http://valleywag.com/tech/videogames/the-console-wars-animated-295730.php

Here is a list of what’s new:

Channels

-Digital Clock added to the Wii Menu right under the channel bar
-Forecast Channel now displays the current condition (cloudy, raining, etc.) directly in the Wii Menu in the Forecast Channel box
-News Channel can now show 2 scrolling headlines at a time in the Wii Menu, 3 when you click on the button (supposedly this requires occasional downloading of the headlines to keep the ticker updated)
-Message Board now has the “Today’s Accomplishments” message as a white message which allows it to stand out from other messages
-Address Book entries can now be shifted around using A+B (supposed to be a launch feature) but only to empty spaces. Not too convenient.
-Calendar in Message Board no longer shows “Today’s Accomplishment” only days as having messages
-Scrolling messages in the Message Board now uses a different sound
-Today’s Accomplishments in Message Boards now includes the names of people to whom messages were sent out

Wii Shop Channel Overhauled (Visual aesthetic is the same, changes made to organization and browsing methods mostly)
-New Welcome screen detailing 4 Recommended Titles and the points they cost (gone is the title screen bar that had linkable games). The title bar can be clicked on to bring up a list of 20 recommended games.
-Titles You’ve Downloaded was moved to the main shop menu
-New ways to browse
-Popular Titles (2 pages of 10 and includes launch games so not only based on recent info)
-Newest Additions remains the same
-Search for a title which can use partial names
-Search by Category
-System shows the different systems and how many titles have been released under each
-Publisher showing different publishers and amount of titles released (Nice logos!)
-Genre (different genres listed and amount of titles under each)

Accessibility
-Load times in interchannel loading has supposedly decreased (TheGreatDave)
-Password fields filled in using the keyboard (like on the Internet Channel) now display asterisks (VOOK)

Settings
-Warning added pre-system update detailing that technically modified consoles may cease to function upon being updated. Also the only way to not accept an update is to power down the console by holding the button for 4 seconds (the user can’t back out of hitting I Accept w/o powering down)
-Ability to quickly scroll the different options pages using the +,- keys (Myke Greywolf)
-Blue disc light lights up when inserting or removing a game (thefro)
-Light also comes on when starting the Forecast or News Channels (CreatureX3)

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=177983 

A few things missing from the above list, some USB keyboards now work in some areas, though not the web browser which would be the place to have it working, and Freeloader/Action Replay doesn’t work now (not tried doing the old swap trick yet).

- Parental Control support
- Optional Internet content filter provided by Astaro (available soon)
- Improved start-up speed
- Clearer text when zoomed-in
- Improved Wii Remote navigation
- Improved scrolling and zooming
- Built-in search via Yahoo! or Google
- Option to hide Toolbar
- New cursor animations and operation sounds
- Ability to view page security information
- Option to delete cookies
- Built-in support manual

Go download it from the shop now!

1. put an orig gc game into the wii.
2. hover the remote over the start button.
3. press the eject button.
4. press start at last second. i.e. before the button is disabled
5. swap discs really fast i.e. get it started before blue light comes on.
6. away we go AR and imports. note: AR not needed for imports

From http://forums.maxconsole.net/showthread.php?t=51099

Update: I’ve just tried this and managed to boot my old gamecube pal action replay (which can’t boot normally), will be seeing if I can get gamecube homebrew to work later

More info: http://www.wiiminder.com/

Also mario cart 64 is available on the virtual console, thats my weekend sorted

So I tried plugging in the composite connection that comes with the blaze cable thinking the cable could be faulty, but it worked perfectly fine just like the composite cable that came with the wii. I then tried both the s-video cable and the composite cable at the same time and I got a picture, but not in s-video mode. However the picture is a clearer, brighter picture than the composite cable on its own (I tested it by pulling the s-video cable out), so it does work although it’s not a proper s-video picture.

Reading around the Internet it appears s-video doesn’t work with PAL wii’s which is annoying, why did Nintendo do this, surely the pin-outs would be the same on all consoles. Anyway my advice is to try use component if available on your tv, then rgb, then s-video if your tv can take s-video and composite at the same time into the same port (you can get scart adaptors that allow this if you have scart) for a better picture.