README : WakeMii
November 4, 2025 ยท View on GitHub
what is it?
WakeMii was a personal project inspired by a need for a calmer alarm than a recently purchased one which felt a bit too intense for my liking. It's an alarm clock app for the Wii which allows you to drop a bunch of "albums" and "hourly" MP3 files with each album also allowing cover-art. It can also be used as a niche MP3 player with features such as prev/next track/album or random play.
The alarm track is always chosen at random, as is the hourly track.
Video:
QUICK USAGE:
Storage Setup
- Place .mp3 files in the following directory structure:
- /wakemii/albums/<some album name>/*.mp3
- /wakemii/albums/<some album name>/cover.png
- /wakemii/albums/<another album name>/*.mp3
- /wakemii/albums/<some album name>/cover.jpg
- /wakemii/hourly/*.mp3
- JPG, PNG and BMP are supported for cover art.
- Wii will use the front SD card slot only, GameCube will use GCLoader, SD2SP2, Slot A then Slot B (MMCE devices are also supported).
Controls:
For a Wii, only a Wii remote is supported. For GameCube, only a GC controller.
| Function | Wii | GameCube |
|---|---|---|
| Next Track | D-RIGHT | D-RIGHT |
| Prev Track | D-LEFT | D-LEFT |
| Vol Up | D-UP | D-UP |
| Vol Down | D-Down | D-Down |
| Exit | Home | Start |
| Next Album | Plus | R Trigger |
| Prev Album | Minus | L Trigger |
| Settings Menu | '2' Button | Z Button |
| Random Track | '1' Button | X Button |
| Confirm | A Button | A Button |
| Cancel | B Button | B Button |
Issues
- :warning: Cover art must be small because GRRLIB likes to crash or just simply not display images if they're too big, I recommend 320x240 although I've had sizes up to 800x600 work but it can be hit or miss.
- I have only tried 128kbps MP3 files, larger bitrate files might have issues
- The alarm will only sound for a minute (or less if the track chosen is less), it cannot be cancelled/snoozed.
- There are probably bugs!
Possible future features
- Stop using crappy/unreadable fonts
- Move away from GRRLIB usage
- Mii integration with Mii specific profiles for the hell of it
- MOD music file support
- VGMStream integration for loads more files
Building
Have a working devKitPro & libogc2 setup, along with grrlib installed via pacman. After that, just type make and it should compile.
CREDITS
- libOGC2: [Extrems]
- GRRLIB
- Compiled using devKitPro and "libOGC2" (unofficial)