We are so back! This is my kind of Nintendo Direct. Hombrew just does what Nintendont.
Decompiled Mario Kart Wii native on Linux (meaning 4K 120Hz) and all that cool stuff coming with it.
And RetroRewind a Mario Kart Wii Custom Track Distribution including all previous Courses and some of the later ones included as well as a reverse engineered server (which seems to be down right now for maintenance). Devs are also very active.
They did honestly perfected the physics and some of the item weights in Mario Kart 8, but I suppose I can live without it, especially the minute long invincibility frames. Its still in Beta but am looking forward trying this out later today.
EDIT: I think I misunderstood :( Its too separate things, but two really cool things! And they do seem to be working on getting RetroRewind run in Wiicompiled! As I said I have to take look myself first.
Oh, hell yeah! The kids had some troubles with emulated Mario Kart on the Steam Machine the other day. This should make it significantly easier.
Edit: Meh, looks like it needs an external launcher for now. I was hoping for a simple executable I just point at the ROM.