I worked in Opera’s Tokyo office in 2009 and it’s great to see you guys are still using what the team worked so hard on! Try pulling up the credits screen for the browser :)
Hi Michael! First of all I just wanted to thank you on behalf of the team for checking out WiiNet and making this video. I’ve kept up with your content for a while and enjoy your videos. WiiNet was originally just some idea I had for shits and giggles, seeing if I could make the Internet Channel into something more useable in the modern day. The amount of support I got was a lot more than I ever anticipated. I also wanted to mention that the issue you may have encountered with the slowdown on flash games and other content is due to a problem with the channel itself that we wouldn’t be able to fix without pushing out our own version of the channel. Anyways, we hope you enjoyed checking out WiiNet and we’d like to say there’s much more we’d want to do for the future. Cheers! PS: I should’ve mentioned this but I’m not the service owner anymore. I founded the service and was the first to work on it. My friend soafen, (the one who also wrote an essay in here), did a lot of the heavy lifting and got it to where it is today.
@@nyanpasu64 yeah, even today JavaScript garbage collection usually just... doesn't work. If you leave a self-refreshing page (like Gmail or Twitter) open, it will grow from its initial few-hundred MBs to a few GBs. One time, I inadvertently managed to let it get to 12-16GB per tab before closing and reopening the tabs in question 😰 I think they'd been open for... a month or two? Thankfully virtual memory saved me on that occasion, since the memory space WAS emptied... just not relinquished. (That's the aforementioned broken garbage collection.) So something like 50GB? was allocated - but with Swap compression it was mercifully not more than a few megabytes on disk! But yeah, it can still cause quite a bit of lag even on a much beefier system. Even though the OS is literally just juggling a bunch of piles of nothing, it takes up progressively more resources in the memory management side. (On that note, it was my CPU being mysteriously taxed that led me to notice that really egregious time...) Plus, the Wii's Internet Channel also had to contend with Flash and Ajax, and I have no idea what kind of additional memory management problems might lay in there! (But I'm going to assume Flash sucks at that. I recall leaving an "endlessly looping" Flash animation going more than an hour or two would make it start to get juddery and desynced on a P4 or C2D.)
what i find to be quite humorous is that in the usb keyboard games, there is a game called "experimental penguins" which is a really really REALLY early version of club penguin
I always hoped there would be a way of resurrecting the Internet Channel of the Nintendo Wii. Looks like this is it. It's very interesting, with nice classic game ports.
Man I love this channel, you make such great content. I've been following you for only a couple of weeks but I have seen almost all your videos xD Greetings from Spain!
If I remember, that Mii Maker was made before the Wii even released. I guess it was recreated from preview videos and stuff. But it was neat to play around with during the massive hype the Wii had leading up to release.
I remember being in middle school playing some of these flash games on my Wii!! We were poor and I'd played a ton of flash games on the pc and figured there would probably be ones I could play on the Wii specifically and there were, so the games section of this was very nostalgic for me lol
I would love for the Wii U browser to get another update. The system is much more capable, and should be able to get by with (relatively) minor updates.
I remember using the internet channel at 8yrs old to watch the original Pokémon series (Indigo League) on TH-cam split into 4 parts. I more specifically remember getting Rickrolled by vids pretending to be “S01E09 Part 3/4” and thinking “not this stupid dancing guy again” HAHAHA
Some interesting picks in the games section, Experimental Penguins is actually a Club Penguin prototype Double Wires is conceptually perfect for the Wii, and Pico's School has the same "doesn't fit in" vibe as MadWorld. Funny to think this was started just because, I'm only more surprised this seems to be the first, or at least first noteworthy attempt at this so far. So kudos to HighSpeedTurtle and anyone who helped
I love that we've gone so far that these game consoles with all these wireless and internet capabilities have become essentially homebrew machines. So fucking cool
This was so fun to watch. 🤣After this video, my Wii console and the two WiiU consoles will continue to collect dust in the living room. Probably. But it's nice to know that the console has been improved with new features. I saw Romania at "Everybody votes". Weee... Greetings from Romania Michael.😁 Great video by the way.
Unrelated to this video, but to the channel as a whole: I wonder if a deep-dive into how the sample music was selected for various windows releases would make an interesting video. I always enjoyed the music that came with my Dell WinXP desktop, but it always struck me as odd that none of it was remotely well-known, despite covering several genres. I've never come across anyone who's heard of Secondhand Jive or The Like Young or Big Kid. I think The Silos are the only one that's even relatively famous, and _maybe_ Dujeous. I just think it'd be neat to try and uncover why they selected the songs they did.
3:59 It might be lagging because maybe its not remake. It could also be emulated, as there are emulators written for the browser. I remember trying to play GBA games through the web browser on a TV or even an iPhone lagged so much (I never got past the intro screen, which would've probably took 10 minutes to get through), and the Wii browser is way older. Also I'll make sure my websites can work at least partially on the Internet Channel (bc why not)
I used to play that Duck Hunt flash game all the time, but I can't find that specific variant anywhere. Just a website saying it was taken down due to a DMCA from Nintendo. "Game D Dogs" was especially fun.
Having looked at the leaked nintendo files i can confirm that the wii page that display cursor information and stuff is stolen from nintendo because it have the same look as the internal wii sports web pages.
"You weren't gonna have the most pleasant time." Said with all the authority and experience of a man with countless of "but it goes wrong" videos under his belt.
This just reminded me that one of the coolest features of old 8-16 bit console emulators on the wii (NES,SNES,Genesis from what I remember) is that they actually allow you to use the wiimote as a light gun for games that support it. Not sure if that feature is talked about much but it's definitely something that makes wii versions of emulators stand out compared to emulating them on anything else (atleast back in the day, but honestly I still feel like that's a stand out feature by today's standards and just another great reason to hook a wii up to a CRT for classic console emulation).
OMG This has the first version of club penguin????? (For those who don't know, club penguin was first tested in 1999 as "experimental penguins", a flash game where you play as a basic penguin on one single location, all you can do is walk and chat
that super mario flash version took me back, hoooly! i was with my mom visiting a friend of her's and i was bored as hell by myself and all i had is a shitty pentium dual core computer with me that they had as a family computer, me being the bored as hell mf alone sitting there i decided to waste time somehow and i got a hand of that exact version of super mario flash to work on there and i kinda spent 3 or 4 hours just playing it while my mom was on waffling with her friends xD
i am ALL for these Wii Vids, i am allways exited when a new one drops, sadly my Wii is stored away atm but once i have officially moved back in, we're having it large!
hey man first of all i love your content second of all ive got a question i have fully homebrewed wii with almost everything it doesnt have the internet channel tho, is it possible that i can install that through a wad, will it cause issues since there already is a channel for the internet channel on my sys menu (its the channel that redirects you to the wii shop channel) i really want the internet channel since ive made a basic html site that thr browser can open plus i want to be able to use discross and wiinetxyz, is it possible that i can somehow get the internet channel on it without really doing anything crazy?? weirdly when i search this up almost nothing comes up about it just videos explaining how to install wads of wiiware stuff , ive also tried installing the internet channel wad ive got onto the emuNAND in usbloader gx but it just bugs out and locks up my wii so no luck, i can just try winging it and installing the wad onto my actual sys menu but im scared of bricking my wii since i dont have boot2. İ hope that this whole mess makes sense.
7:20 LOL i saw Pico's School on that flash game list.... who else besides me remembers exactly what THAT game was all about? MJD shoulda clicked on that one... he did put the cursor over it for a sec..
hi michael! did you heard of nyarch i think u should make a vidoe of it just like u did on uwuntu (i just want someone to review it. there is not a single english video about it :( . thank you for reading this)
I didn't know 2023 would be the "Year of the Wii", but I'm all for it.
No replies? Fixed!
same
its because we're a lot older now in 2023 than 2007
@@nomoreuploads you don't have to fix no replies
@@fridayfunkgaming291offical yes ik but just because I said a comment with some random context doesn't mean you have to start arguing lol
I worked in Opera’s Tokyo office in 2009 and it’s great to see you guys are still using what the team worked so hard on! Try pulling up the credits screen for the browser :)
Hi Michael! First of all I just wanted to thank you on behalf of the team for checking out WiiNet and making this video. I’ve kept up with your content for a while and enjoy your videos. WiiNet was originally just some idea I had for shits and giggles, seeing if I could make the Internet Channel into something more useable in the modern day. The amount of support I got was a lot more than I ever anticipated. I also wanted to mention that the issue you may have encountered with the slowdown on flash games and other content is due to a problem with the channel itself that we wouldn’t be able to fix without pushing out our own version of the channel. Anyways, we hope you enjoyed checking out WiiNet and we’d like to say there’s much more we’d want to do for the future. Cheers!
PS: I should’ve mentioned this but I’m not the service owner anymore. I founded the service and was the first to work on it. My friend soafen, (the one who also wrote an essay in here), did a lot of the heavy lifting and got it to where it is today.
Chad.
Why do I get a message "you are on wii" when I visit the page on Wii?
hope it works on the xbox 360
(edit: it dosent :(. )
Nice
Oh I had theoldnet's Wayback proxy enabled.
The Wii Browser always got slower over time.
Restarting was the only thing that worked.
Love the idea of this page however! It's like Oldnet for Wii.
I'm guessing that's due to memory leaks or fragmentation leaving it with not enough room to properly process pages.
@@nyanpasu64 yeah, even today JavaScript garbage collection usually just... doesn't work. If you leave a self-refreshing page (like Gmail or Twitter) open, it will grow from its initial few-hundred MBs to a few GBs.
One time, I inadvertently managed to let it get to 12-16GB per tab before closing and reopening the tabs in question 😰 I think they'd been open for... a month or two?
Thankfully virtual memory saved me on that occasion, since the memory space WAS emptied... just not relinquished. (That's the aforementioned broken garbage collection.) So something like 50GB? was allocated - but with Swap compression it was mercifully not more than a few megabytes on disk!
But yeah, it can still cause quite a bit of lag even on a much beefier system. Even though the OS is literally just juggling a bunch of piles of nothing, it takes up progressively more resources in the memory management side. (On that note, it was my CPU being mysteriously taxed that led me to notice that really egregious time...)
Plus, the Wii's Internet Channel also had to contend with Flash and Ajax, and I have no idea what kind of additional memory management problems might lay in there! (But I'm going to assume Flash sucks at that. I recall leaving an "endlessly looping" Flash animation going more than an hour or two would make it start to get juddery and desynced on a P4 or C2D.)
what i find to be quite humorous is that in the usb keyboard games, there is a game called "experimental penguins" which is a really really REALLY early version of club penguin
Well it is experimental isnt it?
And Wubbzy's Amazing adventure which was on a preschool website
Does club penguin rewritten work on wiinet/ Internet channel?
@@Riolupai ... no. It's been shut down for a year or so no.
@@GumSkyloard is there a non-malicious alternative?
PLEASE do more of these videos, I LOVE the Wii
I always hoped there would be a way of resurrecting the Internet Channel of the Nintendo Wii. Looks like this is it. It's very interesting, with nice classic game ports.
Man I love this channel, you make such great content.
I've been following you for only a couple of weeks but I have seen almost all your videos xD
Greetings from Spain!
"I hope Nintendo doesn't mind" famous last words.
very appreciative that you started posting more Wii mod videos after I got back into homebrewing my nintendo systems lol
I don't have any homebrewed nintendo consoles
LOL
If I remember, that Mii Maker was made before the Wii even released. I guess it was recreated from preview videos and stuff. But it was neat to play around with during the massive hype the Wii had leading up to release.
I remember being in middle school playing some of these flash games on my Wii!! We were poor and I'd played a ton of flash games on the pc and figured there would probably be ones I could play on the Wii specifically and there were, so the games section of this was very nostalgic for me lol
I would love for the Wii U browser to get another update. The system is much more capable, and should be able to get by with (relatively) minor updates.
I remember using the internet channel at 8yrs old
to watch the original Pokémon series (Indigo League) on TH-cam split into 4 parts.
I more specifically remember getting Rickrolled by vids pretending to be “S01E09 Part 3/4” and thinking “not this stupid dancing guy again” HAHAHA
Some interesting picks in the games section, Experimental Penguins is actually a Club Penguin prototype
Double Wires is conceptually perfect for the Wii, and Pico's School has the same "doesn't fit in" vibe
as MadWorld. Funny to think this was started just because, I'm only more surprised this seems to be
the first, or at least first noteworthy attempt at this so far. So kudos to HighSpeedTurtle and anyone who helped
another great video installment of things I didn't know you could do with the Wii.
wow. Its about time they revived the internet channel 😊
I love that we've gone so far that these game consoles with all these wireless and internet capabilities have become essentially homebrew machines. So fucking cool
Time to use the internet channel to announce to everyone that I ordered pizza on my Wii
😭💔
Just accessed December 17, 2023 - amazing to see this aged browser functioning again! Thanks to the team behind this project!
That CNN Lite website is one of the few things my old Nokia flip phone can load.
Finally, you made a video about this, it's the best thing I ever used.
It also has a jack black soundboard
@soafenchad
@soafen Cool
This was so fun to watch. 🤣After this video, my Wii console and the two WiiU consoles will continue to collect dust in the living room. Probably. But it's nice to know that the console has been improved with new features. I saw Romania at "Everybody votes". Weee... Greetings from Romania Michael.😁 Great video by the way.
6:30 i bet a lot of kids in the late 2000s. who wanted a wii but didn't get one played this.
Unrelated to this video, but to the channel as a whole: I wonder if a deep-dive into how the sample music was selected for various windows releases would make an interesting video. I always enjoyed the music that came with my Dell WinXP desktop, but it always struck me as odd that none of it was remotely well-known, despite covering several genres. I've never come across anyone who's heard of Secondhand Jive or The Like Young or Big Kid. I think The Silos are the only one that's even relatively famous, and _maybe_ Dujeous. I just think it'd be neat to try and uncover why they selected the songs they did.
I love watching your Wii videos. These are so much fun!!
it'd be epic to be able to watch no longer copyrighted movies on Wiinet
3:59 It might be lagging because maybe its not remake. It could also be emulated, as there are emulators written for the browser. I remember trying to play GBA games through the web browser on a TV or even an iPhone lagged so much (I never got past the intro screen, which would've probably took 10 minutes to get through), and the Wii browser is way older. Also I'll make sure my websites can work at least partially on the Internet Channel (bc why not)
Nice one Michael. As always, bringing us excellent geeking material!
now please revive the TH-cam Channel for the complete Wii experience.
I used to play that Duck Hunt flash game all the time, but I can't find that specific variant anywhere. Just a website saying it was taken down due to a DMCA from Nintendo. "Game D Dogs" was especially fun.
8:08 This game is so nostalgic. I think I played it on DSIPaint
I remember using the Internet Channel back in the day and watching TH-cam Videos (TH-cam XL) on the Wii which is nice.
TH-cam XL just unlocked a memory
Time to watch this video on the Wii.
Having looked at the leaked nintendo files i can confirm that the wii page that display cursor information and stuff is stolen from nintendo because it have the same look as the internal wii sports web pages.
"You weren't gonna have the most pleasant time."
Said with all the authority and experience of a man with countless of "but it goes wrong" videos under his belt.
4:51 that’s the most energetic laugh from micheal I’ve ever heard
This just reminded me that one of the coolest features of old 8-16 bit console emulators on the wii (NES,SNES,Genesis from what I remember) is that they actually allow you to use the wiimote as a light gun for games that support it. Not sure if that feature is talked about much but it's definitely something that makes wii versions of emulators stand out compared to emulating them on anything else (atleast back in the day, but honestly I still feel like that's a stand out feature by today's standards and just another great reason to hook a wii up to a CRT for classic console emulation).
This is the best way to use the internet.
So into this content! Thanks for the hard work!!
OMG This has the first version of club penguin????? (For those who don't know, club penguin was first tested in 1999 as "experimental penguins", a flash game where you play as a basic penguin on one single location, all you can do is walk and chat
Wow they did it! I'm pretty sure they have been working on this for about a year or 2 now so I'm glad they finally fully released it
I remember the Mii Maker flash edition being called Mii Maker DS since I was everywhere on the internet as a child.
i never even heard of this but this is kind of boosts-up Wii memories & et-cetra :D
6:59 Dude you made Käärijä :D
this is an awesome thing to come from the community.
When the Wii was out I wasn't that into it compared to previous consoles from Nintendo. But over time, I have gotten to appreciate it more and more.
I'd love to see you maybe review the aqua mouse from the 2000s that used to have little toys inside with colorful water :D
Glad to see that people still love the Wii to this day.
I think around 2009 TH-cam did work completely fine it was just slow. I remember I used to watch videos on it when I couldn't use the computer
Fun fact: that experimental penguins thing that was available as one of the flash games was a test version of Club Penguin!
Looking forward to seeing some OS installs on those CF cards you bought for the 98 machine.
Finally someone got duck hunt on the wii
Yea the Wii Zapper would work Perfectly with that game! Wonder why Nintendo didn't release it onto the Wii's Virtual Console???
i like out of all the flash games they could have chosen, they chose wubbzy's amazing adventure lol (i don't blame them tho that game slaps)
We need more wii stuff, but i'd also like some more cool homebrew for the wii u
Indeed.
The WiiU has lackluster support for homebrew past dumpers and emulators.
i would love to see the damea wii u app also get revived
In fact Michael convincs me to use my Wii again. Thanks you so much
Windows RG: "There's enough food for everyone!"
The supply chain: We're sold out of everything.
Damn, I saw the title and thought that some had ported chrome to the wii or something. I guess this is the next best thing
There's probably a wii homebrew to make toast at this point
My friend’s Wii was my introduction to classic TH-cam
that super mario flash version took me back, hoooly! i was with my mom visiting a friend of her's and i was bored as hell by myself and all i had is a shitty pentium dual core computer with me that they had as a family computer, me being the bored as hell mf alone sitting there i decided to waste time somehow and i got a hand of that exact version of super mario flash to work on there and i kinda spent 3 or 4 hours just playing it while my mom was on waffling with her friends xD
Thanks for another video MJWii :D Now I need to get a Wii
thank you so much you have helped me homebrew and mod my wii and now this. Thank you so much
MJD Finally Made a Video on this well this is still cool!
i am ALL for these Wii Vids, i am allways exited when a new one drops, sadly my Wii is stored away atm but once i have officially moved back in, we're having it large!
WOW Soafen is making it up in the word.
HULLER MARGAIN!!!
@@LKComputes HULLER LICKING!!!!
@@BlueBoiReal HULLER MARGAREETA!!!
@@RyanDoesStuff1 RYYYYYLANNNN!
@@BlueBoiReal Wrong!
7:07 im surprised you didn't go with Mii JD
Wow The wii has more attention than any other console Wii FTW!!
I love your channel, Michael!
hey man first of all i love your content second of all ive got a question i have fully homebrewed wii with almost everything it doesnt have the internet channel tho, is it possible that i can install that through a wad, will it cause issues since there already is a channel for the internet channel on my sys menu (its the channel that redirects you to the wii shop channel) i really want the internet channel since ive made a basic html site that thr browser can open plus i want to be able to use discross and wiinetxyz, is it possible that i can somehow get the internet channel on it without really doing anything crazy?? weirdly when i search this up almost nothing comes up about it just videos explaining how to install wads of wiiware stuff , ive also tried installing the internet channel wad ive got onto the emuNAND in usbloader gx but it just bugs out and locks up my wii so no luck, i can just try winging it and installing the wad onto my actual sys menu but im scared of bricking my wii since i dont have boot2. İ hope that this whole mess makes sense.
My wii doesnt have a browser every time I try to download it. It takes me to the Wii store and it does just doesn’t show up.
i remember wiilink's video on wiinet i saw a few months ago but it never seemed to work on my wii, interesting to see now a video
A while back I played Penguin Chat 2 and the Experimental Penguins football thing on the Wii
I wonder whether something like this exists for the dsi
7:20 LOL i saw Pico's School on that flash game list.... who else besides me remembers exactly what THAT game was all about?
MJD shoulda clicked on that one... he did put the cursor over it for a sec..
the teacher goes PUTETEPUTUTETE
Kinda funny how it can run Flash, which modern browsers cannot.
babe wake up new michael mjd video
If you are lucky to have the browser work on the DS you can watch youtube and when a ad comes you can skip it to the end
Cool 🚽
hi michael! did you heard of nyarch i think u should make a vidoe of it just like u did on uwuntu (i just want someone to review it. there is not a single english video about it :( . thank you for reading this)
does wiinet work on dsi browser?
7:19 pico school that brings back memories don't think youtube is gonna like that game
This reminds me of WiiCade and DSiCade which were similar super neat tailored sites back in the day
Fun times to keep your home brewed Wii fresh.
Awesome video, Michael!
Love all the wii videos.
we are goning to look back at this like we do on the windows 95 5 dollar computer
just scrolled and saw this posted 1 min ago :D
FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY IVE BEEN ASKING FOR THIS FOR SO LONG
Hey I was on my wii and I tried to get on to the website but it didn’t work, I think the server is down. Also didn’t work on my phone as well.
When will you make the Part 2 of the Compaq Portable 1?
Love this obscure stuff
How do you even get on the Internet channel anytime I try to get on there’s is discontinued
Network not available.
Contact your system administrator.
Hey I was wondering if you you could make a tutorial of how to download mods in minecraft beacause every other tutorial does not work
"I hope Nintendo doesn't mind..."
Nintendo ALWAYS minds!
Is it possible to install Internet Channel today? I am, by mistake, deleted it sometime when I accidentally reset all console...
Somebody give the Wii a raise
11:06 I'm really interested in this Doritos crash course video...
10:54 you never heard of ultimate flash sonic???