What happened to this place...? This is my first day here, but it feels as if I've stepped into an abandoned graveyard. Hardly any posts were made this year in any of the boards - It's creepy and kind of depressing. The Wii Homebrew scene needs some new life put back into it. Fresh new ideas, new blood, new discussion. If I knew how to code, I would for the sake of keeping the scene alive. I remember when the prospect of Wii Homebrew at all was new an exciting - we finally had something we could DO SOMETHING with our edits to. For the first and maybe the last time, this was OUR console. But... there's just nothing now. I may not have been a vocal member of the community until today, but it's just upsetting to see it fall so far into the ether. We need to come up with things to breathe some life back into this place. Wii U and 3DS homebrew probably won't happen – at least not for very long – due to Nintendo being able to update games themselves now, so this might be the only thing we get.http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?14,74256,74256#msg-74256Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:44:23 +0200 Phorum 5.2.23 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?14,74256,74275#msg-74275 Re: What happened to this place...?http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?14,74256,74275#msg-74275
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Yeah, I would say there's just not as much interest in the Wii anymore, especially from developers. Most have moved on to other platforms, or just on with their lives in general. I know I personally don't come on to the forums as much as I used to and there isn't as many people posting, asking questions (at least the one's I can answer..), or creating new content. I'm not sure if you guys have read marcan's post on fail0verflow about the future of console homebrew (fail0verflow :: The future of console homebrew (and a shot of Espresso)) but he made some good points about the Wii U that I think lend to the lack of interest in Wii homebrew as well.

I just read that and... the worst part is, it's a good point.

I'm not going to lie. I know the age of consoles is ending. It was ending for a while for a ton of reasons.

But I'm still sad about it.

Still, silly old sentiment has no reason to stop progress... I'll just have to get used to it.]]> BaffleBlend OfftopicTue, 01 Apr 2014 03:07:18 +0200 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?14,74256,74267#msg-74267 Re: What happened to this place...?http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?14,74256,74267#msg-74267fail0verflow :: The future of console homebrew (and a shot of Espresso)) but he made some good points about the Wii U that I think lend to the lack of interest in Wii homebrew as well.]]> bg4545 OfftopicMon, 31 Mar 2014 10:03:23 +0200 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?14,74256,74265#msg-74265 Re: What happened to this place...?http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?14,74256,74265#msg-74265 tueidj OfftopicMon, 31 Mar 2014 08:34:20 +0200 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?14,74256,74261#msg-74261 Re: What happened to this place...?http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?14,74256,74261#msg-74261 dirtrider73068 OfftopicMon, 31 Mar 2014 00:41:31 +0200 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?14,74256,74256#msg-74256 What happened to this place...?http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?14,74256,74256#msg-74256
The Wii Homebrew scene needs some new life put back into it. Fresh new ideas, new blood, new discussion. If I knew how to code, I would for the sake of keeping the scene alive. I remember when the prospect of Wii Homebrew at all was new an exciting - we finally had something we could DO SOMETHING with our edits to. For the first and maybe the last time, this was OUR console. But... there's just nothing now. I may not have been a vocal member of the community until today, but it's just upsetting to see it fall so far into the ether.

We need to come up with things to breathe some life back into this place. Wii U and 3DS homebrew probably won't happen – at least not for very long – due to Nintendo being able to update games themselves now, so this might be the only thing we get.]]> BaffleBlend OfftopicSun, 30 Mar 2014 15:55:10 +0200