Category: General

I wish everybody a nice summer holiday. Greetings!

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.

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

I wish you all a happy easter.

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.

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

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!

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. 😀

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.

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. 😆

Many thanks in advance.

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)

Hi everybody, This year starts great. On the first day of 2010 PlaatSoft reach officially 100.000 game downloads. This is great news! Thanks for all the PlaatSoft Wii Homebrew supporters around the world 😆 Looking forward to provide you with more high quality Wii Homebrew games in 2010!

Official Count

Game	PlaatSoft	CodeMii	Google Code	Totals
Wii Pong2	3.077	33.718	0	36.795
Wii BibleQuiz	1.945	13.384	0	15.329
Wii RedSquare	2.620	15.735	0	18.355
Wii SpaceBubble	2.484	19.796	0	22.280
Wii TowerDefense	857	6.386	0	7.243
Totals	10.983	89.019	0	100.002

I wish you all a very good 2010! Greetings to everybody in the Wii Homebrew scene.

This morning I have upgraded my website.

The following changes were implemented:
– Upgrade to WordPress 2.9.0
– Upgrade all used plugins to latest available version.
– Remove all Ads because revenue was really poor so far!
– Remove total website page counter.
– Upgrade Atahualpa thema from v3.1.8 to v3.4.4 because old version did not working anymore correct with WordPress 2.9.0. Posted comments were not visible anymore!

Because of the Atahualpa theme upgrade the following functionality was initially not working anymore:
– Show page view counter (Fixed)
– Comment spam protection (Fixed)
– Show category icons (Fixed)
– Post rating (Disabled plug-in, not needed anymore)

This evening i have upgraded my website.

The following changes were implemented:
– Upgrade to WordPress 2.8.6
– Upgrade all used plugins

This morning i have upgraded my Wii firmware from version 4.0e to 4.2e. Now i can use the Wii shopping channel again. Also the pre-installed Homebrew Channel (version 1.0.6) and my free developed and downloaded games are still working fine. So i am a happy man!

Today the PlaatSoft is celebrating its 13th year! Plaatsoft was founded at 1996. It was a great year. Four Wii games were development with more then 80.000 downloads so far. The coming year more exciting games will be created. So please checkout this website regular.

This evening I found out that my WordPress website was hacked on 17-09-2009 10:00 localtime (Two days ago). 🙁 Not visible spam was added to the footer of this website and all downloads access rights were changed. Does anyone know how this is possible with WordPress 2.8.4? I upgraded three weeks ago my website to WordPress 2.8.4 so I personally think this hack is done with a WordPress 2.8.4 exploit!

The good news is that now everything is working normal again because i did the following things:
– Removed the spam from the footer.php template!
– Corrected the download access rights!
– Protected my score webservice against SQL insertion
– Set the unix file rights to readonly
– Changed all passwords

Today i have started a new website about Symbian Homebrew. I was surprised that this kind of website not exist yet! The site is a new independent Symbian Homebrew website. The goal of the website is to provide Nokia Symbian mobile phone users and developers a wiki style website were they can find easy free open-source software! With easy I mean that visitors can downloads applications, games and/or other software without lots of Ads and other non related information. Ofcourse the succes of this website will mainly depend on you! Who will join me to setup and fill this new website. Looking forward to all your posts!

Link to the new site is SymbianBrew

Update 01-08-2011. Because of poor visit amounts I have closed the website.

This evening i have upgraded my website.

The following changes were implemented:
– Upgrade to WordPress 2.8.4
– Upgrade all used plugins
– Remove most of the Ads
– Added YouTube Pong2, RedSquare, SpaceBubble and BibleQuiz game movie!
– Added syntax highlight plugin
– Added contact form

I wish everybody a nice summer holiday. Greetings!

This evening i have upgraded my website.

The following changes were implemented:
– Upgrade to WordPress 2.8.1
– Upgrade all used plugins

This evening i have upgraded my website.

The following changes were implemented:
– Upgrade to WordPress 2.8
– Upgrade all used plugins
– Install patch for Category Plugin (else Word Press Dashboard is not working anymore correct)

This morning i have upgraded my Wii firmware to version 4.0e. Now for the first time i can use a SDHC card (>2 GB) to show pictures to my friends. That’s a great new feature and also the installed Homebrew Channel and my free developed games are still working fine. So i am a happy man.