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Your Wii is lit up

Thursday, April 12, 2007 8:17:26 AM

Since the release of the trial version (Dec. 22nd, 2006) Nintendo and Opera have incorporated user feedback from you into the full version of the Internet Channel to create a faster, more functional and feature-rich Web experience on Wii

New features introduced in today’s release include:

New type of zoom,
more scrolling options,
increased simplicity and ease-of-use,
and the ability to turn the toolbar on or off (see a complete features overview below).

This version of the browser remains a free download until June 30, 2007, and once downloaded is free for the lifetime of the system .

We also got some nifty links for you to check out:

Members and moderators of the N+ group here at My Opera has already begun sharing their thoughts and excitement regarding the Opera-powered Wii Internet Channel. We think you should do the same .

Last, but not least, check out the new Wii Browser portal for Opera.

Have fun surfing the Web on your Wii Internet Channel Powered by Opera!

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.edDotEd # Thursday, April 12, 2007 8:22:55 AM

its amazing!
oh it's so good.

Tamil # Thursday, April 12, 2007 8:37:42 AM

Bobdiyvip403 # Thursday, April 12, 2007 8:55:29 AM

If my life is immovable, I will get a wii.

Scrapp Majorityscrapp # Thursday, April 12, 2007 9:24:16 AM

i think the demo worked better....and wheres the support for RSS and podcasts?!!....i was pretty let down honstly, youd think sence they pushed our release day back a month they would at least made it compabile with Flash9 but flash 7??? thats like 4 years ago!! plus they still did not include any Mpeg support...looks like my last hope is WiiLi (lenux on wii)

Hein Torezyph # Thursday, April 12, 2007 9:27:31 AM

Aye, this is highly anticipated, and very much appreciated!

Knut Remi "DrLaunch" Løvlidrlaunch # Thursday, April 12, 2007 9:41:41 AM

Congrats, Nintendo Wii owners. I'm so envious of you.
I'll get a Wii this month my self. The Wii browser is the first thing I'm going to download.

Jason Jason Lee # Thursday, April 12, 2007 10:14:52 AM

5 out of 10

slim38 # Thursday, April 12, 2007 12:05:03 PM

the flash player is alrite so far notthing wrong wit it check youtube 1 thing wrong so far with dis netchannel is finetune wii player on trail version when u go on finetune and pick the wii player on the left side on home page every thing comes up on full screen without zooming in this time u pick wii player not so full screen the finetune parts is small it only when u zoom in it full screen but part of the top is missing need help what did me do wrong the jury still out on the net channel i will give it the same 5 out 10

agony # Thursday, April 12, 2007 12:06:08 PM

opera final on the wii makes me touch myself

KryptoKnightAleksOD # Thursday, April 12, 2007 12:13:32 PM

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii! The fist thing I am gonna do when I get home is check it out!!! Thanks, Opera, you are da best!

Magnus Nevstadspz # Thursday, April 12, 2007 12:32:35 PM

Glad to see you guys are enjoying it

Romain Vigier # Thursday, April 12, 2007 12:45:19 PM

Damn, it's my little brother who has the Wii, and he's not at home! I have to wait in order to try!

Haavardhaavard # Thursday, April 12, 2007 1:20:49 PM

Originally posted by scrapp:

youd think sence they pushed our release day back a month they would at least made it compabile with Flash9 but flash 7???

You can thank Adobe for not allowing anything more recent than Flash 7 to be used on devices

AntonCaptainSeagull # Thursday, April 12, 2007 1:47:40 PM

The new browser is so much faster and feature rich!

Geoff GirardinG-off # Thursday, April 12, 2007 1:50:13 PM

Sounds awesome.

Thomascuthbert_2 # Thursday, April 12, 2007 2:11:21 PM

I think it's great. Thanks Opera, you all are great.

ABEhonestamishabe # Thursday, April 12, 2007 4:01:50 PM

Boo, I want more. This update kinda sux what was the delay for? Waste of time. Wii need better compatability.

tinhoy # Thursday, April 12, 2007 5:50:39 PM

Updated my Internet Channel...is it still supposed to say "Trial Version" on the Wii Menu page?

Andre'dredawg317 # Thursday, April 12, 2007 6:19:37 PM

you was suppose 2 go to wii wares and download the software there. the first update is to update your wii.

KryptoKnightAleksOD # Thursday, April 12, 2007 7:11:44 PM

Ohmigosh! It is truly incredible! Opera + Nintendo + Me = LOVE! (this reply was done in Opera for the Wii

)

Investor # Thursday, April 12, 2007 7:59:21 PM

Good job

(However, the scroll arrows are silly. Yes, read about the Nintendo reasoning behind it. Some very few couldn’t figure out how to scroll. But once they get it, they get annoying. Should be a setting that gets rid of them, the arrows

)

Anyway, congrats

Pierrera-mon # Thursday, April 12, 2007 8:05:18 PM

Thanks for innovations and great product for gaming-console !

What is the new user-agent, please ?

agony # Thursday, April 12, 2007 8:33:22 PM

Opera/9.10 (Nintendo Wii; U; ; 1621; de)

dr wii # Thursday, April 12, 2007 9:27:31 PM

I agree needs better flash player! Wii on tv = me want video capabilities. Typing on wii is not easy.

harleycoleman # Thursday, April 12, 2007 10:53:08 PM

when will there be a keyboard

JuanRicardo # Friday, April 13, 2007 12:03:50 AM

I know most of you werent really satisfied but do not worry,the channel can still be updated in the feature and there are many more channels to come.I heard some very good rumors about the Wii having channels such as a TV channel and many others.The Wii is just in its cacoon and the butterfly is still developing so be patient.If you want to be informed of anything related to the Wii,join my groups.

spedsleddriver # Friday, April 13, 2007 12:54:43 AM

it is not much beter than the trial and not much faster they need to figuer out hoa to put arow keys in i want to play BMX ghost on teagames.com

randallhazedaze # Friday, April 13, 2007 5:01:03 AM

I thank you guys for the work you do, and I have gone to opera for all web related activity. I've completly done away with ie and have far less security isues since the switch. So I, without any doubt, would recomend to anybody they should give it a try.
BUT, Not to look a gift horse in the mouth. I have to say, the flash player is a big let down. I just wonder, and by that I mean. I truly believe that the reason flash 9 is not included, is that wii owners might spend too much time playing free games from yahoo,disney channle,mtv,aol,msn,popcap,the list goes on and on and on.
So what kind of business move would that be for nintendo corp. probably not a very good one money wise. but the customer suffers. this said i am a proud suporter of nintendo and of coarse opra.

I have no proof of this and I could definately be wrong. Im sure I'll here about it if I am.

mattk442001 # Friday, April 13, 2007 5:20:50 AM

I'm glad Opera made this browser, especially for free

, but the only dissappointment from me is that I wanted some java with the browser. Cmon, who doesn‘t want to play Runescape on their Wii?

Knut Remi "DrLaunch" Løvlidrlaunch # Friday, April 13, 2007 9:35:20 AM

Yeah. Java would be great. My online bank uses java for login.
And adobe should make flash 9 for Wii too.

Marcele-marcel-wii # Friday, April 13, 2007 9:50:52 AM

I miss tabs

slim38 # Friday, April 13, 2007 9:53:56 AM

yes they can update the oprea net channel like they did with mario kart 64 so they can at later date fix finetune wii player just like in the trail version! and we know we not allow to email big N but come on realy 3 games a week in wii vc and some good rpg‘s from big N and sega like MARIO RPG SOULBLAZER2 SOME GAME CALLED HEVEN AND EARTH for the snes, and EARTHBOND for the snes, and for megadrive how about street of rage 2, shineing in the darkness, shineing force 1 and 2, and landstalker, if u delete this post you have words with the big N ALL HAIL THE BIG N!!

Haavardhaavard # Friday, April 13, 2007 12:31:51 PM

Originally posted by honestamishabe:

what was the delay for?

Lots and lots of fixes and tweaking? Just because it isn't in your face and immediately visible doesn't mean that nothing changed

Originally posted by dr wii:

I agree needs better flash player!

Tell that to Adobe...

Originally posted by hazedaze:

I truly believe that the reason flash 9 is not included, is that wii owners might spend too much time playing free games from yahoo,disney channle,mtv,aol,msn,popcap,the list goes on and on and on.

No, the reason is that the latest Flash SDK is version 7:

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=171703

As I said, it's all in Adobe's hands.

Knut Remi "DrLaunch" Løvlidrlaunch # Friday, April 13, 2007 1:48:19 PM

Originally posted by e-marcel-wii:

I miss tabs

wiiminder.com

To people complaining about missing features from desktop browsers:

Remember that the Wii browser is made for TV browsing and it's made to be so easy to use that even grandma can pick up the remote and use it. This means the browser has to limit its functions and only include absolutely essential browser features. It have to be apparent how to use the browser for people that have never used a desktop browser before.

Matt Coxcoxy # Friday, April 13, 2007 4:29:41 PM

I returned home from four days away, and my wii WAS lit up!

How did you know!??

FataL # Friday, April 13, 2007 5:34:50 PM

Just fix cyrillic fonts and than it will be perfect!
Thanks for great browser!

Michaeln4lyfe # Saturday, April 14, 2007 12:07:34 AM

i was dissapointed with the flash player and no java, it sucks when there is not enough memory to load a page...
also, they really need to do something about the typing, it is so annoying having to scroll all the way to the top of the typing board when replying to a myspace message, it also lags sometimes and takes forever to get from letter to letter.

is there ever going to be a way to save photos and/or videos from internet onto wii?

Haavardhaavard # Saturday, April 14, 2007 10:10:46 AM

n4lyfe, you did read the comments about Flash and Adobe above, right?

Craigbarton71 # Saturday, April 14, 2007 12:22:09 PM

I think the new versions is superb, compared to the old version, but i do agree with the comments made about the being able to view certain multimedia content. I don't know if this is down to the limitation of the Wii itself, as i am not technically knowledgeable about these things, but maybe it is something which Nintendo and Opera could look at when planning future upgrades. Maybe there could also be closer integration between Opera and the Wii's messaging/email service?

Johnny Gameflashgames # Saturday, April 14, 2007 1:39:17 PM

wii roxx!

chivakong # Saturday, April 14, 2007 5:04:34 PM

i give your browser a 7.9 out of ten. Lol i joke Cassamasina.

bobgeldof # Saturday, April 14, 2007 6:17:33 PM

duz ne 1 no how the mii channle works...........i dont c ne point in it?

RossRossebay # Saturday, April 14, 2007 8:33:44 PM

I still cant play runescape on this thing!!!! Wheres Java?!?!

waffle745 # Saturday, April 14, 2007 9:38:48 PM

will nintedo make a wii game that u can go online with?

Gunnraptor # Saturday, April 14, 2007 10:16:44 PM

I was awake the second it was available. I was so excited. I personally like it. It's faster, much more reliable, and I can read on it much better. The only thing, as many of you have said already, is that Adobe would give a higher version of Flash. I'm not saying give us like 9 or 106557 or whatever, just Flash 8 would be great. I wouldn't be playing yahoo games, but just 1 in particular: Dofus... If only Nintendo and Adobe would work together to make my dream of playing Ankama games (It's a company) come to life.
I give the new internet channel a 8.5/10. Good job Nintendo

Phan Trọng Hiếutronghieu_boa # Sunday, April 15, 2007 3:03:10 AM

very good ! I will wait for it !

KaseyKasey m # Sunday, April 15, 2007 9:29:43 AM

hey just updated my wii and updated the internet channel and its sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooawesome man

i think i forgot to put this

and this

lol.

Asrugan # Monday, April 16, 2007 2:55:02 AM

Agreed,nertz to Adobe for the outdated Flash. However, the biggest improvment this could see is keyboard(USB) support.

roblang # Monday, April 16, 2007 10:23:57 AM

Bravo, Nintendo have done it again, I'm sure that in time a lot of the issues here will be resolved. But guys give a guy a break, did you ride your bike first time you got on it.

By the way, all those who wanted to play internet games on the wii go to miniclip.com where it is wii compatible.