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Wii Internet Connection Reverse Engineered

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the probably-violating-some-sort-of-lame-law dept.

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."

4 of 166 comments (clear)

  1. Already Locked Down by A+Brand+of+Fire · · Score: 5, Informative

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

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  2. Correction by A+Brand+of+Fire · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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  3. DNS redirection by AsnFkr · · Score: 5, Informative

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

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    adventure-today.com
  4. How to setup for this (simple way) by zepo1a · · Score: 5, Informative

    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