Homebrew development tutorials

Here is a list of tutorials available here or on external sites. Read Developer tips sooner than later.

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Tutorials about everything

These tutorials cover many aspects of developing applications for the wii.

• teknecal's CodeMii Tutorial: This tutorial covers setting up DevKitPro in Windows, writing simple code, the use of controllers, arrays, images, the FAT-filesystem, xml and sound.

• Curso de Programación: This Spanish tutorial covers everything from setting up DevKitPro, to creating sprites, to collision and sound.

Tutorials on preparation

Getting started. DevKit, installing new libraries, etc. DevkitPPC is the part of the DevkitPro toolchain used for Wii and Gamecube development. These guides describe setting up such a system:

• Devkitppc setup: Installing devkitPPC, Setup your project folder, Compile the HelloWorld Example, Run the HelloWorld Example on the emulator, Run the HelloWorld Example on the Wii using wiiload.

• Getting Started: The Getting Started section on the official devkitPro wiki.

Other tutorials

• Georgp24's Assembler Tutorial: A tutorial and an application note how to develop assembler programs for the WII and the PowerPC processor.

• GabberNL's SDL Tutorial: A simple but currently incomplete tutorial on SDL.

• WiiPhlex's Programming with Libwiisprite: An extensive libwiisprite tutorial. It simplifies the first steps as well as teaches some advanced concepts.

• Arikado's wii homebrew development tutorials: A tutorial on outputing text from fonts with libwiisprite, and a tutorial on how to play external mp3-files with libogc's MP3Player. Hopefully more to come.

• Jmaster's Libwiigui tutorial: Descripes how to use the libwiigui-library