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Merry Christmas

I wish you all a merry christmas.

New Hosting Provider

Today plaatsoft.nl is moved to a new hosting Provider. The coming year NitroServe is hosting this site. If there are any problems with the site please let me known. Greetings!

Three years PlaatSoft

Exactly three year ago PlaatSoft was started. So time for a small flashback. It was a great third year. The last year WarQuest for Internet / Windows / Android and ChatCostCalc for Windows were developed with more then 213.000 downloads in total so far.

Ranking website

Plaatsoft.nl is the 7086th largest site in Netherlands (within .nl domain). Check the serversiders site for more information.

The Future

The coming year more exciting games (focus on Android) will be created. So please checkout this website regular.

Happy Easter 2011

I wish you all a happy easter.

Wii firmware update

Wii firmware upgrade (September 2010 release)

Yesterday I have upgraded my Wii firmware from version 4.3e to the september 2010 release (No version number change) Now i can use the Wii shopping and the nintendo movie channel again. Also the pre-installed Homebrew channel v1.0.8 and all my developed games are still working fine. So I am a happy man!

Website update

This afternoon I have upgraded my website.

The following changes were implemented:
- Upgrade to WordPress 3.0.5
- Upgrade all used plugins to latest available version.

Update 28-02-2011:
- Upgrade to WordPress 3.1

Happy New Year

I wish you all a very good 2011! Greetings to everybody in the Wii Homebrew scene.

Merry Christmas

I wish you all a merry christmas.

Website Upgrade

This morning I have upgraded my website.

The following changes were implemented (07-12-2010):
- Upgrade to WordPress 3.0.2
- Upgrade all used plugins to latest available version.

Update 14-12-2010
- Upgrade to WordPress 3.0.3

Site Maintenance

Coming saterday 20 november 2010 this webisite will be down from 00:00 until 7:00 because of a server upgrade! Sorry for the inconvinience!

codemii.com down

Hello everybody,

Can someone tell me why http://wiibrew.org and http://codemii.com are all ready down for more the 24 hours? Any news about this topic is welcome!

Note: I check these websites on daily bases. I personally think these are the best Wii Homebrew sites on the internet. Miss now all the action what is going on in the scene. :(

PlaatSoft 200.000 downloads

Hi everybody, Today PlaatSoft recorded the 200.000e downloads. That is great news! Thanks to all the users in the world.

Wii game PlaatSoft CodeMii Google Code Totals
Pong2 4.056 43.412 1.078 48.546
BibleQuiz 2.493 18.225 587 21.305
RedSquare 3.465 28.378 834 32.677
SpaceBubble 3.516 35.439 974 39.929
TowerDefense 3.045 50.278 2.275 55.598
KnightsQuest 0 0 0 0
Totals 16.575 175.732 5.748 198.055
Drupal module PlaatSoft Google Code Totals
Addressbook 853 10 863
Event Notification 250 0 250
Church Administration 58 3 61
Totals 1.161 13 1.174
Windows software PlaatSoft Google Code Totals
PlaatStats 563 15 578
PlaatScore 467 15 482
RedSquare 326 6 332
KnightsQuest 10 1 11
Totals 1.366 37 1.403

* Counting is based on my website, CodeMii (HomeBrew browser) and Google code site downloads.
** The following windows tool PlaatStats generated this statistics.

Software on freewarefiles.com

Today the following Windows tools PlaatStats, PlaatScore, ChatCostCalc and the Windows game RedSquare are added to freewarefiles.com repository. This popular website will make better promotion for the software resulting in more downloads. The first day all ready 60 downloads were recorded! Great!

FreewareFiles.com - Thousands of Free Software Downloads. Updated Daily!

Two years PlaatSoft

Exactly two year ago PlaatSoft was started. So time for a small flashback. It was a great second year. The last year Wii TowerDefense, Drupal ChurchAdmin, PlaatStats, PlaatScore, RedSquare for Windows were developed with more then 195.000 downloads in total so far.

Ranking website

Plaatsoft.nl is the 9070th largest site in Netherlands (within .NL). Check the serversiders site for more information.

Received awards

Famous Software Download

The coming year more exciting games and tools will be created. So please checkout this website regular.

GRRLIB 4.3.0 slow with FreeType

On this moment GRRLIB 4.3.0 is working slow in combination with FreeType font access. Check out below mail content. The good news is that “Crayon” is working on a solution. I will keep you informed!

Hi Crayon, Today i have upgrade the GRRLIB from 4.2.1 to 4.3.0 in TowerDefense. The upgrade went good but the result was not really good. For some reason the freetype library is very slow. Resulting in poor (Frame-Per-Seconds) during the game play. Early this year you have tuned this library in the GRRlib 4.2.1 build and it was lighting fast. Why is it now so slow again. Do you have a idea? Looking forward to your response. wplaat

Hi wplaat, the code in GRRLIB has not changed that much, maybe the problem could be related to FreeType. If you have time, could you try to test older version of FreeType. Try different combination FreeType / GRRLIB. Let me know if you find something, I’ll try to test stuff on my side. Thanks for the feed back, Crayon

Hi crayon, Good news. I found the performance problem. I was testing wrong. I did not known, that when I compiled the new GRRLIB 4.3.0 library the *.a and *.h files were copied to the devkitpro directory. Therefor I was using everytime with the same “new” libraries. If I now replace the new freetype library of GRRLIB 4.3.0 build with my own old Freetype library (Downloaded from the wiibrew.org site). Everything is working lighting fast again. So the problem is related to the new freetype library. Can the performance issue be related to some wrong build flags in the freetype makefile? wplaat

hi wplaat, Good news, I was actually looking at your code :) I’m going to test different way of building FreeType. It might be related to TrueType hinting, a new feature in FreeType 2.4.0. I’m going to try to build Freetype without this feature, normally TrueType hinting is suppose to make your text look better, but it might be slower too. I’ll keep you inform if I find something. Crayon

Plaatsoft Symbian Rss Viewer


Yesterday my first Symbian application is lanched on the Ovi Store. I have created a RSS viewer for my PlaatSoft posts. If you want to download the symbian application please start the OVI browser on your mobile and type “Plaatsoft” in the searchbox. Other approach is, visit the following link

Join Flattr

Yesterday I joined the Flattr community. I hope this investment will payout in the coming time!

Flattr is a micropayment system, which launched publicly in March 2010 on an invite-only basis, and then opened up to the public in August 2010.

Flattr is a project started by Peter Sunde and Linus Olsson. Users will be able to pay a small monthly amount and then click buttons on sites to share out the money they paid in among those sites, sort of like an Internet tip jar. The minimum users will have to pay is 2 euros per month. Sunde said, “the money you pay each month will be spread evenly among the buttons you click in a month. We want to encourage people to share money as well as content.

Wii firmware upgrade to 4.3e

This afternoon I have upgraded my Wii firmware from version 4.2e to 4.3e. Now i can use the Wii shopping channel again. Also the pre-installed Homebrew Channel (version 1.0.8) and my free developed and downloaded games are still working fine. So i am a happy man!

Important: You have first to upgrade the Homebrew Channel to 1.0.8 before upgrade the Wii Firmware else the Homebrew Channel will be deleted during the Wii Firmware upgrade.

Website Upgrade

This evening I have upgraded my website.

The following changes were implemented:
- Upgrade to WordPress 3.0.1
- Upgrade all used plugins to latest available version.

Summer time

I wish everybody a nice summer holiday. Greetings!

Website Upgrade

This evening I have upgraded my website.

The following changes were implemented:
- Upgrade to WordPress 3.0
- Upgrade all used plugins to latest available version.

Happy Pentecost 2010

Great and Happy Pentecost (The Gift of the Holy Spirit)!

Happy Easter 2010

I wish you all a happy easter.

PlaatSoft 150.000 downloads

Today PlaatSoft registered the 150.000e Wii homebrew game download! Many thanks to all the Wii Homebrew players around the world. :-) Looking forward to provide you with more high quality Wii Homebrew games in 2010!

Game PlaatSoft CodeMii Google Code Totals
Wii Pong2 3.443 36.970 414 40.827
Wii BibleQuiz 2.279 15.195 221 17.695
Wii RedSquare 2.993 22.718 459 26.170
Wii SpaceBubble 2.817 28.129 501 31.447
Wii TowerDefense 2.395 30.247 1.278 33.920
Totals 13.927 133.259 2.873 150.059

* Counting is based on my website, CodeMii (HomeBrew browser) and Google code site downloads.
** The following windows tool PlaatStats generated this statistics.

Website upgrade

This evening I have upgraded my website.

The following changes were implemented:
- Upgrade to WordPress 2.9.2
- Upgrade all used plugins to latest available version.
- Improve menu structure

Nintendo DS in toilet

This evening my three year old son drop accidentally my Nintendo DS in the toilet. :( Too bad, I was not at home so my wife tried to dry it and switch it on again. Only the upper screen lighted up and after a few seconds the DS died. Is it possible to repair a Nintendo DS with water damage? Reaction are welcome!

Wii firmware upgrade 3.0e->4.2e

This evening I have upgraded my friends Wii firmware from version 3.0e to 4.2e. Before I upgraded the Wii firmware I first installed the Homebrew channel (1.0.6) and hidden DVDx channel with the Bannerbomb exploit. This hack is really easy. It took my only 5 minutes to complete all steps. After that I successful upgraded the Wii firmware to 4.2e and installed all (new) available Nintendo channels through the Wii shopping channel. This took about 45 minutes.

Conclusion: Installing the Homebrew and DVDx channel was never so easy. I hope lots of other Wii owners will upgrade there Wii and will explore the world of free Homebrew software. :D

Source code documentation

Latest week I have added to all my Wii projects extra source code documentation based on javadoc notation style. With doxygen (Doxygen is a documentation system for C++, C, Java, Objective-C, and lots of other programming languages) i have created HTML documentation. This documentation is added to the Google SVN repositories. I hope this will help you to understand the source code better.

Ohloh membership

Hi, As you maybe already notest i have joined the Ohloh community. Some kind of Facebook community for open source projects. Most large open source projects (for example Firefox, Gcc, Bash, subversion, Apache, etc.) have joined this great community. It would be really nice that you give me some credits for my work in this community. So if you like the developed software, join the ohloh community and click on the “I USE THIS” button located on the detail project pages. :lol:

Many thanks in advance.

Website upgrade

This morning I have upgraded my website.

The following changes were implemented:
- Upgrade to WordPress 2.9.1
- Move all the development Wii games source code to Google Code
- Game downloads are now handled by Google Code (Reduce Website traffic)

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