Wii: Disc Issues and Interweb Hacks
News on teething troubles and opportunistic hackers
While most Wii gamers patiently await the official release of the Opera 9 browser, some over-eager Wii’ers have found a way of altering the settings on the Wii’s Shop Channel to enable them to access the global worldwide Interweb.
Should you have far too much time on your hands and wish to access the Internet via your imported Wii before normal people, you can see the full video of the process in action below.
Wii Web
Spitting Discs
In other ‘kids messing with Wii’ news, check out the rather funny Wii-that-spits-out-discs video below. Is this perhaps a new development for Wii Sports 2, in which your Wii physically spits out a disc and you have to intercept it before it kills the cat? Or it could simply be that the kids are inserting a blank, recordable - e.g. non-Wii - disc!
SPOnG-News has had similar problems with a number of Apple iBook disc drives in the past. SPOnG hopes that this is not part of Nintendo’s stated strategy of taking inspiration from Apple’s innovative designs, otherwise our Wii may well follow our broken iBook into our cupboard of technological horrors sooner than we hoped…
We are awaiting comment from a call to Nintendo in the UK regarding the browser hack and the possible disc problems.
Should you have far too much time on your hands and wish to access the Internet via your imported Wii before normal people, you can see the full video of the process in action below.
Wii Web
Spitting Discs
In other ‘kids messing with Wii’ news, check out the rather funny Wii-that-spits-out-discs video below. Is this perhaps a new development for Wii Sports 2, in which your Wii physically spits out a disc and you have to intercept it before it kills the cat? Or it could simply be that the kids are inserting a blank, recordable - e.g. non-Wii - disc!
SPOnG-News has had similar problems with a number of Apple iBook disc drives in the past. SPOnG hopes that this is not part of Nintendo’s stated strategy of taking inspiration from Apple’s innovative designs, otherwise our Wii may well follow our broken iBook into our cupboard of technological horrors sooner than we hoped…
We are awaiting comment from a call to Nintendo in the UK regarding the browser hack and the possible disc problems.
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Comments
kinnggpinn 27 Nov 2006 15:37
1/2
Are they putting in a wii disc? I have not tried it yet, but seeing that it does not support DVD - is it just spitting it back out because they are DVD's?
realvictory 27 Nov 2006 17:42
2/2
It's a bit of a boring thing to make a video out of - I was hoping it was going to shoot them across the room or something interesting.
It's probably not a Wii disc - you don't even see the label, which they're probably hiding on purpose. If they break it, it serves them right. Buying a Wii just to make a video of it spitting out a disc is a bit dumb anyway.
It's probably not a Wii disc - you don't even see the label, which they're probably hiding on purpose. If they break it, it serves them right. Buying a Wii just to make a video of it spitting out a disc is a bit dumb anyway.