Piero’s Wiicross v0.1: Picross homebrew for the Wii

December 4, 2008 by admin
Filed under: Wii News

There are very few Wiibrew games that make me go “wow.” I have to say that this new one from Scognito is one of those games. From the looks of the screenshots alone, a lot of love and effort was put into the making of this game.

This game is called Piero’s Wiicross, a Picross game for the Wii. In case you missed out on Nintendo’s franchise, Picross is a nonogram puzzle game where you have to fill in squares in a grid according to clues given on the sides of the grid. The filled-in squares will eventually make a picture.

Although all the grids are only 15×15 in size, the game does offer a whopping 59 levels. Pretty well done for a homebrew game. It also features two game modes: Normal, and Free. Normal mode alerts you when you’re coloring in the wrong cell, and a penalty is given. In Free mode, a penalty is only given when you finish the puzzle incorrectly.

You can also customize the game with your own music and themes. Here are the instructions from Scognito:

Music

Put your favourite songs in the res/music directory (for example if you use the homebrew channel it is apps/wiicross/res/music), then select Custom from the options menu.

Note: Music must be in ogg format! No, I m not an opensource devote: simply sndlib does not support MP3, and libogc support for them is screwed. Also res directory on GameCube must be put on the root of the SD!

Themes

A theme is composed by the following images

background.png (640 x 480 pixels)
filled.png (image to show when a cell is drawn)
marked.png (image to show when a cell is marked)
title.png (the title to show in the option screen for selecting your theme)

All themes must be put in a directory called with the name of your theme, and this directory must be put in res/themes . If you follow these rules, you ll find you theme in the options screen.

For helping in drawing a theme, there is a template on the project page. It also contains a psd (photoshop) and a xcf (gimp) containing layers, helpful for drawing the background, since some part of it are used for painting the timer and the preview.

Download: Piero’s Wiicross v0.1