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Dragon · Jul 11, 2011

The Nintendo Wii is an entertainment system with an utterly massive install base, and when you couple it with the fact that it's got a web browser (mostly) built in, there's a lot of potential for third party development. Sadly, few have opted to do any sort of development for it. While it doesn't help that Nintendo pretty much dropped the ball on this opportunity, the experience of browsing the web on the Wii isn't actually that compelling to begin with.

That said, I think this can serve one other purpose: it's an ideal environment to teach children how to program! I created this library to sanitize Wii interaction with webpages in the browser, as it's notoriously crippled. It aims to offer a solid, documented, performant API that's easy to understand and pick up. With this library, you can have up to 4 Wii-motes interacting with your webpage at once, a dynamic not found in other web browsing mediums.

Thought this was interesting. Seems like a great way to learn how to program if nothing else. Anyone try it out?

https://github.com/ryanmcgrath/wii-js

Demo: http://venodesigns.net/wii/

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Bryan1321 · Jul 11, 2011

So, they are programing codes to make an internet page with wii functions enabled?

Gamespot used to have something like that, twisting the wiimote did something but i dont remember correctly

Disguises · Jul 11, 2011

Reminds me of Wii Opera SDK http://wiioperasdk.com/menu_sdk.php (playable on Wii's browser). Wish this got developed a bit more, seems like development has stood still for a while.

Bryan1321 said:
So, they are programing codes to make an internet page with wii functions enabled?

Gamespot used to have something like that, twisting the wiimote did something but i dont remember correctly

Ah yes, I remember Gamespot had a Wii-exclusive interface with bigger buttons and such.

Shiggy · Jul 11, 2011

A few years late, isn't it? The Wii browser is pretty much dead.

Why would you do that? · Jul 11, 2011

I remember that there were some Flash games that used the Wii remote. Those were pretty fun. Would like to see some more Wii browser stuff.

I think there's also 3DS browser tools, too. For instance, on the 3D photo site 3DPorch, you can upload photos directly from your 3DS.

Disguises · Jul 11, 2011

Why would you do that? said:
I remember that there were some Flash games that used the Wii remote. Those were pretty fun. Would like to see some more Wii browser stuff.

I think there's also 3DS browser tools, too. For instance, on the 3D photo site 3DPorch, you can upload photos directly from your 3DS.

I think the flash games are here: http://www.wiiarcade.com/.

[Nintex] · Jul 11, 2011

Shiggy said:
A few years late, isn't it? The Wii browser is pretty much dead.

This is quite neat for college projects I guess

M3d10n · Jul 11, 2011

Why would you do that? said:
I think there's also 3DS browser tools, too. For instance, on the 3D photo site 3DPorch, you can upload photos directly from your 3DS.

The 3DS can natively upload photos to any site that has a standard "file browse" button, but I don't know of any 3DS-specific javascript extension.

Takao · Jul 11, 2011

Disguises said:
Ah yes, I remember Gamespot had a Wii-exclusive interface with bigger buttons and such.

A bunch of movie studios would make flash games that were compatible with Wii, the one that stands out for me was DBEWii.com (no longer active), which was this.

Why would you do that? · Jul 11, 2011

Disguises said:
I think the flash games are here: http://www.wiiarcade.com/.

An yes, that's it. It's all coming back to me!

M3d10n said:
The 3DS can natively upload photos to any site that has a standard "file browse" button, but I don't know of any 3DS-specific javascript extension.

Oh, I had a slight feeling...

It was still something I didn't expect, though.

Utako · Jul 11, 2011

This makes me even sadder that Nintendo went with Netfront for the 3DS, if that's possible.

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