hit the source link below. Remember now, this will be their last update for a long time – who knows if they even choose to ever update it again – so now’s a good time to speak up.
Via HackMii