{"id":30743,"date":"2026-02-09T18:40:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/?p=30743"},"modified":"2026-03-26T08:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:58:08","slug":"metal-canary-wii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/modding\/metal-canary-wii\/","title":{"rendered":"Metal Canary set to Fly onto Wii Later this Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Metal Canary<\/strong> is a new homebrew shoot \u2018em up that\u2019s currently being developed for PC and two beloved retro consoles.<br \/><br \/>As you\u2019ll know If you\u2019re a regular reader of this site, or even if you just follow the retro gaming scene in general, homebrew games for retro consoles are rather popular these days, and we\u2019ve seen plenty of homebrew releases on a variety of formats, but not too many on <strong>Nintendo Wi<\/strong>i, which is what makes <strong>Metal Canary<\/strong> a little different, as not only will it be blasting onto <strong>PC<\/strong> and <strong>Dreamcast<\/strong>, but it will, indeed,\u00a0 also be getting ported to <strong>Nintendo Wii<\/strong>.<br \/><br \/>The game was announced on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/YTNaiAdventure\/status\/2020690042210148416\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X<\/a> by its developer, <strong>Nai Adventure<\/strong>.<br \/><br \/>The game is set to be released on all three platforms in the second half of the year, during <strong>Retrocon 2026<\/strong>, which is scheduled to take place in Philadelphia on September 12th and 13th 2026.<br \/><br \/>While <strong>Metal Canary<\/strong> is still in development, at the time of writing all that\u2019s left to be done on the game are a few tweaks, and the implantation of a video player.<br \/><br \/>The <strong>Wii<\/strong> version of <strong>Metal Canary<\/strong> was ported in a mere six hours, and it will be getting a physical release via <strong>Old Game<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Novo jogo para Nintendo Wii \u2013 Metal Canary (Work in Progress)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-qnJC-gxCoI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metal Canary is a new homebrew shoot \u2018em up that\u2019s currently being developed for PC and two beloved retro consoles. As you\u2019ll know If you\u2019re a regular reader of this site, or even if you just follow the retro gaming scene in general, homebrew games for retro consoles are rather popular these days, and we\u2019ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":30801,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[250,251,252],"class_list":["post-30743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-modding","tag-metal-canary","tag-nai-adventure","tag-nintendo-wii"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31064,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30743\/revisions\/31064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}