We’ve kept it maintained over the various releases, and we’ve done some very minor cleanup to this release to bring it up to date with the latest version of the toolchain and remove “security” bits no longer relevant to an open source release, but other than that, what you see is what you get. Keep in mind that, since this was never developed in public, you’ll probably find embarrassing things in the source code.
Bushing, in particular, always championed for this. However, the plan was always to eventually open source it. And, to be fair, the code is definitely not as pretty as what you get when running it. But we didn’t want it to become an instant base for quick hacks and mods and endless cheap variations, and we also didn’t think proliferation of installable “channels” on the Wii is a good idea: we still think it makes much more sense to have one entry point into the homebrew ecosystem, and then launch everything else from there (among other things, because it’s easy to brick a Wii by installing things into NAND). We hoped it would inspire other software to aspire to a similar level of quality. When we built HBC, we always wanted it to serve as a reference for what homebrew software should look like: good design, professional-looking, user friendly, stable, safe, and supporting features such as network connectivity.
We thought we’d dust off the blog with a little birthday present: the source code for The Homebrew Channel.
Last weekend was the 10-year anniversary of the Nintendo Wii.
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