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Over here in Europe, anyway. Don't know about you guys across the pond. Couldn't hurt to check. EDIT - It's up for the US.
You'll need to perform a System Update in the Wii menu, before downloading the update from the Shop Channel. Uses about 300 blocks.
Features:
- Parental Control support
- Optional Internet content filter provided by Astaro (available soon)
- Improved start-up speed
- Clearer text when zoomed-in
- Improved Wii Remote navigation
- Improved scrolling and zooming
- Built-in search via Yahoo! or Google
- Option to hide Toolbar
- New cursor animations and operation sounds
- Ability to view page security information
- Option to delete cookies
- Built-in support manual
Also, the channel preview screen now looks all flashy. And all this for free!
Just had a quick fiddle with it now, and it's pretty decent. Definitely faster than I remember it being in both start-up and actually loading pages, some nice cursor animations, the text on various forums looks clearer... Good stuff.
Just noticed my Wii glowing a minute ago with VC updates and was hoping it was like Mario RPG or something to go along with Super Paper Mario's release. This is still pretty cool, though.
Hooray! Flash games, streaming video, and fun surfing here I come!
Or not..... streaming video doesn't seem to work in either .wmv or .mov format.
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opinion is wishful thinking at its worst.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Wait... Don't we have to buy the final version of the opera browser?
I thought I read that somewhere... Huh..
And like the guy above asked, do we have to delete the beta first?
Flash performance is terrible and stupid in this version.
I have a Flash demo I made where there's a ball on-screen, and it rolls toward the cursor when you press A. It ran at 30fps with no drops in the Trial, and now it fluctuates wildly, at an average of 18fps or so. It is a really, really simple demo, too.
Youtube videos are also choppier than before, but not by the same amount as my simple demo.
popups would require a non-existant windowing system to be ported to Wii
Do you know how popups work in the desktop version of Opera? They are treated as tabs. They do not open in new windows, but they do look like a new window. It does not use the operating system's window system.
Overall the browser is pretty nice actually. I could do without the zoom in and out sound effects though. I am a fan of how you can zoom in and out as much as you want to now. When you zoom all the way out on the boards you find out that the G&T boards are loooooooong
Flash performance is terrible and stupid in this version.
And I can see why now. Like the new text rendering, Flash windows, instead of just being stretched from the original resolution to the new resolution when you zoom in, are actually re-rendered closer to the new resolution.
I wish they'd make zooming in increase the text size like in the news channel. I hate scrolling back and forth so much, and the single column view thing's ugly.
I'm impressed as hell, it seems to be a lot speedier than before. A 25 minute flash video loaded in about a minute when I don't even think it would have loaded before.
but I think they treat us as one big region anyways
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AbsoluteZeroThe new film by Quentin KoopantinoRegistered Userregular
edited April 2007
Well it took a good hour for the update to download.
Now I can't connect to the fucking Shop channel, it just sits there on the "Connecting screen" until I get up and physically cut the power.
Fucking typical.
Out of all the online stuff, I would think the fucking SHOP CHANNEL would work the best. It is the one that makes money, the others don't. Why then is it such a shitty piece of shit?
Well it took a good hour for the update to download.
Now I can't connect to the fucking Shop channel, it just sits there on the "Connecting screen" until I get up and physically cut the power.
Fucking typical.
Out of all the online stuff, I would think the fucking SHOP CHANNEL would work the best. It is the one that makes money, the others don't. Why then is it such a shitty piece of shit?
I had the same problem for an hour. I've emailed Nintendo about it a couple times. I suggest that everyone in the world do the same.
Yeah the shop channel for me is always a 50/50 chance. Took me 5 times to get in once.
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JeanSoon to be papa bearGatineau, QuébecRegistered Userregular
edited April 2007
Couldnt Nintendo buy more bandwith for the Wii shop channel? It's ridiculous to have to try this hard to give them money
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I assume it's still free?
Just had a quick fiddle with it now, and it's pretty decent. Definitely faster than I remember it being in both start-up and actually loading pages, some nice cursor animations, the text on various forums looks clearer... Good stuff.
I'll check in a few minutes, ... but when the actual browser was released you guys got it in Europe a little bit before we got it in the US.
Heck, it's still Wednesday here.
EDIT: got prompted for a system update so .. maybe in the US?
Man this is a pretty long download.
Edit: Wii post wii post lol
EDIT: That was a long ass download.
Wii U - Dodge Mega
3DS - 3797-6074-8327
Xbox Live - Dodge Mega
Switch - SW-3699-5063-5018
Or not..... streaming video doesn't seem to work in either .wmv or .mov format.
opinion is wishful thinking at its worst.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Browser is much better now. might actually start using it
Plus I love it when my wii glows blue.
3DS Friend Code: 0404-6826-4588 PM if you add.
I thought I read that somewhere... Huh..
And like the guy above asked, do we have to delete the beta first?
I yelled "holy shit!" when it happened because I honestly was not expecting it!
Stupid Shop Channel.
Butter.
I want tabbed browsing, dammit. With the option to enable popups.
If it had that you could use MSN Web Messenger while you surf.
I have a Flash demo I made where there's a ball on-screen, and it rolls toward the cursor when you press A. It ran at 30fps with no drops in the Trial, and now it fluctuates wildly, at an average of 18fps or so. It is a really, really simple demo, too.
Youtube videos are also choppier than before, but not by the same amount as my simple demo.
Or tabs.
I have 549 Rock Band Drum and 305 Pro Drum FC's
REFS REFS REFS REFS REFS REFS REFS REFS
This is not optimal.
piiiiiiick
I wish they'd make zooming in increase the text size like in the news channel. I hate scrolling back and forth so much, and the single column view thing's ugly.
Oh well!
of course, I'm in canada
but I think they treat us as one big region anyways
Now I can't connect to the fucking Shop channel, it just sits there on the "Connecting screen" until I get up and physically cut the power.
Fucking typical.
Out of all the online stuff, I would think the fucking SHOP CHANNEL would work the best. It is the one that makes money, the others don't. Why then is it such a shitty piece of shit?