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Reminder: Opera browser to cost monies after June 30th

Posted Jun 29th 2007 3:35PM by David Hinkle
Filed under: News

No doubt, you're well-informed and have been enjoying the Opera browser on your Wii for months, without a single care in the world. Or, you live a life of danger and have been waiting, in anticipation of almost missing the free grace period to download the browser, in the hopes that your life would become more exciting through ~~stupidity~~ danger. Or, maybe you just forgot.

Regardless of which camp you fall in, it would do you well to inform one and all that starting July 1st, the Opera browser will set you back a cool 500 Wii Points ($5 USD). Everyone who downloads the browser before then will have it for free, for the life of the system, obviously. So, if you have yet to even get your own Wii (GASP!), you might want to run out and nab it now, then download the Opera browser. It'll save you 5 bucks!

[Thanks, Nushio!]

Wii system update brings final Opera browser to your Wii

Posted Apr 11th 2007 10:22PM by David Hinkle
Filed under: News, Nintendo Wi-Fi, Channels

Many of you perhaps saw that spectacular glow on your Wii's disc slot and found yourself hypnotized, falling to your knees and drooling out of your mouth like you had just been witness to the Hypnotoad. Upon battling your way out of hypnosis and installing the system update and checking out the Shop Channel, you might've found that the final version of the Wii's Opera browser is available for download. Well, we did and we managed to take some pictures for you (it should be noted we have no way of taking direct feed snapshots, so they aren't the greatest images).

Check them out after the break.

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New videos and updates for the Internet Channel

Posted Mar 22nd 2007 7:00PM by Eric Caoili
Filed under: News, Channels

We spent the morning crying into our pillows and refusing to come out of our rooms after we heard about the final version of Opera's Wii browser being delayed. Nintendo eventually called to console us though, directing our puffy eyes to an interview with the company's Internet Channel development team at its Japanese site. We had a really good talk.

There are several videos and screenshots scattered around the Japanese transcript, demonstrating the changes with the Wii browser's final build. It's clear that Nintendo and Opera Software addressed a lot of common complaints users had with the trial version, making sure to implement variable zooming, improved starting times, and faster scrolling. Here's a list of all the other things we spotted on the page, mixed in with Nintendo's announced updates:

new introduction animation
new start page with search button
auto-hide feature on navigation bar
search and address buttons on nav bar
multiple cursors (only one will be functional)
quicker access to "favorites"
an improved zoomed font
buttons that will instantly type common preset letters, such as "www" or ".com"

As we regretfully announced earlier, the release date for the final version of Opera's Wii browser has been pushed back to April. The Internet Channel will be available to download for free until the end of June. After that, users will be able to download it from the Wii Shop Channel for 500 Wii Points.

Wiiminder: tabbed browsing courtesy of Warp Pipe

Posted Feb 20th 2007 9:55AM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: Fan stuff, Nintendo Wi-Fi, Homebrew

Warp Pipe Technologies, who you may remember as the only people ever to support the Gamecube modem, ever, have turned their attentions to a Nintendo console with an actual online strategy. Now they're helping to augment the existing Wii online experience with tabbed browsing. By making the Wii Opera browser work more like the real Opera browser, they've added tabbed browsing (with nice smoke-grey transparent tabs). Just navigate your browser over to here and your browser will be ready to party like it's 2001.

We are so much happier about web-based Wii browser extensions (which are already great!) when they are accompanied by such lovely logos. It's the typography that does it. It's so handsome.

... what were we saying? Oh yeah. There's a video demonstrating the service after the post break.

[Via 4cr]

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Play homebrew Flash games on the Wii [update 1]

Posted Nov 20th 2006 2:15PM by Nikki Inderlied
Filed under: News

Parallel to the long-awaited launch of the Wii, designer David Stubbs, Aaron Worrall and John Eysman have launched their website, called Wiicade. The first homebrew application we have seen so far for Wii, Wiicade offers gamers a chance to play and possibly create Flash games to be played through the Opera browser.

We poked around the site to discover it an instant success. Since the site launch on Sunday, over 16,000 games were played in under 24 hours. Wiicade costs nothing to you and we hope to see more games inspired by the Wiimote appear. If you, like several other disspointed Nintendo fanboys and girls, didn't get your hands on a Wii, you can still enjoy these games on your PC to hold you over.

[Update: Remember that these games are not yet available for actual play on the Wii because the Opera Browser is not yet live.]

[Via Joystiq]

More fuel for the free browser fire? [update 1]

Posted Sep 26th 2006 10:45AM by David Hinkle
Filed under: Rumors

Over at Internet Ad Sales, they're reporting that Opera will offer its web browser for a free period until 2007 on the Wii. What's confusing, however, is that the article makes no mention of territories.

Now, you all know that this is how things are going down in Japan because you read this (right?), so are we to assume this news is just a late reporting of the previous, Japan-exclusive browser news, or has Nintendo adopted this strategy for other markets outside of Japan?

We've contacted our Nintendo rep and will update the post with their response.

[Via Codename Revolution]

[Update: Confirmed to be the real deal Holyfield folks! Rejoice!]

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Reminder: Opera browser to cost monies after June 30th

Wii system update brings final Opera browser to your Wii

New videos and updates for the Internet Channel

Wiiminder: tabbed browsing courtesy of Warp Pipe

Play homebrew Flash games on the Wii [update 1]

More fuel for the free browser fire? [update 1]

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