Surfing the Wii Shop using Firefox

Think of this post as the almost complete reverse of this post. With that said, let’s move on folks.

Okay, let me ask you guys, what can you do if you’ve got skillz, a WiFi packet sniffer, and a Wii? You figure out how to surf the Wii Shop Channel using Firefox of course! If in case you’re interested, here’s a short things of things you’ll need. Just Firefox and this.

This trick involves fourteen easy steps, ending in you typing some URLs on your Firefox address bar. Now since we don’t – and let me quote from fellow Blogger Victor B. – “want to wake up next to Nintendo’s lawyers tomorrow”, we’ll leave the URLs unmentioned. But in case you’re curious, here be the simple steps:

1. Open Firefox
2. Install the User Agent Switcher
3. Click Tools
4. Click User Agent Switcher
5. Click Options -> Options
6. Click User Agents
7. Click Add
8. Description: wii
9. User Agent: Opera/9.00 (Nintendo Wii; U; ; 1038-58; Wii Shop Channel/1.0; en)
10. Click OK X 2
11. Click Tools again
12. Select User Agent Switcher
13. Select wii
14. Put one of the Wii links (if you’re lucky to stumble upon ’em) into Firefox and visit it.

How’d the source get the URLS? I already said he had a Packet Sniffer right? Oh and just in case you’re curious, you can’t download Virtual Console games into your PC. As the source said, “How are you going to download games without WiiPoints?”

Curious curious.

Think of this post as the almost complete reverse of this post. With that said, let’s move on folks.

Okay, let me ask you guys, what can you do if you’ve got skillz, a WiFi packet sniffer, and a Wii? You figure out how to surf the Wii Shop Channel using Firefox of course! If in case you’re interested, here’s a short things of things you’ll need. Just Firefox and this.

This trick involves fourteen easy steps, ending in you typing some URLs on your Firefox address bar. Now since we don’t – and let me quote from fellow Blogger Victor B. – “want to wake up next to Nintendo’s lawyers tomorrow”, we’ll leave the URLs unmentioned. But in case you’re curious, here be the simple steps:

1. Open Firefox
2. Install the User Agent Switcher
3. Click Tools
4. Click User Agent Switcher
5. Click Options -> Options
6. Click User Agents
7. Click Add
8. Description: wii
9. User Agent: Opera/9.00 (Nintendo Wii; U; ; 1038-58; Wii Shop Channel/1.0; en)
10. Click OK X 2
11. Click Tools again
12. Select User Agent Switcher
13. Select wii
14. Put one of the Wii links (if you’re lucky to stumble upon ’em) into Firefox and visit it.

How’d the source get the URLS? I already said he had a Packet Sniffer right? Oh and just in case you’re curious, you can’t download Virtual Console games into your PC. As the source said, “How are you going to download games without WiiPoints?”

Curious curious.