Great site for the Wii Browser [Archive]

Abednigo

12-22-2006, 09:36 AM

I found this link over on GameLife (linked from Slashdot Games). It's a bunch of Flash games that seemed designed to work perfectly for the Wii's browser. The few I've tried from my work PC are simple games, but they should work great with the Wii controls.

Wiicade (http://www.wiicade.com/)

Talltale

12-22-2006, 09:54 AM

I just spent 30 seconds replying to this message with my Wii!

CaptStu

12-22-2006, 09:59 AM

Tactical Assassin was pretty fun.

wezlypipz

12-22-2006, 09:59 AM

This site is awesome. Def. gonna try it out, thanks.

Chimpbot

12-22-2006, 10:06 AM

While this is actually rather old news(the site was spread around the various gaming media outlets a month or more before the Wii's launch), it's a rather timely reminder.

I played a few games with a mouse a while ago...but I'll have to give these a shot with the Wiimote. Mayhaps they'll be fun?

NoName

12-22-2006, 10:19 AM

Regardless, I think there will be a new "Wii flash game" craze soon. Hopefully we'll get some gems then.

Abednigo

12-22-2006, 10:23 AM

Regardless, I think there will be a new "Wii flash game" craze soon. Hopefully we'll get some gems then.

Yeah, who needs XBOX Live for simple, addictive games. ;)

rein

12-22-2006, 10:29 AM

I just want to point out that I posted (http://www.evilavatar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21049) this news a long time ago. No thank you necessary. :p

You can try some of them with pc browsers and on the PS3 too.

manu_pkp

12-22-2006, 10:37 AM

Similar, or even better sites are:

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/games/wii/

and

http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal

Winter Bells in the lower one took 2 hours of my life today.

AntB

12-22-2006, 10:40 AM

I freakin' love curve ball.

Just got to level 8 with 23630 points.

WOOT! Curveball FTW!

BlackPete

12-22-2006, 10:47 AM

I surfed EvAv a bit this morning on the Wii -- I was pretty impressed that I was able to somewhat read the text on my SDTV. Looks like I'll have to invest in a HDTV fairly soon if I want to make serious use of this. :D

Stormeh

12-22-2006, 10:55 AM

While not guaranteed to work on the Wii, I've found some good games (many of which will work on Wii) at www.flashrage.com.

emperordahc

12-22-2006, 10:55 AM

Got my Wii online about an hour ago. (This site looked great, BTW.) I was just so happy that http://www.homestarrunner.com/ works great!

score

12-22-2006, 11:37 AM

Some of the games at wiicade don't work though. I'm hoping with the release of opera they can iron out any problems.

gojira

12-22-2006, 12:00 PM

Aero Leviathan

12-22-2006, 12:04 PM

Does anyone have specs for running web games on the Wii? Does the browser support everything like Javascript, Flash (appears so from comments above) and Java applets? Or are there "special" compatibility issues?

Links?
Based on its user-agent, it seems to be a full version of Opera 9.00. So anything that that version of Opera supports built-in (without the use of plugins) should work fine, including just about any JavaScript you want. Additionally the Wii version has Flash built-in, but looking over the on-screen documentation, no other plugins are mentioned (Java, etc.) so it's highly unlikely anything else is included.

blackzc

12-22-2006, 12:06 PM

i tried to load up my runescape account and got a black screen. That plays in java.

Talltale

12-22-2006, 01:51 PM

i tried to load up my runescape account and got a black screen. That plays in java.

My god, if Runescape worked with the Wii, it would be the end of the world as we know it.

Draft

12-22-2006, 02:02 PM

Yeah, who needs XBOX Live for simple, addictive games. ;)
Heh, who needs a Wii?

TempestBlayze

12-22-2006, 02:18 PM

This is my first post on the Wii browser.Gonna try those games out now. :D It works very well!

cp#

12-22-2006, 03:46 PM

http://two.xthost.info/speaker219/wiigames.htm

This site has more games and Wii friendly game sites.

Oh..and...

DUCK HUNT!
http://www.tripletsandus.com/80s/80s_games/swf/duckhunt2.swf

score

12-22-2006, 05:43 PM

Just noticed a couple of wiimote shortcuts:

button 1 takes you straight to favourites

Button 2 does an extreme close up

Abash Alarmist

12-22-2006, 06:59 PM

Anyone having issues with reading text like i am using the wii?

blackzc

12-22-2006, 09:10 PM

i can read everthing fine but it needs more zoom levels'it to far or to close on my 32in sammy from my couches

(wii post teehee)

t3kl3r

12-22-2006, 10:27 PM

I can't wait to flash my Wii in front of all my friends. I'm sure it will get them all excited! Heheh.

Disgustipated

12-22-2006, 10:33 PM

cp#

12-22-2006, 10:58 PM

http://wiinintendo.net/2006/12/22/wii-opera-browser-is-out-230am-est/

This dude says the resolution is, and I quote

The screen resolution on a 16×9 TV is 1024×500 (very odd size, may lead into wide screen flash games). Check the resolution here: http://www.cyscape.com/showbrow.aspx?bhcp=1

1024x500. Not that shabby but I did not check this with my Wii (My TV does 720p/1080i though so it should)

That article is a great read by the way and the author makes some great points

The bottom menu “favorites”, “home”, etc. takes up at least 20% of the screens height.

I noticed this right away, they need to fix this

blackzc

12-22-2006, 11:32 PM

http://two.xthost.info/speaker219/wiigames.htm

This site has more games and Wii friendly game sites.

Oh..and...

DUCK HUNT!
http://www.tripletsandus.com/80s/80s_games/swf/duckhunt2.swf

Dude, those ducks are way to fast!!!lol

AniAko

12-23-2006, 02:36 PM

Looks like I'll be forfeiting my Wii to the girlfriend so she can play Wii-web games

Ravenlock

12-25-2006, 08:28 AM

Not game related, but Wii-related: it has been brought to my attention that with the help of Orb, you can stream pretty much anything - music, video, etc - to your Wii from your PC.

I haven't had the chance to test it out yet, but I have used Orb to stream media to my work computer and it works great. If this turns out to be true, the Wii's non-gaming usage in my house will skyrocket.