Wiibreaker

Wiibreaker
File:Wiibreakerwii.jpg
General
Author	Arikado
Type	Arcade Games
Version	0.5
License	Mixed
Last Updated	2009/02/02
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Wiibreaker is a basic brickbreaker game created in response to the absence of similar games in Wii homebrew, as suggested by my artist Azza123. It took two weekends to develop.

Features

The release of version 0.5 of WiiBreaker marks a significant advancement for the game, bringing several new and innovative features. For the first time, players can save and load their progress, a new programming accomplishment. The game also introduces three distinct modes, which will be further developed in future updates, and features background music that adds a touch of professionalism and enhances the overall appeal of the game.

Installation

Extract the .zip directly to the inside of your apps folder

This game is only compatible with the wiimote, nunchuk, classic controller, balance board, homebrew Channel Wii, and front sd loader!!!

Controls

Menu Control Scheme

• UP and DOWN on any supported controller to move the pointer
• LEFT and RIGHT on any supported control scheme to change what the pointer's pointing at

Button Control Scheme

• LEFT and RIGHT or UP and DOWN on the wiimote.
• LEFT and RIGHT on the Classic Controller.
• C and Z or the Analog Stick on the nunchuk.

IR Sensor Control Scheme

• Point the wiimote to move the paddle.

Balance Board Control Scheme

• Shift your body left and right to move the paddle
• NOTE: Pause the game if you feel unbalanced

Level Editor Control Scheme (one wiimote):

• A: Pick up brick
• B: Drop brick
• MINUS: Save Pattern
• PLUS: Load Pattern
• DPAD: Choose color for selected brick
• 1 and 2: Reset Bricks
• HOME: Play Pattern

Anywhere (but the level editor)

• Wiimote or Classic PLUS: Pause the game
• HOME: Return to the menu or return to the loader from the menu
• Power Button: Turn off the Wii

Screenshots

Level Editor

Making your own levels with the level editor will save them as the file pattern1.pattern Send me your pattern1.pattern files and they may make into WiiBreaker mode for the next release. Furthermore, feel free to distribute them to your friends for them to play.

NOTE: You can only have one pattern file (named pattern1.pattern) in your data folder at a time. Future releases may increase the available number of pattern files.

User Generated Backgrounds

Since the 0.3 release, players have been able to enable backgrounds as they play. However, I think the game is best played with a background you made.

Here's how to make and use your own:

Make a .png image with the dimensions 640x480

Save it as either background1.png, background2.png, or background3.png.

Put the image into the data folder in the WiiBreaker folder.

Make sure you get rid of or change the name of the existing image you are replacing.

How to let other people use your backgrounds:

If you want other people to be able to use your backgrounds, please make 3 backgrounds and put them into a .zip file. Then either e-mail me the .zip or upload the .zip to the internet and then e-mail me the link. I will put the file/link onto the Wiibrew page for the app. Remember to only put the backgrounds into the .zip Do not resend the entire app to me.

How to use someone else backgrounds

If you want to use someone else backgrounds put them into the data folder in the WiiBreaker folder, making sure to replace the existing background images with them.

Its that easy everyone. Please do not e-mail me questions that I have already answered in the text above.

Once again my e-mail address is: castlevania7689 <at> yahoo <dot> com.

Changelog

0.5

• Ball now moves in 12 directions instead of 4
• 3 distinct modes (Brickbreaker, WiiBreaker, Level Editor)
• A little bit of "new" artwork
• Each control scheme tweaked (based on feedback from people)
• 2 Tracks of Background Music
• Highscore system changed to compensate the new modes (except level editor)
• Highscores are now saved

0.3

• All of the artwork, including the icon, has been redone by Azza123
• Bricks are randomly assigned different colors
• Signifigant changes to the overall game
• SDHC Support
• Power Button Support
• Bug Fixes
• User Generated Backgrounds
• IR Sensor Control Scheme
• A far better menu (font support and its sorta interactive)
• Pause Feature
• Balance Board Control Scheme
• Sound Support (sucks, but its there and turned off by default)
• 1 Highscore for each control scheme

0.2

• All Collision Detection Problems Fixed
• Highscoring
• Nunchuk Support
• Classic Controller Support
• Only rumbles when expansion controllers are not plugged in
• HBC 9 Support

0.1

• First private and public release.

Special Thanks

• Thanks to Aaron (Azza123) who gave me the idea for Wiibreaker and who currently does all of the artwork for Wiibreaker.
• Thanks to PeterdeMan for making the two absolutely amazing, jawdropping music tracks. In my mind, they are about the best music tracks anywhere in the Wii homebrew scene.
• Thanks to WarpedFlash for allowing me to bring over one of his Wii Shooting Gallery crosshairs.
• Thanks to Ave for his library allowing me to achieve font support.
• Thanks to Tantric, Koopa, and ekeeke for helping me achieve saving and loading of files.
• Thanks to Tantric and scanff for giving me a bit of assistance with looping mp3 files.
• Thanks to the people running the homebrew browser (teknecal?), thus allowing more people to easily run my software.
• Thanks to Chaosteil for developing the libwiisprite library.
• Thanks to Team Twiizers for originally hacking the Wii.
• Thank you to everyone who has downloaded my other applications as well as Wiibreaker.

External links

• Wiibrew - https://wiibrew.org/wiki/Wiibreaker