Wii OS (v1.0 alpha)
Made by John E. (bigjohn8411/gclefhp)
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LEGAL STUFF: The menu music, and sound effects were ALL made by Nintendo, and they ARE Nintendo's. The health and safety screen is Nintendo's too! But everything besides that, I made. The sounds and such, I just basically recorded off of YouTube Wii videos. 
If Nintendo decides to go "OH EM GEE, WE GOTTA GET THAT GUY" and e-mail me or something, then I will gladly remove this. No questions asked. I love Nintendo, and I love the Wii.

I also cannot guarantee that this will work on computers running Windows NT, 98, 95, or 2000. I only have Windows XP, and I know it works on both my computers. So if you don't have Windows XP and it doesn't run, I can't help you.


Information:
I made this program one night when I was really bored. Since I don't have the money to buy a Wii, I decided I was gonna re-make the interface on my computer, and make it launch my favorite games. Of course not having a Wii, I needed a resource to get images, see how the interface works, sounds, and music. I turned to YouTube. After looking at a bunch of videos, I went to work. It all started with a blank white screen, and now here it is today, looking great. I used 5 things in making this program:

* MS Paint
* Cool Edit Pro
* The Print Screen Key
* Ulead Gif Animator (to convert images to .gif to reduce size)
* YouTube

And that's it. So, here is a somewhat playable version. If you don't like it, delete it :)

The music player is in here too, to play songs, just take an MP3 file, and place your MP3 files in Music directory. Rename them 1.mp3, 2.mp3, 3.mp3 and 4.mp3  It only plays 4 songs besides the normal menu music. If that sucks to you, go fuckin' download WinAmp. This isn't a music player.

For the music player, I personally used...Goldberg's theme (the wrestler, in case you don't know), Fury of the Storm (by DragonForce), Cowboys from Hell (Pantera), and some yoga song I got from a friend.


Instructions:
Run GlovePIE, run the script included with this program. Then run Wii OS.exe. Congratulations, you win.


Limitations!
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It can only be run in 800x600 resolution.

Non-customizable.

Does not run games.

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This is probably as far as it's gonna go folks. In order to have it run games, be customizable, and run in other resolutions and add much more to it, I'll have to start all over again, and re-make it from scratch. I'm only gonna do that if I get REALLY bored lol.
So enjoy this, even though it doesn't really DO anything. I will NOT release the source, so don't ask. Thanks :)
Hopefully someone can make something based off of the Nintendo Wii's interface that we all can enjoy (and customize lol). I hope I'm inspiring someone out there!


A HUGE! Thank you to Carl Kenner, for creating GlovePIE!
And thank you to all of those people who watched my video, and supported me and gave me great comments on my program :) You are all badass to me. Not bad for a teenager who makes cole slaw for a living, right? Haha.

Peace,
- John