| bootOpera | |
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| File:Bootoperawii.jpg | |
| General | |
| Author | Gannon |
| Type | Utilities |
| Version | 0.4 |
| License | Mixed |
| Last Updated | 2009/11/08 |
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bootOpera will boot the installed Opera channel for those who don't want to exit their loader to boot it. The source can easily be edited to boot other installed channels.
What this app does is launch Opera if it is installed on your Wii, the cool thing is that it can launch and go directly to a page you specify in the config file in the apps folder.
So for a start here is a couple that do work.
Flash games....
Say you like flash games, and for example like Defend Your Castle. Find it online somewhere EG: http://www.xgenstudios.com/play/castle Now what you want to do is look at the page source, Ctrl+F .swf and you will find the location of the actual game.... for this game it would be ... http://www.xgenstudios.com/castle/castlexgen.swf Put that in your config for this app, and there you go a free full screen game. Saving works, but note that it will save to the Wii's temp internet files. Obviously you can do this with almost any flash game, but some won't work with the Wiis controls.
Saving time....
Go get yourself a free web hosting account somewhere EG: www.110mb.com Make yourself 1 page that hold ALL your favourites, make this a channel. You can add things like search boxes etc, I have a few torrent searches, google, youtube etc so I just tick a box, type in my search and hit go.
Do more at once....
This is only for those that know html/php and JS. Either use an online freeby host like 110mb, or install apache etc. Make a page that has frames (trust me I know they are outdated). Now if you want to listen to music while you browse on the Wii you can. (not gonna write a massive guide for this, you either know or you don't.) My current frames page allows me to switch between iplayer, radio and browsing, and each page can continue while I use the others. Tabs are easily added with JS.
Yeah I know this is very basic to some, but still a few ideas that are tested and working and none take more than a few minutes to setup.
Boot To URL
To boot to a specific page, place a file in the directory you are loading bootOpera from titled "url.cfg" with the URL you wish to load written in it.
Version History
0.4: Quick bugfix that caused the program to crash if a url.cfg file wasn't present. Also added a blank url.cfg file as I noticed some blogs telling people to put it in the root directory, which is only true if loading from a loader that doesn't pass the filepath as an argument, or of course if you are using wiiload.
0.3: Added support for booting straight to a given URL. Thanks to Yossi for the idea and SifJar for letting me know about the Nintendo Channel.
0.2: First release
Media
External links
- wiibrew - https://wiibrew.org/wiki/BootOpera
- Gbatemp - https://gbatemp.net/threads/boot-opera.189804/