Wii Opera Browser: Up for all regions!

[Linkzg]

so far its good, but I wish I could get rid of the big menu part on the bottom the black borders around the webpage

[rareside]

Downloaded it, went to ESPN just to see how it looked, and my Wii froze up hardcore.

My Wiimote is completely unresponsive, and the power button on the unit itself isn't working. Gonna have to pull out the AC plug. WTF?

[DefectiveReject]

Will my music and stuff stream on my Wii through ORB, even though my Wii doesn't have Windows Media?
Does it play on my laptop and show up on my Wii or something?

[thaivo]

wii + google viideo = killer app

I've been playing with the browser and growing to like it more and more as I come to terms with its limitations. Ign weekly on my TV is simply sweet to have

Wish it could play mp3's.

[Amir0x]

hm for some reason now even the longer youtube/dailymotion videos all running all the way through without stopping. so tv streaming idea is back on

[joeposh]

ugh stayed up for this shit, now it keeps cutting out when I try to download it. Not sure if the problem is with my wireless or the Nintendo servers, but either way it sucks.

Finally got it to work after a clean start of the system. So hope is not lost for those struggling to get it.

[DefectiveReject]

hm for some reason now even the longer youtube/dailymotion videos all running all the way through without stopping. so tv streaming idea is back on

It did okay for me this morning.
Probably an issue with your connection? Or at least it seemed mainly to be US users?

I checked my bank account from my Wii this morning, I hope Nintendo didn’t empty it!

[Amir0x]

Finally got it to work after a clean start of the system. So hope is not lost for those struggling to get it.

It worked immediately for me, so I guess the server is just getting hammered now.

[WindyMan]

Hey guys, try clicking on an RSS Feed link in your Wii browser. Here's one to try out:

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/rss.cfm

[Surfheart]

Well it's pretty hard to read anything at default zoom with hdtv and component and it's tedious to scroll when it's zoomed in, but as other have said it's very fast.

It would be nice to have a level of zoom somewhere between the 2 options we have now and as someone else said, grab scrolling would be preferable to me.

If any one wants to sign up to their IM of choice www.iloveim.com works a treat.

Oh, also it seems to be running in 16 bit mode because images which are smooth on my pc are dithered on the wii, I'm also getting the nice vertical line artifacts.

[Panajev2001a]

No, ComedyCentral's Motherload does not work, it neds a newer version of Flash... quite likely 9.0+ while Opera for Wii uses ~8.0.

[Amir0x]

Hey guys, try clicking on an RSS Feed link in your Wii browser. Here's one to try out: http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/rss.cfm

That's a new one... pimping a Rss feed for “trial” on Wii :p

[Zerodoppler]

Before I pay for this the better polish it up. After five minutes of use I've found the following to be the most annoying.:

Slow scrolling.
HUGE bar at the bottom of the page.
It's not full screen.

[Meatpuppet]

I don't think it uses 8, trying a video on IGN said I needed to upgrade to it.

I could be totally wrong, and it may have siad you have version 8.0 and need to upgrade. Will check in a bit

[Lost Fragment]

Hey guys, try clicking on an RSS Feed link in your Wii browser. Here's one to try out: http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/rss.cfm

[Error]

well I watched a couple of 23 minutes vid on youtube and it worked like a charm didnt stop or anything and the vids actually look better on tv than on my pc. youtube vids that is.

[SuomiDude]

So what happens if you try some of those "Test your computer speed" or something? Does the website simply not recognize Wii or does it give some actual info? :P

[mrkgoo]

obligatory post from wii.
cool 'wii' is in the dictionary, but retarded in that it only comes up as an option when you have typed all of it. and 'b' should be backspace. lack of tabbed browsing sucks big time.us

[Pud]

Before I pay for this the better polish it up. After five minutes of use I've found the following to be the most annoying.: Slow scrolling. HUGE bar at the bottom of the page. It's not full screen.

The browser (final version, even) will be free for all until June, according to the press release a week or so ago. I'm guessing June = one of the price drops for the Wii.

[Liquid]

wow. the text is bad unzoomed and the black borders suck.. seems some flash stuff hits a memory wall and throws You out of the browser.

[Amir0x]

haha display mode 2 is so ridiculous on wii

[R-User!]

obligatory post from one of GAFs' bitches...

will i post from my Wii again?

highly unlikely for posts longer than one to ten words... man, typing like this ****ing r-e-t-a-r-d-d-e-d!

im gonna go check out the fantastic four 2 trailer on my Wii!

[civilstrife]

obligatory post from wii. cool 'wii' is in the dictionary, but retarded in that it only comes up as an option when you have typed all of it. and 'b' should be backspace. lack of tabbed browsing sucks big time.us

Sony and Microsoft are in there too. :P

[MobiusPigeon]

ugh. this reminds me of the dc browser. regular tv resolution kills it. maybe ps3 or 360 will do hd browsing sooner or later. still cool none the less. off to the flash thread!

[R-User!]

haha display mode 2 is so ridiculous on wii

yes. it xertainly (sucked to wiittype that word) is.

[Jiguryo]

Hooray, my first post using Wii. It's a legendary thread for me, at least



edit: what? spoiler tags can't be read on the Wii... there goes 98% of NeoGaf's posts :p

[Drensch]

I'd like to see a streaming version or whatever of the 1up show formatted for Wii it'd kill watching it on the computer.

[I Push Fat Kids]

dead rising 2 now w/ zoom text feature

[Meatpuppet]

Ok, Last.fm is now my new radio station of choice. Awesome

[Carlisle]

Obligatory Wii post.

Sony and Microsoft are in there too. :P

So's Playstation... but no Xbox.

[mosaic]

A new day has dawned in the world of video gaming -- I am watching pr0n on my Wii.

I don't believe it. I mean, I know the 360 already let you view video files, but the Wii is the first system to be able to stream pr0n right off the Internet (in a limited capacity, I know). Who'd a thunk it?

Someone needs to reg Wiiporn.com

[TheIkariWarrior]

i tried Google Video also, it worked fine, but the video i played stoped at 20 seconds in, and it was almost a 2 min video.

it seems the Wii browser can only play videos that last less than 30seconds. or it might depend on the compression/file size.

[R-User!]

obligatory post from one of GAFs' bitches... will i post from my Wii again? highly unlikely for posts longer than one to ten words... man, typing like this ****ing r-e-t-a-r-d-d-e-d! im gonna go check out the fantastic four 2 trailer on my Wii!

apparently i'm not....... dammit (big N gives me dammit b4 damn in the Wiiautofill)..... ->_>

[Battersea Power Station]

i tried Google Video also, it worked fine, but the video i played stoped at 20 seconds in, and it was almost a 2 min video. it seems the Wii browser can only play videos that last less than 30seconds. or it might depend on the compression/file size.

Think about how silly that would be. It's probably a browser connection issue or something.

[Sean]

It's pretty fast at loading pages, but its just way too annoying to use much IMO.

Navigation is very tedious - the text is unreadable unless you're zoomed in but then when zoomed you are constantly scrolling to read stuff and it's just a pain. The navigation bar at the bottom is pretty big and takes up valuable screen real estate (which means even more scrolling!).

It's also pretty buggy when it comes to flash related stuff, at least for me. Some things work and a lot of things don't. I've tried a few Youtube clips and they all seem to just stop a few seconds into it. Also had it freeze up on me twice now. It's a trial/beta version though so I can't complain much about that kinda stuff.

[IceIpor]

i tried Google Video also, it worked fine, but the video i played stoped at 20 seconds in, and it was almost a 2 min video. it seems the Wii browser can only play videos that last less than 30seconds. or it might depend on the compression/file size.

Most of these problems are usually connections timing out or being disrupted.

Try reloading the page again... other users have posted that it worked eventually.

[civilstrife]

A new day has dawned in the world of video gaming -- I am watching pr0n on my Wii. I don't believe it. I mean, I know the 360 already let you view video files, but the Wii is the first system to be able to stream pr0n right off the Internet (in a limited capacity, I know). Who'd a thunk it? Someone needs to reg Wiiporn.com

Wait...You mean, the Wii siphons porn from the air we breathe?

Somebody call Fox News.

[gimz]

played around with the browser a little more after porn lol
i figured pressing 1 on the remote will bring you to the main meun, pressing 2 will enlarge the fonts
but when i say enlarge, i mean really large...


does anyone know how to get orb to work on wii?
i could find my files, but i am having trouble playing the music...

[civilstrife]

Penny-Arcade is great on the Wii browser.
The comics take a little scrolling when zoomed in, but the news post fits perfectly.

[mrkgoo]

just froze on me

Ah well

[SumGamer]

i tried Google Video also, it worked fine, but the video i played stoped at 20 seconds in, and it was almost a 2 min video. it seems the Wii browser can only play videos that last less than 30seconds. or it might depend on the compression/file size.

I've been watching the first preview of FF XII which is about 1:30 minutes long and have no problem. On the other hand, one of the flash refuse to play and give me the mesage to update the flash player.

[mrklaw]

how disappointing is this?
its opera, but no decent reformatting of the screen.us normal view is unreadable, zoomed in is too close. the stupid bar at the bottom needs to go (just press a damn button or hover over the bottom of the screen).
and the scrolling is shit. should be able to drag it around or something.
my search for gaf-browsing from my sofa continues...

[MutFox]

I hope a keyboard attachment for the WiiMote comes out.

[the androgyne]

Slow scrolling.

The horizontal scrolling seems permanently slow, but vertical is decent enough if you're holding the remote with the pointer directly towards the ceiling or floor.

yes. it xertainly (sucked to wiittype that word) is.

You know you can point to move the text insertion point right?

Has anyone else tried microsoft.com, msn.com or hotmail.com? When i enter any of these it just sits there and never loads! I was suspicious until xbox.com loaded fine!

[Lost Fragment]

Yeah, I'm having the same problem with YouTube videos. They'll just stop out of nowhere and go all the way back to the beginning >;(.

Otherwise, however, this will come in mighty handy for a good number of things even if it's no replacement for a normal terminal.

[Lee N]

YouTube should have a Wii-format option.

What's wrong with the fullscreen button on youtube? Works perfectly.

[Tisan]

Posting from a Wii XD

Am off to try youtube

[R-User!]

The horizontal scrolling seems permanently slow, but vertical is decent enough if you're holding the remote with the pointer directly towards the ceiling or floor. You know you can point to move the text insertion point right? Has anyone else tried microsoft.com, msn.com or hotmail.com? When i enter any of these it just sits there and never loads! I was suspicious until xbox.com loaded fine!

yeah, i did know that. it's just that without paying attention to the autofill bar, and just typing out longish words, it kinda sucks. don't get me wrong though, cuz I like the concept.

[TheIkariWarrior]

I've been watching the first preview of FF XII which is about 1:30 minutes long and have no problem. On the other hand, one of the flash refuse to play and give me the mesage to update the flash player.

that first part is good to hear, i'll try that and more videos to get a better idea of what the real limits are. im sure this browser is not using the newest flash but probably one several versions older than the latest.

[PkunkFury]

Haha, careful folks. if you're browsing in mode 2 all spoilers are revealed. Best avoid that Zelda thread...