Carrying on the rich hacker tradition of picking up the slack for companies that are unwilling or unable to provide the functionality users need, a team of Wii coders have given the console what Nintendo could not: DVD playback. By installing a small, hidden channel on a system, this package blesses the console with a libdi file (DVD access library), and allows you to watch your favorite videos with the MPlayer application, an open source media player. The install file will run on modded and unmodded systems, and the software is also capable of playing media from SD cards (though it's experimental right now). Finally Wii owners can join the ranks of, well... pretty much everyone else.
The Nintendo channel thing looks quite interesting as well - using wireless to put games on your DS, but I haven't tried it out yet.
Quite good stuff seems to be quietly happening on it, but nobody notices because the PS3 and XBox are all like RAR RAR RAR WE HAVE A NEW MENU SYSTEM ONE ELEVENTY RAR.
spoodie wrote:Lostwinds, a download only game, is supposed to be good as well.
It is. Beautiful. Soothing. Short, though, and replay value seems a little low.
Is the DVD licence fee not what was holding it back, in order to keep the Wii as cheap as possible? If it is I wonder how they'll play the update- whether it'll be a paid-for channel download like the Internet Channel or if Nintendo will consume the price and add it in for free.
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The Wii finally gets DVD playback -- no thanks to Nintendo
