Wii Internet Connection Reverse Engineered

AlexTheBeast writes "By packet sniffing his Wi-Fi connection, this hacker has already begun to dig into the internet interactions of the new Nintendo Wii. Basically, by using Firefox and after setting the user agent correctly, anybody can easily browse many WiiShop pages including the WiiShop main page and startup manual. More advanced connections including binary and virtual console downloads are currently in the works. Come join the project."

Comments

Already Locked Down

[A Brand of Fire]

Apparently Nintendo has caught wind of this and has already set up redirects to the Wii root website from these links.

Correction

[A Brand of Fire]

It seems that it redirects with links referred from other websites. After putting in the URL manually, I was able to view the pages. Pretty cool stuff.

DNS redirection

[AsnFkr]

Using DNS redirection you can get the Wii to any website you wish. Video

Re:Squid proxy = Homebrew injection

[geekboy_x]

You dont need that - the Wii Opera browser can hit normal web pages just fine, so flash-based homebrews can just be served off regular ol' pages, like this:

http://wiicade.com/Home.aspx

Have fun!

How to setup for this (simple way)

[zepo1a]

This is for FF 1.5 (yeah lame..haven't updated yet, I assume will work for 2.0)
type
about:config
in FF Address bar
right click in window. New->String
use
general.useragent.override
for preferemce name, click ok
use
Opera/9.00 (Nintendo Wii; U; ; 1038-58; Wii Shop Channel/1.0; en)
as string value. click OK. you should now be able to hit the site without a redirect to wii.com