Via this place comes the information on how to disguise your Firefox browser as a Nintendo Wii for some shallow viewing of the Wii Shop Channel.
After a little poking around, though, this reporter has found something particularly interesting: some of the potential error messages that are embedded in the source of the page.
Could this confirm some of the suspicions we've had all along, that game-specific Wii Shop cards might be bundled with full software? Such a message provides strong evidence that certain smaller games might be bundled with new installments (Super Metroid, perhaps, with Metroid Prime 3, or something to that effect).
This suggests that certain games might be eligible for one-off, time-based trial periods at times in the future, which is also an interesting potential feature.
Time will tell if either of these scenarios come to pass, but at present it's certainly looking like Nintendo has some of them in mind.
The main Wii Shop menu, on Firefox.
After a little poking around, though, this reporter has found something particularly interesting: some of the potential error messages that are embedded in the source of the page.
a[818] = "The card number you entered can only be used to download specific titles. It is not a Wii Points Card. Visit support.nintendo.com for assistance."
Could this confirm some of the suspicions we've had all along, that game-specific Wii Shop cards might be bundled with full software? Such a message provides strong evidence that certain smaller games might be bundled with new installments (Super Metroid, perhaps, with Metroid Prime 3, or something to that effect).
a[623] = "You have downloaded this title before, and your trial period has expired. You cannot redownload it. Visit support.nintendo.com for assistance."
This suggests that certain games might be eligible for one-off, time-based trial periods at times in the future, which is also an interesting potential feature.
Time will tell if either of these scenarios come to pass, but at present it's certainly looking like Nintendo has some of them in mind.