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Nintendo Wii Homebrew Contest 2007
Croakyvoice writes "DCEmu is hosting the worlds first Nintendo
Wii and Nintendo Gamecube Homebrew Coding Contest with prizes of $500 on offer
for Homebrew and Emulators for the Wii and Gamecube, The hope is that through
this contest an exploit will be released that will allow full homebrew on the
Nintendo Wii without a Modchip. Gamecube
Homebrew is already on the Wii with a host of systems emulated such as Snes,
Genesis, Gameboy and Neogeo."
That is one of the most horrific things I have ever seen in modern technology. That's like goatse.cz for browsers. Impressive you got it to work, but what possessed you to do such a thing?
So it's not a knockoff handheld, but most everything you list involves it just playing old games originally created for other systems. I'm not knocking the hardware, but most of the interest in the system is from people who just want to play old ROMs on the go.
Great so it can play all the old games that have already been rehashed a couple hundred times. The problem I see with the Linux community is they spend so much time and energy just trying to get already existing software and technology to run on their systems, that they have little or no time to truly create something new and innovative. Instead of trying to create an alternative system that does everything that your current system can do natively, create something new that your current system can't do. Then maybe you will see adoption of Linux as a viable alternative for the widespread public using mainstream hardware and software. Not speaking of the merits of Linux itself, simply the attitude of the community in general. Also just because something runs Linux doesn't make it any more or less crappy than any other system.