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Guide

Wii homebrew

Write, build and run your own Wii apps in C or C++, powered by your own devkitPro install.

What you need

  • devkitPro with the wii-dev group (devkitPPC and libogc). Revolution Editor doesn't bundle or download it.
  • Dolphin to run what you build, or a real Wii with the Homebrew Channel.

Revolution Editor looks for devkitPro in /opt/devkitpro (the installer's default) or $DEVKITPRO. If yours lives elsewhere, choose it in Settings > Homebrew, which also shows whether the toolchain was found.

Create a project

  1. Choose File > New > Wii Homebrew Project….
  2. Name it, pick C or C++, and choose where to put it.
  3. Create. The project opens in the workbench with a standard devkitPPC Makefile, a source/main.c (or .cpp) hello-world that draws text and exits on the HOME button, and a .gitignore.

Add more .c/.cpp files to source/ and headers to include/. Everything opens in the built-in code editor with syntax highlighting, Find and undo.

Build and run

When the open folder is a homebrew project, a Build & Run button (hammer) appears in the toolbar.

  • Click it to build with make and boot the resulting .dol in Dolphin.
  • Use its menu to Build without running, or Clean.
  • Compiler output streams into the Console. The finished .dol and .elf are written next to your sources.
devkitPro's makefiles can't handle spaces in paths (such as On-Device Documents), so Revolution Editor builds in a space-free staging copy under /tmp and copies the result back. Your project can live anywhere.

On a real Wii

Copy the built .dol to your SD card as apps/<name>/boot.dol, add a meta.xml if you want a title and icon in the Homebrew Channel, and launch it from there.

Visual apps

Instead of a plain console project, create one of the app templates:

  • C: UI app (designer + nodes): lay out the screen in the UI designer and wire the logic in the Node editor. No code needed.
  • Swift: UI app (designer + Swift): the same designer, with your logic written in Swift.

Either way you can also add hand-written C or C++ files to source/.

Work with an agent

Revolution Editor can hand a project to Claude Code, Codex or Antigravity. See Coding agents.

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